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Morris H. Turk Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter of presentation from Turk on Williston Church, Congregational, Portland, Maine, stationery and the typed reply of the Maine State library in hopes of biographical information from Turk, presented with a typed transcript of Turk\u27s handwritten inscription for his book They Live -- And Are Not Far Away in the Maine Author Collection
Turk, Kenneth L.
No full textMemorial Statement for Professor Kenneth L. Turk, who died in 1990. The memorial statements contained herein were prepared by the Office of the Dean of the University Faculty of Cornell University to honor its faculty for their service to the university
Vpliv nekaterih podlag na pridelek in kakovost plodov breskve (Prunus persica L.) sorte \u27Redhaven\u27 na deviških in utrujenih tleh
No full textWhen the Turk Turns: the Turk As a Mediator of Racial Difference in Othello and the Courageous Turk
No full textElectronic Thesis or DissertationA stage direction in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk reads “arise four Fiends, framed like Turkish Kings, but black.” With the conjunction “but,” this stage direction suggests that Turk is not Black without saying that the Turk is White. The implied attitude here is that of an imagined Black/White spectrum, the Turk falls in-between where he is neither fully one nor the other. Coupling this play with Othello highlights the significance of this observation. The latter play portrays a constant construction and deconstruction of race with questions like “are we turned Turks” or ambivalent significations of the phrase “the Moor” who is ultimately equated with a “turbaned Turk.” Looking at Othello from the frame The Courageous Turk sets up, one observes that in Othello the Turk functions as a transforming agent that can both bridge and alienate Blackness and Whiteness
Trade unions in Turkey : an analysis of their development, role and present situation
No full textThis thesis focuses on the trade union movement in Turkey with particular reference to the Turkish
confederation of trade unions (TURK-IS) and its members. Case studies were conducted in both TURKIS
and its member unions, widely, based on open-ended interviews with union officials, but also
involving the analysis of union's reports, documents and journals, the observation of workers education
seminars and visits to the state's institutions and employers' organisations. The main purposes of the
thesis have been to illustrate the changing nature, role and struggle of the Turkish unions in the context
of the changing economic, political and social structure of Turkey. It also focuses on the dominant
trends in trade unionism in a European context.
The study argues that an explicit and theorised understanding of internal and external pressure on the
trade union movements as they emerge in many countries, is of fundamental significance to the Turkish
trade unions. It is argued that the trend in the Turkish labour relations in the 1960s and 70s seemed to
be the co-operation of unions in the formulation of policies, related to national economic performance
and social stability in politics. In other words, unions were tolerated to provide both economic and
social stability at macro level and manageability and certainty at micro level in the light of the
industrialisation process.
In this context, Import Substitution Industrialisation (lSI) was the model of capital accumulation, which
required trade unions to become integrated within the new economic and political policies in order to
secure an economically and politically stable industrial relations framework. In this respect, the Turkish
unions played a mediating role between the state, employers and workers.
It is also argued that the changing system of capital accumulation (a move from lSI to "market
liberalism") in the 1980s has endangered the traditional institutional arrangements. The traditional role
of interest representation for unions, particularly as mediation between the ruling class and working
class, has become problematic. The decline of union power, due to changes in their environments, has
also weakened the value of central labour organisations as mediators between the state, employers and
workers. The anti-labour policies seems to have been the outcome of strategic interventions of the
governments and employers. In this context, particularly in the 1980s explicit reference to theoretical
frameworks have tended to increase in favour of "strategic choices" and "union identities".
The study argues that in the Turkish case, unions have not been faced with a complete policy of
exclusion. In other words, the material conditions of "integrative" "collaborative" or "corporatist"
policies have been reduced, however, they have not been completely eliminated. The reasons for this
might be that although the economic power of TURK-IS and its members was no longer so important
for the government, the political mediating role of unions became significant in the period of the 1980s,
which included the transition to democracy, the process of integration of Europe, the implementation of
austerity policies and the fear of the possible failure of the parliamentary regime.
I argue in the thesis that under the painful and complex process of economic and political
reconstruction and the development of democracy the Turkish trade unions have been faced with a
number of tactical and political options in the rapidly evolving the issue of European Integration and of
democracy and the increasing uniformity amongst member of TURK-IS. The Turkish case suggests that
trade unions can achieve a position of influence in industrial relations systems as long as they pursue
politically motivated strategies by setting a new agenda for members, articulating the broad long-term
interests of the working class and finally displaying collective responses and collective responsibility. In
this respect, it is argued that there is still a significant scope for a more active initiating and coordinating
role for central labour organisations and unions can pursue more comprehensive and tenable
trade union strategies
Neuromechanical measurement of motor impairments in relation to upper limb activity limitations after stroke
No full textLoss of upper-limb function is a problem following stroke. Recent research has led to the emergence of new treatments but progress is hampered by lack of reliable objective measures of impairment, and understanding of the underlying impairment mechanisms associated with loss and recovery of functional activity. The aim of this research was to identify, using neuromechanical measurement methods, inter-relationships between motor impairments, and correlates of motor impairments with functional activity limitation in the upper limb of acute and chronic stroke survivors.An instrumented rig has been developed to measure impairments: muscle weakness, active range of movement, motor control accuracy in rhythmic and discrete tracking tasks, spasticity, coactivation, contracture and non-neural stiffness. In pilot studies, signal processing and data analysis techniques have been used to generate novel, clinically and physiologically relevant indices to quantify impairments. In a Main Study, 13 older impaired participants in the acute phase post-stroke, 13 in the chronic phase 14 age-matched unimpaired participants underwent rig assessments and performed a test of upper limb activity. A sub-group of impaired participants were tested on two days for test-retest reliability evaluation.Statistical tests have confirmed the validity of the impairments to distinguish between acute and chronic patients and unimpaired individuals, except coactivation during discrete movements and non-neural stiffness. Repeatability coefficients for the active test indices have been presented as benchmark values for use in future trials. The muscle activation indices showed lower repeatability which highlights the challenge of using these to measure change over time. The impairments that contributed to lower motor control accuracy were reduced extensor weakness, delayed extensor onset timing, coactivation and smaller extension AROM and PROM; coactivation was more strongly associated with motor control accuracy than with spasticity or stiffness.The most important contributors to functional activity in the acute group was extensor weakness, and in the chronic group was motor control accuracy and coactivation (rhythmic task). Contracture was important contributor in both groups, and was associated with weakness and loss of active range of movement rather than spasticity. The findings support the notion that rehabilitation strategies should focus on increasing muscle strength and prevention of contracture. However, assessment of more complex impairments like motor control accuracy and coactivation may be crucial to better target therapy, especially in the later phases post-stroke
Turk Mechanical
No full textTurk Mechanical is a collection of digital literary artifacts created through NEM-0X, a writing machine designed to entangle, render, and instantiate different types of media after enacting a series of algorithmic processes. The artifacts contained in this collection are primarily concerned with exploring multi-scalarity, distributed cognition, relationality, embodiment, affectability, material specificity, and environmental embeddedness.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical reference
Semidirect product of groups
No full textV diplomskem delu obravnavamo poldirektni produkt grup, ki je posplošitev direktnega produkta. Poldirektni produkt omogoča konstrukcije precej večjega nabora grup. Pokažemo razliko med direktnim in poldirektnim produktom grup in poiščemo kriterij, kdaj je dana grupa poldirektni produkt grup. Pokažemo tudi primere uporabe poldirektnega produkta grup in primitivnih korenov po modulu p na grupah reda pq, kjer je p praštevilo, q pa deli p-1.In the thesis a semidirect product of groups is discussed as a generalization of the direct product. The semidirect product allows us to construct a wider variety of groups. We demonstrate the differences between both products and give a criteria for a group to be a semidirect product of two its subgroups. We also show examples of the use of semidirect product of groups and prime roots modulo p for the classification of all groups of order pq, where p is a prime and q divides p-1
Identifying pupils’ misconceptions about classification of animals to invertebrates and vertebrates
No full textSystematics, taxonomy and other disciplines of biology, which deal with the naming and classification of living organisms, are the most important part in biology. The current classification system is based on a system developed and described by a Swedish biologist Karl von Linnaeus. He introduced a dual system of naming organisms, based on the closest group of a particular organism (genus and species), which is then classified into higher, broader groups, based on the relatedness. The system is hierarchically arranged and is based on the evolutionary, morphological and ecological foundations of the classification of living organisms.
Pupils in elementary school encounter problems when attempting to properly classify organisms into the system, therefore, we decided to conduct a study, where we tried to identify pupils' misconceptions regarding vertebrates and invertebrates. We were interested in whether there were any differences in knowledge among the pupils, depending on the class they were attending.
The results of the research have shown that pupils are well aware of the concepts »vertebrate« and »invertebrate«, as they had classified most of the animals correctly. They encountered some difficulties while explaining their decision, as they were mainly talking about the visual characteristics of animals, which did not have a direct link with the classification of animals to vertebrates or invertebrates. We have found that pupils identify an unknown animal based on the comparison of it with an animal that they know well
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