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EAF Ladle Steel Slag as a Geo-Material: Compaction and Shear Strength Characteristics
No full textİrem Zeynep Yıldırım (MEF Author)##nofulltext##The numerous issues associated with the excess steel slag that is disposed of in landfills every year can be reduced by using it as a geo-material. This paper provides the results of laboratory tests (i.e., sieve, hydrometer, specific gravity, compaction, compaction-particle degradation, and large-scale direct shear with a box size of 30.5 x 30.5 x 20 cm) performed on electric-arc-furnace ladle [EAF(L)] steel slag from a mini-mill in Indiana. Based on standard proctor test results, the maximum dry unit weight values of the EAF(L) steel slag were in the 16.8-to-20 kN/m(3) range at the optimum moisture contents of 11-13%. The results of the large-scale direct shear tests performed on EAF(L) steel slag, compacted at 95-100% relative compaction and sheared with normal stress ranging from 50 to 300 kPa, showed that it has excellent frictional characteristics, with friction angles between 40 and 45 degrees. Based on the results from this study, due to its shear strength characteristics, EAF(L) steel slag has the potential to be utilized as a geo-material to improve the shear strength of various marginal soils.WOS:0004370007000122-s2.0-85048741251Conference Proceedings Citation Index- ScienceProceedings PaperMartYÖK - 2017-1
Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
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Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
by Francesca Giorgia Paleari 1,*ORCID,Irem Ertan 1ORCID,Lucrezia Cavagnis 1ORCID andSilvia Donato 2ORCID
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Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy
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Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(18), 6719; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20186719
Received: 5 July 2023 / Revised: 14 August 2023 / Accepted: 25 August 2023 / Published: 6 September 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protecting and Promoting Family Members’ Psychological Health in Challenging Times)
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has dramatically worsened people’s psychological well-being. Our aim was to examine for the first time the concurrent and longitudinal relations of family resilience with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and the moderating role of socio-demographics. For people having a romantic partner, we also explored whether family resilience and dyadic coping were uniquely related to well-being. One cross-sectional study (N = 325) and one 10-week follow-up study (N = 112) were carried out during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (April–May 2020) in Northern Italy. Adult participants completed an online questionnaire in both studies. Correlation, multivariate regression, and moderation analyses were carried out with IBM SPSS version 28 and its PROCESS macro. Significance of differences in correlation and regression coefficients was tested through Steiger’s procedure, Wald test, and SUEST method. Family resilience was found to relate more strongly to eudaimonic (versus hedonic) well-being concurrently and to hedonic (versus eudaimonic) well-being longitudinally. The concurrent or longitudinal relations with hedonic well-being were generally stronger for females, part-time workers, and people undergoing multiple stressors. For people having a romantic partner, family resilience was concurrently associated with well-being independently of dyadic coping, whereas dyadic coping was longitudinally related to well-being independently of family resilience. Family resilience was found to protect, in the short term, the psychological well-being of people facing the pandemic outbreak. Its protective role mainly concerned hedonic well-being and was more pronounced for more vulnerable people. For persons having a romantic partner, however, dyadic coping seemed to have equal, if not greater, positive short-term effects
Derivative formulas related to unification of generating functions for Sheffer type sequences
No full textInternational Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM) -- SEP 13-18, 2018 -- Rhodes, GREECEKUCUKOGLU, IREM/0000-0001-9100-2252The main aim of this paper is to present partial derivative formulas for an unification, which was introduced by the author in "Unification of the generating functions for Sheffer type sequences and their applications, preprint", of Sheffer type sequences including the Peters polynomials, the Boole polynomials, the Changhee polynomials, the Simsek polynomials and the Korobov polynomials of the first kind. By making use of these derivative formulas, we provide a recurrence relation and a derivative formula for this unification. Furthermore, by using recurrence relation for this unification, we present miscellaneous special cases of this unification. Finally, we give some derivative formulas related to the well-known Sheffer type sequences such us the Peters polynomials and the Simsek polynomials.European Soc Computat Methods Sci & Eng
The Clinical Importance of Herb-Drug Interactions and Toxicological Risks of Plants and Herbal Products
No full textThe relationship between nutritional status, anthroopometric measurements and some biochemical findings of hemodialysis patients
No full textDanışman: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hakan KaptanoğullarıSon dönem böbrek yetmezliği tanısı almış hastalarda en sık tercih edilen tedavi yöntemlerinden biri hemodiyaliz (HD) tedavisidir. Hastaların bilinçsiz/yanlış beslenmesiyle oluşan malnütrisyon, hem obezite hem yetersiz beslenmeyle bireylerin beslenme ve sağlık durumlarını etkilemektedir. Bu çalışmada belirlenen popülasyondaki HD hastalarının beden kütle indeksi değerlerinin; hastalardaki antropometrik ölçümlerini ve kan lipit değerlerini nasıl etkilediğini, aralarında nasıl bir ilişki olduğunu tespit etmek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Sağlık Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Hastanesi Diyaliz Servisi'nde tedavi gören 55 hemodiyaliz hastasında yürütülen bu çalışmada; hastaların demografik özelliklerini, hastalığa ilişkin bilgilerini ve biyokimyasal bulgularını sorgulamak için veri toplama formu, beslenme durumunu değerlendirebilmek için üç günlük besin tüketim kaydı ve malnütrisyon taraması için Subjektif Global Değerlendirmesi hastaların izni alınarak uygulanmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen verilerin analizi, IBM Statistical Package for Social Science Statistics (SPSS) 24.0 istatistik paket programı kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yapılan analizler sonucunda hastaların beden kütle indeksi, bel çevresi, kalça çevresi ve üst orta kol çevresi ortalamalarının kadınlarda erkeklere göre önemli oranda yüksek olduğu belirlenmiştir (p<0,05). Çalışmaya katılan hastaların %25,5'inde hafif/ağır düzey malnütrisyon olduğu görülmüştür. Antropometrik ölçümleri ile kan kolesterol değerlerine ait korelasyon analizi sonuçlarına göre; boy uzunluğu, vücut ağırlığı, beden kütle indeksi, bel çevresi, kalça çevresi, bel/boy oranı, üst orta kol çevresi ve üst orta kol kas çevresi ile HDL-kolesterol bulguları arasında negatif yönde zayıf, ancak istatistiksel olarak önemli ilişkiler belirlenmiştir (p<0,05). Yaptığımız çalışma sonucunda, hemodiyaliz olan hastalarda da antropometrik ölçümlerin HDL-kolesterol değerleri açısından değerli olduğu ve aralarında önemli ilişki olduğu bu çalışma ile ortaya konmuştur.Hemodialysis (HD) is one of the most preferred treatment modalities in patients diagnosed with end-stage renal disease. Malnutrition, which is caused by unconscious/wrong nutrition of patients, affects the nutritional and health status of individuals with both obesity and malnutrition. The body mass index values of HD patients in the population determined in this study; This study was carried out to determine how it affects anthropometric measurements and blood lipid values in patients, and what kind of relationship there is between them. In this study carried out in 55 hemodialysis patients treated in Bursa Uludağ University Health Application and Research Center Hospital Dialysis Service; Data collection form to question demographic characteristics, disease-related information and biochemical findings of patients, three-day food consumption record to evaluate nutritional status, and Subjective Global Assessment for malnutrition screening were applied with the consent of the patients. The analysis of the data obtained from the research was carried out using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Science Statistics (SPSS) 24.0 statistical package program. As a result of the analyzes, it was determined that the mean body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference and upper middle arm circumference of the patients were significantly higher in women than in men (p<0.05). Mild/severe malnutrition was observed in 25.5% of the patients participating in the study. According to the results of correlation analysis of anthropometric measurements and blood cholesterol values; Negative, weak but statistically significant correlations were found between height, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist/height ratio, upper middle arm circumference and upper middle arm muscle circumference and HDL-cholesterol findings (p< 0.05). As a result of our study, this study revealed that anthropometric measurements are also valuable in terms of HDL-cholesterol values in patients on hemodialysis and that there is a significant relationship between them
The Traces of Feminism in Essays of Elif Şafak
No full textBu çalışmamızda, Elif Şafak’ın gazete ve dergilerde yayınlanan deneme yazılarını
derlediği dört deneme kitabı, sabit karşılaştırmalı analiz ve söylem analizi yöntemleriyle
incelenerek, bu kitaplarda yer alan yazılardaki kadın-erkek, kadın-kadın ikili karşıtlıkları,
yazarın kadına özgün bakış açısı ve bu bakış açısında yazarın feminist söylemleriyle
çelişen ifadeler olup olmadığı, yazarın egemen ataerkil söylemin yeniden üretilmesine
katkıda bulunup bulunmadığı tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır.
Sabit karşılaştırmalı analiz yöntemiyle, dört kitap taranmış ve çalışmamıza uygun
olabilecek, tekrar gösteren temalar çerçevesinde metin örnekleri seçilmiş, bu örnekler,
gruplara ayrılarak, yukarıda adı geçen başlıklara ve temalara hizmet edip etmediği,
mevcut teoriler baz alınarak saptanmaya çalışılmış ve eleştirel söylem analizi yöntemi ile
değerlendirilmiştir.
Feminizmin elbette ki tek bir görüşü ya da algısı bulunmamaktadır. Bu konuda üretilmiş
sayısız teori mevcuttur. Bu çalışmada özellikle feminizmin çıkış noktası olarak ele alınan
ikili karşıtlıklar/ikilikler baz alınmıştır. Diğer temalar da ikili karşıtlıklar/ikilikler
üzerinden, yeni karşıtlıklar kümeleri yaratılıp yaratılmadığı, mevcut kümelerin beslenip
beslenilmediği dikkate alınarak şekillendirilmiştir. Sonuçta Şafak’ın kadın erkek ikili
karşıtlıklar kümesine hizmet eden, ataerkil söylemi yeniden üreten, kendi içerisinde yeni
kadınlık kümeleri ya da stereotipler yaratan ve bir kümeyi diğerine ötekileştiren
açıklamaları, karşılaştırmalı örneklerle tespit edilmiştir.In this body of work, four books by Elif Şafak containing her essays published in
various newspapers and magazines are discussed constant comparative analysis and
discourse analysis to derive binary oppositions in male-female & female-female
relationships, the female-centered perspective of the author and consecutive feminist
approach to identify if her point of view conflicts with the feminist rhetoric or
contributes to the reproduction of the dominant patriarchal discourse.
The four books have been dealt with using constant comparative analysis and relevant
repeating themes have been selected and categorized to compare with existing theories,
identify if they serve the feminist discourse and analyze in relation to the topics
mentioned above in the light of critical discourse analysis.
Feminism supersedes any single perspective or perception. A limitless number of
theories have been constructed in this subject. This analysis focuses on binary
oppositions/dualities as a starting point. The rest of the themes have been developed
considering binary oppositions/dualities, whether they reproduce new sets of
oppositions or nurture existing sets of discourse. As a conclusion, examples in Şafak’s
bibliography which complement the set of male-female binary oppositions, reproduce
the patriarchal discourse, produce new sets or stereotypes of femininity or otherize one
set to another have been identified with comparative examples
Natural Compounds as Medical Strategies in the Prevention and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Seen in Neurological Diseases
No full textPsychiatric disorders are frequently encountered in many neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson diseases along with epilepsy, migraine, essential tremors, and stroke. The most common comorbid diagnoses in neurological diseases are depression and anxiety disorders along with cognitive impairment. Whether the underlying reason is due to common neurochemical mechanisms or loss of previous functioning level, comorbidities are often overlooked. Various treatment options are available, such as pharmacological treatments, cognitive-behavioral therapy, somatic interventions, or electroconvulsive therapy. However oral antidepressant therapy may have some disadvantages, such as interaction with other medications, low tolerability due to side effects, and low efficiency. Natural compounds of plant origin are extensively researched to find a better and safer alternative treatment. Experimental studies have shown that phytochemicals such as alkaloids, terpenes, flavonoids, phenolic acids as well as lipids have significant potential in in vitro and in vivo models of psychiatric disorders. In this review, various efficacy of natural products in in vitro and in vivo studies on neuroprotective and their roles in psychiatric disorders are examined and their neuro-therapeutic potentials are shed light
Gaziantep O?uzeli-Dokuzyol village reuse proposal; Example of Ezogelin Barak culture center
No full textDokuzyol village is a settlement 17 km away from Gaziantep Oǧuzeli district, within the Barak Plain boundaries. The old name of this village is Uruş; it is also known as Ezo Gelin's village because it is the birthplace of the legendary Ezo Gelin in folklore. There are traditional abode buildings in the village, but some have been abandoned, and village people have started to prefer reinforced concrete structures. Rural architecture is an embodiment of cultural heritage; therefore, preserving and transferring it to future generations is an essential cultural continuity element. The main reason for choosing this village is that there are examples of traditional abode architecture. To maintain the Barak Culture, an abode cultural center named Ezo Gelin was built in 2018. Cultural center seldom is used and haven't served its main purpose. The aim of this research is develop a renovation for Ezo Gelin Barak Culture Center, which was built with great investment but not used and to draw attention the abode building in the village. In this research adobe buildings of Dokuzyol village were documented with traditional method and function suggestions for the protection of buildings have been developed within scope of the Interior Architecture education survey course. It has been suggested that some of the unused abode buildings in the village to serve for the new function of Ezo Gelin Barak Culture Center. The proposal developed for Ezo Gelin Barak Cultural Center aims to contribute to rural tourism and cultural heritage. © 2022 Author(s)
Evaluating distance education performance within the scope of architectural education
No full textTurkey is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic widely as well as all around the world. There is also a global impact in the field of education. Several precautions were taken for preventing infection from COVID-19 at a minimal level. One of the taken precautions is launching a distance education system (DES). DES started to practice from primary to higher education easily and swiftly. This system is an alternative to the existing education system. However, universities' architecture departments that have theoretical courses besides applied courses, are known that they are hard to put to set, moreover, most of them hesitate to start distance education due to characteristics of architectural education. Architectural education teaches codifying phenomenon, concepts, thoughts visually with the help of symbols and teach to analyse these codes. This tenet involves different processes from a student's former education life. Therefore, to reach the aims of architectural education features' and actualization level of learning is essential. Professional schools give privileged status to systemic, preferably scientific knowledge, and the schools' prevailing epistemology of practice, treats professional competence as the application ok privileged knowledge to instrumental problems of practice. When architectural education is considered as a process to gain essential skills, it can be seen that how active learning is important. It does not seem possible to perform "active learning"requirements with the distance education system's existing opportunities and architecture students will perform "passive learning"during DES is thought. This study focuses on how DES is made productive for architectural education which started to use due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main aim of this research is to determine problems of architecture students and instructors related to distance architecture education and offering solutions. Additionally, this research goals to contribute to the limited distance architecture education system. To reach these aims questionnaire forms were constituted toward interviews with both architecture students and instructors and from the literature review. Questionnaires were prepared separately for students and lecturers. This procedure aims to offer an integrated solution by gathering different perspectives of participants. Data of the project were acquired by applying online questionnaires to participants via e-mail. Obtained data were analysed statistically using SPSS 22.0 software. This research will make a remarkable contribution about how active learning at applied courses can be increased during DES at architectural schools by presenting qualitative and quantitative findings. © 2022 Author(s)
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