Tanzimatın 150'nci, ölümünün 111'nci yıldönümünde bir Türk aydın:Ali Suavi'yi yeniden tanımak

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 266-Ali Suavi. Not: Gazetenin “Düşünenlerin Düşünceleri” köşesinde yayımlanmıştır.İstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Assessment of Probiotic Properties of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Traditional Sourdoughs for Bread-Making in Turkey against Some Gut Conditions

This study aims to assess the probiotic properties of Lactic Acid Bacteria isolated from the traditional sourdoughs used for bread making in Turkey against some gut conditions. A total number of 29 samples from twelve provinces of Turkey were collected, and screened for the presence of lactic acid bacteria using microbiological methods. The microbiological screening yielded 148 presumptive isolates. Of them, 62.8% were characterized as lactic acid strains by VITEK® MS. Following that, the characterized isolates were subjected to probiotic property testing, including gastric acid resistance, bile resistance and hydrophobic ability. The results showed that 44.1% exceeded gastric pH resistance, 33.3% survived under gastrointestinal system bile salt conditions, and 10.8% exhibited high hydrophobicity ability. In conclusion, our study revealed that only 4.3% (1 Enterococcus faecium, 1 Lactobacillus brevis, 1 Lactobacillus pentosus, and 1 Lactobacillus plantarum) out of 93 lactic acid bacteria isolated from the traditional sourdoughs could meet all probiotic requirements against some gut conditions.

Bilim Politikası ve Sosyal Bilimler

«Bilim Politikası» kavramının çevresinde hemen daima «bilimin politikası olur mu?» sorusu gündeme gelmiştir. Yani bilimin, geleceğin belli zaman dilimleri içinde biçimlendirilerek, önceden saptanmış belli hedefleri planlama ve zamanlaması eylemine girişmek

The Language and Ideology of Enlightenment in Hungary

Hungarian Enlightenment is a natural continuation of European Enlightenment movements. It has been spread simultaneously in Hungary as an intellectual and religious movement like Humanism, Renaissance and Reformation. The first period of Enlightenment in Hungary starts in 1772 by Bessenyei’s entry into the literary life and ends with the execution of Martinovics in 1795, who was the leader of Hungarian Jacobins. The second period is till the beginning of reform movements in 1825. The most important issues of Hungarian Enlightenment were the language reform, the question of national independence and the idea of Hungarian nation-state

The sociological statement of group feeling theory and Islamic world or “is Ibn Haldun a theoretician of unconsciousness?”

“Asabiyyet kuramı” düşünürün entelektüel kişiliğini anlamada öne çıkan bir terim olduğu kadar sosyolojik çözümlemeler için de anahtar terimdir. İbn Haldun toplumsal yapıyı ve bu yapının temel aktörlerini bu kuram üzerinden anlamaya çalışır. Elbette bu kuram da öncülleri ve örneklerini tanıklık ettiği toplum ve dünyadan alır. Bu bakımdan İbn Haldun öncelikle ait olduğu Müslüman toplumların ve sonra da yaşadığı dünyanın bir tanığı olmuştur. Mukaddime’nin toplumsal tanıklığı, kültür, din ve gelenekleri de içerecek genişlikte yaşayan toplumun sunduğu zengin malzemelere odaklanır. Günlük yaşam ve bu yaşamı belirleyen kültürel ve düşünsel arka plan olanca yoğunluğuyla dikkatlere sunulur. Fransız düşünürler toplumsal aktörlerin daha çok öne çıkarıldığı bu yaklaşım nedeniyle giderek İbn Haldun’a yeni bir entelektüel kişilik izafe ederler. Bu düşünürler (J.F.A./ F. Clémenet) için : “İbn Haldun bilinçsizliklerin teorisyenidir.” Buna göre toplumun temelini oluşturan bireyler günlük yaşamda farkında olmadıkları alışkanlıklar edinirler ve bu durum giderek onların karakteri haline gelir. Yakın planda ise bu karakter esasen aktörlerin bilinçsizce yaptıkları eylemlerinin bir sonucudur. Böylelikle bu tür bilinçsizliklerin belirlediği insanlar, farkında olmadan ait oldukları toplumun da karakteristiklerini oluştururlar. Bu bildiride; a) Söz konusu bilinçsizliklerin genelde tüm toplumlar, özelde ise İslam dünyasındaki etki ve işlevleri, b) Asabiyyet teorisinin eğitim sistemleri ve toplumsallaşma süreçleri (kişisel, toplumsal ve küresel süreçler) üzerindeki etkileri, c) İbn Haldun’un Türk ve dünya sosyolojisindeki konumu tartışmaya açılmaktadır.“Group Feeling Theory” is a key word for sociological analysis as it is prominent term to understand the intellectual personality of philosopher. Ibn Haldun has tried to understand the social structure and main actors of this structure on this theory. Certainly, antecedents and samples of this theory based on the society and world that it witnesses. In this regard, Ibn Haldun has witnessed to firstly Muslim societies and then the world. Social witnessing of The Muqaddimah focuses on rich materials that societies, including culture, religion and traditions, offer. Daily life and cultural and intellectual background determining this life are presented to attention. French philosophies are attaching an intellectual personality to Ibn Haldun due to the approach in which social actors are put forward. For these philosophies (J.F.A./ F. Clémenet) “Ibn Haldun is a theoretician of unconsciousness”. According to that, individuals forming the basis of society get habits that they are not aware of and this become their characteristics, gradually. But, in close up, this character is a result of unconscious actions of actors. Thus, human that such unconsciousness designate form the characteristics of societies that they belong to, unconsciously. Within this work; a) The effect and functions of these unconsciousness on all societies and Islamic world, b) The effect of Group Feeling Theory on education systems and socialization process (individual, social and global process) c) The position of Ibn Haldun in Turkish and World Sociology has been discussed

The Role of Media Literacy in Online Information Searching Strategies

Along with the spread of Web 2.0 technologies, individuals' habits such as learning, socializing, and getting information have changed rapidly. A lot of information, the accuracy of which cannot be trusted, is available in the web, and it becomes difficult to choose useful, relevant, and accurate information. This pollution is also present in the media. The abilities to choose messages in the media, to look at these messages critically, and to produce your own messages are considered among the 21st-century skills. These reasons bring media literacy (ML) and online information searching strategies (OISS) to the agenda. The processes of ML and OISS have interrelated features. Therefore, it is important and necessary to examine these concepts together. Based on this necessity, the aim of the study was to determine the role of ML in OISS. To this end, the data were collected from 1809 pre-service teachers using the OISS inventory and the ML level determination scale. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, MANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. According to the results, pre-service teachers' ML and OISS levels were above the moderate level. ML and OISS vary significantly according to the type of websites. In conclusion, ML was revealed as a predictor variable that could explain OISS at a rate of 33.2%

An Ethnobotanical Analysis on Wild Edible Plants of the Turkish Asteraceae Taxa

Asteraceae (Compositae) is one of the biggest families in the Flora of Turkey as in the World. Also, it is one of the most important families in which many popular plants are used as food and recreational tea in Turkey. The aim of this study is to make an ethnobotanical analysis on the wild edible plants of the Asteraceae family in Turkey, according to our investigations and scientific literature records. This study is based on local ethnobotanical investigations. The information about the plants was obtained from the local people through open and semi-structured interviews. In the light of our investigations and the literature records, 43 genera (including 121 taxa) of Asteraceae (used for food, tea and other purposes) were determined. Among them, Scorzonera, Tragopogon, Cirsium, Centaurea, Onopordum, Taraxacum, Echinops, Achillea, Anthemis and Carduus are the most popular genera in the localities of Turkey

The Medicinal and Wild Food Plants of Batman City and Kozluk District (Batman-Turkey)

This paper reports an ethnobotanical investigation carried out in 2012 to record medicinal and wild food plants of Batman City and Kozluk District. Totally, forty-one plants are recorded as used as traditional folk medicine for the region, and twenty of these are also used as a source of wild food. The most commonly used plants in the region as medicinal remedies were Malva nicaeensis, Pistacia khinjuk, Plantago major subsp. intermedia and Teucrium polium. Plants are mostly used for the treatment of gastrointestinal system diseases, respiratory system diseases and diabetes. The species most commonly used for food are: Gundelia tournefortii, Pistacia khinjuk and Rhus coriaria. This ethnobotanical study conducted in both districts will enable the traditional use of wild plants both as food sources and herbal remedies to be passed on to future generations

Physics-informed constitutive modelling of hydrated biopolymer aerogel networks

Hydration induces significant structural rearrangements in biopolymer aerogels, resulting in a completely different mechanical behaviour compared to the one in the dry state. A network decomposition concept was earlier introduced to account for these changes, wherein the material network was decomposed into an open-porous aerogel one and a hydrogel-like one. Recent experimental evidences have supported this idea of the formation of a hydrogel-like network. Using these observations as a basis, in this paper, we present a micromechanical model describing the effect of hydration on the structural and mechanical properties of aerogels. The aerogel network is modelled based on the mechanics of their pore-walls, while the hydrogel-like network is modelled based on the statistical mechanics of their polymer chains by means of the Arruda–Boyce eight-chain model. The influence of diverse structural and material parameters on the mechanical behaviour is investigated. The effect of different degrees of wetting, from a pure aerogel to a pure hydrogel-like state, is captured by the model. The results are shown to be in good agreement with available experimental data