HUMOR CLIMATE OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions primary school administrators and teachers on humor climates in primary schools. The study was modeled as a convergent parallel design, one of the mixed methods. The data gathered from 253 administrator questionnaires, and 651 teacher questionnaires was evaluated for the quantitative part of the study. The study group of the qualitative part consists of 9 administrators and 12 teachers working in the primary schools. For data collection, the researcher developed and used a semi-structured data collection form consisting of open-ended questions. Qualitative data was also gathered by observation notes. In the quantitative part, a scale was used for gathering data on schools’ humor climate. A five-point Likert Scale was used in the questionnaire. Specific descriptive analyses which were conducted to calculate the quantitative data included percentage, frequency, arithmetic means, standard deviation, t-test and one-way ANOVA for unrelated sampling. Where the assumptions of one-way ANOVA were not satisfied, the Kruskal Wallis test was used. The qualitative data obtained was subjected to descriptive analysis and content analysis. The results of humor climate revealed that positive humor types were mostly used in primary schools. The beneficial effect of humor used by administrators was higher than the negative effect on school and subordinates. Parallel to these results, the study observed that positive humor climate styles were predominant in schools.  Article visualizations

EDU-DRM: A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system for K-12 education

The technological achievements in digital publishing have made paperless education possible even in K-12 education. Aside from high bandwidth distribution infrastructure, the main difficulties of digital publishing are preserving personal information and protecting the rights of copyrighted contents. Although specially designed Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems can be used to control distribution and usage of private and/or copyrighted contents in K-12 education, dealing with a large number of bursty concurrent access requests and changing the access rights of a large number of students from one content class to another at the end of each education period make the problem different from existing ones. This paper introduces a new DRM system, called EDU-DRM, which includes a novel bit based authorization approach to reduce the processing time for authorization requests and automatize the access right adjustments with predefined rules for K-12 education. During the study, an experimental framework is designed using Apache Bench to analyze the proposed approach and evaluate it. The system is compared with XML based authorization approach and the results are presented in the paper. (C) 2019 Sharif University of Technology. All rights reserved

The Role of Sport Passion Level of Athletes in Determining Love Attitude and Relation Satisfaction

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of sport passion level of athletes in determinig love attitude and relation satisfaction. 218 athletes participated in this study as volunteers, 94 of the mare female (Xage=20,46±3,12), 124 of the mare male (Xage=22,81±4,05) sport experience of athletes dealing with different branches of team and individual sports (football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, track and field, bike… etc.) is 110,15±54,59 monts. To achieve the purpose of the study, Passion Scala was developed by Vallerand and his friends (2003) and it was adapted to Turkish culture by Kelecek (2013). Love Attitudes Scale (short form), was developed by Hendrick and Hendrick’ in (1986, 1990), and it was adapted to Turkish culture by Buyuksahin and Hovardaoglu (2004), Fianlly, Relationship Assessment Scala which were developed by Hendrick (1988) and adapted to Turkish culture by Curun (2001) were used. For solution and interpretation of the datas, descriptive statistical methods; for independent samples T-test, One Way Anova test and Multiple Step wise regression analysis were used. Analysis performed by using SPSS and research significance was accepted as P<0,05. As a result of this study, it has been observed that athletes’ sport passion level sare important determiners of love attitude and relation satisfactions, as well as it has also been observed that athletes love attitude level safe determiners of relation satisfactions

Is Self Talk of Athletes One of the Determinants of Their Continuous Sportive Confidence Level?

The present study aims to determine whether level of self talk behaviors of athletes is one of the determinants of their continuous confidence levels. Whereas totally 358 athletes (Xage= 23.77 ± 3.87) were voluntarily participated into this study, 180 of them were female (Xage= 22.76 ± 3.050) and 236 of them were male (Xage= 24.56 ± 4.263). Experiences of various branches of team sport and personal sports (soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, athletics, biking and etc.) in sport activities were determined as 98.25 ± 24.70. Whereas descriptive statistical methods were employed in analysis and assessment of collected data; t-test and multiple step regression analysis was utilized in independent samples. Aforesaid analyses were conducted through the SPSS package software and significance level was considered as P<0.05. According to the study findings, a significant positive linear correlation was determined between self talk behaviors of athletes and their continuous sportive confidence. Furthermore, it was observed that self talk behavior of athletes was one of the significant determinants of their continuous sportive confidence levels. Finally, it is possible to conclude that continuous sportive confidences, one of the important psychological factors in performances of athletes, were correlated with their self talk behavior of athletes and that it was one of the significant determinants of continuous sportive confidence levels

Phosphorus fractions and its potential release in the sediments of Koycegiz Lake, Turkey

This study was conducted to find out the seasonal and spatial patterns of the phosphorus in the littoral sediment and its potential release into the Koycegiz Lake, south west Turkey, between November 2011 and March 2012 at two months intervals. The scanning electron microscopy was used for elemental compositions of the sediment. The amounts and forms of phosphorus (P) in surface sediments of Koycegiz Lake were examined using a not sequential chemical extraction procedure. Four fractions of sedimentary P, including organic bound phosphorus fraction (Org≈P), calcium bound phosphorus fraction (Ca≈P), iron+aluminium bound phosphorus fraction (Fe+Al≈P) and carbonate bound phosphorus fraction (CO3≈P) were separately quantified. The results indicated that the contents of different phosphorus fractions in the sediments varied greatly. The proportion of phosphorus fractions was estimated as Org≈P (90.20 %), this fraction was followed by Ca≈P) (9.06 %), Fe+Al≈P (0.47 %) and CO3≈P (0.27 %) in this study. The level of phosphorus release from the sediment to the lake is calculated as low. The sediment phosphorus release fluctuated between -6.647–75.883 μg/m2.d-1 and the total phosphorus (TP) concentrations of the sediment samples were changed between 980.39 μg/gDW (Dry Weight) - 1990.81 μg/gDW. The results show that it can be evaluation as eutrophic for Koycegiz Lake

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF INSPECTION GROUPS AND THEIR CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

The purpose of this study was to explore the correlation between interpersonal communication skills and conflict management strategies in the case of inspection groups constituted by a number of inspectors based on the geographical and demographic dispersion of the school population in Turkey. This research was conducted as a survey. The population of the study consisted of 2493 inspectors working in 81 provinces geographically divided in seven regions. In this research, the data were collected by “Interpersonal Communication Skills Questionnaire” which consisted of 33 items and “Conflict Management Strategies Questionnaire” which consisted of 32 items. In the analyses of the study, Pearson correlations coefficient and Hierarchical regression were conducted. Consequently, the findings show that both the leaders’ and the supervisors’ views were congruent in that positive and significant correlations were found between two conflict management strategies (problem solving and compromising) and all interpersonal communication skills. The results of Hierarchical regression analysis further showed that feedback and trusting variables had statistically significant positive effects on problem solving, avoiding and dominating strategies and finally effectiveness variable had statistically significant positive effects on compromising strategy.  Article visualizations

Myelosuppression in Patients with Prolonged use of Piperacillin/Tazobactam

Objectives: The use of piperacillin-tazobactam in hospital acquired infections requiring long treatment periods maycause adverse effects including myelosuppression. Myelosuppression results in rare, but potentially serious clinic manifestations such as neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, leukemia and anemia. The objective of this study was to investigatethe incidence and characteristics of myelosuppression in patients with prolonged use of piperacillin-tazobactam.Methods: Inpatients followed-up and treated in Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University Medical Faculty Hospital andMMT Gaziantep American Hospital between April 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018 were included in the study. Patients’demographic data, biochemical laboratory outcome, duration and dose of antibiotic treatment, comorbidities, sideeffects of antibiotic therapy were recorded and analyzed.Results: A total of 34 inpatients who received antibiotic therapy with piperacillin-tazobactam due to various diagnoseswere included in the study. The mean duration of PTZ use was found as 11.9±6.31 days. Of all patients, 19 (55.9%) usedantibiotics for longer than 10 days, while 15 (44.1%) used PTZ for 10 days or shorter. The mean duration of antibioticuse was found as 12.2 days in patients aged 65 years and over, while this duration was 11.5 days in patients aged under65 years. Five patients (14.7%) developed neutropenia. Neutropenia was developed in 14.8 days of PTZ treatment onaverage. The mean duration of returning to normal values was found as 1.8 days in these patients. Neutropenia wasdeveloped at the 4th week of the treatment in 60% of these patients.Conclusion: It should be kept in mind that myelosuppression may be encountered especially during prolonged PTZtherapy, and full blood count monitoring should be performed carefully and closely in these patients

The Views of Educational Supervisors on Clinical Supervision

Contemporary educational supervision expresses democratic and leadership focused supervisory approach which consists of collaboration, trust, sharing and improving. The aims of the study are to investigate the answer of how current teacher supervision in Turkey is conducted according to the views of educational supervisors, and to unearth what the general attitudes and evaluations of educational supervisors regarding clinical supervision. A phenemological research design was used in the study. The study group consists of 53 educational supervisors working in the province of Antalya. A structured form consists of both open and close ended questions was delivered to the supervisors participated in the study. Data was gathered oral and written via interviews. A conference lasting six hours on clinical supervision’s aim, processes, techniques, observation and data collecting tools was held for the supervisors within the study. According to the results of the study, current supervision may be categorized under four stages; the stage before reaching the school setting, pre-observation, observation, and post-observation. That the views of educational supervisors are positive regarding the applicability of clinical supervision. The participants, mostly, stressed that the supervisory duties must be divided from the duties of investigation, and that the supervisors must be trained on clinical supervision. Keywords: clinical supervision, educational supervisors, evaluation, school

The Impact of Hospitalization Time on Major Cardiovascular Event Frequency in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Over a 6-Month Follow-up

MakaleWOS:000964102000002Aim: The mortality rates related to acute myocardial infarction have significantly decreased recently due to early-period cardiovascular interventions. Some studies have shown that there is no difference in cardiovascular outcomes between the early discharge and the late one. In this study, we planned to investigate the effects of early and late discharge on the frequency of major events in patients treated for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in our clinic. Methods: Angiography records, demographic characteristics, and laboratory parameters of the patients who were diagnosed with acute STEMI in our clinic between February 2020 and December 2021 were examined. Patients were classified as being in Group 1 (discharge within 48 h) or Group 2 (discharge after 48 h), and rates of recurrent hospitalization, heart failure attacks, cardiovascular events, and death were compared between the two groups. Results: A total of 321 patients were included in our study. There were 129 patients in Group 1 and 192 patients in Group 2. There was no difference between the two Groups in terms of gender, age, or affected coronary vessels. The ejection fraction was lower in the late discharge group (p=0.004). The postoperative ventricular arrhythmia rate was found to be statistically significantly higher in the late discharge group (p=0.046). There was no difference in cardiovascular events between the first and sixth months in either group (p-values of 0.096 and 0.649, respectively). Conclusion: Considering the positive economic and psychosocial effects of early discharge for the patient and physician, when planning the discharge of patients with STEMI, patients with low comorbidity, unaffected ejection fractions, no malignant arrhythmia in their follow-up, and appropriate laboratory parameters can be evaluated for early discharge