ACADEMIC WELL-BEING, ACADEMIC INCOMPETENCE AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME SCALE FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS:

In this research, the goal was to create a scale measuring academic well-being, feelings of academic incompetence, and imposter syndrome among university students. The study employed the survey methodology, a quantitative research approach. It gathered perspectives from students across various Turkish universities, with 742 participants in total. The researchers designed a 5-point Likert scale featuring three dimensions and 37 items as the instrument for data collection. The analysis of the gathered data was conducted using the SPSS 24.0 and SPSS AMOS 24.0 software. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the factor loadings varied from 0.469 to 0.882, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure was 0.912, the explained total variance stood at 67.321%, and the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was 0.913. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the Chi-square/degrees of freedom ratio at 1.36, RMSEA at 0.04, NNFI at 0.96, SRMR at 0.03, and AGFI at 0.92. The research concluded that the developed scale was both valid and reliable, promising to be a useful tool for assessing the academic well-being, academic incompetence, and imposter syndrome feelings among college students

Mediopatellar plika ile ilişkili medial femoral kondil dejenerasyonu

Altmış sekiz yaşında bayan hasta, yaklaşık on yıldır diz ağrısı yakınması vardı. Bu ağrılar başlangıçta lokalize değildi. Uzun yol yürüme ve ağır aktiviteler sonrasında artıyordu. Analjezikler ile çıplakdu. Birkaç yıl yakınmaları böyle devam etti. Takip eden çift, ağrı diz bükme oluşmaya ve tibiofemoral eklem iç kısımda lokalize olmaya başlayabilir

Initiatives and New Trends Towards Stem Education in Turkey

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education; Is an educational approach that many countries in the world have included in their curricula that allow learners to view the knowledge they learn in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, aiming at transforming theoretical knowledge into practice, product and innovative inventions. It is aimed to be able to adapt easily to the qualities of the business life thanks to these skills when the STEM trained individuals enter into the business world, as well as being an approach that is based on giving the skills of STEM education, production and invention. Within the scope of the study, attempts were made to investigate the initiatives and new trends of STEM education from 2010 until the day. Document analysis and thematic content analysis (meta-synthesis) method was used in the research process. Thematic content analysis; Analyze, synthesize and interpret the findings of more than one research on the same subject, with a critical point of view, in contrast to the theme or templates specified and raw data. During the research; Articles, theses, reports and reports which are reached from various sources in the national and international literature have been examined and a wide-scale resource has been created by considering every point related to the contents of the work. The results of the research were examined under various headings and a broad framework was established and recommendations were made

Systemic Disease in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Objective In this study, we investigated 304 patients diagnosed with Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and undergoing standard polysomnography in our sleep laboratory between December, 2013 and January 2015 in terms of anamnesis, drugs used and laboratory test results. Materials and Method Chronic diseases were detected in patients and their relations between OSAS were investigated. Results Severity of the disease in all patients was investigated under 3 topics according to Respiratory disturbance index (RDI). According to the results as severity of the OSAS increases, co-occurrence with systemic diseases increases. Conclusion In this study, co-occurrence of OSAS and chronic systemic diseases, characteristics of OSAS and the relation between OSAS and chronic systemic diseases were investigated

Seismic Behavior of Welded Precast Panel Connections

The behavior of connection between precast panels is important as it controls the failure mode of the shear wall. Therefore, it is aimed to test the behavior of different type of precast panel connections in this study. One monolithic reference model and two precast panel models having different horizontal connection details were produced. The behavior of connections was tested under reversed-cyclic lateral loads. It was concluded that welded connections can be designed in high and normal ductility levels

Total kalça artroplastisi sonrası inflamatuar reaktivasyonun bir belirteçi olarak ortalama trombosit hacmi

Objectives: Mean platelet volume (MPV) is assosiated with platelet function and activation. Increased MPV values indicate elevated platelet functions and are assosiated with inflammation. We investigated postoperative MPV changes of the patients with osteoarthritis (OA) after total hip arthroplasty. Material and Method: This retrospective study was conducted on 813 patients with coxarthrosis and 152 patients without primary coxarthrosis (control group). The patients were divided into two groups. The first group was treated with total hip arthroplasty (n=312) and the second with conservative methods (n=501). MPV, ESR, and CRP were eveluated. Early phase (up to 10 days after the operation), and late phase (>30 days postoperation) data of the patients with total hip arthroplasty were recorded. Results: Statisticaly significant differences on the mean MPV values were found between control and conservative treatment groups, and also between control and early phase surgical treatment groups (p=0.001 and p=0.005, respectively). No statistically significant difference was determined between control and late phase surgical treatment groups (p=0.796). Statisticaly significant differences were determined in the mean MPV values between conservative treatment and late phase surgical treatment groups (p=0.001), but no statistically significant difference was determined between conservative treatment and late phase surgical treatment groups (p=0.057). Conclusion: We think that changes in serum MPV values can be used as a predictive marker for inflammatory reactivation following total hip replacement surgery. The serum MPV values obtained in our study may guide future studies investigating inflammatory reactivation in hip arthroplasty surgeriesAmaç: Ortalama trombosit hacmi (MPV) trombosit fonksiyonu ve aktivasyonu ile ilişkilidir. Artan MPV değerleri, trombosit fonksiyonlarının yükseldiğini ve inflamasyonu ile birlikteliği göstermektedir. Total kalça artroplastisi sonrası osteoartritli (OA) hastaların postoperatif MPV değişikliklerini araştırdık. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu retrospektif çalışma, koksartrozlu 813 hasta ve primer koksartrozu olmayan 152 hasta üzerinde yapıldı (kontrol grubu). Hastalar iki gruba ayrıldı. Birinci grup total kalça artroplastisi (n=312) ve ikinci grup konservatif yöntemlerle (n=501) tedavi edildi. MPV, ESR ve CRP değerlendirildi. Total kalça artroplastisi uygulanan hastaların erken evre (operasyondan sonra 10 güne kadar) ve geç evre (operasyondan 30 gün sonrası) verileri kaydedildi. Bulgular: Kontrol grubu ile konservatif tedavi grubu arasında ve kontrol grubu ile erken evre cerrahi tedavi grubu arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı ortalama MPV değerleri bulundu (sırasıyla p=0.001 ve p=0.005). Kontrol grubu ile geç evre cerrahi tedavi grubu arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark bulunmadı (p=0.796). Konservatif tedavi grubu ile geç evre cerrahi tedavi grubu arasında ortalama MPV değerleri istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulundu (p=0.001), ancak konservatif tedavi grubu ile geç evre cerrahi tedavi grubu arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark yoktu (p=0.057). Sonuç: Total kalça protezi ameliyatı sonrası inflamatuar reaktivasyou belirlemeye yönelik yeni çalışmalarda belirlediğimiz MPV değerlerindeki değişikliklerin katkı sağlayacağını düşünüyoru

Investigation the Performance of Cr-Doped ZnO Nanocrystalline Thin Film in Photodiode Applications

Undoped and Cr-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films were deposited on the glass and p-Si substrates by the chemical spray pyrolysis technique. The films were characterized by x-ray diffractometry (XRD) and UV-visible spectrometry, and electrical characterization was achieved by using the films as an interfacial layer between the Au and p-Si. The XRD results confirmed the undoped and Cr-doped ZnO thin film crystalline structures. UV-visible spectra provided the transmittance plots and band gap energy values. I-V measurements were performed on the fabricated Au/ZnO/p-Si and Au/ZnO:Cr/p-Si devices to determine the effect of the ZnO interfacial layer on their performance. Various junction parameters, such as the ideality factor, barrier height, and series resistance, were calculated from the I-V measurements by various techniques, and have been discussed in detail. A 100-mW/cm(2) power intensity light was exposed on the Au/ZnO:Cr/p-Si device to see the photodiode behavior as well as to determine light sensitivity parameters such as photosensitivity and detectivity. The results highlight that the Au/ZnO:Cr/p-Si device can be thought of for optoelectronic application