Determining In-Service Training Programs' Characteristics Given To Teachers By Conjoint Analysis

The aim of the study is to determine what kind of an in-service teacher training program teachers want, in other words to determine how is the ideal in-service education according to the teachers. As it is aimed to expose the existing situation it is a descriptive modeled study. Quantitative research method has been used for the data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of the data. Analyzing the data conjoint analysis has been used and these analyses have been done with SPSS 11, 5 packet program. In addition in the study it has been researched whether the expectations of the teachers from an in-service teacher training program change according to gender and working experience of them. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.WoSScopu

The Effect of Reflexology on Low Back Pain in Operating Room Nurses

Operating room nurses often face acute or chronic back and low back pains, shoulder and neck injuries. In recent years, the use of complementary and alternative treatment methods has been increasing due to the fact that pharmacological treatment cannot control the pain in general, and its various side effects and cost. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of foot reflexology on low back pain of operating room nurses. This quasiexperimental study was conducted with 38 operating room nurses. The nurses in the experimental group were given a 30-minute reflexology protocol once a week for 4 weeks and their pain levels were assessed again at week 5. The control group nurses did not receive any intervention. Data were collected using a demographic information form and a visual analog scale (VAS). The low back pain of the nurses in the reflexology group decreased significantly at week 5 compared with week 1, whereas the severity of low back pain of the nurses in the control group did not change between weeks 1 and 5. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of the mean VAS pain score at week 1. However, the nurses in the reflexology group had significantly lower VAS pain mean scores at week 5 than the control group. In this study, reflexology significantly reduced the pain of nurses who had low back pain. Therefore, reflexology might be useful in controlling low back pain of operating room nurses

The site effects in Izmir Bay of October 30 2020, M7.0 Samos Earthquake

Due to the unique soil and morphological conditions prevailing in Izmir Bay basin, structural damage has been governed by site effects. Consistently, during October 30, 2020 M7.0 Samos Earthquake, which took place offshore of Samos Island, structural damage and life losses were observed to be concentrated in Bayrakli region of Izmir Bay, despite the fact that the fault rupture was at a distance of 65-75 km from the city of Izmir. Additionally, strong ground motions recorded in Izmir Bay showed unique site amplifications that were observed surprisingly at both rock and soil sites. Soil amplifications and duration elongations were mostly due to site effects governed by the response of very deep alluvial deposits of low plasticity. Similarly, due to very extensive faulting-induced fracturing and unusually stratified nature of rock sub-layers, unexpected long period amplifications were also observed at rock sites. These earthquake and site resonance effects were more pronounced in the period range of 0.5-1.5 s. When they were superposed with relatively coinciding natural period of 7-9 story residential buildings of Izmir City, it was concluded that the triple resonance effects among incoming rock ground motions, soil deposits, and the damaged buildings, amplified and prolonged the overall system response. Within the confines of this manuscript, the governing role of site effects leading to increased seismic demand was assessed, through a series of 1D equivalent linear, total stress-based site response assessments, the results of which clearly highlighted the variation of seismic demand in Izmir Bay.The earthquake reconnaissance studies were supported by Middle East Technical University. The authors would also like to thank the undergraduate students, who collaborated on field campaigns and data processing.Middle East Technical Universit

A New Supportive Therapy for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Interventional Lung Assist Device

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a great challenge for physicians in intensive care units with high mortality rates. Although protective lung ventilation is the mainstay of ARDS therapy, it may lead to intractable hypercapnia. Pumpless extracorporeal lung-assist was suggested as an invasive alternative to conventional treatment when gas exchange is not optimized with rigorous mechanical ventilation alone. Here, we report the treatment of a patient with extracorporeal lung-asist in the course of pneumonia-related ARDS due to intractable hypercapnia as a result of failure of protective ventilation strategy and her outcome after treatment. Interventional Lung Assist device (iLA) contains a specially designed low resistance lung membrane, which uses the pressure difference between the arterial and venous circulation. This system enables the use of high airway pressures for oxygenation in combination with very low tidal volumes to avoid ventilator-induced lung injury and this gives time to patient for lung recovery

A New Supportive Therapy for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Interventional Lung Assist Device

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a great challenge for physicians in intensive care units with high mortality rates. Although protective lung ventilation is the mainstay of ARDS therapy, it may lead to intractable hypercapnia. Pumpless extracorporeal lung-assist was suggested as an invasive alternative to conventional treatment when gas exchange is not optimized with rigorous mechanical ventilation alone. Here, we report the treatment of a patient with extracorporeal lung-asist in the course of pneumonia-related ARDS due to intractable hypercapnia as a result of failure of protective ventilation strategy and her outcome after treatment. Interventional Lung Assist device (iLA) contains a specially designed low resistance lung membrane, which uses the pressure difference between the arterial and venous circulation. This system enables the use of high airway pressures for oxygenation in combination with very low tidal volumes to avoid ventilator-induced lung injury and this gives time to patient for lung recovery