Kitap ve Kütüphane: Kitaplar ile Geçen Bir Ömür Mustafa Vedat SÖNMEZ’e Armağan

“Tarihi Kütüphaneler”, “Cumhuriyet Dönemi Kütüphaneleri”, “Dünya Kütüphaneleri” ve “Tarih Boyunca Türklerde Kitap” olmak üzere dört farklı bölüm altında 27 yazı ile Mustafa Vedat SÖNMEZ röportajını da içeren bir yazının da bulunduğu, farklı dönemler üzerinden kütüphanelerin değerlendirildiği aynı zamanda tarih boyunca Türklerde kitap ve kitap kültürünün de ele alındığı “Kitap ve Kütüphane: Kitaplar ile Geçen Bir Ömür Mustafa Vedat SÖNMEZ’e Armağan” başlıklı eser tanıtım yazısı olarak değerlendirilerek hazırlanmıştır

The relationship between cultural identity and accent

Ankara : The Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Bilkent University, 2013.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2013.Includes bibliographical references leaves 65-75.This study investigates the relationship between cultural identity and accent. The focus is on the relationship between the identity perceptions of 20 native speakers of English, who have been living in Turkey for a long period of time, and their Turkish accent in terms of nativelikeness. The participants were administered a cultural identity questionnaire, their reading aloud of a few Turkish passages was recorded, and followup interviews were conducted with four of the participants. The findings of this study showed that there is a relationship between cultural identity and accent, in the sense that the more the participants identified themselves as Turkish the more ‘native-like’ their accent score was. This finding confirms the previous literature (e.g., Gatbonton, Trofimovich, & Magid, 2005; Jones, 2001; Marx, 2002; Rindal, 2010), suggesting a relationship between cultural identity and accent. The findings further indicated that the participants tended to prioritize comprehensibility over presentation of speech. At the pedagogical level, this is a reminder that during their practices, second language teachers need to be aware of the language learners’ goals in order to avoid mismatches.Aydemir, Ahu BurcuM.S

Incidence and Prognosis of COVID-19 in Patients with Psoriasis: A Multicenter Prospective Study from the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey

COVID-19 infection can have a poor prognosis, especial- ly in patients with chronic diseases and those receiving immunosup- pressive or immunomodulating therapies. This study aimed to investigate the severity of COVID-19 infection in patients with psoriasis and compare the infection severity for sys- temic treatments and comorbidities. We conducted a study in the dermatology clinics of five different centers in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. Four hundred and eighty-eight patients were included, and 22.5% were confirmed as having COVID-19 infection. In our study, the frequency of hospitalization rates due to COVID-19 infection were similar (15.4%, 25.9% respectively) in patients receiv- ing biological treatment and receiving non-biological systemic treat- ment (P=0.344). Hospitalization rates were higher in patients with hypertension, androgenetic alopecia, and acitretin use (P=0.043, P=0.028, P=0.040). In conclusion, current biologic treatments and non-biologic system- ic treatments in patients with psoriasis did not appear to increase the risk of the severe form of COVID-19, except for acitretin

Incidence and Prognosis of COVID-19 in Patients with Psoriasis: A Multicenter Prospective Study from the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey

COVID-19 infection can have a poor prognosis, especial- ly in patients with chronic diseases and those receiving immunosup- pressive or immunomodulating therapies. This study aimed to investigate the severity of COVID-19 infection in patients with psoriasis and compare the infection severity for sys- temic treatments and comorbidities. We conducted a study in the dermatology clinics of five different centers in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. Four hundred and eighty-eight patients were included, and 22.5% were confirmed as having COVID-19 infection. In our study, the frequency of hospitalization rates due to COVID-19 infection were similar (15.4%, 25.9% respectively) in patients receiv- ing biological treatment and receiving non-biological systemic treat- ment (P=0.344). Hospitalization rates were higher in patients with hypertension, androgenetic alopecia, and acitretin use (P=0.043, P=0.028, P=0.040). In conclusion, current biologic treatments and non-biologic system- ic treatments in patients with psoriasis did not appear to increase the risk of the severe form of COVID-19, except for acitretin

Contemporary Challenges and Solutions

CA18131 CP16/00163 NIS-3317 NIS-3318 decision 295741 C18/BM/12585940The human microbiome has emerged as a central research topic in human biology and biomedicine. Current microbiome studies generate high-throughput omics data across different body sites, populations, and life stages. Many of the challenges in microbiome research are similar to other high-throughput studies, the quantitative analyses need to address the heterogeneity of data, specific statistical properties, and the remarkable variation in microbiome composition across individuals and body sites. This has led to a broad spectrum of statistical and machine learning challenges that range from study design, data processing, and standardization to analysis, modeling, cross-study comparison, prediction, data science ecosystems, and reproducible reporting. Nevertheless, although many statistics and machine learning approaches and tools have been developed, new techniques are needed to deal with emerging applications and the vast heterogeneity of microbiome data. We review and discuss emerging applications of statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies and introduce the COST Action CA18131 “ML4Microbiome” that brings together microbiome researchers and machine learning experts to address current challenges such as standardization of analysis pipelines for reproducibility of data analysis results, benchmarking, improvement, or development of existing and new tools and ontologies.publishersversionpublishe

Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Human Microbiome Studies: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions

The human microbiome has emerged as a central research topic in human biology and biomedicine. Current microbiome studies generate high-throughput omics data across different body sites, populations, and life stages. Many of the challenges in microbiome research are similar to other high-throughput studies, the quantitative analyses need to address the heterogeneity of data, specific statistical properties, and the remarkable variation in microbiome composition across individuals and body sites. This has led to a broad spectrum of statistical and machine learning challenges that range from study design, data processing, and standardization to analysis, modeling, cross-study comparison, prediction, data science ecosystems, and reproducible reporting. Nevertheless, although many statistics and machine learning approaches and tools have been developed, new techniques are needed to deal with emerging applications and the vast heterogeneity of microbiome data. We review and discuss emerging applications of statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies and introduce the COST Action CA18131 "ML4Microbiome" that brings together microbiome researchers and machine learning experts to address current challenges such as standardization of analysis pipelines for reproducibility of data analysis results, benchmarking, improvement, or development of existing and new tools and ontologies

Information retrieval process in food science and food sector in Turkey

Information is one of the fundamental necessities of modern societies in today's reality. At the same time, it is a requirement for individuals to sustain their lives and to be in interaction with their surroundings, and for organizations to continue their activities and to protect their positions in the market in an increasing competition setting. Meeting the necessity in question is possible by knowing the way and methods for reaching information required by individuals and/or organizations. This process, which is the fundamental of information literacy concept, is related to the awareness about the information necessity of individuals and organizations for being successful in micro and macro levels. Information centers, and information services offered in information centers and information experts will create this awareness in question in the individual and society level without any doubt. Individuals and/or organizations display various behaviors about the utilization of information resources, channels and information access systems in the process of requirement meeting. The concept in question has a different content in each discipline which is called information seeking behavior. In this context, information centers, information services offered by information centers and information experts are responsible for determining information necessities of user groups and for designing information services connected. Information services designed according to information necessities of user groups will change information seeking behavior of users for certain. In this context, fundamental components, historical development, current situation in Turkey and the world of the nutrition science, and fundamental components and work processes of the food sector are determined in the context of work processes and scrutinized in the conceptual section of the thesis. Based on the addressed fundamental components, an application study was conducted on the academicians active in both food science field and organizations active in food sector. A separate survey was given to academicians active in food science field in the study scope, and another survey was given to organizations active in food sector. As a result of the conducted survey study, information requirements of the user groups, information sources and/or channels used in information access process, knowledge and usage levels of information access techniques, and difficulties faced during information access were determined. Our hypotheses developed based on the data collected as a result of the application study, "information deficiencies experienced during information requirement meeting process of user groups of nutrition science and food sector affect 'information searching behavior', 'information resources and channels that are used', 'information access techniques knowledge and use' unfavorably" and "nutrition science and food sector user groups experience difficulty in information access process since they do not know about information access techniques sufficiently" were verified

İşletmelerde halkla ilişkiler ve kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk faaliyetleriyle kurumsal imaj arasındaki ilişki: Özel bir bankanın müşterileri arasında gerçekleştirilen bir alan araştırması

Günümüzde kurumlar ve özel şirketler arası rekabetin şiddetlendiği, üretim ve hizmetlerin farklılaşarak sürekli gelişip değişen tüketici tercihlerine endekslendiği bir dönemden geçilmektedir. Üretim, hizmet ve yönetimdeki bu dönüşümlerle, bu dönemin gereklerine ayak uydurmaya çalışan kurumlar kendilerini geleceğe hazırlamış olacaktır. Kurumların bu dönemde politikalarını toplumsal ve ekonomik çerçeve içinde yeniden belirlemeleri oldukça faydalı olacaktır. Şiddetli rekabet ortamında hedef kitle odaklı çalışılmalı ve onların istek ve ihtiyaçları ön plana çıkarılmalıdır. Müşteri ile iyi bir diyaloğun kurulması ve güven ortamının oluştuğu saygın bir imajın yaratılabilmesi için, kurumların halkla ilişkiler birimleri oluşturup çalışmalarını uygun şekilde yürütmeleri oldukça önem kazanmıştır. Kurumlar, çevreleriyle sürekli etkileşim halinde olan açık sistemlerdir. Sistemler iç dengeleri yanı sıra çevresi ile de uyumlu olmalıdırlar. Çevredeki değişen koşullara uyum sağlayamayan sistemlerin zamanla etkinlikleri yok olmaktadır. Kurum kimliği, kurum-içi ortamı, yönetim felsefesi, tasarımı, kurum kültürü, çalışan ilişkileri ve çalışan insan profili sıklıkla kontrol edilebilmelidir. Kurumsal imaj, söz konusu kurumla ilgili bilgi, inanç, deneyim ve bunların etkileşimleri sonucu oluşmuş, kurumun dış görüntüsünün özünü temsil eden kanaatler, tutumlar ve izlenimler şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Bir kurumun imajı, yalnızca kurumun bugününe değil geçmiş performansına, insan ve hedef kitle odaklı iç ve dış davranışlarına, sosyal sorumluluk bilincine, yönetime ve gerekli imaj stratejilerine göre de değişim göstermektedir. Kurumlar için imaj oldukça önemlidir. İmajı belirleyen çeşitli kriterler; iç ve dış paydaş mutluluğu, çalışana sunulan sosyal haklar ve imkanlar, hizmet ve ürün kalitesi, sosyal sorumluluk bilinci, rekabette etik davranma, finansal sağlamlık, kurum şeffaflığı, kaynakların etkin kullanımı, müşteri memnuniyeti ve demokratik yönetim tarzı vb. şeklinde sıralanabilir

Combined Effects of Physical and Psychological Factors on Physical Activity in Adults with Osteoarthritis

This dissertation research aimed to (i) investigate the associations between muscle strength, gait mechanics, and physical function with physical activity in people with osteoarthritis (OA); and (ii) determine how fear of movement (kinesiophobia) contributes to explaining the variations in physical activity with these measures. Cross-sectional data from participants with self-reported doctor diagnosed uni-or bilateral OA of the knee were included. The following measures were collected and analyzed throughout this work. Physical activity, kinesiophobia, and pain were assessed by self-report using the University of California, Los Angeles activity rating scale, Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia, and The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score pain subscale, respectively. Isometric knee extensor and flexor muscle strength were measured using an isokinetic dynamometer. Gait parameters were collected with three-dimensional gait analysis while participants walked on an instrumented split-belt treadmill at a self-selected speed. Physical function was assessed using the following performance-based measures: four square step test, 30-sec chair stand test, timed up and go, 40-m fast paced walk, and habitual gait speed. Overall, the findings from the three investigations convey that greater knee strength, higher peak sagittal plane joint moments at the ankle and hip during walking gait, faster self-selected walking speed, and better performance-based physical function are all independently related to higher physical activity level in people with knee OA. The degree of kinesiophobia significantly contributes to explaining the variation in activity level even after accounting for these measures. A lower degree of self-reported kinesiophobia (or less fear of movement) was significantly associated with higher physical activity level across all three investigations. Assessing kinesiophobia in patient evaluations may help with identifying individuals that are more likely to avoid physical activities or adhere to exercises due to behavioral adaptations which have a global effect on the body

Phenological, morphological and genetic characterization of local grapevine (Vitis labrusca L.) genotypes grown in the Black Sea Region in Northern Turkey

Vitis labrusca has become widely naturalized in the Black Sea region of Northern Turkey. The aim of this work was to evaluate the morphological, phenological, and genetic characteristics of V. labrusca accessions grown in the Black Sea region during the last three growing seasons. Local genotypes were described according to the Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV) ampelographic descriptor, including shoot length (cm), mature leaf size, bunch length and width, berry length and width, berry weight, number of berries, Total Soluble Solids (TTS) and titratable acidity. Additionally, phenological data, including bud burst, flowering, veraison and harvest date, were recorded. The accessions were characterized at the molecular level, and genetic relationships were assessed by means of Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) markers. Using 6 ISSR primers, seventy-seven bands were obtained, of which 69 were polymorphic with a mean polymorphic rate of 88.68%. These ISSR primers produced polymorphism information content (PIC) values ranging from 0.48 to 0.5. The genetic similarity ranged from 0.08 to 0.83 among the genotypes. According to the dendrogram based on the ISSR analysis, Accessions 8 and 5 were genetically related, with a coefficient of similarity of 0.83, while Accession 3 was the most distantly related genotype, with a coefficient of similarity of 0.08. These results demonstrated that ISSR markers can be used for genetic diversity analysis among V. labrusca genotypes. Our results also described characteristics of new V. labrusca genotypes that could be valuable for future Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS) and grapevine breeding.Key words: Diversity, foxy species, Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat markers (ISSRs), Breeding, polymorphis