Misconceptions about family planning of women in Turkey

Background: The objective of this study is to investigate the myths of women about contraceptive methods.Method: This study was planned as a cross-sectional research. The study population consisted of 1335 women aged between 16 and 56 years, who attended to a family planning clinic of a state hospital in Karaman City in the southwest part of Turkey.Findings: The mean age of women has been 32,79±8,8. While 6.2% (n=84) of the women used no contraceptive method, 70.4% (n=945) of them used an effective method and 23.4% (n=312) used a traditional method. The 40.2% of women have believed in that the oral contraceptive method caused weight gain, infertility, bleeding disorders, hirsutism, cancer, irritability, malformed baby and premature menopause.  The 24,2% of women have thought of that the intrauterine devices caused bleeding disorder, moving in the body, cancer, decreased sexual desire, genital infection and  infertility.Conclusions: There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding contraception, and they can sometimes prevent a woman from making an informed choice

Inclusive knowledge production at an elementary school through family-school-university partnerships: A formative intervention study

Students from racially minoritized backgrounds have been disproportionately subject to exclusionary school discipline in the United States. Utilizing cultural-historical activity theory and the formative intervention methodology, we conducted a yearlong formative intervention, Learning Lab, in an elementary school with significant racial disproportionality in school discipline. Teachers, family members, administrators, support staff, and community members with diverse and often opposing histories and goals worked together to critically examine their existing behavioral support system and racial disparities in practices, assumptions, processes, and outcomes from multiple perspectives. We utilized the method of expansive learning actions to analyze qualitative data from ten subsequent sessions. Our findings showed that local stakeholders successfully formed and sustained a diverse working group that represented families, educators, researchers, and community members. Learning Lab members worked collaboratively to question their existing school practices and to examine the root causes of racial disproportionality through historical and empirical analyses. We discuss both possibilities and challenges regarding inclusive knowledge production and the systemic transformation process at local schools

Çocuk Hastalarda Avulsiyon Nedeniyle Kaybedilmiş Anterior Dişler Yerine Uygulanan Farklı Tedavi Yaklaşımları: 3 OLGU SUNUMU

Avulsiyon sık görülen görülen ciddi bir yaralanma tipidir. Avulse dişler uzun dönem takibi sonucu kaybedilebilir veya replantasyon gerçekleşmeyebilir. Bu durum avülse dişlerin yerine çocuklarda büyüme ve gelişmeyi olumsuz etkilemeyecek şekilde çeşitli tedaviler uygulamayı gerektirmektedir. Bu vaka raporunda üst kesici dişlerini avulsiyon sonrası kaybetmiş 3 farklı hastaya uygulanan tedavi yaklaşımları sunulmuştur. İlk olguda kaza yerinde dişleri kaybolmuş hastaya diş ilaveli hareketli yer tutucu yapılmıştır. Fakat işbirliği sağlanamamış, sabit yer tutucuya geçilmesine karar verilmiştir. İkinci olguda avulse dişiyle kliniğe başvurmuş hastanın dişi replante edilmiştir. 2 yıllık takip sonucu eksternal rezorpsiyon gözlenen dişin çekimi gerçekleşmiş ve yerine fiberle güçlendirilmiş adeziv köprü uygulaması yapılmıştır. Üçüncü olguda avulse 12 numaralı dişi replante edilememiş 10 yaşındaki erkek hastaya diş ilaveli hareketli yer tutucu yapılmıştır. Bu hastaların farklı tedavi yaklaşımlarıyla estetik , fonetik ,gelişimsel ihtiyaçları karşılanmıştır

Creep modelling of polypropylenes using artificial neural networks trained with Bee algorithms

Polymeric materials, being capable of high mouldability, usability of long lifetime up to 50 years and availability at low cost properties compared to metallic materials, are in demand but finite element-based design engineers have limited means in terms of the limited material data and mathematical models. In particular, in the analysis of products with complex geometry, the stresses and strains of various amounts formed in the product should be known and evaluated in terms of a precise design of the product to fulfil life expectancy. Due to time and cost constraints, experimental data cannot be available for all cases required in analysis, therefore, finite element method-based simulations are commonly used by design engineers. This is also computationally expensive and requires a simpler and more precise way to complete the design more realistically. In this study, the whole creep behaviour of polypropylene for all stresses were obtained with 10% accuracy errors by artificial neural networks trained using existing experimental test results of the materials for a particular working range. The artificial neural network model was trained with traditional as well as heuristic based methods. It is demonstrated that heuristically trained ANN models have provided much accurate and precise results, which are in line with 10% accuracy of experimental data

The Hierarchy of Demographic Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Seafarers

anemonThis paper aims to quantitatively investigate the relation between seafarers’ organizational commitment, job satisfaction and their demographic characteristics. Sample group consists of seafarers with different ranks. For analysis purposes Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale, as well as Allen and Meyer Organizational Commitment Scale is used. Results indicate that job satisfaction and organizational commitments of seafarers differ according to their demographic characteristics. Findings also indicate that affective and continuance commitment levels are noticeably high. One other important result is that organizational level is the highest job satisfaction level among the others. The results obtained intend to contribute to existing literature by pinpointing which demographic characteristics affect seafarers’ job satisfaction and organizational commitments.Bu araştırma gemi adamlarının örgütsel bağlılık ve iş tatmini düzeylerinin, sahip oldukları demografik özellikleri ile etkileşimini nicel olarak incelemeyi hedefleyen bir çalışmadır. Örneklem grubunu farklı pozisyonlarda çalışan gemi adamları oluşturmuştur. Araştırmanın çözümleme aşamasında, Minnesota İş Tatmin Ölçeğinden ve Allen ve Meyer Örgütsel Bağlılık Ölçeğinden faydalanılmıştır. Çalışmadan elde edilen sonuçlar göstermiştir ki; gemi adamlarının iş tatmini ve örgütsel bağlılık düzeyleri demografik faktörlere göre farklılık göstermektedir. Örgütsel bağlılık alt boyutlarına bakıldığında ise çalışanların devamlılık ve duygusal bağlılık düzeylerinin yüksek olduğu görülmektedir. İş tatmini açısından ise, örgütsel düzeydeki iş tatmininin yüksek olduğu ortaya çıkmaktadır. Çalışma, gemi adamlarının hangi demografik özelliklerinin iş tatminlerini ve örgütsel bağlılıklarını daha fazla etkilediğini ortaya koymak yönüyle literatüre katkıda bulunmaktadır.66889

Inclusive future making: building a culturally responsive behavioral support system at an urban middle school with local stakeholders

This article presents a formative intervention study, called Learning Lab that facilitated the collective design of a culturally responsive behavioral support system at an urban middle school in the United States. Learning Lab united parents, teachers, support staff, education leaders, and researchers, specifically those who have been historically excluded from schools’ problem-solving activities to address an inner contradiction that they face—racial disproportionality in school discipline. Learning Lab members excavated and analyzed the school’s discipline system with its activities and disturbances and designed a new school-wide behavioral support system that is responsive to diverse experiences, perspectives, practices, and goals of their school community. A qualitative analysis of the Learning Lab process was conducted related to the development of the new system. Members examined outcomes in the existing discipline system, identified daily manifestations of the inner contradiction and collectively designed a culturally responsive system. The study showed the “how” of a systemic design and transformation process that helped develop a deeper understanding of educational change as a form of collective learning. The study demonstrated how a secondary artifact (system mapping) might facilitate movement from problem-definition to envisioning new possibilities. Given the inability of top-down education policies to impact sustained systemic transformation in schools, Learning Lab provides an ecologically valid collective knowledge-production and systemic design process that shows the possibilities of transforming marginalizing systems from the ground-up and collectively envisioning schools as spaces of solidarity, emancipation, and innovation