Effect of perception of COVID-19 and nonpharmaceutical intervention on desire and behavioral intention in touristic travels in Turkey

Purpose - This study analyzes the desires and behavioral intentions of tourists within the scope of perception of COVID-19 and nonpharmaceutical intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach - The population of the research consists of people on a touristic trip in Turkey. Because of the pandemic, questionnaire data was collected online between 25 April and 15 May 2020. The research was carried out with 712 questionnaire forms. The data obtained were analyzed by structural equation modeling in the SM-PLS statistics program. Findings - Perception of COVID-19 significantly and positively affects NPI and negatively and significantly affects desire. Perception of COVID-19 and NPI do not have a significant positive/negative effect on behavioral intention. Finally, desire has a significantly positive effect on behavioral intention. Research limitations/implications - Since the research has limitations in terms of time, cost, accessibility and control difficulties, the entire population could not be reached. The study was carried out with only 712 tourists traveling in Turkey. Practical implications - The obtained results will impact, particularly the decisions taken in Turkey's tourism sector. Moreover, if tourism companies know the decisions of the consumers during the pandemic process, they can use the appropriate marketing techniques. Social implications - The result may give an idea about the decision-making process of the consumers on traveling during the pandemic. In this way, psychologically different research can be developed. Originality/value - There has not been any study made in Turkey that investigated the context of the current research model. Therefore, this research is original.Purpose - This study analyzes the desires and behavioral intentions of tourists within the scope of perception of COVID-19 and nonpharmaceutical intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach - The population of the research consists of people on a touristic trip in Turkey. Because of the pandemic, questionnaire data was collected online between 25 April and 15 May 2020. The research was carried out with 712 questionnaire forms. The data obtained were analyzed by structural equation modeling in the SM-PLS statistics program. Findings - Perception of COVID-19 significantly and positively affects NPI and negatively and significantly affects desire. Perception of COVID-19 and NPI do not have a significant positive/negative effect on behavioral intention. Finally, desire has a significantly positive effect on behavioral intention. Research limitations/implications - Since the research has limitations in terms of time, cost, accessibility and control difficulties, the entire population could not be reached. The study was carried out with only 712 tourists traveling in Turkey. Practical implications - The obtained results will impact, particularly the decisions taken in Turkey's tourism sector. Moreover, if tourism companies know the decisions of the consumers during the pandemic process, they can use the appropriate marketing techniques. Social implications - The result may give an idea about the decision-making process of the consumers on traveling during the pandemic. In this way, psychologically different research can be developed. Originality/value - There has not been any study made in Turkey that investigated the context of the current research model. Therefore, this research is original

Characteristics of patients operated for primary hyperparathyroidism at university hospitals in Türkiye: Differences among Türkiye's geographical regions

Purpose: The aim of this study was to define the clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients operated on for primary hyperpatathyroidism (PHPT) at university hospitals in Türkiye, and to investigate the differences in the clinical presentations of the disease between different geographical regions. Methods: Patients operated on for PHPT in the university hospitals of Türkiye were included in the study. The demographic, clinical, and laboratory findings and the operational data of the patients were investigated according to the whole country and to different geographical regions. Comparisons were performed according to whole country and regions. Results: A total of 1,162 cases were included in the study from different regions and 20 university hospitals. The mean age of patients was 52.4 ± 0.38 (mean ± standard error) in the general population of Türkiye. The rates of hypertension, urolithiasis, bone disease and 25-hydroxyvitamin D insufficiency were 35%, 18.6%, 67.6%, and 63%, respectively. The median parathormone (PTH), serum total calcium (Ca+2) and phosphorus value were 220 pg/mL (range, 70-2,500 pg/mL), 11.2 mg/dL (range, 9.5-11.2 mg/dL), and 2.4 mg/dL (range, 1-4.7 mg/dL), respectively. The median size of the adenomas resected was 16 mm (range, 4-70 mm). Significant differences were observed in the clinical and laboratory findings of the patients operated on due to PHPT between different geographical regions of Türkiye (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The clinical and laboratory characteristics of the patients with PHPT in different geographical regions of Türkiye differ. Furthermore, the general findings of the cases in Türkiye give us a hint that the severity of the disease here is somewhere between Eastern and Western countries. Copyright © 2016, the Korean Surgical Society

Effects of Frequent Clipping on the Underground Food Reserves of Certain Prairie Grasses

A series of experiments in which true-prairie grasses were clipped at frequent intervals afforded excellent materials for a study of the effects of such treatment upon the food reserves. Two species of Andropogon, at present the most important dominants of true prairie, were employed. A series of quadrats on a north-facing slope in the Blemont prairie in Lincoln, Nebraska, in which little bluestem Andropogon scoparius, grew in about 70 of big bluestem, A. furcatus, were obtained about a mile distant from virgin lowland prairie near the flood plain of salt creek

Gerhard Botz, Nationalsozialismus in Wien: Machtübernahme, Herrschaftssicherung, Radikalisierung 1938/39 (Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2008)

In March 2008, Austrian scholars and journalists devoted relatively little attention to the seventieth anniversary of the Anschluß. Following decades of acrimonious debate and intensive research, they appeared to have reached consensus on the Nazi takeover or politely agreed to a standoff on the divisive issues. Thanks in no small measure to the resurgence of the radical right, they had become engaged in scrutinizing virtually every aspect of life in Adolf Hitler’s homeland between 1938 and 1..

Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Edeljude: Das Leben des Armenarztes Eduard Bloch

In this extraordinary book, Brigitte Hamann recounts the life and times of Hitler’s Jewish childhood physician, Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872-1945). Relying on meticulous research in Austria, Germany, and the United States, the author provides insights into the ambiguous feelings of admiration and respect that characterized the relationship of the Jewish doctor and the Nazi dictator throughout their lives. Hamann not only sweeps away misconceptions about Hitler’s youth, but in lucid, often gripping,..