Personel Selection based on Talent Management

AbstractDue to the globalization, organizations need professional human resources. Qualified personel which has high performances on capability, knowledge, skill, and other abilities play significant roles in the success of an organization. On the other hand having an improper personel might cause many problems such as affecting productivity, precision, flexibility and quality of the products/service negatively. Nowadays organizations try to employ much more qualified personel on management level and they want to find out firstly inside of them. As a new concept talent management deals with this kind of situations.Right using of talents make the work much more successful and making the work right bring the success to the organization. The subject of this study is to promote a personel dealing with talent management as General Manager (GM) under personel selection problem. There exist six criteria and three candidates for the selection process. In this study, a hybrid model which employs multi attribute decision making methods together, is proposed for the personel selection problem

THE EVALUATION OF ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN URTICARIA

Amaç: Urtikarya sık görülen, tanısı kolay konulabilen ancak oldukça değişken etyolojik faktörlerin saptanmasının zor olduğu bir dermatozdur. Bu çalışmada kliniğimizde urtikarya tanısıyla izlenmiş olan hastalarda saptanan etyolojik faktörlerin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gereç ve yöntem: Bu retrospektif çalışmada 2000-2007 yılları arasında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dermatoloji Kliniği'nde yatarak tedavi gören urtikarya tanısı almış 127 olguda saptanan etyolojik etmenler araştırılmıştır. Bulgular: Ayrıntılı anamnez ve etyolojiye yönelik yapılan tetkikler sonucunda özellikle gıdalar, ilaçlar ve infeksiyonlar olmak üzere 92 (%72,4) hastada en az 1 veya daha fazla olası tetikleyici etken saptanırken, 35 (%27,6) hastada tetikleyici etken saptanamamıştır. Sonuç: Çalışmada elde edilen bulgular ışığında; urtikaryalı olguların değerlendirilmesinde infeksiyonlar, ilaçlar ve gıdalar başta olmak üzere olası tetikleyici faktörlerin alınacak ayrıntılı anamnezde yer almasının önemi vurgulanmıştır. Objective: Urticaria is a common skin disease which is easily diagnosed. In contrast to the ease of its diagnosis, the underlying etiologic factors are often difficult to determine. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the etiologic factors in patients with urticaria who were followed-up by our clinic. Material and method: In this retrospective study; 127 in-patients with urticaria who were followed up in Dokuz Eylül University Medical School Department of Dermatology between the years 2000-2007 were re-evaluated to outline the established etiologic factors. Results: Detailed anamnesis and laboratory investigations revealed at least one etiological factor in 92 (72.4%) patients, especially foods, drugs and infections. On the other hand 35 (27.6%) patients had no associating triggering factors. Conclusion: In this study, the importance of a detailed history regarding triggering factors such as infections, drugs and foods in the evaluation of patients with urticaria was emphasized

The contribution of vacuum-assisted modified Menghini type needle to diagnosis of US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid

PURPOSEWe aimed to determine the contribution of vacuum-assisted modified Menghini type needle to diagnosis of ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of the thyroid evaluated by a pathologist at the bedside.METHODSA total of 147 thyroid nodules in 138 patients (122 women, 16 men) were included in this prospective study. Sonographic features of nodules, number of aspirations, pain and pain severity during the process, hemorrhage, and presence of sample obtained for cell block analysis were recorded and analyzed with the results of aspiration biopsy.RESULTSUsing the 21G modified Menghini type needle, a diagnosis could not be reached in 14.3% of nodules. Adequate samples for cell block analysis were obtained in 47 nodules (32%), 17 of which contributed to the diagnosis. While the difference between diagnostic cytopathology results and the contribution of the cell block were statistically significant, obtainability of cell block samples was not significantly correlated with the number of aspirations or the presence of a cystic component in the nodule.CONCLUSIONFNAB with 21G vacuum-assisted modified Menghini type needle is a safe procedure with very low complication rates. In addition to the cytologic smear samples, microtissue fragments obtained with this method help pathologists in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules

Effects of the levels of astaxanthin in the diet on the flesh pigmentation of Rainbow trout

A feeding trial was conducted to study the effects of dietary astaxanthin concentration on muscle pigmentation of rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) with a mean initial weight of 270 g fed diets supplemented with astaxanthin in diet concentrations of 60 (group II) and 90 mg/kg (group III) for 35 days. A control (I) group received a diet without astaxanthin. At the end of the experiment, the trout showed average body weight increases of 250.660g, 261.675 g and 234.410 g, and the flesh reached a level of 0.695 mg/kg, 10.539 mg/kg and 11.954 mg carotenoid/kg in groups I, II and III, respectively (initially, 0.595 mg/kg). Fish pigmentation increased with increasing dietary carotenoid concentration. But the retention coefficients decreased as the pigment dose in the diet increased. Key Words : Rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss), pigmentation, astaxanthi

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: Analysis of 30 cases

Aim: Sentinel lymph node biopsy is performed in the treatment of breast cancer, and it has started to replace the axillary lymph node dissection technique. The results are reliable and it has lower morbidity comparing with axillary dissection.Methods: In this study, we analyzed the patients with sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer surgery.Results: Sentinel lymph node involvement was detected in 14 (46.6%) of 30 patients. In the other 16 patients (54.4%), no involvement of the sentinel lymph nodes was detected and six of these patients (37.5%) did not undergo axillary dissection. None of the nine patients (56.2%) without sentinel lymph node involvement had also no axillary involvement. Axillary involvement was detected only in one patient. In our study, 10 patients (62.5%) who had no sentinel lymph node involvement but had axillary dissection showed false negativity in one patient and it was seen that this patient was the first patient to be included in the study. Sentinel lymph node detection rate was 88.2%, accuracy rate was 76.6%, sensitivity rate was 88.2% and false negative rate was 10%.Conclusion: The use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in the surgical treatment of breast cancer is a safe approach

Effect of natural and synthetic carotenoid sourced on pigmentation of rainbow trouth (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

A feeding trial was conducted to assess the effects of supplementing the diets of commercial-size rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) with red pepper as a natural carotenoid source and synthetic astaxanthin. Diets without carotenoid supplemented (control) and containing 3% or 6% red pepper and 0.05% "Carophyll Pink 8%" were given to groups 1-4, respectively. Rainbow trout, with weight of groups between 470 and 483 g, were fed four different diets for 45 days. At the end of the experiment, the trout showed an average body weight increase of 157.599 g, 110.729 g, 136.641 g and 190.091 g, and feed conversion averaged 2.464, 3.175, 2.661 and 2.055 for groups 1-4, respectively. Steak and fillet color card scores were 0.000 and 10.000 for group I, 0.350 and 10.460 for group 2, 0.580 and 10.865 for group 3, 3.260 and 13.620 for group 4. The flesh reached a level of 0.526, 1.099, 1.457 and 5.568 mg carotenoid/kg for groups 1-4, respectively (initial mean carotenoid concentration of 0.559 mg/kg). Synthetic astaxanthin resulted in significantly higher levels of total carotenoid in the flesh than the red pepper pigment. Red pepper pigment resulted in small, but statistically significant deposits compared with the control group (P<0.05). The carotenoid retention in the flesh was 2% for red pepper groups and 12% for the synthetic astaxanthin group

of pilonidal sinus?

PURPOSE: Different methods for managing pilonidal sinus have been described in the literature. Our purpose was to evaluate the influence of postoperative drainage in Limberg flaps. METHODS: Forty patients with pilonidal sinus undergoing radical excision and reconstruction with Limberg flap between 1994 and 1996 were evaluated prospectively. After patients were assigned randomly to the two groups, the effects of drains were studied statistically in terms of wound complications, hospital stay, and recurrence rate. RESULTS: Except for two minor transient wound dehiscences, in all cases primary healing was achieved. Early wound complication rate was 7.5 percent and recurrence rate was 2.5 percent for both groups. There was no significant difference between the groups in early wound complications (P > 0.05). The length of hospital stay was significantly longer in the drainage group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: We conclude that Limberg flaps with no drains in place will result in shorter hospital stays without deleteriously affecting the surgical results of wide excision and primary closure with welt-vascularized tissue

Modeling of Ion effect on fermentation for bioethanol production using artificial neural network (ANN)

The object of this study is modeling the effect of the interaction of Na, Ca and Mg ions on the ethanol fermentation process by using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The obtained model results were compared with the optimised results by The Response Surface Method (RSM) and the experimental laboratory data obtained before. Model success criteria was measured via the parameters of Mean Squared Error (MSE) and the correlation coefficient (R). ANN model input variables were the concentration of ions Na, Ca and Mg (Ca: 69-2961 g/L, Na: 209-3621 g/L, Mg: 4-253 g/L) and output was percent ethanol yield. ANN training was done with the Levenberg–Marquardt feed forward algorithm and the data was categorised as 75% training, 15% validation and 15% testing. The maximum epoch value was determined as 14 iterations. R2 values of the system were determined as 99% for education, 99% for validation and 99% for the whole biosorption system. MSE value was 0.0004 for education, 0.00381 for validation and 0.0285 for testing. Different activation functions such as logsig, tansig, purelin and different transfer training algorithm such as trainrp, trainbfg, trainlm and others were tried, tansig and trainlm gave the best results with higher R2 value

Reconstruction of large abdominal wall defects

Reconstruction of a large abdominal defect is a technically demanding procedure. A single flap is sometimes insufficient for cover. Compound procedures play an important role in solving this problem. The case of a 35-year-old man with a large abdominal hernia as a result of a traumatic defect on the right abdomen, previously covered by a skin graft, is presented. The reconstructive method was initially expansion of posterior and upper parts of the defect and also of the tenser fascia lats in situ and then deepithelization of the previous skin graft over the intestinal serosa. The defect was covered by Prolene mesh, the upper and dorsal expanded skin was approximated, and an expanded tenser fascia lata flap was transposed to complete the cover. During follow-up examinations, there were no complications such as infection or recurrence of the hernia