The Relation between the Level of Job Satisfaction and Types of Personality in High School Teachers

Teachers are loaded important responsibilities in educational process. The productivity and effectiveness of them are influenced by promotion, charging, job security, technological level, course load and working schedule which all are determined mostly by their institutions and influenced by noncognitive characteristics such as age, gender, family structure and finally influenced by personality types and characteristics, attitudes and behaviors, social values, competency and other personality characteristics of teachers. Purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between the level of job satisfaction of high school teachers and types of personality and to evaluate the differences of the levels of job satisfaction in accordance with the personality features. Method: The study covers teachers working in state schools in the central sub province of Sivas. Total number of the teachers work in 25 high schools at the area was one thousand and thirty-six. Fifty percent of the schools were included into the sample, and questionnaire was applied to 482 teachers. Data of the study were obtained from the questionnaire that determined the socio-demographic characteristics of the teachers, occupational satisfaction scale that determined their job satisfaction and the personality scale that determined their personality characteristics. Findings: Thirty-two percent of the teachers that answered the questionnaire were women and sixty-eight percent were males. The average score given by the teachers to all the statements in the scale in general is (O=3.55); and it is seen that teachers are satisfied with their jobs near to an intermediary level. It is seen that more than half (62%) of the teachers have extrovert personalities. Proportion of the teachers with introvert personalities within the sample was 32%. When the differences of points that teachers obtained in the job satisfaction scale and points obtained for each of the statements included in the scale used to evaluate their personality characteristics were compared, it was found that their job satisfaction showed significant differences in terms of characteristics of liking competence, being ambitious in the social area and occupation, getting angry easily, and hiding their feelings

Çocuk istismarı: Sivas (Türkiye) örneği

Subject of this study is family violence among primary school students. The purpose is to determine to what level socio-cultural, economical, psychological and communicative characteristics of the family affect the experience of violent acts on the child.Method: Universe of the study consists of second phase (junior high) students of grades VI, VII, and VIII in 70 primary schools in the city center of Sivas. When creating the sample, schools were divided into three groups as low, middle and high according to the socio-economical and cultural levels of the neighborhoods they were located in, and total fifteen schools were selected, three from each area, with characteristics suitable to represent the respective areas. Number of students included in the sample from these schools is 655. Study data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of items directed at determining the socio-demographic characteristics of the students, structures of families, quality of family relationships and presence or absence family violence against the child and relations and factors that might create the potential for violence.Findings: Proportion of children within the sample that were found treated with violence by their mothers was found as 54%, and proportion of children within the sample that were found treated with violence by their fathers was found as 46%. According to results of the regression analysis performed separately for mothers and fathers with the purpose of finding the variables with the greatest effect on being treated with violence of children by their parents and the level of effect of these variables, it was found that the variables influencing with statistically significant levels students’ experiences of violence from their mothers were educational status of the mother, presence of violence between mother and father and mode of treatment of the mother against the child, respectively.According to the results of the logistic regression analysis performed in relation with students’ experiences of violence from their fathers (Table 109), it was found that the variables influencing with statistically significant levels students’ experiences of violence from their fathers were gender of the student, presence of violence between mother and father and mode of treatment of the father against the child, respectively.Çalışmanın konusu ilköğretim öğrencilerinde aile içi şiddettir. Amaç ailenin sosyo-kültürel, ekonomik, psikolojik ve iletişimsel özelliklerinin çocuğa yönelik şiddet olaylarının yaşanmasında ne derece etkili olduğunu saptayabilmektir. Yöntem: Çalışmanın evrenini, Sivas merkez ilçede bulunan 70 ilköğretim okulunun VI, VII ve VIII. sınıf ikinci kademe öğrencileri oluşturmaktadır. Örneklem oluşturulurken, okullar, bulundukları mahallelerin sosyo-ekonomik ve kültürel düzeylerine göre; düşük, orta ve yüksek olmak üzere üç bölgeye ayrılmış ve her bir bölgeden bu bölgeyi temsil edecek niteliklere sahip beş okul, toplam onbeş okul seçilmiştir. Bu onbeş okuldan örnekleme dâhil edilen öğrenci sayısı 655’dir. Araştırma verileri, öğrencilerin soyo-demografik özellikleri, aile yapısı, aile içi ilişkilerinin niteliği ve aile içinde çocuğa yönelik şiddetin varlığını ve şiddete potansiyel oluşturabileceği düşünülen ilişki ve faktörleri belirlemeye yönelik sorulardan oluşan anket formu ile toplanmıştır. Bulgular: Çalışmada, anneleri tarafından şiddete uğradığı tespit edilen öğrencilerin örnekleme oranı %54, babaları tarafından şiddete uğradığı tespit edilen öğrencilerin örnekleme oranı ise %46 olarak tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencinin anne ve babası tarafından şiddete maruz kalmasına etkisi en fazla olan değişkenleri ve bu değişkenlerin etki düzeylerini saptamak amacıyla anne ve baba için ayrı ayrı gerçekleştirilen lojistik regresyon analizinden elde edilen sonuçlara göre) öğrencinin annesi tarafından şiddete maruz kalmasına istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde etkisi olan değişkenlerin sırasıyla annenin eğitim durumu, anne baba arasında şiddetin var olma durumu ve annenin çocuğa davranış biçimi olduğu tespit edilmiştir.Öğrencinin babası tarafından şiddete maruz kalmasına ilişkin gerçekleştirilen lojistik regresyon analizi sonuçlarına göre (Tablo 109) ise öğrencinin babası tarafından şiddete maruz kalmasına istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde etkisi olan değişkenlerin sırasıyla öğrencinin cinsiyeti, anne baba arasında şiddetin var olma durumu ve babanın çocuğa davranış biçimi olduğu saptanmıştır

Galectin-3 and plasma cytokines in patients with acute myocardial infarction

WOS: 000343954700009PubMed ID: 25316666Objective: To investigate the concentrations of plasma cytokines and Galectin-3 (Gal-3) as inflammatory markers in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods: The study population consisted of 29 patients with AMI and 29 healthy control subjects. We measured Gal-3, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in plasma using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). We measured levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) via the nephelometric method. Results: Patients with AMI showed significantly higher plasma Gal-3, TNF-alpha, and IL-6 levels compared with controls. Gal-3 levels were positively and significantly correlated with plasma IL-6, TNF-alpha, and CRP levels in the control and patient groups. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that Gal-3 can be a new circulating biomarker of inflammation associated with AMI

Türkiye’de tekstil alanında çalışan kadınlar ve sorunları: (İstanbul-Adana-Denizli-Sivas ve Tekirdağ ili örnekleri)

Purpose of the study is to determine the problems of women working in textile factories as parallel to the characteristics of female labor in Turkey and the factors affecting these problems. With this purpose, 564 women working in textile factories in Istanbul, Adana, Denizli, Tekirdağ and Sivas provinces were included in the study. It was determined according to the results obtained that factors affecting the problems women encounter in working life in a statistically significant way (P>0,25) are monthly income of the family, form of the family, number of members of the household, quality of the intra-family relationships, daily working hours, job satisfaction, relationships of the employee with managers and way of making decisions inside the family, respectively.Çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’de kadın işgücünün özelliklerine paralel, tekstil fabrikalarında çalışan kadınların sorunları ve bu sorunlara etki eden faktörler belirlemektir. Bu amaçla, İstanbul, Adana, Denizli, Tekirdağ ve Sivas illerinde tekstil fabrikalarında çalışan 564 kadın araştırmaya dahil edilmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre, kadının çalışma hayatında karşılaştığı sorunlar üzerinde istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde (P>0,25) etkisi olan değişkenlerin sırasıyla, ailenin aylık geliri, aile biçimi, hane halkı üye sayısı, aile içi ilişkilerin niteliği, günlük çalışma süresi, çalışma memnuniyeti, çalışanın yöneticileri ile ilişkileri, ailede karar alma biçimi olduğu tespit edilmiştir

Deriving thresholds of software metrics to predict faults on open source software: Replicated case studies

Object-oriented metrics aim to exhibit the quality of source code and give insight to it quantitatively. Each metric assesses the code from a different aspect. There is a relationship between the quality level and the risk level of source code. The objective of this paper is to empirically examine whether or not there are effective threshold values for source code metrics. It is targeted to derive generalized thresholds that can be used in different software systems. The relationship between metric thresholds and fault proneness was investigated empirically in this study by using ten open-source software systems. Three types of fault-proneness were defined for the software modules: non-fault-prone, more-than-one-fault prone, and more-than-three-fault-prone. Two independent case studies were carried out to derive two different threshold values. A single set was created by merging ten datasets and was used as training data by the model. The learner model was created using logistic regression and the Bender method. Results revealed that some metrics have threshold effects. Seven metrics gave satisfactory results in the first case study. In the second case study, eleven metrics gave satisfactory results. This study makes contributions primarily for use by software developers and testers. Software developers can see classes or modules that require revising; this, consequently, contributes to an increment in quality for these modules and a decrement in their risk level. Testers can identify modules that need more testing effort and can prioritize modules according to their risk levels. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

A feature dependent Naive Bayes approach and its application to the software defect prediction problem

Naive Bayes is one of the most widely used algorithms in classification problems because of its simplicity, effectiveness, and robustness. It is suitable for many learning scenarios, such as image classification, fraud detection, web mining, and text classification. Naive Bayes is a probabilistic approach based on assumptions that features are independent of each other and that their weights are equally important. However, in practice, features may be interrelated. In that case, such assumptions may cause a dramatic decrease in performance. In this study, by following preprocessing steps, a Feature Dependent Naive Bayes (FDNB) classification method is proposed. Features are included for calculation as pairs to create dependence between one another. This method was applied to the software defect prediction problem and experiments were carried out using widely recognized NASA PROMISE data sets. The obtained results show that this new method is more successful than the standard Naive Bayes approach and that it has a competitive performance with other feature-weighting techniques. A further aim of this study is to demonstrate that to be reliable, a learning model must be constructed by using only training data, as otherwise misleading results arise from the use of the entire data set. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

A flexible rule-based framework for pilot performance analysis in air combat simulation systems

Air combat simulation systems (ACSSs) are developed to train fighter pilots (trainees) in a virtual combat environment. In general, an ACSS consists of the following stages: planning the scenario, training, flight analysis, and performance evaluation. In this paper, the details of the framework, which is developed to analyze and evaluate the performance of the trainees, is introduced. First, the evaluation criteria for the pilot performance are defined. Next, a dynamic pilot performance evaluation system is developed that can be controlled and modified by experienced instructor pilots (instructors/trainers) to define the performance criteria details using predefined evaluation parameters. The evaluation of the trainees is conducted at the end of the flight and then a report related to the trainees' performance is generated. Eleven of the performance criteria are within the scope of this paper; however, the proposed system provides an extensible infrastructure to define new criteria and parameters

Short term effects of rilmenidine on left ventricular hypertrophy and systolic and diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension: Comparison with an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor and a calcium antagonist

The short term (three months) effects of rilmenidine on systemic hypertension induced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions in comparison with those of perindopril and nifedipine-slow release (SR) formulation were studied. The short term effects of rilmenidine on biochemical parameters and lipid profiles were evaluated. Sixty patients (39 men, 21 women) with a mean age of 59 ± 14 years and with mild to moderate systemic arterial hypertension were enrolled in three groups. The first group received 1 mg/day of rilmenidine, the second group 4 mg/day of perindopril, and the third group 20 mg/day of nifedipine SR. All drugs induced a similar decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) values. Left ventricular mass (LVM) and LVM index decreased equally in all groups associated with a significant increase in the E/A ratio. The ratio between the reduction in LVM and decrease in mean arterial pressure (LVM/mmHg) was higher in groups 1 and 2. Negative correlations between LVM and LVMI, E/A, and the dv/dt ratio were obtained. Rilmenidine did not change the blood chemistry and lipid profile values. Despite its neutral effect on lipid profile and biochemical parameters, rilmenidine is as effective as perindopril and nifedipine in controlling hypertension and decreasing left ventricular hypertrophy. Copyright © 2004 by the Japanese Heart Journal