Creating Organizational Culture Through Academic Inbreeding: A Case from Turkey

In this study, we explore how academic inbreeding policies and practices might contribute to the research and teaching cultures at one of the technical public university in Turkey. Building on literature review and work on the relationship between academic inbreeding and the status of research in higher education institutions, we examine some of the mechanisms that map the territory of institutional research culture and trace the links between inbreeding policies and practices and scientific research and cultures. Along the research process, the data are drawn from Annual Strategic Planning Reports of the university and in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 faculty members. Findings revealed that there is a tendency to employ undergraduate and master degree inbreeds while mobility is supported at Ph.D. level

Türkiye’de Eğitim Fakültelerine Bakış: ODTÜ Örneği

Eğitim tarihsel, kültürel ve sosyo-ekonomik yapılar ve işleyiş süreçlerinin etkisinde şekillenmektedir. Eğitim süreçlerinin anlamı da toplumsal yapılar ve reflekslere bağımlı süreçler olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu bağlamda üniversite bünyesinde fakülte statüsünde yapılandırılmış olan Eğitim Fakültelerinin makro düzeydeki politikalar ile ilişkisi ve mikro düzeyde ise kurumsal dinamikleri incelenmelidir. Bu proje eğitim süreçlerini toplumsal alanın ilişkiler ağından soyutlamadan ve kurumsal yapının inşa süreçlerini dikkate alarak, kurumsal mekanizmaların toplumsal dinamikleri yeniden üretimini ele almayı hedeflemektedir. Üniversitelerin kurumsal kimlikleri ve yapısal işleyiş mekanizmaları toplumsal alanın temsiliyeti ve yeniden formüle edilmesi bağlamında etkin alanlardır. Bu nedenle ODTÜ bünyesindeki Eğitim Fakültesi’nin konumlanışı ve işleyişinin araştırılması mevcut eğitim politikalarının analizine ve eğitim yönetiminde yeni yaklaşımların oluşmasına katkıda bulunacaktır. Bu kapsamda projenin amacı öncelikle toplumsal ve siyasal alanda etkin olan makro politikaların kurumsal yapı ve kültürü belirleme, şekillendirme ve nüfuz etme biçimlerini irdelemektir. Aynı zamanda, mikro politikalar olarak değerlendirilebilecek olan iç kurumsal dinamiklerin makro politikalar ile olan ilişkisi (bağımlılığı/bağımsızlığı) ve yapısal işleyiş süreçleri incelenecektir. Son olarak, makro-mikro düzeyler arası etkileşimin ara yüzlerinin neler olabileceği değerlendirilecektir

Are clinical features and cardiac biomarkers at admission related to severity in pediatric acute myocarditis?: Clinical features and cardiac biomarkers in pediatric acute myocarditis.

Objectives: To evaluate the factors associated with intensive care requirement and mortality in pediatric myocarditis. Methods: Children aged 28 days to 18 years who were diagnosed with acute myocarditis in a pediatric emergency department between January 2010 and September 2020 were enrolled in the study retrospectively. Demographic and clinical features, cardiac biomarkers, and imaging findings were evaluated. Length of hospital stay, need for hospitalization in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), treatments, and survival outcomes were recorded. To define the severity of disease, three groups were created and the data were compared in terms of clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings. The patients treated in the pediatric ward were compared with those hospitalized in the PICU. Ventricular dysfunction was defined in patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 50%. Also, survivor and non-survivor patients were compared. Results: A total number of 62 patients with a median age of 8 years were included. Chest pain and tachycardia were the most common findings on physical examination. The mean LVEF was 59.3 +/- 13.0% at admission. Of the patients, 17 were hospitalized in the PICU (27.4%). Chest pain was more common in patients hospitalized in the pediatric ward (p<0.001), and hypotension, vomiting, arrhythmia, were more common and LVEF was lower in patients in the PICU (p = 0.017, p = 0.008, p = 0.006, and p = 0.025, respectively). The children treated in the PICU were younger than those in the pediatric ward (p = 0.009). Troponin I levels were significantly higher in the pediatric ward (p = 0.035), and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels were higher in patients in the PICU (p = 0.012). Death occurred in four patients. Hypotension and vomiting were significantly more common in non-survivors (p = 0.020 and 0.004, respectively). Inotropes and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) were more commonly used in non-survivors (p = 0.001 and p = 0.015, respectively). BNP levels were higher in non-survivors (p = 0.008), and troponin I levels were not different between survivors and non -survivors (p = 0.260). Conclusion: In pediatric acute myocarditis, lower LVEF, increased BNP, as well as the presence of hypotension and arrhythmia were found to be related to intensive care requirement. Hypotension and vomiting were found to be more common in non-survivors. Due to the possibility of rapidly worsening disease, physicians should be alert to the presence of these findings. (c) 2022 French Society of Pediatrics. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved

Innovative Representations of Sexualities in Studies in English

This book comprises the papers presented by graduate students at the conference entitled “Innovative Representations of ‘Sexualities’ in Studies in English” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, on 11 March 2015. These papers were not only reviewed by referees but were further revised extensively and edited by myself. The objective in the organisation of the first graduate conference held by the Centre and the publication of the papers presented at the conference was to provide graduate students with an academic platform to present their current research and discuss their ideas with their peers and professors. The papers published in the book deal with different aspects of sexuality in literature and non-literary media. The papers provide readings of sexuality, which is a complex and multidisciplinary topic, not just through poetry, fiction and drama but also as represented in feature films, animations and TV series because of the dominance of visual culture in today’s societies. Drawing on relevant theoretical material, mainly feminist and queer theories, these papers explore and question how sexuality is represented in a variety of mediums and how it functions. In addition, the ways in which sexuality is conceptualised and constructed is interrogated mostly with the intention of deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity formation. In this postmodernist era in which sexual and gender identities are no longer limited to two binary sexes, the papers invite the readers to reconsider their understanding of sexuality. Along with non-binary understandings of both sex (male, female, or intersex) and gender (man, woman, transgender, third gender and so forth) even non-human sexualities are taken into consideration. Furthermore, how sexualities are linked to hegemonic categories of identity, such as nationality, race, class and gender is discussed

Happiness Optimism Anti-Utopia Loneliness Paradise UTOPIAS Civilisation Anger DYSTOPIAS Horror Dream Ideal Safety Order Peace Urban Pollution Decay Bleak Stability Hope Destruction Unsettling

I would like to extend my gratitude to the President of Hacettepe University Prof. Dr. A. Haluk ÖZEN and his team for their kind support towards the realisation of the second of the graduate conferences, “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English,” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies and held on 15-16 March 2016, and the publication of this book. I also convey my heartfelt thanks to the speakers at the conference for sharing with us their noteworthy research honouring the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. Furthermore, I owe special thanks to the members of the administrative board of the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies for their unequivocal support towards the publication of selected papers presented at the conference. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, for her invaluable support. I am also truly grateful to the referees, Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, Prof. Dr. Huriye REİS, Prof. Dr. Aytül ÖZÜM, Prof. Dr. Hande SEBER, Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan AKILLI, Dr. Pınar TAŞDELEN, Dr. Jason M. WARD and Dr. Aslı DEĞİRMENCİ for their meticulous efforts in reviewing the papers. I also express my gratitude to Res. Assist. Şafak HORZUM and Res. Assist. Zümre Gizem YILMAZ for their assistance towards the organisation of the conference and the publication of this book. I am also thankful to Res. Assist. Özden DERE, Res. Assist. Merve DİKİCİLER, Res. Assist. Selim ERDEM, Res. Assist. Ulaş ÖZGÜN and Res. Assist. Kübra VURAL who have helped with the proof reading. Moreover, I am thankful to the personnel at Hacettepe Basımevi for their diligent wor

THE EMERGING RESISTANCE IN NOSOCOMIAL URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS: FROM THE PEDIATRICS PERSPECTIVE.

Background: Healthcare–associated infections results increased healthcare costs and mortality. There are limited studies concerning the distribution of the etiologic agents and the resistance patterns of the microorganisms causing healthcare–associated urinary tract infections (HA-UTI) in pediatric settings. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the distribution and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of pathogens causing HA-UTI in children. Material and Methods: Isolates from 138 children with UTI who were hospitalized in pediatric, neonatal and pediatric surgery intensive care units were reviewed. Results: Most common isolated organism was Kleibsella pneumoniae (34.1%) and Escherichia coli (26.8%). Among the Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Meropenem and imipenem resistance rates were 46.2% and 38.5%. Extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production was present in 48 Klebsiella species (82.75%). Among ESBL positive Klebsiella species, the rate of meropenem and  imipenem resistance was 18.8% and ertapenem resistance was 45.9%. Extended spectrum beta-lactamase production was present in 27 (72.9%) Escherichia coli species. Among ESBL positive E.coli, the rate of meropenem and imipenem resistance was 7.4% and ertapenem resistance was 14.8% Conclusions: Emerging meropenem resistance in P. aeruginosa, higher rates of ertapenem resistance in ESBL positive ones in E.coli and Klebsiella species in pediatric nosocomial UTI are important  notifying signs for superbug infections