THE EFFECT OF 10-WEEK EDUCATIONAL GAMES ON ANTHROPOMETRIC AND FUNDAMENTAL MOTOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract The aim of this study is to examine the effect of 10-week educational games applied to preschool children on anthropometric and fundamental motor skill development. The sample of the research consisted of a total of 48 children aged 5–6 who attended a private kindergarten. Anthropometric characteristics of the children and measurements related to performance tests, including height, body weight, BMI, chest circumference, waist circumference, and hip circumference, were taken. To measure performance characteristics, sit and reach, horizontal jump, vertical jump, and 10-meter sprint measurements were collected both as pre-tests before the 10-week educational games training and as post-tests after the 10-week educational games training. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS 25.0 program. Descriptive statistics, including means and standard deviations (SD), were calculated for the children's descriptive information. T-tests were applied to the anthropometric measurements before and after the 10-week educational game training. As a result, no significant difference was found between the performance test results of boys and girls. The anthropometric test results of the participants included in the study indicated a significant difference between the pre- and post-test measurements within groups and between groups. When the results of this study were compared with the results of other studies in the literature, the similarities and differences could be explained by factors such as genetics, nutrition, hormones, regional differences, training practices, muscle mass, warm-up, step frequency, physical activity level, psychological condition, differences in talent selection, accuracy of measurements (times, distances, etc.), calibration settings of the test device, temperature, elevation, environment, humidity, psychological condition, and training quality. Keywords: Motor skills1, educational play2, anthropometry3, children4

Recent Advances in Health Biotechnology During Pandemic

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in 2019, cut the epoch that will make profound fluctuates in the history of the world in social, economic, and scientific fields. Urgent needs in public health have brought with them innovative approaches, including diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. To exceed the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various scientific authorities in the world have procreated advances in real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based diagnostic tests, rapid diagnostic kits, the development of vaccines for immunization, and the purposing pharmaceuticals for treatment. Diagnosis, treatment, and immunization approaches put for- ward by scientific communities are cross-fed from the accrued knowledge of multidisciplinary sciences in health biotechnology. So much so that the pandemic, urgently prioritized in the world, is not only viral infections but also has been the pulsion in the development of novel approaches in many fields such as diagnosis, treatment, translational medicine, virology, mi- crobiology, immunology, functional nano- and bio-materials, bioinformatics, molecular biol- ogy, genetics, tissue engineering, biomedical devices, and artificial intelligence technologies. In this review, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the development of various scientific areas of health biotechnology are discussed

Computer aided determination of proportion of sand in a soil

2015 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2015 --16 May 2015 through 19 May 2015 -- --Determination of soil texture has always been very important for agricultural researches. Since determination of proportions of sand, silt, and clay in a soil by traditional methods requires more effort, in this study, we focus on performing soil analysis by an automated computerized system. First some features are extracted by applying curve fitting method on time signals measured by a light sensor circuit injected to the traditional hydrometer method, and then these features are used as input in a linear regression model. The obtained results showed that in spite of the limited number of experiments performed, such a system may be useful in determination of proportion of sand in a soil. © 2015 IEEE

Computer aided determination of proportion of sand in a soil [Topraktaki Kum Oraninin Bilgisayar Destekli Tespiti]

2015 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2015 --16 May 2015 through 19 May 2015 -- --Determination of soil texture has always been very important for agricultural researches. Since determination of proportions of sand, silt, and clay in a soil by traditional methods requires more effort, in this study, we focus on performing soil analysis by an automated computerized system. First some features are extracted by applying curve fitting method on time signals measured by a light sensor circuit injected to the traditional hydrometer method, and then these features are used as input in a linear regression model. The obtained results showed that in spite of the limited number of experiments performed, such a system may be useful in determination of proportion of sand in a soil. © 2015 IEEE

İzmir Kuvvetli Yer Hareketi Deprem İstasyon Ağı: İzmirNET

Bu çalışma kapsamında, İzmir İl'inin ilk sismik ağı (İzmirNET) tarafından kaydedilen depremlerin lokasyonu yapılmıştır. Depremler, genelde yerkabuğunun ilk 20 km'sinde yoğunlaşmaktadır ve büyüklükleri 1.0≤ML≤4.0 arasındadır. Deprem etkinliğinin; Güzelbahçe'nin güneyinde, Narlıdere-Balçova çevresinde, Manavkuyu-Bornova civarında, Gaziemir-Buca hattının GD'sunda, Menemen çevresinde ve İzmir Dış Körfezinde kümelendiği gözlenmiştir. 22 depremin odak mekanizması çözümleri çoğunlukla, D-B doğrultulu normal veya doğrultu atım bileşenine sahip baskın normal fay vermektedir. Fay düzlemi çözümlerinden hareketle gerilme tensörü analizi yapılmış ve en büyük asal gerilme ekseni (σ1) düşeye yakınken, orta (σ2) ve küçük (σ3) gerilme eksenleri yataya yakın bulunmuştur. Sonuçlar, çalışma alanının K-G doğrultulu açılma rejimine sahip olduğunu işaret etmektedir

An Assessment of the Seismicity of the Bursa Region from a Temporary Seismic Network

A temporary earthquake station network of 11 seismological recorders was operated in the Bursa region, south of the Marmara Sea in the northwest of Turkey, which is located at the southern strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ). We located 384 earthquakes out of a total of 582 recorded events that span the study area between 28.50-30.00 degrees E longitudes and 39.75-40.75 degrees N latitudes. The depth of most events was found to be less than 29 km, and the magnitude interval ranges were between 0.3 <= M-L <= 5.4, with RMS less than or equal to 0.2. Seismic activities were concentrated southeast of Uludag Mountain (UM), in the Kestel-Igdir area and along the Gemlik Fault (GF). In the study, we computed 10 focal mechanisms from temporary and permanents networks. The predominant feature of the computed focal mechanisms is the relatively widespread near horizontal northwest-southeast (NW-SE) T-axis orientation. These fault planes have been used to obtain the orientation and shape factor (R, magnitude stress ratio) of the principal stress tensors (sigma(1), sigma(2), sigma(3)). The resulting stress tensors reveal sigma(1) closer to the vertical (oriented NE-SW) and sigma(2), sigma(3) horizontal with R = 0.5. These results confirm that Bursa and its vicinity could be defined by an extensional regime showing a primarily normal to oblique-slip motion character. It differs from what might be expected from the stress tensor inversion for the NAFZ. Different fault patterns related to structural heterogeneity from the north to the south in the study area caused a change in the stress regime from strike-slip to normal faulting

Application of geostatistics for grid and random sampling schemes for a grassland in Nigde, Turkey

Gök, Gülden ( Aksaray, Yazar )Soil quality prediction maps are important tools for environmental scientists and policymakers. An 18 ha grassland was selected to create soil quality prediction maps. A total of 30 sampling points were selected, and samples were collected from top soil (0–20 cm depth). Twelve of the sampling points were selected randomly and 18 of the sampling points were selected based on a square shaped grid plan. The soil samples were then analyzed for pH, electrical conductivity (EC), organic matter (OM), water content, dissolved total carbon (DTC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and dissolved total nitrogen (DTN). Ordinary kriging (OK) and ordinary cokriging (OCK) spatial interpolation methods were used for the prediction of spatial distribution. The prediction errors showed that the parameters in the grid sampling scheme showed better prediction in the OK technique. The highest reduction in prediction errors was obtained in the DOC in grid sampling scheme after using OCK

Investigation of generation of municipal solid waste with global and local spatial autocorrelations

Katı atık oluşumlarının mekânsal olarak incelenmesi evsel katı atık sorunun bölgesel olarak nasıl davrandığını belirtmek açısından oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmada, ortalama günlük kişi başı katı atık miktarları(kg) 2014,2016 ve 2018 yılları için küresel ve yerel mekansal otokorelasyon yöntemleri ile incelenmiştir. Küresel otokorelasyon yöntem sonuçlarına göre katı atık oluşum oranları, istatistiksel olarak anlamlı pozitif otokorelasyon göstermiştir. Moran’nın I indeksi en yüksek 2014 yılı için 0,2980 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Yerel mekansal otokorelasyon yöntemlerinden, yerel Moran’nın I indeksi (LISA) kullanılmıştır. LISA sonuçlarına göre katı atık oluşum oranı düşük seviye olarak Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi ve Doğu Akdeniz bölgelerinde kümelendiği görülmüştür. Yüksek seviyede kümelenme ise Kuzey Batı Trakya ve Ege Bölgelerinde görülmüştür.The spatial analysis of the municipal solid waste is significant to clearfy how this issue behaves regionally. The munisipal solid waste (kg) per capita per day was tested both global and local spatial autocorrelation methods. According to the global autocorrelation analysis results, solid waste generation rates showed statistically significant positive autocorrelation. The highest of the calculated Moran's I indexes was found for 2014. Among the local spatial autocorrelation methods, the local Moran's I index (LISA) was used. According to the LISA results, it was observed that the solid waste generation rate was clustered with low leveled values in the Southeastern Anatolia Region and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. The high leveled values were showed a clustered pattern in North Western Thrace and Aegean Regions