Factors constraining the development of professional project management in Turkey's urban design practice

Thesis (Master)--Izmir Institute of Technology, City and Regional Planning, Izmir, 2004Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 75)Text in English; Abstract: Turkish and Englishxii, 142 leavesProject success is achieved via the obtainment of the product which provides desired quality within definite time and limited resources and with maximum performance. Project management is an occupation which requires utilizing modern management techniques to provide this. Today, project management concepts are utilized in many different fields such as medicine, chemistry, industry.etc. Western countries utilize project management approach in extensive urban design projects aiming especially urban renewal and transformation, too. However, it is not, yet, possible to say that this approach is widely utilized in our country.s urban design practice.This study investigates the perception of project management understanding in Turkey.s urban design practice and the factors constraining the development of professional project management in this field

The Prevalence of Hepatosteatosis in Patients with Diabetes

Hepatosteatosis is common in patients with diabetes. Herein, we investigated the frequency of hepatosteatosis detected on sonography and role of associated metabolic factors. Fifty-eight patients with diabetes mellitus aged between 30 and 72 years were included. A sonographic examination was performed by same operator to diagnose hepatosteatosis.Means of age and duration of diabetes were 52.8 ± 11 and 8.7 ± 5.7 years, respectively. Hepatosteatosis was detected in 60% (35 patients). The rate was 59% in females and 65% in males. Although means of patient’s age, duration of diabetes, serum trigycerides, and cholesterol were higher in patiens with hepatosteatosis than remaining, this difference was not statistically significant.Hepatosteatosis is frequent in patients with diabetes. It must be kept in mind in diabetic patients

İçme suyu arıtma tesisinde tehlikelerin, risklerin belirlenmesi ve risk değerlendirmesi

6331 sayılı İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Kanunu kapsamında 31 Ocak 2013’ten itibaren tüm işyerlerine risk değerlendirmesi yapma zorunluluğu getirilmiştir. Bu uygulamaya yönelik akademik çalışmalara katkı sağlamak amacıyla iş sağlığı ve güvenliği temel konuları incelenip örnek bir risk değerlendirme uygulaması gerçekleştirilmiştir. İçme suyu arıtma tesislerinde iş sağlığı ve güvenliğine yönelik tehlikeler ve riskler belirlenerek hazırlanan bu risk değerlendirme çalışmasında Gaziantep Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi Hacıbaba İçme Suyu Arıtma Tesisi ele alınmıştır. Saha çalışmaları ve bütün bölümler incelenerek hangi bölümde hangi tehlikelerin bulunduğu ve bu tehlikelerin nasıl ortadan kaldırılacağı veya en aza indirgeneceği tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Bu çalışmalar sırasında yasal mevzuat temel alınıp ulaşılan sonuçlara yönelik öneriler dile getirilmiştir. Hazırlanan risk değerlendirmesi tablosunda Fine-Kinney metodu uygulanmıştır. Kullanılan bu metotta belirlenen tehlike ve riskler karşısında alınması gereken önlemler ayrıntılı bir şekilde belirtilmiştir. İçme suyu arıtma tesislerinde iş sağlığı ve güvenliğine yönelik çalışmaların, tesiste arıtılıp şebekeden musluğa kadar gelen suda aranan kalite kadar önemli olduğuna dikkat çekilmişti

Prominent response with helical tomotherapy in recurrent ameloblastic carcinoma of maxillary sinus: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Ameloblastoma is a benign but locally aggressive tumor of odontogenic epithelial tissue. Reports of radiotherapy treatment modalities are limited in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A thirty-five year old male presented with complaints of headache radiating to his face for about six months and impaired vision. The patient’s Positron Emission Tomography (PET) showed a mass in the left maxillary sinus extending to the nasal cavity and invading the adjacent tissues. An R2 (macroscopic residual tumor) surgical resection performed to debulk the tumor. Due to the recurrence and residual mass, the patient was treated with helical tomotherapy. At 2 months post-radiotherapy, patient’s vision returned to normal. PET scan showed a significant reduction in lesion size 12 months post-radiation. CONCLUSION: In cases of ameloblastic carcinoma with, post-surgical recurrence or patients not suitable for surgical treatment, helical tomotherapy can be an effective treatment option

A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition

Upper Mesopotamia played a key role in the Neolithic Transition in Southwest Asia through marked innovations in symbolism, technology, and foodways. We present thirteen ancient genomes (c.8500-7500 calBCE) from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Çayönü in the Tigris basin together with bioarchaeological and material culture data. Our findings reveal that Çayönü was a genetically diverse population, carrying a mixed ancestry from western and eastern Fertile Crescent, and that the community received immigrants. Our results further suggest that the community was organised along biological family lines. We document bodily interventions such as head-shaping and cauterization among the individuals examined, reflecting Çayönü's cultural ingenuity. Finally, we identify Upper Mesopotamia as the likely source of eastern gene flow into Neolithic Anatolia, in line with material culture evidence. We hypothesise that Upper Mesopotamia's cultural dynamism during the Neolithic Transition was the product not only of its fertile lands but also of its interregional demographic connections

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant, South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic transition and the emergence of complex hierarchical societies. Combining 35 new ancient shotgun genomes with 382 ancient and 23 present-day published genomes, we found that genetic diversity within each region steadily increased through the Holocene. We further observed that the inferred sources of gene flow shifted in time. In the first half of the Holocene, Southwest Asian and the East Mediterranean populations homogenized among themselves. Starting with the Bronze Age, however, regional populations diverged from each other, most likely driven by gene flow from external sources, which we term “the expanding mobility model.” Interestingly, this increase in inter-regional divergence can be captured by outgroup-f$_3$-based genetic distances, but not by the commonly used F$_{ST}$ statistic, due to the sensitivity of F$_{ST}$, but not outgroup-f$_3$, to within-population diversity. Finally, we report a temporal trend of increasing male bias in admixture events through the Holocene

Linking software requirements and conceptual models: A systematic literature review

Identification of stakeholder needs and documentation of software requirements are the critical steps to launch a software project. Natural language requirements serve as an agreement among the project stakeholders and they must be transformed into easy-to-understand conceptual models to avoid communication problems. Although conceptual models are mostly created manually with human involvement from the software team, it is seen in recent times that there is a significant increase in studies that automatically generate conceptual models from software requirements. In this study, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) based on the search of forty-four primary studies (published between 1996 and 2020), which automatically transform software requirements into conceptual models, is reported. These studies are evaluated regarding their approaches, functionalities, dataset used, evaluation methods, generated model types, and languages supported. Finally, several improvable points in the current approaches are highlighted and suggestions are provided as further works. (C) 2020 Karabuk University. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V

Information retrieval-based bug localization approach with adaptive attribute weighting

Software quality assurance is one of the crucial factors for the success of software projects. Bug fixing has an essential role in software quality assurance, and bug localization (BL) is the first step of this process. BL is difficult and time-consuming since the developers should understand the flow, coding structure, and the logic of the program. Information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) uses the information of bug reports and source code to locate the section of code in which the bug occurs. It is difficult to apply other tools because of the diversity of software development languages, design patterns, and development standards. The aim of this study is to build an adaptive IRBL tool and make it usable by more companies. BugSTAiR solves the aforementioned problem by means of the adaptive attribute weighting (AAW) algorithm and is evaluated on four open-source projects which are well-known benchmark datasets on BL. One of them is BLIA which is the state of the art in bug localization area and another is BLUIR which is a well-known BL tool. According to the promising results of experiments, Top1 rank of BugSTAiR is 2% and MAP is 10% better than BLIA's results on AspectJ and it has localized 4.6% of all bugs in Top1 and its precision is 6.1% better than BLIA on SWT, respectively. On the other side, it is 20% better in the Top1 metric and 30% in precision than BLUIR.Research and Development Center of Commencis Technology accredited on Turkey - Ministry of Industry and Technology - Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [3180803]Funding for this work was partially supported by the Research and Development Center of Commencis Technology accredited on Turkey - Ministry of Industry and Technology. The modules and services of this work were parts of a Commencis project named BugStair, which was funded by governments including the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) having Award No. 3180803

Biyolojik Mücadelede Trichoderma’lar ve Biyolojik Kontrol Mekanizmaları

Tarımsal üretimde bitki hastalıklarıyla mücadelede pestisitler uzun yıllardan bu yana kimyasal mücadelede yaygın olarak tercih edilmektedir. Pestisitlerin yoğun ve kontrolsüz bir şekilde kullanımı doğal dengenin bozulması, çevre ve insan sağlığına olumsuz etkileri ayrıca kimyasalların kalıntı sorunları da pazarlamada ciddi sıkıntılara sebep olmaktadır. Çoğu kimyasal fungisitlerin Avrupa Birliği tarafından yasaklanması nedeniyle sürdürülebilir bir alternatif olarak bitki hastalıklarının mücadelesinde yeni yöntem arayışlarını beraberinde getirmiştir. Bitki hastalıklarıyla mücadelede sürdürülebilir, çevre dostu ve uzun süre etkili olabilecek ilk akla gelen yöntem biyolojik mücadele olmaktadır. Son yıllarda biyolojik ajanlara yönelik yapılan çalışmalar hız kazanmaktadır. Bu biyokontrol etmenlerinden Trichoderma’lar bitki patojeni fungusların mücadelesinde uzun süredir çok yönlü biyokontrol ajanı olarak yer almakta ve günümüzde Trichoderma’ların ticari ürünleri; biyopestisit, toprak düzenleyici ve bitki gelişim düzenleyici olarak da kullanılmaktadır. Bu derlemede biyolojik mücadelede Trichoderma’nın önemi, Trichoderma türlerinin etki mekanizmaları ile biyotik ve abiyotik stres koşullarında kullanımları konusunda yapılan çalışmalara yer verilmiştir