SIMURG_CITIES: Meta-Analysis for KPI's of Layer-Based Approach in Sustainability Assessment

SIMURG_CITIES, is the research and development project that is developed under the main project named as SIMURG: “A performance-based and Sustainability-oriented Integration Model Using Relational database architecture to increase Global competitiveness of Turkish construction industry in industry 5.0 era”, is the relational database model that is currently being developed in a dissertation for performance-based development and assessment of sustainable and sophisticated solutions for the built environment. This study aims to analyze the key performance indicators (KPIs) at «Cities Level» for the smart city concept that is referred to as «Layers» in the master project. KPIs for the concept of a smart city is determined by using the meta-analysis technique. Hence, the three most reputable urban journals issued from 2017 through 2020 are reviewed in this study. In addition to this, models of smart city frameworks/assessment tools/KPIs are reviewed within the context of this paper; environment, economy and governance were found to have domain themes on the urban sustainability according to the literature review. Consequently, efficient and integrated urban management, environmental monitoring and management, public and social services of urban development and sustainability are found to be the most important dimensions in urban and regional planning. SIMURG_CITIES evaluation models for urban projects can use the findings of this paper

Foreign bodies: challenging the anti-anthropocentric approach through painting

Is it possible to avoid an anthropocentric approach while offering an artistic suggestion about being? This thesis argues my artistic practice which is about the blurriness of the lines between humans and non-humans, living and lifeless forms through the concepts of anthropocentrism, evolution and natural history. One of the main points of this thesis is to reveal my anthropocentric motivations to create an anti-anthropocentric artistic suggestion which appears as my inner contradiction in the face of my artistic intentions. Another goal of this work is to explain my method of painting that mirrors the early natural historians’ practice of recording nature and to indicate the deliberate choices that were made as I brought together the content of my works

Conceptual structure and components of a model towards increasing design quality

Yapı üretim sürecinin çok fazlı ve çok disiplinli yapısı içinde tasarım aşaması, yapı kalitesi üzerinde belirleyici kararların verilmesi nedeniyle diğer aşamalardan farklılık göstermektedir. Tasarım, yapım ve işletim aşamalarının ilişkileri ve bu aşamalarda yer alan organizasyonlar ele alındığında gözlemlenen parçalanmış yapı, tasarım kalitesi üzerinde önemli bir ağırlığı olduğu analiz çalışma-larında belirlenen, yapım ve kullanım aşamalarında ortaya çıkan değişikliklere ilişkin enformasyonun tasarım organizasyonuna geri bildirimini engellemekte, benzer hataların sonraki projelerde de tekrarlanmasına neden olmaktadır. Tasarım kalitesinin yükseltilmesi hedefine yönelik olarak yapılan literatür çalışması ile tasarım kalitesinin; “tasarım sürecinin kalitesi” ve “tasarım ürününün kalitesi” boyutlarında ele alınması gerektiği belirlenmiş ve yapılan analiz çalışmalarının sonucunda tasarım kalitesini etkileyen faktörler ortaya konmuş; tasarım kalitesinin yükseltilmesine yönelik olarak getirilecek çözüm önerilerinin, tasarım kalitesini etkileyen faktörlerin olumsuz etkilerinin ortadan kaldırılması amacıyla organizasyon yönetimi, kalite yönetimi ve enformasyon yönetimi boyutlarını içermesi gerektiği sonucuna varılmıştır. Toplam kalite felsefesini benimsemiş tasarım or-ganizasyonunda, tasarım, yapım ve işletim organizasyonları arasında organizasyonel boyutta sağ-lanan bütünleşme, güncel enformasyon teknolojisinin sağladığı olanaklarla geliştirilen bütünleşik bir enformasyon sistemi kullanılarak sanal boyutta da sürdürülmelidir. Tasarım değişikliklerin yö-netilmesine yönelik geliştirilen teorik model, bir bilgisayar modeli ile somutlaştırılarak kavramsal boyuttaki çözüm nesnel boyuta da taşınmalıdır. Bu çalışmada öncelikli olarak, tanımlanan probleme yönelik çözüm modelinin kavramsal boyuttaki bileşenleri, bunlar arasındaki ilişkiler ve modelin kavramsal boyuttaki yapısı ortaya konmaktadır. Ardından nesnel boyutta geliştirilen modelin temel yapısı açıklanmakta ve bazı ekran görüntüleri verilmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Yapım yönetimi, tasarım yönetimi, yapı üretimi, mimari tasarım, kalite yönetimi, tasarım hataları.Design phase is the most determinate phase on building quality. Decisions according to scope of the project, construction system, technical sub-systems, materials etc. are determinate and effecting on requirement of professionals, allocation of resources, consequently project cost, duration and quality. The possibility of effectiveness to decrease project cost and project duration in addition to increase quality by taking measures and making changes in design phase is higher. However, by the progress of the production, in parallel to the increase in expendi-ture, cost of changes increase in spite of the effects of measures taken are limited, consequently the possibility of variations in project objectives occur.  According to the literature research, design quality concept is investigated and it is found out that design quality must be dealt with its two dimensions; quality of design product and quality of design process. In order to reach the quality objectives in design product, quality management system should be applied successfully in design process. Quality management according to design product aims the accuracy and consistency between technical drawings and specifications, to satisfy client requirements ac-cording to function, aesthetics, duration, cost and quality and to put forward an effective design solution according to professional liability and sensitivity to environment. Quality of design process depends on the information taken and the information transformed/produced. By this reason, the most important activity of quality management in design process is to define procedures suitable to the organizational structure of the design firm, the role taken in project delivery system and provide information flow consistent to the defined procedures. As a result of the analysis study, the factors impacting design quality should be listed as follows: Organizational structure of design firm, the role of design organization in project delivery system and in project delivery process, structure and tools used for information flow of design process and design changes. A proposal towards the solution of design quality should consist of organizational management, qual- ity management and information management dimensions in order to eliminate the negative affects of design quality factors. Organizational structure of design firm should be supported with the quality management system and an information system designed appropriate to quality management system. The fragmented structure of design, construction and occupation phases and organizations taking part in these phases, causes design changes in construction and occupation phases. Literature research has shown that these changes have significant impact on design quality. Fragmented structure of building production process prevents feed back of design change information to design organization and causes repetition of similar design failures in later projects. In a design organization which Total Quality Management (TQM) philosophy is adopted, integration in organizational level between design, construction, and facility organizations should be sustained in virtual level by using an integrated information system developed by means of actual information technology. From this point of view, it is possible to increase design quality by feedback of design information to the design organization, according to design changes which causes quality problems. In order to reach this aim, a model should be developed serving to record design changes/design failure in a systematical way which are defined in both construction and occupation phases. Under these conditions, four basic dimensions of the proposed model which is designed in order to help change management function, should consist a philosophical approach according to enabling continuity and development of quality, organizational structure enabling integration in physical dimension, an integrated information model enabling design/construction/facility management organizations share information in a virtual environment, a computational model in order to serve change management and decrease design failure in practical dimension. The proposed theoretical model developed in order to function as managing design changes should be converted to a computer model designed as design management module of an integrated information system. Keywords: Construction management, design management, building production, design quality, architectural design, design deficiencies

Honey Plants of Düzce University Ornamental and Medicinal Plants Botanical Garden

In this study, melliferous plants that the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) can benefit from among the taxa planted in Düzce University Ornamental and Medicinal Plants Botanical Garden, are presented. Among the 451 taxa planted in the botanical garden, those with these characteristics were determined by reviewing studies on the subject. Of the 165 taxa (36.58%) included in the honey plant class; 119 contain both nectar and pollen, 25 contain pollen, 13 contain nectar, 4 contain both pollen and insect secretion (IS) or sweet sap (SS), 2 contain pollen, nectar and IS or SS, 1 contain both nectar and SS, 1 contain only IS. In order to prevent the decrease in pollinator and pollinator insects, whose numbers are decreasing due to global climate change, a "Bee and Insect Hotel" was placed in the botanical garden. For this reason, the majority of the plants selected for planting were chosen from taxa with honey plant properties. The main purpose here is both to pollinate the plants in the botanical garden and to show and explain the effects of insect species on pollination through nature education

To what extent is George Orwell fair in his criticism of Charles Dickens?

This study is a point-by-point examination of both the positive and negative criticisms stated by George Orwell in his essay entitled “Charles Dickens”. The project involves understanding to what extent Orwell is fair in his criticisms. To be able to examine this, the two novels A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield are chosen and the statements of Orwell are supported and/or refuted through examples and explanations from Dickens’s work. In the conclusion part of this research an overall evaluation of the findings withdrawn from the two body parts is made

Çalışan memnuniyeti ve motivasyonuna etki eden unsurlar: İSTAÇ A.Ş. örnek uygulama

ÖZETÇALIŞAN MEMNUNİYETİ VE MOTİVASYONUNA ETKİ EDEN UNSURLAR: İSTAÇ A.Ş. ÖRNEK UYGULAMABireyin çalışma hayatındaki tutumları ve davranışları tezin temel konusudur. Motivasyon ve iş tatmini buradaki önemli iki tutumdur. İş yaşamının çalışanlar için mümkün olduğunca iyi geçmesini sağlayacak faktörler nelerdir? Bu faktörleri yöneticiler nasıl sağlar? Çalışan kendini nasıl motive edebilir? İş tatmin ve memnuniyetini sağlayan koşullar yukarıdaki soruların cevaplarında gizlidir. İlk bölüm kavramsal çerçeve ile başlar. Bu alanda ortaya konulan kuramların irdelenmesi ile devam etmektedir. Birinci bölümde varılan nokta iki koşulun sağlanması gerektiğidir. Birincisi bireyin çabaları sonucunda ödül alabilmesi ve bunun için de yeterli ve şeffaf bir örgüt yapısının sağlanması ve işe uygun insan seçerek iş tanımlarının yapılmasıdır. İkincisi ise, çalışanların istek ihtiyaçlarının belirlenerek, iş yapma arzusunun artırılmasıdır. İkinci bölümde motivasyon araçlarını inceleyerek çalışanın her bakımdan iş doyumunu sağlayacak konular incelenmiştir. Bu bölümde; yeterli ücret, güvenli ve sağlıklı çalışma koşulları, kapasitenin tam olarak kullanılması, eğitim, iletişim, sosyal organizasyonlar, sosyal sorumluluk gibi konular incelenmiştir. Üçüncü bölümde ise İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi iştiraki olan İSTAÇ A.Ş.’de iş tatmin seviyesi ölçümlenmesi hedeflenen araştırma yer almaktadır. Bu araştırma ile çalışan memnuniyeti ve motivasyonunu belirleyen faktörlerin belirlenmesi buna bağlı olarak İSTAÇ’ta çalışan memnuniyeti araştırması yapılmıştır. Araştırmada manevi tatmin araçlarının maddi tatmin araçlarına nazaran doyurulması gereken ihtiyaçlar olduğu ortaya çıkmıştır.ANAHTAR KELİMELER: Motivasyon, İş tatmini, İş memnuniyeti, İSTAÇ A.Ş., Motivasyon Kuramları, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi SUMMARYEMPLOYEE SATISFACTION AND THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE MOTIVATION: ISTAC Co. CASE STUDYThis thesis focuses on behaviours and attitudes of employees in the work places in which a man spend most of his time are the main subject of the thesis. Motivation and the satisfaction are the two attitudes in this situation. What are the factors that would (be providing) good conditions for employes in the work place? How do managers supply these factors? How can personnel motivate them-selves? Job satisfaction and pleasure conditions hide in the answers of these questions. The first section starts with the conceptual framework and continues with an assessment of the theories in this field. The result of the first section is that it is required to satisfy two important conditions. The workers need to be rewarded by the end of labor and to manage this, supply enough and transparent organization structure, select suitable person for the suitable work and make work definitions. Second one is to determine the needs and wishes of the employees, and increase the desire for working. In the second part of this thesis, instruments for motivations are investigated, by this way the issues that supply job satisfaction at all points are determined.In this part, enough wage, safe and healthy working conditions, using the whole capacity, training, communication, social organizations and social responsibility issues are analyzed. In the third part of thesis, there is an investigation which aims to evaluate the job satisfaction level in the ISTAC Co. which is a subsidiary of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Key Words: Motivation, Job Satisfaction, Job Pleasure, ISTAC Co., Motivation theories, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

Tsunami focusing and leading amplitude

Tsunamis transform substantially through spatial and temporal spreading from their source region. This substantial spreading might result unique maximum tsunami wave heights which might be attributed to the source configuration, directivity, the waveguide structures of mid-ocean ridges and continental shelves, focusing and defocusing through submarine seamounts, random focusing due to small changes in bathymetry, dispersion, and, most likely, combination of some of these effects. In terms of the maximum tsunami wave height, after Okal and Synolakis (2016 Geophys. J. Int. 204, 719-735), it is clear that dispersion would be one of the reasons to drive the leading wave amplitude in a tsunami wave train. Okal and Synolakis (2016), referring to this phenomenon as sequencing -later waves in the train becoming higher than the leading one, considered Hammack's (1972, Ph.D. Dissertation, Calif. Inst. Tech., 261 pp) formalism, in addition to LeMéhauté and Wang's (1995 Water waves generated by underwater explosion, World Scientific, 367 pp), to evaluate linear dispersive tsunami propagation from a circular plug uplifted on an ocean of constant depth. They identified transition distance, as the second wave being larger, performing parametric study for the radius of the plug and the depth of the ocean. Here, we extend Okal and Synolakis' (2016) analysis to an initial wave field with a finite crest length and, in addition, to a most common tsunami initial wave form of N-wave (Tadepalli and Synolakis, 1994 Proc. R. Soc. A: Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 445, 99-112). First, we investigate the focusing feature in the leading-depression side, which enhance tsunami wave height as presented by Kanoglu et al. (2013 Proc. R. Soc. A: Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 469, 20130015). We then discuss the results in terms of leading wave amplitude presenting a parametric study and identify a simple relation for the transition distance. The solution presented here could be used to better analyze dispersive characteristics of shallow water-wave numerical models and for benchmarking, in addition to the benchmark problems in Synolakis et al. (2008 Pure Appl. Geophys. 165(11-12), 2197-2228). This study received funding from project ASTARTE-Assessment Strategy and Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe, a collaborative project Grant 603839, FP7-ENV2013 6.4-3

Ani işitme kaybında konjonktival kapillaroskopinin değeri

Bu tezin, veri tabanı üzerinden yayınlanma izni bulunmamaktadır. Yayınlanma izni olmayan tezlerin basılı kopyalarına Üniversite kütüphaneniz aracılığıyla (TÜBESS üzerinden) erişebilirsiniz.VII - ÖZET: îdiopatik ani işitme kaybında olayı başlatan neden ne olursa olsun sonuçta kokleer arazın vaskülit sonucu geliştiği yaygın olarak kabul görmektedir. Tedavilerde genellikle bu doğrultuda planlanmaktadır. Bilindiği gibi vasküler patoloji sistemik olduğu durumlarda bunu bulbar konjonktivadan gözlemek mümkündür. Bizde bu çalışmada ani işitme kaybı olan hastalarda muhtemel sistemik vasküler patolojileri Konjonktival kapillaroskopi ile ortaya koymağa çalıştık. Çalışmaya alınan hastalarm Konjonktival bulguları sağlıklı kişilerden oluşan kontrol grubu ile karşılaştırılmış, ayrıca konjonktival kapillaroskopi yapılan hasta grubuna ait patolojiler dermal biopsilerden elde edilen sonuçlarla karşılaştırılmıştır. 5