The Impact of Business Intelligence on Strategic Decision-Making

This article is concentrated the relation between business intelligence and strategic decision-making. Business intelligence is an important issue to collect and bring the data together that decision-making is depended on. Managers in today’s organizations are still to know how to apply business intelligence in strategic decision-making. The main aim of this study is to explore the impact of business intelligence on strategic decision making. Strategic decision making defined as gradual and interdependent, which is formed by a variety of impacts contextual to the past events arising in present-day conditions and finally the future views.Using questionnaires applied at four different communication companies in Iraq, the experience managers have participated from top level managers and those in the middle-level management. The SPSS software used to analyze the result, when the result indicated that business intelligence has a great impact on strategic decision-making and improved the efficiency and effectiveness. The relation between business intelligence parts and strategic decision shows different result, business intelligence tools, business intelligence Use, business intelligence system infrastructure flexibility improved the efficiency of strategic decision making. Keyword: Business intelligence, Strategic Decisio

Physical And Mechanical Properties Of Mortars Produced From Disposable Polyetylene Glasses Without Using Cement

In this study, production of mortars with disposable polyethylene glasses, but withoutcement, was investigated. The disposable polyethylene glasses were crushed and convertedinto fiber formation. Then fibers were molten with different types of sands at the temperaturerange of 180-200 C. Some physical (e.g. water absorption and abrasion resistance) and somemechanical (e.g. bending strength, compression strength, toughness) properties of mortarswere tested. The results indicated that bending strength and toughness of mortars were improved. Besides, water absorption of mortar was negligible and abrasion was nearly equalto zero

Shear capacity of post-installed anchors according to ACI318 and TS500

Applications of strengthening works have accelerated gradually due to earthquakes in recent years. Different strengthening methods are being used in order to bring the structures with insufficient strength to those levels specified by current codes. In most of the applications, the bonding between the new structural elements and the concrete of the old structure is established with the chemical anchors. Although they are used widespread in the practice, there are not any sufficient details in Turkish Standards for the design and application of these anchors. In this work, a comparison of ACI318 and the Turkish Standards for anchor shear strength is given. As the result, it has been concluded that there are vital differences between ACI and the Turkish Standards and that an immediate revision is needed for the Turkish Standards

Spiritual counseling and guidance as a model for religious renewal

Dinde tecdit veya reform konusu, İslam dünyasında son birkaç yüzyıla damgasını vuran ve üzerine zengin bir literatür oluşmuş problemlerden biridir. Bu tartışmanın tarih ve coğrafya bağlamında pratiğe yansıyan çeşitli tezahürleri bulunmaktadır, ancak teolojik ve düşünsel açıdan problem devam etmektedir. Batı dünyasına sınır olan Türk kültür havzası bu tartışmaların en canlı yaşandığı yerlerden biridir. Bu kısa makalede, Din Hizmetleri kapsamında ülkemizde 2015 yılı itibariyle Diyanet İşleri Başkalığı tarafından uygulamaya konulan Manevi Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik programının bir “tecdit modeli” olarak ele alınması önerilmekte ve bu yaklaşımın dinde tecdit tartışmalarına yeni bir boyut kazandıracağı tezi ileri sürülmektedir.The issue of tajdid or reform in religion is one of the problems that has left its mark on the last few centuries in the Islamic world and has a rich literature on it. There are various manifestations of this debate that are reflected in practice in the context of history and geography, but the theological and intellectual problem continues. The Turkish cultural basin, which borders the Western world, is one of the places where these debates are most lively. In this short article, it is suggested that the Spiritual Counseling and Guidance program, which has been put into practice by the Presidency of Religious Affairs in our country as of 2015 within the scope of Religious Services, should be considered as a "model for tajdid" and it is argued that this approach will add a new dimension to the discussions on religious renewal

Perceptıon of spirituality and spırıtual support among health care professionals: The example of Istanbul

Manevi bakım/destek, özellikle son zamanlarda Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ve Sağlık Bakanlığı arasında “Hastanelerde Manevi Destek Hizmetleri Sunmaya Yönelik İşbirliği Protokolü” bağlamında manevi destek birimlerinin sağlık tesislerinde yer alması ile sağlık camiasında sözü edilmeye devam eden bir konu haline gelmiştir. Hastaların, hasta yakınlarının ve özellikle sağlık çalışanlarının gündemine dâhil olan manevi destek konusunun sağlık çalışanları tarafından nasıl algılandığı, adı geçen hizmetlerin devamlılığı için önem arz etmektedir. Araştırmamız, böyle bir problemi ele almaktadır. Çalışmamıza İstanbul’da bulunan hastanelerden 354 sağlık çalışanı katılmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasında “Kişisel Bilgi Formu” ve “Manevi Destek Algısı (MDA) Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan sağlık çalışanları meslek değişkenine göre 96’sı (%27,1) Doktor, 220’si (%62,1) Hemşire ve 38’i (%10,7) Ebe olarak dağılmaktadır. Çalışmamıza katılanların cinsiyet, medeni durum, eğitim durumu ve meslek değişkenlerine göre Manevi Destek Algısı düzeylerinde anlamlı farklılık bulunamamıştır (p>0.05). Katılımcıların yaş değişkeni ve kıdem değişkenine göre ise Manevi Destek Algısı ortalamalarının istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Yaş ve kıdem değişkenleri kendi aralarında gruplandırıldığında, genç yaşta maneviyata olan ilginin arttığı ve kıdem yılı arttıkça maneviyata olan ilginin azaldığı gözlenmektedir. Sonuç olarak, Sağlık çalışanlarının manevi bakımı algılama düzeylerini; cinsiyet, medeni durum, eğitim durumu ve meslek değişkenlerinin etkilemediği saptanmış¸ ve araştırmaya katılan sağlık çalışanlarının “Manevi Destek Algı” düzeyinin yüksek olduğu belirlenmiştir.In recent years, spiritual care/support has become a popular topic in Turkey. Since the Presidency of Religious Affairs signed a protocol with the Health Ministry to start spiritual care/support in hospitals, it has become a big issue not only in the media but also among health professionals. Beside many professional and ethical concerns, how spiritual care/ support is perceived among health care community is a vital issue to sustain this project. This research aims to address such particular problem. 354 health professionals from several hospitals located in Istanbul, were surveyed. In addition to Personal Data Form, participants were administered Spiritual Support Perception Questionnaire (SSPQ), developed by Kavas and Kavas (2015). Results indicate that gender, level of education, marital status and occupation do not have significant effect on Spiritual Support Perception (p>0.05). On the other hand, age and professional experience significantly affected Spiritual Support Perception; it seems young health care professionals are more interested in spiritual support, however, the more they experienced in their profession the less they demonstrate interest in spiritual support

A study on the calculations of cross–sections for 66,67ga and 75se radionuclides production reactions via 3he particles

The intend of this paper is to study on different production routes of medical 66,67Ga and 75Se radionuclides used in cancer diagnostic. Both 66,67Ga and 75Se are the most well-known radionuclides used in diagnostics of malignant and benign tumors also brain studies and scintigraphy scanning. For this purpose, production cross–section calculations of medical 66,67Ga and 75Se radionuclides have been calculated for 64Zn(3He,p)66Ga, 65Cu(3He,2n)66Ga, 65Cu(3He,n)67Ga, 66Zn(3He,n+p)67Ga, 69Ga(3He,n+α)67Ga, 76Se(3He,α)75Se, 77Se(3He,n+α)75Se reactions. In the calculations, TALYS 1.8 and ALICE/ASH computer codes have been used. The models which have been employed within the calculations are Two Component Exciton and Equilibrium of TALYS 1.8 and Hybrid and Geometry Dependent Hybrid of ALICE/ASH. The results obtained from the calculations for each reaction have been compared with other calculation results and previously recorded experimental values collected from the Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR) library.No sponso

Repairing and Seismic Strengthening of Damaged Reinforced Concrete Structures with External Steel Shear Walls

In this study, a new strengthening technique for earthquake-damaged reinforced concrete (RC) structures was experimentally investigated. Within the scope of the study, three-dimensional, two-storey RC model was constructed. During the production of this model, some of the common structural inadequacies in existing RC structures were taken into consideration. For this purpose, initially a reference model was exposed to lateral loads up to 1.7 % drift. Then, the damaged structure was repaired with epoxy injection. Finally, the repaired model was strengthened with External Steel Shear Walls (ESSW) and subsequently tested under the same load pattern. Chevron braced system is selected as ESSW. The results show that existing RC structures damaged under earthquake effects can be strengthened rapidly by proposed strengthening technique and the lateral load capacity and stiffness of these structures can be increased significantly