Spatial Readings in the Context of Individual Testimony and Evaluations: Ankara Saraçoğlu Neighbourhood as a Place of Memory

Space is considered in the literature as having a significant influence on the formation and development of memory. In this context, spatial experiences and the accumulation of knowledge through experiences and reflections on life all play an active role in the generation of both social and individidual memory. In this study, spatial readings and other findings that were obtained by consulting individual testimony of the relations between memory, space and identity were analyzed through drawings and tables. The study focuses on the houses of the Saraçoğlu (Namık Kemal) neighbourhood in Ankara. The neighbourhood is considered as being a cultural property and a place of memory and is studied in the context of the literature by consideration of the place and the people who lived there. A variety of qualitative research methods were used in the study, and the evaluations obtained were used to consider both the past and to reveal future spatial potentials. The most significant result obtained in the study was that the neighbourhood can be considered to be a place that exists in the memories and lives of the residents, and so cannot be examined by considering only the architecture

What does the Data of 354,725 Patients from Turkey Tell Us About Cervical Smear Epithelial Cell Abnormalities? - The Epithelial Cell Abnormality Rate is Increasing - Quality Control Studies and Corrective Activity are Musts

Objective: There is no other screening program close to the success rate of PAP test. Cervical cytology constitutes a large workload so that quality control in cervical cytology is important for the quality assurance of pathology laboratories. Material and Method: In this study, we collected the cervical cytology results from all over Turkey and discussed the parameters influencing the quality of the PAP test. The study was conducted with Turkish gynaecopathology working group and 38 centers (totally 45 hospitals) agreed to contribute from 24 different cities. The study was designed to cover the cervical cytology results during 2013. The results were evaluated from the data based on an online questionnaire. Results: The total number of Epithelial Cell Abnormality was 18,020 and the global Epithelial Cell Abnormality rate was 5.08% in the total 354,725 smears and ranging between 0.3% to 16.64% among centers. The Atypical squamous cells/Squamous intraepithelial lesion ratios changed within the range of 0.21-13.94 with an average of 2.61. When the centers were asked whether they performed quality assurance studies, only 14 out of 28 centers, which shared the information, had such a control study and some quality parameters were better in these centers. Conclusion: There is an increase in the global Epithelial Cell Abnormality rate and there are great differences among centers. Quality control studies including the Atypical squamous cells/Squamous intraepithelial lesion ratio are important. Corrective and preventive action according to quality control parameters is a must. A cervical cytology subspecialist in every center can be utopic but a dedicated pathologist in the center is certainly needed