The effect of warm salt water foot bath on the management of chemotherapy-induced fatigue

Purpose: Several studies have shown that the warm water bath can be a beneficial approach in the management of fatigue. This experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effect of warm salt water foot bath in the management of chemotherapy-induced fatigue. Methods: This randomized controlled trial was perfomed between November 2017 & ndash;February 2018. Seventy five patients who experienced moderate or higher level chemotherapy related fatigue were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. A training booklet about chemotherapy-induced fatigue was given to all patients. In addition, the experimental group performed 20 min warm salt water footbath for a week. The primary outcome was the change in fatigue level over 7 days after chemotherapy. The secondary outcome was the difference in physical, affective, emotional, and cognitive fatigue scores of patients. Results: The level of fatigue was grade 2 and grade 3 for 65.3% and 33.3% of patients, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between groups regarding the mean of total fatigue score before and after bath (p > 0.05). However, the amount of decrease observed in the experimental group was found to be statistically significantly higher than the control group (p = 0.012; p < 0.05). In addition; the score in behavioral/severity, sensory, affective and cognitive dimensions related to fatigue decreased in the experimental group but did not decrease in the control group. Conclusion: This study shown that warm salt water footbath can be an effective approach in enhancing fatigue related quality of life cancer patients. More studies should be conducted to assess the effectiveness of this intervention

An intelligent agent for student guidance in web-based courses

In this study, an intelligent agent to guide students throughout the course material in the internet is defined. The agent will help students to study and learn the concepts in the course by giving navigational support according to their knowledge level. The agent adapts the links in the contents page to help students for easy navigation in the course content. In linklevel adaptation hiding and annotation technologies which effectively support gradual learning of the learning space are used

A Decision Support System for Optimal Selection of Enterprise Information Security Preventative Actions

Types and complexity of information security related vulnerabilities are growing rapidly and present numerous challenges to the enterprises. One of the key challenges is to identify the optimal set of precautions with limited budget. Despite the fact that majority of enterprises have a budget constraint for installing and maintaining the protection systems, the majority of the previous work only focus on prioritization of security targets and do not consider the preventative actions and budget constraints. This article presents a decision support system (DSS) based on analytical hierarchical process and mixed integer programming techniques for optimal selection of enterprise information security preventative actions. The proposed approach enables maximizing the amount of risk prevented for a fixed amount of budget by identifying the optimal set of precautions. The new DSS also assists enterprise decision-makers in determining the minimum enterprise information security budget for a given level of risk. The main contribution of the paper is that it provides a risk management method to identify a multi-level threat model and the corresponding optimal combination of preventative actions for an enterprise while considering the budget constraints. The treemap information visualization technique is also integrated into the proposed method to improve information security related management decisions

Evaluation of Security Information and Event Management Systems for Custom Security Visualization Generation

Security Information and Event Management Systems (SIEM) are generally very complex systems encapsulating a large number of functions with different behaviors. Visualization is a common way of data presentation in these systems along with other data presentation ways such as reporting, alerting, text messaging. However, generation of the visualization has different steps. If the data is in a custom format, rather than a predefined format which either obeys a standard or a known file structure, the generation of custom visualizations may not be straightforward. Evaluation information for these tools related to custom visualization generation capabilities may be useful for better decision making. This information can be used while designing visualizations through SIEM systems or purchasing the most useful SIEM system for an organization. In this study, six well-known SIEM systems are evaluated through a common scenario created by the authors to check custom visualization generation capabilities. The contributions include this unique scenario and the advantages and disadvantages regarding various steps of the provided scenario along with the difficulties experienced by the authors during the installation and configuration of these SIEM systems

Holistic Web Application Security Visualization for Multi-Project and Multi-Phase Dynamic Application Security Test Results

As the number of web applications and the corresponding number and sophistication of the threats increases, creating new tools that are efficient and accessible becomes essential. Although there is much research concentrating on network security visualizations, there are only a few studies considering the web application vulnerabilities' possible visualization options. Consequently, to fill this gap, this research centers around a novel perception configuration to improve web application vulnerability monitoring. This study forms a generic data structure based on data sources that might be readily associated and commonly available for the majority of the web applications. The primary contribution of this study is a new dashboard tool for visualizing dynamic application security test results. Another contribution is the metrics/measures that the tool presents. The paper also describes a validation study in which participants answered quiz questions upon using the tool prototype. For the case study, sample data has been generated using the OWASP ZAP scanner tool and a prototype has been implemented to be used for validation purposes. This study allows the investigation of fifty metrics/measures for the multi-project/phase environment that enhances its benefits if the user aims to monitor a series of analyses' results and the changes between them for more than one web project

Blockchain in project management: a systematic review of use cases and a design decision framework

Blockchain presents a novel technology for improving existing paradigms in a wide span of domains, including project management. In this paper, we first review the state of the art blockchain use cases in project management to reveal the current status of blockchain research and to identify the blockchain application domains in project management. We then present a framework based on the review results, to guide implementers and researchers on blockchain design decisions about privacy, transparency, decentralization, blockchain type, and platform decisions, which are unique for a particular project management domain. The review results indicate that blockchain includes a variety of unique properties simultaneously, and presents multiple contributions for management of projects. However, technical blockchain design decisions are crucial for maximizing the benefits of the blockchain systems. The proposed novel framework enables a structured methodology for resolving crucial technical design decisions for maximizing the benefits of blockchain systems in project management and the review provides directions to the new blockchain research

Evaluation of Factors That Affect COVID-19 Infection in Turkish Society

AIM: The study aims to determine the risk factors that affect coronavirus-2019 infection in Turkey

Evaluation of the caregiving roles and attitudes of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Nurses play a critical role in providing care to patients, in particular, they work in the frontlines in caring for patients with complicated COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. Evaluation of the caregiving roles and attitudes of nurses is critical in the current crisis. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the caregiving roles and attitudes of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Influence of Media and Temperature on the Growth and the Biological Activities of Desmodesmus protuberans (FE Fritsch & MF Rich) E. Hegewald

WOS: 000432895600006The aim of this study is to determine different culture media and temperature values on the growth rate of Desmodesmus protuberans (F.E. Fritsch & M.F.Rich) E. Hegewald, and to investigate antimicrobial and antioxidant potency of the crude extracts. The microalga isolates from Egirdir Lake in Isparta (Turkey) was identified as D. protuberans and included in Ege University Microalgae Culture Collection. D. protuberans was cultivated at two temperature regimes (22 and 28 degrees C) and growth media (BBM, BG-11 and RD medium) under the light intensity of 75 mu mol m(-2) S-1 for testing the impact of different environmental conditions on the growth rate. All of the productions of D. protuberans biomass were extracted with methanol and investigated the antimicrobial and antioxidant activity. Antimicrobial activities of the extracts of alga were tested by disc diffusion assay against five Gram-positive and four Gram-negative bacterial strains and against the yeast Candida albicans. The methanol extract of the biomass from BBM medium (28 degrees C) showed the highest growth inhibition effect on C. albicans, while RD medium (22 degrees C) extract showed the highest antioxidant activity. These results demonstrated that the differences in the bioactivity of biomasses are stemmed from different temperature and media conditions