A Research On The Visuospatial Skills Of First Year Architecture Students

Spatial cognition and skills are of critical importance for architecture. During their education, architecture students are expected to use and develop visuospatial skills to generate/construct, retain, rotate, and manipulate space mentally and physically through physical and digital representations. This study was designed and conducted to fill the gap in researches on the first-year architecture students' spatial skill evaluated by means of neuropsychological tests. The goal of the study was to investigate the potential connections between the first architecture students' visuospatial skills and art training or education prior to the university education. 128 students participated to the research voluntarily. For visuospatial skills Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test was administrated. The findings demonstrated that first year architecture students' performances on neuropsychological tests assessing visuospatial skills were compatible with the norm scores and their cognitive development level. Participants with art training prior to university performed better in RSPM total, and RSPM subtest E. The results supported the previous studies claiming that art training and/or education have a positive impact on spatial cognition and visuospatial skills.Mimarlık eğitimi öğrencilerin görsel-mekânsal becerileri ve yetkinlikleri ile doğrudan ilişkilidir. Eğitimleri boyunca öğrencilerden mekânı zihinsel ve fiziksel olarak kurabilmek, düzenleyebilmek, döndürebilmek ve dönüştürebilmek için görsel-mekânsal becerilerini kullanmaları ve geliştirmeleri beklenmektedir. Bu çalışma mimarlık birinci sınıf öğrencilerinin, yükseköğrenim öncesinde aldıkları sanat eğitimi ile görsel-mekânsal becerileri arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Görsel-mekânsal beceri düzeyinin belirlenmesi için nöropsikolojik araçlar kullanılmış ve psikometrik değerlendirme yapılmıştır. Çalışmada genel zekânın en iyi yordayıcıları arasında yer alan nöropsikolojik testlerden Raven Standart İlerlemeli Matrisler Testi (RSİM) kullanılmıştır. Çalışmaya 128 gönüllü öğrenci katılmıştır. Bulgular öğrencilerin nöropsikolojik değerlendirme sonuçlarının norm puanlarla ve bilişsel gelişim seviyeleri ile uyumlu olduğunu göstermektedir. Yükseköğrenim öncesi sanat eğitimi almış katılımcıların RSİM toplam ve RSİM E alttesti sonuçlarının sanat eğitimi almamış öğrencilerden daha yüksek olduğu belirlendi. Çalışmanın bulguları sanat eğitiminin uzay biliş ve görsel-mekânsal becerilere olumlu katkısını ortaya koyan diğer çalışmaları desteklemektedir

Acromegaly and Pregnancy: Five New Cases

WOS: 000423949600009Pregnancy is a rare occurrence in acromegalic patients because of impaired fertility due to the disease. There are limited data available regarding pregnancy in acromegalic patients; although, it appears that the patients are usually able to carry their pregnancies to full term. In addition, certain metabolic effects of acromegaly need to be considered as they can be harmful to both mother and fetus. The discontinuation of the medical treatment is usually recommended as the effects of medical treatment are unclear. Herein, we report five new cases of pregnancies in acromegalic patients who had undergone surgery and medical treatment for macroadenoma, before the onset of pregnancy, from different centers. Two of them had received radiotherapy after the surgery. None of the patients in our study were treated for pregnancy; however, two of them were receiving octreotide when the diagnosis of pregnancy was established. The medical treatment of these two patients was discontinued at the beginning of pregnancy. Four patients delivered healthy babies, and therapeutic abortion was performed at the sixth week of pregnancy to one of the patients who was being treated with octreotide before the pregnancy. Out of the five patients in our study, two had pregestational diabetes and one had hypertension. As a conclusion, it can be said that pregnancy in acromegalic patients is usually uneventful without any treatment throughout the pregnancy

A RESEARCH ON THE VISUOSPATIAL SKILLS OF FIRST YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

Spatial cognition and skills are of critical importance for architecture. During their education, architecture students are expected to use and develop visuospatial skills to generate/construct, retain, rotate, and manipulate space mentally and physically through physical and digital representations. This study was designed and conducted to fill the gap in researches on the first-year architecture students' spatial skill evaluated by means of neuropsychological tests. The goal of the study was to investigate the potential connections between the first architecture students' visuospatial skills and art training or education prior to the university education. 128 students participated to the research voluntarily. For visuospatial skills Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test was administrated. The findings demonstrated that first year architecture students' performances on neuropsychological tests assessing visuospatial skills were compatible with the norm scores and their cognitive development level. Participants with art training prior to university performed better in RSPM total, and RSPM subtest E. The results supported the previous studies claiming that art training and/or education have a positive impact on spatial cognition and visuospatial skills

Barış Manço : "Adam Olacak Çocuk"

Ankara : İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Üniversitesi İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü, 2014.This work is a student project of the The Department of History, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University.by Özer, Abdürrahim

Kimya öğretmen adaylarının kimya bilgilerini kullanarak günlük hayat olaylarını açıklama düzeyleri

Öğrencilerin okulda öğrendikleri fen kavramlarını gündelik hayat ile ilişkilendirmeleri, öğrencilerin bu kavramları daha kalıcı öğrenmelerine ve gündelik yaşantılarında karşılaştıkları problemlere mantıksal çözüm üretmelerine olanak sağlar. Bu çalışmanın amacı geleceğin öğretmenleri olan kimya öğretmen adaylarının gündelik hayatta karşılaştığımız olayları kimya bilgilerini kullanarak açıklama düzeylerini tespit etmektir. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yönteminden yararlanılmıştır. 4.sınıf kimya öğretmenliği öğrencilerine günlük hayatta kimyanın yer aldığı 16 tane açık uçlu sorudan oluşan bir test uygulanmıştır. Testte, sıklıkla karşılaşılan genel kimya konularının her birinden ikişer soru yer almaktadır. Veriler içerik analizi yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Günlük hayat olaylarının kimya temelinde açıklamasının istendiği sorulara kimya öğretmen adaylarının en başarılı açıklamaları yaptığı konular Kimyasal Reaksiyonlar ve Kimyasal Reaksiyonlarda Hız olurken, Gazlar ve Elektrokimya konuları en yetersiz açıklamaların yapıldığı konular olmuştur. Çalışmanın sonuçları göz önüne alındığında öğretmen adaylarının günlük hayattaki olayları kimya temelinde açıklama düzeyinde zorluk yaşamalarının temel nedeninin kimyanın soyut doğasını kavrayamamaları ve kimya alan bilgilerinde var olan eksiklikler olarak yorumlanabilir

Evaluation of genetic diversity and structure of Turkish water buffalo population by using 20 microsatellite markers

The present study was aimed to investigate the genetic diversity among 17 Turkish water buffalo populations. A total of 837 individuals from 17 provincial populations were genotyped, using 20 microsatellites markers. The microsatellite markers analyzed were highly polymorphic with a mean number of alleles of (7.28) ranging from 6 (ILSTS005) to 17 (ETH003). The mean observed and expected heterozygosity values across all polymorphic loci in all studied buffalo populations were 0.61 and 0.70, respectively. Observed heterozygosity varied from 0.55 (Bursa (BUR)) to 0.70 (Muş (MUS)). It was lower than expected heterozygosity in most of the populations indicating a deviation from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. The overall value for the polymorphic information content of noted microsatellite loci was 0.655, indicating their suitability for genetic diversity analysis in buffalo. The mean FIS value was 0.091 and all loci were observed significantly deviated from Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE), most likely based on non-random breeding. The 17 buffalo populations were genetically less diverse as indicated by a small mean FST value (0.032 ± 0.018). The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) analysis indicated that about 2% of the total genetic diversity was clarified by population distinctions and 88 percent corresponded to differences among individuals. The information produced by this study can be used to establish a base of national conservation and breeding strategy of water buffalo population in Turkey. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Tarimsal Araştirmalar ve Politikalar Genel Müdürlüğü, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarim Ve Orman Bakanliği: TAGEM/13/AR-GE/29Funding: This research was funded by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM), grant number TAGEM/13/AR-GE/29, project leader Elif Geyik Kus¸