Analysis of 1 st Grade Social Studies Curriculum 2018 in terms of Character Education

. In Turkey, 1st grade social studies curriculum was updated by Ministry of National Education in 2018. The purpose of the study was to analyze the curriculum in terms of character education. In detail, the study aimed to find out which learning outcomes of the 1st grade social studies curriculum indicate which characters under which categories namely “knowledge,” “attitude,” and “skill.” The study was designed as document analysis of qualitative research.  The document was the 1st grade social studies curriculum updated in 2018. The data were analyzed using both descriptive and content analysis. One of the results was that all the learning outcomes of the curriculum addressed at least one character under one of three categories “knowledge,” “attitude,” “skill.” Another result of the study showed that the characters indicated by the learning outcomes of the 1st grade social studies curriculum were interdependency, sensitiveness, cooperation, good manners, kindness, responsibility, patriotism/citizenship, unity of family, respect. Moreover, the results showed that each character addressed by the 1st grade social studies curriculum has width content.

An Example of ‘Character Education’ Course Design in the Light of ‘Experienced Centred’ Design for Higher Education

The purpose of this study is to design the course ‘Character Education’ in the light of the ‘experienced centred’ design and to assert an example of ‘Character Education’ course design for higher education students. The research was conducted during the 2015-2016 spring semester as an action research.  The participants consisted of 36 higher education students on the basis of the criterion sampling and convenience sampling methods. The data was collected throughout the course via open-ended questionnaire, interviews, and observation. Descriptive and content qualitative analyses were conducted. On the basis of the results of the data analysis, the purposes of the course were gathered under three main goals, the content of the course comprised of theoretical knowledge of and practice in character education, various methods and techniques, especially film and discussion, were used. The results of the assessment and evaluation part indicated that the course was effective and the students attained the goals of the course. Keywords: character education, experienced centred design, higher education, and course desig

Caustic Ingestion

Caustic ingestion with resultant esophagitis and gastritis is still an important social and medical problem due to early and long-term complications. This injury is seen frequently as an accidental event and may also lead to psychosocial impacts, including antisocial behavior, suicide attempts, criminal incarceration, and educational delinquency. It often occurs as a result of uncontrolled and unsafe storage of materials used in household cleaning. Despite the various treatment proposals, optimal management of the patients remains controversial. The presentation of the depth and extent of injury with endoscopy plays a key role in treatment planning. In the absence of life-threatening complications, the general approach is conservative management in the acute period. The most common complications are esophageal stricture and gastric outlet obstruction. Different treatment methods such as bougienage, stent application, balloon dilation, or esophageal replacement are used in the treatment of the caustic esophageal strictures. The decision of the least invasive method for the treatment of complications will reduce the potential hazardous results

Effects of Data Enrichment with Image Transformations on the Performance of Deep Networks

Images cannot always be expected to come in a certain standard format and orientation. Deep networks need to be trained to take into account unexpected variations in orientation or format. For this purpose, training data should be enriched to include different conditions. In this study, the effects of data enrichment on the performance of deep networks in the super resolution problem were investigated experimentally. A total of six basic image transformations were used for the enrichment procedures. In the experiments, two deep network models were trained with variants of the ILSVRC2012 dataset enriched by these six image transformation processes. Considering a single image transformation, it has been observed that the data enriched with 180 degree rotation provides the best results. The most unsuccessful result was obtained when the models were trained on the enriched data generated by the flip upside down process. Models scored highest when trained with a mix of all transformations

Automatic and Accurate Classification of Hotel Bathrooms from Images with Deep Learning

Hotel bathrooms are one of the most important places in terms of customer satisfaction, and where the most complaints are reported. To share their experiences, guests rate hotels, comment, and share images of their positive or negative ratings. An important part of the room images shared by guests is related to bathrooms. Guests tend to prove their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the bathrooms with images in their comments. These Positive or negative comments and visuals potentially affect the prospective guests. In this study, two different versions of a deep learning algorithm were designed to classify hotel bathrooms as satisfactory (good) or unsatisfactory (bad, when any defects such as dirtiness, deficiencies, malfunctions were present) by analyzing images. The best-performer between the two models was determined as a result of a series of extensive experimental studies. The models were trained for each of 144 combinations of 5 hyper-parameter sets with a data set containing more than 11 thousand bathroom images, specially created for this study. The "HotelBath" data set was shared also with the community with this study. Four different image sizes were taken into consideration: 128, 256, 512 and 1024 pixels in both directions. The classification performances of the models were measured with several metrics. Both algorithms showed very attractive performances even with many combinations of hyper-parameters. They can classify bathroom images with very high accuracy. Suh that the top algorithm achieved an accuracy of 92.4% and an AUC (area under the curve) score of 0.967. In addition, other metrics also proved the success..

Antioxidant and antihyperglycemic activities of Scorzonera cinerea radical leaves in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats

Scorzonera species are used for treating various diseases. They are consumed raw, especially in the spring, and have nutritious and dietetic values. This study evaluated the antidiabetic and antioxidant effects of ethanolic extracts of Scorzonera cinerea (Sc) radical leaves in diabetes mellitus. Five random groups of Wistar rats (n = 8) were created – control, diabetic, acarbose, Sc-dried, and Sc-frozen. Phenolic profiles of extracts were determined by HPLC. Free radical scavenging capacity was measured using DPPH and ABTS tests. The inhibitory effects of Sc extracts on α-glucosidase and α-amylase activities were also evaluated. Moreover, superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and catalase (CAT) activities, glutathione (GSH) concentration, malondialdehyde (MDA), total antioxidant status (TAS) and total oxidant status (TOS) were analyzed in the liver tissues. While dried Scorzonera extract was more effective in α-amylase inhibitory activity, frozen Scorzonera extract was more effective in α-glucosidase inhibitory activity. Sc-dried and Sc-frozen extracts lowered blood glucose and HbA1c levels, they also increased insulin. Although liver MDA and TOS were significantly increased in the diabetic group, their values were significantly lower in the Sc-dried- and Sc-frozen-treated groups. GSH, TAS, and antioxidant enzyme activities decreased in the diabetic group, but Sc-dried and Sc-frozen supplements significantly enhanced liver antioxidant values. In conclusion, S. cinerea treatment exerts potential hypoglycemic and antioxidant effects in diabetes. Thus, it can be considered as a candidate dietary supplement for health benefits in diabetes

Evaluation of 809 Cases Applicated to A Rabies Vaccination Center of Diyarbakır Government Hospital

In this study; 809 cases applicated to rabies vaccination center ofDiyarbakır Government Hospital between May 2006 and May 2007 wereevaluated. Human diploid cell vaccine was applicated as 3 doses in 708cases (%87.5) and 5 doses in 101 cases (%12.5). In 66 cases (%8.2) rabiesantiserum was also used. The sites of injury were head-neck in 45 cases(%5.6), body-arm-leg in 563 (%69.6) cases and hand in 201 (%24.8) cases.477 cases (%59) were evaluated as superficial and 332 cases (%41) wereevaluated as deep injury. 626 cases (%77.4) had dog bite, 142 cases (%17.6)had cat bite. While 689 cases (%85.2) visited the rabies vaccination center atthe first day of injury, 115 cases (%14.2) visited in 2-5 days and 5 cases(%0.6) visited after 5 days. In conclusion; the sensitivity and the rate of theearly visit of the vaccination center because of suspicious animal contactare high and when compared with developed countries there must be a greateffort in reducing the incidence of suspicious bites

ATTENTION! SCHOOL BUS

This study aimed to investigate the conditions of pre-school children’s school buses. Six pre-service senior pre-school teachers interviewed twelve school bus drivers, and then took four bus rides with children from school to home and made observations while on the bus. The researchers identified three themes based on the literature: safety, social and physical environment, and communication with drivers. A content analysis approach was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study revealed that three safety rules—unfastened seat belts, use of the front seat, and use of cell phones while driving the school bus—were broken by the school bus drivers. The general social environment of the buses was positive; no conflict was observed among children during their social interactions with each other. Nevertheless, the physical condition was not as pleasing as the social environment. The buses were dirty, dusty, and had a bad smell due to the lack of fresh air. The communication between children and the drivers was fairly good. Children were eager to talk about their school day to the drivers, and the drivers were willing to listen to them. However, the drivers were not so kind during their private phone calls during the ride.  Article visualizations

An Inverse Approach to Windows' Resource-Based Permission Mechanism for Access Permission Vulnerability Detection

In organizations, employees work with information stored in files according to their duties and responsibilities. Windows uses resource-based access permissions that any permission for any user has to be set separately per resource. This approach gets complicated as the number of resources and users increase, and causes oversights in assigning permissions. Therefore, a special mechanism is required to scrutinize what permissions any employee has on any set of resources. This requirement is circumvented by reversing the Windows approach in terms of user-accessible resources. This approach is implemented by a program allowing quick and easy examination of any type of permissions granted or denied to active directory users on any folder. In this way, administrators can make sure there is no any missing or overlooked setting that could cause a security vulnerability. This approach can easily be extended to scrutinize other resources, and for other local or active directory objects