Sustainable Wave as a Legacy to London from the 2012 Olympics

The Olympic Games are an intercultural huge event that usually leaves the city with megaprojects and related huge debts for their constructions after the Games. However London and environment conscious Londoners started the Olympic bid with the intention to leave a legacy to the city and thus earned the right to host the 2012 Olympics. Their Olympic proposal had sustainability in the forefront, prominently featuring the rehabilitation of a former industrial zone in the east side of the city. The Aquatic Centre is one the buildings that lie at the heart of the aforementioned olympic park. Its architect, Zaha Hadid, designed its main form inspired by a wave that is able to transform, meaning while the Aquatic Centre was designed to have the necessary 17,500 seating capacity for the Olympics, later it would transform into 2,500 seats for public everyday use. The aim of this paper is to examine and learn from the outlook of the Aquatic Centre to its environment, raw materials, natural resources and workforce involvement during its life cycle. In this context, the phases of its inception, construction period, shining in the Olympics and eventually becoming a part of the community as a legacy are examined according to sustainability so that learning from the story of this iconic sports building would be possible. The identification and implementation of performance improving strategies in this project points to many areas, in which the stakeholders can work together in various phases of the building to bring sustainable construction knowhow to the future generations. Keywords: Sustainability, Stakeholder, Innovative materials, Aquatic centre, Transformatio

A Case of Brucellosis with a Rare Complication: Pericarditis

Objectives: To describe brucellosis and its possible complications according to clinical, laboratory and radiological findings. Methods: We describe a case of Brucella pericarditis visualized at transthoracic echocardiography with clinical manifestations. Results: Clinical manifestations, imaging and laboratory findings provided the correct diagnosis of Brucella pericarditis. The patient recovered fully following doxycycline and rifampin therapy. Conclusion: Brucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of disorders that affect the pericardium in endemic areas

The Relationship of Urological and Psychological Problems with Circumcision – A Cross-sectional Study

Objective: Circumcision is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world which is performed for various reasons. The aim is to investigate whether people's satisfaction with circumcision, their perspectives on circumcision, and whether there is a connection between circumcision and psychological/urological problems. Materials and Methods: Between 21 March 2023- 10 April 2023, 1009 men aged between 18- 50 who volunteered to participate in the survey were included in the study. Demographic structures of the people (age, education, income status), age of circumcision, by whom, where and with what type of anesthesia; problems during circumcision, satisfaction with circumcision, any sexual and psychological problems and the relationship of this problem with circumcision were investigated. Results: Mean age of 1009 participants was 32.02±9.15 and mean age of circumcision was 6.18±3.10. 269 (26.7%) men stated that they experienced circumcision complications and 145 (14.4%) stated that they were not satisfied with circumcision. 267 men (26.5%) had sexual or urological problems, and 274 (27.2%) had psychological problems, but the relationship of both problems with circumcision was not significant. Both sexual/urological problems and psychological problems were found to be significantly higher in the group satisfied with circumcision (both p:0.000, p<0.05). The relationships between the characteristics of the circumcision performed (circumcision age, anesthesia method, circumcision site and the person performing it) and urological/sexual problems were found to be significant (all p<0.05). Conclusion: This cross-sectional study supports the hypothesis that circumcision has no relationship with urological/andrological or psychological problems. However, although circumcision is a relatively simple and frequently performed surgical procedure, characteristics such as the age at which the circumcision was performed, the type of anesthesia, the place where it was performed, and the person performing the circumcision are important in order to avoid future urological/sexual problems

Evaluation of the food safety training for food handlers in restaurant operations

This study examined the extent of improvement of food safety knowledge and practices of employee through food safety training. Employee knowledge and practice for food safety were evaluated before and after the food safety training program. The training program and questionnaires for evaluating employee knowledge and practices concerning food safety, and a checklist for determining food safety performance of restaurants were developed. Data were analyzed using the SPSS program. Twelve restaurants participated in this study. We split them into two groups: the intervention group with training, and the control group without food safety training. Employee knowledge of the intervention group also showed a significant improvement in their score, increasing from 49.3 before the training to 66.6 after training. But in terms of employee practices and the sanitation performance, there were no significant increases after the training. From these results, we recommended that the more job-specific and hand-on training materials for restaurant employees should be developed and more continuous implementation of the food safety training and integration of employee appraisal program with the outcome of safety training were needed

Investigation of organic / ferromagnet interface and magnetoresistive characteristics of small molecule organic semiconductors

THESIS 10254Spin injection, transport and dynamics in organic semiconductors are of growing interest as the field of organic spin electronics begins to take shape during the last decade. This new field of research aims to manipulate the electron spin degree of freedom in organic based electronic devices, such as organic-light emitting diodes, organic field effect transistors, and organic radio-frequency identification tags. Organic materials offer the promise to future lightweight, low-power, and inexpensive electronics on flexible substrates

Suitability of Micro-Frontends for an AI as a Service Platform

Die Microservices-Architektur fördert die Entwicklung von wartbaren, erweiterbaren und skalierbaren Softwarelösungen in cloudbasierten, verteilten Umgebungen. Die Plattform des Forschungsprojekts DaFne, ein “Artificial Intelligence as a Service” (AIaaS), nutzt diese Ansätze bereits im Backend. Dadurch stellt es eine Plattform bereit, die erweiterbar ist und es ermöglicht, neue AI Software Services für die Generierung von synthetischen Daten hinzuzufügen. Während das Backend bereits erweiterbar ist, zeigt der ursprüngliche Architekturentwurf einen UI-Monolithen als einzigen Frontend-Dienst. Diese Arbeit erforscht die Anwendung von Micro-Frontends unter Nutzung der Library Module Federation, um auch im Frontend eine Erweiterbarkeit zu ermöglichen. Die Plattform wird dabei in einzelne Frontend-Module aufgeteilt, die aus verschiedenen Domänen stammen und unterschiedliche Anforderungen an den Tech Stack haben. Unter Berücksichtigung der Prinzipien und Herausforderungen von Micro-Frontends und der Entwicklung einer Event-basierten Kommunikationsstrategie wird der erstellte Systementwurf in Form eines Prototyps umgesetzt, der das Ergebnis dieser Forschung darstellt. Als Validierung wird ein extern mit Vue.js entwickelter AI Software Service in die Reactbasierte Host-App integriert. Die Vorteile zeigen sich vor allem in der Flexibilität der Systemgestaltung und im Maintenance-Bereich, allerdings eignet sich die Architektur vornehmlich für größere Projekte mit mehreren Entwicklerteams aufgrund der komplexen Herausforderungen und des hohen Implementierungsaufwands.The microservices architecture promotes the development of maintainable, extensible, and scalable software solutions in cloud-based, distributed environments. The DaFne research project’s platform, characterized as "Artificial Intelligence as a Service" (AIaaS), already leverages these approaches in the backend. Consequently, it provides a platform that is extensible and allows for the addition of new AI software services for synthetic data generation. While the backend is already extensible, the original architectural design featured a UI monolith as the sole frontend service. This work explores the application of micro-frontends using the Module Federation library to enable extensibility in the frontend as well. The platform is divided into individual frontend modules originating from different domains and having varying requirements for the tech stack. Taking into account the principles and challenges of micro-frontends and the development of an event-based communication strategy, the designed system architecture is implemented as a prototype, representing the result of this research. As validation, an externally developed AI software service using Vue.js is integrated into the React-based host app. The advantages primarily manifest in the flexibility of system design and maintenance. However, this architecture is best suited for larger projects with multiple development teams due to the complex challenges and implementation effort involved