Young people in Turkey living with domestic violence: perspectives, effects and coping strategies

The present study seeks to explore young Turkish people’s exposure to domestic violence during childhood. In doing so it examines their perspectives, the impact of domestic violence on their behaviour and psychological wellbeing, their coping strategies at the time of violence and in its immediate aftermath and it also considers their ideas about possible intervention by support agencies and protection measures. This is a qualitative study, which draws on feminist theory, which centralises gender within the power and control framework, to understand the complex nature of domestic violence. This thesis applies the concept of intersectionality to explore the impacts of intersecting social categories on young people’s experiences. In addition, social learning theory, which sees children as passive victims, and sociology of childhood perspectives, which see children as active agencies, were adopted to explore how young people develop perspectives, responses and coping mechanism. The findings from in-depth interviews revealed that young people perceived the externalizing and internalizing impacts of exposure to domestic violence on their well-being and behaviours including depression, anxiety, low self-confidence, powerlessness, worthlessness and aggression. Findings outlined that domestic violence is considered a private issue and is most likely perpetrated due to gender inequalities and male domination in a Turkish context. Domestic violence is internalised by young people as a way to discipline a wife. Findings showed that complex interaction of factors shapes coping strategies; hiding, saving siblings, calling outside help, leaving home, involvement, marrying in early ages and pretending like a male. The young people also stressed the need to develop parentfocused and child and young people focused strategies to support people of victims of domestic violence. Finally. They highlighted the importance of schools to improve awareness and develop initial support for young survivors of domestic violence and reformulating gender roles to eradicate the issue

A static analysis-based method for estimating the maximum out-of-plane inelastic seismic response of steel arch bridges

This paper presents a method for estimating the maximum inelastic out-of-plane seismic response of upper-deck steel arch bridges. The method employs the equal-energy assumption to predict the maximum response without the need for dynamic response analysis. Firstly, applicability of the equal-energy assumption to upper-deck steel arch bridges is examined numerically by performing free vibration analysis, pushover analysis, and elastic and inelastic dynamic response analyses. Models with different arch-rise to span ratio and arch rib spacing are generated and the influence of these parameters on the applicability of the assumption is studied. Although the assumption resulted in conservative side estimation, in many cases the results were too conservative to be practical for design practice. On the other hand, some tendencies that make it possible to develop some correction functions to improve the estimation accuracy of the equal-energy assumption were found regardless of any parameters. Finally, by using the proposed correction functions and the response spectra a method that does not require dynamic response analysis for the estimation of maximum inelastic seismic demand is developed and its validity is evidenced by numerical analyses

Unilateral Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome-Like Reaction Following the CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Choroidal Malignant Melanoma

A 58-year-old otherwise healthy man received a diagnosis of choroidal malignant melanoma (CMM) in June 2021 and underwent a single session of (21 Gy) CyberKnife stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT). Eleven months later, we noticed 3+ anterior chamber cells with occasional vitreous cells in the left eye. Though the tumor looked regressed, there were mild optic disc leakage, early hypofluorescent and late hyperfluorescent punctate lesions scattered 360 degrees, and late staining of the mass on fluorescein angiogram. The findings were compatible with a unilateral multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS)-like reaction that was most likely related to CyberKnife SRT-induced tumor necrosis, and a dexamethasone implant was administered intravitreally into the left eye together with topical steroids. A second intravitreal injection of dexamethasone was given three months later due to remittance of the angiographic features. As there are only a few reports on CyberKnife SRT for the treatment of CMM, we wanted to share our interesting observation of a post-treatment MEWDS-like reaction likely related to tumor necrosis syndrome with the ophthalmic community

Applicability of Equal Energy Assumption to the Out-of-Plane Response of Steel Arch Bridges

Static pushover analysis, linear and non-linear dynamic response analyses were carried out for six steel arch bridge models having different Arch Rise/Span Length ratios or arch rib distances. Based on the results of these analyses, the applicability of equal energy assumption in out-of-plane direction was examined. Although safety side estimation was achieved by the assumption, the results were too conservative in many cases. For the applicability of the assumption some tendencies were found and correction functions were established to improve the accuracy based on these tendencies

Expansion of a static analysis-based out-of-plane maximum inelastic seismic response estimation method for steel arch bridges to in-plane response estimation

We have previously proposed a static analysis-based method for estimating the maximum out-of-plane inelastic seismic response of upper-deck steel arch bridges. The method is developed on the basis of the numerical examinations of 6 upper-deck steel arch bridge models. It employs free vibration analysis, response spectrum method and equal energy assumption for the estimation of maximum out-of-plane response. Correction functions are proposed to modify the estimates by the equal energy assumption. In the current study, applicability of the same procedure to the estimation of maximum in-plane response is discussed. It is found that the method can be used also for the maximum in-plane response estimation by only modifying the pushover analysis procedure. The validity of the method is demonstrated for the same parametric models through further numerical evaluations

Sperm DNA fragmentation: A new guideline for clinicians

Sperm DNA integrity is crucial for fertilization and development of healthy offspring. The spermatozoon undergoes extensive molecular remodeling of its nucleus during later phases of spermatogenesis, which imparts compaction and protects the genetic content. Testicular (defective maturation and abortive apoptosis) and post-testicular (oxidative stress) mechanisms are implicated in the etiology of sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF), which affects both natural and assisted reproduction. Several clinical and environmental factors are known to negatively impact sperm DNA integrity. An increasing number of reports emphasizes the direct relationship between sperm DNA damage and male infertility. Currently, several assays are available to assess sperm DNA damage, however, routine assessment of SDF in clinical practice is not recommended by professional organizations

A Note on Certain Qualitative Properties of a Second Order Linear Differential System

In this note, two theorems are presented concerning the well known second order linear differential system ¨X +a(t)X =P(t). While the results are not new, the proofs presented simplify previous works since the Gronwall inequality is avoided which is the usual case. The technique of proof involves the integral test and examples are included to illustrate the results

On the Qualitative Analyses of Integro-Differential Equations with Constant Time Lag

In this article, some new investigations are done on stability, asymptotically stability and instability of the zero solution and boundedness, integrability of solutions and integrability of derivatives of solutions of certain nonlinear Volterra delayed integro- differential equations (DIDEs) by using the Lyapunov’s functional method. To fulfill the aim of this work, three meaningful Lyapunov functionals are defined as main tools. Then, five new results are given on the mentioned qualitative properties of solutions of the considered DIDEs. Our results have contributions to the relevant literature and they have sufficient conditions. They include and improve some former results that can be found in [1]