Turkey’s Map of Emotions and Its Political Reflections

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary scientific field that that combines politics and psychology to explore the effect of emotions in politics. It examines the backgrounds of political decisions at the individual and community levels. This study analyzes the political decisions of voters in Turkey, focusing on positive and negative reactions, such as trust and fear. Using conclusions drawn from the Addiction Map of Turkey Study (TURBAHAR), which involved interviews with approximately twenty-five thousand participants during five months in 2018, this study analyzed the results of local elections held in thirty metropolitan districts and fifty-one provinces in Turkey on March 31, 2019. Eighty-six percent of the electorate participated in the elections. The data are organized into three groups or zones that identified vote pool areas: the People’s Alliance (Zone 1), consisting of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP); the Nation Alliance (Zone 2), consisting of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the IYI Party; and the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) (Zone 3). This study tries to interpret the decision mechanisms and the positive and negative emotions of the voters in these three zones. The aim of the study is to analyze the recent psychopolitical reactions of Turkish voters in terms of anger, identity, inequality, uncertainty, polarization, discrimination, and tolerance of the society

Comparing Performances of Logistic Regression, Classification & Regression Trees and Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Albuminuria in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

In this study, performances of classification methods were compared in order to predict the presence of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. A retrospective analysis was performed in 266 subjects. We compared performances of logistic regression (LR), classification and regression trees (C&RT) and two artificial neural networks algorithms. Predictor variables were gender, urine creatinine, weight, blood urea, serum albumin, age, creatinine clearance, fasting plasma glucose, post-prandial plasma glucose, and HbA1c. For validation set, the best classification accuracy (84.85%), sensitivity (68.0%) and the highest Youden index (0.63) was found in the MLP model but the specificity was 95.12%. Additionally, the specificity of all the models was close to each other. For whole data set the results were found as 84.21%, 53.95%, 0.50 and 96.32% respectively. Consequently, the model had the highest predictive capability to predict the presence of albuminuria was MLP. According to this model, blood urea and serum albumin were the most important variables for predicting the albuminuria. On the basis of these considerations, we suggest that data should be better explored and processed by high performance modeling methods. Researchers should avoid assessment of data by using only one method in future studies focusing on albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients or any other clinical condition

Efficacy and Safety of Insulin Glargine 300 U/mL in People with Type 2 Diabetes Uncontrolled on Basal Insulin: The 26-Week Interventional, Single-Arm ARTEMIS-DM Study

Introduction: The efficacy and safety of switching to insulin glargine 300 U/mL (Gla-300) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) uncontrolled on basal insulin (BI) has been demonstrated in the North American and Western European populations; however, there is limited data from other geographical regions with different ethnicities. The ARTEMIS-DM study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Gla-300 in people with T2DM uncontrolled on BI from Asia, Latin America and Middle East Africa. Methods: The ARTEMIS-DM was a 26-week, prospective, interventional, single-arm, phase IV study (NCT03760991). Adults with T2DM previously uncontrolled (glycated haemoglobin [HbA1c] 7.5–10%) on BI were switched to Gla-300. The primary endpoint was change in HbA1c from baseline to 26 weeks. Key secondary endpoints were changes in HbA1c (week 12), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), self-monitored plasma glucose (SMPG) and BI dose from baseline to week 26. The safety and tolerability of Gla-300 were also assessed. Results: A total of 372 (50% male) participants were included, with mean (standard deviation [SD]) age 60.9 (10.0) years, duration of diabetes 13.11 (7.48) years and baseline HbA1c 8.67 (0.77)% (71.22 [8.44] mmol/mol). A total of 222 (59.7%) participants were using insulin glargine 100 U/mL and 107 (28.8%) were using neutral protamine Hagedorn insulin as previous BI. There were clinically significant reductions in mean HbA1c (− 0.82%; primary endpoint), FPG and SMPG levels at week 26. With a pre-defined titration algorithm, mean Gla-300 dose increased from 27.48 U (0.35 U/kg) at baseline to 39.01 U (0.50 U/kg) at week 26. Hypoglycaemia events occurred in 20.4% of the participants; 1 (0.3%) participant had a severe hypoglycaemia event. Conclusion: In people with T2DM uncontrolled on previous BI, switching to Gla-300 with optimal titration guided by an algorithm was associated with improved glycaemic control and low incidence of hypoglycaemia across multiple geographic regions. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03760991.Fil: Sethi, Bipin. Care Hospital Hyderabad; IndiaFil: Al-Rubeaan, Khalid. Research and Scientific Center Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City; ArgentinaFil: Unubol, Mustafa. Adnan Menderes Universitesi; TurquíaFil: Mabunay, Maria A.. Sanofi; SingapurFil: Berthou, Baptiste. Sanofi; FranciaFil: Pilorget, Valerie. Sanofi; FranciaFil: Vethakkan, Shireene R.. University Malaya Medical Centre; MalasiaFil: Frechtel, Gustavo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Inmunología, Genética y Metabolismo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Instituto de Inmunología, Genética y Metabolismo; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina. Hospital de Clínicas General San Martín; Argentin

Effects of lighting programme and early feed restriction on performance, some stress parameters and quality characteristics of breast meat in broilers

This study was conducted to determine effects of lighting program and early feed restriction on performance, stress and meat quality characteristics in broilers. Broilers (320) were randomly assigned to 4 groups based on lighting program (23 h lighting, 1 h dark or 16 h light, 8 h dark/day) and feeding program (ad lib. or feed restriction) with 4 replicates. Broilers in feed restricted group received feed as 50% of daily ad lib. consumption recommendations from 8 to 14 days of age. Final body weight, heterophil-lymphocyte ratio (H/L), tonic immobility (TI) duration and the percentages of total SFA of breast meat were lower, whereas the percentages of PUFA and PUFA/SFA were higher for broilers in feed restricted group than those fed ad lib. H-L ratio and TI duration of broilers exposed to 16L:8D were lower than those exposed to continuous lighting. In conclusion, early feed restriction negatively affected growth performance of broilers. However, broilers subjected to early feed restriction had less fat deposition and healthier fatty acid profile in breast meat and also they had less stress level, compared to ad lib. fed broilers. Lighting program of 16L:8D decreased the stress situation of broilers without any negative effect on production performance and meat quality characteristics

The Comparisons of Four Splitting Rules for Fitting a Classification Tree with Simulation and an Application Related to Albuminuria Data in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The objective of this study was to compare the performances of splitting rules for predicting an ordinal response with simulation and a real data set. In the case of simulations, we compared across the methods using different sample sizes and the number of independent variables by employing the Monte Carlo simulation method. In the real data application, an analysis was performed with 265 cases. The results showed that the performances of the generalized Gini with the linear and quadratic costs of misclassification were better suited for analysis based on the gamma ordinal association measure and misclassification error rate than the other approaches. According to the gamma ordinal association measure, the generalized Gini (linear and quadratic) to the major risk factors determined for albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients showed a slightly better performance than the other approaches. The predictive capability of splitting rules based on generalized Gini for predicting an ordinal response can be used for different sample sizes, number of independent variables and potential future suitable classification data problems. Consequently, our study will move towards choosing the generalized Gini (linear or quadratic) as the splitting rule and evaluate the data by using the Classification Trees (CT) in future studies, focusing on predicting an ordinal response

Levels of selected minerals, nitric oxide, and vitamins in aborted Sakis sheep raised under semitropical conditions

The serum levels of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, zinc and iron and of nitric oxide, retinol, and β-carotene were determined in Sakiz ewes that had experienced an abortion and in healthy controls. Ten healthy and 25 aborted Sakiz sheep were selected from Afyon zone in western Turkey. Their ages ranged between 2 and 4 years weighing between 40 and 60 kg at the time of experiment. All of the abortions occurred in October. The concentrations of retinol, β-carotene, phosphorus, and zinc were significantly lower and those of calcium and nitric oxide were increased in aborted ewes relative to healthy controls. The serum levels of iron, copper, and magnesium were not significantly different among the two groups. In conclusion, abortion is an important problem in commercially important species of ruminants in many regions in the tropics including of western Turkey. Deficiencies of retinol, β-carotene, phosphorus and zinc, and the increase of calcium and nitric oxide concentration may play an important role in the etiology of abortion in ewes. Prophylactic measures such as vitamin and mineral supplementation may be of help to prevent or reduce the incidence of abortion in sheep

Examination of the Relationship Between Adolescents' Social Anxiety, Cognitions, and Attitudes

The purpose of this study is the investigation of the relationship between cognitive distortions and non-functional attitudes of adolescences, their social appearance concerns, and social comparison levels. Study sample comprises 319 high school students from Arnavutkoy District of the City of Istanbul. Study data were obtained using Dysfunctional attitude scale, Cognitive distortion in interpersonal relations scale, social appearance anxiety scale, social comparison scale  and the demographics form created by the author. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS 21 software package. Spearman Correlation Analysis was used to analyze the relationship between scores that obtained from scales. T-test and Kruskal Wallis Test were used to compare the scores that obtained from scales. Study Findings suggest that adolescents' nonfunctional attitude scale scores are associated with cognitive distortions, social anxiety, and social comparisons. It has been observed that the need for approval and perfectionist attitude play a very central role in the cognitive distortions of adolescents. It is also noteworthy that these attitudes are the only relationship we have in our comparison with others. Social anxiety has been found to be strongly associated with both our cognitive distortions in relation to others, as well as all nonfunctional attitudes. Avoidance of intimacy and non-realistic relationship expectation from cognitive distortions have a strong relationship with perfectionist attitude and need for approval. This study reports the central role of perfectionist attitude and need for approval in relation to social anxiety and social comparison to different attitudes and cognitive distortions. [JCBPR 2018; 7(2.000): 53-61