Necrotizing Pancreatitis with Hypertriglyceridemia Development Results: A Case Report

Acute pancreatitis due to hypertriglyceridemia is a relatively rare clinical entity. Acute pancreatic necrosis is a life threatening form of acute pancreatitis in which early recognition and treatment is important. Necrotising pancreatitis should be treated immediately. We presented a case of pancreatic necrosis due to hypert¬riglyceridemia which required surgical intervention. We performed necrosectomy. After surgery the patient recovered. We presented the case in order to mention necrotising pancreatitis arising from hypertriglyceridemia and requiring surgical exploration

A SET OF CRITICAL HEURISTICS FOR VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGNERS AND USERS OF PERSUASIVE SYSTEMS

This paper proposes a set of critical questions to guide reflections on persuasive systems. The questions are mainly based on value-based practical reasoning as suggested in argumentation research. Value based reasoning is involved in any persuasive design discourse to assess the purposiveness, goodness or rightness of system actions to be designed. In this approach, the critical questions are structured according to practical discourses suggested by Habermas (1993) in order to help focusing on, and guiding, pragmatic, ethical, and moral discourses of persuasive system design and use. This paper contributes to the current research by enriching reflective methods with a set of concrete questions which can in particular be employed for a value sensitive participatory design of persuasive systems. This article is conceptual-theoretical by its nature. It illustrates the applicability of the approach by employing it to analyze a commercial webbased persuasive system

Bringing Discourse Ethics to Value Sensitive Design: Pathways toward a Deliberative Future

Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is a comprehensive framework for advancing a value-centered research and design agenda. It provides methods for producing and evaluating a design outcome by taking human values into account. Drawing on discourse ethics, this paper first critically analyzes the status quo in VSD and identifies some gaps. These mainly concern the lack of explicit methods for supporting a deliberative and legitimate process of decision making with respect to many concerns, including the identification of stakeholders, the legitimation of common design communication, the justification of trade-offs and/or a common regulation in case of competing or incommensurable values, as well as the deliberativeness of other design decisions such as the selection of design goals and means. In addition, this paper suggests ways to move VSD toward the standards of discourse ethics by drawing on the knowledge base of critical research in the Information Systems field. In particular, the suggestions concern the inclusion of a practical method for boundary critique and different types of discourses and principles as well as discourse support methods and tools for structuring participation in a way that allows participants to deal with the plurality of values, norms, goals and means deliberatively. Finally, this paper revisits a VSD case and explores the applicability of the ideas suggested

Bridging diversity: a deliberative approach to organizing and application of usability guidelines

Designing interaction for the global society entails addressing multiple issues and challenges, ranging from the technical and economic to the legal and ethical. Usability guidelines recommend or prescribe courses of action and thus play a significant role in designing universally usable systems. Approaches to organizing and applying usability guidelines need to support processes of deliberation and tradeoff, especially when designing for bridging diversity in shared interaction contexts. This paper describes a deliberative approach to addressing some of these design challenges in a rational way. It argues for organizing guidelines by using concepts from Habermas’s discourse theory and Toulmin’s model of argumentation. Application of the approach is illustrated through a set of research-based Web design and usability guidelines. This paper contributes to the HCI literature by providing a theory-based approach to managing and deliberating on many usability guidelines and related usability issues

L(p,q)L(p,q)-Labeling of Graphs with Interval Representations

We provide upper bounds on the $L(p,q)$-labeling number of graphs which have interval (or circular-arc) representations via simple greedy algorithms. We prove that there exists an $L(p,q)$-labeling with span at most $\max\{2(p+q-1)\Delta-4q+2, (2p-1)\mu+(2q-1)\Delta-2q+1\}$ for interval $k$-graphs, $\max\{p,q\}\Delta$ for interval graphs, $\max\{p,q\}\Delta+p\omega$ for circular arc graphs, $2(p+q-1)\Delta-2q+1$ for permutation graphs and $(2p-1)\Delta+(2q-1)(\mu-1)$ for cointerval graphs. In particular, these improve existing bounds on $L(p,q)$-labeling of interval and circular arc graphs and $L(2,1)$-labeling of permutation graphs. Furthermore, we provide upper bounds on the coloring of the squares of aforementioned classes

The role of identity in Turkey’s new Middle East policy: The case of JDP’s Palestine policy

Particularly with the advent of the Justice and Development Party (hereafter JDP), Turkey’s Middle East policy, has transformed into a more assertive and active policy orientation vis-a-vis the 1990s. This new Middle East policy is more assertive and active, and thus seeks to become an important player in the region. Since 2002, Turkey has involved in a number of mediation efforts for possible settlement of the conflicts such as the Palestine-Israeli issue. Moreover, Turkey actively participated in the Arab League Conferences and has established closer ties with the countries in the region such as Syria, Iran, and Iraq. From the outset, some circles have evaluated this new policy just as a result of Islamic oriented policies of the ruling party. On the contrary, this article claims that this new policy towards the Middle East cannot be merely explained by the Islamic-identity of JDP. Main argument of this essay is, unlike Islamic identity, liberal norms are playing gradually increasing role in regional politics particularly in the Palestine Question. In this context, the paper claims that visible changes in Turkey’s foreign policy can be explained comprehensively by using some tools of constructivist IR theory, such as the identity-led politics

METAPHORICAL PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY OF EDUCATION STUDENTS REGARDING SPECIAL EDUCATION

This research examines the metaphorical perceptions of teacher candidates at the Faculty of Education, and is designed using the case study method. It was conducted with the participation of 68 teacher candidates studying at Amasya University's Faculty of Education during the 2022-2023 academic year. The research included students from the English Language Teaching and Turkish Language Teaching departments. A two-phase form was used by researchers to determine the metaphorical perceptions of the participants related to special education. In the first phase, participants were asked to complete the sentence "Special education is like...." in order to determine which aspect of special education they associated with; instruction processes, profession, educational structure, difficulty-hardship, goal-purpose, love, tool-equipment, material-tool-equipment, benefit, guide, opportunity and need. In the second phase, participants were asked to explain their associations by filling in the section starting with "Because...". Data analysis was done by descriptive and content analysis. The findings of the research show that the total of 592 metaphors produced by the teacher candidates were grouped under 11 themes: “Profession”, “Educational Structure”, “Instruction Processes”, “Tool-Equipment-Material”, “Benefit”, “Goal-Purpose”, “Love”, “Guide”, “Need”, “Opportunity”. The results of the study reveal that teacher candidates produced the most metaphors in the areas of Educational Structure (174), Instruction Processes (96), Need (63) and Benefit (60)

A Kinetic Study on Photocatalytic and Sonophotocatalytic Degradation of Textile Dyes

In the present study, an artificial effluent solution was used for investigating the degradation of dyestuffs by sonolytic, photocatalytic and sonophotocatalytic methods in the presence of TiO2. This solution contained the mixture of C. I. Acid Red 27, C. I. Disperse Red 92 and C. I. Acid Orange 10 dyestuffs. The effect of parameters such as initial concentration of dyestuffs, light intensity, the amplitude of sonolysis and temperature on the degradation processes was studied. When the degradation data of the three methods for constant parameters were compared after 80 min.; the degradation values were approximately 19, 68 and 82 % for sonolytic, photocatalytic and sonophotocatalytic processes respectively. According the results purely sonolysis has an inconsiderable effect for the degradation of dyes. Also, when the parameters were applied for determining the kinetics of processes the sonophotocatalytic degradation rate followed pseudo-first order kinetics with respect to concentration of dyestuff analogously photocatalytic process. It was observed that the reaction rate accelerated in the presence of ultrasound energy in the course of the experiments. The most effective process was sonophotocatalytic on the degradation and an equation was derived including the effect of sonolysis for sonophotocatalytic degradation kinetics