Examination of school administrators' attitudes towards disciplinary problems at schoolOkul yöneticilerinin okuldaki disiplin sorunlarıyla ilgili tutumlarının incelenmesi

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of elementary and secondary school administrators' attitudes towards disciplinary issues and to examine whether they vary by various variables (gender, age, educational level, faculty of graduation, branch, seniority, courses, seminars and status of receiving training). The study was prepared in accordance with the relational screening model, one of the general screening models. In the model of the study, the relationship between the variables was examined in accordance with the general and sub-purposes. The population of the study consisted of school administrators working at public elementary and secondary schools in Istanbul province. The sample of the study consisted of 103 administrators working in a total of 12 institutions including 7 public elementary schools and 5 secondary schools located in Gaziosmanpaşa district in the 2015-2016 academic year. The "Disciplinary Approaches of Administrators at School" Scale prepared by Özcan (2008a) was used as a data collection tool. As a result of the data analysis, administrators' attitudes towards disciplinary approaches were found to be at the medium level. There is a significant difference between the attitudes towards disciplinary approaches of administrators who graduated from the faculty of education and of administrators who graduated from other faculties other than the faculty of education. It is observed that administrators who graduated from other faculties have a more positive attitude towards disciplinary approaches compared to administrators who graduated from the faculty of education. The difference between the arithmetic means of school administrators' attitudes towards disciplinary issues according to gender, age, branch, educational level, occupational seniority, courses, seminars and status of receiving training was not found to be statistically significant.  ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı ilkokul ve ortaokul yöneticilerinin disiplin sorunlarıyla ilgili tutumlarının ne düzeyde olduğu ve çeşitli değişkenlere (cinsiyet, yaş, eğitim düzeyi, mezun olunan fakülte, kıdem, kurs, seminer ve eğitim alıp almamalarına) göre farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığını incelemektir. Araştırma, genel tarama modelinde nicel bir çalışmadır. Araştırmanın örneklemi 2015-2016 eğitim öğretim yılında Gaziosmanpaşa ilçesinde bulunan, 7 ilkokul ve 5 ortaokul olmak üzere toplam 12  kurumda  görev yapmakta olan 103 yöneticiden oluşmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak Özcan (2008a) tarafından hazırlanan “Yöneticilerin Okuldaki Disiplin Yaklaşımları” anketi kullanılmıştır.Veri analizi sonucunda, yöneticilerin disiplin yaklaşımlarına yönelik tutumlarının orta düzeyde olduğu bulunmuştur. Eğitim fakültesini bitiren yöneticiler ile eğitim fakültesi dışındaki diğer fakültelerden mezun olan yöneticilerin disiplin yaklaşımlarına yönelik tutumları arasında anlamlı bir farklılık görülmektedir. Diğer fakültelerden mezun olan yöneticilerin eğitim fakültelerinden mezun olan yöneticilere göre disiplin yaklaşımları konusunda daha olumlu bir tutuma sahip olduğu görülmektedir. Okul yöneticilerinin disiplin sorunlarıyla ilgili tutumlarının cinsiyet, yaş, branş, öğrenim durumu, mesleki kıdem, kurs, seminer ve eğitim alıp almama değişkenlerine göre aritmetik ortalamaları arasındaki fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulunmamıştır.

Evaluating the features of interdigital neuroma using 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging

Interdigital neuroma is an entrapment neurop-athy of the interdigital nerve. Previously, studies on interdigital neuroma were done with 1 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging and more often 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging. We used 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging in our study and we did not encounter as much as we know about the study with 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the literature. Between 2013 and 2019, the 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging results of 39 consecutive surgically-confirmed interdigi- tal neuromas and patients' files were retrospec- tively evaluated. The soft tissue surrounding the prominent interdigital nerve "target sign" were assessed. Spearman's rho, Pearson's correlation tests, and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used. Of the 39 cases (mean transverse dimension = 4.64 mm), 35 (89.7%) were hypointense on T1-weight - ed sequencing, 34 were intermediate (87.1%) on short tau inversion recovery sequencing, and 29 (74.3%) had slightly-moderately enhanced neuro-mas on post-contrast spectral presaturation with inversion recovery sequences. A statistically sig-nificant negative relationship was found between contrast enhancement and disease duration (p = 0.020). On short tau inversion recovery or spec-tral presaturation with inversion recovery series, the intralesional nerve view "target sign" was ob-served in 23 (58.98 %) of 39 neuromas. This is the first study in the literature with 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging that shows the visual charac-teristics of interdigital neuroma and its possible contribution to the diagnosis of the disease

Mobil bulut bilişim için en iyi uygulama bölme ve hesaplama agırlıklı taşıma çerçevesi.

The use of mobile applications is increasing every day and they offer more functionality on mobile devices. However, these devices are inferior to server computers in terms of memory and processor capacity. Furthermore, rapid depletion of mobile devices’ energy resources is still a major problem. Performance and energy shortcomings of mobile devices can be improved by using surrogate or cloud computing technologies. In this thesis, an offloading framework is proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of mobile applications. The framework seamlessly handles offloading and provides distribution transparency via the Inversion of Control mechanism. In particular, computation intensive components of an application are run on a remote server. It is possible to migrate different combinations of components to remote servers. Indeed, offloading some combinations of components are productive and others are counterproductive. Experimental results show that offloading the optimal combination of components to remote servers reduces the execution time and energy consumption of mobile devices. Hence, a call graph model is proposed to decide on the components to be offloaded. Offloading decisions are made by finding the best partitioning in the graph. The graph model has been validated by extensive experiments.Ph.D. - Doctoral Progra

E cosmic: iş süreci modeli temelli fonksiyonel büyüklük kestirim yaklaşımı

The cost and effort estimation of projects depend on software size. A software product size is needed at as early a phase of the project as possible. Conventional Early Functional Size Estimation methods generate size at the early phase but result in subjectivity and unrepeatability due to manual calculation. On the other hand, automated Functional Size Measurement calculation approaches require constructs which are available in considerably late software development phases. In this study we developed an approach called e-Cosmic to calculate and automate the functional size measurement based on the business processes. Functions and input and output relationship types of each function are identified in the business process model. The size of each relationship type is determined by assigning appropriate data movements based on the COSMIC Measurement Manual. Then, relationship type size is aggregated to produce the size of each function. The size of the software product is the sum of the size of these functions. Automation of this process based on business process model is performed by developing a script in the ARIS tool concept. Three case studies were conducted to validate the proposed functional size estimation method (e-Cosmic). The size of the products in the case studies are measured manually with COSMIC FSM (Abran et al, 2007) as well as using a conventional early estimation method, called Early and Quick COSMIC FFP. We compared the results of different approaches and discussed the usability of e-Cosmic based on the findings.M.S. - Master of Scienc

Mobil Uygulamalarda Vekil Tabanlı Kod Taşıma Yönteminin Farklı Seviyelerdeki Bulut Bilişim Altyapılarının Kullanılması Durumundaki Başarımının Karşılaştırılması

Günümüzde akıllı telefonların kullanımı gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Akıllı telefon ve kablosuz iletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler sayesinde insanlar bilgiye artık her yerde ve her zaman erişebiliyorlar. Akıllı telefon teknolojisi ilerlemesine rağmen yine de hafıza ve işlemci gücü kapasitesi bakımından masaüstü veya sunucu bilgisayarlara göre çok geride kalmaktadır. Bunun yanında akıllı telefonların enerjisinin çabuk tükenmesi başlı başına önemli bir problem olmaktadır. Akıllı telefonların bu olumsuzlukları yakındaki veya uzaktaki bulut bilişim teknolojileri ile iyileştirilebilmektedir. Özellikle resim işleme, nesne tanıma ve artırılmış gerçeklik gibi işlem ve hafıza yoğunluklu uygulamaları çalıştırabilmek daha kolay olabilecektir. Bu çalışmada akıllı telefonlardaki hesaplama yoğunluklu kod parçacıklarını uzaktaki bir buluta taşıma yöntemleri olan Uzak Metot Çağırma [1], Android Arayüz Tanımlama Dili [2] kullanılarak oluşturulan servisler ve OSGi servisleri [3] ile bu işlemin yapılması çalışmalarını inceledik. Vekil tabanlı kod taşıma yöntemini kullanarak nesne tanıma uygulaması için hesaplama yoğunluklu işleri buluta yaptırdık. Nesne tanıma uygulaması için %60 ile %83 oranında işlem süresi ve %65 ile %88 oranında enerji tasarrufu sağladık

E-Cosmic: A Business Process Model Based Functional Size Estimation Approach

Software size is the key input for cost and effort estimation models. The effort and cost estimations as well as software size is needed at as early a phase of the project as possible. Conventional Early Functional Size Estimation methods enable predicting size at early phases but frequently variation of the results are high due to manual calculations and requirements of high degree of interpretation in situations where there is a lack of structured artifacts. On the other hand, automated Functional Size Measurement calculation approaches require constructs which are available in considerably late software development phases. In this study, an approach called e-Cosmic to overcome the reliability and subjectivity problems of early size estimation models is developed. As part of the approach a mapping between functional size measurement components of COSMIC FSM Method and common business process model constructs, was developed. The proposed method ( e-Cosmic) is validated by three case studies. The result of the case studies has consistently showed less than 10% deviation with respect to the COSMIC FSM results. In addition, the automation of the estimation procedure eliminated measurer dependency and effort in conventional early functional size estimation methods

Effects of the usability and expected benefit on m-service usage: The case of a location-based mobile campus service

Mobile services (m-services) are widely used and provide several advantages to users. One of the main success factors of an m-service is the adoption and usage rate. Therefore, it is important to identify the factors that affect the m-service usage. This research investigated the effect of usability and expected benefit on m-service usage. The task analysis and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 participants. Results were compared with the actual usage data that were obtained from the log files. Findings revealed the relationship between the usability, expected benefit and m-service usage rate. According to the results, usability and expected benefit influenced the adoption process, and the users preferred to use services that are more usable and beneficial. Essential practical implications of the findings were discussed. Copyright © 2014 IADIS Press All rights reserved