YABANCI DİLDE EDİMSEL FARKINDALIĞI ARTIRICI AKTİVİTELER: YAPI-ANLAM ODAKLI SINIFTA İSTEKTE BULUNMA STRATEJİLERİNİN ÖĞRETİMİ

Sole linguistic competence does not by itself ensure a smooth communication since appropriacy is not derived from pure linguistic knowledge. Since linguistic competence does not guarantee pragmatic competence the pedagogical applications and their effectiveness in improving L2 learners‟ pragmatic competence have become significant subjects of study in the field of foreign language teaching. However, there is still a gap between what pragmatics and interlanguage pragmatics offer and how L2 pragmatics is taught to raise L2 learners‟ awareness in L2 pragmatic features. This article is intended to present a brief theoretical background on what pragmatic competence is and what instruction types to raise awareness in L2 pragmatics are standing out more in instructional pragmatics, and how this theoretical perspective can be implemented in instructional pragmatics to raise L2 pragmatics awareness via sample activities to teach requests in English. İletişimde ugunluğun salt dilbilgisel bilgiden türememesi nedeniyle tek başına dilbilgisel yeti düzgün iletişimi garanti etmemektedir. Dilbilgisel yetinin edimsel yeti başarısını garanti etmemesi yabancı dil öğretimi alanında öğrenenlerin edimsel yetilerinin gelişiminde eğitsel uygulamalar ve bu uygulamaların yararlılığı konusunu önemli bir çalışma alanı haline getirmiştir. Ancak halen edimbilim ve aradil edimbilim çalışmalarının sundukları ile öğrenenlerin edimsel özellikler hakkındaki farkındalığını artırmak için yabancı dile ilişkin edimsel özelliklerin öğretimi arasında bir açık bulunmaktadır. Bu makale edimsel yeti ve ikinci dil edinimi çalışmalarında ikinci dilin edimsel özelliklerine ilişkin farkındalığın artırılmasında hangi eğitsel yaklaşımların öne çıktığını kuramsal olarak ortaya koymayı ve bu kuramsal bakışın İngilizcede istekte bulunma stratejilerinin öğretimi örneği üzerinden yabancı dilde edimsel farkındalığı artırmaya yönelik örnek aktivitelerle nasıl uygulanabileceğini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır

Identification of the Predictive Power of Five Factor Personality Traits for Individual Instrument Performance Anxiety

This study, with the aim of identifying the predictive power of the five-factor personality traits of music teacher candidates on individual instrument performance anxiety, was designed according to the relational screening model. The study population was students attending the Music Education branch of Fine Arts Education Departments in Educational Faculties in Turkey with the sample comprising 256 students attending the Music Education branch of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Pamukkale University and Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University during the 2016-2017 academic year. For data collection in the study, the Individual Instrument Performance Test Anxiety Scale developed by Dalkıran et al. (2014) and the Adjective-based Personality Test developed by Bacanlı et al. (2009) according to the five factor concept were used. Correlation analysis was performed to test whether there was a significant correlation between the individual instrument performance anxiety of students and the five factor personality traits. Additionally, to determine the predictive power of the five factor personality traits on individual instrument test performance anxiety of Music Education branch students, standard multiple regression analysis was performed. Data were tested at the significance level of 0.05. According to the obtained data, it can be said there is a significant correlation between the individual instrument performance anxiety levels and the five factor personality traits of Music Education branch students. A positive and high level relationship was identified between performance anxiety levels and the five factor personality trait of emotional balance/neuroticism, while there was no correlation with agreeableness and performance anxiety level. Extraversion and openness to experience had a negative correlation with performance anxiety level, while there was a positive correlation observed between conscientiousness and performance anxiety. The five factor personality traits of emotional balance/neuroticism and conscientiousness positively and significantly predicted performance anxiety, while extraversion negatively and significantly predicted performance anxiety level. Contrarily, openness to experience and agreeableness were not identified to significantly predict performance anxiety level

Sectoral system of innovation and sources of technological change in machinery industry: An investigation on Turkish machinery industry

Bu çalışma, 10-12 Aralık 2015 tarihlerinde İstanbul[Türkiye]’düzenlenen 5. International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) Kongresi‘nde bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.Machinery industry is the main sector in investment product sector. Therefore it has an strategic importance. Turkish machinery industry must have a technology policy to achieve competitiveness on a global level. This study, focus on the sectors which can produce and transfer technology and knowledge. Thus it is based on the basis of the sectoral system of innovation which can produce industry specific technology. In this study according to innovation activities 250 different scale firms data were collected using a questionnaire prepared by the Oslo Manual. Data were analyzed. And the results obtained from the data used for researching the level of technological capabilities of the sectors. Finally the sector's position in new technological developments such as Industry 4.0 was evaluated.Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiGebze Teknik Üniversitesiİstanbul Teknik Üniversites

Quality management in the Turkish Higher Education institutions: Preliminary findings

Bu çalışma, 10-12, Aralık 2015 tarihlerinde İstanbul[Türkiye]’da düzenlenen 5. International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management (ICLTIBM) Kongresi‘nde bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.There is an extensive literature on antecedents and positive/negative consequences of quality management in manufacturing organizations. However, studies that focus on quality management in higher education institutions are inadequate. In addition, these studies are generally based on developed countries and small samples. This study examines the situation of quality management in higher education institutions of a developing country, Turkey. In addition, it uses a relatively large data set (241 faculties and institutes) for this aim. The findings show that although the Turkish higher education institutions have progressed in their quality efforts in recent years, there is still a long way to go.Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiGebze Teknik Üniversitesiİstanbul Teknik Üniversites

İlkokul Dördüncü Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Yazılı Anlatım Çalışmalarında Kullandıkları Sözcüklerin Türleri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Bu çalışmada, dördüncü sınıf Türkçe ders kitabındaki “Sağlık ve Çevre” ile “Değerler”  temalarına ait metinler işlendikten sonra belirlenen konulara ilişkin yazma etkinlikleriyle öğrencilerin yazılı bir ürün ortaya koymaları sağlanmıştır; ardından bu yazılı ürünlerde kullandıkları sözcük türlerindeki çeşitliliğin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada betimsel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu Zonguldak’ta bir devlet okulunda öğrenim gören toplam 28 dördüncü sınıf öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Temalarda yer alan sekiz metinle ilgili her hafta yazma çalışması yaptırılmış ve toplam 228 yazılı anlatım çalışması elde edilmiştir. Verilerin analizinde içerik analizi kullanılmıştır. Öğrencilerin yazdıkları metinler bilgisayar ortamına aktarılmış, Simple Concordance Program 4.07 programı ile her bir öğrencinin sözcük listeleri oluşturulmuştur. Çalışma sonucunda; “Sağlık ve Çevre” teması ile ilgili yazılı anlatım çalışmasında kız ve erkek öğrencilerin sözcük türlerinde isim, fiil ve sıfatı daha çok kullandığı tespit edilmiştir. “Değerlerimiz” teması ile ilgili yazılı anlatım çalışmasında ise kız öğrencilerin sözcük türlerinden isim, fiil ve zamiri; erkek öğrencilerin isim, fiil ve zarfı daha fazla kullandığı belirlenmiştir. Sekiz ayrı sözcük türündeki toplam sözcük sayılarına bakıldığında iki temada da kız öğrencilerin lehine bir fark vardır

Evaluation of the results of the use of two different anticoagulants in COVID-19 patients who were followed-up and treated in the intensive care unit

Introduction: The risk of thromboembolism increases due to tendency to coagulopathy, excessive inflammation, hypoxia, and immobility in patients who are treated of COVID-19 in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Therefore, thromboembolism prophylaxis (anticoagulant therapy) is recommended. There is no clear recommendation in the literature regarding the dose and duration of anticoagulant therapy. In this study, we evaluate of two different anticoagulant administrations in terms of prognosis and mortality in COVID-19 patients who were followed up and treated in the ICU. Methods: After the approval of the Ethics Committee, the study was carried out by retrospectively in ICU affiliated to three different centers. The patients were divided into two groups as those using anticoagulant at a prophylactic dose (Group 1) and treatment dose (Group 2). Various parameters of the patients were evaluated. Results: Of the 91 patients included in the study, 61.5% received prophylactic and 38.5% therapeutic anticoagulants. The rate of male patients 73.9% was found to be significantly higher in the mortal group (p=0.014). About 75.9% of the patients who received mechanical ventilation treatment and 13.59% of the patients who were not applied died (p<0.001). Mortality was higher in the group using prophylactic anticoagulants (58.39% vs. 37.1% p;0.043). Patients using prophylactic doses of anticoagulants had 2.42 times more mortality (Odds Ratio=2.42). Hb levels were found to be lower (p=0.017) and prothrombin time and partial prothrombine time values were long (p=0.048 and 0.038, respectively) in patients who received anticoagulants at the treatment dose. Discussion and Conclusion: Despite the increased tendency for thrombosis in COVID-19, there is no clear preventive or protective treatment. Hence, if there is no contraindicated situation, we believe that anticoagulants can be used safely at the treatment dose to avoid possible thromboembolic complications and reduce the risk of mortality. There is a need for largescale studies on dose selection in terms of prophylaxis

A new test for the homogeneity of inverse gaussian scale parameters based on computational approach test

In this paper, we focused on testing homogeneity of scale parameters of k Inverse Gaussian distributions (IGDs) since this distribution is one of the most common distribution for analyzing nonnegative right-skewed data. We have proposed a new test statistic based on the Computational Approach Test (CAT), which is a type of parametric bootstrap method, for testing homogeneity of scale parameters of k IGDs. Simulation results have been presented to compare the performances of the proposed method and existing methods such as the likelihood ratio test, modified likelihood ratio test and generalized likelihood ratio test in terms of type I error rate and power. The results showed that the proposed CAT is better than the others in terms of the type I error rates and powers in some cases

Exile and plurality in neoliberal times: Turkey's Academics for Peace

Today thousands of academics from Turkey, along with others from Syria, Iran, and Egypt are deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western countries. These exiled academics have been attempting to practice diverse forms of teaching and researching, both in Turkey and in exile. We argue that the struggles of oppositional academics inside and outside Turkey today offer insight into the nature of the global crisis in neoliberal academia based on precarious working conditions of knowledge producers and commodification of education. Some of the answers to this crisis may lie, as they did in the 1930s and 1940s, in the hands of those same persecuted scholars who bring with them academic perspectives forged in oppressive regimes. In a short period of time Academics for Peace accomplished two goals. They have resisted through peaceful, anti-violent civil disobedience the political pressure brought to bear upon them by the increasingly authoritarian Turkish government, daring to demand and then create a new, more plural public Turkish space. Second, they have dared, even in the face of academic and civic precariousness, to take a critical stance toward the marketization and hierarchization of Turkish and European universities and in response to forge new autonomous ways of teaching and researching in their home and host countries. An approach that goes beyond humanitarianizing the sup-port given to dissident academics has the potential to pluralize academy

Effect of Saliva Contamination on Microleakage of Open Sandwich Restorations

Svrha istraživanja: Željela se procijeniti mikropropusnost konvencionalnih staklenih ionomera, smolom modificiranih staklenih ionomera i hibridnih staklenih ionomera u otvorenim restauracijama II. razreda kontaminiranih slinom ili nekontamitiranih slinom. Materijal i metode: Korišteno je 60 ekstrahiranih zdravih ljudskih kutnjaka i preparirano je 120 kaviteta II. razreda na mezijalnim i distalnim plohama. Rubovi gingive nalazili su se 1 mm ispod caklinsko-cementnog spojišta. Svi uzorci nasumično su podijeljeni u četiri skupine (n = 15): skupina I – visoko viskozni stakleni ionomer (Fuji IX GP); skupina II – smolom modificirani stakleni ionomer (Fuji II LC); skupina III – hibridni stakleni ionomer (Equia-fil Forte); skupina IV – kompozitna smola (G’aenial Posterior). U skupini s otvorenim sen-dvič-restauracijama staklenoionomerni materijali postavljeni su na gingivno dno u debljini od 1 mm, a ostatak kaviteta ispunjen je kompozitnim materijalom. Nakon izrade restauracije na mezijalnim plohama, distalni kaviteti restaurirani su prema istom protokolu nakon kontaminacije slinom. Uzorci su podvrgnuti termocikliranju od 10 000 ciklusa na temperaturi od 5 °C do 55 °C i uronjeni tijekom 24 sata u otopinu metilenskog modrila (% 0,5). Zatim su se prerezani dijamantnom pilom, uz vodeno hlađenje, vertikalno kroz središte restauracije od mezijalne plohe prema distalnoj na debljinu od 1 mm. Nakon toga je prodiranje boje procjenjivano softverom za analizu slika. Podatci su statistički analizirani (p 0,05). Uz to, nije bilo statistički značajne razlike između skupina kontaminiranih slinom i nekontaminiranih slinom, neovisno o testiranim dentalnim materijalima (p > 0,05). Zaključak: Uzimajući u obzir ograničenja ovog istraživanja, u otvorenim sendvič-restauracijama kontaminacija slinom nije štetno utjecala na mikropropuštanje, bez obzira na testirane dentalne materijale. Hibridni stakleni ionomeri i stakleni ionomeri modificirani smolom pokazali su lošije rezultate u mikropropusnosti na gingivnim rubovima u odnosu prema visokoviskoznim staklenoionomernim materijaloma u skupini bez kontaminacije.Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the microleakage of conventional glass-ionomer, resin modified glass-ionomer and glass hybrid ionomer Class II open sandwich restorations with or without saliva contamination. Material and methods: Sixty extracted sound human molar teeth were used and 120 class II slot cavities were prepared in mesial and distal surfaces. The gingival margins were located 1 mm below the cementoenamel junction. All specimens were randomly divided in 4 groups (n=15): Group I: High-Viscous Glass Ionomer (Fuji IX GP) Group II: Resin Modified Glass Ion-omer (Fuji II LC) Group III: Glass Hybrid Ionomer (Equia-fil Forte), Group IV: Composite Resin (G’aenial Posterior). In open sandwich restoration groups, glass ionomer materials were placed to gingival floor in 1 mm thickness and rest of the cavity was filled with resin composite. After the restorations in mesial surfaces had been performed, distal cavities were restored with the same protocol after saliva contamination. The specimens were thermocycled for 10000 cycles at 5 0 C to 55 0 C and immersed in methylene blue dye solution (% 0,5) for 24 hours. Then, they were sectioned vertically through the center of the restorations from mesial to distal surface with a water-cooled diamond saw with 1mm thickness. Subsequently, the dye penetration was evaluated with image analysis software. Data were statistically analyzed (p0.05). Additionally, there was not a statistically significant difference between the no contamination and saliva contaminated groups regardless of dental materials tested (p>0.05). Conclusion: Within the limitations of this study, in open sandwich restorations, saliva contamination did not show an adverse effect on microleakage irrespective of dental materials tested. Glass hybrid ionomers and resin modified glass ionomers showed lower microleakage scores in gingival margins compared to high-viscous glass ionomer material in no contamination groups

Skuteczność oznaczania parametrów morfologii w diagnostyce ciąży ektopowej jajowodowej

Objective: Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is the major cause of maternal morbidity and is responsible for maternal mortality in the first trimester. In order to reduce undesirable results, it is necessary to find rapid and accurate, non-surgical diagnostic tests for EP. The goal of the study was to investigate the differences in complete blood count parameters between tubal EPs and healthy pregnancies in be used in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. Study design: White blood cell (WBC), neutrophil, monocyte, lymphocyte, platelet (PLT) counts, mean PLT volume (MPV) and PLT distribution width (PDW) levels in the complete blood count samples have been obtained from subjects with diagnosed tubal EP (n=78; study group) and women with healthy intrauterine gestations (n=79; control group). Statistical comparisons between groups were performed using the t test. Results: PDW levels were found to be significantly higher in the control group than EP (pCel: Ciąża ektopowa (EP) jest główną przyczyną śmiertelności matek w pierwszym trymestrze ciąży. Aby zmniejszyć niekorzystne wyniki tej choroby, konieczne jest znalezienie szybkiego i właściwego testu nieoperacyjnego służącego do rozpoznania EP. Celem badania była ocena różnic w wynikach morfologii pomiędzy pacjentkami z ciążą ektopową a zdrowymi ciężarnymi. Materiał i metoda: W próbkach pełnej krwi zbadano następujące parametry: leukocyty (WBC), neutrofile, monocyty, limfocyty, płytki krwi (PLT), średnią objętość płytki krwi (MPV), szerokość rozdziału płytek (PDW) u pacjentek z rozpoznaną ciążą jajowodową (n=78, grupa badana) oraz u zdrowych ciężarnych (n=79, grupa kontrolna). Analiza statystyczna porównująca obie grupy została wykonana przy pomocy testu t. Wyniki: PDW był istotnie wyższy w grupie kontrolnej niż w grupie EP (