Evaluation of the Development of Psychosomatic Medicine in a Large University Hospital in Turkey

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the development of psychosomatic medicine at our university hospital in Istanbul, which has an inpatient capacity of 3.000. Changing patterns of utilization of psychiatric service were analyzed in two 1-year surveys five-year intervals (1998, n=888) – (2003, n=1609). Psychiatric referrals were analyzed with regard to rate of consultation, demographic characteristics, departments making referrals, reasons for referral, psychiatric diagnoses and patterns of psychiatric intervention. Psychiatric consultation request, consultation reply and medical psychiatric examination forms were used. In evaluating the data, consultation rate was seen to have doubled over the five intervening years. Significant changes were also noted in the demographic characteristics of patients (e.g., more men, older mean age). The most prevalent disorders in both groups were depressive disorder and adjustment disorders. Alcohol and substance abuse remained as a small group. The gradual increase in the utilization of psychiatric services can be attributed to service and education-related variables

Baraj havzalarında hydroseeding yöntemi ile erozyona karşı mücadele

Türkiye’nin geleceği için önemli projeler demetini oluşturan Çoruh nehri ana kolu üzerinde, 10 adet baraj ve yan kolları üzerinde 21 adet baraj ve HES tesisleri inşaatı planlanmış olup toplam 31 adet tesis yılda 10.6 milyar kWh enerji üretecektir. Türkiye’nin yıllık enerji ihtiyacının % 5 ini karşılayacak olan bu projenin çevre üzerine olası etkilerinin detaylı bir şekilde incelenmesi ve gerekli önlemlerin çok gecikmeden alınması önem arz etmektedir. Barajların inşasının, Çoruh Vadisi’nde bitki ve hayvan türleri, coğrafik yapı ve sosyo-kültürel yapı üzerinde önemli etkileri olacaktır. Baraj inşaatlarının çevreye olan olumsuz etkilerini en aza indirecek planlamalar ve projelerle tahrip edilen doğal yapıyı yeniden kazanmak anlamında bölgemizce önemli adımlar atılmaktadır. Bunlardan en önemlisi Borçka Barajı dolusavak kazı şevlerinde bitki örtüsünün ve bitkisel toprağın tamamen kaybolduğu sıyırma kazısı yapılan yerlerde toplam 137 dekarlık alanda DSİ bünyesinde ilk kez uygulanan bir yöntemle tekrar bitkilendirilmesi çalışmasıdı

Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable entrepreneurship within the context of a developing economy

This study advances the understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) by investigating stakeholders’ perceptions of SEs dimensions in a developing economy. Sixty-three semistructured interviews with local government officers and entrepreneurs in family-business settings were conducted on three islands within the Vietnamese Marine Protected Areas cluster. The study fills both theoretical and empirical gaps concerning the emergence of SE in a developing economy. It empirically examines cultural sustainability and the interconnection between four sustainability pillars (environment, economy, society, and culture), thus, contributing to a more holistic concept of SE in the tourism sector. Furthermore, the study reveals that stakeholders’ perceptions of SE are affected by levels of tourism development. The findings have important implications for family-owned businesses and policymakers

Yakıotunun Ksenobiyotik Metabolizması Üzerine Etkilerinin ve İlaç-Diyet Etkileşim Potansiyelinin Proteomik ve Moleküler Yaklaşımlar ile Aydınlatılması

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The bear in Eurasian plant names: Motivations and models

Ethnolinguistic studies are important for understanding an ethnic group's ideas on the world, expressed in its language. Comparing corresponding aspects of such knowledge might help clarify problems of origin for certain concepts and words, e.g. whether they form common heritage, have an independent origin, are borrowings, or calques. The current study was conducted on the material in Slavonic, Baltic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugrian, Turkic and Albanian languages. The bear was chosen as being a large, dangerous animal, important in traditional culture, whose name is widely reflected in folk plant names. The phytonyms for comparison were mostly obtained from dictionaries and other publications, and supplemented with data from databases, the co-authors' field data, and archival sources (dialect and folklore materials). More than 1200 phytonym use records (combinations of a local name and a meaning) for 364 plant and fungal taxa were recorded to help find out the reasoning behind bear-nomination in various languages, as well as differences and similarities between the patterns among them. Among the most common taxa with bear-related phytonyms were Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng., Heracleum sphondylium L., Acanthus mollis L., and Allium ursinum L., with Latin loan translation contributing a high proportion of the phytonyms. Some plants have many and various bear-related phytonyms, while others have only one or two bear names. Features like form and/or surface generated the richest pool of names, while such features as colour seemed to provoke rather few associations with bears. The unevenness of bear phytonyms in the chosen languages was not related to the size of the language nor the present occurence of the Brown Bear in the region. However, this may, at least to certain extent, be related to the amount of the historical ethnolinguistic research done on the selected languages

The social construction of nascent entrepreneurship : dynamics of business venturing process from an entrepreneurial learning perspective

This thesis examines the process of nascent entrepreneurship from a learning perspective.  The overall aim of this research is to generate insights into nascent entrepreneurs’ learning and managing experiences by exploring their perspectives in relation to the enterprise culture and education discourses in the UK.  Embedded in a social constructionist paradigm, a process-relational stance is taken to entrepreneurship, which recognises the dynamic and emergent processes through which business opportunities are realized and constructed in the context of social interactions with numerous stakeholders.  The social constructionist position, in which this research is grounded, calls for the need to understand human experiences in their socio-cultural context, with an acknowledgement of human agency and active perceptual constructions of people in a society.  Nascent entrepreneurs’ biographies, motivations and capitals that they hold are examined at the micro-individual level, combined with meso-level considerations including social processes of business venturing.  The research also analyses how these micro-individual and meso-relational processes relate to macro-field forces of enterprise culture, moving beyond an individual or team understanding of nascent entrepreneurship. This research is premised on an empirical investigation of three cases of the business venturing process.  The first case pertains to the formation of a creative venture (i.e. brand communications agency, which uniquely includes in-house production of advertising vehicles with marketing strategy business) by a team of five nascent entrepreneurs, who set up the company outside the local university’s incubator centre while they were students in different areas of Arts, Design and Technology at the local university.  The second case account is about a solo entrepreneur’s business venturing story, which is characterised by a venturing process supported by the local university’s incubator centre.  The final venturing case represents a slightly different account in the sense that it is about a business venturing process led by a nascent corporate entrepreneur in collaboration with and support from the parent company, which acted as an incubator.</p

Higher-Order Jacobsthal–Lucas Quaternions

In this work, we define higher-order Jacobsthal–Lucas quaternions with the help of higher-order Jacobsthal–Lucas numbers. We examine some identities of higher-order Jacobsthal–Lucas quaternions. We introduce their basic definitions and properties. We give Binet’s formula, Cassini’s identity, Catalan’s identity, d’Ocagne identity, generating functions, and exponential generating functions of the higher-order Jacobsthal–Lucas quaternions. We also give some relations between higher-order Jacobsthal and Jacobsthal–Lucas quaternions