FAMILIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN IN TURKEY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic period, distance education is attempted at all levels of education in Turkey and the world. The present study examines how the education process is shaped during the Covid-19 period for children with special needs and their families. The case study design was implemented as a qualitative research method. The study group sample was composed of 11 parents who reside in various districts of the city of İstanbul and who have children with special needs attending special education rehabilitation centers. The interviews conducted in the scope of the study showed that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic process on children with special needs had behavioral and social-emotional reflections. Behavioral problems and reflections in behavioral difficulties in children with special needs were observed as a disability in comprehension due to developmental issues, hypermobility, and pandemic period's positive influence. In terms of reflections of social-emotional problems, children with special needs experience shyness due to being ridiculed. The study concluded that children feel the need to go out of their home and feel fear/anxiety and longing for the family to move to another city. The research results showed that children could not perform activities due to boredom, screen addiction, and missing friends. Interviews suggested that the Covid-19 process created specific needs and problems for parents and social-emotional reflections. Problems experienced by the families were determined as health problems, inability to spare time for other siblings, conflict between spouses, distress due to not being able to go out, mother being the only parent responsible for child- care, financial difficulties and tconflict between spouses, distress due to going out, mother being the only parent responsible, and financial difficulties. It is concluded that the needs of the family are one-to-one education, educational content, educational material, psychological support and educational guidance. Overall results of the study suggest that necessary measures need to be taken to ensure that children with special needs receive one-to-one educatio

Screening for Alzheimer's disease using prefrontal resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy

IntroductionAlzheimer's disease (AD) is neurodegenerative dementia that causes neurovascular dysfunction and cognitive impairment. Currently, 50 million people live with dementia worldwide, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year. There is a need for relatively less costly and more objective methods of screening and early diagnosis. MethodsFunctional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) systems are a promising solution for the early Detection of AD. For a practical clinically relevant system, a smaller number of optimally placed channels are clearly preferable. In this study, we investigated the number and locations of the best-performing fNIRS channels measuring prefrontal cortex activations. Twenty-one subjects diagnosed with AD and eighteen healthy controls were recruited for the study. ResultsWe have shown that resting-state fNIRS recordings from a small number of prefrontal locations provide a promising methodology for detecting AD and monitoring its progression. A high-density continuous-wave fNIRS system was first used to verify the relatively lower hemodynamic activity in the prefrontal cortical areas observed in patients with AD. By using the episode averaged standard deviation of the oxyhemoglobin concentration changes as features that were fed into a Support Vector Machine; we then showed that the accuracy of subsets of optical channels in predicting the presence and severity of AD was significantly above chance. The results suggest that AD can be detected with a 0.76 sensitivity score and a 0.68 specificity score while the severity of AD could be detected with a 0.75 sensitivity score and a 0.72 specificity score with <= 5 channels. DiscussionThese scores suggest that fNIRS is a viable technology for conveniently detecting and monitoring AD as well as investigating underlying mechanisms of disease progression

Model-based testing in practice: An experience report from the web applications domain

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TİCARET MESLEK LİSELERİNDE OKUTULMAKTA OLAN BİLGİSAYAR DERSİ EĞİTİMİNİN VERİMLİLİĞİNİ ETKİLEYEN FAKTÖRLER

Arastırmada Ticaret Meslek Liselerinde okutulmakta olan bilgisayar dersi egitiminin verimliligini etkileyen faktörler incelenmistir. Arastırmanın evrenini Ankara'da bulunan Ticaret Meslek Liseleri ve Anadolu Ticaret Meslek Liselerindeki bilgisayar dersi egitimi veren ögretmenler ve bu okullara devam eden ögrenciler olusturmaktadır. Örneklem olarak Ankara ili sınırları içerisinde yer alan toplam 19 Ticaret Meslek Lisesinde görevli bilgisayar ögretmenleri ve bu okullara devam eden ögrenciler alınmıstır. Ankara ilinde 108 bilgisayar dersi egitimi veren ögretmene ve bu okullara devam eden 320 ögrenciye anket uygulanmıstır. Anketten elde edilen verilerin analizi için SPSS istatistik analiz programı kullanılmıstır. Arastırma ile Ticaret Meslek Liselerinde bilgisayar egitimini etkileyen faktörler; okul, ögretmen, ögrenci, ders programı, yönetim, bina, araç-gereç ve çevre unsurları dikkate alınmıstır. Bahse konu faktörler anketler vasıtasıyla degerlendirilmistir. Arastırma sonucunda, bilgisayar ögretmeni sayılarının yetersiz oldugu anlasılmıstır. Bilgisayar dersi egitimi için meslek dersi ögretmenlerinin kendilerini gelistirmek için hizmet içi kurslara katıldıgı fakat bunun yeterli olmadıgı tespit edilmistir. Ögrencilere yapılan ankete göre ögrencilerin çogunlugunun okula kendi isteklerinden çok velilerin istekleri ile kayıt yaptırdıgı, bunun genel bir memnuniyetsizlige sebep oldugu tespit edilmistir. Ögrencilerin büyük çogunlugunun bilgisayar egitimi için hazırlıksız geldigi anlasılmıstır. Ticaret Meslek Liselerine kayıt yaptıran ögrencilerin diploma notlarının genelde düsük oldugu görülmüstür. Bütün bunların yanında çevre faktörünün de bilgisayar egitimin verimliliginde olumlu-olumsuz etkilerinin oldugu ortaya çıkmıstır.The factors that effect the success of the computer lesson being tayoht at trade and accupation high scholls are examined in the reseach. The sesearch consists of the students and teachers who are at the trade and occupation high scholls and Anatolian Trade and occupation High scholls in Ankara. For instance, students and teachers at 19 trade and occupation high schools attending to the computer lesson are examinedin ths research. A questionnare is performed on 108 computer lesson teachers and 320 students who take this computer lesson in the city Ankara. The SPSS statistics analysis program is used tu analyse the results of the research. It is taken in to consideration from the rerearch that the factors effecting the success of the computer lesson at trade and occupation high schools are such as school itself, teacher, student, lesson, program, management, building, education tools and environment. The factors mentioned abowe are evaluated by the results of the wuestionstires performed. At the end of the research, it is pointed teht the number of the computer lesson teachers is not sufficient. It is sorted out that the teacher's effort to develop their sills is not sufficient as well. It is decided that the students are under the family pressure to chpose their future schools lifes which leads to their dissatisfaction in the computer lesson. Most of the students do not seem to have enouht pre-learning about the computer lesson. It is pointed out that the diploma grades of most students are gereally low. Besides all of these, environmental factors are seen to be both positively and nefatively effective in the success of the computer lesson education

Evaluating the effects of different slab types on static and dynamic characteristics of structures

In this study, the effect of different types of slabs on dynamic characteristics of structures under the lateral loading was investigated. For this purpose, four different types of slabs namely, beamed slab, flat slab, one way ribbed (hollow core) slab and waffle slab have been modeled in buildings having 3, 4 and 5 storeys with the same geometric dimensions, in accordance to design and construction requirements (TS 500) and Turkish building seismic codes (TBDY, 2018). Seismic analysis calculations of the modeled buildings were done using the equivalent seismic load method. The assumed local soil class was taken from the geotechnical report as ZD. As a result of the analysis, natural periods, base shear forces, maximum horizontal displacements and relative storey drifts of the buildings were compared. Seismic analysis and calculations of the buildings were completed using SAP2000 finite element software

A comparative bus selection for intercity transportation with an integrated PIPRECIA &amp;amp; COPRAS-G

AbstractThe selection of buses for intercity transportation takes an important place for each stakeholder. Since this selection problem may contain many conflicting criteria and many alternatives, it should be considered a multi-criteria decision-making problem (MCDM). In this study, three brands of bus manufacturer preferred in Turkey are evaluated in terms of ten different criteria by considering both bus drivers' and bus owners' preferences as an MCDM problem. The PIPRECIA method is used to calculate criterion weights, and COPRAS-G is used to rank bus brands. The study was conducted separately for two bus drivers and two bus owners in order to reveal whether there is a preference difference. According to the preferences of bus owners, Maximum Torq is found out as the first criterion with the highest weight (0.153) while for bus drivers, the first criterion is Common Spare Parts with 0.1172&nbsp;weight. Although the importance levels of the criteria differ according to the results obtained in the criterion evaluation stage, it has been concluded that the rankings of the brands do not make a difference in terms of the evaluation of bus drivers and owners. As a result, the rankings of bus manufacturers are obtained as Mercedes-Benz Travego, Man Lions Coach, Temsa Maraton model respectively. From a general point of view, this study will attract attention in revealing the stakeholder perception among the alternatives in the passenger bus market used in intercity transportation in Turkey from both the bus owner's and the driver's point of view.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X22000645</div

An Integrated PIPRECIA and COPRAS Method under Fuzzy Environment: A Case of Truck Tractor Selection

https://doi.org/10.17093/alphanumeric.1005970&nbsp;Cited By: 2AbstractSelecting the right truck tractor is critical for logistics companies involved in road freight transportation. The fact that having many conflicting criteria and many alternatives complicates the decision-making process for the decision-makers (DMs). The determination of the criteria that are effective in the selection of truck tractors and then the evaluation of the alternatives are the main objectives of this study. In this context, a hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) model composed of Fuzzy PIPRECIA (F-PIPRECIA) and Fuzzy COPRAS (F-COPRAS) methods is proposed to be used in the selection of truck tractors. In the related literature, no studies that applied F-PIPRECIA and F-COPRAS together to determine the best truck tractor have been published yet. In this regard, this study is thought to contribute to the literature both in terms of the methods used and the application of truck tractor selection. Moreover, the findings of this study will pave the way for those who conduct academic studies and the authorities of companies involved in road transport in the logistics sector.KeywordsTruck Tractor Selection,&nbsp;F-PIPRECIA,&nbsp;F-COPRAS,&nbsp;MCDM</div