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Reflections on the International Noise Awareness Day 2023 activities
(Society of Acoustics, 2024) Şaher, Konca; Dümen, Ayça Şentop; Sezgin, Hakika; Nas, Sezin; Kelle, Dilara; Demiral, Yücel
This paper presents an overview of the experiences and outcomes derived from the activities organized for International Noise Awareness Day 2023 in Turkey with the theme “Keep your hearing, keep your health”. Collaboratively organized by Turkish Acoustical Society, and Occupational Hygienists Society, the initiatives aimed to explore the role of sound in educational facilities, with a particular focus on the perspectives of students and teachers. These activities were a student drawing competition, an online International Symposium, a research project titled "Assessment of Acoustic Conditions in Schools and Health Effects on School," and an "Acoustics Workshop in Educational Buildings" conducted at the Izmir BLX Acoustics Laboratory. Drawing from our experiences and findings, we highlight the significance of actively involving researchers, acoustic consultants, occupational hygienists, teachers, students, and designers in such endeavours. Our findings indicate that inclusive approaches not only boost public engagement but also enhance awareness of behavioural, emotional, educational, administrative and design aspects related to sound. By promoting collaboration and participation in knowledge exchange, such activities significantly improve understanding of sound-related issues in schools.
Istanbul at the threshold of nation state: allied occupation, national resistance, and political conflict, 1918-1923
(Berghahn Books, 2024) Ülker, Erol
During the formation of the Turkish national movement, while Istanbul was under British, French, and Italian occupation, a distinct factional split emerged. One side supported the Ottoman sultanate’s sovereignty, while the other championed a populist, republican path. An Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State contextualizes this history of coalition, political disintegration, and power struggles in Turkey between 1918 and 1923 to highlight the rise of anti-communist movements and the emergence of national labor and merchant confederations that formed xenophobic, Christian exclusionary policies in the 1920s and 30s.
Evaluation of thermal insulation and air permeability of needle-punched nonwovens recycled from waste pantyhose
(Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2024) Sezgin, Hande; Yalçın Eniş, İpek; Maral, Hıdır
Waste amount in the textile industry is rising in tandem with rising production and consumption levels. Reusing waste is always the best option, but for some textile products, this isn't the case. A ruptured pair of pantyhose is among the one of the best examples. Due to their delicate structure, these products are easily punctured, so they are disposed of in solid waste sites after 2-3 times use. In this study, it is aimed to recycle these pantyhose waste (polyamide/elastane), and use it in the production of thermal panels, and to statistically examine the effects of varying thickness and elastane content on the thermal insulation and air permeability of this material. In order to create nonwoven structures with varying thicknesses and elastane ratios, the pantyhose wastes converted into fiber form and then into carded web by using a carding machine. Then, a needle punching technology is used for the web formation process. The Minitab software program is used to analyze changes in air permeability and thermal conductivity coefficient between the samples using a full factorial experimental design. The findings indicate that while both factors affected air permeability, only the changing thickness had a statistically significant impact on the thermal conductivity coefficient.
Quality or quantity? the role of human capital on sustainable growth
(IGI Global, 2024-10-03) İnanç, Özlem
This study examines the link between human capital and sustainable economic growth, highlighting the contradiction of rising university education without improved graduate employability in Turkiye from 2014 to 2023. It notes high unemployment among university graduates, indicating a disconnect between the skills provided by educational institutions and job market demands. The rapid growth in universities and graduates has not matched the increase in high-skilled job opportunities, leading to skill mismatches and underemployment, especially during economic downturns. The paper calls for a reassessment of educational strategies towards a quality-focused education that prioritizes practical skills and market needs, emphasizing university-industry collaborations to boost graduate employability and ensure higher education's role in fostering economic resilience and growth.
Innovation diffusion and technology acceptance theory
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01) Akaiso, Emmanuel
Innovation can be defined as the transformation of ideas, goals, visions, and dreams of invention into valuable goods and services for people to exchange for an amount of money. Something everyone on earth must experience is changing, and many people are too afraid to experience this. As a result, they never move ahead in life because they have allowed themselves to be captives of fear, allowing themselves to be unable to alter their circumstances. After the difficult experience of the past twenty-four months due to COVID-19, the eyes of everyone have been opened to how important change, adaptability, and flexibility are. Looking back, we can see that change is particularly important for everyone. That is exactly where innovation comes in (Stenberg 2016). To paraphrase Steve Jobs, innovation differentiates a leader from a follower.
Human risk assessment of heavy metals present in four motor park soils in Lagos State, Nigeria
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01) Akaiso, Emmanuel
The belief that heavies metal pollution is only gotten high intense industries is a common perception of people living in rural areas (Brown et al. 2003). In reality, nowadays, roadways and automobiles are considered to be one of the largest sources of heavy metals. Lead (Pb), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) are the most common heavy metals produced from automobiles. Small or little amounts of other metals like nickel and cadmium are found to originate from carparks, bus stops, the roadside, and automobile exhaust (Brown et al. 2003).
Inequality of income distribution and hopes for democratic consolidation in Nigeria
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01) Bamigboye, Oluwaseyi Mike
Given the experiences of many countries seemingly stuck between authoritarian and democratic systems, momentary success proved transient and failed to achieve consolidation (Tonta 2016). While factors such as legitimacy crisis, the rise of militant sub-nationalist agitations, ethnoreligious and identity conflicts, corruption, institutional failure, electoral crime and violence, insecurity, injustice, and political apathy pose challenges to the formation of political culture and have been heavily researched, the role of income inequality in the processes of democratic consolidation remains under-researched. This begs the question: Does income inequality expressed in weak economic growth, rising inflation, and high unemployment, especially among young people, have far-reaching implications for the survival of Nigeria’s democratic system? Using this West African country as a case study, the author argues that income inequality threatens democratic consolidation and tends to a regression into an authoritarian regime. The choice of Nigeria is informed by doubts which have repeatedly crystallized into debates on the likelihood of consolidation since its democratic transition in 1999.
Analysis of particulate matter in street dust of middle and eastern parts of Northern Cyprus
(CRC Press, 2024-01-01) Akaiso, Emmanuel
Air pollution is the negative shift and change in the composition of the environment comprising of gaseous components and particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter can either be coarse particles, fine particles, and ultrafine particles; the composition of particulate matter depends on the sources from which it came from (Li et al. 2018). Combustion sources such as traffic emission or residential heating produce carbonaceous particles, they are carbon based as they pull along organic chemicals such as reactive metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Desert dust and mineral dust from agriculture produce inorganic particles. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide (CO) are toxic gaseous pollutants that adds to the formation of particle from the complex atmospheric photochemical reactions, they are called secondary particles (Bourdrel et al. 2017).
Building annotated parallel corpora using the ATIS dataset: two UD-style treebanks in English and Turkish
(European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2024-05-20) Cesur, Neslihan; Kuzgun, Aslı; Köse, Mehmet; Yıldız, Olcay Taner
In this paper, we introduce the annotation process of the Air Travel Information Systems (ATIS) Dataset as a parallel treebank in English and in Turkish. The ATIS Dataset was originally compiled as pilot data to measure the efficiency of Spoken Language Systems and it comprises human speech transcriptions of people asking for flight information on the automated inquiry systems. Our first annotated treebank, which is in English, includes 61.879 tokens (5.432 sentences) while the second treebank, which was translated into Turkish, contains 45.875 tokens for the same amount of sentences. First, both treebanks were morphologically annotated through a semi-automatic process. Later, the dependency annotations were performed by a team of linguists according to the Universal Dependencies (UD) guidelines. These two parallel annotated treebanks provide a valuable contribution to language resources thanks to the spontaneous/spoken nature of the data and the availability of cross-linguistic dependency annotation.
Mental disorder and suicidal ideation detection from social media using deep neural networks
(Springer, 2024-12) Ezerceli, Özay; Dehkharghani, Rahim
Depression and suicidal ideation are global reasons for life-threatening injury and death. Mental disorders have increased especially among young people in recent years, and early detection of those cases can prevent suicide attempts. Social media platforms provide users with an anonymous space to interact with others, making them a secure environment to discuss their mental disorders. This paper proposes a solution to detect depression/suicidal ideation using natural language processing and deep learning techniques. We used Transformers and a unique model to train the proposed model and applied it to three diferent datasets: SuicideDetection, CEASEv2.0, and SWMH. The proposed model is evaluated using the accuracy, precision, recall, and ROC curve. The proposed model outperforms the state-of-theart in the SuicideDetection and CEASEv2.0 datasets, achieving F1 scores of 0.97 and 0.75, respectively. However, in the SWMH data set, the proposed model is 4% points behind the state-of-the-art precision providing the F1 score of 0.68. In the real world, this project could help psychologists in the early detection of depression and suicidal ideation for a more efcient treatment. The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance in two of the three datasets, so they could be used to develop a screening tool that could be used by mental health professionals or individuals to assess their own risk of suicide. This could lead to early intervention and treatment, which could save lives.
Best proximity point theorems in non-Archimedean Menger probabilistic spaces
(University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, 2024) Karaaslan, Arife Aysun; Karakaya, Vatan
In this work, we prove best proximity point theorems for γ-contractions with conditions the weak P-property in non-Archimedean Menger probabilistic metric spaces. We give the notion of γ- proximal contractions of first and second type in non-Archimedean Menger probabilistic metric spaces and also we establish best proximity point theorems for these proximal contractions. Lastly, we complete our study by giving examples that support our results.
Higher analogues of discrete topological complexity
(Springer-Verlag Italia S.R.L., 2024-06-13) Alabay, Hilal; Borat, Ayşe; Cihangirli, Esra; Erdal, Esma Dirican
In this paper, we introduce the nth discrete topological complexity and study its properties such as its relation with simplicial Lusternik–Schnirelmann category and how the higher dimensions of discrete topological complexity relate with each other. Moreover, we find a lower bound of n-th discrete topological complexity which is given by the nth usual topological complexity of the geometric realisation of that complex. Furthermore, we give an example for the strict case of that lower bound.
Text-to-SQL: a methodical review of challenges and models
(TÜBİTAK, 2024-05-20) Kanburoğlu, Ali Buğra; Tek, Faik Boray
This survey focuses on Text-to-SQL, automated translation of natural language queries into SQL queries. Initially, we describe the problem and its main challenges. Then, by following the PRISMA systematic review methodology, we survey the existing Text-to-SQL review papers in the literature. We apply the same method to extract proposed Text-to-SQL models and classify them with respect to used evaluation metrics and benchmarks. We highlight the accuracies achieved by various models on Text-to-SQL datasets and discuss execution-guided evaluation strategies. We present insights into model training times and implementations of different models. We also explore the availability of Text-to-SQL datasets in non-English languages. Additionally, we focus on large language model (LLM) based approaches for the Text-to-SQL task, where we examine LLM-based studies in the literature and subsequently evaluate the LLMs on the cross-domain Spider dataset. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of future directions for Text-to-SQL research, identifying potential areas of improvement and advancements in this field.
Preserving ecclesiastical cultural heritage of thrace: a needs analysis for digital recording in monasteries and temples
(MDPI, 2025-02) Stamou, Aikaterini; Nassis, Fr Chrysostomos; Chrysafi, Eleni; Sylaiou, Stella; Kaya, Güldehen; Şarlak, Evangelia; Ribolov, Svet; Karavaltchev, Ventzislav; Constantinides, Argyris; Belk, Marios; Stylianidis, Efstratios
Cultural heritage is a common good passed down as a legacy from previous to future generations. Its preservation is a strong commitment to humanity. The main motivation for this project is based on this understanding and arose from the need for the proper and scientifically documented recording of cultural heritage (CH), both movable and immovable monuments of ecclesiastical cultural treasures. Despite its significance, the systematic documentation of ecclesiastical heritage remains fragmented, lacking a standardized and scientifically driven approach. This research addresses this critical gap by developing a structured methodology for the recording, organization, and digital archiving of ecclesiastical CH monuments. This was accomplished by codifying the actual recording and documentation needs for the ecclesiastical cultural treasures, with the systematic study of the users’ needs. The study focused on the region of Thrace, encompassing areas of Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, where post-Byzantine ecclesiastical treasures are expected to be in abundance. Through the design and implementation of surveys and metadata collection, this project has the capacity to facilitate digital transformation across the interconnected fields of religion, arts, and CH. Stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, both within and outside the clergy community, including owners and end-users connected to ecclesiastical cultural treasures, were actively involved in the process. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the vital role of building distance communication channels and promoting digital transformation across the interconnected fields of religion and cultural heritage. Our emphasis was to actively engage stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to create a practical, user-friendly documentation tool that meets their actual needs.
A hierarchical key assignment scheme: a unified approach for ccalability and efficiency
(IEEE, 2024-05-24) Çelikbilek, İbrahim; Çeliktaş, Barış; Özdemir, Enver
This study introduces a hierarchical key assignment scheme (HKAS) based on the closest vector problem in an inner product space (CVP-IPS). The proposed scheme offers a comprehensive solution with scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and high performance. The key features of the scheme include CVP-IPS based construction, the utilization of two public keys by the scheme, a distinct basis set designated for each class, a direct access scheme to enhance user convenience, and a rigorous mathematical and algorithmic presentation of all processes. This scheme eliminates the need for top-down structures and offers a significant benefit in that the lengths of the basis sets defined for classes are the same and the costs associated with key derivation are the same for all classes, unlike top-down approaches, where the higher class in the hierarchy generally incurs much higher costs. The scheme excels in both vertical and horizontal scalability due to its utilization of the access graph and is formally proven to achieve strong key indistinguishability security (S-KI-security). This research represents a significant advancement in HKAS systems, providing tangible benefits and improved security for a wide range of use cases.
An Inverse recursive algorithm to retrieve the shape of the inaccessible dielectric objects
(Ramazan YAMAN, 2024-10-16) Sefer, Ahmet
A regularized electromagnetic iterative inverse algorithm is formulated and im-plemented to reconstruct the shape of 2D dielectric objects using the far-fieldpattern of the scattered field data. To achieve this, an integral operator thatmaps the unknown boundary of the object onto the far-field pattern of thescattered field is defined and solved for the unknown boundary. The addressedinverse problem has an ill-posed nature and inherits nonlinearity. To over-come these, the proposed solution is linearized via Newton and regularized byTikhonov in the sense of least squares. Besides, the dominance of the shadowregion in the inverse-imaging process is exceeded by considering the superpo-sition of multi-incoming plane waves, leading to less computational cost and avery fast inversion process. Comprehensive numerical analyses are carried outto ascertain the algorithm’s feasibility, revealing that it is very efficient andpromising.
Uzaktan nöropsikolojik değerlendirme: telenöropsikoloji
(BAYT Yayıncılık, 2024-05-25) Yıldırım, Elif; Soncu Büyükişcan, Ezgi; Akça Kalem, Şükriye; Gürvit, İ. Hakan
Amaç: Nöropsikolojik testlerin hastalara uzaktan, telefon ve videokonferans aracılığı ile yapılan uygulamalarını içeren telenöropsikoloji, uzakta yaşayan ya da hareket kısıtlılığı bulunan hastaların sağlık hizmetlerine ulaşım imkânını genişletebilmektedir. Covid-19 pandemisinin ortaya çıkması ile kognitif değerlendirmelerde telenöropsikoloji kullanımı önemli bir artış göstermiştir. Bu derlemede telenöropsikoloji ile ilgili yapılan çalışmaların sonuçlarının ve telenöropsikolojik değerlendirme ile ilgili temel esasların eleştirel bir şekilde gözden geçirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Buna ek olarak, bu derlemede Türkiye uygulamaları için geliştirilmiş “ev temelli telenöropsikoloji uygulama rehberi” genel hatları ile paylaşılmıştır. Yöntem: Web of Science ve Pubmed veri tabanları kullanılarak konu ile ilgili erişilebilen tüm makale türlerini kapsayan bir şekilde literatür taraması yapılmıştır. Bulgular: Klinik temelli ve ev temelli telenöropsikolojik değerlendirme ile ilgili çalışmaların sonuçları dikkat, bellek, yürütücü işlevler ve dil gibi kognitif işlevleri değerlendiren ve özellikle sözel uygulamaya dayanan nöropsikolojik testlerin telenöropsikolojik değerlendirmede güvenilir bir şekilde uygulanabileceğini göstermektedir. Fakat telenöropsikolojik değerlendirmeye alınacak hastaların yönlendirilmesinde, değerlendirmede kullanılacak testlerin seçiminde ve etik konularda dikkat edilmesi gereken unsurlar bulunmaktadır. Buna ek olarak, telenöropsikolojik değerlendirmenin etkili bir şekilde yürütülmesi için görüşme öncesinde ve sırasında hem klinisyenin hem de hasta ve/veya hasta yakınının uygulanması önerilen adımların takip edilmesi önemlidir. Sonuç: Her ne kadar klinik nöropsikoloji pratiğinde hasta ile doğrudan temas kurmak önemli bir unsur olsa da gerekli durumlarda ve yetkin uzmanlar tarafından uygun uygulama prosedürleri takip edilerek yapılan telenöropsikolojik değerlendirmeler yüz yüze değerlendirmeler için iyi bir alternatif olabilir.
Assessing the mediating relationships between psychological factors in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024-04) İnci İzmir, Sevim Berrin; Aktan, Zekeriya Deniz; Ercan, Eyüp Sabri
This study aims to investigate the predictive and mediating relationships between emotion dysregulation, internalizing disorders, family functionality, loneliness preference, and executive functions (EF) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome (ADHD + CDS). This study included 176 children and adolescents (92 boys, 84 girls) who were diagnosed with ADHD + CDS according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Fifth Edition criteria by a fellowship-trained child and adolescent psychiatrist, between ages 8 -12 (M = 10, SD = 1.52) with a convenience sampling method. The solitude scale for children, difficulties in emotion dysregulation scale, Child Behavior Checklist, Barkley Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Scale, Family assessment device, and CNS Vital Signs test were used. The results showed that difficulty in emotion regulation, preference for loneliness, internalizing disorders and CDS symptom severity did not have a mediating effect between family functionality and EF. Still, emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between EF and internalizing disorders by itself and through loneliness preference. Also, preference for loneliness and emotion dysregulation had a mediating effect between family functionality and internalizing disorders. Finally, it was found that the effect of emotion regulation difficulty, loneliness preference, and internalizing disorders had a mediating role between CDS symptom severity and family functionality. In conclusion, the information obtained from this study on the etiology of CDS may guide future studies.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online grocery supply chain management: a case study in Istanbul
(Gazi Üniversitesi, 2024-03) Javadi, Sonya; Keten, Olcay; Özer, Ali İhsan; Alkan, Remziye Zeynep
The COVID-19 pandemic has already crippled normal life all over the world. Its negative impact not only changed the human health system tragically but also disrupted the global economic system. One negative result was ended up in the global food supply chain. As the lockdown times have suspended the manufacturing and logistic activities, therefore, the customers have experienced unimaginable chaos in the shopping markets. Moreover, the purchasing habit of the consumers has remarkably changed compared to pre-pandemic. To meet this new demand pattern, many grocery retailers have tried to adapt to the new normal. While before COVID-19 offline grocery purchasing was popular, after the pandemic, online service got tremendous attention in market. In this study, online grocery supply chain management during the COVID-19 in Istanbul is considered. The aim is to find out how online grocery companies will serve more efficiently during the pandemics and which factors have more effect on the customer’s satisfaction. To do so, first, three popular grocery retailers in Istanbul were selected. Then, a related survey was designed to understand the consumer experience as doing online grocery shopping in COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, a result shows that 60% of the respondents did online shopping every 3-4 days in one week, and the delivery time is the most important factor for the customers. Then, the SWOT analyses were performed accordingly, and the related strategies were summarized. Finally, several managerial implications were given to may improve the company’s online services in COVID-19 and post COVID-19 in Turkey.
Experiences from IYS 2020, public engagement and awareness activities in Turkey
(European Acoustics Association, 2023) Şaher, Konca; Sezgin, Hakika; Dümen, Ayça Şentop; Nas, Sezin; Kulak, Seda; Özçetin, Zuhal
The year 2020, which has been designated as the International Year of Sound with the intention of celebrating and promoting the importance of sound for science and society was ironically started as a silent and isolated year with the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, these unprecedented times and activities around the world, which explored the interaction between sound, technology and the society, presented sound experiences for humanity and the ecosystem that they have never had the opportunity to experience before. This study reports on the activities of Turkish Acoustical Society during these times and aims to draw attention to the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of the instruments for widening participation and spreading knowledge relating to sound. The main activities were public opinion survey on noise annoyance in dwellings before and during the pandemic, Turkish Glossary of Acoustic Terms, IYS Drawing and Composition Competition in Turkish schools and various seminars, interviews, podcast on social media channels. Our experience and findings suggest that designing and implementing activities that actively includes researchers, teachers, students and ordinary people may help increase public engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively, there by positively affecting awareness in sound related subjects.

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