Yağış miktarındaki azalmalar ve
sıcaklıktaki yükselmeler kuraklığın oluşumundaki önemli faktörlerdendir.
Kuraklık gerek insanlar için gerekse ekolojik denge için birçok olumsuz etkiyi
de beraberinde ...getirmektedir. Bitki örtüsünün azalması, tarım ürünlerinden elde
edilen verimin düşmesi ve temiz su kaynaklarının azalması kuraklığın olumsuz
etkilerindendir. Bu
çalışmada, kuraklığın hissedildiği bölgelerden biri olan Çukurova Havzası’nda
kuraklık tahmini yapılmıştır. Bunun için havzada bulunan farklı meteoroloji
istasyonlarına ait aylık ortalama yağış verileri kullanılarak Standart Yağış
İndisi (SYİ) yöntemiyle kuraklık analizi yapılmıştır. Analiz sonucunda elde
edilen SYİ değerleri kullanılarak Uyarlanabilir Ağ Tabanlı Bulanık Çıkarım
Sistemi (ANFIS) yöntemi ile modeller geliştirilmiştir. Geliştirilen modeller
içerisinde en uygun sonuçlar 9- aylık SYİ değerleri kullanılarak geliştirilen ANFIS
modelinde elde edilmiştir ve bu modelin kullanılabilir olduğu görülmüştür.
Decreases in the amount of
precipitation and increases in temperature values are important factors in the
formation of drought. Drought has many negative effects for both human and
ecological balance. The decrease of vegetation, the yield obtained from
agricultural products and clean water resources are among the negative effects of
drought. In this study, drought estimation
was made in Çukurova Basin, which is one of the regions of drought. For this
purpose, drought analysis was performed by the Standard Precipitation Index
(SPI) method using the monthly average precipitation data of different
meteorological stations in the basin. Models were developed with Adaptive Neuro
Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) by using the SPI values obtained from the
drought analysis. Among the developed models, the best results were obtained in
the ANFIS model developed using the 9-month SPI values and it was shown that
the developed model was usable.
Aim: Patients with food allergy and their families have poor quality of life, anxiety, depression, and stress compared to healthy individuals, and the Caregiver Burden is high in the parents. In our ...study, it was aimed to evaluate the anxiety disorder that may accompany the mothers of food allergic patients aged 0-2 years, and to examine the Caregiver Burden in the mothers of food allergic patients.
Materials and Methods: A questionnaire about sociodemographic data, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), Psychological Symptom Checklist (SCL 90-R), and Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale were administered to the mothers of food-allergic children aged 0-2 years and the mothers of healthy children (MHC) as the control group.
Results: Sixty seven mothers of children with food allergy and 74 MHC were enrolled in the study. Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale was significantly higher in the mothers of children with food allergy than in the MHC (p=0.018). Mothers of food allergic children had a significantly higher overall score on the general SCL 90-R scale (p=0.045). While the hospital anxiety scale score was significantly higher in the mothers of children with a food allergy, there was no difference in the HADS (p=0.045, p=0.825, respectively).
Conclusion: Evaluation of mothers’ emotional status such as burden, anxiety, and depression and coping with food allergy strategies can be neglected. Therefore, the requirement of psychosocial support for the mothers of children with food allergy, especially in the young age group, should be evaluated and provided when necessary.
Objective: The prevalence of rare factor deficiency (RFD) is one in 500.000-2.000.000 in the general population. Different symptoms may occur from mild or moderate bleeding to severe and ...life-threatening bleeding. This study aimed to evaluate children with RFD in a single Turkish center.
Materials and Methods: The records of children with RFD (Factor I, V, VII, X, XIII deficiency) were evaluated retrospectively.
Results: Twenty-three cases (70% female) were reviewed. The mean age of patients was 9.52 years at review, and mean follow-up was 66.3 months. The most common factor (F) deficiencies were FVII (35%) and FX (35%). Parental consanguinity was present in 65%. The most common symptoms were mucocutaneous bleeding and epistaxis. Regarding treatment, fresh frozen plasma (FFP) was given to two patients, FXIII concentrate was given to one patient, and prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC) was given to two patients. Prophylaxis was started in patients with recurrent bleeding. Of the 16 receiving prophylaxis, three received FFP, seven received recombinant coagulation factor VIIa, and six received PCC.
Conclusion: Treatment was given to a fifth of patients while nearly three-quarters received prophylaxis. As parental consanguinity was present in most of these patients, obtaining a detailed family history may aid in diagnosis.
Amaç: Nadir faktör eksikliğinin (NFE) prevalansı genel popülasyonda 500,000-2,000,000'de birdir. Hafif veya orta dereceli kanamalardan şiddetli ve hayatı tehdit eden kanamalara kadar farklı semptomlar ortaya çıkabilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı tek bir Türk merkezinde RFD'li çocukları değerlendirmektir.
Materyal ve Metot: Nadir faktör eksikliği (Faktör I, V, VII, X, XIII eksikliği) olan çocukların kayıtları retrospektif olarak değerlendirildi.
Bulgular: Yirmi üç olgu (%70 kadın) retrospektif olarak incelendi. İnceleme sırasında hastaların ortalama yaşı 9.52 idi ve ortalama takip süresi 66.3 aydı. En yaygın faktör (F) eksiklikleri FVII (%35) ve FX (%35) idi. Anne baba akrabalığı %65 oranında mevcuttu. En sık görülen semptomlar mukokutanöz kanama ve epistaksis idi. Tedavi açısından iki hastaya taze donmuş plazma (TDP), bir hastaya FXIII konsantresi, iki hastaya protrombin kompleks konsantresi (PCC) verildi. Tekrarlayan kanaması olan hastalara profilaksi başlandı. Profilaksi alan 16 kişiden üçü TDP, yedisi rekombinant pıhtılaşma faktörü VIIa ve altısı PCC aldı.
Sonuç: Hastaların beşte birine tedavi verilirken, yaklaşık dörtte üçüne profilaksi uygulandı. Bu hastaların büyük çoğunluğunda anne baba akrabalığı mevcut olduğundan ayrıntılı aile öyküsünün alınması tanıya yardımcı olabilir.
Drought Estimation of Çanakkale with Data Mining TERZİ, Özlem; TAYLAN, Emine Dilek; ÖZCANOĞLU, Onur ...
Düzce Üniversitesi bilim ve teknoloji dergisi (Online),
01/2019, Volume:
7, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Drought estimation is important considering the harmful effects of the climate change in recent years. In this
study, various models are developed with data mining technique for the drought ...estimation of Çanakkale,
Turkey. Standardized precipitation index (SPI) values for 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 months are calculated using the
precipitation data of Çanakkale, Gökçeada and Bozcaada stations. The calculated SPI values of Gökçeada and
Bozcaada are used as input parameters in developing data mining models with different algorithms. Examining
the model results, it is observed that data mining technique is effective in drought estimation.
Son yıllardaki iklim değişikliğinin zararlı etkileri göz önüne alındığında kuraklık tahmini oldukça önemlidir. Bu
çalışmada, Çanakkale iline ait kuraklık tahmini için veri madenciliği ile modeller geliştirilmiştir. Çanakkale,
Gökçeada ve Bozcaada yağış istasyonlarına ait yağış verileri ile 3, 6, 9, 12 ve 24 aylık standart yağış indeksi
(SYİ) değerleri hesaplanmıştır. Hesaplanan Gökçeada ve Bozcaada’nın SYİ değerleri veri madenciliği
modellerinde girdi olarak kullanılmıştır ve farklı algoritmalar ile modeller geliştirilmiştir. Model sonuçları,
hesaplanan SYİ değerleri ile karşılaştırıldığında, veri madenciliği yönteminin kuraklık tahmininde iyi sonuçlar
verdiği gözlemlemiştir.
This study aims to investigate leaching characteristics of zinc slag according to leaching tests, including; TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure), SPLP (Synthetic Precipitation Leaching ...Procedure), ASTM-D3987 (American Society for Testing and Materials), and TS EN-12457-4 (Turkish Standards Institute) tests methods. The present study describes the adsorption potential of natural and biochar walnut shells for removing ions from the zinc leachate. TCLP leachate, with a value of 38.575 mg/L, has a high zinc (Zn
+2
) concentration compared to other methods. Therefore, TCLP leachate was used in the adsorption experiments. Adsorption experiments were carried out at different adsorbent dosages, pH values, and contact time conditions. In the dosage study, the highest removal efficiency was obtained as 84% and 92% in natural and biochar walnut shell adsorbents, respectively. As a result of pH study, it was observed that adsorption under alkaline conditions had a much higher removal efficiency. Moreover, adsorption studies performed against contact time were applied to four different kinetic models and both adsorbents were found to be fit with the pseudo-second-order model. This kinetic model showed that the Zn
+2
adsorption mechanism of natural and biochar walnut shells is chemical adsorption. With this study, it was shown that a very high 96% zinc removal can be achieved under optimum adsorption conditions. This may be the first study of zinc removal after leaching from industrial slag in the literature. This study has shown that high removal efficiencies can be obtained by an economical adsorbent.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge of anesthesiology specialists and residents in Turkey about COVID-19 and their ...attitudes toward the strategies and application methods to be used for a suspected/confirmed COVID-19 case that needs to be operated on or followed up in an intensive care unit, as well as to raise awareness about this issue.
This descriptive study comprised anesthesiology specialists and residents working in various health institutions in Turkey. The data used in this study were obtained online between March 13, 2020 and March 25, 2020 through the website SurveyMonkey (SurveyMonkey, San Mateo, CA) by using a survey form. We contacted members of the Turkish Anaesthesiology and Reanimation Society through the social media platforms Twitter, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp, as well as through their e-mail addresses and invited them to participate in the study. Those who agreed to participate responded to the aforementioned survey. We used SPSS 22.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY) to analyze the survey data statistically.
A total of 346 anesthesiology specialists and residents participated in the study. Although the majority of the participants exhibited the correct attitudes toward airway management, research assistants with little professional experience were observed to be undecided or had the tendency to make incorrect decisions.
The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly worldwide. The incidence of COVID-19 cases is increasing daily, and this disease can cause patient death. Anesthesiology specialists and residents who perform emergency operations on these patients in settings other than intensive care units should follow simple and easy-to-understand algorithms to ensure safety. The provision of theoretical and practical training to healthcare providers before they meet patients will help ensure patient-healthcare provider safety and prevent panic, which can cause distress among healthcare providers.
Objectives
Childhood obesity has become a global threat due to its serious negative consequences. We aimed to determine the patterns of metabolic syndrome and cardio-metabolic risk factors in Turkish ...children with obesity.
Methods
We examined 169 schoolchildren with obesity in April and May 2019 in Samsun, Turkey. After clinical evaluation and anthropometric measurements, fasting blood samples were collected to measure total cholesterol, low and high-density lipoprotein, fasting blood glucose, triglycerides, and insulin levels.
Results
The proportion of those who met the metabolic syndrome criteria in boys was 14.3%, but it was twice as high in girls (28.2%). The most prevalent component of cardio-metabolic risk factor was increased waist circumference (96.4%) followed by a high homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance index (74.6%) and high blood pressure (29.0%). While the average high-density lipoprotein was higher in boys than in girls, on the contrary, insulin, HbA1c, and homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance concentrations were higher in girls. The prevalence of dyslipidemia was also higher in girls (67.1%) than in boys (47.6%), as were all impaired metabolic syndrome components.
Conclusions
One in five children with obesity was at risk of metabolic syndrome. For early intervention and prevention, children with obesity should be monitored in terms of cardio-metabolic risk factors, but obese girls are more prioritized.
Introduction
Identifying risk factors is important in intervening in suicide, which is a preventable cause of death in adolescents. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of ...suicidal ideation and risk factors for suicidal thought in high school students aged 15–18 years.
Methods
The data were obtained from questionnaire forms administered to 2438 high school students aged 15–18 years. Risk factors that might be associated with suicidal thought were identified using logistic regression analysis.
Results
The prevalence of suicidal ideation in adolescents in the last 12 months was 17.9%. Being female OR 1.95, (CI 95% 1.47–2.59), use of alcohol OR 2.44, (CI 95% 1.63–3.68) and addictive drugs OR 1.78, (CI 95% 1.07–2.97), being in physical fights OR 1.76, (CI 95% 1.34–2.32), having no close friends OR 2.17, (CI 95% 1.34–3.52), bullying(victimization) OR 1.99, (CI 95% 1.43–2.77), and other psychosocial distress were significant risk factors in the development of suicidal ideation.
Conclusions
Solutions for decreasing risky behaviors for health, particularly the use of alcohol and addictive drugs, prevention of violence between peers, and strengthening of social relationships, must be developed.
Tremendous physical and psychological pressure has been placed on health care workers because of the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019. This study aimed to examine the anxiety and depression ...levels and related factors among health care professionals working in operating theaters (anesthetic technicians and nurses) during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
The universe of this descriptive study consisted of health care professionals working in operating theaters in various health care institutions in Turkey.
Data were collected online between April 9, 2020 and April 12, 2020 using a SurveyMonkey Questionnaire (SurveyMonkey, San Mateo, CA) and health care workers who volunteered to participate in the study were contacted via the social media platforms Twitter, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp and asked to answer the questionnaire. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS version 22.0 software.
A total of 702 health care professionals working in operating theaters participated in the study. The mean depression and anxiety scores of the participants were found to be 9.4 ± 4.6 (min 0 to max 21) and 10.0 ± 4.5 (min 0 to max 21), respectively. Depression scores were statistically significantly higher among females, single individuals, those who had children, those living with a person aged 60 years or older (P < .05). Meanwhile, anxiety scores were statistically significantly higher among females, single individuals (including widowed and divorced), university graduates, those with at least one chronic disease, and those whose workload increased (P < .05).
The present study showed that anxiety and depression symptoms were high among health care professionals working in operating theaters. To reduce these symptoms, psychological conditions of health care professionals can be followed continuously and regularly via standard procedures, and necessary interventions can be provided in the early period.
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