Daily Problems Research Articles

Situated Products: Making Do in the Public Spaces of Istanbul

On the streets of Istanbul, inhabitants generate situated solutions to their daily problems with the limited means they have ready at hand. Objects are repaired, adapted, or modified, and everyday life brings palliative articulations and situated solutions to seemingly complex problems. With the conviction that design, especially the field of product design, can benefit from paying closer attention to such production, we have developed a growing inventory of situated and transformed products and materials, focusing on the surrounding culture we have labeled as halletmek. Conducting this research from within the design field was crucial for us. This, we believe, is the way to incorporate these products into the discourse of design, and thus to position the sample of sixty-seven objects, out of the many we examined, as design products. Through this inventory, we discuss how to position and make visible these site-specific design/production practices and the culture from which such situated products emerge.

Effects of a nurse–occupational therapist meeting on function and motivation in hospitalized elderly patients: A pilot randomized control trial

Introduction This pilot randomized controlled trial assessed the effectiveness of a nurse–occupational therapist meeting on improving motor and social-cognitive functions, as well as motivation, in a subacute hospital setting. Methods Participants were randomized to a weekly multidisciplinary team meeting group (‘control’, n = 20) or a nurse–occupational therapist meeting group (‘intervention’, n = 18). Medical care plans in both groups were discussed in the weekly meeting. In addition, the details of daily life problems for the intervention patients were discussed in the nurse–occupational therapist meeting. Outcome measures included motor and social-cognitive functions assessed by the Functional Independence Measure and motivation assessed by the Vitality Index. Assessment time points were at admission and discharge. Results In the intervention group, additional improvements were found in the Functional Independence Measure cognitive ( p = 0.048, r = 0.32) and the Vitality Index ( p = 0.027, r = 0.36), whereas the Functional Independence Measure motor was improved in both groups ( p ≤ 0.018, r ≥ 0.52). Conclusion We found significant improvement in motor function in both groups and additional improvements in social-cognitive function and motivation in the intervention group. These observations suggest that collaborative practice between nurses and occupational therapists could improve functions underlying independent daily life in hospitalized elderly patients.

The blog: facilitator tool for english teacher creators

Current world conditions require a teacher who is in permanent connectivity with the environment, due to their need to interact and communicate, and particularly to be listened to in the knowledge context, which includes their educational skills. In this article, we will deal with blogs in particular, because they enable connectivity, establishing relationships between teachers involved in a discussion group.
 This article tried to determine the effectiveness of the use of the blog with pedagogical purposes in this group, as it is an alternative that contributed to their condition of creators, giving answers to the multiple situations that were presented in a school context, especially when they were immersed in the school. The information presented in this research was collected by a discussion group organized in a blog, where their opinion and academic argument in teaching practice was expressed, as well as several scientific articles written by the researcher related to the issue of English teacher training.
 The results obtained in these narratives demonstrate the effectiveness of using a blog, when it becomes a vehicle to promote interaction between colleagues, giving the opportunity for discussion around daily problems, which, as new teachers, raise their interest, concern and attention. (150-200 words).

Determination of sleep and depression in elderly individuals with total knee replacement

Total diz protezi ameliyatı, diz artritli hastaların ağrı ve hareket kısıtlılıklarını gidermek, dizin fonksiyonunu arttırmak için uygulanan, eklemin yeniden yapılandırıldığı cerrahi işlemdir. Total diz protezi ameliyatı sonrası hastalar günlük yaşam aktivitelerinde bağımlı olma, uyku problemleri ve depresyon gibi birçok sorun yaşayabilmektedir. Amaç: Bu araştırma total diz protezi ameliyatı olan yaşlı bireylerde ameliyat sonrası uyku ve depresyonu belirlemek amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak yapılmıştır. Yöntem: Araştırmanın örneklemini 20 Şubat 2018 - 20 Ağustos 2018 tarihleri arasında bir Devlet Hastanesinin Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji servisinde yatan ve 65 yaş ve üzeri total diz protezi ameliyatı olan, bilinci açık, oryante ve koopere olan, konuşma, işitme problemi ve uyku sorunu olmayan vb. gibi dahil etme kriterlerine uyan 150 hasta oluşturmuştur. Araştırmanın verileri Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Diz Ameliyatı Sonrası Dönemde Uykuyu Etkileyen Faktörler Anket Formu ve Geriatrik Kısa Depresyon Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Verilerin değerlendirilmesinde; ortalama, standart sapma, frekans, Exact test, Pearson Ki-Kare, Likelihood Ratio istatistik değerleri ve Pearson Korelasyon katsayısı kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Araştırmaya katılan hasta bireylerin %69.3’ü kadın, %44.7’sinin okuryazar olmadığı, %69.3’ünün evli olduğu, %55.3’ünün geliri gidere denk olduğu, %37.3’ünün yalnız yaşadığı ve yaş ortalamasının 70.6±3.6 olduğu belirlendi. Araştırmaya katılan hastaların %60.7’sinin uyku sorunu yaşadığı ve en çok uykuya dalmakta zorlandıkları, %49.3’ün de depresyonda olduğu belirlendi. Sonuç: Bu bulgulara göre total diz protezi ameliyatı olan hastalarda uyku ve depresyon sorunları görülebilmektedir. Bundan dolayı ameliyat sonrası dönemde yaşam kalitesini etkileyen uyku ve depresyon düzeylerini uygun ölçeklerle tanımlayarak, farmakolojik ve nonfarmakolojik stratejilerin geliştirilmesinde sağlık ekibi ile birlikte çalışılması ve bu çalışmanın daha kapsamlı bir şekilde yapılması önerilmektedir.

Implementation of Energy Efficient Fog based Health Monitoring and Emergency Admission Prediction System Using IoT

With rapid development in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Wearable Sensor Networks with Internet of Things (WSN-IoT) has produced several improvements in the smart world environment. One of the main research challenges in Wearable Sensor is energy, since all the sensor nodes operation depends on battery power consumption. Hence a new middleware has to be introduced between Wearable Sensor nodes and Cloud to reduce latency and Power Consumption problems. Overcrowding in hospital premise, detecting priority of hospital admission for patients, managing and monitoring health status of the patient constantly are daily problems in any health care system. Even though IoT based wearable sensors monitor health status of patients regularly and provide intent treatment in critical stage, but there is some block hole in that such as latency, energy issues and unawareness of medical execution plans and policies to preserve them from sudden attacks such as Heart attack. The proposed work is to implement energy efficient FoG based IoT network to monitor patients’ health conditions from chronic diseases and highlights utility of Deep Learning model for analyzing the health condition of patients and predicting Emergency readmission cases well in advance. This model is also compare with existing machine learning algorithms such as Gradient boosted, Decision tree, Random forest and Logistic regression to achieve more accuracy. This paper introduces preemptive interval scheduling algorithm with predictive analysis for constant monitoring of status for critical patients. By means of comparative analysis done in this work energy efficiency has been achieved prominently.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES AMONG STUDENTS AT SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY

The objectives of this study is to investigate the students’ challenges and problem at Sultan Qaboos University, the impacts of those challenges and problems on students' lives, and setting up a group counseling program to treat those problems that students face at the university and provide them with the necessary skills. The sample space of this inquiry is confined to members of the student counseling center at SQU. The study employs qualitative and quantitative research methodology to define the research problem. The data is collected using an interview tool, where the researcher has interviews with counselors and four students at the student counseling center, as well as interviews with four psychologists. The analysis deployed in the discussion tries to relate the data and its findings to the hypothesis of the thesis. The study analysis shows several problems and challenges facing students of SQU and reveals its clear impacts on students' expectations during university years, and their future as well. Consequently, the finding shows that students of SQU face many psychological, academic, social, and financial challenges at the university. Also, the study indicates those students' challenges during university life. The students most exposed to pressures and challenges are those of the foundation year. The study also revealed that one of the most important challenges that students face is the academic life and compatibility with the university’s academic system, and adaptation to university life, which has emerged as the biggest psychological problems that students facing. The results show the transportation problem as a challenge student face when joining the university. The interviews conducted by the researcher show the importance of expectations in students' lives, as they are the ones that motivate and push students to achieve their goals. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher establishes a set of recommendations, the most important of which is to design a proposed counseling program for the student counseling center of SQU to provide students with the necessary skills that help in coping with their daily problems and challenges that they may face in the future, thus contributing to reducing those challenges impacts on their future expectations.

Percepción de profesionales de la salud sobre la intervención grupal socioeducativa con mujeres que presentan síntomas somáticos sin causa orgánica

ObjectiveTo know the perception and opinion of primary care health professionals on the impact of non-medicalizing group educational intervention (GRUSE) with women who present somatic symptoms without organic cause. DesignQualitative phenomenological study. SettingPrimary care health centers in Andalusia, during 2017 and 2018. Participants and/or contextsTwenty-four health professionals, selected according to their level of involvement in the GRUSE strategy (socio-educational groups). MethodA qualitative methodology is applied, through the phenomenological method. The technique used to collect the information is the discussion group, and a content analysis is carried out on it. The software Atlas.ti 8.0 is used as a support resource for the analysis. ResultsHealth professionals highlight group work as a means of achieving change, and point to the importance of intervention as a non-medicalizing strategy. They perceive that the participants obtain some benefits: the improvement of their personal well-being, the increase of their self-esteem and self-determination, and the generation of social networks, benefits that also affect their immediate surroundings. ConclusionsIn the opinion of the professionals, the strategy has positive effects on women and does not mean an increase in resources for the health system. In addition, they express the importance of provide women with tools to cope with daily life problems derivates mostly from gender mandates of a patriarchal society.

Fully Pythagorean fuzzy linear programming problems with equality constraints

There are several daily life problems where we have to deal with the uncertainties and we are forced to solve the uncertain linear programming models. Certain methods have been presented for dealing with linear programming problems based on fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets which are characterized by membership degree, membership and non-membership degrees, respectively. In this study, we first extend the concept of crisp linear programming problem in Pythagorean fuzzy environment based on triangular Pythagorean fuzzy numbers. The profit/cost coefficients in objective function, input/output coefficients and right-hand side coefficients and decision variables of a linear programming problem are considered as triangular Pythagorean fuzzy numbers. Further, we present methods for solving fully Pythagorean fuzzy linear programming problems for non-negative and unrestricted triangular Pythagorean fuzzy numbers with equality constraints. We also apply the proposed technique to solve practical models.

How the Language of Instruction Influences Mathematical Thinking Development in the First Years of Bilingual Schoolers.

The present research study focuses on how the language of instruction has an impact on the mathematical thinking development as a consequence of using a language of instruction different from the students’ mother tongue. In CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) academic content and a foreign language are leant at the same time, a methodology that is widely used in the schools in the present times. It is, therefore, our main aim to study if the language of instruction in second language immersion programs influences the development of the first formal mathematical concepts. More specifically, if the learning of mathematical concepts in the early ages develops in a similar way if it is taught in the students’ mother tongue and is not influenced by the language used for teaching. Or else, if it can influence the development of the first skills only in the students’ general performance or in certain areas. The results of both the analysis of variance and multiple regression confirm how influencing the language of instruction is when mathematical thinking is developed teaching formal contents in a non-coincidence language. The second language is affecting the resolution of daily life problems, being more competent those students in 1st grades whose language of instruction matched with their mother tongue.

Need analysis for the development of mobile virtual laboratory in junior high school for electricity and magnetics topics

Science is compulsory subject at the junior high school level. Mastery of science material by students is highly prioritized so that students have the skills to solve daily problems related to science. One of the ways to develop this skill is by doing practical work. Electricity and magnetism are science subject matter that students should follow in the form of practical work because this material has a lot to do with problems in everyday life. However, the limited duration of learning time at school makes some science subject matter that should be studied in the form of practical work cannot be implemented. This happens because of the large amount of material that must be taught in accordance with the demands of the curriculum. Other factors that lead to not carrying out practical work are incomplete science laboratory facilities, inadequate teacher experience, and conditions that do not allow learning to occur directly in schools. The Mobile Virtual Laboratory is a virtual laboratory that can be accessed by students via an Android-based mobile phone so that students can learn practical work anywhere and anytime. This article describes an analysis of the needs of the Mobile Virtual Laboratory in teaching science in junior high schools for electricity and magnetism.

Novel Scientific Simulations (Finite Element Method) for Peristaltic Blood Flow in an Asymmetric Channel: Applications of Magnetic and Inertial Forces

Background: Recently, an utmost attention has been devoted by researchers on the prestaltic movement of viscous flows due to its novel importance in daily life problems, human body and many physical systems. In era of biological systemns and health sciences, the prestaltic mechanism attribute impotant applications blood circulation in vessels, blood pumping in heart, food in esophagus etc. Moreover, the applications of novel Galerkin finite element scheme for solution of nonlinear partial differential equations associated with peristaltic flow problems is another challenging task for mathematicians. Owing to such motivativations in mind, this computational presents the magnetohydrodynamic peristaltic flow of viscous fluid at high Reynolds number induced by an asymmetric wall channel. The novel impact of magnetic force are also utilized as a novelty. Method: The equations which exploit the flow problem are numerically tackled with help of Galerkin finite element scheme. Results: The results are computed and show great validation for physical parameters like wave constants, amplitude ratio and Reynolds number. The validation of obtained results are worked out with already claimed data and achieved an excellent accuracy. The mechanisms of transport process is addressed in view of involved physical parameters namely wave constant, Reynolds number and Hartmann number. The graphical observations are successfully revealed for all parameters.

From ability to behavior: A scenario-based assessment of health competence predicts daily health behaviors.

Recent findings have suggested that we can gain new insights into health decision-making and behavior through the use of a scenario-based approach to health competence (HC). The present research sought to investigate whether and how such individual differences would matter in the conduct of daily life, within two daily diary studies (N=260). In Study 1, participants receiving higher HC scores were more active in dealing with daily stressors or problems; by contrast, low-HC individuals were more prone to impulsive and antisocial behaviors. Based on these promising results, the Study 2 protocol was a more extensive one. Participants who received higher HC scores thought about their health more often and engaged in diverse healthy behaviors more frequently. Conversely, low-HC individuals were prone to risky and unhealthy daily behaviors. In total, the findings provide key evidence in favor of a new approach to HC and its behavioral manifestations.

The place of interdisciplinary relationships in science projects of the gifted students in Turkey

IInstructional design is essential for human cognitive development, and interdisciplinary relationships of those settings have an important role on human cognition. Such instructional settings including various disciplines are current issues in educational researches. As seen in Turkish Science Education Curriculum (TSEC), some relationships between science and environment have been stated and emphasized for mental structures. Learning with projects can help to explore those mental processes. The gifted students can learn effectively and more rapidly than their fellows by the way of such interdisciplinary learning practices. Since these relationships in the curriculum provide the gifted students and the teachers making integrations with disciplines, the project based learning practices include various integrations. Therefore, this documentary study was conducted to student projects selected in a project competition carried out by the gifted students throughout Turkey to explore such interdisciplinary relationships. For the purpose of determining these relationships in student practices made by the Science and Art Centers’ (SAC) students accepted as gifted ones, a total of 76 projects were subjected to the content analysis. With the result of categorization process, they focused on two disciplines to overcome with their problems in general. They prefered to make relationships between firstly biology and chemistry and secondly biology and physics to find valuable answers to their daily life problems. They used the both disciplines’ topics more than other traditional area of science education called as physics. They could make less integrations on physics topics with other disciplines as compared with the connections made between biology and chemistry. Additionally, they could make only 4 connections with geology and geography. Although the 56 of the gifteds’ projects have an interdisciplinary viewpoint totally, only 20 of them include only one scientific disciplines. Such frequencies are important for PBL as it can be a way of coping with the integration problems doing the practices in gifted education spesificially and science education in general.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Construction of internal management system of business strategic planning based on Artificial Intelligence

With the progress of science and technology and the rapid development of artificial intelligence, major import and export enterprises often introduce it system to process orders, but employees will have various problems in the use of the system, which will affect work efficiency. It service management system needs to be set up in the enterprise to deal with the daily IT problems of employees, reduce the learning cost of employees and improve the management level of the enterprise. The Business Strategic Planning is an important link related to the survival and development of an enterprise. It is necessary to build an internal management system according to the strategic planning and internal needs of an enterprise to improve the operation level of an enterprise. Based on Kano model, this paper makes an investigation and Analysis on the needs of the internal employees about the management system. On this basis, from three dimensions of feedback channel management, robot management and integrated management, the process and function of the enterprise internal IT service management system are designed to improve the internal process of the enterprise, enhance the internal management of the enterprise and increase the competitive advantage.

Self-learning soft computing algorithms for prediction machines of estimating crowd density

Human needs motivate the improvement of computing paradigms, the emergence of soft computing is more effective in dealing with daily problems, while reducing costs, it also solves the problem of robustness and becomes easier to handle. Examples of this include collecting data on video data from smart sensors and can use that information to predict and monitor the behavior of crowd. Nowadays, with the development of cyber–physical systems and artificial intelligence, the traditional data collection and analysis system faces the risks of low transparency and high data security, making it difficult to obtain an accurate prediction result. Therefore, in this paper a novel prediction machine via self-learning generative adversarial network for soft computing application is proposed, which collects data through a series of high-precision IoT sensor devices and makes preliminary preprocessing, and further solves the crowd prediction problem based on deep learning algorithms and obtains a reliable and accurate prediction result by continuously optimizing internal parameters. The focus of this work is on the accuracy and preprocessing of data collection and crowd prediction algorithms. The prediction algorithm can be used to estimate and monitor the crowd flow in public places, and can prevent crowding, trampling and other traffic jams, such as stations, airports, large exhibitions, tourist attractions and other places. Therefore, the new prediction machine includes video capture, upload and display, data analysis and early warning operations in embedded devices, and automatically predicts crowd density. In terms of constructing the network, first, in order to obtain a clearer generated density map, the feature self-learning module is merged in the generator feature extraction stage. Secondly, in order to avoid the blur of the generated image, an adversarial loss is constructed between the generator and the discriminator, and finally to deal with multiple scales, two generator networks are constructed to adapt to large scale and small scale respectively in order to extract semantic information of different scales and use cross-scale consistency loss constraints to generate density maps.

Students’ Mathematical External Connection Ability Based on Personality Types of Sensing Intuition

Mathematical external connection ability is the ability to relate topics in mathematics to the other learning subject and daily problems. Sensing and intuition personality is a characteristic of students receive and process information. For this reason, personality types can influence mathematics learning and mathematical external connection ability. The main purpose of this research is analysis of students’ external connection skill that has sensing or intuition personality. This study method used was descriptive the qualitative method with four students of class VII in Junior High School. Subject selected using purposive sampling, each subject represents one personality and one indicator. The data from this research were obtained from questionnaires, mathematical connection external test, and interviews. The results obtained that intuition student can applying the concepts and mathematical procedure to other subjects, but sensing student difficulties. Both of sensing and intuiting can use mathematical relationship in everyday life problems.

Mathematical internal connection ability based on personality types of sensing and intuiting

Learning mathematics is related to the connection ability. The mathematical connection ability is needed by the students to connect each mathematical topic, the other learning subjects and daily problems. The personality types of sensing and intuiting is the ability to process information. Every student has a different in receiving and processing information. It is cause by personality type, which makes the mathematical internal connection ability of student different. The aim of the study is to describe student’s mathematical internal connection ability based on personality types of sensing and intuiting. This research used the qualitative method. Subject in this study were four students of class VII in Junior High School which selected using purposive sampling. The results obtained that the student with intuiting type has more mathematical internal connection ability than the student with sensing type. Based the result of the research, it can conclude that the student who can connect each concept in same topic in mathematics may not have the ability to connect each concept on the other topics. Most of the students were only implementing the formula taught at school. Students did not try to explore a concept to the other topic in mathematics.

Emerging Hearing Assessment Technologies for Patient Care

Emerging Hearing Assessment Technologies for Patient Care

Interelasi Akal dan Wahyu: Analisis Pemikiran Ulama Mutakallimin dalam Pembentukan Hukum Islam

Tujuan tulisan ini ingin mengungkap dan menganalisis pemikiran ulama Mutakallimin terhadap interlasi akal dan wahyu dalam pembentukan hukum Islam yang selama ini menjadi perdebatan. Perdebatan tersebut disebabkan beberapa faktor di antaranya pemahaman terhadap teks Alqur’an maupun Sunnah, tempat tinggal, sosial, dan budaya. Dalam artikel ini, penulis menemukan bahwa ulama Mutakallimin sepakat untuk menjawab persolan hukum Islam tidak lepas dari sumber pertama, yaitu Alqur’an dan Sunnah. Apabila dalam Alqur’an dan Sunnah tidak ditemukan, maka ulama Mutakalimin sepakat menggunakan ijtihad dan qiyas. Ijtihad dan qiyas adalah hasil nalar akal para mujtahid terhadap wahyu Allah SWT yang maknanya masih belum jelas, global dan umum guna mengungkap maksud dan tujuan wahyu Allah terhadap persoalan kehidupan manusian sehari-hari. Dengan demikian, para ulama Mutakalimin memposisikan akal manusia dalam pembentukan hukum Islam sebagai mediasi dari dalil ‘aqliyah guna menjawab persoalan manusia sehari-hari baik dalam ibadah, zakat, muamalah, ekonomi, dan politik. Selain itu, ulama Mutakallimin memiliki konsep metodologi hukum Islam yang berbeda, akan tetapi sumber utama dalam pembentukan hukum Islam yang disepakati bersama adalah Alqur’an, Sunnah, ijma’, dan qiyas. Ijma’ dan qiyas di sini memiliki peran penting dalam insting akal terhadap wahyu, sehingga mampu mejadi jembatan pembentukan hukum untuk menjawab persoalan manusia seiring dengan tempat dan zamannya.

Do ADHD Symptoms, Executive Function, and Study Strategies Predict Temporal Reward Discounting in College Students with Varying Levels of ADHD Symptoms? A Pilot Study.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between temporal reward discounting and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in college students. Additionally, we examined whether temporal reward discounting was associated with executive functioning in daily life and with learning and study strategies in this group. Thirty-nine college students (19 with ADHD and 20 controls) participated after meeting criteria for ADHD or non-ADHD based on standardized assessment. Strong preferences for small immediate rewards were specifically associated with the ADHD symptom domain hyperactivity–impulsivity. Additionally, these preferences were associated with daily life executive function problems and with weak learning and study strategies. This suggests that steep temporal discounting may be a key mechanism playing a role in the daily life challenges that college students with ADHD symptoms face. If these findings are replicated in larger samples, then intervention strategies may profitably be developed to counteract this strong preference for small immediate rewards in college students with ADHD symptoms.