Kadir Has Research Articles

Öğrenme Ortamlarının Mevcut İmkanlarından Faydalanılarak Akustik Ortamların Oluşturulması ve Karşılaştırılması

In this study, the situation that noise in schools has a significant effect on students' adaptation and understanding of the lesson was discussed. In classroom environments where students gain academic, social and emotional skills, 60.00-75.00% of learning activities require verbal communication with the teacher and other students (American National Standards Institute [ANSI], 2002; The Institute for Enhanced Classroom Hearing [IECH], 2018). In this context, the process was carried out in order to consider the acoustic quality of the educational environment as one of the important elements that determine the quality of the learning and teaching process. In this research, the effect of the acoustic arrangement of the classrooms as a learning environment on the listening and perception activities of the students was examined. For this reason, the main purpose of this research, the acoustic arrangements, without any professional support, alternatively, with the help of the students' bags or with acoustic diffusers that they can make themselves (for example, plastic bottles) are based on the situation of making the learning environment more efficient acoustically. The research design is the experimental design. The experimental process was carried out in the classroom environment of Maltepe Kadir Has Science and Art Center. The classroom and students in which the audio recordings were made were randomly assigned. Measurements were made by lecturing in an environment where acoustic study was not done and where it was done. The listening and perception activities of the students in the classroom in line with the acoustic studies were examined with the help of a semi-structured interview form. In this direction, it has been determined that an acoustic environment can be created with simple materials and that the acoustic environment affects student listening and perception activity. Keywords: Acoustics, Listening, Perception, Learning Environments

Exploring non-linear relationships between perceived interactivity or interface design and acceptance of collaborative web-based learning.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10639-023-11635-6.

Correlation Between Swelling and Elasticity of Graphene Oxide-Polyacrylamide Composites

Polymer Science: Peer Review Journal Correlation Between Swelling and Elasticity of Graphene Oxide-Polyacrylamide Composites Büşra Osma1, Önder Pekcan2 and Gülşen Akın Evingür3* 1Department of Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Pîrî Reis University, Turkey 2Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Kadir Has University, Turkey 3Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Pîrî Reis University, Turkey *Corresponding author: Gülşen Akın Evingür, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Pîrî Reis University, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey Submission: August 12, 2022;Published: September 06, 2022 DOI: 10.31031/PSPRJ.2022.04.000582 ISSN: 2770-6613 Volume4 Issue2

Students’ Web-Based Activities Moderate the Effect of Human-Computer-Interaction Factors on Their E-Learning Acceptance and Success During COVID-19 Pandemic

The purpose of this study is to investigate if students' activities on systems web-based moderate the effect of human-computer interaction (HCI) factors on ease of use and usefulness of e-learning and their success (SS) at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. To answer the questions that addressed the relationship between HCI, e-learning acceptance, and SS, the researcher surveyed 103 students from Kadir Has University whose grade and activity logs were accessible. The survey was related to their perceived course webpage design, system and content quality, interactivity, usability and functionality, and self-assessment. The results show that most of the hypotheses of this study have been proven, a comprehensive conceptual model was developed, and the student grades in the online courses improved their GPA. The findings further reveal that students' activities moderate the effects of course environment and content quality on perceived usefulness and the effect of the course evaluation' system on perceived ease of use, where the changes in R 2 ranged between 0.041 and 0.074. That means including logs as a moderator would increase the explanatory power of the effect of HCI factors on e-learning acceptance which together explained 54.9% of the variance in perceived success (SS), where U is the strongest determinant of SS.

Opening the Black Box: The Turkish Military Before and After 15 July 2016

Opening the Black Box: The Turkish Military Before and After 15 July 2016

Comparison of Academic Structure of Universities in Turkey by Multiple Correspondence Analysis Method

The purpose of this study is to reveal the similarities and differences between the universities in Turkey with regard to the numbers of academicians and departments. Within the scope of this objective, we included the first 100 universities among the total 185 universities in Turkey according the URAP data by the criterion sampling method. Conformity analysis, one of the multivariate statistical methods, was used in the data analysis. A two-dimensional graphic is obtained including the points representing the variable categories in the multi-dimensional space by using mathematical models to determine the structures of crosstabs consisting of the rows and columns through multiple conformity analysis. As a result of the study, it was determined that there was a conformity between the Ankara, Odtü, Marmara, Gazi, Hacettepe, İstanbul, Atatürk and İnönü Universities. In addition, a conformity was determined between the Ankara, İstanbul, İstanbul Teknik, Ege and Başkent universities according to the professor numbers within the academician categories. It was determined that there was no conformity between the Özyeğin, Bilkent, Kadir Has, Sabancı, Bahçeşehir, Koç and İstanbul Ticaret Universities regarding the variables addressed within the study. Based on the study, it is suggested that similar studies of multiple conformity analysis should be repeated with the different data groups. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.6.3

Serving Citizens Better: Citizen’s Perceptions of Structural and Behavioral Responsiveness through Turkish Public Administration System

This study basically investigates citizens’ perceptions on structural and behavioral responsiveness in Turkey. A survey instrument was used to derive relevant data for the study. In addition, the study utilized from Life Satisfaction Survey (LSS) conducted by Turkish Statistical Institution (TSI) and Turkish Social-Political Trends Survey-2015 conducted by Kadir Has University in Turkey. The study first develops a model to examine structural and behavioral efforts through serving citizens in Turkey. The study then discusses the structure of the public organizations and the roles and the responsibilities of the public administrators throughout the years. The study finally discusses how the Turkish citizens perceive government’s responsiveness from structural and behavioral perspectives. The study concludes that citizens’ perception on the level of responsiveness of public administration system is below the average but it is acceptable. The responsiveness of public administration increases trough the bottom while it decreases through upper levels.

Assessing The Economic Contribution of Ecological Architecture Case Study: Kayseri Kadir Has Stadium

Ecological architecture consciousness has started spreading out with the idea that the limited resources that remain on the world in 21st century due to the damage caused by humans should be used economically. Energy saving consciousness should be executed in all stages from the design of the building to its construction and use. The number of buildings in the world that have been built with this consciousness continues to increase. Many technological applications have been put forth in order to ensure that a building supplies its own energy. This new situation contributes to the decreasing of the energy need of the building while also making significant savings in the Gross National Income of developing countries such as Turkey which are dependent to other countries for energy. When the contribution of ecologic designs to the country economy is considered, it is expected that the government and local administrations increase incentives especially for government buildings thereby leading the way. The objective of this study is to examine the energy consumption of Kadir Has City Stadium built in the city of Kayseri and to question the contribution of the local administration in terms of ecologic approach. It is expected that the study will make a contribution so that the local administrations will support all the stages of government buildings from the design to construction.

Editorial Report and Acknowledgement of Reviewers, 2014

The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) has grown and developed well in 2014. To be able to handle the growing number of submissions to the journal, we expanded the editorial team over the summer. Based on the recommendations of our search committee consisting of four senior members of our Editorial Board (Dan Christie, John Duckitt, Colin Wayne Leach, Susan Opotow), we appointed seven new Associate Editors: Glenn Adams (University of Kansas, USA), Gulseli Baysu (Kadir Has University, Turkey), Boris Bizumic (Australian National University), Rusi Jaspal (De Montfort University, United Kingdom), Malgorzata Kossowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Siew Fang Law (Victoria University, Australia), and Shahnaaz Suffla (Medical Research Council/University of South Africa). The composition of the new editorial team reflects epistemological, methodological, theoretical, geographical, and cultural diversity in social and political psychology.

Are We Digital Masters Or Captives? A Critical Evaluation Of Panoptic Versus Synoptic Effect Of Surveillance In Social Media

The era we are living in is the one where we are exposed to a massive attraction of social connectivity based widely on digital forms of media. The most common one of them is social media. Social media exposes us to a kind of virtual Panopticon where ‘the few’ watch ‘the many’ in architecture of surveillance. Another term related to surveillance is Synopticon, a system where ‘the many’ watch ‘the few’ in the “Viewer Society”. In the light of the related literature of theory and practice in the area, the study aims at viewing social media tools and its users from a critical perspective in a descriptive manner. To be able to do this, the study develops a set of hypothetical questions whose answers are instrumented to find out whether there is truly such a thing as “Virtual Panopticon” or “Synopticon” and if so, to what extent and how the Panoptic versus Synoptic effect of social media are felt among its users in various applications in light of media and communication. Facebook, based on the current theoretical knowledge within the field of surveillance can be given as an example. The study concludes with an overview of both assumptions with further reflections and contemplations of the readers of the study, who implicitly or explicitly could also be the actors of social media as masters or captives. ∗ Erdem ONGUN, Ph.D., is currently an instructor at English Prep. School of Kadir Has University. His research to¬pics include instructional technologies, distance education, elearning, media and communication, information technologies. Correspondence: Erdem ONGUN, Kadir Has University, English Preperatory School, Bahcelievler/ Istanbul. Email:erdem.ongun@khas.edu.tr Phone :+90 212 4414724-2140. Fax: :+90 212 4414534 ∗∗ Askin DEMIRAĞ, Ph.D., is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems and Technologies of Yeditepe University. His research to¬pics include instructional technologies, distance education, business intelligence, database management systems, and information and communication technologies. Contact: Askin DEMIRAĞ, Yeditepe University, Faculty of Commerce, Department of Information Systems and Technologies, Atasehir /Istanbul/Turkey. E-mail: ademirag@yeditepe.edu.tr Phone: +90 216 578 0000/1973. Are We Digital Masters Or Captives? A Critical Evaluation Of Panoptic Versus Synoptic Effect Of Surveillance In Social Media 28

Civilizing the Kurdish Population of Ayazma: Ayazma / Tepeüstü Urban Transformation Project -Küçükçekmece Istanbul

Ayazma/Tepeustu urban transformation project3 in Kucukcekmece (2004-2007) happens to be the first and the largest urban transformation project implemented in Istanbul so far. It is also the first project targetting a homogenous population.4 It impacted the lives of 1440 familes, a populaton of about 7800 persons, mainly from Ayazma. Ayazma and Tepeustu neighbourhoods were “cleansed” for regeneration and opened up to developers for prestigious projects while the inhabitants composed mainly of the urban poor were subjected to forced evictions and displacement from their decades old settlements, encountering serious economic deprivations, violations of social and cultural rights and psychological traumas engendered by the relocation. The study is based on a research conducted in the relocation site betweeen October 2008-February 2009, almost 2 years after the relocation. In depth interviews were carried out with 75 persons, comprising mainly relocated residents in Bezirganbahce Mass Housing Administration (TOKI) blocks. Some NGO representatives, civil servants and officials from the municipality were also interviewed. The study focuses on the social, cultural and psychological aspects of the project which disregarded the distinctive culture, tradition and custom of the Kurdish community and the social engineering mechanisms imposed through “civilization” projects named “How to live in an apartment-building”. Hostilities between ethnic groups and polarization in the relocation site were other findings of the study. The study also discloses the criminalization of the urban poor (and minorities) as a legitimization tool to intervene into urban space. OZET Kucukcekmece Ayazma Tepeustu kentsel donusumu (20042007), Istanbul’un ilk genis kapsamli kentsel donusum projesi oldugu gibi ayni zamanda homojen buyuk bir nufusun toplu olarak yeniden iskân edildigi ilk projedir. Cogunlugu Ayazma’dan, 1440 aileden olusan 7800 kisilik bir nufusu etkilemistir. Kentsel donusum projesi, Ayazmalilarin sadece yasam alanlarini degil, buyuk kentte tutunabilmek icin kurduklari duzenlerini ve yasamlarini da darmadagin eder. Bezirgânbahce’deki ekonomik kosullar ve site yasaminin dayattigi sartlardan dolayi aralarindaki dayanisma ve sosyal iliski aglari cozulur; dahasi, site duzeninin kisitli kamusal alanlarinda ve baskici ortaminda, topluca gerceklestirdikleri kulturel pratiklere de olanak yoktur; elverissiz kosullar altinda atomize bireyler olurlar. Bu calismada, gecekondu nufuslarinin yasam pratiklerine uymayan ve soz konusu Kurt bir nufus oldugundan sosyal ve kulturel bircok pratigi de imkânsiz kilan; dolayisiyla, magduriyet ve ihlallere sebebiyet veren TOKI konutlarindaki yasam pratikleri, Ayazmalilar orneginde mercek altina alinacaktir. Yerel yonetimce once damgalanan, yerlerinden edilen ve birbirlerinden kopartilan Ayazmalilara, yeniden iskân ertesinde ‘medenilestirme’ projesi olarak dayatilan apartman yasami diktesi ve sonuclari incelenecek ve yerel yonetimin gercek amaci masaya yatirilacaktir. 83 Received: September 09, 2013 Accepted: December 30, 2013 Correspondence: Cihan Uzuncarsili Baysal. e-mail: cihanbaysal@yahoo.com 1 Inspired from Gray and Mooney’s article: Glasgow’s new urban frontier ‘ Civilising’ the population of ‘Glasgow East’. 2 The article is based on a paper presented at the 6th International Cultural Studies Conference on 8-12 th September 2011 at Kadir Has University. The paper is developed from the authour’s Master’s thesis submitted to Istanbul Bilgi University Institute of Social Sciences, Human Rights Law Department 2010. 3 Urban transformation projects as they are named in the Turkish context are regeneration projects in which inhabitants of informal neighbourhoods are subjected to forced evictions or forced relocation (if recognized as beneficiaries) in public mass housing sites mostly at the periphery of the cities while their neighbourhoods which have become profitable areas of the ever growing city are turned into the hands of developers or public private partnerships for luxurious projects. 4 It was not a coincidence that after the Kurdish minority in Ayazma, the Roma minority of Sulukule followed. Urban renewal in Turkey built its legitimacy by targetting minorities at first. These neighbourhoods also happen to be the weakest links where not much resistance is expected. Planlama 2013;23(2):83-94 doi: 10.5505/planlama.2013.88597

How Turkey's Islamists Fell out of Love With Iran

Middle East PolicyVolume 19, Issue 4 p. 103-109 How Turkey's Islamists Fell out of Love With Iran H. Akin Ünver, H. Akin Ünver Faculty fellow in the Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and the winner of the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr dissertation award in social sciences. The research and writing of this article was conducted during his Ertegun fellowship at Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies Department.Search for more papers by this author H. Akin Ünver, H. Akin Ünver Faculty fellow in the Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and the winner of the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr dissertation award in social sciences. The research and writing of this article was conducted during his Ertegun fellowship at Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies Department.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 December 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4967.2012.00563.xCitations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume19, Issue4Winter 2012Pages 103-109 RelatedInformation

Guest editorial: special issue on high mobility wireless communications

1. School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China 2. Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, 34083, Cibali, Istanbul, Turkey 3. Dept of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hongkong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR 4. School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK 5. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Design in Informal Economies: Craft Neighborhoods in Istanbul

April 01 2011 Design in Informal Economies: Craft Neighborhoods in Istanbul Cigdem Kaya, Cigdem Kaya Çigdem Kaya, born and raised in Istanbul, received MFA from New Genres from The San Francisco Art Institute, USA in 2006 and BSc in Industrial Design from Istanbul Technical University in 2003. Kaya has been residing and working in Istanbul as a researcher at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design where she recently completed her PhD studies on design interventions for crafts since 2007. Kaya is a Fulbright alumna. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Burcu (Yancatarol) Yagız Burcu (Yancatarol) Yagız Burcu (Yançatarol) Yagiz received her BSc degree in Industrial Design from Istanbul Technical University in 2003. She received her MID (Master of Industrial Design) degree from The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, USA in 2006. She is currently based in Istanbul. She works as a full-time instructor at the Industrial Design Department at Kadir Has University. She pursues her PhD studies in Art History at Istanbul Technical University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Cigdem Kaya Çigdem Kaya, born and raised in Istanbul, received MFA from New Genres from The San Francisco Art Institute, USA in 2006 and BSc in Industrial Design from Istanbul Technical University in 2003. Kaya has been residing and working in Istanbul as a researcher at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design where she recently completed her PhD studies on design interventions for crafts since 2007. Kaya is a Fulbright alumna. Burcu (Yancatarol) Yagız Burcu (Yançatarol) Yagiz received her BSc degree in Industrial Design from Istanbul Technical University in 2003. She received her MID (Master of Industrial Design) degree from The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, USA in 2006. She is currently based in Istanbul. She works as a full-time instructor at the Industrial Design Department at Kadir Has University. She pursues her PhD studies in Art History at Istanbul Technical University. Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Design Issues (2011) 27 (2): 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00077-Kaya Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Cigdem Kaya, Burcu (Yancatarol) Yagız; Design in Informal Economies: Craft Neighborhoods in Istanbul. Design Issues 2011; 27 (2): 59–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00077-Kaya Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsDesign Issues Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey

Journal Article The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey Get access Sule Toktas, Sule Toktas SULE TOKTAS is an associate professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. She has published Immigration to Turkey and various articles on international migration, women's issues, and ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulent Aras Bulent Aras BULENT ARAS is a professor of international relations at Istanbul Technical University. He has co-authored Syria and Afghanistan: Dilemmas of Security and Democracy and various articles on Turkish foreign policy and Middle Eastern issues in leading journals. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 697–720, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb00664.x Published: 15 February 2013

Women’s Memory Symposium Women’s Library and Information Center, Istanbul

Meeting Report| November 01 2009 Women’s Memory Symposium Women’s Library and Information Center, Istanbul Diane James Diane James University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 175–182. https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.3.175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Diane James; Women’s Memory Symposium Women’s Library and Information Center, Istanbul. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2009; 5 (3): 175–182. doi: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2009.5.3.175 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE, and the Decline of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in Alabama, 1964-1971

The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE, and the Decline of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in Alabama, 1964–1971 ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1964, THE FBI LAUNCHED a highly secretive and extralegal domestic covert action program called COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE, which sought to “expose, disrupt and otherwise neutralize” Ku Klux Klan groups in the United States.1 During 1965, as the FBI facilitated a crucial criminal prosecution of Alabama Klansmen and an effective House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) exposé, the bureau’s COINTELPRO operations exposed and discredited leaders of the Alabama-based United Klans of America (UKA). Beginning in 1966, an accelerated campaign of disruption involving “notional” (fake) communications, “snitch-jacketing” operations that framed effective Klan organizers as spies, and the use of informants further aggravated internal factionalism in Klan organizations. The result of these operations was increased frustration, resignation, and J O H N D R A B B L E John Drabble is an Assistant Professor in the American Culture and Literature Program at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Republic of Turkey. In summers, he teaches in the International Area Studies Teaching Program at the University of California Berkeley. He would like to thank the editorial staff of the Alabama Review, as well as his father Dr. John E. Drabble, who read early drafts of this manuscript. 1 Director to Atlanta et al., Sept. 2, 1964 (section 1), in COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI, 30 reels (Wilmington, Del., 1978). Unless otherwise indicated, all FBI documents cited in this article are from this microfilm collection, the most complete record of COINTELPRO operations available. The White Hate records comprise reels eighteen through twenty. Unless otherwise indicated, communications between FBI executives are contained in section one, and communications between FBI headquarters and field offices are contained (in rough chronological order), in the respective field office files. Given a lack of historiography on Klan activity in Alabama after 1965, and redactions in COINTELPRO documents, the author used newspaper articles and Michael Newton and Judy Ann Newton, eds., The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia (New York, 1991), to provide narrative context and to identify COINTELPRO targets. The term COINTELPRO is an amalgam of “counterintelligence program.” T H E A L A B A M A R E V I E W 4 fear among rank and file members, leading to extensive membership losses during the next five years. Other COINTELPRO operations disrupted relations between the UKA national leadership and officers in other states, facilitating an overall reduction in Klan activity and membership, both in Alabama and throughout the South. This story is not well known, because scholarship on COINTELPRO has been restricted to policy studies of institutional workings and of operations against civil rights, black nationalist, and New Left groups. Non-academic accounts are largely anecdotal.2 Much of the scholarship on the civil rights movement focuses on the first half of the 1960s; consequently, the bureau’s reluctance to suppress Klan violence before 1965 has received more attention than its efforts to undermine the Klan with COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE during the late 1960s.3 In particular, FBI performance regarding the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham and the 1965 murder of Viola Liuzzo frames accounts of relationships between the FBI, southern law enforcement authorities, and the Alabama Klan.4 The problematic activities of FBI informant and Klan member Gary Thomas Rowe—who coordinated vigilante attacks on the Freedom Riders in 1961, was implicated by Alabama authorities in the Sixteenth Street church bombing, and who witnessed Liuzzo’s murder—obscures the role COINTELPRO and the FBI played in weakening Klan influence and membership.5 Polemical accounts that use Rowe to frame 2 John Drabble, “The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE, and the Decline of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in Mississippi, 1964–1971,” Journal of Mississippi History 66 (Winter 2004): 353–56. 3 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005): 1233–63. 4 Wyn Craig Wade, The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America (New York, 1987), 324–25; Kenneth O’Reilly, Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America...

Prevention of complications in laparoscopic hysterectomy: Experience with 1120 cases performed by a single surgeon

Study objective The aim of this study is to describe a safe technique without any ureteral, bladder, and major vessel injuries in laparoscopic hysterectomy with a CO 2 laser technique. Design Prospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-3). Setting Centre Hospitalier Interrégional Edith Cavell, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Endoscopic Laser Surgery Center, Bruxelles, Belgium; and Kadir Has University, Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Patients One thousand one hundred twenty women with benign diseases. Interventions Laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) or laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH). Measurements and main results Between 1992 and 2004, in 1120 women with benign diseases, consecutive LAVH or LH was planned. During laparoscopic hysterectomy, at all stages, bipolar forceps was used for hemostasis, and a CO 2 laser was used for vaporization and excision. The total operating time was 35 to 180 minutes, with a median of 52 minutes (range 35–163) for LAVH (n = 542) and 55 minutes (range 42–180) for LH (n = 552). Operations were successfully completed laparoscopically in 98.8% of the patients. The mean hospital stay was 2 days. The overall major complication rate was 1%. No ureteral, bladder, or major vascular injury occurred. Conclusion The technique we used in our study is safe and effective in the prevention of ureteral, vesical, and vascular injuries during LAVH and LH; moreover, the use of bipolar coagulation and a CO 2 laser in endoscopic surgery results in a shorter duration of operation. This technique provides all the advantages of both laparoscopic and vaginal surgery.

Laparoscopic transabdominal isthmic cerclage in a case of cervical agenesis and a successful pregnancy with ICSI

The objective was to construct a laparoscopic transabdominal isthmic cerclage in a patient with cervical agenesis at Kadir Has University, Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital. A 39-year-old woman diagnosed with primary infertility due to cervical agenesis was admitted to our hospital because of recurrent assisted reproductive technique (ART) failures. She underwent three operations for acute abdominal pain due to endometriosis and pyometra. There was a tiny fistula-like opening at the level of the isthmus, through which menstrual blood passed. Three intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) attempts with transmyometrial transfer had failed at three different IVF centres. We performed a laparoscopic transabdominal isthmic cerclage to prevent a miscarriage due to a clinical condition similar to cervical insufficiency and then an ICSI procedure was performed. We delivered a healthy baby weighing 3,200 g by Caesarean section. We left the cerclage in place for subsequent pregnancies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of laparoscopic isthmic cerclage for the prevention of a clinical condition similar to cervical insufficiency in cervical agenesis that has resulted in a term pregnancy after ICSI.

Cultural Psychiatry: Euro-International Perspectives

Article AbstractFrom our regular book review column.This volume is a part of the Bibliotheca Psychiatrica book series, which is edited by Bernd Saletu. Yilmaz is affiliated with the University of Kadir Has in Istanbul, Turkey, and Weiss and Riecher-Rössler are affiliated with the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland. This book grew out of the conference "Transcultural Psychiatry: Challenges for Diagnosis and Treatment," which was held in March 1998 in Basel, Switzerland. Most of the authors of the chapters in this book were presenters in this conference. Additionally, a few selected authors were invited in order to fully reflect the emphasis of this book on cultural perspectives from Switzerland, Europe as a whole, and beyond Europe.