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Review Citation - WoS: 67Citation - Scopus: 76Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Surface Treatment of Polymers and Influence on Cell Cultivation(Mdpi, 2021) Sasmazel, Hilal Turkoglu; Alazzawi, Marwa; Alsahib, Nabeel Kadim AbidAtmospheric plasma treatment is an effective and economical surface treatment technique. The main advantage of this technique is that the bulk properties of the material remain unchanged while the surface properties and biocompatibility are enhanced. Polymers are used in many biomedical applications; such as implants, because of their variable bulk properties. On the other hand, their surface properties are inadequate which demands certain surface treatments including atmospheric pressure plasma treatment. In biomedical applications, surface treatment is important to promote good cell adhesion, proliferation, and growth. This article aim is to give an overview of different atmospheric pressure plasma treatments of polymer surface, and their influence on cell-material interaction with different cell lines.Review Sağlık Profesyonellerinin Eğitiminde Simülasyona Dayalı Mesleklerarası Eğitim(2019) Şahan, Fatma Uslu; Terzioğlu, FüsunMesleklerarası eğitim, sağlık profesyonellerinin lisans eğitiminde farklı meslek grupları arasındaki farklılıkları ve benzerlikleri daha iyi kavramalarına ve onların kendi profesyonel kimliklerini oluşturmalarına katkı sağlayan bir yaklaşımdır. Mesleklerarası eğitim dünyada sağlık alanında eğitim veren saygın üniversitelerineğitim müfredatlarına entegre edilmiştir. Türkiye’de ise henüz lisans müfredat programlarında yer almamaktadır. Ancak, Türkiye’de sağlık alanında eğitim alan öğrencilerin, mesleklerarası eğitim programları ile mesleki bilgi ve becerilerinin, yeterliliklerinin, diğer mesleklere olan farkındalıklarının arttırılarak ekip olarak çalışabilme becerisi kazanabilecekleri öngörülmektedir. Literatürde mesleklerarası eğitimin etkinliğinin arttırılması için yenilikçi bir yöntem olan simülasyonun kullanılması önerilmektedir. Simülasyona dayalı mesleklerarası eğitim, öğrencilerinteorik bilgileri ile uygulamaları arasındaki boşluğu gidermekte, iletişim becerilerini ve mesleklerarası ekip çalışması becerilerini geliştirmektedir. Ayrıca bu yaklaşım farklı meslekler arasında köprüler oluşturmakta, etkili bir ekip işbirliğini sağlayarak diğer mesleklerin rollerinin anlaşılmasına ve bilgi kazanımının sağlanmasına katkıda bulunmaktadır. Bu derlemede mesleklerarası eğitimin önemi, mesleklerarası eğitimde kazandırılması gereken yeterlilikler ve bu yeterliliklerin kazandırılmasında ve geliştirilmesinde yenilikçi bir yaklaşım olarak simülasyona dayalı mesleklerarası eğitim yönteminin kullanılmasına ilişkin yöntemler tartışılmıştır.Review Citation - WoS: 67Citation - Scopus: 81Software Test Maturity Assessment and Test Process Improvement: a Multivocal Literature Review(Elsevier, 2017) Garousi, Vahid; Felderer, Michael; Hacaloglu, TunaContext: Software testing practices and processes in many companies are far from being mature and are usually conducted in ad-hoc fashions. Such immature practices lead to various negative outcomes, e.g., ineffectiveness of testing practices in detecting all the defects, and cost and schedule overruns of testing activities. To conduct test maturity assessment (TMA) and test process improvement (TPI) in a systematic manner, various TMA/TPI models and approaches have been proposed. Objective: It is important to identify the state-of-the-art and the-practice in this area to consolidate the list of all various test maturity models proposed by practitioners and researchers, the drivers of TMA/TPI, the associated challenges and the benefits and results of TMA/TPI. Our article aims to benefit the readers (both practitioners and researchers) by providing the most comprehensive survey of the area, to this date, in assessing and improving the maturity of test processes. Method: To achieve the above objective, we have performed a Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) study to find out what we know about TMA/TPI. A MLR is a form of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) which includes the grey literature (e.g., blog posts and white papers) in addition to the published (formal) literature (e.g., journal and conference papers). We searched the academic literature using the Google Scholar and the grey literature using the regular Google search engine. Results: Our MLR and its results are based on 181 sources, 51 (29%) of which were grey literature and 130 (71%) were formally published sources. By summarizing what we know about TMA/TPI, our review identified 58 different test maturity models and a large number of sources with varying degrees of empirical evidence on this topic. We also conducted qualitative analysis (coding) to synthesize the drivers, challenges and benefits of TMA/TPI from the primary sources. Conclusion: We show that current maturity models and techniques in TMA/TPI provides reasonable advice for industry and the research community. We suggest directions for follow-up work, e.g., using the findings of this MLR in industry-academia collaborative projects and empirical evaluation of models and techniques in the area of TMA/TPI as reported in this article. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Review The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique(inst Economics Research Sas & inst Forecasting Csps Sas, 2014) Temel, Bulent[No Abstract Available]Review Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Smart Hydrogels in Lab-On (loc) Applications(Elsevier, 2024) Tevlek, Atakan; Cretin, Esin Akbay; Çetin, Esin AkbayLaboratory on-chip (LOC) technology facilitates numerous developments across diverse disciplines, such as medicine, tissue engineering, materials science, biomedical engineering, and biotechnology. Moreover, the potential applications appear boundless when LOC is integrated with intelligent hydrogels. In the literature, however, there are few accounts of the vast array of developments and applications that this combination has spawned. These new systems, which integrate smart hydrogels and LOC and thus significantly advance cuttingedge technology, have been thoroughly examined in this review. The functions of smart hydrogels in LOC applications were described and subsequently the developed intelligent hydrogels were classified as multiresponsive, thermo-responsive, pH-responsive, and stimuli-responsive (light, magnetic, and electric). Following this, details regarding tunable properties for LOC functions were provided, followed by a discussion of the fabrication processes and integration of these intelligent hydrogels into LOC systems, including their benefits and drawbacks. Following that, current literature examples of LOC systems utilizing these intelligent hydrogels for biosensing, 3D culture, tissue engineering, controlled release, personalized medicine, drug delivery, analyte enrichment, and organ-on-a-chip applications were presented. Following the presentation of state-of-the-art information regarding smart hydrogel characterization techniques, present challenges and prospective prospects were discussed.Review Capitalism Hits the Fan: the Global Economic Meltdown and What To Do About It(Akademiai Kiado Zrt, 2014) Temel, Bulent; Temel, Bülent Azmi; Temel, Bülent Azmi; Department of Business; Department of Business[No Abstract Available]Review Citation - Scopus: 1Operetta in Turkey: A case study of Gün’s translation of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020) Soy,Ö.Ş.; Şenol,M.The genre operetta has long found itself a place in the musical polysystem of Turkey and become one of the borrowed forms of art symbolizing modernity through Turkey’s Westernization process. It was the main goal of the Republic to carry the young republican nation to the level of civilized societies like those of the West. Western ideological, cultural, scientific and literary works were examined and translated, paving the way to emergence of national ideologies, literary works, and cultural legacies. In this context, our study aims to examine Aydın Gün’s translation into Turkish of Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, under the title Yarasa. In order to do this, we draw on Peter Low’s Pentathlon Principle. © 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company.Review Citation - Scopus: 2Coal Preparation in the World - Current Status and Global Trends: a Review("Ore and Metals" Publishing house, 2016) Rubinstein,J.B.; Swanson,A.; Holuszko,M.E.; Shaoqiang,Z.; Ziaja,D.; Anastassakis,G.; Vorobev,S.A.This article is a review composed of 14 sections prepared by representatives of the involved countries. The sections inform on: coal production volume per country; principal coal producing regions and companies; coal preparation technologies and trends of coal use in national economies, considering the environmental constraints. The review opens with the section devoted to the state of the art and prospects of coal preparation in Russia; the next sections about other countries are arranged in the way to fit the Latin alphabet. The scope of the Russian section encompasses large projects on coal preparation, prospects of coal application in power generation and the issue of coal mine waste reprocessing. The Australian section emphasizes that coal is an important export article and the key component of power generation in the country. It is mentioned that round 90 % of ROM coal needs preparation before marketing. The section on Canada gives evaluation of coal reserves and resources and a detail description of coalproducing companies in the country. China is the largest coal-producing country in the world (3.87 Bt of coal in 2014); more than 60 % of coal is subjected to preparation. Germany is running short of coal reserves (coal reserves are only sufficient until late 2018) but holds enormous reserves of lignite subjected to open pit mining. Hungary produces nearly 10 Mt of coal yearly and uses it to generate 14 % of the total power output. India is the world's third coal producer (after China and USA as of 2014). Kazakhstan takes half of produced coal to generate power and 30 % for export. Poland is the largest coal producer in Europe. All coal is mined with the underground method and approximately 60 % of coal needs preparation. The Republic of South Africa exports nearly one third of produced coal. Half of coal left in the country is spent to generate power and round 20 % of coal is converted to chemicals and fuel products. The best part of the produced coal needs preparation and coal for export is totally subjected to dressing. Turkey mines mainly lignite (95 %). The deficit of power-generating coal is compensated by the import. The coal industry of the Great Britain is at the stage of dying. It is planned to close all coal-run power plants by 2025. USA is the world's second producer of coal. Preparation embraces approximately 40 % of mined coal. The review ends with an analysis of international RandD projects in the area of coal preparation.Review Citation - WoS: 120Citation - Scopus: 143Dynamic Thermal and Hygrometric Simulation of Historical Buildings: Critical Factors and Possible Solutions(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2020) Akkurt, G. G.; Aste, N.; Borderon, J.; Buda, A.; Calzolari, M.; Chung, D.; Turhan, C.Building dynamic simulation tools, traditionally used to study the hygrothermal performance of new buildings during the preliminary design steps, have been recently adopted also in historical buildings, as a tool to investigate possible strategies for their conservation and the suitability of energy retrofit scenarios, according to the boundary conditions. However, designers often face with the lack of reliable thermophysical input data for various envelope components as well as with some intrinsic limitations in the simulation models, especially to describe the geometric features and peculiarities of the heritage buildings. This paper attempts to bridge this knowledge gap, providing critical factors and possible solutions to support hygrothermal simulations of historical buildings. The information collected in the present work could be used by researchers, specialists and policy-makers involved in the conservation of building's heritage, who need to address a detailed study of the hygrothermal performance of historical buildings thorugh dynamic simulation tools.
