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View AllRadial Power-Law Position-dependent Mass, Cylindrical Coordinates, Spectral Signatures
ABSTRACT: By exploring the Position-dependent mass Von Roos Hamiltonian under cylindrical coordinates settings, we discuss the separation of variables of Schrödinger equation. Two radial masses of a coulomb-type and a harmonic oscillator-type are considered, and the effects of various z-dependent interaction potentials on the spectra are studied. Keywords: Power-law potential, Position dependent-masses, cylindrically symmetric settings, exactly solvable models. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Discussion of Conservation Approaches for the Selected Heritage Buildings in the Walled City of Famagusta
ABSTRACT: The Walled City of Famagusta is a multi-layered city of several socio-cultural and architectural heritages, from various stratus of time, each strata contributing to the richness of the historic city of Famagusta. The evidence of the several layers of architecture can be seen all within the city. To sustain this multi-layered architectural richness, the conservation of these layers of architecture for future generations is vital. To conserve these periods of architecture in the Walled City of Famagusta requires exploration of varying conservation approaches that are internationally valid to provide guidelines for adaptive reuse purpose. The focus of this thesis is to discuss conservation approaches through adaptive reuse for some selected buildings located within the Walled City of Famagusta. Adaptive reuse, as undertaken within this thesis, does not just change the program or function of the spatial environment, but may also prolong the authenticity of cultural and natural heritage of the place. Therefore, the main focus here is to shed some light on conservation of the authentic qualities of heritage buildings while at the same time assigning new uses considering contemporary needs of the users. The core aim of this thesis to provide a foundation for the documentation and appreciation of several architectural conservation approaches for selected periods of architecture in the Walled City of Famagusta and to provide guidelines for efficient conservation through adaptive reuse that is peculiar to selected buildings which are internationally sound. This was to answer the research question which is “what are the various internationally valid architectural conservation approaches that can be adopted for selected architectural products of different periods in the Walled City of Famagusta?” The bases of this thesis are adopted and evaluated through five case studies from the Walled City of Famagusta, which represents various periods of architecture; they are Chimney House, Cafer Pasha Hammam, Old Police Station, Gazi Elementary School and Efecan Building Complex. To achieve the aim of this thesis a Qualitative research methods are adopted through document review of case studies and on-site investigation, and also a critical literature reviews on these topics; Architectural conservation, adaptive reuse, international documents of conservation, authenticity, space, current agenda of conservation, current legal legislation of conservation in North Cyprus. Authenticity measurements stated by the Nara Document on Authenticity are detailed to extract the authentic spatial qualities of the case studies and accordingly proposals are anticipated for the future of these spaces, based on the analysis. The results of this research shows the peculiarity of the various periods of architecture in the Walled City of Famagusta, with guidelines towards conservation through adaptive reuse and the international conservation principles and charters that can be adopted to meet the peculiar needs of each selected period of architecture. Keywords: Adaptive Reuse, International Documents of Conservation, Space, Authenticity, Walled City of Famagusta
The Role of Physical / Emotional Abuse and Neglect, Perceived Parental Style and Self-esteem on Emotional Intelligence among 4th and 5th Grade Primary School Children
Intelligence has several mental functions such as perceiving, memorizing, learning, thinking, abstracting and adapting to new conditions (Aydin, Leblebici, Arslan, Kilic & Oktem, 2005). Emotional intelligence was described as the attend to, ability to, understand and regulate emotions to lead thought and behavior (Salovey & Mayer, 1990 as cited in Alegre, 2011). In the current study, we examined the associations of physical / emotional abuse and neglect, perceived parental style and self-esteem with emotional intelligence. A total of 250 4th and 5th grade primary school children were recruited for the study from twelve public primary school in Northern Cyprus and at home based by using personal contacts. Participants filled four questionnaires; Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Scale – Child and Adolescent Form, Child Abuse Scale, Parental Attitude Scale and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. It was found that self-esteem and perceived authoritative attitude of parents significantly predicted emotional intelligence of 4th and 5th grade primary school children. Emotional abuse and perceived authoritarian attitude of parents were significant negatively correlated with emotional intelligence. However, emotional neglect and also, age, gender, mother education level and father education level were found to have absence of prediction role on emotional intelligence. In addition, physical abuse and neglect were not assessed in this current study because of their reliability analysis’ results. Based on these findings, further recommendations were presented. Keywords: Emotional intelligence, physical / emotional abuse, physical / emotional neglect, authoritative / authoritarian parental style, self-esteem.
High School Students' Learning Styles in North Cyprus
The present study aimed to identify high school students’ learning styles, high school students’ and teachers’ awareness of students’ learning styles, and how much teachers take those styles into consideration in their instruction in North Cyprus. The mixed research design was used in this research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in order to collect data. The population of the study included 9,500 students who enrolled in high schools and 1,500 teachers who engaged in teaching at those schools, and the sample of the study included 629 high school students and 8 teachers. The Turkish adapted form of the Grasha and Reichmann Learning Style Scale was used to gather information from students about their learning styles. Quantitative data were analyzed by arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Multivariate Analysis of Variances (MANOVA), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Least Significant Difference Test (LSDT) techniques. Also, semistructured interviews were administrated to both students and teachers to explore students’ learning style awareness, teachers’ awareness of their students’ learning styles and their consideration of those styles in their instruction. Through content analysis the thematic coding was implemented to analyze the qualitative data obtained from interviews. The results of the study revealed that students mostly preferred collaborative and competitive learning styles. Besides, it was found that students’ learning styles vary with respect to their gender, grade level and school type. Accordingly, female students are more competitive, collaborative, participant and dependent than male students whereas male students are more avoidant than female students. Grade 12 students are more independent than the other three grade levels’ students. General and science and English-medium high school students are more collaborative and more dependent than vocational high school students whereas vocational high school students are more avoidant than general and science and English-medium high school students. Furthermore, it was understood that students and teachers are not exactly aware of learning styles. Besides, teachers consider their students’ few learning styles, but not all the learning styles in their instruction.
Afyonkarahisar İl Merkezinde Yaşayan 18 Yaş ve Üzeri Kadınların Diyet Posasıyla İlgili Bilgi Düzeylerinin ve Posa Alım Miktarlarının Belirlenmesi
This study was conducted between November 2016 and June 2017 with 385 adult women in Afyonkarahisar. General characteristics of the individuals, information about their eating habits, 24 hour retrospective food consumption records were asked,anthropometric measurements were made. The highest consumption amount of fiber was (20.8 ± 3.7 g) in the 20-30 age group and the lowest (16.7 ± 4.4 g) in the 31-40 age group. According to occupational status, it was found that the lowest point (4.8±1.69) belonged to the self-employed and the highest average score (6.0±1.44) belonged to civil servant the group. There was no relationship between daily intake of fiber and dietary knowledge level scale scores (r=-0.028, p=0.582). The more number of samples to determine the relationship between the knowledge level of the diet and the fiber consumption, or planning the studies to be done by providing training in this area, may help to obtain more specific results.
Corruption and Insecurity: The Impetus of Underdevelopment in Nigeria
Since achieving its independence in 1960, Nigeria has struggled almost incomparably to achieve a measure of economic stability and realize its projected economic potential. Through successive regime changes from 1966, the Country alternatively swung from Civilian to Military rule until democracy and relative political stability was eventually restored in 1999. Nonetheless, the challenge of underdevelopment has endured throughout this period. Despite posting impressive figures via economic indicators and boasting what is now regarded as Africa‟s biggest economy, Nigerians still rank among the World‟s poorest people as the wealth of the nation miserably fails to reflect on the vast majority of its people. Several reasons have been nominated for this apparently inexplicable disparity between the Macro-economic and Micro-economic fortunes of the State, ranging from the tartuffery of the Colonial powers to sheer widespread incompetence that permeates society today. However, corruption and insecurity remain the most salient reasons underlying Nigeria‟s lack of development. Together, these twin-evils have become deeply entrenched at the base of the Nigerian social culture and have come to straddle the normative ethical distinction between right and wrong. This paper is aimed at investigating the Nigerian underdevelopment problem with the goal of identifying the causal factors that stunt political and economic efforts at development. The paper is divided into five chapters. The first chapter introduces the topic and key terms; the second chapter reviews the literature and notes some of the most notable scholarly contributions to the subject matter. The third chapter gives a robust historical analysis of the State with respect to the topic. This chapter enlightens the reader on the historical background on which this research is carried out. The fourth chapter conveys the Constructivist insights into the underdevelopment problem in Nigeria, in this chapter a thorough data analysis is carried out in order to validate the insistence on corruption and insecurity as primary causal factors. The fifth chapter contains the summaries, conclusions and predictions. Keywords: Underdevelopment, Corruption, Insecurity, Constructivism