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Implementation of Role-Playing Learning Models in Biology Lessons of High School Students
Authors: Gusmaweti  , Meiliza ARDILLA  , Wince Hendri  
Published: December 2022

This study aims to look at differences in biology learning outcomes using role playing models and conventional methods (lectures, discussions, question and answer) of class X SMA Negeri Lubuk Linggau. This type of research is experimental research. The population in the study were all students of class X SMA Negeri 1 Lubuk Linggau. Sampling was carried out by purposive sampling technique, then the determination of the experimental class and control class was carried out by random method. Obtained class X.1 as the experimental class, and class X.2 as the control class. The research instrument was used in the form of test questions for cognitive aspects of student learning outcomes, and observation sheets for affective and psychomotor aspects of learning outcomes. Hypothesis testing was carried out by t-test. The results showed that the average score for biology learning outcomes for students using Role Playing was 74.70 and 66.80 with conventional methods. There is a significant difference at the 0.05% alpha level. The results of observations of student learning in the experimental class affective aspects 90.8 and psychomotor and 91.3, while in the control class affective aspects 64.8 and psychomotor 66.6. It can be concluded that the application of the Role Playing method in biology learning is better than conventional learning.
Peformance Analysis of Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) as a 3-Phase AC Generator Excitation Voltage Supply Controller
Authors: Liliana Liliana 
Published: December 2022

Tegangan yang dihasilkan oleh generator akan senantiasa berubah karena beban yang terus berfluktuasi. Tegangan keluaran harus dijaga agar tetap konstan dalam nilai yang diinginkan untuk menjamin pasokan daya keluaran generator agar dapat memenuhi kebutuhan beban., maka dibutuhkan alat yang disebut dengan AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulator). AVR bertujuan mengatur besarnya arus eksitasi yang dipasok ke generator dan besarnya arus eksitasi berbanding lurus dengan besarnya tegangan yang dihasilkan oleh generator. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis unjuk kerja AVR dalam menjaga kestabilan tegangan dan daya keluaran generator. Pemantauan kinerja AVR yang dipasang pada generator dilaksanakan selama 31 hari. Hasil pemantauan dan analisis setelah generator dipasang AVR dapat diketahui bahwa tegangan keluaran berada dalam kestabilan dengan variasi nilai antara 11,59 kV sampai dengan 11,8 kV sedangkan daya keluaran generator juga masih dalam kestabilan dengan variasi nilai antara 38,1MW sampai dengan 38,3 MW.

Kata Kunci : Generator, Automatic Voltage Regulator, arus eksitasi, daya keluaran, tegangan keluaran
Evaluation of the Relationship between Psoas: lumbar Vertebral Index and Serum Inflammatory Markers in Elderly Patients
Authors: KARA Mustafa , BAYRAM Serkan 
Published: December 2022

Aims: We investigated the relationship between novel inflammatory parameters and Psoas:lumbar vertebra index (PLVI) in elderly patients and assessed which parameter would have a stronger relationship with sarcopenia.
Method: We retrospectively evaluated the prospective recorded data of patients aged over 65 who were admitted to our hospital between June 2019 and September 2020. We used the PLVI calculated using the cross-sectional area of the L4 vertebral body and the left and right psoas muscles by using computer tomography, to assess central sarcopenia. Laboratory tests were evaluated, which consisted of white blood cell (WBC), albumin, neutrophils, lymphocytes, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein, platelets, Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR).
Results: Six hundred and eleven patients (351 females and 260 males) with a mean age (and standard deviation) of 73.7 ± 6.8years were included in this study. Statistically significant relationships were found between age and PLVI. Patient age was also significant correlated with albumin, platelets, lymphocytes, hemoglobin, and NLR. Statistically significant relationships were found between gender and PLVI. Gender was also significant correlated with albumin, platelets, lymphocytes, hemoglobin, and NLR. Psoas:lumbar vertebral index was significantly correlated with platelets and hemoglobin.
Conclusion: According to our results, the inflammatory panel, which included NLR, PLR, CRP, and WBC, were not significantly associated with low PLVI in elderly Turkish people. Central sarcopenia was detected especially in elderly and female participants. Although the inflammatory markers were not associated with sarcopenia, platelet and hemoglobin levels were observed to be significantly correlated with sarcopenia.
Exploring the Effects of Lucilia sericata Larvae on Biofilm-forming Bacteria in Wounds
Authors: EGRİBEL Merve , SİREKBASAN Serhat , ÇAKAN Hüseyin , POLAT Erdal 
Published: December 2022

Objective: Biofilm-induced chronic wound infections are among the most significant causes of treatment failures. Healing chronic wounds with biofilm is a major issue worldwide due to high costs and adverse effects on patients. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impacts of Lucilia sericata larvae on biofilm-forming bacteria in chronic wounds.
Method: We recruited 30 patients applying to Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research and Application Center, Wound Healing Unit, between December 2019 and March 2021. We obtained swab cultures before and immediately after applying Larval Debridement Therapy (LDT). After identifying isolated bacteria, we examined all agents by susceptibility and biofilm formation.
Results: While isolating only a single bacterial genus/species in 19 patients, we could detect more than one bacterial genus/species in 11 of them. Moreover, we observed biofilm formation in bacteria isolated from 21 patients, but it was not the case in bacteria grown in 9 patients. Following LDT, we discovered that the biofilm layer on wounds was removed in a short time (two to three sessions).
Conclusion: Although many methods are adopted in healing chronic wounds with biofilm formation, they often remain ineffective. The therapy with L. sericata larvae, a simple and effective method, may promote rapid healing of biofilm-forming wounds.
The Long-Term Results Of Suture And Graft Techniques Used To Increase Tip Projection and Rotation In Open Technique Septorhinoplasty
Authors: CAN Sermin , BAYINDIR Tuba , ERDEM Tamer , TOPRAK Serdar Ferit 
Published: December 2022

Background: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the long-term results of suture and graft techniques used to increase tip projection and rotation in Open Technique Septorhinoplasty.
Methods: In this study, the data of 89 patients who underwent Open Technique Septorhinoplasty were analysed retrospectively. The patients were divided into groups 1,2,3,4 and 5 according to the suture and graft techniques used. Preoperative and postoperative photographs of all patients included in the study at the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 12th, 36th and 60th months were analyzed. To measure and compare these techniques, tip projection and rotation losses were measured on all photographs using a computer program called Imagej.
Results: A statistically significant increase was found between the preoperative mean Nasolabial Angle (NLA), Type Angle (TA), Byrd–Hobar Method (BHM) and Nasofacial Angle (NFsA) measurement values and the measurement values at 36th months postoperatively in Groups 1 and 4 (p < 0.05). In Group 2, a statistically significant increase was found between preoperative mean NLA, TA and BHM measurement values and postoperative 36th month measurement values (p < 0.05). In group 1 only, there was a statistically significant difference between the preoperative mean TA, BHM, Simons Method (SM), Goode Method (GM) and Powell-Modified Baum Method (PMBM) measurement values and the postoperative measurement values at 60th months (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: Our results showed that suture techniques were more effective on projection and rotation than graft techniques in the long term.
Nerve Conduction Studies in post COVID-19 Patients Without Neuropathic Complaints
Authors: ÖZDOĞRU Derya , ERDEM Miray , FİDANCİ Halit , ARLİER Zülfikar 
Published: December 2022

Objective: Neurological diseases related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are known. In this study, it was aimed to find out whether the peripheral nervous system is affected in patients with a history of COVID-19 (post COVID-19) without neurological findings.
Methods: Patients with a positive history of the nose swap polymerase chain reaction test and clinical signs of COVID-19 (post COVID-19 patients), and controls who have not had COVID-19 were included in this retrospective cohort study. Neurological examinations of post-COVID-19 patients and controls should have been normal. Nerve conduction studies including median, ulnar, posterior tibial and peroneal nerves were applied to all participants.
Results: Thirty controls (14 males, 16 females) and 32 post COVID-19 patients (19 males, 13 females) were included. The mean ages of postCOVID-19 patients and controls were 49.7±10.9 and 38.0±7.6 years, respectively. Age and gender were not different between post COVID-19 patients and controls (p=0.122, p=0.316122). Nerve conduction study findings of median, ulnar, posterior tibial and sural nerves were not different between the two groups (p>0.05).
Conclusion: This study may show that routine nerve conduction studies are not subclinically affected in post COVID-19 patients without neurological findings.
Vaccine Hesitation in Parents of Children with Food Allergy
Authors: KAN Ahmet , TÜRE Mehmet , YILMAZ Kamil , AKIN Alper , KARTAL Gülşah , ŞEN Velat 
Published: December 2022

Objective: The term vaccine hesitation means “rejection or delay of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services”. Parents may delay the vaccination of their children when their children have a history of food allergies. The present study aims to evaluate the factors about vaccine hesitancy of parents with food allergic children.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey research, created by the researchers, was conducted to the parents of children who were already followed up with food allergy by the pediatric allergy department.
Results: The parents of 190 children with a median age of 24 (2-60) months who were followed up for food allergy were included in the study. The median follow-up period of the patients was 15.5 (4–160). Forty-four (23.1%) participants had delayed at least one vaccination of their children due to food allergy in the past. The most common vaccine hesitancy was toward the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. The study also found that there were more delays in vaccination in children with egg allergy (100%) than in those without egg allergy (75.3%) (p = 0.01). As a result of our study, it was determined that the most frequent information about vaccination was obtained from doctors (89.5%)
Conclusions: It was understood that a substantial proportion of parents with food allergic children had vaccine hesitancy in the past. Families obtaining complete and accurate information about food allergy and vaccine interactions, especially from the health system, will prevent unnecessary delay due to vaccine hesitations.
Relationship Between Systemic Immune Inflammation Index and Prognosis in Patients with COVID-19
Authors: NERGİZ Sebnem , OZTURK Onder 
Published: December 2022

Objectives: Inflammation and coagulation perform a substantial act in the pathophysiology of COVID-19 cases. The systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) is a novel prognosis and inflamation index. In this study, we aimed to research the relation between SII and prognosis in COVID-19 patients.
Methods: 315 cases (males, 136 ; females, 179 ; 63.2 ± 11.4 years) with positive PCR and lung tomography evidences compatible with COVID-19 pneumonia were recorded in the research. Patients were separated into 2 groups according to the mortality (Group 1; Surviving patients, Group 2; Ex patients). Clinical, demographic, and laboratory datas for whole patients were registered Laboratory datas were measured from blood parameters taken during hospitalization. The SII was calculated as “ SII = neutrophil count × platelet count / lymphocyte count ”.
Results: The mean hospital stay of the patients is 12 (5-26) days. When the patients were assessment of according to clinical features, an important distinction was found between the two groups according to age, gender, cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure, neurolvascular disease, and diabetes mellitus. When the patients were evaluated according to laboratory parameters, white blood cells, neutrophils, creatinine, D-Dimer, ferritin, CRP values were observed to be significantly higher in Group 2 patients than Group-1 patients. However, lymphocyte count, serum potassium level, albumin and calcium levels were observed to be significantly lower in Group-2 patients than in Group-1 patients. SII level was significantly higher in Group 2 patients than Group-1 patients (1813.4 ±118.7 vs 978.2 ± 93.1, p
Cardiac Findings on Non-Contrast Thoracic Tomography in Patients with Acromegaly
Authors: KESKİN Lezan , ILGAR Mehtap , YAPRAK Bulent , AKÇİÇEK Mehmet , ASLANTÜRK Okan 
Published: December 2022

Aim: Acromegaly occurs as a result of excessive and permanent secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary. Mortality is mostly related to cardiovascular system involvement. In our study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation between epicardial fat volume (EFV) and growth hormone level in thorax computed tomography in patients with acromegaly and coronary artery calcification, pulmonary artery diameter, ascending aorta diameter, cardiothoracic ratio (CTO) measurements with the control group patients.
Method: Our study was retrospective and included 16 patients with acromegaly who were previously diagnosed and treated by the endocrinology clinic and a control group consisting of 32 patients matched for gender and age.In thorax CT, EFV measurement of the patients was performed and main pulmonary artery diameters, ascending aorta diameters, cardio thoracic ratios, presence of coronary artery calcification were evaluated.
Results: The number of patients with large ascending aorta was higher in patients with acromegaly and it was statistically significant (p=0.041). Although the rate of patients with large main pulmonary artery diameter was higher in patients with acromegaly, no significant difference was found between the groups (p=0.355). There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of increased CTO (p=0.818) and coronary artery calcification (p=0.157).
Conclusion: In our study, a difference was found between the acromegaly and control group patients only in terms of ascending aorta diameters, but no significant difference was found in terms of other parameters. We think that regular follow-up and treatment of patients is effective in this result. Cardiovascular risks can be reduced in patients with acromegaly with early diagnosis, regular follow-up and treatment.
Akne Vulgaris Tanılı Erişkinlerde Hastalık Şiddetinin Depresyon, Anksiyete, Beden Algısı, Uyku Kalitesi, Cinsel İşlevler ile İlişkisi ve Tedavi Sonrasındaki Değişimi
Authors: YILBAŞ Barış , YILDIRIM Fatmaelif 
Published: December 2022

Amaç: Bu çalışma, akne vulgaris tanılı erişkenlerde hastalık şiddetinin bireylerin depresif yakınmaları, anksiyete belirtileri, beden algıları, uyku kaliteleri ve cinsel işlevler ile ilişkisini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Ayrıca rutin ilaç tedavileri sonrasında bu parametrelerdeki değişimin incelenmesi hedeflenmektedir.
Yöntemler: Çalışmamıza 46 gönüllü dahil edilmiştir. Katılımcılara AV tanısıyla başlanan rutin ilaç tedavileri öncesinde sosyodemografik veri formu, Hastane Anksiyete ve Depresyon Ölçeği, Vücut Algısı Ölçeği, Arizona Cinsel Yaşantılar Ölçeği (ACYÖ), Pittsburgh Uyku Kalitesi İndeksi (PUKİ) ve Akne Yaşam Kalitesi Ölçeği (AYKÖ) uygulanmıştır. Ayrıca gönüllülerin akne şiddetini belirlemek amacıyla ilk tanı aldıklarında Global Akne Derecelendirme Sistemi (GADS) kullanılmıştır. Çalışmamızın ikinci aşamasında üç aylık rutin ilaç tedavisi kullanan gönüllüler ilk aşamada uygulanan ölçeklerle tekrar değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırmanın ikinci aşamasını 20 gönüllü tamamlamıştır.
Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan gönüllülerin yaş ortalaması 23.80±4.5 yıl idi. Gönüllülerin 33’ü (%71.7) kadın, 13’ü (%28.3) erkekti. Çalışmamızdaki gönüllülerin GADS ortalama puanları 18.21±6.75 idi. Uygulanan ölçeklerin GADS puanı ile ilişkisi Pearson korelasyon analizi ile incelendi. Buna göre GADS puanıyla AYKÖ skorları arasında pozitif yönde korelasyon mevcuttu (r=0.655, p
HIV ile Yaşayan Bireylerde İmmunolojik ve İnflamatuar Belirteçler ile Karotis Arter İntima-Media Kalınlığı Arasındaki İlişkinin Araştırılması
Authors: DAMAR ÇAKIRCA Tuba , GÖKTEPELİ Mehmet , BAL Tayibe 
Published: December 2022

Amaç: Bu çalışmada HIV ile yaşayan bireylerde (HİYB) immünolojik belirteçler olan CD4, CD8, CD4/CD8; inflamatuar parametrelerden C-reaktif protein (CRP), Eritrosit sedimentasyon hızı (ESH), prokalsitonin, D-dimer; hemogram sonuçlarından elde edilen nötrofil/lenfosit oranı (NLR), platelet/lenfosit oranı (PLR) ve CRP/lenfosit oranı (CLR) değerleri ile karotis arter intima-media kalınlığı (CIMT) arasında ilişki olup olmadığının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Yöntemler: Bu kesitsel, tek merkezli çalışmaya Haziran 2020- Kasım 2021 tarihleri arasında merkezimizde takipli, 18-40 yaş aralığında olup ek hastalığı (obezite, kardiyovasküler hastalık, diyabetes mellitus, hipertansiyon) olmayan, antiretroviral tedavi (ART) alan, HIV-RNA’sı negatif olan (viral suprese) 49 HİYB dahil edildi. Hastaların demografik, antropometrik ve laboratuvar verileri kaydedildi. Her hastanın CIMT ölçümü B-mode Ultrasonografi ile yapıldı. Subklinik ateroskleroz için CIMT cut-off değeri 0.9 mm kabul edildi.
Bulgular: Olguların medyan ART kullanım süresi 19 (8-43) ay, medyan CD4 sayısı 605 (438-913) hücre/μL, sağ CIMT ölçüm medyan değeri 0.48 mm (0.42-0.58) ve sol CIMT medyan değeri 0.46 mm (0.41-0.58) olarak saptandı. Hiçbir hastada plak formasyonu gözlenmedi. Medyan CIMT ile ART kullanım süresi arasında pozitif ve düşük orta düzeyde (rho=0.341, p=0.016), medyan CIMT ile yaş arasında ise pozitif ve orta düzeyde bir korelasyon saptandı (rho=0.517, p
An Assessment of the Impact of Round Wood Collection on Deforestation in Benue State, Nigeria
Authors: Akpa Amona Adah , Onuh Sixtus Samuel , Kabuk V Elias , Julian Chukwuemeka Ibe 
Published: December 2022

Purpose: The high cost of alternative sources of household energy and steel in Nigeria is aggravating the dependence on forest frontiers in search of forest wood for construction, charcoal production, and fuel wood gathering for heating. This necessitates the study to access the impact of Round Wood Collection (proxies as Tree Logging, Charcoal Production, and Fuel Wood Collection) on Deforestation in Benue State, Nigeria.
Methodology: A survey design research was used for the study with the instrument of a structured questionnaire administered to 400 respondents determined by Taro Yamane’s (1967) sampling formula and selected through two-stage sampling techniques across nine (9) Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Benue State. The data elicited from the field was analyzed through descriptive statistics and a regression with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 23.
Findings: The result showed a significant positive relationship between Round Wood Collection (RWC) and Deforestation (DEF) in Benue State, implying that DEF in Benue State will increase significantly by 24.4%, 44.7%, and 28.4% as a result of a percent change in the rate of Tree Logging, Charcoal Production, and Fuel Wood Collection respectively in the state.
Conclusion: The study concludes that RWC impacts negatively on the forests and vegetation cover in Benue State which has a negative ripple effect on biodiversity, the ozone layer, ecosystem functioning, and livelihoods of forest fringe communities.
Recommendation: The study recommends that the Benue State government should increase funding to the State Department of Forestry and employ adequate forest personnel to enhance forest management and revenue yields from the forests.
Ex Ante Allusions
Authors: Holt Jason 
Published: December 2022

We tend to think of allusions as indirect references to objects that already exist. Here I argue against this post facto orthodoxy and for the view that certain cases of allusion count as ex ante allusions (i.e. allusions before the fact). I argue that the standard view conflates the epistemic dependence of allusion (knowledge of the object of allusion) with an existential dependence (the object must already exist). As an adequate account of allusion should explain both the apparent paradoxical character and the possibility of ex ante allusions, I propose that literary allusions should be understood in terms of what might be called reference from rather than reference to.
Persistent Autonomy and Romanticism
Authors: Doorman Maarten 
Published: December 2022

Autonomy in the arts is generally considered an outdated concept, an atavism that is only relevant to outsiders and to people who have a mere traditional, if not completely obsolete understanding of the artistic and aesthetic field. Autonomy in this view has little to do with contemporary discussions about art and artistic practices. The very first sentence of a recent study about autonomy in literature, Andrew Goldstone’s Fictions of Autonomy (2013) for example reads: ‘In literary studies, we regard aesthetic autonomy as an idea whose time has passed.’
Instead of repeating the historicity and irrelevance of the autonomy concept it may be interesting to ask why it has been criticised so often while continuing to reappear again and again. If we keep in mind Peter Bürger’s analysis in his classic Theory of the Avant-Garde (1984), that the Avant-Garde failed to abolish autonomy in the arts and that this appeared to be impossible in what he calls ‘late capitalist society’, it may still be worthwhile to ask ourselves, how to understand the tenacious belief in autonomy, a belief that has so often been abolished yet and is still present everywhere. In doing so we’d better go back to the emergence of the belief in autonomy in the art history of the last few centuries rather than adding still another explanation about the irrelevancy of the concept.
The Cognitive Value of Blade Runner
Authors: McGregor Rafe 
Published: December 2022

The purpose of this essay is to argue that Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 2007) has cognitive value which is inseparable from its value as a work of cinema. I introduce the cinematic philosophy debate in §1. §2 sets out my position: that the Final Cut affirms the proposition there is no necessary relation between humanity and human beings. I outline the combination of cinematic depiction with distinctive features of the narrative’s peripeteia in §3. In §4, I explain the cognitive value of the peripeteia.
Inaugurating Philosophy of Film Without Theory
Authors: Fox Craig , Harrison Britt 
Published: December 2022

Philosophy of film without theory is a methodology that aims to motivate and legitimise the current and future development of a range of a-, non-, and anti-theoretical ways of working at the intersection of film and philosophy. We contrast philosophy of film without theory with the main traditions of theoretically orientated philosophy of film, as well as philosophically inflected film Theory and film-philosophy. We also draw attention to the range of philosophical practices and pursuits that distinguish philosophy (in general) without theory and contemporary philosophy (in general) with its near ubiquitous theoretical presumption. The paper finishes with a brief introduction to the various contributions to this Special Issue of Aesthetic Investigations on Philosophy of Film Without Theory.