Feedback and emotions in the trust game

We conduct an experiment on the impact of feedback in the Trust Game. In our treatment group, the Trustee has the opportunity to give feedback to the Investor (free in choice of wording and contents). The feedback option is found to reduce the share of Investors who sent no resources to the Trustee, while the impact on average behavior is less pronounced. The notion proposed by Xiao and Houser (2005, PNAS) according to which verbal feedback and monetary sanctions are substitutes is not supported. We use the PANAS-scale (Mackinnon et al., 1999) to capture change in subjects' short-run affective state during the experiment. Receiving feedback has an impact on the Investors' short-run affective state but giving feedback is not found to have an effect on Trustees' short-run affective state

A Conceptual Framework to Explain Transition of Intercultural Communication Conflict, Social Environment and Personality

This study conceptually examines a comprehensive framework that integrates intercultural communication competence (ICC) as a key perspective to better understand intercultural communication conflict in multicultural social environment. Although numerous researchers have studied extensive topics of intercultural communication in various literatures, none have conceptualized on the critical role of ICC or incorporated the construct as a major predictor to intercultural communication conflict and loyalty. ICC explains the ability to consider and internalize the various cultural settings to appropriately manage and build an effective communication in the multicultural atmosphere. ICC, which deals with having the right intercultural mind set, skill and sensitivity is crucial for intercultural encounters particularly in the culturally diverse societies. While, ICC has generated a lot of recent interest amongst scholars and practitioners, there is still a gap on the conceptualization to support or validate its theoretical claims. Hence, the study exposes additional insights into some practical and conceptual solutions for addressing the intercultural communication of culturally diverse encounters in culturally diverse social environment. These contributions postulate an impetus for future research in various service settings

The Role of Social Environment and Personality: Validation of Antecedents of Intercultural Communication Competence and its Effects on Customer Satisfaction

The article aims to better understand the impact of intercultural communication, social environment and personality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in grocery retailing. In this endeavour, the study illustrates the unique context of intercultural communication, to highlight several improvements in the literature, and to encourage the advancement of the intercultural communication in the literature. To initiate the research, a survey approach was taken. 681 questionnaires were returned out of 1100 that were distributed within selected grocery retailers in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The measurement of the constructs and their interrelationships are examined based on partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings validate the proposed framework with statistically significant relationships among all constructs. Furthermore, it exposes additional insights into some practical and conceptual solutions for addressing the intercultural communication of culturally diverse encounters in the Malaysian grocery retail industry. These contributions postulate an impetus for future research in various service settings. Based on the theories, the study assesses the role of the social environment of grocery retail consumers and their personalities on intercultural communication competence (ICC) and its impact on inter-role congruence and interaction comfort. It is anticipated that by filling this knowledge gap, the research will assist in strengthening retail communication strategies, which require intercultural communication adjustments in a multicultural business environment. The ICC is expected to improve the retail industry competitiveness when it positively influences inter-role congruence and interaction comfort among customers

Colonic perforation during barium enema in a patient without known colonic disease: a case report

The barium enema is a safe and accurate diagnostic study of the colon but, in rare cases, causes complications, such as colonic perforation. A colon weakened by iatrogenic trauma due to the enema tip and/or retention balloon, or by disease is more likely to perforate during an enema than is a normal healthy bowel. Rarely the colon may burst due to excessive transmural pressure alone. We report a case of colonic perforation during barium enema in a 72-year-old female patient, due to excessive barium applied into the rectum

Generative Language Models on Nucleotide Sequences of Human Genes

Language models, primarily transformer-based ones, obtained colossal success in NLP. To be more precise, studies like BERT in NLU and works such as GPT-3 for NLG are very crucial. DNA sequences are very close to natural language in terms of structure, so if the DNA-related bioinformatics domain is concerned, discriminative models, like DNABert, exist. Yet, the generative side of the coin is mainly unexplored to the best of our knowledge. Consequently, we focused on developing an autoregressive generative language model like GPT-3 for DNA sequences. Because working with whole DNA sequences is challenging without substantial computational resources, we decided to carry out our study on a smaller scale, focusing on nucleotide sequences of human genes, unique parts in DNA with specific functionalities, instead of the whole DNA. This decision did not change the problem structure a lot due to the fact that both DNA and genes can be seen as 1D sequences consisting of four different nucleotides without losing much information and making too much simplification. First of all, we systematically examined an almost entirely unexplored problem and observed that RNNs performed the best while simple techniques like N-grams were also promising. Another beneficial point was learning how to work with generative models on languages we do not understand, unlike natural language. How essential using real-life tasks beyond the classical metrics such as perplexity is observed. Furthermore, checking whether the data-hungry nature of these models can be changed through selecting a language with minimal vocabulary size, four owing to four different types of nucleotides, is examined. The reason for reviewing this was that choosing such a language might make the problem easier. However, what we observed in this study was it did not provide that much of a change in the amount of data needed

İbn Sînâ’nın Bilinmeyen Bir Eseri: Yetkinlik ve Müşâhede Bağlamında Üsûlûcyâ Yorumu

Bu çalışmada, İbn Sînâ felsefesinde nefis-akıl ilişkisinin özünü oluşturan entelektüel deneyim ekseninde filozofun Kitâbü’l-İnsâf’ta Üsûlûcyâ üzerine kaleme aldığı Tefsîru Kitâbi Üsûlûcyâ başlıklı yorumu mercek altına alınmıştır. Bu bağlamda, araştırmamızın çatısını temel olarak iki bölüm oluşturmaktadır. Birinci bölümde, Üsûlûcyâ yorumunun odağında İbn Sînâ’da entelektüel deneyimin kavramsal boyutunu ifade eden yetkinlik fikri ele alınmıştır. İkinci bölümde ise, söz konusu deneyimin görsel boyutuna tekabül eden müşâhede tecrübesi incelenmiştir. Metinler arası bir okuma gerçekleştirdiğimiz bu incelemenin temel amacı, bir taraftan Üsûlûcyâ yorumu ile Kitâbü’ş-Şifâ ve el-İşârât ve’t-tenbîhât gibi ana eserler başta olmak üzere İbn Sînâ külliyatı arasında mukayese yaparak İbn Sînâ’nın yorumlarının onun öteki eserlerinde benimsediği felsefî ilkeleri yansıtıp yansıtmadığının izini sürmek, diğer taraftan İbn Sînâ’nın sistemi açısından Tefsîru Kitâbi Üsûlûcyâ’nın bize ne kattığı sorusuna cevap aramaktır. Bunun için, metinsel karşılaştırma metodunun yanı sıra, eleştirel okuma ve sistematik analiz yöntemlerine de müracaat edilmiştir. Sonuçta, Tefsîru Kitâbi Üsûlûcyâ’nın İbn Sînâ’nın felsefî sisteminin temelleriyle uyum içinde olduğu ve modern literatürde büyük ölçüde göz ardı edilmiş olmasına rağmen esasında filozofun devasa külliyatı içerisinde mümtaz bir konuma sahip olduğu görülmüştür

Deneysel hemorajik şokta histamin stimülasyonundan önce ve sonra gastrik asit ve kan gastrin değerleri

Tez (tıpta uzmanlık) - Anadolu ÜniversitesiAnadolu Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Tıpta UzmanlıkKayıt no: 12357Bu çalışmada şokta mide sekresyon kapasitesinin ne olduğunu belirlemek amacıyla hemorajik şok oluşturulan deney hayvanlarında mide suyu sekresyon miktarı ile mide asit sekresyonu ve kan gastrin düzeyini inceledik. Bu ölçümleri histamin stimülasyonundan sonra tekrarladık. Şok öncesi ve şokta histamin stimülasyonundan sonra mide sekresyon durumu, total hacim olarak ve asit sekresyonu yönünden değerlendirdik. Ayrıca şok öncesi, şok ve stimülasyondan sonraki serum gastrin değerlerini inceledik. Kontrol grubunda stimülasyondan sonra gerek mide suyu sekresyon miktarı gerekse total ve serbest asit de önemli düzeyde artma görüldü. Kan gastrin değerlerinde ise stimülasyondan 15 dakika sonra başlangıç değerlerinin altına 30 dakika sonra ise başlangıç değerlerinin üstünde olduğu saptandı. Deney grubunda ise, şokta gerek mide suyu sekresyonu gerekse total ve serbest asit miktarlarında önemli ölçüde azalma oldu. Gastrin değerleri şokta ve stimülasyondan sonra yükseldi

Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of the Generalized Pliance Questionnaire

Bu çalışmada, teorik temelini Skinner’ın oluşturduğu kural-güdümlü davranış türlerinden biri olan itaat davranışının ölçülmesi amacıyla geliştirilen Kurala İtaat Ölçeği’nin (KİÖ) Türkçe formunun psikometrik özellikleri Türk toplumunda incelendi. Çalışma, yaş aralığı 18–62 yıl (29,18±10,05) olan 209 kadın (%69,2) ve 93 erkek (%30,8) olmak üzere toplam 302 kişiden oluşan bir toplum örnekleminde gerçekleştirildi. Yakınsak geçerlilik çalışması için KİÖ ile birlikte 175 kişiye Otantiklik Ölçeği (OÖ), Sosyal Onay İhtiyacı Ölçeği (SOİÖ) ve Horney-Coolidge Üç Boyut Envanteri (HCÜBE) uygulandı. Yakınsak geçerlilik için yapılan korelasyon analizi sonucunda ölçekler arasında anlamlı korelasyon katsayıları elde edildi. Ölçeğin Cronbach alfa katsayısı 0,92 olarak bulundu. Test-tekrar test analizi sonuçlarına göre, dört hafta ara ile uygulanan iki ölçüm arasındaki korelasyon katsayısı 0,60 olarak bulundu. Doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda, uyum iyiliği indeks değerleri gereken düzeyde bulundu ve orijinal çalışmada önerilen model doğrulandı. Sonuç olarak çalışmadan elde edilen veriler, KİÖ’nün güçlü psikometrik özelliklere sahip ve Türk toplumundaki klinik araştırmalarda kullanıma uygun bir ölçüm aracı olduğunu göstermektedir.In this study, the psychometric properties of the Turkish form of the Generalized Pliance Questionnaire (GPQ), which was developed to measure pliance behavior, one of the rule-governed behavior types that have a theoretical basis formed by Skinner, were examined in the Turkish community. This study included 302 people, consisting of 209 women (69.2%) and 93 men (30.8%), aged between 18 and 62 years (29.18±10.05). For the convergent validity study, in addition to the application of GPQ, the Authenticity Scale, the Need for Social Approval Scale, and the Horney-Coolidge Tridimensional Inventory were administered to 175 individuals. As a result of the correlation analysis for convergent validity, significant correlation coefficients were obtained between the scales. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.92. According to the test–retest results applied at 4-week intervals, the correlation coefficient between the two applications was 0.60. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the goodness-of-fit index values were found at the required level and the proposed model in the original study was confirmed. In conclusion, the data obtained in this study shows that the GPQ is a measurement tool with strong psychometric properties and is suitable for use in clinical studies in the Turkish community

Evaluations of Urban Seating Design Criteria in Case of Zorlu Center and Margi Outlet Malls

The aim of the research is to reveal the criteria for improving the design and usage quality of seating furniture. In the scope of the research; The importance of seating elements, location selection, function and ergonomics, material and comfort issues were examined, the design criteria of seating elements were determined and a checklist was created for the design of seating elements according to these criteria. The checklist was examined by on-site detection and observation methods on the seating elements in two shopping malls, one for the upper income group and the other for the middle income group. As a result of the study, it was concluded that more attention should be paid to the conformity of function, social comfort and safety issues, especially in the design of seating areas

The construction client satisfaction model: a PLS-SEM approach

The satisfaction of the client is of utmost importance in procuring future projects; however, anecdotally client satisfaction (CS) is not adequately considered in many developing countries. Factors associated with the influence of service quality (SQ) on construction client satisfaction and how it affects their behavioural intentions in Cambodia are investigated. A theoretical structural model was developed to investigate the influence of five SQ factors on CS and their links to the future behavioural intentions of the client. A partial least square approach of the structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyse data collected from a questionnaire survey of 227 participants comprising the clients of small and medium size projects. The structural model adapts 22 attributes across five SQ factors, namely: reliability; responsiveness; assurance; empathy, and tangible factors. PLS-SEM outcomes confirmed that the future behavioural intentions of the client are influenced by their satisfaction over the service excellence provided by construction companies. Moreover, treating every client individually and demonstrating an approachable attitude towards their needs will increase their satisfaction with the experience they had with a contractor. Findings and recommendations of the study may be useful to construction companies who are seeking ways to improve CS in developing countries