Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Background and Objectives The official number of daily cases and deaths are the most prominent indicators used to plan actions against the COVID-19 pandemic but are insufficient to see the real impact. Official numbers vary due to testing policy, reporting methods, etc. Therefore, critical interventions are likely to lose their effectiveness and be...
Published in Environmental monitoring and assessment
This study aims to determine the 1-year change over the pandemic period in Istanbul, the megacity with the highest population in Turkey, based on environmental components. Among the environmental topics, water consumption habits, changes in air quality, changes due to noise elements, and most importantly, the changes in usage habits of disposable p...
This thesis has been commissioned by the Delft University of Technology for the course AR2A011 Architectural History Thesis. This thesis focusses on the city of Istanbul. Istanbul enjoyed a unique status as the capital city of two great civilisations: the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Over the centuries, the city absorbed and reflected t...
Published in Cities (London, England)
The present study aims to examine the relationship between urban vitality, healthy environment and density through the city of Istanbul, which is going through the Covid-19 outbreak. In this context, an online survey was conducted to measure the assessments of the residents living in districts with different density categories regarding the neighbo...
Le chapitre explore une approche du changement en terme de rapport social : dans les cas évoqués, la conduite et la survenue du changement peuvent révéler une partition entre acteurs changés et changeurs. L’analyse montre comment, dans le champ urbain, plusieurs dynamiques complexifient et enrichissent cette partition, et les questions ou apories q...
The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between spatial configuration and spatial quality, and how they affect each other. Spatial quality is a sophisticated concept and encompasses physical, social, economic, cultural and environmental components. Urban squares reflect these parameters and also play a decisive role in urban ident...
De l’Asie centrale jusqu’à l’Anatolie, le contact des langues iraniennes et turciques couvre une zone géographique assez large ; le contact entre le kurde et le turc se situe à l’extrême ouest de ce continuum. Les politiques linguistiques menées en Turquie à partir du 20e siècle montrent un processus de minorisation de plus en plus amplifié du kurd...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The study investigated the concentration and distribution features of culturable airborne fungi (CAF) in indoor air for four public transport vehicles (bus, metro, metrobus, and ferry) in Istanbul. The collection of indoor air samples was performed from each transport vehicle in both directions once a month from March 2017 to February 2018. The hig...
Published in Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
Background: A novel type of Coronavirus emerged at Wuhan in late 2019 involving preferentially the respiratory system. Owing to the rapid spread, almost 22 million people became infected and 700,000 died. Similar to other countries, the need for additional hospital beds and intensive care units required diversion of health care resources toward the...
Published in Turkish Thoracic Journal
OBJECTIVE: Turkey has recently adopted the regulation of plain and standard packaging for tobacco products and introduced newly designed combined health warnings. In this study, we aimed to reveal how the new combined health warnings are perceived among medical students. Material and Methods: The study was descriptive and the data were collected by...
