Mersin University is a public university, built in 1992 in Mersin province, Turkey. It has about 39,000 students, 1,813 academic staff, and a number of foreign and guest academic staff.The university has research and sports facilities, in Mersin town centre and in other towns.In 2005 the Mersin Technology Development Zone (Technoscope) was set up, creating a partnership between the university's research and development departments and industry, with the aim of developing new technologies that could be directly translated into industrial production.
Employee well-being is often approached as an individual experience while also being shaped by shared workplace conditions, relationships, and emotional dynamics. Moving beyond this individual focus, this chapter develops a collective socio-emotional health perspective that situates well-being within the broader organizational environment. It examines how relational, cultural, and psychosocial factors shape shared work experiences and influence employee health. Linking these processes to human sustainability highlights the importance of organizational conditions that support health, capabilities, and meaningful participation over time. Collective socio-emotional health integrates individual experiences and workplace relationships within a broader understanding of healthy and sustainable workplaces.
The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) has globally influenced land administration through its Cadastre 2014 vision and subsequent LADM standards. T & uuml;rkiye has been modernizing its land registry and cadastre system accordingly. The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC) manages approximately 17 million annual transactions, including about 3.4 million conveyancing (long-term averages). To reduce congestion in Land Registry Offices (LROs), notaries were authorized to issue sales contracts in June 2022. This study investigates the effects of this change within the Cadastre 2014/2034 framework in terms of the maturity of the Turkish Land Administration System (LAS) and also by linking the issue to broader debates within land management and governance. A survey of 140 GDLRC experts revealed that notary involvement currently offers limited time and financial benefits to citizens and does not significantly reduce LRO workload. The central factor for this limitation is evaluated to be the maturity of Turkish LAS. On the other hand, the initiative aligns with Cadastre 2014's fifth statement, which advocates public-private collaboration, and therefore it should be further evolved. Within this evolution, administrative/managerial fixes and training programmes for notaries in the short term, management of all internal and external RRRs via LAS as a spatial data infrastructure service in line with LADM standards in the medium term, and betterment of institutional coordination, public responsibility development and capacity building in the long term are proposed for a better eventual land administration and management towards local and national good land governance.
Aim This study aimed to compare the effects of swaddling, holding, and combined swaddling and holding, and routine care during body weight measurement in healthy term neonates on comfort levels, heart rate (HR), and peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2). Methods This single-center, parallel-arm RCT was conducted in the neonatal follow-up clinic of a tertiary referral university hospital in Türkiye from February 13 to March 3, 2026. Ninety-six healthy neonates meeting the inclusion criteria were randomly assigned to four intervention groups using block randomization: Routine Care (n = 24), Swaddling (n = 24), Holding (n = 24), Swaddling + Holding (n = 24). Data were collected using the Information and Observation Form and the COMFORTneo Scale. Comfort and physiological variables were assessed 2 min before, during, and 1 and 2 min after the procedure. Results Comfort scores were lowest in the Swaddling group (F(9,276) = 77.80, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.72). Routine Care had the highest mean HR, while Swaddling and Swaddling + Holding had lower HR values (F(9,276) = 33.66, p < 0.001; ηp2 = 0.52). The Swaddling group had the highest mean SpO2 (F(9,276) = 17.11, p < 0.001; ηp2 = 0.36). Conclusion Within this single-center sample of healthy term neonates, swaddling was associated with higher comfort and smaller changes in HR and SpO2 during body weight measurement than routine care or parental holding. Practice Implication Nurses may consider implementing a standardized swaddling protocol during routine weighing of healthy term neonates while ensuring airway visibility, thermal stability, and accurate adjustment for the weight of the wrapping material.
Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is a globally important oilseed crop, but its production is constrained by charcoal rot, caused by the soil-borne fungus Macrophomina phaseolina. The pathogen’s exceptionally broad host range, long-term soil persistence through microsclerotia, and increased aggressiveness under high temperature and drought make charcoal rot a major destructive constraint in sesame-growing regions. This review integrates current knowledge on the biology, epidemiology, infection processes, and genetic population variability of Macrophomina spp. in relation to charcoal rot development in sesame. We also summarize key host resistance mechanism including pathogen perception, cell wall reinforcement, phenylpropanoid-mediated defense, antioxidant responses, and associated physiological and molecular adaptations. Particular attention is given to the challenges of resistance screening under variable environmental conditions, including heat- and drought-associated disease expression and pathogen diversity, which complicate the identification of stable resistance sources. The review further examines progress in sesame improvement through germplasm characterization, mutation breeding, interspecific introgression, high-throughput phenotyping, and genomic-assisted approaches such as QTL mapping, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, and functional validation. Integrating these tools with multi-omics and gene-editing strategies offers a promising route for accelerating the development of durable, climate-resilient charcoal rot resistance cultivars. Broader use of diverse germplasm, standardized multi-environment phenotyping, and international collaboration will be essential for sustainable resistance breeding and future sesame production.
Hybrid carbon designs have arisen as an effective approach to mitigate the primary shortcomings of traditional anode materials in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), specifically concerning capacity, rate capability, and long-term cycle stability. Although heteroatom doping may modify the electrical structure of carbon, it often fails to alleviate the mechanical deterioration and interfacial instability of high-capacity anodes like silicon, metal oxides, and phosphorus. Hybrid carbon frameworks mitigate mechanical degradation by transferring strain caused by lithiation across continuous conducting networks and void-containing structures, thereby preventing particle fragmentation and maintaining electrical connectivity. At the interface, heteroatom-doped carbon may influence surface polarity and local electron density, promoting a thinner and more inorganic-rich solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) while restricting impedance escalation during cycling. This review succinctly evaluates advancements (2015–2025) in hybrid carbon architectures and examines the impact of combined doping and interfacial engineering on transport kinetics, mechanical integrity, and SEI chemistry in one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) configurations. To facilitate equitable cross-study comparison, the evaluation highlights reporting deficiencies and accentuates electrode-specific parameters, such as areal loading, initial coulombic efficiency, and volumetric energy density, in conjunction with traditional gravimetric performance. The paper delineates practical strategies for translation, emphasizing scalable coating methods and roll-to-roll compatible manufacturing, validation of high-loading electrodes, and data-driven evaluation of dopant-interface combinations to optimize SEI stability alongside volumetric energy density.
