Ömer Bilen

Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi

Objectives In this study, we aimed to evaluate the intestinal and urinary microbiota diversity of obese, pre-diabetic, diabetic, and healthy subjects together with their food consumption frequency and investigate the effect on glucose metabolism. Methods DNA was isolated from stool and urinary samples of fifteen obese, fifteen prediabetics, fiftee...

Abstract Nowadays, the number of medicines manufactured using advanced technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and 3D printing is increasing along with the accelerated pace of technological change. Evaluating high technology medicines from the perspective of community pharmacists is important for the quality of the pharmacy practice. Th...

Oral booster-single strain probiotic bifidobacteria could be a potential strategy for SARS-CoV-2. This study aims to evaluate the role of oral probiotic Bifidobacterium on moderate/severe SARS-CoV-2 inpatients. In this single-center study, we analyzed data of 44 moderate/severe inpatients with diagnosed COVID-19 in Istanbul Maltepe University Medic...

Introduction SARS-CoV-2 virus manifests itself with primary lung damage but also has intestinal involvement. In this study, we aimed to investigate the frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms (GIS) and the relationship of GIS with readmission to the hospital within 30 days in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who were hospitalized in a specified pandemic...

Market conditions, where competition is more intense and branding is more important, the reputation of companies is required to determine. In this context to determine the most reputed companies in Turkey, reputation index of Turkey is calculated. Most reputed companies are defined across the Turkey via reputation index which has calculated since 2...

The study of the profiles of young adults involved in attacks and bombings in 2015 and 2016 in France highlighted a violent rejection of Western lifestyle and national identification. The question arises whether conflicting religious beliefs (religion hypothesis) and delinquent subculture (rebel-without-a-cause hypothesis) characterize a handful of...

Purpose The paper reflects the impacts of the "Arab Spring" that broke out in Tunisia and Syria and led to the loss of more than 300,000 people. A wave of migration began in 2011, especially from Syria to its neighbouring countries including Turkey and Lebanon. Syrian migratory flows have caused social, economic, and ecological problems in the ho...

Objectives: The over-the-counter (OTC) drug (i.e., non-prescription drugs) market is growing significantly on a global scale. Our study reviews strategies for OTCs, together with other non-pharmaceutical products, such as herbal products, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products. The aim of this study is to analyze the expanded OTC indus...

Dünyada ve Türkiye’de şehirlerde suç kaynaklı güvenlik sorunu çözülmesi gereken öncelikli sorunlar arasında yer almaktadır. Kent güvenliğinin sağlanmasında suç ile ilgili kurulan teorik modeller kamu yöneticileri için önemli politika araçları olarak kullanılabilir. Kent güvenliği politikalarının oluşturulmasında farklı suç teorileri üretildikleri d...

How do individual integration to religion and to the political community combine? In the French context, characterized by a strong secularization, we analyze the effect of belonging to a faith group (Christian, Muslim, other) and the irreligiosity (measured as distance vis-à-vis religion) based on a large data set (n=9.000) of students attending ju...

This study was conducted to investigate the market anomalies in the Borsa Istanbul Index (BIST). The scope of this study is to examine the Monday effects in BIST that are stock index of Turkey with an data set that contains daily stock prices between 02.01.2010 and 22.10.2014. The stock returns of the 289 companies were calculated according to the...

zetçe-Engelli bireylerin yaşam kalitesinin arttırılması konusundaki çalışmalar gittikçe artmaktadır. İnternet günümüzde insan yaşamının önemli bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Erişilebilirlik, ürün ve hizmetlerin herkes tarafından kullanılabilmesini ifade eden bir terimdir. Bu çalışmadaki amacımız internet ve akıllı cep telefonu kullanımlarında engell...

Why do people allow police to act forcefully and illegally? This chapter aims to draw some of the societal aspects of attitudes toward the police to the forefront of police legitimacy discussion. Based on a national sample of Turkish respondents (2014), we demonstrate that social identity (ethnic, religious, regional) and above all political ideolo...

The day of the week effect is one of the market anomalies that has tendency to show more performance, and may give possibility for investors to make extra stock returns. This study was conducted to investigate the day of the week effect in the Borsa Istanbul Index (BIST) in Turkey. The data of 289 companies that were constantly listed on the BIST b...

Ability to pay of a company's short term liabilities is closely related to its strong liquidity structure. One of the most important factors affecting the liquidity of a company is operating cycle. The main factors that determine the operating cycle of the company is its stock supply term, production stage time and debt payment due. These factors d...

This study was performed with the purpose of assessing physical characteristics and motoric test results of the male students who are attending to university between the ages of 19 and 21 (sedanter n=40 and athlete n= 40). A significant difference was not found between the two groups when the values such as Biological age, height, the rate of body-...

In this study, 42 different types of high schools in Istanbul from which students took University Placement Exam (LYS) are clustered in terms of their performances. It was also aimed to determine the types of tests that are more efficient among these schools. For this purpose, educational data mining techniques such as clustering and decision tree...

This study examined the trends and spatial variations of crime types from 1999 to 2008 for turkey, using judicial statistics, geographic information system (GIS) and statistical methods. Changes in crime rates and their statistical significance levels were determined by using trend analysis with linear regression equation. Visualized trends, rates...

This study examined the trends and spatial variations of crime types from 1999 to 2008 for turkey, using judicial statistics, geographic information system (GIS) and statistical methods. Changes in crime rates and their statistical significance levels were determined by using trend analysis with linear regression equation. Visualized trend...

Istanbul is one of the most influenced cities from the process of rapidly increasing urbanization since 1950s. The rapid population growth has brought a number of urbanization problems such as crime and fear of crime. Specially, fear of crime (FOC) affects the citizens' quality of life, negatively [1]. Therefore, fear of crime is an import...

TO CITE: Köseoğlu, Emine; Önder, Deniz Erinsel & Bilen Ömer (2012). “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Tourists’ Perceptions of Hotel Lobbies”, International Journal of Architectural Research, 6(3), 109-123. ABSTRACT This study examines cultural differences in the perception of hotel lobbies. It aims to determine the differences/similarities within...

The emerging problems of rapid urbanization in Turkey has caused social, economic and structural transformations in cities since the 1950s. Istanbul is the city most affected by this issue and is the biggest city in Turkey with a population of around 14 million. Also, crime is one of the major problems caused by rapid urbanization. Therefore, it is...

Natural disasters that have occurred in recent years in Turkey have caused loss of property as well as deaths. Thus, they have necessitated the immediate construction of much housing. Many users neither adopted this housing, nor settled into it. The aim of this paper is to explore how user participation in design and construction process affects...

Earthquake damages are assessed based on a holistic approach using structural as well as non-structural factors to model earthquake damage distributions with Decision Tree Techniques, using the Answer Tree program and the damage data from recent major earthquakes in Turkey. The damage dataset consists of approximately 9,400 buildings that were surv...