The meaning of life vis-a-yis the challenges of the present-day world

The role of television in rural women's everday life : the case of Topaklı Village Tazebay, Burcu; Ecevit, Mehmet Cihan; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2005) This study aims to examine the role of television in rural women̕s everyday life experiences in terms of information, socialization, identification and entertainment. The focus is on rural women̕s experiences with a feminist perspective conducting an ethnographic study using the methods of in-depth-interviews, survey, participant observation and group discussions in Topaklı village. The findings of the study is the role of television as an information source for rural women and it̕s role on rural women̕s so...
Investigation of cell migration and proliferation in agarose based hydrogels for tissue engineering applications Vardar, Elif; Hasırcı, Nesrin; Hasırcı, Vasıf Nejat; Department of Biomedical Engineering (2010) Hydrogels are three dimensional, insoluble, porous and crosslinked polymer networks. Due to their high water content, they have great resemblance to natural tissues, and therefore, demonstrate high biocompatibility. The porous structure provides an aqueous environment for the cells and also allows influx of nutrients needed for cellular viability. In this study, a natural biodegradable material, agarose (Aga), was used and semi-interpenetrating networks (semi-IPN) were prepared with polymers having differen...
Implementation of constructivist Life Sciences curriculum: a case study Taneri, Pervin Oya; Engin Demir, Cennet; Department of Educational Sciences (2010) The purpose of this qualitative case study is threefold: (1) to examine the implementation of current Life Sciences curriculum in a selected primary school from the perspectives of teachers, students and administrators; (2) to investigate the degree to which teachers’, students’ and administrators’ perceptions were embedded in the classroom practices; and (3) to identify whether the implementation of the curriculum was conducive to principles of constructivist pedagogy. An elementary school was chosen as a ...
The concepts of health and sickness in Nietzsche's philosophy Akbalık, Bilge; Parkan, Barış; Department of Philosophy (2009) The purpose of the present study is to assess the role of the concepts of health and sickness in Nietzsche’s philosophy. While doing this, our basic presupposition will be that these concepts owe their special place to their being the new criteria for Nietzsche’s project of revaluation of all existing values. Nietzsche was philosophizing in the face of the crisis of 19th century Europe, that is, nihilism. According to him, Western traditional thought is based on an otherworldly oriented conception of life t...
The problem of justice in the philosophies of Rousseau and Kant Ünlü, Özlem; Turan, Şeref Halil; Department of Philosophy (2011) The aim of this study is to make a comparison between Rousseau’s and Kant’s theory of justice. This thesis defends the arguments of Rousseau’s democratic political theory against the claims raised by Kant. Rousseau and Kant formulate how to relieve the tension between individual and society. This tension is the one between individual and political freedom. Rousseau calls it the tension between moral and political freedom and Kant terms it as internal and external freedom. However, Rousseau ensures continuit...

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D. Grunnberg, “The meaning of life vis-a-yis the challenges of the present-day world,” 2004, vol. 84, p. 13, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63373.