Başkent University

“Beyond the Glass Facade ”: occupational social work perspective on shopping mall workers

This study examines the psychosocial risks experienced by shopping mall workers and explores implications for occupational social work practice. A qualitative research design was employed, involving in-depth interviews with 31 shopping mall workers in Istanbul. Data were analysed...

When Artificial Intelligence Speaks For The Obstetrician: Multilingual Accuracy On Real Patient Questions

Abstract Background The use of artificial intelligence technologies, particularly Generative Large Language Models (LLMs), in the health sector is rapidly growing. These models offer a new level of health counselling by enabling patients to access information more easily. However...

Automated extraction of key entities from non-english thorax CT reports using machine learning by large context, many-shot Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Named Entity Recognition (NER), a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP), can automatically analyze and extract relevant information from unstructured medical texts. However, available models are English-focused, with limited options fo...

Machine Learning-Based Classification of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms from Uroflowmetry: Evaluation Against Physician Decisions and Clinical Nomograms

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are commonly evaluated using clinician judgment and nomogram-based methods derived from limited physiological parameters. However, these approaches may not generalize across patient subgroups and may not fully capture patient-specific variabili...

Agreeable team members wanted: personality configurations of high-performing individuals in global virtual teams

Purpose Although much research has been done on the Big Five personality traits that underpin individual performance in teams, knowledge of the interdependencies of traits for individual performance is rather limited and especially so in the new ordinary workplace represented by...

The Oxygenation–Nutritional–Inflammatory (ONI) index and the risk of osteoradionecrosis of the jaw in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a continuous multidimensional modeling analysis

Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (ORNJ) remains a major late complication in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (LA-NPC) treated with definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), for which current risk models based on dosimetric and dental factors do not full...

Impact of adjuvant endocrine therapy on disease-free survival in early triple-positive breast cancer: a multicenter retrospective cohort study of the Turkish oncology group

Triple-positive breast cancer (TPBC), characterized by concurrent ER, PR, and HER2 positivity, poses unique therapeutic challenges due to ER–HER2 crosstalk. The optimal adjuvant endocrine therapy in TPBC patients receiving anti-HER2 regimens remains poorly defined. This multicent...