Various programs and organizations (IMO, UNEP, IOC UNESCO, FAO) and recently the EU MSFD recognized marine litter (ML) as an issue of global threat from environmental, economic, human health and safety, and aesthetic aspect. Among the efforts to combat the problem adequate monitoring and application of harmonized methodological approaches for quantification are essential. This research presents the results of a pilot assessment of bottom ML in the Black Sea during the MISIS Project Joint Black Sea Cruise (22-31 August, 2013) along 3 transects in the NW Black Sea. The aim of the present study is a pilot quantitative assessment of bottom.
The purpose of this study is to examine public perception and attitudes about the social work profession. This research is a cross-sectional study, carried out with 500 individuals over the age of 18 in the city center of Manisa, Turkey. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire based on self-reports of participants via face-to-face interviews in December 2015. Results show that more than half of the participants had never heard of the social work profession before. Traditional fields such as child protection and care of the elderly are the most known working fields. Participants generally demonstrate a positive attitude about the profession.
The purpose of this study was to identify school administrators' humor behaviors as perceived by teachers and to determine the relationships between the school administrators' perceived humor behavior and mobbing experienced by teachers. Data was obtained from 459 teachers chosen by systematic sampling. Results indicated that teachers described negative attitudes mostly encountered as "refusal to take their ideas and opinions into consideration," "hiding information that would affect their performance from them", and "humiliation suffered as a result of being assigned to works below the level of their competence." Teachers believed that school administrators generally had "Appreciative humor" and "productive-social humor" attitudes. While there was a negative and significant relationship between positive humor behaviors and mobbing, there were also positive and significant relationships between negative humor behaviors and mobbing. Sarcastic humor and rejective humor were the significant predictors of mobbing.
Policies regarding the social problems of individuals in the social environment, collective regulations for the change and development of society are macro social work practices. Macro social work practices are interpreted in different forms within each country's specific sociopolitical and cultural dynamics. In order for social workers to implement macro practices, they must have social policy knowledge. In this context, it would not be the right choice to take action without knowing which welfare regime Turkey falls within and without understanding the similar countries and the common characteristics. Moreover, as human needs increase and diversify, the desire to embrace the welfare state will also increase. The term welfare state, on the one hand, stands for strong and wealthy countries, and on the other hand, refers to states that offer social rights and social policies to its citizens at a high level. Nowadays, the most accepted, criticized and referenced source by the scientific circles is Esping-Andersen's welfare state classification. Esping-Andersen classified the social stratification in terms of the common characteristics of welfare states by taking market and family practices as a basis. In this respect, the study aims to summarize Esping-Andersen's welfare state classification in general terms. On the other hand, the desire to explain Turkey's position among the welfare states in terms of macro social work practices is the main concern of this study. The social work profession is an advanced profession and discipline within the social welfare field. In this sense, social services are generally public services oriented towards the problems and needs of the citizens regarding social functionality and can be discussed at the macro level with social welfare policies. In the following years, it is thought that comprehensive studies will be carried out on the welfare state and social policy in the social work field. In this study, it is aimed to scale university students' leisure time activities.
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