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    Conradian quest versus dubious adventure: Graham and Barbara Greene in West Africa
    (Taylor and Francis., 2015) Kennedy, V.
    Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps (1936) largely conforms to the masculine tradition of imperialist travel writing, where the male protagonist emerges as the (sometimes conflicted) hero of his own narrative. Much of Journey Without Maps explores Liberia and Greene's psyche, creating parallels between Africa, the narrator's childhood, and the childhood of the human race, and embodying these parallels in a dense web of tropes and allusions. By contrast, as a woman, Barbara Greene is much less implicated in the imperialist tradition of travel writing, and at times Too Late to Turn Back disrupts some of the assumptions of this tradition through the demystification of the trope of adventure and excitement, the sporadic mockery of self and others, the self-deprecation, and the greater emphasis on reciprocity than is to be found in Journey Without Maps.
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    Effects of obesity on airway and systemic inflammation in asthmatic children
    (S. Karger AG, 2021-03-22) Vezir, Emine; Civelek, Ersoy; Dibek Misirlioglu, Emine; Toyran, Muge; Capanoglu, Murat; Karakus, Esra; Kahraman, Tamer; Ozguner, Meltem; Demirel, Fatma; Gürsel, İhsan; Kocabas, Can Naci
    Obese asthma is a complex syndrome with certain phenotypes that differ in children and adults. There is no clear evidence regarding the presence of additive or synergistic pathological interaction between obesity and asthma in children. Objectives: Our aim was to demonstrate the interaction of obesity and asthma in children in terms of airway and systemic inflammation by a controlled observational study. Methods: Four groups were formed: asthma obese (AO), asthma nonobese (ANO), non-AO (NAO), nonasthma nonobese (NANO). Spirometry test, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) test, skin prick test, serum inflammatory biomarkers (C-reactive protein, C3, C4, adiponectin, leptin, resistin, periostin, YKL-40, Type 1, and Type 2 cytokines) were conducted and evaluated in all participants. Sputum inflammatory cells (sputum eosinophils and neutrophils) were evaluated in patients who could produce induced sputum and obesity-asthma interactions were determined. Results: A total of 153 participants aged 6–18 years were included in the study, including the AO group (n = 46), the ANO group (n = 45), the NAO group (n = 30), and the NANO group (n = 32). IL-4 (p < 0.001), IL-5 (p < 0.001), IL-13 (p < 0.001), resistin (p < 0.001), and YKL-40 (p < 0.001) levels were higher in patients with asthma independent of obesity. The lowest adiponectin level was found in the AO group and obesity-asthma interaction was detected (p < 0.001). Sputum eosinophilia (p < 0.01), sputum neutrophilia (p < 0.01), and FeNO levels (p = 0.07) were higher in asthmatic patients independent of obesity. In the group with paucigranulocytic inflammation, resistin and YKL-40 levels were significantly lower than in the group without paucigranulocytic inflammation (p < 0.01). Conclusion: No interaction was found between obesity and asthma in terms of airway inflammation. Interaction between obesity and asthma was shown in terms of adiponectin level and resistin/adiponectin and leptin/adiponectin ratios. It was found that serum YKL-40 and resistin levels could be associated with airway inflammation.
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    Eyüboğlu Eğitim Kurumları ve Rüstem Eyüboğlu
    (Bilkent University, 2019) Özdemir, Gözen; Göktaş, Esra Öznur; Demir, Sinem; Topaç, Hüseyin; Konuk, Bora
    Rüstem Eyüboğlu daha 13 yaşında ufak bir çocukken memleketinden çalışmak için ayrıldı. Ailesinin geçim sıkıntılarından dolayı 16 yaşında baba mesleği olan gemicilik ile uğraşmaya başlayarak ilk iş deneyimini burada gerçekleştirdi. Olanakların yetersizliğinden ve çalışması gerektiğinden ilk etapta okulu bırakmak zorunda kaldı. Daha sonra bir Almanya seferinde tanıştığı Ahmet isimli stajyer, kendisine ders verdi ve onu liseye devam etmesi için teşvik etti. Rüstem Eyüboğlu böylece tekrardan okula başladı. 1956’da gemilerde çalışmayı bırakan Eyüboğlu, 1957’de Fatih’teki Gelenbevi Ortaokulu’na gitti. Tekrardan başladığı eğitim hayatını başarılı ve hızlı bir şekilde bitirdi. Üniversite yıllarında dershanelerde öğretmenlik yapan Eyüboğlu daha sonrasında özel ders vermeye başlayarak kısa sürede başarıyı yakaladı. Bunlardan sonra kendi dershanesini açmaya karar veren Eyüboğlu, eğitim hayatındaki ilk büyük adımını 6 Mart 1970’te Arı Dershaneleri’ni kurarak attı. “Hayatımın aşkı” diye tabir ettiği Burçak Hanım ile de 1972’de nişanlanıp, 1973’te evlendi. Eğitim dünyasına ‘Arı Dershanesi’ ile adım atan Eyüboğlu daha sonra işlerini büyüterek resmi olarak Eyüboğlu Eğitim Kurumları’nı kurdu ve okullarını günümüzde de İstanbul’un önde gelen eğitim kurumları arasında yer alan bir okul haline getirdi. Eyüboğlu Özel Okulları, şu anda ise pek çok konuda diğer kurumlara örnek ve liderlik etmektedir.