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<p dir="ltr">Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects over 162,428 people worldwide. Currently, assessing cystic fibrosis from medical images requires a trained expert to manually annotate regions in the patient's lungs to determine the stage and severity of the disease. This process takes a substantial amount of time and effort to achieve an accurate assessment. </p><p dir="ltr">Recent advancements in machine learning and deep learning have been effective in solving classification, decision-making, identification, and segmentation problems in various disciplines. In medical research, these techniques have been used to perform image analyses that aid in organ identification, tissue classification, and lesion segmentation, which reduces the time required for physicians to analyze medical images. However, these techniques have yet to be widely applied in the assessment of cystic fibrosis. </p><p dir="ltr">This thesis describes an automated framework employed to assess the severity and extent of cystic fibrosis. The framework comprises three analysis stages: airways analysis, texture analysis, and lung lesions detection, that are utilized to extract cystic fibrosis features from CT scans, and which are used to assess the severity and extent of cystic fibrosis. The framework achieved an accuracy of 86.96\% in the staging process. The main contribution of this work is the development of a data-driven methodology used to design a quantitative cystic fibrosis staging and grading model.</p>

An increasing number of reports indicate that managers are opposed to performance appraisal. It is important to understand why managers have favourable or unfavourable attitudes towards performance appraisal and it is necessary to investigate the causing factors of these attitudes. The aim of this research was therefore to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence managers’ attitudes towards performance appraisal. This study was conducted within the interpretive research paradigm and situated in a medium-sized organisation within the financial services industry. The sample was purposefully selected and the data were collected through in-depth interviews and naïve sketches. The data were analysed applying Tesch’s descriptive analysis method. The main findings indicated that managers who needed to conduct performance appraisals perceived and experienced performance appraisal as an uncomfortable and emotional process that might cause them to become defensive. Moreover, it was revealed that the managers experienced uncertainties about aspects of performance appraisal, such as the purpose of performance appraisal, what must be measured and frequency of performance appraisal. As a result of such uncertainties, managers might not always have the ability or readiness to conduct performance appraisals, especially when the performance appraisal contains negative performance feedback. Furthermore, the organisational context might put managers in an undesirable situation to distort performance ratings of employees in order to achieve organisational goals or the manager’s personal goals, which in turn influence the attitude of the manager. The findings of the study can assist organisations in influencing managers’ attitudes more positively and in enhancing the overall performance appraisal process. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Atualmente verifica-se uma significativa demanda da sociedade e gestores por informações e ferramentas que permitam colocar em prática o conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável e efetivamente internalizar nas políticas, planos, programas e projetos o reconhecimento da interdependência entre as diversas dimensões, tais como: ambientais, econômicas, sociais e institucionais. De forma crescente a temática da sustentabilidade tem trazido novas variáveis às arenas de discussão e tomada de decisão ao considerar as diversas variáveis dentro de um mesmo plano. Uma das principais motivações para a consideração da interdependência destas dimensões é a fragilidade do modelo de desenvolvimento baseado na utilização de fontes não renováveis de energia, bem como seus impactos no meio sócio-ambiental e reflexos no meio econômico. Neste cenário, o etanol de cana-de-açúcar enquanto fonte renovável de energia surge como potencial substituto ao uso de combustíveis à base de petróleo (notadamente a gasolina), em especial no Brasil, onde o mesmo é uma realidade. Observa-se um otimismo e incentivo quanto às políticas públicas na área energética no que tange esta fonte, em especial com políticas de incentivo ao seu crescimento. No entanto, observam-se também questionamentos da sociedade quanto à real sustentabilidade desta fonte energética, dados os impactos provenientes de sua cultura, produção e uso em larga escala. Estes questionamentos ganham força quando realizados no estado de São Paulo, dada a representatividade da atividade frente ao Brasil e ao mundo. Neste contexto, é evidenciada a importância da construção de ferramentas que possibilitem avaliar de forma integrada a sustentabilidade do etanol de cana-de-açúcar, bem como informar os tomadores de decisão, embasando políticas públicas voltadas para o desenvolvimento sustentável. Estas ferramentas, bem como as políticas embasadas por elas, passam, no estado de São Paulo, obrigatoriamente pela Secretaria do Meio Ambiente SMA/SP. Os indicadores ao capturarem a complexidade do desenvolvimento, sem reduzir a significância de cada um dos componentes do sistema, figuram-se como tais ferramentas. Com o propósito de avaliar os indicadores ambientais produzidos pela SMA/SP à luz dos princípios e critérios de boas práticas na construção e uso de indicadores, o presente estudo busca contribuir para o avanço nas discussões, em especial em termos de métodos de avaliação de indicadores ambientais voltados para a sustentabilidade, tendo como contexto de estudo o etanol de cana-de-açúcar no estado. Este estudo apresentou um método conduzido por meio de entrevistas e uma oficina de especialistas que apontou, como resultado, um conjunto de critérios de referência para análise destes indicadores. Ainda como produto da pesquisa o método construído foi aplicado a um dos principais indicadores utilizados pela SMA, qual seja o IQA - Índice de Qualidade de Água, revelando, por meio de uma análise SWOT, as forças e fraquezas, oportunidades e ameaças deste indicador na discussão da sustentabilidade do etanol. Futuros estudos voltados para o aperfeiçoamento das aplicações são desejáveis para melhoria dos resultados e composição de um sistema adequado de formulação e avaliação dos indicadores para esta atividade. / Currently there is a significant demand of society and managers with information and tools to put into practicing the concept of sustainable development and effectively internalize the policies, plans, programs and interdependence recognition between the various dimensions such as environmental, economic, social and institutional. Increasingly the sustainability issue has brought new variables to discussion and decision making to consider the many variables within the same plane. One of the main motivations for considering the interdependence of these dimensions is the fragility of the development model based on the use of non-renewable energy sources, as well as its impacts on socio-environmental and consequences in the economic area. In this scenario, ethanol from sugar cane as a renewable source of energy emerges as a potential substitute to the use of petroleum-based fuels (in particular gasoline), especially in Brazil, where it is a reality. There is an optimism and encouragement concerning public policies in energy with respect to this source, particularly with policies to encourage its growth. However, there is also society questioning about the real sustainability of this energy source, given the impacts from its cultivation, production and use on a large scale. These questions gain strength when held in São Paulo State, given the representation of activity against Brazil and the world. In this context, it is evident the importance of building tools that will assess the sustainability into an integrated way about ethanol from sugar cane, and inform decision makers, basing public policies for sustainable development. These tools, as well as policies based on them, are in the state of Sao Paulo, necessarily by the Environment Secretary of São Paulo - SMA / SP. The indicators to capture the complexity of development without reducing the significance of each system component appear as such those tools. With the purpose of evaluating the environmental indicators produced by SMA / SP against the principles and good practice criteria in the construction and use of indicators, this study seeks to advance the discussions, particularly in terms of evaluation methods on indicators toward environmental sustainability, within the study context ethanol sugar cane in the state. This study presented a method conducted through interviews and a workshop of experts that pointed out as a result, a set of benchmarks for analysis of these indicators. Even as a research product the built method was applied to one of the main indicators used by the SMA, which is the WQI - Water Quality Index, revealing, through a SWOT analysis, strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats in this indicator to discuss the sustainability of ethanol. Future studies aimed at improving the applications are desirable for improved performance and composition of a proper system to design and evaluate indicators for this activity.

Este trabalho teve como meta principal ampliar o estudo anteriormente relatado por Mercuri em 2000, agora com a caracterização química e termoanalítica de cálculos biliares e as biles vesiculares humanas, especificamente, de pacientes do sexo masculino. Para ambos os tipos de caracterização foram utilizadas várias técnicas, como: (a) Análise Elementar (AE), para determinação de teores de C, H e N. (b) Espectroscopia no infravermelho com transformada de Fourier (FTIR), com o objetivo de verificar as bandas de absorção no IV e assim identificar algumas substâncias que fazem parte desses materiais. (c) Difratometria de Raios X (DRX), para identificar formações cristalinas de espécies presentes nas amostras de cálculos biliares. (d) Espectrometria de Absorção Atômica (AAS), para a determinação do teor de alguns metais como por exemplo: Cd, Pb e Cu. (e) Ressonância Magnética Nuclear (RMN), para ratificar a presença de colesterol e afastar a hipótese de ter-se ergosterol na amostra e (f) TG/DTG e DSC aplicadas para o estudo do comportamento térmico das amostras de cálculos biliares e biles. Este trabalho permitiu concluir que: alguns tipos de cálculos biliares do universo de pacientes do sexo masculino que foram estudados puderam ser inseridos na classificação proposta anteriormente, no entanto, cinco dessas amostras não se encaixaram em nenhum desses grupos, sugerindo, com isso, a adição de novos grupos. Verificou-se, também, que a porcentagem de cálculos biliares formados por colesterol é menor para essa classe de pacientes. Em duas amostras de cálculos biliares encontrou-se CaCO3 cristalizado como aragonita, outra indicou a presença de fosfato de cálcio e em duas dessas amostras foram encontrados um alto teor de chumbo. No caso das biles, seis amostras indicaram a presença de NaCl (halita) e uma delas indicou, também, a presença de colesterol. / This work had as goal main to enlarge the study previously related for Mercuri in 2000, now with the chemical and thermoanalytical characterization of gallstones and the human vesicular bile, specifically, of patient of the masculine sex. For both the kinds of characterization were used several techniques, as: (a) Elementary analysis (AE), for contents determination of C, H and N. (b) Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), with objective of verifying the absorption bands in the IV and thus identify some substances that do part of these materials. (c) X-rays diffraction (DRX), to identify present crystalline species formations in the gallstones sample. (d) Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS), for some metals content determination such as: Cd, Pb and Cu. (e) Nuclear Magnetic resonance (RMN), to ratify the cholesterol presence and to remove the hypothesis of have ergosterol in the sample and (f) TG/DTG and DSC applied to the gallstones and bile samples thermal behavior study. This work allowed to conclude that: some universe gallstones kinds of patient of the masculine sex that were studied could be inserted in the proposed classification previously, however, five of these samples did not case in none of these groups, suggesting, with that, the addition of new groups. It verified, also, that the gallstones percentage formatted for cholesterol is smaller for this class of patient. In two gallstones samples were found CaCO3 crystallized as aragonite, other indicated the calcium phosphate presence and in two of these samples were found a Pb high content. In the biles case, six samples indicated presence of NaCl (halita) and their one indicated, also, the cholesterol presence.

O trabalho está inserido no debate dos sistemas construtivos mais sustentáveis, procurando analisar a forma como a construção civil está atuando atualmente e propondo alternativas para minimização de seus impactos. Nas últimas décadas esse tema vem sendo abordado de forma parcial, com proposições de novas tecnologias, sem no entanto avançar nos estudos que procuram avaliar as complexas relações existentes na realidade para resolução desses problemas. As práticas sociais, econômicas, políticas e culturais, normalmente não abordadas na maioria dos estudos, muitas vezes são causadoras dos atuais níveis de consumo e produção de resíduos e emissões, devendo ser necessariamente estudadas de forma indissociável às questões tecnológicas e ambientais e em relações de ganhos e perdas de sustentabilidade, para que então se proponham novos sistemas construtivos e procedimentos, capazes de trazer um cenário mais sustentável em determinado contexto e dimensão. O objetivo do trabalho é levantar e analisar os pontos de maior e menor sustentabilidade do ciclo de vida do sistema estrutural de cobertura em vigas laminadas pregadas de madeira de Pinus de 3ª qualidade, nas dimensões ambiental, social, econômica, política e cultural, avaliando suas relações de ganhos e perdas ao longo do processo. O trabalho dividiu-se em duas grandes etapas, sendo que na primeira foi feita uma revisão bibliográfica, levantando os atuais métodos de sustentabilidade e identificando seus limites e potencialidades, na qual constatou-se que nenhum estudo abrangia as diferentes dimensões de forma satisfatória, concentrando-se apenas na ambiental. Em seguida, para se aproximar de uma análise pluridimensional de forma satisfatória, escolheu-se a avaliação do ciclo de vida (ACV) como método mais indicado, associando-o aos indicadores Ethos, a outras variáveis levantadas da literatura e a uma nova ferramenta criada para organização e visualização dos dados, resultando no método proposto, a Avaliação Pluridimensional do Ciclo de Vida (APCV). Na segunda etapa aplicou-se o método desenvolvido em um estudo de caso único, o ciclo de vida do sistema estrutural em vigas laminadas pregadas produzido no assentamento rural Pirituba II, onde foram levantados os impactos gerados durante toda sua cadeia. Os resultados atingidos mostraram que a utilização da madeira em um processo de mutirão, com pré-fabricação em uma marcenaria coletiva, pode trazer impactos positivos, pois, além de ser um material renovável, é capaz de capturar do \'CO IND.2\' da atmosfera, gerar energia a partir de seus resíduos, gerar trabalho e renda e trazer melhorias na qualidade de vida dos mutirantes e da comunidade. O trabalho chega em uma análise de relações de ganhos e perdas da sustentabilidade, indicando os pontos de maior ou menor fragilidade nos processos e dimensões, possibilitando assim mudanças de postura frente a essas questões e auxiliando nas escolhas de sistemas construtivos mais sustentáveis. / This paper is enclosed in the discussion of a more sustainable building systems, seeking to study how the civil construction is acting out in the present time and offering alternatives to reduce its impacts. In the last decades this theme has been partially approached, with new technology propositions, however, without coming along with studies that assess the existing complex relations in the reality to solve these problems. The social, economical, political and cultural experiences usually not approached in most studies, mostly are the ones responsible for the current levels of consumerism and production of leftovers and emission, thus necessarily becoming the target of studies that connect them to the technical and environmental matters, regarding to the gains and losses of sustainability, to propose new building systems and procedures ables to bring up a more sustainable scenario in some contexts and dimension. The aim of this paper is to bring about and analyze the points of higher and lower sustainability in the structural roof system life cycle in nail-laminated wood beams made of 3rd class quality Pinus, in the environmental, social, economical, political and cultural dimensions, assessing its relations of gains and losses along the process. The work was divided in two big steps, having the first one step a bibliography revision, collecting data about the current sustainable methods and identifying their limits and potentialities, where it revealed that no studies has covered the different dimensions in a satisfactory way, focusing only on the environment. Following, to become closer to an acceptable multidimensional analysis, the life cycle assessment (LCA) was chosen as the most indicated method, connected to the Ethos indicators, the other raised variables from the literature and the new tool created to organize and viewing the data, resulting in the proposed method, the Multidimensional Life Cycle Assessment (MLCA). In the second step, it was used the method developed in the singular case study, the life cycle of the structural system of naillaminated beams, developed in the Pirituba II rural settlement, where the impact generated across the chain was raised. The achieved results showed that the use of wood in a cooperative process, with prefabricated parts in the cooperative carpentry workshop can bring positive impacts, since it is a renewable resource and also capable to capture \'CO IND.2\' from the atmosphere, to generate energy from its leftovers, creating works and revenues hence bringing quality of life for workers and the community. The work progresses to the analysis of relations in the sustainability gains and losses, suggesting the points of major or minor fragility in the process and dimensions, thus allowing changes of posture facing these matters and helping out in the choices of more sustainable building systems.

Este trabalho consiste na investigação termoanalítica dos p-toluenossulfonatos de terras raras hidratados, abordando aspectos relativos à etapa de desidratação, decomposição térmica dos sais anidros e metodologia alternativa para obtenção de oxissulfetos. As reações entre o ácido p-toluenossulfônico e hidroxicarbonato de terras raras (III), em meio aquoso, conduziram a compostos de fórmula geral mínima TR(C7H7SO3)3.xH2O, sendo TR3+ = La ao Lu e Y com x variando de 2 a 7. Esta estequiometria foi estabelecida a partir dos resultados de análise elementar e termogravimetria. Os compostos foram caracterizados e, posteriormente, investigados termoanaliticamente. O estudo do comportamento térmico dos compostos foi realizado empregando a TG/DTG em atmosfera dinâmica de ar, N2, CO2, ar + CO2 e H2 + Ar a uma razão de aquecimento de 10°C min-1. A etapa de desidratação mostrou-se independente da atmosfera empregada. O processo de decomposição térmica do sal anidro em ar, CO2, ar + CO2 conduziu a formação de oxissulfatos com diferentes estequiometrias. Os resultados indicaram que a estabilidade térmica dos p-toluenossulfonatos anidros e dos oxissulfatos diminui com o raio do íon TR3+. O mesmo não ficou evidenciado quando se utilizou atmosfera de N2, uma vez que nenhum patamar indicativo de produtos intermediários e/ou finais termoestáveis foi formado. Os dados TG em atmosfera de H2 + Ar indicaram a formação de dioxissulfeto (TR2O2S). Isto foi confirmado pelo reaquecimento do produto em atmosfera de ar, que evidenciou ganho de massa característico da oxidação a oxissulfato. Os eventos térmicos foram evidenciados nas curvas DSC, por picos no sentido endotérmicos ou exotérmicos, e estão em concordância com as variações de massa indicadas nas curvas TG/DTG. Para alguns compostos foram determinados os parâmetros cinéticos, para etapa de desidratação, utilizando método dinâmico por TG/DTG e DSC. As curvas TG mostraram alguns eventos sobrepostos, evidenciando um processo de decomposição térmica aparentemente complexo, característico da saída de vários produtos voláteis simultaneamente. Neste caso, os experimentos utilizando o sistema simultâneo e acoplado TG/DTA-GC/MS possibilitou a detecção e análise destes voláteis. / This work consists in the thermoanalytical investigation of hydrated rare earth p-toluenesulfonates, considering the relative aspects of the dehydration step, thermal decomposition of the anhydrous salts and altemative methods for preparation of the oxysulfides. The compounds were prepared in aqueous solution, by reaction of p-toluenesulfonic acid and basic carbonates. The products of the reactions presented general formula TR(C7H7SO3)3.xH2O, TR3+ = La - Lu and Y, and x = 2 - 7. This stoichiometry was established through elemental analysis and TG data. The p-toluenesulfonates were characterized and investigated thermoanalytically. The study of the thermal behaviour of these compounds was accomplished using TG/DTG in air, N2, CO2, air + CO2 and H2 + Ar dynamic atmospheres with heating rate of 10 °C min-1. The dehydration step is independent of the atmosphere employed. The thermal decomposition processes of the anhydrous salts in air, CO2, air + CO2 lead to fonnation of oxysulfates with different stoichiometries. The results indicated that thermal stability of anhydrous salts and oxysulfates decreases with ionic TR3+ radii. The same was not evidenced in the N2 atmosphere plateaus indicative of thermally stables intermediate compounds were not observed. TG data in H2 + Ar atmosphere indicated the formation of dioxysulfide (TR2O2S). This product was heated in air atmosphere, showing gain of mass characteristic of oxidation to oxysulfate. The thermal events were evidenced in DSC curves by endothermic and exothermic peaks, and they are in agreement with the weight changes indicated in TG/DTG curves. For some compounds kinectic parameters were determined for the dehydration step, using TG/DTG and DSC dynamic methods. TG curves showed some overlaped events, evidencing complexes thermal decomposition processes with simultaneously evoluation of several volatile products. In these case, TG/DTG-GC/MS experiments were made for the detection of these volatile ones.

Many young women today are concerned about their sexual health; an increasing number of them consult gynaecologists, youth centres (YCs) and general practitioners with vulvar problems such as painful sensations associated with vaginal intercourse (VIC). It is known that some women continue to have VIC despite pain. Theoretically, repeated painful VIC might elicit vaginistic reactions, which may increase the pain and induce vicious circles. Since many clinicians and researchers nowadays notice that pain during VIC often starts at young age, it is important to investigate how pain during VIC starts and is maintained in younger populations. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate young women’s experiences of ideal sexual situations and pain during VIC. Women aged 13-22 years participated in our studies, which used both quantitative (study I and IV) and qualitative (study II and III) methods. For paper I, a questionnaire was developed and used in a YC sample (n=300); informants for paper II were selected from that sample to participate in qualitative interviews (n=16). Another qualitative interview study for paper III with a complimentary research question was conducted in a different YC sample (n=14). For paper IV, a questionnaire was developed based on the results from study I, II and III to test the hypotheses derived from study II in a sample of female high school students (n=1566). The findings revealed that 65% of the women reported pain related to first VIC. Among those who reported VIC during the previous month, 49% had experienced pain and/or discomfort during VIC during that same period (paper I). In paper IV, 47% of the women reported experience of pain and/or discomfort during VIC, and among those, 47% continued to have VIC, 22% feigned enjoyment, and 33% omitted telling the partner about their pain. In paper II, the women’s reasons for continuing to have VIC despite pain were: striving to reach their ideal image of a woman, characterized as always willing to have VIC; being perceptive of their partner’s sexual needs; and being able to satisfy their partner. In paper IV the hypotheses derived from study II were confirmed and showed, for example that a significantly higher proportion of women who continue to have VIC despite pain than women who did not had difficulty refusing sex when the partner wants it, felt inferior to the partner during sex, regarded the partner’s satisfaction as more important than their own, felt dissatisfaction with their sex life, and feigned enjoyment despite pain. In a multivariate model, continuing to have VIC despite pain was associated with feelings of being inferior to the partner during sex (adjusted OR 1.82; CI 1.10-3.02), dissatisfaction with their own sex lives (adjusted OR 1.76; CI 1.14-2.72) and feigning enjoyment while having pain (adjusted OR 7.45; CI 4.37-12.69). The major reason for continuing to have VIC was that the partner’s enjoyment was prioritized higher than their own (paper IV). In paper III, we found that women without pain during VIC also felt pressure from social norms and demands and had experienced partners “driving their own race”. However, they managed to some extent to resist these unequal gender norms because of their urge to experience pleasure. In conclusion, pain during VIC is a common complaint among young Swedish women, and a high proportion of them continue having VIC despite pain. The women’s notion of prioritizing the partners´ enjoyment before their own illustrates that unequal gender regimes affect young women’s (hetero)sexuality negatively.

Duomenų „surinkimas“ – tai procesai, skirti tam tikros informacijos, apie dominančią objektinę sritį, kaupimui. Tokių duomenų „apdorojimo“ sąvoka apima jų filtravimą, priežiūrą, saugojimą, analizę ir pan. Kriterijai pagal kuriuos duomenys yra renkami, taip pat metodika ir filtravimas juos padaro specifiniais arba „paskirstytais“. Paskirstytų duomenų surinkimo ir apdorojimo sąvoka yra gana plati ir apima ne tik elementariausius Web klausimynus ar testus, bet ir dideles sistemas, skirtas analizuoti ir apdoroti struktūrizuoto (pvz.: XML) duomenų srauto informaciją, prireikus ją konvertuoti, saugoti ir adaptuoti. / Term WIKI defines ideas and basis for data collection and management, necessary and mandatory methods required to ensure quality of collectible data. The purpose of this master work is analysis of existing solutions of data collecting and analysis systems in order to create a new unique WIKI community based system for price and other information (related to products on the market) analysis. System target – build up user manageable knowledge base for recognition of changes in the market, fast, easy and cheapest products information withdraw. It gives an overview of the best data collection approaches structure, techniques and logic, data analysis and collection methods (based on the system target), also proposes created model and defines means and tools, for model creation and realization.

POTENTIAL FOR POPULAR DISSEMINATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE &amp / #8216 / IDEAL HOME&amp / #8217 / DISCOURSE IN THE WEEKLY YEDiG&Uuml / N MAGAZINE TUNCER, Melike Usalp M.Arch. in Architecture, Department of Architecture Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Cengizkan April 2006, 179 pages The social transformations beginning by the end of the nineteenth century and the political and economic changes of the Early Republican Era (1923-1938) and the Transition Era (1938-1950) had important effects on Turkish architecture. The effects of the &amp / #8216 / new&amp / #8217 / and &amp / #8216 / ideal&amp / #8217 / life accelerated by the establishment of the new democratic nation state brought rapid changes and transformations to all aspects of life including housing. This study deals with the housing discourse in Yedig&uuml / n magazine which was published weekly during the single party era of the Republic. It was published weekly from 1933 to 1950 and was followed by a wide portion of the society, as an important popular magazine of the era. Its effort to present articles, pictures and news on housing and decoration for 17 years, with only short interruptions, makes it necessary to investigate these popular architectural products. In this study, it is claimed that the visual and the written material of Yedig&uuml / n magazine, related to house, is part of the theme of what is called &amp / #8216 / ideal home&amp / #8217 / . The investigation and analysis of the &amp / #8216 / ideal home&amp / #8217 / 2 discourse in Yedig&uuml / n magazine as a whole is useful in improving one&amp / #8217 / s understanding of the modernization practices of the newly established Republic of Turkey. Two methods are used in order to understand the visual and written materials in the magazine: the first one is the Visual Analysis Method described in the book &amp / #8216 / Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Analysis&amp / #8217 / by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leuween. The aim by using this method is to decipher the relationship of the representative medium with the reader, treat the material as a whole. The second method is the analysis of the whole material in the context in relation with the architectural, political, social and economical events of the period, to investigate the construction processes of the discourse. Therefore, this study aims at understanding the action-reaction potential of the tools of the &amp / #8216 / ideal home&amp / #8217 / discourse of the Yedig&uuml / n magazine, by deciphering the visual and written material. Some results of the thesis show us that / both Arkitekt and Yedig&uuml / n magazines follow the agenda of the foreign publications in a similar way / the foundation for a sort of &amp / #8216 / collective union&amp / #8217 / namely &amp / #8216 / housing cooperatives&amp / #8217 / was set, by keeping individual home acquisition constantly on the agenda / problems of the new and modern life were tried to be addressed by Yedig&uuml / n as well as in the current architectural publications / these home presentations may be judged as &amp / #8216 / a catalogue of idealized ideas&amp / #8217 / or &amp / #8216 / two dimensional advice manual&amp / #8217 / , for early Republican Era home icons.