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The study aims to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on accounting research by examining the Covid-19 themed accounting articles indexed by Web of Science with the bibliometric analysis method. 761 articles within the scope of the research are analyzed with Vosviewer software. With the global spread of the virus causing Covid-19 disease in 2019, it is observed that the number of publications by accounting researchers increased rapidly since 2020. The number of publications, which is 126 in 2020, increases to 325 in 2021 and 310 in 2022. It seems that investigating the effects of the pandemic is an important subject of study in accounting research. The results show that the Covid-19 themed accounting articles covered financial markets, public finance, business performance measurement, accounting education, corporate governance and sustainability. The journal that publishes the most articles on accounting and Covid-19 is the "Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting Financial According to the co-occurrence analysis of the keywords, the most frequently used keyword is 'Covıd-19'. The country with the most publications is the USA, the countries with the strongest co-authorship connections is England. Turkey ranks 22nd among the countries with co-authorship link with 12 papers, 92 citations and 23 total link strength. Among the researchers' affiliations, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is the most productive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social entrepreneurs mitigate the crisis effects by offering innovative solutions in situations where states and markets fail. This paper analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Turkey on social enterprises, their adaptation process, and their need for support. In this framework, a questionnaire is administered to Turkish social entrepreneurs. The findings are evaluated, taking into account the results of work done on social enterprises, commercial enterprises, and civil society organizations in Turkey and worldwide in close time intervals. Policy recommendations are developed to increase social enterprises' resilience. Research results suggest that the pandemic has negative economic, social, and operational effects on social enterprises like all other socio-economic actors. Main recommendations for policy makers include providing legitimacy (trust) to social enterprises, carrying out awareness and visibility activities, providing financial and non-financial support, and strengthening communication over networks. This paper contributes to the literature as it is the first study examining the initial impact of the crisis on social entrepreneurs in Turkey and forms the basis for observing the changes in crisis effects in future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 pandemic and related possibilities of negative effects of gathering sufficient and appropriate audit evidence in the audit process and/or the material uncertainty related to going concern are believed to influence independent auditor's reports. Hence this paper analyzes modified opinions issued for firms listed in the BIST-100 in 2020. Among these reports, there are 16 qualified opinions but no disclaimer of opinion or an adverse opinion. A detailed examination of qualified opinions regarding the basis for the opinion and a content analysis of additional explanations provided, COVID-19 pandemic is not found as an important factor in the formation of a qualified opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new type of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), known as SARS-CoV-2 is not only an unprecedented health crisis but it is also expected to become one of the most costly pandemics affecting the global economy in recent history. Recent studies (Apergis and Apergis (2020), Baig vd. (2021), Rai ve Garg (2021), Mazur ve Vega (2021)) show that the contagious effect of the COVID-19 outbreak increases the volatility of financial markets. This paper aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the volatility of S&P 500 stock market returns using daily data over the period from January 21, 2020 to April 09, 2021. To this end, the volatility of stock returns is analyzed by using a GARCH-X model. The GARCH-X model allows us to include COVID-19 factor as an exogenous variable in the mean and conditional variance equations. The findings indicate that daily reported COVID-19 cases in the USA have statistically insignificant effect on stock returns in short-term. However, as the results indicate, the COVID-19 outbreak has a positive and statistically significant impact on the volatility of these stock returns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bilateral multilobar ground-glass opacities are characteristic features of COVID-19 pneumonia. However, the differential diagnosis of ground-glass opacities is challenging. The aim of this paper was to share our experiences with other colleagues. The first patient presented with anosmia and loss of taste. Legionella antigen in urine was positive. The second patient had bilateral ground-glass opacities, which predominantly involved the upper lung zones and lymphopenia. Radiological findings were the same with the radiological control of 8 months ago, and she had a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. The third patient complained of dyspnoea. The inspection of national health system records showed a histological diagnosis of nonspecific interstitial/organizing pneumonia. The fourth patient had findings suggestive of congestive heart failure such as bilateral pleural effusion, peribronchial cuffing, and interlobular septa thickening. The co-existence of multiple ill-defined centrilobular ground-glass opacities suggested a concomitant disease but lesions disappeared with furosemid infusion within 5 days. The fifth patient presented with only right upper lobe consolidation. The opacities did not exceed the horizontal fissure. The intact fissure suggested a bacterial aetiology, but PCR tests of the nasopharyngeal samples were positive for COVID-19. This finding suggested that pulmonary infiltrate of COVID-19 was inflammatory rather than infective in nature. In conclusion, old imaging studies were more useful in the differential diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 Pandemic has affected all the economies globally. In order to reduce the adverse effects of the pandemic on the economy, governments have resorted to fiscal policies and monetary policies as they did in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In this framework, the most common policy that is conducted by the central banks has been quantitative easing again. The adverse effects of the monetary policies have been relatively low in developed economies since the monetary expansion was accompanied with fiscal policies such as transfer payments. However in Turkey, the negative effects on inflation and exchange rates arose due to the huge expansion in money supply and credits as the fiscal policies were limited. The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the Central Bank policies and the financial measures taken in Turkey after the emergence of the pandemic crisis. The paper presents the policies of the Central Bank of Turkey and their results with international comparisons and provides recomendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 pandemic strikes the world as whole and have negative impacts in many ways and also caused to pause ongoing life all around globe as a disaster and crisis. Tourism feels the consequences of this crisis like almost all others. It is considered to be highly important to draw a rescue route for tourism industry after this disaster while it still feels the impact and while the path ahead is still blur. This paper aims to investigate specialists' views who work and study on tourism field as academic. The main focus of this paper is to determine how much damage tourism industry takes by this pandemic and how to recover from it. Both qualitative and quantitative analyzes are used in order to clarify findings of this research. According to findings, academics have significant worries about the future of tourism industry and also about the amount of damage that it will take. However, there are quite recommendations about recovering from it. This paper also aims to contribute to tourism enterprises, government decision makers about tourism and other researchers who might study about this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Turkey and the World are dealing with current health issues, research on Dede Korkut continued unhindered. Causing the deaths of millions in Turkey and the World, new Coronavirus (Covit-19) outbreak has affected adversely our lives in all its parts. This very new circumstances have made us to reconstructed our daily life including relationship, nutrition, economics, education and even our health systems. Experiencing new priorities, the excitement among Turcologists and in the public created by the discovery of Dede Korkut's 13th epos in 2019 has lost its influence. Furthermore, the abolishment of 100 basic literary work regulation has negative effect on the amount of popular publications as well. Being aware of all unfamiliar news, scholars have continued to work on Dede Korkut in 2020, as in the past years. However, have these foregoing events affected the studies centered on the Dede Korkut Book in terms of quantity? In this paper, it has been evaluated the studies appeared in 2020 by focusing on this question. All these studies have been evaluated by using statistics and annotated comparative analysis methods, which enable us to understand how Covid-19 climate has affected quantity of work on Dede Korkut in different rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world faced the whole meaning and reality of the term "Pandemic" in 2020, and the fact that "the struggle against the Pandemic can only be achieved with compliance of the society to the rules" became the only constant truth of this process. During this process, we have been following the developments solemnly from the very beginning as Süleyman Demirel University Hospital. We took a very fast and careful attitude in making decisions about transition to the working order that our hospital was not used to, and a slow and equally careful attitude in making decisions about returning to the working order that our hospital was accustomed to. As a result, this paper that we have presented to you has been prepared with the hope that it will be an important archival resource about how the Pandemic is managed in our hospital and will be a guide for the potential new Pandemics that may occur in the future. The pandemic is not over yet. Considering the fact that the compliance of the society to the rules is indisputably the only truth in this process, maximum attention should be paid to the all decisions and precautions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concepts of "sustainability" and "resilience" have become current issues with the emergence of problems such as industrialization, population growth, rapid consumption of resources, and the climate crisis in recent years. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic experience all over the world has also revealed that urban areas where people live extremely together must be planned and transformed in a sustainable and resilient manner. Urban regeneration projects are among the most frequently used tools in the reorganization of urban areas, renewal of aging urban structures. Also, urban regeneration projects are expected to make a significant contribution to designing more sustainable and resilient urban areas. However, in Turkey, it is observed that private property and urban rent issues can be a pressure factor in the re-planning of public and non-public areas in urban regeneration projects. For this reason, private property rights and limits should be determined accurately in urban regeneration projects and new urbanization models. In this paper, it is discussed how private property and urban rent can be handled in urban regeneration according to housing and population densities, what their limitations can be, and how they should be included in legal regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, controlling the number of patients who are required to stay in hospitals due to covid-19 through backstepping controller is considered by using data from Italy. States and local administrations want to prevent the spread of the outbreak, with measures such as social distance measures, curfews. Even though the absolute control of the pandemic can be reached through absolute isolation, this solution will cause excessive negative effects on social life and economy. Therefore, each country/city would like to control the outbreak, at least not exceeding its bed capacity. The results of this article has potential of serving as a reference for city administrators or general administrators to manage the outbreak. Based on the current health condition of the people due to the epidemic, society is divided into eight sections in this article. One of these eight population groups is the ones whose hospital treatment is mandatory. With the back-stepping controller, it is proven that the number of patients who need to be hospitalized can be kept below the current bed capacity. Simulation results also show that the proposed controller is effectively controls the patients those need to be hospitalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the pandemic that has affected the world, it is also important that healthcare professionals, who are at the forefront, experience the expression of their feelings and thoughts, together with the effort they have shown while using their professional knowledge and skills. In this context, the purpose of this research is to reveal the views and feelings, thoughts and experienced by healthcare professionals. To reach healthcare workers, Izmir was chosen as one of the cities that experienced pandemic intensely, and the question form was used, inspired by the propositions found in Çırakoğlu's (2011) paper published in the Turkish Psychology Journal. Purposeful sampling method was used. A questionnaire to learn their feelings and thoughts about the COVID-19 outbreak was sent to 67 participants. The data was analyzed with the Maxqda Analytics Pro 2018 software, and the results were discussed. The contagiousness of the virus is at the top of the discourse of the healthcare professionals participating in the study regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. Due to the lack of a vaccine or preventive treatment to stop or reduce the transmission, as of the research period, attention is drawn to the fact that individuals maintain distance in isolation and collective areas in order to avoid the contagiousness of the virus. Participants emphasize that the epidemic causes concern to both the society and healthcare workers, and that the studies conducted in the world are delayed in combating the virus. It is thought to give insight into the symbolic representations of the words most frequently used by healthcare professionals regarding the COVID-19 virus. In addition to the prominence of social distance, isolation, quarantine and curfew methods in the fight against the virus, visualization of these methods in social media sharing also constitutes the symbolic representation of the virus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid spread of the virus named Covid-19, which emerged in Wuhan (China) at the end of 2019, caused a global epidemic all over the world. On March 16, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in Kazakhstan and measures were taken in Kazakhstan like the rest of the world. In the meantime, intangible cultural heritage such as aitys, which is a contest on improvised oral poetry, got a great attention in Kazakh society. This article presents the results of an analysis on organizing aitys contests and the poems on COVID-19. The main cause of pandemic is that it changed conventional improvised poetry contest into virtual environment. As a result of the study, it was revealed that four types of aitys contests were held since the state of emergency was declared in Kazakhstan, where three of them were oral and one in written form. The first type of oral aitys contest took place online through video chatting service between two contestants from different places. The second type of the contest was offline at the same place and their contest was streamed via social media. These two contests are streamed on Skype, Instagram, Facebook and the records of the contest are posted on Youtube platform. The third is a radio-talk contest. In an aitys, a man can only listen to his voice to see what he sees in person. Finally, Instagram can be mentioned on paper, as well as on visual and print media such as Facebook. The article states that in the period from March to September 2020, more than one hundred aitys was conducted with the participation of more than one hundred minstrels. Covid-19-themed calls and responses of minstrels were evaluated around Bascom's "Four Functions of Folklore" and Performance Theory. The poems during the aitys proves that the Kazakh people during the outbreak try to safeguard the world's vision and traditions, as well as important advice for oral history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CoronaVirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that started in China and influenced the whole world, causing more than 2.5 million people to die. There is not enough evidence to date that any diet, food, or nutrient prevents or treats COVID-19. However, it is thought that optimal nutrition can be a preventive form of "pre-rehabilitation" against deadly viruses. This paper aims to review the latest scientific data that examine the relationship between COVID-19 and nutrition. In this context, this study focuses on the relationship of COVID-19 with dietary protein, bioactive compounds, zinc, selenium, vitamins C and D, omega-3, probiotics, and the Mediterranean diet, which are particularly emphasized in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main motivation of this paper is to investigate the effects of Covid-19 cases on financial markets using non-linear ARDL analysis in the period from 03/11/2020 to 09/22/2020 in Turkish economy. The analysis findings reveal that the increases in the number of Covid-19 cases in the short term decreases the stock market prices in a statistically significant way, whereas the decreases in the number of Covid-19 cases increases the stock market prices in a statistically insignificant way. On the other hand, long-term analysis findings reveal that the increases in the number of Covid-19 cases decreases the stock market prices in a statistically significant way, whereas the decreases in the number of Covid-19 cases increases the stock market prices in a statistically significant way. In addition, the analysis findings show that the changes in the recovers from Covid-19 pandemic in both the short and long term affect the stock market prices in the same direction and statistically significant way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical findings of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) developed during pregnancy and to summarize the perinatal, postnatal, and neonatal outcomes. Methods: A period between February 1, 2020 and May 25, 2020, using the databases of Pubmed, MedRxiv and Google Scholar, a comprehensive literature survey has been conducted covering the period. When searching, "COVID-19, pregnancy, maternal infection, fetal infection, maternal mortality, fetal mortality, vertical transmission, complications, clinical findings, SARS-CoV-2" keywords have been used. No language restrictions have been applied to scan as much data as possible. Results: Between February 1, 2020 and May 25, 2020, nineteen papers reporting data from 168 pregnancies were included in this study. Most of the articles cover pregnant women in the third trimester. On initial application to hospital, fever was detected in 70% of cases and cough in 34%. Lymphocytopenia was observed in 55% of cases and C-reactive protein elevation was observed in 65%. It was found that 77% of women gave birth by caesarean section. Four patients were taken to the intensive care unit, but no maternal deaths were seen. One neonatal death and one intrauterine death have also been reported. Conclusion: It has been observed that COVID-19 virus does not cause an adverse situation on pregnant women and newborns in the early stages. With all the precautions taken and the applications made, both health workers and the mother and fetus were able to complete the process without being adversely affected by this virus. It will be useful to follow up long-term results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Conoronavirus Disease" (COVID-19) abbreviation is used for the identification of the new disease alerted in Wuhan city of China at the end of year 2019. COVID-19 is caused by "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2" (SARS-CoV-2). Special pandemic precautions are designed for the control of virus spread by inhaling droplets or contact touching surfaces. Authorities were concentrated on the education of healthcare workers, personal protective equipment (PPE) were pursued, and the hospital wards were re-designed during COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, infection control precautions conducted in health facilities were reviewed on the basis of practices of Infection Control Committee (ICC) of Gazi University Hospital following the first COVID-19 case reported at 11 March 2020 in our country. Technical properties of PPEs, donning and doffing procedures, recommendations of PPE for each specific clinical situation for each specific healthcare worker were evaluated in this review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout human history, many pandemics have broken out and caused great numbers of deaths. As the technological development made quite a huge advancement by the twentieth century, the medical treatment armamentarium had widened its facilities and resources. This brought with sophisticated and competent health care services for people which provided the medical practitioners with higher success rates when fighting against diseases and improved recovery and survival rates. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the high transmission rate of the novel SARS-Cov-2 virus has led to the paralysis of the health system and running out of the resources and healthcare workers. Thus, local government healthcare service regulators have begun building up plans to create management algorithms to use the limited resources more efficiently. This paper presents preliminary practical instructions for healthcare providers as a basic foundation for COVID-19 and potential future pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SARS-CoV-2, agent of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a member of the Coronaviridae family leading to severe acute respiratory illness. It is enveloped RNA virus. WHO declared the outbreak of Covid-19 as a pandemic on 11 February 2020. After the emergence of the outbreak in the world and in our country, COVID-19 virology laboratory has been designed and diagnostic tests have been established for the early diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2. The routine diagnosis of COVID-19 is achieved by the detection of viral RNA in clinical samples using the nucleic acid amplification tests like real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The rapid diagnosis during the early phases of the infection is critically important for the isolation of the patients and for the development of preventive measures to control the infection in the community. In this context, after the emergence of the pandemic, different diagnostic techniques (real-time PCR tests, rapid antibody tests, and ELISA tests) have been used for the early diagnosis of COVID-19 in our hospital. In this paper, we want to emphasize the role and importance of the medical laboratories for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, for tracking of the patients, and for epidemiologic studies during COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ongoing pandemic due to SARS CoV2 is really a big one, which would never welcomed from any countries anytime, but knocked the door all of a sudden! The SARS CoV-2 first appeared in China in late December 2019. The virus isolated on January 7, 2020; the disease named as COVID-19 afterwars. Since this was a SARS virus not an influenza, nobody seem to expect it as a pandemic agent, spread so fast and so globally. But actually it did spread to many countries and declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The pandemic hit the universities hard. The most important topic for universities during the pandemic was of course distance and remote learning, which become widespread already. The pandemic will cause profound impacts and changes on the higher education system around the world in terms of education-teaching methods, research, internationalization and mobility. The response of Council of Higher Education of Turkey to pandemic could be evaluated in four phases: 1) Close monitoring, 2) Preparing, 3) Action, 4) New normalization. In this paper we will review the response of Turkish higher education institutions and Council of Higher Education to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are a heterogeneous group of diseases, typically characterized by recurrent ve severe infections, autoimmunity, autoinflammatory, allergic diseases and cancer. Since their immune response to pathogens are impaired, they have high risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, which has spread more than 180 countries. It is reported that two groups of people were prone to life-threatening coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): aged (>65 years of age) and people with comorbidities such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, chronic lung, renal and liver diseases, diabetes mellitus, obesity, including immunodeficiencies. The aim of this paper is to present information about the new coronavirus, modes of transmission, clinical findings, diagnostic procedures, treatment modalities of COVID-19 to the physicians who is caring patients with primary immunodeficiency. Patients with primary immunodeficiencies, must exclusively rely on hygiene and protective measures to combat SARSCoV- 2, since vaccines or effective antiviral treatments against COVID-19 are still not available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 pandemic causes substantial psychosocial stress on individuals and the community. Due to social isolation, neurotrophic potential of coronaviruses and the inflammatory processes, occurrence and relapse of psychotic symptoms may increase during the pandemic. Furthermore, pandemic has limited some protective factors for psychosis (i.e. social support, community mental health practices and physical activity). Additionally, admission of individuals suffering from psychotic symptoms may decrease due to risk of viral contamination. This may lead to under-detection of the problem, persistence of psychotic symptoms, poorer prognosis and more severe outcomes. Psychotic symptoms were reported among infected individuals during the recent coronavirus outbreaks (SARS CoV-1 and MERS CoV). Furthermore, mental problems were of the most substantial causes of long term disability associated with these outbreaks. In this paper, limited data on psychotic symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic will be reviewed. Furthermore, psychosocial stress during the pandemic and plausible associations between the coronaviruses and psychotic symptoms will be discussed in light of the previous research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]