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Molecular Pathways Implicated in Radioresistance of Glioblastoma Multiforme: What Is the Role of Extracellular Vesicles?
2023
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a primary brain tumor that is very aggressive, resistant to treatment, and characterized by a high degree of anaplasia and proliferation. Routine treatment includes ablative surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, GMB rapidly relapses and develops radioresistance. Here, we briefly review the mechanisms underpinning radioresistance and discuss research to stop it and install anti-tumor defenses. Factors that participate in radioresistance are varied and include stem cells, tumor heterogeneity, tumor microenvironment, hypoxia, metabolic reprogramming, the chaperone system, non-coding RNAs, DNA repair, and extracellular vesicles (EVs). We direct our a…
Robots responding to care needs? : A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental ass…
2020
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expectations of robots revolutionizing care of older people, the role of robots in human care has remained marginal. The value of world trade in service robots, including care robots, is rather small. We argue that the implementation of robots in care is n…
The role of ICT in primary education : pupils' views about iPad-oriented oral communication tasks in English lessons (5th grade)
2014
Tämä tutkimus käsittelee tietotekniikan roolia alakoulun opetuksessa oppilaan näkökulmasta. Tällä hetkellä alakoulua käyvät oppilaat kuuluvat uuteen, teknologiaorientoituneeseen sukupolveen, ja tämän vuoksi tutkimuksen yhtenä oletuksena oli, että oppilailla olisi näkemyksiä aiheesta. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on kartoittaa, kuinka tietotekniikkaa on hyödynnetty ja kuinka sitä voi käyttää luokkahuoneessa sekä lisäksi selvittää oppilaiden ajatuksia ja toiveita siihen liittyen. Esimerkkitapauksena tutkimuksessa käsitellään alakoulun viidennen luokan englannin tunteja ja niillä opetuksessa käytettävää iPad-tablettitietokonetta. Tutkimuksen keskeiset teemat ovat alakoulun opetus, opetusteknologi…
Global Communication with Icons : Hotel Safety as an Environmental Context
2015
Icons are small signs with fixed meanings. Icons are usually context specific. For example in the context of a hotel, the client can often find icons in hotel room books and safety guides. Scandic Hotel chain, for example, currently provides the manual for its safety system in 14 languages. There are at least two major shortcomings of this system: (1) in emergency or panic situations, it is very difficult to find your own language from the leaflet, and (2) there are no Asian languages. There is an obvious need for a global icon-based hotel safety language. In our paper, we introduce an icon-based model, language and mobile application for hotel safety. peerReviewed
Performing Identities and Constructing Meaning in Interpersonal Encounters
2011
This paper presents a communicational semiopragmatics approach to the question of identity in interpersonal and intercultural communication. The model which we have developed (Boutaud, 2005, Frame, 2008) seeks to relate macro-level and micro-level approaches to communication (both in terms of culture and of identity), in order to take into account both the prefigured and the emergent aspects of meaning construction in an interpersonal encounter. The concept of identity is treated from a symbolic interactionist point of view, and more precisely within the theoretical framework of identity theory (Stryker, 1980, Stryker & Burke, 2000, Burke et al., 2003, Burke, 2004), applied to multiple iden…
Rakstveida sarunu iezīmes tiešsaistes diskusiju forumos
2017
Pastāv dažādas komunikācijas formas un viena no tām ir digitālā komunikācija. Ziņu sūtīšana un saņemšana notiek digitālā vidē, kur valda īpaši noteikumi, nerakstīti likumi, kur valodas stila pielietojums atšķiras gan funkcionāli, gan pēc tipiskā satura. Digitālā valoda tiek identificēta kā “rakstveida saruna”, jo tā balstās, izmantojot rakstu kodu un sarunvalodas dinamiskās īpašības. Sociālajos forumos ziņu apmaiņa noris caur t.s. diskusiju pavedieniem, kas dod iespēju parādīt dalībnieku iejaukšanos pēc tā veida, kas tiek izteikta un mērīta kā reakcija vienam uz otru. Šī pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, kāda veida iejaukšanās dominē diskusiju forumos tīmekļa vietnē “Doctissimo.fr”? Darba auto…
WhatsApp iconology: narratives on in-app photographic practices in (transnational) family communication
2023
Sharing photographs and photo-chatting are common practices in doing family at a distance. This study looks at the processes of the production and circulation of photographs within the family network, analysing participants’ narratives about their image-based communication in WhatsApp. The data was collected as an ethnographic enquiry into the digitally mediated (transnational) family communication of five Polish women and their children living in Finland. It consists of five auto-driven visual elicitation interviews with an interactive collage, three elicitation interviews, with the participant’s smartphone used for fast reference to their in-app chats, and one semi-structured interview. T…
Structural factors in preschool children's emotional expression in music
2011
Recent studies have substantiated that preschool children are able to perceive the emotional meaning in music. However, to date, research has not paid enough attention to children’s emotional expression in music. The current study investigated 3- (N=18) and 5- (N=19) year-old children’s ability to express emotion with music by manipulating musical factors (pitch, loudness and tempo) to indicate one of three basic emotions (happiness, sadness or angriness). In order to facilitate the recognition of emotions three images of faces were presented representing target emotions. Three musical pieces differing in terms of emotional quality were presented in random order and participants were asked …
Virtual Medical Communication in English. A Corpus-based Analysis of Inclusive we, us and our in the Intercultural Clinical Blog
2013
Blogs play a very important role in web-based communication as they represent ever-increasing worldwide tools in both everyday and professional interaction (Crystal 2007; Herring 1996, 2007). Similarly to all writers in general, bloggers use persuasive techniques to attract readers’ attention and make them share their points of views and opinions. The use of inclusive pronouns and possessives fulfils pragmatic persuasive functions. The aim of this work was to investigate how the first-person plural personal pronouns we and us and the first-person plural possessive adjective our were used in an intercultural blog in the medical field, namely Clinical blog, of the British Medical Journal (BMJ…
Komunikacja niespójna w teorii i praktyce terapeutycznej
2016
Komunikacja niespójna może wynikać z niezgodności wypowiadanych przez człowieka słów i towarzyszących im zachowań niewerbalnych lub ze sprzeczności między pojawiającymi się w tym samym czasie różnymi przekazami pozasłownymi (np. silny uścisk dłoni kłóci się z czerwienieniem się na twarzy, a zaciśnięte usta pozostają w sprzeczności z gestami rąk znamionującymi szczerość i otwartość). Zjawisko komunikacji niespójnej stało się przedmiotem dociekań wielu wybitnych teoretyków i praktyków psychoterapii. G. Batesona zainspirowało do prac nad zjawiskiem „podwójnego związania"; niespójność w komunikacyjnej teorii podwójnego związania uznano za niezgodność między przekazem słownym i bezsłownym. V. Sa…