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Drivers, barriers and impacts of digitalisation in rural areas from the viewpoint of experts
2022
Abstract Context: The domain of rural areas, including rural communities, agriculture, and forestry, is going through a process of deep digital transformation. Digitalisation can have positive impacts on sustainability in terms of greater environmental control, and community prosperity. At the same time, it can also have disruptive effects, with the marginalisation of actors that cannot cope with the change. When developing a novel system for rural areas, requirements engineers should carefully consider the specific socio-economic characteristics of the domain, so that potential positive effects can be maximised, while mitigating negative impacts. Objective: The goal of this paper is to sup…
Das "Manometerprinzip" der Sexualselektion [Dzimumizlases manometra princips]
1933
Teksts vācu valodā, kopsavilkums latviešu valodā.
Measuring psychosocial stress with heart rate variability-based methods in different health and age groups
2022
Abstract Objective. Autonomic nervous system function and thereby bodily stress and recovery reactions may be assessed by wearable devices measuring heart rate (HR) and its variability (HRV). So far, the validity of HRV-based stress assessments has been mainly studied in healthy populations. In this study, we determined how psychosocial stress affects physiological and psychological stress responses in both young (18–30 years) and middle-aged (45–64 years) healthy individuals as well as in patients with arterial hypertension and/or either prior evidence of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. We also studied how an HRV-based stress index (Relax-Stress Intensity, RSI) relates to perceived stress …
Chronic Background Radiation Correlates With Sperm Swimming Endurance in Bank Voles From Chernobyl
2022
Sperm quantity and quality are key features explaining intra- and interspecific variation in male reproductive success. Spermatogenesis is sensitive to ionizing radiation and laboratory studies investigating acute effects of ionizing radiation have indeed found negative effects of radiation on sperm quantity and quality. In nature, levels of natural background radiation vary dramatically, and chronic effects of low-level background radiation exposure on spermatogenesis are poorly understood. The Chernobyl region offers a unique research opportunity for investigating effects of chronic low-level ionizing radiation on reproductive properties of wild organisms. We captured male bank voles (Myo…
Whether and How Social Work Could Address the Long-Term Socio-environmental Risks Caused by the Mining Industry in Northern Finland
2018
Despite underlining the importance of the commitment of states and international organizations, the discourse on human security is seldom explicit about who the actors or frontline workers are that operationalize the framework. One such group of practitioners that is possibly involved, but largely unacknowledged, is social workers, especially as social work as a discipline, profession and social movement has a value base and overall goals that are very similar to the human security approach. In social work, the categories of economic, food, environmental and community security fall within the discourse of human security, particularly with the currently evolving ecosocial (ecological/environ…
Why Do Managers Leave Their Organization? : Investigating the Role of Ethical Organizational Culture in Managerial Turnover
2016
The aim of the present longitudinal study was to quantitatively examine whether an ethical organizational culture predicts turnover among managers. To complement the quantitative results, a further important aim was to examine the self-reported reasons behind manager turnover, and the associations of ethical organizational culture with these reasons. The participants were Finnish managers working in technical and commercial fields. Logistic regression analyses indicated that, of the eight virtues investigated, congruency of supervisors, congruency of senior management, discussability, and sanctionability were negatively related to manager turnover. The results also revealed that the turnove…
Effects of the European Monetary Union on High-Technology Exports
2021
AbstractOur study estimates the effects of the European Monetary Union (EMU) on high-technology (HT) export and assesses the potential knowledge spillovers of such trade. Irrespective of the importance of the HT trade channel, none of the previous studies in the literature focus on the effects of a common currency on HT trade. Increasing trade in the HT sector may lead to more efficient use of resources and help countries to move towards a knowledge-based economy. Moreover, it may lead to higher overall growth. After considering multilateral resistances, pair fixed effects and bias correction in the preferred (three-way bias-corrected) model, EMU membership becomes negative and statisticall…
Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2001, Pavasaris (171)
2001
Contents: J.Ikaunieks and G.Petrov. Plan of the Radio interferometer of the Astrophysical Laboratory of the LAS ; Z.Alksne and L.Reiziņš. Astronomical Calculations by Electronic Computer ; Z.Alksne, A.Alksnis. The First Decade of the Hubble Space Telescope ; Z.Alksne. Both a Planet and a Dust Disk Orbit Iota (ι) Horologii ; Z.Alksne. The Story of Sakurai’s Star is Continuing ; J.Jaunbergs. Space News on the Web ; I.Vilks. Spaceflight. Period of Great Success (1961-1973) ; I.Abakumov. From History of the Photographic Observations of Earth Artificial Satellites ; M.Kūle. Attitude to Person: Modern Variations ; K.Bērziņš. On Friendly Terms with Cosmology: Basic Principles and Models of the Uni…
Kuinka mitata yliopiston vuorovaikutusta, vaikuttavuutta ja kolmatta tehtävää?
2023
Käsittelemme tässä artikkelissa yhteiskunnallista vuorovaikutusta ja sen mittaamiseen liittyviä haasteita erityisesti humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellisellä kentällä. nonPeerReviewed
The making of rallienglanti : cross-linguistic influence in Finnish speakers' pronunciation of English
2016
Kielten välistä siirtovaikutusta, eli transferia on tutkittu melko paljon, mutta suomen ja englannin kielten suhde, varsinkin fonetiikan osalta, on jäänyt melko vähälle huomiolle. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää erilaisia tapoja, joilla suomalaisten englanninääntämys voi erota ns. malliääntämyksestä, sekä selvittää, miten suomen kielen foneettinen järjestelmä vaikuttaa näihin eroihin. Kvalitatiiviseen tapaustutkimukseen valittiin erilaisia englannin kielen ääntämysjärjestelmän osa-alueita, kuten konsonanttiäänteitä, sekä prosodisia seikkoja, kuten painotus ja intonaatio. Tavoitteena oli löytää kattavasti erilaisia esimerkkejä tutkimuksen osallistujien puhenäytteistä ja kuvailla…