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Social welfare professionals willing to participate in client information system development - Results from a large cross-sectional survey.
2021
Human-centered design methods should be implemented throughout the client information system (CIS) development process to understand social welfare professionals’ needs, tasks, and contexts of use. The aim of this study was to examine Finnish social welfare professionals’ experiences of participating in CIS development. A national cross-sectional web-based survey on the CIS experiences of social welfare professionals (1145 respondents) was conducted in Finland in spring 2019. This study focused on statements concerning the experiences of end users with CIS development and participation. The results are reported by professional and age groups. Half (50%) of the 1145 respondents had participa…
Conformations and Energetics of Sulfur and Selenium Diimides
2003
The geometries and energetics of different conformations of sulfur and selenium diimides E(NR) 2 (E = S, Se; R = H, Me, 'Bu, C 6 H 3 Me 2 -2,6, SiMe 3 ) have been studied by using various ab initio and DFT molecular orbital techniques. The syn,syn conformation is found to be most stable for parent E(NH) 2 , but in general, the preferred molecular conformation for substituted chalcogen diimides is syn,anti. In the case of E(NH) 2 the present calculations further confirm that syn,syn and syn,anti conformations lie energetically close to each other. From the three different theoretical methods used, B3PW91/6.31G * proved to be the most suitable method for predicting the geometries of chalcogen…
The role of music therapy in the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities suffering from mental health issues
2016
Mental health issues are more common among people with intellectual disabilities than among others. Therefore, more research is needed on this topic. The main concepts of the present study – intellectual disability, mental disorders, and music therapy – are defined. The aim of this qualitative semi-structured interview study was to discover how the mental health issues of people with intellectual disabilities affect their daily life. Furthermore, the objective was to find out, whether the mental health issues persons with intellectual disabilities suffer from could be eased by using music therapy, and what music therapy methods are used when treating this group of clients. Music therapists …
Automatic content analysis in collaborative inquiry-based learning
2019
In the field of science education, content analysis is a popular way to analyse collaborative inquiry-based learning (CIBL) processes. However, content analysis is time-consuming when conducted by humans. In this paper, we introduce an automatic content analysis method to identify the different inquiry-based learning (IBL) phases from authentic student face-to-face discussions. We illustrate the potential of automatic content analysis by comparing the results of manual content analysis (conducted by humans) and automatic content analysis (conducted by computers). Both the manual and automatic content analyses were based on manual transcriptions of 11 groups’ CIBL processes. Two researchers …
Towards the design of an agile enterprise architecture management method
2016
Enterprises engage in dynamic environments and do need capabilities that will enable them to (re)configure and integrate existing capabilities or create new capabilities in order to remain viable and competitive in such environments. Enterprise Architecture (EA) by definition has the propensity to contribute to the agility of the enterprise in turbulent environments provided it is managed and guided by a methodic approach in a way that strengthens the capabilities with which the enterprise senses and responds to changes in its environment. However, the agility of the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) func-tion and its relation with the agility of the enterprise as a whole has been sp…
Development of an Agile Requirements Risk Prioritization Method : A Design Science Research Study
2023
The practice of information systems development (ISD) has changed during the past two decades from very structured approaches to agile ISD methods. However, many methods available for managing requirements-related risks in the literature follow the structured way of doing ISD. If any, few methods offer solutions to prioritize requirements risks for agile ISD projects based on recognizing requirements-related risks and patterns to mitigate these. To fill this gap in the literature, we apply the design science research methodology to develop an agile requirements risk prioritization method together with industry experts (n=54) in Finland and New Zealand in a multi-year study. The method was d…
Do concepts and methods have ethics?
2020
Grammar teaching methods in EFL lessons : factors to consider when making instructional decisions
2016
Kielioppi on vakiinnuttanut asemansa kielen opettamisessa ja oppimisessa ja se on tärkeässä osassa vieraiden kielten opetussuunnitelmaa. Sanotaan, että erilaisia opetusmenetelmiä on yhtä monta kuin on opettajiakin, joten metodien kirjo on todella laaja. Opettajat ovat itse vastuussa siitä, miten kielioppia opettavat, joten he tekevät sen parhaaksi katsomallaan tavalla. Kielten opetusmenetelmiä on tutkittu paljon, mutta vähemmän tutkimuksia on tehty siitä, millä perusteella opettajat opetusmenetelmänsä valitsevat. Tämä tutkielma toteutettiin kuvailevana tapaustutkimuksena, johon osallistui kolme suomalaista englannin kielen opettajaa kolmelta eri koulutasolta. Aineisto kerättiin observoimall…
Varhaisessa CLIL-opetuksessa olevien oppilaiden käsityksiä kielitaidosta ja vieraan kielen käytöstä
2022
Tässä artikkelissa paneudutaan varhain alkaneessa CLIL-opetuksessa opiskelleiden oppilaiden käsityksiin kielitaidosta. Tutkimukseen osallistuneet oppilaat (N=41) opiskelivat englannin- ja ranskankielisessä CLIL-opetuksessa 2. vuosiluokalla. Tutkimuksemme aineistona olivat oppilaiden piirtämät kuvat tilanteista, joissa he kertoivat tarvittavan tai käytettävän vierasta kieltä. Lisäksi oppilaat saivat selittää kuviaan kirjallisesti kolmen lisäkysymyksen avulla. Aineisto analysoitiin visuaalisen analyysin ja sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Tulokset osoittavat, että oppilaiden kielitaitokäsitykset olivat moniäänisiä ja yhdistelmä perinteisiä ja modernimpia kielikäsityksiä. Yhtäältä oppilaat kuvasivat…
Shape optimization for Stokes problem with threshold slip boundary conditions
2017
This paper deals with shape optimization of systems governed by the Stokes flow with threshold slip boundary conditions. The stability of solutions to the state problem with respect to a class of domains is studied. For computational purposes the slip term and impermeability condition are handled by a regularization. To get a finite dimensional optimization problem, the optimized part of the boundary is described by B´ezier polynomials. Numerical examples illustrate the computational efficiency. peerReviewed