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Web Services -tekniikoiden hyödyntäminen Java Platform, Micro Edition -ympäristössä

2008

Unraveling long-term changes in lake color based on optical properties of lake sediment

2020

A number of boreal surface waters have become browner over the last two decades. Recovery from acid rain is regarded as an important driver for this lake color increase, indicating a general browner lake color in preindustrial times. However, the lack of long-term monitoring data makes it challenging to unravel historical changes in lake color. In this study, we estimated long-term development in lake color (1800 to 2015) based on the optical properties of alkaline extractable dissolved organic matter (DOM) from sediment using UV–Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. We found that the present lake color (2015) was significantly browner (four times higher in absorption coefficient) than for the…

Challenges in business communication : the essence of corporate English communications practices in Finnish firms

2012

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on kartoittaa englanninkielistä viestintää suomalaisissa yrityksissä. Tarkastelun kohteena on myös työntekijöiden henkilökohtainen suhtautuminen monikulttuuriseen viestintään ja omaan suoriutumiseen. Tutkimukseni taustalla on halu ymmärtää, miten suomalaisyritysten kansainvälinen viestintä rakentuu ja minkälaisia velvoitteita ja vaatimuksia se asettaa työntekijöille. Tutkimuksen aineistona on kuusi puolistrukturoitua syvähaastattelua. Haastateltavat työskentelevät Suomessa eri alojen yrityksissä erityyppisissä tehtävissä. Haastattelut nauhoitettiin, litteroitiin ja analysoitiin teemoittain. Tutkimusten tulokset osoittivat kansainvälisen viestinnän suuren osuu…

Which direction should I go? A quest for understanding the effect of TMS stimulus orientation on evoked responses

2023

The orientation of the electric field (E-field) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) plays a significant role in determining the magnitude of motor evoked potentials (MEP) and TMS-evoked potentials (TEP). However, fundamental mechanisms explaining the interaction of the induced E-field and the underlying neuronal populations are still largely unknown. We recently entered a quest to understand and describe neurophysiological and physical factors affecting the effect of the E-field orientation on the MEP and TEP. We developed a dual-coil TMS transducer capable of fast and accurate electronic control of the induced E-field orientation. With this transducer, we could scan the effe…

Political undercurrents of the Ukraine conflict : the reshaping of power relationships in Europe

2016

Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tarkastella miten valta näyttäytyy vuoden 2013 lopussa alkaneen Ukrainan konfliktissa ja miten se vaikuttaa Euroopan Unionin toimimiseen ja sen identiteettiin. Tutkin Euroopan Unionin (EU) ja Venäjän muuttuvia valtasuhteita, joka mahdollistaa myös vallan käsitteellisen analyysin. En keskity niinkään policy-tason analyysiin tai Ukrainan tilanteeseen, muuten kuin miten se vaikuttaa EU:hun ja Venäjään. Koska tutkimuksen tarkoitus on esittää erilaisia pinnan alla tapahtuvia poliittisia muutoksia, tutkimuksessa ei ole yhtä ainutta analyysi-menetelmää. Raamitan valtasuhteiden muutosta kolmen eri näkökulman kautta. Ensimmäiseksi tutkin EU:ta pehmeän vallan käsitteen ka…

Is privatization of education beneficial for Morocco? : evaluation of Morocco's privatization policy on the basis of a cross-sectional study of quali…

2016

The aim of this thesis was to evaluate Morocco’s privatization policy based on the opinions of final-year high-school students (n = 103) that were studying in either public or private schools. This was examined using a cross-sectional study design in which a structured, Likert scale questionnaire was administered at a night school in Casablanca, Morocco, where highschool students can take extra classes in preparation for their final year exam. The results were analyzed quantitatively by comparing the group means with an independent samples ttest, using an alpha level of 0.05. The results of the study indicated that socioeconomic status was significantly higher for students studying in priva…

Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations : joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy

2023

Culture and cultural heritage have become central aspects in the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy that increasingly emphasizes dialogue and people-to-people connections as the basis for international cultural relations. This article explores 11 projects jointly facilitated by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) and EU Delegations in nine countries located in Europe, Africa, and South America as part of a strategic cooperation between the European Commission, the European External Action Service and EUNIC. We identify five modes of highlighting dialogue as a key element in the EU’s international cultural relations and discuss how the ideas of dialogue, cultural her…

Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform : The Finnish experience

2019

The literature on the Ghent system has focused on the link between voluntary unemployment insurance and union membership in terms of industrial relations. Less attention has been paid to unemployment benefits and employees' decision-making concerning unemployment insurance, even though the core function of the Ghent system is to provide unemployment insurance. This paper examines both of the options that precarious workers (i.e., part-timers, temporary employees, and low-skilled service employees) choose regarding unemployment insurance membership and the change in union density after the Ghent system reform in Finland. First, the results show that the growth of the independent unemployment…

The Early Bird gets the Word

2019

Success in an increasingly globalized world sets requirements for versatile communication skills and understanding about other cultures. One of the keys to success is versatile language skills, on which the European Commission spoke out as early as in 1995, recommending that every European citizen should learn two foreign languages in addition to their mother tongue. Now, more than twenty years later, the launch of early A1 language teaching that is to begin in the first grade in Finland, in January 2020, is a significant step towards this goal. Studies show that early foreign language learning needs to be carefully carried out in order to achieve positive effects and the effects that have …

Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: the case of Finland

2019

In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the government frame and the choice frame. The results show that even though market logics and tendencies seem to have gained a strong foothold in local policies, there is a keen interest in universalism and maintaining public control over local ECEC provisi…