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The lived experience of rescuing people who have driven into floodwater: Understanding challenges and identifying areas for providing support.
2018
Background: Drowning is a major public health issue, with risk increasing during times of flood. Driving into floodwater is a major risk factor for flood-related drowning and injury, and despite widespread public health campaigns, many people continue to undertake this risky behaviour and require rescue. Purpose: We aimed to identify key challenges faced by emergency services personnel when rescuing those who have driven into floodwater, and to identify strategies for supporting rescuers in this important role. Methods: Australian flood rescue operators (N = 8) who had previously rescued a driver who had driven into floodwater participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed u…
Nuorten peliohjelmointi
2010
Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tutkitaan yläkouluikäisille (13 16-vuotiaat) tarkoitetun peliohjelmoinnin lyhytkurssin innostavuutta, ja vaikutuksia osallistujien suhtautumiseen luonnontieteiden opiskeluun. Osallistujien kurssikokemuksiin pyrittiin löytämään yhteyksiä taustatekijöistä. Lisäksi aineistosta etsittiin ryhmiä, jotka kuvaisivat tyypillisiä kurssille tulleita oppilaita. Tämän avulla on tarkoitus kehittää kurssin sisältöä, opetusmenetelmiä ja markkinointia. Tässä työssä esitellään myös pääpiirteet kurssin suunnittelusta ja toteutuksesta, ja lisäksi joitakin oppilaiden valmiista pelituotoksista ja pelisuunnitelmista.
Ohjelmistoarkkitehtuurit peleissä : systemaattinen kirjallisuuskatsaus
2017
Tutkielmassa toteutettiin kirjallisuuskatsaus tutkimuskysymykselle "mitä arkkitehtuurisuunnittelusta osana pelinkehitystä on kirjoitettu". Kirjallisuutta haettiin kolmesta tietokannasta hakusanoilla "Game Architecture". kaksi kolmasosaa hakutuloksista ei ollut olennaisia. Kirjallisuuskatsauksen perusteella arkkitehtuurityylit ja suunnittelumallit ovat arkkitehtuurisuunnittelun osa-alueita, joista on kirjoitettu erityisen paljon, eikä eri pelien teknisillä toteutuksilla ole paljon yhteistä. Yhteistä prosessia, jolla pelin arkkitehtuurisuunnittelu toteutetaan, ei löydetä. In this master’s theses a literature review was performed to answer the research question "what has been written about sof…
Psychometric properties of the Assessment Tool for Perceived Agency (ATPA-22) - utility for the rehabilitation of young adults not in education, empl…
2020
Background: Promoting and supporting agency have been at the heart of the debate multidisciplinary. To promote self-awareness of young people’s agency and identify persons in need of support the Assessment Tool for Perceived Agency (ATPA-22) was developed. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ATPA-22. Participants were young adults not in education, employment or training (NEETs) and students in higher education (HEI). Materials and methods: The main data analysis was implemented by Many Faceted Rasch (MFR) analysis. Results: The ATPA-22 items defined a unidimensional construct with reasonable internal consistency and separation ability. The ATPA-22 was capabl…
Efectos de un entrenamiento de fuerza con material elástico versus medio acuático sobre la composición corporal, el hueso, el rendimiento motor y el …
2020
El ejercicio físico en general y el entrenamiento de la fuerza en particular es una estrategia eficaz para prevenir y/o revertir determinadas alteraciones fisiológicas, cognitivas, emocionales y del rendimiento motor de las personas mayores. Para poder entrenar la fuerza, además del propio peso corporal, existen diversos materiales tradicionales como por ejemplo los pesos libres o las máquinas. Estos dispositivos, a pesar de ser efectivos, muchas veces resultan costosos, de difícil acceso o incómodos para las personas mayores. Por este motivo, es importante buscar alternativas a estos dispositivos utilizando otros más novedosos, económicos y accesibles como por ejemplo son los materiales de…
Caring in space: the boundaries between public and private spaces in Finnish adult foster care homes
2020
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore a hybrid community-based form of care for older people called adult foster care. In the article, the nature of the foster care home as a place of care is explored from the foster carers’ point-of-view. It is based on an interview study of 12 foster carers. In this article, the theoretical frameworks from human geography and work–family research are combined in order to analyse the boundaries between private family-life and public work-life in the particular space of the foster care home. The research questions are: What kinds of public and private spaces exist in adult foster care homes? What kinds of boundaries separate (a) the public and p…
Unpacking the link between family socioeconomic status and civic engagement during the transition to adulthood: Do work values play a role?
2017
We investigated whether the link between family-of-origin socioeconomic status (SES) and civic engagement in young adulthood is mediated by youth’s work values, i.e., the desired characteristics of their current or future jobs. We used data from a Finnish study: 2004 (age 16–18, NT1 = 1,301); 2011 (age 23–25, N T2 = 1,096); and 2014 (age 25–27, NT3 = 1,138). A lower family SES in 2004 was negatively related to youth’s civic engagement in 2014. Lower family SES predicted the importance that youth attached to extrinsic job rewards (e.g., good pay) in 2011, but not the importance of intrinsic job rewards (e.g., learning opportunities). Extrinsic work values, in turn, predicted lower civic enga…
Perhepäivähoito laadukkaan varhaiskasvatuksen tarjoajana? : perhepäivähoidon laadunarviointi FCCERS-R-mittarilla
2011
Leppänen, Selina & Peltonen, Ilona. 2011. PERHEPÄIVÄHOITO LAADUKKAAN VARHAISKASVATUKSEN TARJOAJANA? Perhepäivähoidon laadunarviointi FCCERS-R-mittarilla. Pro gradu -tutkielma, Jyväskylän yliopisto, varhaiskasvatuksen yksikkö, 123 sivua sisältäen liitteet 5 kappaletta. Tämä perhepäivähoidon laatua käsittelevä etnografinen tutkimus toi kansainvälisen tuulahduksen suomalaisen perhepäivähoidon laadunarviointiin. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus jakautui kahtaalle. Ensinnäkin tarkoituksena oli selvittää valtakunnallisesti kiinnostusta herättäneen kansainvälisen FCCERS-R-laadunarviointimittarin (Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale Revised edition, Harms, Cryer & Clifford 2007) soveltuvuutta suomalais…
The development of work values during the transition to adulthood : A two-country study
2017
This study addresses the development of work values—the desired characteristics of one's current or future job—during young adulthood. Using two panel studies from Germany (N = 2506) and Finland (N = 1326), we investigated (a) mean-level and rank-order change and stability in work values across three biennial waves (age 20/21 to age 25/26); and (b) the influence of stable background characteristics as well as of major transitions in family and work roles on inter-individual differences and intra-individual changes in work values. Latent measurement models with three work value dimensions showed good fit in both countries: extrinsic (importance of job security and material rewards), intrinsi…
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis and cognitive function in healthy older people: genetic, situational and individual factors
2019
The world population is getting older, and this age group faces important health challenges, among which age-related cognitive decline stands out. Therefore, it is important to identify vulnerability and protective health factors in order to understand ways to prevent cognitive decline. This thesis aimed to address the relationship between the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive functioning during aging, taking into account genetic (Apolipoprotein E, ApoE, polymorphism), situational (loneliness), and individual factors (personality traits). To do this, a group of healthy older people over 55 years of age, men and women, were evaluated. A neuropsychological battery was ad…