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Engaging Databases for Data Systems Education

2023

Promoting 21st Century Literacy Education in Zambia

2015

The aim of the project CAPOLSA (Centre for Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa) was to establish a strong literacy centre at the University of Zambia (UNZA). The long-term goal is to have international visibility and impact, specifically in African countries facing similar challenges to Zambia. This literacy training approach is based on the Grapho Learning Initiative and the innovative and efficient digital-based learning game, GraphoGame, that has been developed based on scientific studies led by Professor Heikki Lyytinen at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU). He was the responsible project leader, together with Professor Robert Serpell at UNZA. The project implementation period wa…

Koulutus ja työelämä muutoksessa

2008

Ammattitaito on koulutuksella ja kokemuksella hankittu pätevyys toimia määrätyssä ammatissa. Useat viimeaikaiset tutkimukset osoittavat, että ammattilaiset kokevat oppineensa jopa suurimman osan työssä tarvittavista taidoista vasta työssä. Elinikäinen oppiminen voidaankin nähdä erääksi avainprosessiksi työelämän muutoksen hallinnassa. Erityisesti tämä koskee ikääntyviä työntekijöitä. Vaikka suomalaiset ovat kansainvälisesti aktiiveja aikuisopiskelijoita, vain prosentti yli 40-vuotiaista osallistuu tutkintotavoitteiseen koulutukseen. Siksi henkilöstökoulutuksella on keskeinen sija ikääntyvien aikuisten ammattitaidon säilyttämisessä.

Systematic education has a positive impact on nurses' evidence-based practice: Intervention study results

2022

Aims To evaluate how an education program on evidence-based practice (EBP) affected nurses´ knowledge, practices, and attitudes related to EBPs in patient care. Methods Nurses of one Finnish university hospital participated in two separate EBP education programs in 2016–2017 and 2018–2019. Data was collected by a questionnaire given before and after each program. Reliable instruments for measuring EBP were used: The Evidence-Based Practice Questionnaire (24 items) and the Attitudes to Evidence-Based Practice Questionnaire (17 items). Means and frequencies were evaluated with the Mann-Whitney U test and linear regression. Results Nurses reported that their EBP practice, skills and the Work b…

Designing a mobile learning framework for a formal educational context

2015

Oppimateriaalien kehittäminen, hyödyntäminen ja rooli tieto- ja viestintätekniikan opetuksessa

2014

Design and experimental validation of a generic model for combinatorial assembly of DNA tiles into 1D-structures.

2010

Abstract Background Quantitative modeling of the self-assembly of DNA tiles leading either to defined end-products or distribution of biopolymers is of practical importance for biotechnology and synthetic biology. Methods The combinatorial process describing tile assembly was implemented into a generic algorithm allowing quantitative description of the population of significant species accumulating during the reaction course. Experimental formation and characterization by optical and electrophoresis approaches of copolymers resulting from the self-assembly of a limited number of half-complementary tiles were used to define and validate generic rules allowing definition of model parameters. …

Transition-Selective Pulses in Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

2016

We use low-amplitude, ultralow frequency pulses to drive nuclear spin transitions in zero and ultralow magnetic fields. In analogy to high-field NMR, a range of sophisticated experiments becomes available as these allow narrow-band excitation. As a first demonstration, pulses with excitation bandwidths 0.5–5 Hz are used for population redistribution, selective excitation, and coherence filtration. These methods are helpful when interpreting zero- and ultralow-field NMR spectra that contain a large number of transitions.

A scalable multiagent system architecture for interactive applications

2013

Interactive applications like crowd simulations need to properly render the virtual world while simulating the interaction of thousands of agents at the same time. The computational workload generated by these two tasks highly increases with the number of the simulated agents, requiring a scalable design of the multiagent system. In this paper, we present, in an unified manner, a distributed multiagent system architecture that can manage large crowds of autonomous agents at interactive rates while rendering multiple views of the virtual world being simulated. This architecture consists of a distributed multiagent system and a complementary distributed visualization subsystem. We also presen…

Hospitalization for self-harm during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in France: a nationwide study

2020

ABSTRACTIntroductionLittle is known to date about the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on self-harm incidence.MethodsThe number of hospitalizations for self-harm in France (mainland and overseas) from January to August 2020 (which includes the first confinement from March 17th to May 11th) was compared to the same period in 2019-2017. Hospital data with the ICD-10 codes X60-84 were extracted from the national administrative database (PMSI).ResultsThere were 53,583 hospitalizations for self-harm in France between January and August 2020. Compared to the same period in 2019, this represents an overall 8.5% decrease. This decrease started the first week of the confinement and the number of hospital…