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Higher Education and Global Social Injustice
2020
This dissertation, composed of three unique scholarly articles, explores some of the ways in which institutions of higher education facilitate and mitigate social injustice on a global scale. Specifically analyzing the behavior of administrative actors—defined as those that serve in a leadership role outside of the classroom—the purpose of the research was twofold. Firstly, I aimed to identify the mechanisms by which administrative actors at U.S. and Finnish institutions of higher education legitimized and rationalized their involvement in globally unjust educational practices. Secondly, I sought to identify the ways in which administrative actors in these economically privileged countries …
Terveydenhuolto ja kyberuhkat
2019
Kyberturvallisuusstrategian vision mukaan Suomen tulee kyetä suojaamaan elintärkeät toimintonsa kyberuhkaa vastaan kaikissa tilanteissa. Terveydenhuolto on yksi elintärkeistä toiminnoista. Terveystoimiala on kyberhyökkäysten top-5-listalla ensimmäisenä. Hyökkäysten keskeisin motivaatio on potilastietojen arvo pimeillä markkinoilla. Vuonna 2015 varastettiin yli satamiljoonaa potilastietoa, jotka sisältävät rikollisille arvokkaita tietoja, kuten luottokorttinumeroita, työnantajatietoja ja sairaushistoriatietoja. Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan terveydenhuoltoon liittyviä kyberuhkia, kyberhaavoittuvuuksia ja toteutuneita kyberhyökkäyksiä kybermaailman eri ulottuvuudet kattaen. Tarkastelussa käytet…
Exploring the Critical Success Factors in Social and Health Care Information Systems Project Procurement
2020
A welfare reform involving the mixing of social and health services is being introduced by the Finnish government. Several factors have been identified for this shift, the most relevant of which is that many information systems are not interoperable and data-related problems have been identified. Management and isolated offers of service. Digitalizing to solve these issues is part of the government’s policy. This paper outlines the change landscape and explores the architectural options of the proposed digitalisation process and crucial success factors. The Undertaking The design is applied to the largest county, which consists of over 1,900 information systems related to social support and…
"You, my friend, are a gaycist": gay representations and heteronormativity on the comedy series Happy Endings
2014
Viime vuosikymmenien aikana seksuaalivähemmistöjä koskevat puheenaiheet ovat olleet laajasti esillä länsimaisissa medialähteissä. Televisiossa, uutis- ja ajankohtaisohjelmien lisäksi seksuaalivähemmistöt ovat näkyneet myös fiktiivisissä televisio-ohjelmissa. Erityisesti amerikkalaisissa komediasarjoissa esiintyy paljon fiktiivisiä seksuaalivähemmistöjen edustajia. Vaikka kuvaukset vähemmistöhahmoista näissä sarjoissa ovat fiktiivisiä, vaikuttavat ne silti siihen mitä katsojat seksuaalivähemmistöistä ajattelevat. Fiktiivisten representaatioiden laatu on tärkeässä asemassa. Tämä tutkielma käsittelee homorepresentaatioita ja heteronormatiivisuutta amerikkalaisessa komediasarjassa Happy Endings…
Pigments and their solubility in and extractability by supercritical CO2 - I: the case of curcumin
2000
A specially designed high-pressure cell was used simultaneously as extractor/autoclave and photometric cell in a Perkin Elmer Lambda 5 spectrophotometer. Based on this cell, a simple method was developed to determine the extractability of pigments by pure and by modified supercritical (sc) CO2. The method is demonstrated with curcumin from turmeric. With sc CO2 modified by 10% ethanol, the extraction yield for curcumin from two commercial finely ground dry turmeric samples was about 100%, measured by reference to the (complete) extraction of samples of the same charge with pure ethanol under standard conditions. Extractable curcumin content was from 1.8 to 2.5%, with three samples of turmer…
L’apprendimento capovolto all'Università per lo sviluppo delle soft skills.
2018
L’obiettivo della ricerca è stato sperimentare una metodologia formativa con l‘utilizzo della flipped. L’intervento formativo ha permesso ai 236 studenti coinvolti di potenziare le quattro soft skills (creatività, capacità critica, comunicazione, collaborazione). L’intervento sperimentale è stato realizzato con un piano quasi sperimentale a gruppo unico, accostando metodi quantitativi e qualitativi. È stato possibile raccogliere dati e informazioni più dettagliate sui processi attivati e sugli attori, di seguire e definire in modo più analitico il percorso, le attività e le azioni effettivamente progettate realizzate. L’efficacia formativa dell’azione sperimentale è stata misurata attravers…
Historical literacy and contradictory evidence in Finnish high school setting : The Bronzen Soldier of Tallinn
2016
This article revolves around three key issues. First, over the last 30 years, the traditional approach to history teaching as memorization of facts and chains of events has been changing. Currently, the Finnish national core curriculum fixes the focus of history teaching on students’ critical and historical thinking skills. However, the curriculum leaves a lot of maneuvering scope for schools and individual teachers, but teachers seemingly still emphasize content over skills with too little focus on historical thinking skills. Second, Finland has so far been lacking in research on students’ historical thinking skills, even if they have been adopted as an important part of the curriculum. Wh…
Adorno's tragic vision
2018
This dissertation deals with the tragic vision that motivates certain key aspects of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy. While in the formative early work, the Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-written with Max Horkheimer, the tragic views are clear, in later works, such as the Aesthetic Theory and the Negative Dialectics, they are only implicit. The study reconstructs the tragic vision found in the Dialectic of Enlightenment and uses it as a key to understand Adorno’s mature philosophy. A tragic vision is born when specific philosophical convictions regarding agency and morality coalesce with certain ethical and political conditions. A tragic vision forms the grounds for tragic views. For Adorno,…
Social, health and rehabilitation sector educators’ competence in evidence-based practice : A cross-sectional study
2021
Aim: The purpose of the study was to identify and describe the characteristic profiles of evidence-based practice competence of educators in the social, health and rehabilitation sectors and to establish relevant background factors. Design: This study was carried out as a descriptive cross-sectional study. Methods: Data were collected from social, health and rehabilitation sector educators working in the 21 Finnish universities of applied sciences and seven vocational colleges (n = 422; N = 2,330). A self-assessment instrument measuring evidence-based practice competence was used. Competence profiles were formed using a K-cluster grouping analysis. Results: Three distinct competence profile…
Unmet needs in emergency department patients as an important aspect of the increasing number of hospitalizations
2017
Background. Unmet needs in the medical care of high-need patients may increase costs due to the use of emergency departments (EDs) instead of primary care. Objectives. To establish the possible correlation between the unmet needs of patients and the number of hospitalizations, and the probability of influence of the former aspect on the latter, and to analyze the level of satisfied needs of ED patients in relation to sociodemographic data. Material and methods. An original questionnaire and a modified version of the Camberwell Assessment of Need Short Appraisal Schedule (CANSAS) were used to assess the level of satisfaction of the social, medical, psychological and environmental needs of 15…