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The quality of life in the Finnish game industry
2013
Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkitaan työntekijöiden elämänlaatua Suomen peliteollisuudessa. Tutkimus perustuu International Game Developers Associationin (IGDA) vastaavanlaiseen tutkimukseen, joka toteutettiin huhtikuussa 2004. Tavoitteena on tarkastella ongelmia, jotka ovat nähtävissä peliyritysten työympäristössä. Päätavoitteena tässä laadullisessa tapaustutkimuksessa oli selvittää, mitkä ovat yleisiä elämänlaatuun liittyviä ongelmia pelinkehitysyrityksissä ja mitkä olisivat parhaat käytännöt ehkäisemään tai vähentämään elämänlaatuun liittyviä ongelmia. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että suomalaisella pelialalla on tällä hetkellä pula osaavista työntekijöistä. Vaikka peliteollisuus on nopeast…
Service Provisioning and User Association for Heterogeneous Wireless Railway Networks
2017
In addition to comforting passengers' journey, the modern railway system is responsible to support a variety of on-board Internet services to meet the passenger's demands on seamless service provisioning. In order to provide wireless access to the train, one idea attracting increasing attention is to deploy a series of track-side access points (TAPs) with high-speed data rates along the rail lines dedicated to the broadband mobile service provisioning on board. Due to the heavy data traffic flushing into the base stations (BSs) of the cellular networks, TAPs act as a complement to the BSs in data delivery. In this paper, we focus on the TAP association problem for service provisioning in a …
Service Provisioning with Multiple Service Providers in 5G Ultra-dense Small Cell Networks
2015
In this work, a game theoretical approach for addressing the virtual network service providers (NSPs), small cell provider (SCP) and user interaction in heterogenous small cell networks is presented. In particular, we consider the users can select the services of different NSPs based on their prices. The NSPs have no dedicated hardware and need to rent from the SCP in term of radio resources, e.g., small cell base stations (SBSs) in order to provide satisfied services to the users. Due to the fact that the selfish parties involved aim at maximizing their own profits, a hierarchical dynamic game framework is presented to address interactive decision problem. In the lower-level, a Stackelberg…
Evolutionary game theory of continuous traits from a causal perspective
2023
Modern evolutionary game theory typically deals with the evolution of continuous, quantitative traits under weak selection, allowing the incorporation of rich biological detail and complicated nonlinear interactions. While these models are commonly used to find candidates for evolutionary endpoints and to approximate evolutionary trajectories, a less appreciated property is their potential to expose and clarify the causal structure of evolutionary processes. The mathematical step of differentiation breaks a nonlinear model into additive components which are more intuitive to interpret, and when combined with a proper causal hypothesis, partial derivatives in such models have a causal meanin…
New insights on the role of ecology and life-history in social evolution
2017
Biological altruism, defined as a behaviour that benefits others at an apparent cost to the focal individual, is found abundantly across different levels of biological organization. While kin selection has been useful for explaining both cooperation and conflict in specialized cooperative societies, more theoretical work has to be done to develop models for realistic ecological and life-history contexts. This thesis aims to fill this gap by providing several new insights on the role of ecology and life-history in various social systems. Firstly, I propose a model that incorporates realistic ecological mechanisms of population regulation and study how different population regulation mechanisms affe…
The carbonates of the Permian Lakes of North Massif central, France
1992
During the Permian, large fluvio-lacustrine basins occurred within the West European Hercynian chain. The deposits were mainly detrital (conglomerates, sandstones and pelites). The two studied sites, Couy borehole and Aumance basin contain several dolomitic beds alternating with pelites containing Ostracods. The carbonate layers constitute various dolomitized facies with dolosparite, laminated and bituminous dolomites, oolites, oncolites and stromatolites, and pedological nodules. Microfacies are varied. The dolomite crystals can be either isolated rhombs scattered in pelites or rhombs and xenomorphic crystals cementing sandstones; in dolomicrites, dolomicrosparites and dolosparites, crysta…
Elites de poder, gobierno municipal y Guerra de Sucesión: el concejo de Vigo en el primer cuarto del siglo XVIII
2020
Suomalaisten indie-pelistudioiden kokemuksia sovelluskauppaoptimoinnista
2017
Suomalaisten mobiilipelien menestys on ollut viime vuosina huikeaa seuratta- vaa. Suurin osa mobiilipeleistä ei kuitenkaan saavuta menestystä, ja yksi tärkeimmistä syistä tähän on se, ettei peli onnistu saavuttamaan menestyksen kannalta tarvittavaa näkyvyyttä sovelluskaupassa. Tässä tutkielmassa keskitytään sovelluskauppaoptimointiin (engl. App Store Optimization), joka tarjoaa mahdollisuuden pelin näkyvyyden parantamiseen ilman merkittävää taloudellista panostusta. Tutkielman yhteydessä tehdyllä kyselytutkimuksella selvitettiin suomalaisten indie-pelistudioiden kokemuksia sovelluskauppaoptimoinnista. Saatujen tulosten perusteella sovelluskauppaoptimointia käyttäneet pelistudiot ovat koke- …
Casual spectators and die-hard fans’ reactions to their team defeat: A look at the role of territorial identification in elite French rugby
2012
This research investigated the role of two foci of identification (team and territory) on identity management strategies used by sport followers in the particular context of elite French rugby union. In study 1 which dealt with casual spectators (N = 153), the results corroborated numerous studies conducted in the North-American context and showed that team identification constitutes a strong driver for offensive and loyalty reactions. In study 2 which dealt with die-hard fans (N = 64), it appeared that team identification seems to be the best predictor of team loyalty strategy whereas territorial identification seems to be the first predictor of offensive strategies. Taken together, the st…
Felles mentale modeller i elitelagballspill: En kvalitativ analyse av spilleres opplevelse av medspillerkunnskap i fotball og håndball
2018
Hensikten med denne undersøkelsen er å utforske medspillerkunnskap (team member knowledge) på elitenivå i lagballspill – teoretisk forankret i felles mentale modeller. Medspillerkunnskapen er teamspesifikk og ikke en type kunnskap som spilleren kan transportere med seg fra lag til lag. Eksisterende forskningslitteratur forteller svært lite om spillernes kunnskap om medspillere og betydningen av denne i spillet. Følgende forskningsspørsmål skal derfor belyses: Hvordan beskriver elitespillere sin kjennskap til medspillere? Hvordan opplever spillerne at kunnskap om medspillere utvikles? Undersøkelsen følger et ideografisk forskningsdesign, og det empiriske materialet består av intervjuer med f…