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Language ideologies in the Romanian Banat : analysis of interviews and academic writings among the Hungarians and Germans

2009

This is an introduction to a compilation of six articles on language ideologies in the Romanian Banat. My dissertation was initiated by fieldwork in the area, resulting to a database of interviews among the Hungarian and German inhabitants. This data is compared to intellectual writings. With regards to researcher position, I identify myself as a traveler in the area and as a foreign scholar. The analytical framework of this study draws from the study of Language Ideologies and Conversation Analysis.Here, language ideologies are broadly defined as metalinguistic discourse or talk about language. In the analysis of interviews, conversation analysis is used, in order to analyze the emergent c…

Prescription opioid use and employment : A nationwide Finnish register study

2021

Background: The secular decline in labor market participation and the concurrent increase in opioid use in many developed countries have sparked a policy debate on the possible connection between these two trends. We examined whether the use of prescription opioids was connected to labor market outcomes relating to participation, employment and unemployment among the Finnish population. Methods: The working-age population (aged 19–64 years) living in Finland during the period 1995–2016 was used in the analyses (consisting of 67 903 701 person-year observations). Lagged values of prescription opioid use per capita were used as the exposure. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation method was u…

Retail banking in the aftermath of the financial crisis

2018

This thesis considers the effects of the global financial crisis that started in 2008 on the retail banking environment and on banks’ behavior during and in the aftermath of the crisis. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three empirical articles that use unique datasets on Finnish cooperative banks. The introductory chapter provides background and an overview of the thesis and considers the effects of the crisis on retail banking from an overall perspective. The empirical articles investigate the roles of a competitive environment, a low interest rate environment, and relationship banking during the crisis and in the post-crisis period. The first article looks at whether the…

Reinforcement of brand relationships in an omnichannel environment: a qualitative study on clothing shopping

2022

Today’s brands operate in an omnichannel environment consisting of different online and offline channels where the brand can be experienced. This qualitative study investigates brand relationship reinforcement in the omnichannel environment among customers of a Finnish clothing brand, R-Collection. The data collection was conducted in 2021 by interviewing ten customers of R-Collection. We examined the brand relationship reinforcement in four channels: brick-and-mortar (B&M), online store, social media, and second hand. The findings show that brand relationships can be rein-forced differently in these channels. In B&M stores, sensing the quality of clothing, a customer experience that meets …

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Predator response to the coloured eyespots and defensive posture of Colombian four‐eyed frogs

2023

Deimatic displays, where sudden changes in prey appearance elicit aversive predator reactions, have been suggested to occur in many taxa. These (often only putative) displays frequently involve different components that may also serve antipredator functions via other mechanisms (e.g., mimicry, warning signalling, body inflation). The Colombian four-eyed frog, Pleurodema brachyops, has been suggested to gain protection against predation through putative deimatic displays where they inflate and elevate the posterior part of their body revealing eye-like colour markings. We exposed stationary artificial frogs to wild predators to test whether the two components (eyespot/colour markings, defens…

Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus

2022

Functions of the brain and body are oscillatory in nature and organized according to a logarithmic scale. Brain oscillations and bodily functions such as respiration and heartbeat appear nested within each other and coupled together either based on phase or based on phase and amplitude. This facilitates communication in wide-spread neuronal networks and probably also between the body and the brain. It is a widely accepted view, that nested electrophysiological brain oscillations involving the neocortex, thalamus, and the hippocampus form the basis of memory consolidation. This applies especially to declarative memories, that is, memories of life events, for example. Here, we present our vie…

Pozitīvais pastiprinājums angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguvei 7.klasē

2022

Būdama angļu valodas skolotāja Diplomdarba autore mācību prakses laikā, novērojusi, ka pamatskolas skolotāji saskaras ar izaicinājumiem, kas attiecās uz skolēnu uzvedību mācību stundās , un vēlmi būt aktīviem dalībniekiem valoda apguves aktivitātēs. Diplomdarba mērķis ir izpētīt, kā pozitīvā pastiprinājuma ieviešana angļu valodas stundās palīdz izglītojamajiem uzlabot angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguvi 7. klasē. Gadījuma izpēte tika veikta vienā no Vidzemes vidusskolām. Datu vākšanas metodes ir studentu anketa, autora veiktie skolotāju žurnāla ieraksti, studentu atsauksme, darba autores un viņas mentores novērojumi. Tika konstatēts, ka pozitīvais pastiprinājums uzlabo vārdu krājuma apguvi, …

Rakstura stipro pušu un attieksmes pret novecošanos saistība vēlīnā briedumā

2020

Pētījuma tēma: Rakstura stipro pušu un attieksmes pret novecošanos saistība vēlīnā briedumā Aktualitāte - Cilvēka dzīves gaitā viņam nākas saskarties ar dažādām pārmaiņām, jaunu sociālo lomu apgūšanu un arī tīri fizioloģiskām pārmaiņām, kas visbiežāk ir kaut kas nezināms un biedējošs. Līdzīgi arī tuvošanās pensionēšanās vecumam ir saistīta ar dažādām fiziskām, emocionālām un sociālām pārmaiņām, kas ir saistītas ar dabisku novecošanos. Taču ir svarīgi, lai novecošanās, tuvošanās vēlīnajam brieduma periodam, notiktu pēc iespējas pozitīvāk un veselīgāk. Ir tikuši veikti dažādi pētījumi par rakstura stipro sakarībām, piem., ar dzīves jēgas izjūtu (Littman-Ovadia & Steger, 2010), labāku noskaņoj…

BMW autovadītāju braukšanas ieradumi, vērtības un tēls citu marku autovadītāju uztverē

2017

Bakalaura darba mērķis ir noskaidrot četru dažādu automobiļu marku (BMW, Volkswagen, Aud un Mercedes) vadītājiem piemītošo braukšanas ieradumu un vērtību atšķirības, kā arī noskaidrot BMW markas vadītāju tēlu citu ceļu satiksmes dalībnieku uztverē. Par darba teorētisko pamatu var uzskatīt Šaloma H. Švarca universālo vērtību teoriju. Bakalaura darba ietvaros tiek veikta kvantitatīvā aptauja internetā, kā arī tiek izmantota kvalitatīvā metode – fokusgrupas intervija. Rezultāti liecina par to, ka BMW markas vadītāji ir vairāk tendēti uz agresīvu un riskantu braukšanu salīdzinot ar pārējām pētījumā iekļautajām grupām, savukārt, par vismierīgāko vadītāju grupu var uzskatīt Volkwagen markas vadīt…