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Classroom behavioural climate in inclusive education – a study on secondary students’ perceptions

2021

Previous studies pointed out that dealing with difficult behaviour is perceived by teachers as a major challenge in inclusive settings. However, research on the students' perception of the classroom behavioural climate (CBC) is rare. Therefore, this study aims to examine students’ perceptions of CBC and to identify predictors of CBC as well as associated variables. The sample consists of 650 German students from secondary schools (5th-9th grade) of whom 83 students are diagnosed with special educational needs (SEN). CBC was measured via four subscales (‘students’ possibilities to study and concentrating on teaching’, ‘disruptive behaviour’, ‘physical and psychological safety’ and ‘caring fo…

Organisational Drivers and Challenges in Circular Economy Implementation : An Issue Life Cycle Approach

2022

Business is a significant cause of various global sustainability challenges addressed by the Circular Economy (CE), making companies instrumental in the transition from a linear economic model to a circular one. While drivers and challenges in corporate CE implementation have been researched on an organisational level, a more detailed understanding is needed regarding their contextual nature and interplay with the evolution of CE implementation in a company. Utilising issue life cycle theory, this study contributes to the literature on CE implementation in business by displaying differences in corporate CE implementation drivers and challenges, relating to the time since starting, and the …

Optimization of Linearized Belief Propagation for Distributed Detection

2020

In this paper, we investigate distributed inference schemes, over binary-valued Markov random fields, which are realized by the belief propagation (BP) algorithm. We first show that a decision variable obtained by the BP algorithm in a network of distributed agents can be approximated by a linear fusion of all the local log-likelihood ratios. The proposed approach clarifies how the BP algorithm works, simplifies the statistical analysis of its behavior, and enables us to develop a performance optimization framework for the BP-based distributed inference systems. Next, we propose a blind learning-adaptation scheme to optimize the system performance when there is no information available a pr…

Modeling and Mitigating Errors in Belief Propagation for Distributed Detection

2021

We study the behavior of the belief-propagation (BP) algorithm affected by erroneous data exchange in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The WSN conducts a distributed multidimensional hypothesis test over binary random variables. The joint statistical behavior of the sensor observations is modeled by a Markov random field whose parameters are used to build the BP messages exchanged between the sensing nodes. Through linearization of the BP message-update rule, we analyze the behavior of the resulting erroneous decision variables and derive closed-form relationships that describe the impact of stochastic errors on the performance of the BP algorithm. We then develop a decentralized distribute…

Verkostoituminen inklusiivisen kasvatuksen tukijana : sosiaalista pääomaa ja hallinnan haasteita ammatillisen peruskoulutuksen kentällä

2004

Participation for just governance of food-system transition

2022

Sustainability transitions governance needs to be inclusive and participatory and the question of justice is crucial for making effective and acceptable changes possible. But how do we ensure adequate participation in governance processes and enable reconciliation between competing goals in relation to sustainability transitions? Transition management highlights the need for participatory and reflexive governance processes to enable sustainability transitions. However, due to participant selection and limitations in chosen approaches, deliberative and participatory forums may have difficulties ensuring justice and legitimacy. A systemic and practice-oriented perspective on deliberation poin…

Koteja ja kodinomaisuutta : tutkimus vanhenemisen paikoista valtiopäiväpuheissa 1950-2005

2010

L’impiego di strumenti acustici ad alta risoluzione nella valutazione, monitoraggio e gestione delle praterie di Posidonia oceanica.

2015

High-resolution sonar system (MBS, SSS, Sub Bottom Profiler) was used to map and characterize Posidonia oceanica meadows, dead matte formations and to long-term monitor its progressive lower limit. Hydro-acoustic techniques allows to quickly acquire, at sufficiently low cost, a synoptic coverage of a large area and a high number of data by mean of non-destructive methods. Hence, they are recommended as useful tools for detecting and characterizing submerged aquatic vegetation.

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…

Effect of atomic layer deposited zinc promoter on the activity of copper-on-zirconia catalysts in the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol

2023

Funding Information: The work at Aalto University has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland (COOLCAT consortium, decision no. 329977 and 329978 ; ALDI consortium, decision no. 331082 ). This work made use of Aalto University Bioeconomy, OtaNano and RawMatters infrastructure. Hannu Revitzer (Aalto University) is thanked for the ICP-OES analysis, Aalto workshop people (especially Seppo Jääskeläinen) for working on the reactor modifications. The DFT calculations were made possible by computational resources provided by the CSC — IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland ( https://www.csc.fi/en/ ) and computer capacity from the Finnish Grid and Cloud Infrastructure (urn:nbn:fi:resear…