Search results for "KF"

Cztery swobody wspólnego rynku Euroazjatyckiej Unii Gospodarczej

2016

On the springback prediction in 3d sheet metal forming processes

2008

Work-related language learning trajectories of migrant cleaners in Finland

2017

Cleaning is often the survival employment that migrants can get in their new home country. Ideally, the workplace can be a site for integration and language learning. This article explores how two migrants working as cleaners in Finland narrate their work-related Finnish language learning trajectories. The research is designed by applying nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004), which focuses on social action in the intersection of interaction order, participants’ life experiences, and discourses in place. The social action in focus here is investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015), which means a commitment to developing language skills to achieve one’s aspirations. The article also analy…

Introduction to Integrating Knowledge and Learning Processes Minitrack

2013

This minitrack discusses knowledge management (KM) from an integrated perspective, i.e., the integration of KM, learning, and business processes. It mainly focuses on two issues: a) how can knowledge, learning and business processes integrated, and b) how can the related systems be integrated to enable an efficient workflow. Currently, even less learning environments take context and environment into account. Using mobile and ubiquitous technologies can lead to a paradigm shift in the construction of such learning environments: from static to highly contextualized knowledge and learning experiences. Based on the integration of knowledge and learning systems into social networks and social m…

BioImageXD: an open, general-purpose and high-throughput image-processing platform

2012

BioImageXD puts open-source computer science tools for three-dimensional visualization and analysis into the hands of all researchers, through a user-friendly graphical interface tuned to the needs of biologists. BioImageXD has no restrictive licenses or undisclosed algorithms and enables publication of precise, reproducible and modifiable workflows. It allows simple construction of processing pipelines and should enable biologists to perform challenging analyses of complex processes. We demonstrate its performance in a study of integrin clustering in response to selected inhibitors.

Equal access to the top? Measuring selection into finnish academia

2019

In this article, we draw a parallel between equality of opportunity in educational transitions and equality of opportunity in academic careers. In both cases, many methodological problems can be ameliorated by the use of longitudinal rather than cross-sectional data. We illustrate this point by using Finnish full-population register data to follow the educational and academic careers of the 1964–1966 birth cohorts from birth to the present day. We show how the Finnish professoriate is highly selected both in terms of parental background and in terms of gender. Individuals of different backgrounds differ greatly in the likelihood of completing different educational and academic transitions, …

Nurturing a heathy generation of children: research gaps and opportunities

2019

Subventionsheuschrecke oder Weltmarktführer? : Nokia-Repräsentation in den Kommentaren der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung nach der Veröffentlichung…

2010

Tammikuussa 2008 Nokia päätti lopettaa Saksassa toimivan Bochumin tehtaansa toiminnan ja irtisanoa tehtaan 2 300 työntekijää. Tämä päätös johti uutistulvaan saksalaisessa lehdistössä. Ilmiöstä kehittyi poliittisesti arkaluontoinen, kun saksalaiset poliitikot ottivat oman jyrkän kantansa tapahtumalle ja julistivat boikotin Nokiaa vastaan. Tämän työn tarkoituksena on tarkastella, miten Nokiaa kuvattiin Bochumin tehtaan tapahtumien aikana saksalaisessa Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -sanomalehdessä. Analyysissä tutkitaan kriittisen diskurssianalyysin keinoin lehden Kommentar -kirjoitusten nimeämisiä sekä diskursseja, jotka liittyvät Nokiaan ja Bochumin tehtaan sulkemiseen. Nimeämisten ja disku…

Do Older Employees Suffer More from Work Intensification and Other Intensified Job Demands? Evidence from Upper White-Collar Workers

2019

Background: Working life today is characterized by acceleration and intensification due to social, and particularly technological, acceleration affecting the whole of society. These phenomena also affect working life by intensifying job demands, possibly imposing new job stressors on the workforce. At the same time workforce is aging, raising a question how older employees manage to cope with these work life changes. Methods: This study examined intensified job demands and their effects on occupational well-being from the age perspective utilizing Finnish survey data from upper white-collar workers (N = 2,200). Data was analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance and hierarchical reg…

Employers' intention to hire highly educated foreign workforce in the Kokkola region : implications for higher education

2015

The rational for this research is to find out the intentions of employers to hire highly educated foreign workforce in the Kokkola region. The research analyses how employers have prepared themselves for meeting the diverse needs of future employees, how strongly and on what basis employers are committed to recruit a foreign workforce, how many they have recruited so far, and what the contribution of Centria University of Applied Sciences could be to improve recruitment of a foreign highly educated workforce in the region. Internationalisation of higher education in Finland has led to the fact that degree programmes offered in English both in traditional universities and in universities of …