Search results for "LAND"

Social Workers’ Reflections on Forced Migration and Cultural Diversity : Towards Anti-Oppressive Expertise in Child and Family Social Work

2021

Social work in Finland, like in many other countries, has faced various challenges after the large scale of forced migration in 2015. Although working with migrants is not a new area in social work, the exceptionally large amount of asylum seekers in the Finnish society caused a need for improved social work expertise. Our article deals with Finnish social work practitioners’ reflections on multicultural, multilingual and transnational issues with a client group, which is in a vulnerable situation after forced or other forms of migration. The practitioners participating in our study have either attended a specializing education of child, youth and family social work or taken part in peer gr…

A social work perspective to the neoliberal mining boom in Finland and the possibility of an ecosocial response

2018

Private health insurance in the universal public healthcare system: The role of healthcare provision in Finland

2023

Voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) has gained popularity in universal public healthcare systems. We studied how the local provision of healthcare services correlated with VPHI take-up in Finland. Nationwide register data from a Finnish insurance company was aggregated to the local level and augmented with high-quality data on public and private primary care providers’ geographical closeness and fees. We found that the sociodemographic characteristics explained the VPHI take-up more than public or private healthcare provision. The VPHI take-up was negatively associated with distance to the nearest private clinic, while the associations with distance to public health stations were stat…

Submarine Slope Failures Along the Northern Sicilian Continental Margin (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) and Possible Implications for Geo-Hazard

2013

Mass wasting and downslope movements are common processes that have contributed to shape the northern Sicilian continental margin (southern Tyrrhenian Sea) since the Late Quaternary. Nevertheless, processes controlling their evolution are still partially unknown and a variety of geologic factors can be responsible for their formation. In this work we present an overview of the main mass wasting features (submarine canyons, landslides, debris flows) observed and mapped in different sectors of the northern Sicilian margin. The margin is characterized by a narrow, steep continental shelf (1-2°) and a very irregular and steep (6-8°) upper slope. The main aims of this work are: (1) to outline th…

Oświata w warunkach polskiej sowieckiej autonomii w ZSRS w latach 1925-1939

2017

Oświata w stalinowskim Związku Sowieckim była jednym z najważniejszych narzędzi indoktrynacji obywateli wszystkich narodowości. Ponad 1,2 min. Polaków zamieszkałych w okresie międzywojennym w tym kraju zostało poddanych obróbce ideologicznej ze szczególną starannością. Uwarunkowane to było następującymi przyczynami: • obecnością w Związku Sowieckim stosunkowo licznej grupy komunistów polskich, zajmujących bardzo ważne stanowiska w partii komunistycznej i administracji sowieckiej; • obawami kierownictwa sowieckiego co do możliwości wybuchu nowej wojny polsko-sowieckiej; • koniecznością destabilizacji sytuacji wewnętrznej w II Rzeczypospolitej; • zadaniem stworzenia w ZSRS swoistego „polskieg…

Estimating aggregated nutrient fluxes in four Finnish rivers via Gaussian state space models

2013

Reliable estimates of the nutrient fluxes carried by rivers from land-based sources to the sea are needed for efficient abatement of marine eutrophication. Although nutrient concentrations in rivers generally display large temporal variation, sampling and analysis for nutrients, unlike flow measurements, are rarely performed on a daily basis. The infrequent data calls for ways to reliably estimate the nutrient concentrations of the missing days. Here, we use the Gaussian state space models with daily water flow as a predictor variable to predict missing nutrient concentrations for four agriculturally impacted Finnish rivers. Via simulation of Gaussian state space models, we are able to esti…

Effects of Positioning Aids on Understanding the Relationship Between a Mobile Map and the Environment

2013

Positioning technologies such as GPS enable mobile map applications to display a symbol representing an estimation of a user’s location on a mobile map, therefore acting as a positioning aid. Previous research on the cognitive processes involved in map reading suggests that map readers need at least two map–environment points (objects that are visualized on the map and perceived in the environment) for determining their location on a map. Hence, the positioning aid alone does not provide enough information for self-location. Using a field experiment, we assessed the effect of representing the user’s location on a map on the cognitive processes involved in self-location. The results show tha…

Archaedyn - Workshop 1 - The dynamics of agricultural areas in the long term

2019

Archaedyn - Workshop 1 - The dynamics of agricultural areas in the long term

2019

Document destiné à être publié dans l’ouvrage ARCHAEDYN. Dynamique spatiale des territoires de la Préhistoire au Moyen Âge, auteurs : BERTONCELLO, F., FAVORY, F., GAUTHIER, E., GEORGES-LEROY, M., NUNINGER, L., POIRIER, N., WELLER, O., à paraître aux PUFC, Besançon, collection Cahiers de la MSHE, série Dynamiques territoriales.

Urban Heat Island Monitoring and Impacts on Citizen's General Health Status in Isfahan Metropolis: A Remote Sensing and Field Survey Approach.

2020

Urban heat islands (UHIs) are one of the urban management challenges, especially in metropolises, which can affect citizens’ health and well-being. This study used a combination of remote sensing techniques with field survey to investigate systematically the effects of UHI on citizens’ health in Isfahan metropolis, Iran. For this purpose, the land surface temperature (LST) over a three-year period was monitored by Landsat-8 satellite imagery based on the split window algorithm. Then, the areas where UHI and urban cold island (UCI) phenomena occurred were identified and a general health questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) was applied to evaluate the health status of 800 citizens in terms o…