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A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect
2021
We conducted a preregistered multilaboratory project ( k = 36; N = 3,531) to assess the size and robustness of ego-depletion effects using a novel replication method, termed the paradigmatic replication approach. Each laboratory implemented one of two procedures that was intended to manipulate self-control and tested performance on a subsequent measure of self-control. Confirmatory tests found a nonsignificant result ( d = 0.06). Confirmatory Bayesian meta-analyses using an informed-prior hypothesis (δ = 0.30, SD = 0.15) found that the data were 4 times more likely under the null than the alternative hypothesis. Hence, preregistered analyses did not find evidence for a depletion effect. Ex…
Kokemus elämänhallinnasta eläkkeelle siirryttäessä ja kolmannessa iässä
2008
Suomalaisen yhteiskunnan vanheneminen ja suurten ikäluokkien siirtyminen eläkkeelle ja kolmanteen ikään nostaa esille kysymyksiä, miten vastattaisiin tulevaisuuden palvelujen tarpeisiin ja miten palvelujärjestelmää olisi kehitettävä. Tutkimuksen tarkoitus on selvittää 60- ja 65-vuotiaiden ikääntyvien elämänhallintaa ja nykyistä sekä tulevaa tuen tarvetta. Elämänhallinnan viitekehyksenä on Antonovskyn koherenssiteoria, jossa elämänhallinta rakentuu merkityksellisyydestä, hallinnantunteesta ja ymmärrettävyydestä. Aineisto koostuu 35 Helsingin Vanhan kaupungin alueella asuvan henkilön haastattelusta. Haastateltavista enemmistö oli jo eläkkeellä, mutta osa oli vielä työelämässä. Haastattelu rak…
The requirements and compliance of the Finnish act on energy efficiency in a large enterprise : a case study from the healthcare industry
2015
Energy management is becoming increasingly important for organizations due to legislative, environmental, and economic causes. The Act on Energy Efficiency came into force in Finland on 1st January 2015. One of the law’s obligations requires large enterprises to enhance and report their energy efficiency performance with an energy audit every four years. However, a large company can be exempted from the energy audit obligation in three ways under the Finnish law. The aim of this study is to discover the best solution for the target organization to meet the obligations posed by The Act on Energy Efficiency. The options considered in this study are: 1) performing energy audit as the law requi…
Engels on Corruption
2021
Kirja-arvio käsittelee johtavan saksalaisen korruptiotutkija Jens Ivo Engelsin kahta laajaa tutkimusta. Arviossa Engelsin havainnot yhdistetään Suomen lähihistorian kuuluisimpaan ”lautakasajupakkaan” eli silloisen pääministeri Matti Vanhasen tapaukseen vuodelta 2009. nonPeerReviewed
Fuzzy predictive controller design using ant colony optimization algorithm
2014
In this paper, an approach for designing an adaptive fuzzy model predictive control (AFMPC) based on the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is studied. On-line adaptive fuzzy identification is used to identify the system parameters. These parameters are used to calculate the objective function based on predictive approach and structure of RST control. The optimization problem is solved based on an ACO algorithm, used at the optimization process in AFMPC to calculate a sequence of future RST control actions. The obtained simulation results show that proposed approach provides better results compared with Proportional Integral-Ant Colony Optimization (PI-ACO) controller and adaptive fuzzy model pr…
A virtual testbed for analysis and design of sensorimotoric aspects of agent control
1997
Abstract In this paper XRaptor is introduced, an object-oriented simulation tool. It provides a virtual multi-agent world which acts as testbed for agent control mechanisms. This environment encompasses a 3-dimensional space, in which the agents may move. Currently agents are realized modelling some abstract properties of flies and bats. XRaptor provides different levels of information flow and world manipulation capabilities from the agents' point of view. A further purpose of XRaptor is educational: Different teams of developers may design control units for agents which can then be subjected to a tournament.
Business architecture development at public administration - Insights from government EA method engineering project in Finland
2008
Governments worldwide are concerned for efficient production of services to customers. To improve quality of services and to make service production more efficient, information and communication technology (ICT) is largely exploited in public administration (PA). Succeeding in this exploitation calls for large-scale planning which embraces issues from strategic to technological level. In this planning the notion of enterprise architecture (EA) is commonly applied. One of the sub-architectures of EA is business architecture (BA). BA planning is challenging in PA due to a large number of stakeholders, a wide set of customers, and solid and hierarchical structures of organizations. To support …
Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-Liberal Europe : the Covid-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland
2020
The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign nation states with borders and national governments in charge, yet in fact, this retrieved sovereignty looks very vulnerable and precarious. We explain this controversy through a triad of concepts—sovereignty, governmentality, and post-liberalism—that we apply to an analysis of a corona-imposed state of emergency in Estonia and Finland. Based on comparative case study research, we posit that sovereignty is precarious in post-liberalism due to its large dependence on the technologies of responsibilization and agency. From a biopolitic…
Docpoint : tarinoita naapurista : Viron luova hetki
2018
Rodeo – Viron villit vuodet avaa itsenäisen Viron ensimmäisen hallituksen taivalta, johon kuului valtion ja yhteiskunnan kokonaisvaltainen uudelleenrakentaminen. nonPeerReviewed
A multiagent system approach for image segmentation using genetic algorithms and extremal optimization heuristics
2006
We propose a new distributed image segmentation algorithm structured as a multiagent system composed of a set of segmentation agents and a coordinator agent. Starting from its own initial image, each segmentation agent performs the iterated conditional modes method, known as ICM, in applications based on Markov random fields, to obtain a sub-optimal segmented image. The coordinator agent diversifies the initial images using the genetic crossover and mutation operators along with the extremal optimization local search. This combination increases the efficiency of our algorithm and ensures its convergence to an optimal segmentation as it is shown through some experimental results.