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How Sicily Made Its Sweet Symbols: Glocal Identity and Food
2021
Food is an effective symbol capable of strongly evoking a cultural identity. In the case of Sicily, this role is mainly played by pastry, and in particular by two sweets: cannolo (the singular of cannoli) and cassata. But how does it happen that just these two preparations, rather than others, take on this value? What are their meanings and what determines them? Are cannolo and cassata the expression of a remote and spontaneous tradition as we generally like to believe? Semiotic analysis not only leads us to understand the complexity of these two pieces of a gastronomy, but also to reflect on the whole notion of symbol, rethinking its limits and possibilities.
Vaihdin : kielitieteen ja semiotiikan käsitteitä visuaalisessa analyysissä
2013
Pro- gradu tutkielmassani haluan tuoda kielitieteen ”vaihdin”- käsitteen osaksi visuaalisen analyysin työkaluja. Keskityn tutkielmassani maalaustaiteeseen. ”Vaihdin” on kielitieteissä sana, jonka merkitys voi muuttua erilaiseksi, vaikka sen syntaksi pysyisi samana. Käsitteen lanseeraajaksi on nimetty tanskalainen kielitieteilijä Otto Jespersen, mutta se on esiintynyt myös venäläisen Roman Jakobsonin teksteissä. Maalaustaiteissa vaihdin on kuva-aihe tai objekti, jota jokin toinen taiteilija käyttää omassa tuotannossaan hyväkseen. Sen sisältö voi muuttua, vaikka lainatun objektin muoto säilyisi samankaltaisena. Yhtenä työni tarkoituksena oli tuoda semiotiikkaa ja visuaalista analyysiä lähemmä…
Vibrational properties of semiconductor nanowires and nanowire heterostructures: ensembles and single nanowires
2013
Phonon Deformation Potentials from Raman Measurements on Semiconductor Membranes
1997
Sädehoidon annossuunnitelmien poikkeavuuksien havaitseminen neuroverkoilla
2013
Sädehoidossa potilaalle tehdään yksilöllinen annossuunnitelma, jonka mukaan hoito toteutetaan. Kaikilta annokseen vaikuttavilta tekijöiltä vaaditaan suurta tarkkuutta. Uusi lähestymistapa annossuunnitelmien laadunvarmistukseen on tiedonlouhintaan ja koneoppimiseen perustuvien menetelmien hyödyntäminen. Kyseisillä menetelmillä voidaan muodostaa hoidossa aiemmin toteutetuista annossuunnitelmista malli, jonka avulla voidaan havaita uusien annossuunnitelmien poikkeavuudet, ja näin lisätä sädehoidon turvallisuutta. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli muodostaa SOM- ja PNN-neuroverkoilla malli, jolla voidaan havaita poikkeavuuksia annossuunnitelmista. Mallia varten haettiin rinnanpoiston jälkeisten ko…
Strategic Design Towards Platform Collaboration in The Newspaper Industry: A Design Science Research Study
2020
The newspaper industry is challenged by unsustainable business models. To stabilize dwindling revenue streams, publishers opted for digital subscriptions as one avenue for generating additional revenue streams. Large publishers have indeed benefited from rising subscription numbers. However, smaller publishers are challenged to achieve the same results. Some of the root causes are high churn rates, adoption costs and lock-in effects of subscription services. News aggregator platforms may promise newspaper publishers a large pool of paying readers. But platform fees and the loss of direct customer relationships enact commercial barriers among publishers. This study proposes design science re…
L'age d'or de la sémiotique littéraire, et quelques consequences théoriques
2015
Dans cet article, je voudrais comparer trois livres fondamentaux pour l’analyse sémiotique des œuvres littéraires, parus à quelques années de distance l’un de l’autre : S/Z de Roland Barthes (1970a), Maupassant de Algirdas J. Greimas (1976) et Lector in fabula de Umberto Eco (1979). Il s’agit de trois différentes approches à la sémiotique de la littérature, parues dans la même décennie, qui, par conséquent, ont produit trois différents objets de la discipline, en causant, avec un progrès considérable dans la recherche sur la signification, des équivoques théoriques qui sont encore à résoudre.
Revisiting rainfall to explore exam questions and performance on CS1
2015
The Rainfall problem comprises small tasks that have been used to investigate student performance in introductory programming. We conducted several kinds of analyses to inform our understandings of student performance in CS1 relating to this problem. We analyzed implementation approaches and program errors, as in related studies, and also explored the role of test writing vis-a-vis the most common student error. Finally, using correlation analyses and manual inspection of the exam answers, we studied how well the Rainfall problem served as an exam question. The students' implementation choices reflected their familiarity with particular loop constructs, while the single most common error co…
Semi-automatic literature mapping of participatory design studies 2006--2016
2018
The paper presents a process of semi-automatic literature mapping of a comprehensive set of participatory design studies between 2006--2016. The data of 2939 abstracts were collected from 14 academic search engines and databases. With the presented method, we were able to identify six education-related clusters of PD articles. Furthermore, we point out that the identified clusters cover the majority of education-related words in the whole data. This is the first attempt to systematically map the participatory design literature. We argue that by continuing our work, we can help to perceive a coherent structure in the body of PD research.
Research literature clustering using diffusion maps
2013
We apply the knowledge discovery process to the mapping of current topics in a particular field of science. We are interested in how articles form clusters and what are the contents of the found clusters. A framework involving web scraping, keyword extraction, dimensionality reduction and clustering using the diffusion map algorithm is presented. We use publicly available information about articles in high-impact journals. The method should be of use to practitioners or scientists who want to overview recent research in a field of science. As a case study, we map the topics in data mining literature in the year 2011. peerReviewed