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Knowledge sharing in virtual teams : action research
2004
The Role of Social Media in the Creation of Young People’s Consumer Identities
2023
This article explores how young people construct and express their consumer identities via their consumption styles on social media. The importance of commercial content on social media, such as the postings of social media influencers and advertisers, has been increasing during the past years. Framed by theories on social identity, social comparison and consumer socialization, we analysed focus group discussions with 15 to 19-year-old teenagers in Finland ( N = 35). The results reveal that the participants had a clear understanding of their consumer identities: what kind of consumers they were and what they did not want to be. The consumption styles: luxury brand-oriented, trendy second-h…
Intergenerational solidarity and ICT usage : empirical insights from Finnish and Slovenian families
2018
The promotion of students’ engagement with school is an internationally acknowledged challenge in education. There is a need to examine the structure of the concept of student engagement and to discover the best practices for fostering it across societies. That is why the cross-cultural invariance testing of students’ engagement measures is highly needed. This study aimed, first, to find the reduced set of theoretically valid items to represent students’ affective and cognitive engagement forming the Brief-SEI (brief version of the Student Engagement Instrument; SEI; Appleton, Christenson, Kim, & Reschly, 2006). The second aim was to test the measurement invariance of the Brief-SEI across t…
Systemic blockade of ACVR2B ligands attenuates muscle wasting in ischemic heart failure without compromising cardiac function
2020
Signaling through activin receptors regulates skeletal muscle mass and activin receptor 2B (ACVR2B) ligands are also suggested to participate in myocardial infarction (MI) pathology in the heart. In this study, we determined the effect of systemic blockade of ACVR2B ligands on cardiac function in experimental MI, and defined its efficacy to revert muscle wasting in ischemic heart failure (HF). Mice were treated with soluble ACVR2B decoy receptor (ACVR2B-Fc) to study its effect on post-MI cardiac remodeling and on later HF. Cardiac function was determined with echocardiography, and myocardium analyzed with histological and biochemical methods for hypertrophy and fibrosis. Pharmacological blo…
A DNA‐Encoded FRET Biosensor for Visualizing the Tension across Paxillin in Living Cells upon Shear Stress
2022
Paxillin is a potential participant in the direct intracellular force transmission which is considered as the foundation of cells sensing and responding to extracellular environment. However, the detection of tension across paxillin has not been achieved due to lacking microsized tools. Herein, a paxillin tension sensor (PaxTs) based on Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) technique was constructed. PaxTs can be expressed and assembled to FA sites spontaneously to visualize the tension across paxillin with FRET efficiency of ~62.4% in living cells. The tension across paxillin was found to decrease upon shear stress, in which the membrane fluidity and contractility of actin acted as…
Somevaikuttajat koronaviestinnässä : Faktaa koronasta -kampanjan analyysia
2021
Somevaikuttajat kutsuttiin mukaan valtioneuvoston koronaviestintään keväällä 2020. Vaikuttajien somepostausten ja seuraajien kommenttien analysointi kielii siitä, että Suomessa elettiin vielä pandemian alkutaipaleella yhtenäisyyden aikaa. nonPeerReviewed
Adapting to a Finnish workplace : case : occupational immigration of Chinese metal workers.
2009
The aim of the study was to investigate intercultural adaptation of occupational immigrants to Finnish working life and culture and identify factors that support or hinder the adaptation process. Due to demographic changes in the society and the increasing number of foreigners in Finnish workplaces, the study of occupational immigration is a very contemporary topic. The study was qualitative in nature. 13 Chinese metal workers were interviewed in small groups using a translator in Mandarin Chinese. The respondents had arrived in Finland at different times between 6 and 16 months prior to the interview. The research was conducted with the help of Mänttä Regional Vocational Education Centre w…
Perspektiven zur interkulturellen Adaptation : Eine qualitative Studie über Kommunikationskompetenz und kulturelle Identität deutscher Migranten in …
2012
Tämän työn tavoitteena oli kartoittaa saksalaisten siirtolaisten kulttuurienvälistä sopeutumista Suomeen tutkimuksen pääpainon ollessa saksalaisten viestintäkompetenssissa: sopeutumismotivaatiossa, kielitaidossa sekä taidossa havaita, ymmärtää ja omaksua suomalaisen kulttuurin viestintämalleja. Työssä tarkasteltiin myös saksalaisten kulttuuri-identiteettiä sekä muita sopeutumiseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä, kuten siirtolaisuuden syytä ja suomalaisten suhtautumista saksalaisiin siirtolaisiin. Teemaa lähestyttiin erilaisten kulttuurienvälisen viestinnän ja akkulturaatioteorioiden kautta. Tutkimusmateriaali koostui kuuden Suomessa asuvan saksalaisen teemahaastatteluista. Tutkimus on luonteeltaan l…