Search results for "diversity"

Italy

2012

Summary: 1. The constitutional protection of personal freedom. - 1.1. A little history: united Italy and the Albertine Statute. - 1.2. The current situation: the Constitution of 1948.- 1.1.1. Inviolability of personal freedom and guarantees of Habeas Corpus. - 1.1.2. Presumption of innocence and rule of treatment. - 2. Active enforcement: the system of personal precautionary measures. - 2.1. Non-custodial precautionary measures. - 2.2. Custodial precautionary measures. - 2.3. The operational core of the system. - 2.3.1. The requirement of proof: serious evidence of guilt. - 2.3.2. Precautionary needs. - 2.3.3. The selection criteria. – 3. Precautionary proceedings. - 3.1. Internal regulatio…

Cultural diversity and the teacher's profession : secondary school English teachers' experiences of cultural diversity in teacher training and classr…

2017

Maahanmuutto Suomeen nykyisessä muodossaan on kohtalaisen uusi ilmiö. Maahanmuuton lisääntyessä myös koulujen oppilaista yhä isompi osa ovat kasvaneet elämänsä aikana jossain toisessa kulttuurissa. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää, miten englannin opettajat kokevat tämän Suomessa jatkuvasti lisääntyvän ilmiön työelämässään. Tutkimuksessa pohdittiin myös opettajankoulutuksesta saatavia resursseja monikulttuuristen luokkien opettamiseen. Tätä selvittääkseni haastattelin kolmea opettajaa, jotka työskentelevät monikulttuurisuudesta tunnetulla alueella. Haastateltavat olivat saaneet opettajankoulutuksensa eri kaupungeissa. Oppilaiden kulttuuritaustojen vaikutusta luokkahuoneopetuksee…

Intercultural Workplace Communication

2017

The workplace is a highly meaningful context for intercultural communication where persons who come from different countries, identify with different ethnic groups or speak different languages get to collaborate and develop relationships with one another. Needless to say, interpersonal communication in the workplace has always been a primary area of interest for intercultural communication research. Early scholarship focused on the preparation of U.S. military personnel, diplomats, business people, and missionaries for overseas assignments. However, the increasing pluralization of the social landscape has bolstered research endeavors. These days, the scope of intercultural workplace communi…

Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands

2019

Aim Species-area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes at finer spatial grains in continuous vegetation. We asked which function describes SARs best at small grains and explored how sampling methodology or the environment influence SAR shape. Location Palaearctic grasslands and other non-forested habitats. Taxa Vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens. Methods We used the GrassPlot database, containing standardized vegetation-plot data from vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens spanning a wide range of grassland types throu…

Impact of environmental factors on grapevine physiology and responsiveness to elicitor-induced resistance against Plasmopara viticola

2012

'Dark Ecological Network': strategically tackling light pollution for biodiversity and people

2021

Night-time light pollution from artificial sources can disrupt biological processes and fragment habitats. This study presents a new concept foraddressing the problem: a 'dark ecological network'. Its development involves mapping a new system of connected functional zones and corridors where dark can be preserved to help birds, bats and other taxa, and gives people the chance to experience starry skies.

The conservation potential of brook-side key habitats in managed boreal forests

2011

Today, maintaining biodiversity is included in the targets of boreal forest management. A widespread approach in northern Europe is to identify and preserve woodland key habitats within managed forests. Woodland key habitats are expected to be patches that host populations of threatened and declining species, and the preservation of these patches is assumed to enable the persistence of the focal species in the landscape. In Finland, the criteria for selecting woodland key habitats are defined in the Finnish Forest Act, and the selection has been done by forest practitioners. Our objective was to determine whether the surroundings of boreal brooks and rivulets qualified as key habitats are t…

Created substrates do not fully mimic natural substrates in restoration: the occurrence of polypores on spruce logs

2014

Many protected areas have been under intensive forest management prior to protection and thus lack natural ecosystem structures and dynamics. Dead wood is a key structure in forests harboring hundreds of threatened species. We investigated the ecological success of dead wood creation as a boreal forest restoration measure. We analysed whether the polypore communities of chain-saw felled and girdled (subsequently fallen) Norway spruce ( (L.) H. Karst.) logs differ from naturally formed spruce logs of similar decay stage and size. The study was conducted in Leivonmäki National Park in central Finland 8 years after the restoration measures. The average number of polypore species was highest o…

Datapackage for national high-resolution conservation prioritisation of boreal forests

2023

This data package concerns the following work: Ninni Mikkonen, Niko Leikola, Joona Lehtomäki, Panu Halme, Atte Moilanen, National high-resolution conservation prioritisation of boreal forests, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 541, 2023, 121079 ISSN 0378-1127 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121079 The overall objective of the work was to develop spatial prioritizations that can assist the forest conservation programme METSO (The Finnish Government 2008; 2014) to make well-informed decisions about acquisition of forests for protection. The results are also aimed to be useful for other actors interested in forest conservation or biodiversity friendly forest management. We focused th…

Ecology, environmental requirements and conservation of corticioid fungi occupying small diameter dead wood

2016

The increasing human impact upon the biosphere of earth is causing profound changes across all spatial scales. The ability to cope with human-induced disturbance varies among organisms; specialist species are more negatively affected than generalist species. Forests are among the most heavily affected ecosystems; especially the dead wood associated organisms are in peril. The earlier research has strongly focused on large diameter dead wood and associated species. The aim of this thesis was to investigate small diameter dead wood and collect systematic information about species richness and abundance as well as habitat and substrate preferences of associated corticioid fungi. Fungal data wa…