Search results for "valuations"
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Pedobarography: A Review on Methods and Practical Use in Foot Disorders
2021
Pedobarographic examination is a non-invasive method that enables the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of plantar pressure distribution, notably the plantar pressure distribution, referring to the function of the entire musculoskeletal system. This is a scoping review that aims to update knowledge on the practical use of pedobarography in foot disorders. We also attempted to systematize the methodological principles of conducting the pedobarographic examination. We searched Medline/PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for the articles on the methodology of pedobarography. The search encompassed clinical trials, randomized controlled trials, …
Struggles for moral value and the reproduction of gendered and racialised hierarchies in online discussions of violence
2019
The article examines online discussions in Finland that focus on violence committed by Finnish women, on one hand, and non-white migrant men, on the other. Drawing on the perspective of sociology of value, the article illustrates how these discussions function as sites of struggles over moral worth in a contemporary context characterised by crises of both male and white hegemony. The authors suggest that, through the discussions, these current crises are projected on migrant men and certain groups of women, who thereby become construed as morally reprehensible. The analysis sheds light on processes of (re-)legitimating the moral virtue historically attached to both masculinity and whitenes…
English and Finnish compared - attitudes held by future experts and teachers of English
2010
Kieliasenteita on tutkittu maailmalla 1960-luvulta lähtien. Tutkimusmetodit koskien kieliasenteita ovat pysyneet suhteellisen samoina siitä lähtien kun Matched guise tekniikka kehittyi. Tästä lähtien tutkimusmetodologia keskittyi erilaisiin asteikkoihin ja ennalta määrättyihin vastausvaihtoehtoihin. Näitä tutkimusmenetelmiä on kritisoitu sekä kaavamaisuudesta että vastaajien huomiotta jättämisestä. Tämän tutkielman on tarkoitus määrittää suomalaisten englannin yliopisto-opiskelijoiden asenteita englannin kieltä kohtaan. Tutkielman toinen päätarkoitus on osoittaa vaihtoehtoisten tutkimusmenetelmien tarpeellisuus kieliasenteiden tutkimuksessa. Lähtökohtana tutkimuksessa on vastaajien todellis…
Essays on wages, promotions and performance evaluations
2017
This dissertation comprises four empirical research articles that use personnel data from a large university and worker-level panel data from Finland to examine the determinants of wages, promotions and employee performance evaluations. The first article employs personnel data to examine the importance of worker output and job seniority as predictors of employee performance evaluations and promotions. The results suggest that better-performing employees – with output measured both in absolute terms and relative to peers – were more likely to be assigned higher performance grades and had a higher probability of being promoted to more complex jobs than their peers with similar characteristics…
Is the path to woman’s work satisfaction different than that of a man? Core self-evaluations and dominat
2015
The present paper analyses and validates a path model of the relation between male and female work satisfaction (dependent variable) and various psychological and economic variables (like wages, work certainty, work stress, core self-valuations and personal happies approach: hedonia or eudaemonia). The data analyzed comes from two author's projects, evaluating the sources of worker happiness: N = 1021 (Walczak, 2014) and N = 1105 (2015). The results indicate an partial mediation relation of gender on the perceived job satisfaction.