Glocalisation of global market forces and the repositioning of a peripheral Russian mining community

Increasing globalisation and global market forces shape the development of resource peripheries in the Barents region. Foreign direct investments are concrete example of global market forces. Their glocalisation forces the locals to evaluate their consequences for the local development and reposition their communities in global context. This article studies glocalisation of global market forces and preferred directions of repositioning of a peripheral single-industry mining community in the Russian Barents region. The study is based on a case study of local opinions about actual and potential external actors in the economic development of Kovdor, located in the Murmansk region. The paper analyses the preferred owner of the town-constituting enterprise and the local opinions about the EU, USA and China as potential investors to the case study community. The study reveals how local opinions about external forces in the local development are related to local life-worlds. Moreover, the paper shows the impact that economic, political, cultural, historical and technological factors have in forming these opinions about potential foreign investors. The study shows generally positive local opinions about FDI. However, significant differences were found in opinions about different investing countries.publishedVersio

Opaslehtinen hoitoalan koulutustilaisuuden järjestämisestä hoitotyön opiskelijoille

Tiivistelmä Koulutustilaisuuksien järjestäminen ja niihin osallistuminen kuuluu lähes jokaisen sairaanhoitajan työhön. Koulutustilaisuuksien järjestäminen alkaa suunnittelulla, jonka aikana selvitetään tilaisuuden kohderyhmä, tarkoitus ja tavoitteet. Hoitotyön koulutustilaisuuksien toteutusvaiheessa hyviksi havaittuja koulutusmenetelmiä ovat muun muassa dialoginen keskustelu, käsitekartta, learning cafe, case-koulutusmenetelmä, demonstraatio sekä simulaatio. Tämän toiminnallisen opinnäytetyön toimeksiantajana toimi Karelia-ammattikorkeakoulu. Opinnäytetyön tehtävänä oli tuottaa opaslehtinen hoitotyön opiskelijoille hoitoalan koulutustilaisuuden järjestäminen. Monet hoitoalan opinnäytetyöt liittyvät jonkinlaisen koulutustilaisuuden toteuttamiseen. Tavoitteena on, että opaslehtisestä on hyötyä tulevilla hoitoalan opiskelijoille. Opaslehtisessä kerrotaan lyhyesti ja ytimekkäästi, mitä koulutuksen suunnittelussa sekä toteutuksessa tulee ottaa huomioon. Lisäksi opaslehtisessä käydään läpi yllä mainittuja koulutusmenetelmiä sekä niiden käyttöä hoitoalan koulutuksessa. Opaslehtisessä käsitellään myös mahdollisia ongelmatilanteita. Jatkokehitysidea on koulutustilaisuuden järjestäminen opaslehtisen avulla. Opaslehtisen arvioi opinnäytetyön tarkastajana toiminut Karelia-ammattikorkeakoulun opettaja.Abstract Staging of training events and participating in them involves almost every nurse. Staging of trainings begins with planning, in which the target audience, the purpose and the objectives of the event are identified. Dialogical discussion, concept mapping, learning café, case -training method, demonstration and simulation are some of the proven training methods for nursing training. The client of this functional thesis is Karelia University of Applied Sciences. The purpose of the study was to produce a guide for nursing students for the organization of health care training events. Many nursing theses are related to staging some kind of training events. This guidebook explains briefly and concisely what should be taken into account when planning and implementing training. In addition, the guide explains the above-mentioned training methods, as well as their use in health care education. The guide also deals with the problems that can occur. One further study idea would be to organize a training event using this guide. The guide will be evaluated by the same Karelia University of Applied Sciences teacher who examined the thesis

Developing work environment and processes in laboratories

vokMyynti MTT/VAKOLA puh. (09) 224 251Developing work environment and processes in laboratories; Utveckling av arbetsmiljön och verksamheten i laboratorie

Covid-19-pakkorokotusten eettiset ongelmat: skenaario Suomessa alkuvuonna 2022

The thesis assesses ethical problems pertaining to a scenario of a mandatory vaccination program against SARS-CoV-2 (“Covid-19”) in Finland, as the epidemic situation stood in the early 2022. The initial research question is whether this kind of a program would be ethically justifiable. The conclusion to this question is reached by describing the epidemic situation, presenting basic ethical norms of public healthcare, and making a synthetizing ethical analysis on their basis. The concluding answer no comes as the result of analyzing the Finnish scenario from the perspectives of eight criteria of ethical justification that would need to be adequately met in order for a mandatory vaccination program to be an ethically sound public health measure. The eight criteria are formed by examining literature of public health ethics and vaccination ethics as well as strong ethical arguments in favor and against mandatory vaccinations, and by combining a ground of shared prerequisites guiding ethical considerations on the topic. The analysis reveals numerous ethical problems present in the Finnish scenario. The mere existence of so many unsolved issues makes the potential mandatory Covid-19 vaccination program an unethical option. The thesis calls for better public discussion on public health ethics, so that the ethical imperatives of protecting public health security and protecting individual bodily autonomy are realized also in emergency situations

Prototype of hybrid technology chipper-D4.6

INFRES - Innovative and effective technology and logistics for forest residual biomass supply in the EU (311881) is a collaborative project co-funded under the European Commission's FP7 Work Programme 2012 (FP7-KBBE-2012.1.2-01)201

CH radio emission from heiles cloud 2 as a tracer of molecular cloud evolution

A mapping observation of the $J=1/2$ $\Lambda$-type doubling transition (3.3 GHz) of CH has been conducted toward Heiles Cloud 2 (HCL2) in the Taurus molecular cloud complex to reveal its molecular cloud-scale distribution. The observations were carried out with the Effelsberg 100 m telescope. The CH emission is found to be extended over the whole region of HCL2. It is brighter in the southeastern part, which encloses the TMC-1 cyanopolyyne peak than in the northwestern part. Its distribution extends continuously from the peak of the neutral carbon emission (CI peak) to the TMC-1 ridge, as if it were connecting the distributions of the [C I] and C$^{18}$O emissions. Since CH is an intermediate in gas-phase chemical reactions from C to CO, its emission should trace the transition region. The above distribution of the CH emission is consistent with this chemical behavior. Since the CH abundance is subject to the chemical evolutionary effect, the CH column density in HCL2 no longer follows a linear correlation wit the H$_2$ column density reported for diffuse and translucent clouds. More importantly, the CH line profile is found to be composed of the narrow and broad components. Although the broad component is dominant around the CI peak, the narrow component appears in the TMC-1 ridge and dense core regions such as L1527 and TMC-1A. This trend seems to reflect a narrowing of the line width during the formation of dense cores. These results suggest that the 3.3 GHz CH line is a useful tool for tracing the chemical and physical evolution of molecular clouds.Comment: 8 page

Joint demonstration of the large nine axle chip truck-trailer unit and the hybrid chipper

Luken kirjat, raportit, oppaat ja esitteet. INFRES, Demoreport 17 - D4.5European Commission FP7 programme. INFRES – Innovative and effective technology and logistics for forest residual biomass supply in the EU (311881)201

Mapping of Ice and Gas on 1000 AU Scales

Many of the molecules in interstellar space are in the solid state, in so-called interstellar ices. The research in this thesis is focused around two key astronomical questions; How is ice distributed in star forming regions? How is ice affected by - or affecting - star formation processes? I provide answers to these questions through the analysis of submillimeter and near-infrared observations. The observations analysed in this thesis consist of (partially published) archival data acquired mainly with the AKARI and Herschel space telescopes, and the ground-based ESO/VLT. To facilitate the reduction and analysis of some of this data two major software packages (ARF2 and Omnifit) were created with the Python programming language The operation of both packages is fully documented in the thesis appendix. The study of methanol ice prevalence in star-forming regions found that methanol ice can be found towards many more lines of sight than previously reported, and that its abundance relative to water ice can vary between a few to ~40%. I also confirm that methanol very likely exists mixed in a water-rich ice component, a result consistent with our current understanding of methanol ice formation. Proof was found of high-temperature chemistry forming water in the warm postshock gas of YSOs. In this same region it was found that up to 99% of the methanol is being destroyed as it is sputtered from the surfaces of dust grains into the gas phase. A novel analysis technique of slitless AKARI near-infrared spectroscopy yields an unprecedented number of water ice column density estimates towards background star lines of sight covering 12 separate 10' x 10' fields of view in as many molecular clouds. A moderate correlation is found between water ice column density and dust optical depth at 250 microns, with the correlation potentially varying from cloud to cloud

Water and methanol in low-mass protostellar outflows: gas-phase synthesis, ice sputtering and destruction

Water in outflows from protostars originates either as a result of gas-phase synthesis from atomic oxygen at T ≳ 200 K, or from sputtered ice mantles containing water ice. We aim to quantify the contribution of the two mechanisms that lead to water in outflows, by comparing observations of gas-phase water to methanol (a grain surface product) towards three low-mass protostars in NGC 1333. In doing so, we also quantify the amount of methanol destroyed in outflows. To do this, we make use of James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Herschel-Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared data of H2O, CH3OH and CO emission lines and compare them to RADEX non-local thermodynamic equilibrium excitation simulations. We find up to one order of magnitude decrease in the column density ratio of CH3OH over H2O as the velocity increases in the line wings up to ∼15 km s−1. An independent decrease in X(CH3OH) with respect to CO of up to one order of magnitude is also found in these objects. We conclude that gas-phase formation of H2O must be active at high velocities (above 10 km s−1 relative to the source velocity) to re-form the water destroyed during sputtering. In addition, the transition from sputtered water at low velocities to form water at high velocities must be gradual. We place an upper limit of two orders of magnitude on the destruction of methanol by sputtering effects