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Digitoitu 17. 9. 2008.

Introducing Continuous Integration for C and C++ Software Development Projects on Linux Platform

Software integration is a stage in a software development process to assemble separate components to produce a single product. It is important to manage the risks involved and being able to integrate smoothly, because software cannot be released without integrating it first. Furthermore, it has been shown that the integration and testing phase can make up 40 % of the overall project costs. These issues can be mitigated by using a software engineering practice called continuous integration. This thesis work presents how continuous integration is introduced to the author's employer organisation. This includes studying how the continuous integration process works and creating the technical basis to start using the process on future projects. The implemented system supports software written in C and C++ programming languages on Linux platform, but the general concepts can be applied to any programming language and platform by selecting the appropriate tools. The results demonstrate in detail what issues need to be solved when the process is acquired in a corporate environment. Additionally, they provide an implementation and process description suitable to the organisation. The results show that continuous integration can reduce the risks involved in a software process and increase the quality of the product as well.

Lounais-Suomen meriklusteri 2009

Lounais-Suomen meriklusteri kattaa Varsinais-Suomen ja Satakunnan maakunnat. Ensimmäinen alueellisen meriklusterin perusselvitys valmistui vuonna 2006. Tämän tutkimusraportin pääsisältönä on Lounais-Suomen meriklusterin taloudellisten ja toiminnallisten perustunnuslukujen päivitys sekä niiden esittäminen aikasarjana vuodesta 2005 vuoteen 2008. Tilastollisen aineiston perusvuosi on 2008. Varsinais-Suomessa ja Satakunnassa toimii vajaat 340 meriklusteriin kuuluvaa yritystä, joilla on alueella noin 400 toimipaikkaa. Näistä Satakunnassa sijaitsee reilut 100 ja Varsinais-Suomessa vajaat 300. Määrä on hieman pienempi kuin perusselvityksen aikaan, mikä johtuu osin yritysfuusioista ja osin siitä, että jotkut yritykset eivät enää toimi merisektorilla. Meriklusterin merkitys on edelleen erittäin suuri Lounais-Suomessa ja sen suhteellinen osuus on säilynyt samassa suuruusluokassa kuin vuonna 2006. Meriklusteriyritysten Lounais-Suomen toimipaikkojen yhteenlaskettu liikevaihto vuonna 2008 oli noin 4,3 miljardia euroa, josta noin 3,5 miljardia euroa tuli suoraan yritysten merisektorin liiketoiminnasta. Meriklusteriyritykset työllistävät alueella yhteensä noin 17 000 henkilöä, joista merisektori työllistää suoraan noin 12 700 henkilöä. Meriklusterin osuus kaikista Varsinais-Suomen ja Satakunnan työllisistä on noin 5,4 prosenttia. Välilliset työllisyysvaikutukset huomioiden meriklusteri työllistää Lounais-Suomessa vähintään 27 000 henkilöä eli noin 8,2 prosenttia alueen työllisistä. Lounais-Suomen osuus koko Suomen meriklusterista vaihtelee eri pääryhmittäin. Liikevaihdon mukaan mitattuna telakkatoiminnassa osuus on noin 85 prosenttia, varustamotoiminnassa noin 15 prosenttia ja satamissa noin 25 prosenttia. Karkeasti arvioituna kaikkien meriklusteriyritysten merisektorin toimintojen osalta Lounais-Suomen toimipaikkojen liikevaihdon osuus on noin 30–40 prosenttia. Aikasarjatarkastelu osoittaa, että meriklusterin positiivinen kehitys taittui vuonna 2008. Liikevaihdon kasvu hiipui, kuten myös henkilöstömäärän kasvu. Elo-syyskuun 2009 tilanne osoittaa, että henkilöstömäärä on laskenut edellisestä vuodesta. Kyselyyn vastanneista yrityksistä lähes kolmannes oli jo joutunut lomauttamaan henkilöstöään. Liiketoiminnan tulevaisuudennäkymät ovat nyt huomattavasti synkemmät kuin vuonna 2006. Vain hieman yli 10 prosenttia vastaajista arvioi näkymien parantuvan tulevan vuoden sisällä. Hieman yli puolet odottaa tilanteen säilyvän ennallaan ja lähes 30 prosenttia uskoo näkymien edelleen heikkenevän. Meriteollisuuden näkymät ovat kaikkein huonoimmat ja näkymiä leimaavat monet erityyppiset epävarmuustekijät. Merikuljetukset ja satamatoiminnot puolestaan ovat suoraan riippuvaisia yleisestä taloudellisesta tilanteesta ja siinä tapahtuvat muutokset heijastuvat niihin varsin nopeasti.

Improving Cross Direction Basis Weight Profile in a Fourdrinier Paper Machine

The purpose of this study was to improve PM7’s basis weight CD profile in Stora Enso’s Berghuizer mill and to search mechanical defects which affect to the formation of the basis weight CD profile. In the theoretical part PM7’s structure was presented and the formation of the basis weight and caliper CD profiles was examined as well as disturbances which are affecting to the formation. The function of the control system was scrutinised for the side of CD profiles as well as the formation of the measured CD profiles. Tuning of the control system was examined through the response model and filtering. Specification of the response model and filtering was explained and how to determine 2sigma statistical number. In the end of the theoretical part ATPA hardware and a new profile browser were introduced. In the experimental part focus was in the beginning to search and remove mechanical defects which are affecting to CD profiles. The next step was to verify the reliability of the online measurements, to study the stability of the basis weight CD profile and to find out so called fingerprint, a basis weight CD profile which is unique for each paper machine. New response model and filtering value for basis weight CD profile was determined by bump tests. After a follow up period the affect of the new response model and filtering was analysed.

Conversioni al cattolicesimo a Roma tra Sei e Settecento. La presenza degli scandinavi nell’Ospizio dei Convertendi.

In my PhD dissertation, I have examined a group of people of Scandinavian origin received by Ospizio dei Convertendi. This group has been hitherto largely unknown to historical research. The Ospizio was an institute founded by the Oratorian Congregation in Rome in 1673 to provide religious instruction and material aid to both recent and aspirant converts to Roman Catholicism. My research traces the profile of converts and a typology of motives, examining different factors which influenced the conversion process. I show that the key factors were often of a social rather than a religious nature. Moreover, I have analyzed the hospice in the context of Counter-Reformation charity as well. In terms of numbers, the Scandinavians formed a somewhat marginal yet not insignificant group within the Roman hospice. Out of a total of 2203 guests received between 1673 and 1706, 4.6 % were Scandinavians: 74 Swedes (including Finland and Livonia) and 27 Danes (including Norway). They came from a rigorously Protestant region which reacted to Catholicism with severe legislative measures. Converts to Catholicism risked confiscation of their goods, expulsion or even capital punishment. Since both Sweden and Denmark were practically impenetrable to Catholicism at the time and clandestine missionary attempts often failed before they had even properly started, the Roman Catholic Church shifted its interest towards Northerners arriving in Rome, a preferred destination for young noblemen, artists and migrant craftsmen. The material related to Ospizio dei Convertendi, conserved in the Vatican archives, is a scarcely known yet unusually rich source, not only for the religious history of our continent, but also for social history and the study of migration in early modern Europe. It contains a wealth of information about members of the subordinate classes, of their travels and lives in Europe. The profile delineated in these documents is of individuals who had a wide range of different professions and different aspirations. These documents encompass a vast social spectrum that was highly mobile on a continent which by that time had become pluriconfessional. Therefore, these migrants faced the complex religious reality in their everyday life. The principal corpus of my research consists of two types of manuscript sources created for administrative and in a way also for apologetic purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. My starting point is the Primo registro generale of Ospizio dei Convertendi. This is a volume in which the following information about each guest was registered: name, nationality, city of origin, age, sex, profession, confession professed before converting, date of arrival, departure, abjuration and baptism. Typically, the convert was male, originating from Stockholm or Copenhagen, from 21 to 30 years of age. The biggest occupational groups in descending order were soldiers, noblemen, craftsmen and sailors. Thus the data reflects a multiform reality of interurban and long distance migration, ideals regarding the education of young noblemen and gentry as well as the need of European armies to hire foreign mercenaries in their various campaigns. Against this background the almost total absence of women is hardly surprising: there is only one woman in the material I have studied. The second main source, Nota degl’ospiti ricevuti e spese fatte per essi, sheds more light on the choices of the converts, their motivations and their lives outside Scandinavia before reaching Rome. This narrative material permits an analysis which completes but also goes far beyond the columns of the Institute’s general register. This material consists of reports written by Catholic priests based on an interview conducted upon each guest’s arrival. The material frequently includes information on what the converts would do following their departure from the Institute as well. These sources have a specific narrative form and contain short biographies, list reasons for converting and information about the journey from the North to the Mediterranean - a journey which in many cases took several years. Moreover, they show that certain unorthodox practices such as calling on the saints and pleading for help from them were not uncommon in the Protestant popular religion. The recording of information on conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism reflects both religious and social interest on the part of the receiving institute. The information obtained was used for the purposes of religious teaching, for finding adequate ways of inserting the convert into Italian society so that he could earn a living, and to find effective methods to convert others with a similar cultural and geographical background. The stories recorded were based on interviews with the newly-arrived, information obtained from a travel companion or fellow countrymen, or from written documents the aspirant converts carried with them. These sources illustrate, although sometimes in rather simplified ways, the circumstances and motivations which were relevant to the choice of changing one’s confession. In addition, I have examined petitions addressed to the hospice and other Roman authorities in order to get financial aid. These petitions were written by Italian scrittori, and they contain certain conventions and topoi of presenting the conversion with the purpose of improving the chances of obtaining financial aid. It is through these filters, which may seem initially almost invisible, that the remote voice of the converts reaches us. The results of the analysis are particularly interesting because they disagree with some of the principal conclusions of previous work on the subject. First, earlier research has focused almost exclusively on the conversions of noblemen, and has argued, second, that the Queen Christina of Sweden was the driving force behind their change of confession. The sources examined for this dissertation present a profile of long-distance migrants, many of them members of the subordinate classes, who were looking for ways to make their living in Europe. These people had in many cases left their country of origin several years earlier and not for religious reasons, so, crucially, we are not dealing with confessional migration in these cases. Rather, conversion was a complex process, intricately tied up with strategies of survival, integration and upward social mobility. At the same time, while these components are significant on their own right, they do not necessarily point to the absence of motivations of a more clearly religious nature.

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