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Niina Ihalaisen esitys Tilastot ja kustannukset tehokkuudeksi -seminaarissa Helsingissä 3.12.2013.

Uusia tuulia Kalevala-tutkimuksessa

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Siirtolaisuus, seksityö ja toimijuus : ihmiskauppadiskursseja purkamassa

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Kynä kourassa : itseoppineet kirjoittajat ja tekstin äänet

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Etelä-Savon kulttuuriperintötietokanta kuntoon

Esitteessä esitellään 2014 Etelä-Savon kulttuuriperintötietokanta kuntoon -hankkeessa. Inventoijat kiertävät kuvaamassa ympäristö- ja rakennuskohteita ja tarkistavat tietoja. Tavoitteena on, että jatkossa inventointitieto on helposti löydettävissä yhdestä paikasta. Hankkeen tavoitteena on laajentaa kulttuuriympäristötiedon käyttäjäkuntaa ja helpottaa tiedon hyödyntämistä maankäytön suunnittelussa, opetuksessa ja kunta- ja matkailumarkkinoinnissa.

Lokan ja Porttipahdan tekojärvien säännöstelyn kehittäminen ; Yhteenveto ja toimenpidesuositukset

Lokan ja Porttipahdan tekojärvien säännöstelyn kehittämistyö sai alkunsa Sodankylän kunnan aloitteesta vuonna 2006. Aloitteen myötä silloinen Lapin ympäristökeskus käynnisti vesilain 8 luvun10 b §:ään perustuvan selvitystyön säännöstelystä aiheutuvien haitallisten vaikutusten vähentämiseksi. Varsinainen selvitystyö tehtiin Lapin ELY-keskuksessa vuosien 2008–2013 aikana. Selvitystyössä keskityttiin käytännön toimenpiteisiin säännöstelyhaittojen lieventämiseksi. Selvitystyössä ei lähdetty hakemaan muutoksia voimassa oleviin lupaehtoihin, vaan pyrittiin vähentämään säännöstelyn haitallisia vaikutuksia yhteistyössä säännöstelijän, vaikutusalueen kuntien, asianomaisten viranomaisten sekä alueen asukkaiden kanssa. Tässä raportissa esitetään säännöstelystä aiheutuvien haittojen lieventämiseksi laaditut toimenpidesuunnitelmat, jotka ovat tiivistetysti: kalatalouden kehittäminen, säännöstelykäytäntöjen kehittäminen, monikäyttörakenteiden kehittäminen, Luirojoki, tiedotus ja viestintä. Esitettyjen toimenpidesuositusten toteuttamisella saadaan parannettua tekojärvien säännöstelyä siten, että se taloudellisilta, ekologisilta ja sosiaalisilta vaikutuksiltaan vastaa paremmin yhteiskunnan nykyisiä tarpeita ja odotuksia.

A Business continuity management maturity model : the search for an ISO 22301 Compliant BCM Maturity model

BCM (business continuity Management) is a holistic management process aiming at ensuring business continuity and building organizational resilience. Maturity models offer organizations a tool for evaluating their current maturity in a certain process. In the recent years BCM has been subject to international ISO standardization, while the interest of organizations to bechmark their state of BCM agains standards and the use of maturity models for these asessments has increased. However, although new standards have been introduced, very little attention has been paid to reviewing the existing BCM maturity models in research - especially in the light of the new ISO 22301 standard for BCM. In this thesis the existing BCM maturily models are carefully evaluated to determine whetherthey could be improved. In order to accomplish this, the compliance of the existing models to the ISO 22301 standard is measured and a framework for assessing a maturitymodel´s quality is defined. After carefully evaluating the existing frameworks for maturity model development and evaluation, an approach suggested by Becker et al. (2009) was chosen as the basis for the research. An additionto the procedural model a set of seven research guidelines proposed by the same authors was applied, drawing on the design-science research guidelines as suggested by Hevner et al. (2004). Furthermore, the existing models´ form and function was evaluated to address their usability. Based on the evaluation of the existing BCM maturity models, the existing models were found to have shortcomings in each dimension of the evaluation. Utilizing the best of the existing models, a draft version for an enhanced model was developed. This draft model was then iteratively developed by conducting six semi-structured interviews with BCM professionals in finland with the aim of validating and improving it. As a Result, a final version of the enhanced BCM maturity model was developed, conforming to the seven key clauses in the ISO 22301 standard and the maturity model development guidelines suggested by Becker et al. (2009).

The neural processes generating visual phenomenal consciousness: ERP and neuronavigated brain stimulation studies

One of the greatest conundrums to the contemporary science is the relation between consciousness and brain activity, and one of the specifi c questions is how neural activity can generate vivid subjective experiences. Studies focusing on visual consciousness have become essential in solving the empirical questions of consciousness. Th e main aim of this thesis is to clarify the relation between visual consciousness and the neural and electrophysiological processes of the brain. By applying electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), we investigated the links between conscious perception and attention, the temporal evolution of visual consciousness during stimulus processing, the causal roles of primary visual cortex (V1), visual area 2 (V2) and lateral occipital cortex (LO) in the generation of visual consciousness and also the methodological issues concerning the accuracy of targeting TMS to V1. Th e results showed that the fi rst eff ects of visual consciousness on electrophysiological responses (about 140 ms aft er the stimulus-onset) appeared earlier than the eff ects of selective attention, and also in the unattended condition, suggesting that visual consciousness and selective attention are two independent phenomena which have distinct underlying neural mechanisms. In addition, while it is well known that V1 is necessary for visual awareness, the results of the present thesis suggest that also the abutting visual area V2 is a prerequisite for conscious perception. In our studies, the activation in V2 was necessary for the conscious perception of change in contrast for a shorter period of time than in the case of more detailed conscious perception. We also found that TMS in LO suppressed the conscious perception of object shape when TMS was delivered in two distinct time windows, the latter corresponding with the timing of the ERPs related to the conscious perception of coherent object shape. Th e result supports the view that LO is crucial in conscious perception of object coherency and is likely to be directly involved in the generation of visual consciousness. Furthermore, we found that visual sensations, or phosphenes, elicited by the TMS of V1 were brighter than identically induced phosphenes arising from V2. Th ese fi ndings demonstrate that V1 contributes more to the generation of the sensation of brightness than does V2. Th e results also suggest that top-down activation from V2 to V1 is probably associated with phosphene generation. The results of the methodological study imply that when a commonly used landmark (2 cm above the inion) is used in targeting TMS to V1, the TMS-induced electric fi eld is likely to be highest in dorsal V2. When V1 was targeted according to the individual retinotopic data, the electric fi eld was highest in V1 only in half of the participants. Th is result suggests that if the objective is to study the role of V1 with TMS methodology, at least functional maps of V1 and V2 should be applied with computational model of the TMS-induced electric fi eld in V1 and V2. Finally, the results of this thesis imply that diff erent features of attention contribute diff erently to visual consciousness, and thus, the theoretical model which is built up of the relationship between visual consciousness and attention should acknowledge these diff erences. Future studies should also explore the possibility that visual consciousness consists of several processing stages, each of which have their distinct underlying neural mechanisms.