Psykologia

Psykologian pääkokoelma sijaitsee pääkirjastossa (Linnassa), jossa painettu yleis- ja käsikirjastokokoelma koostuu noin 7200 nimekkeestä monografioita (painettujen monografiasarjojen osat mukaan lukien). Psykologia-kokoelmasta noin 2/3 käsitteli psykologian erikoisaloja ja 1/3 yleistä psykologiaa. Molemmista ryhmistä kartoitettiin kaksi osa-aluetta. Kehitys- ja lapsipsykologiaa käsitteli noin 1/5 kirjoista (1445 nimekettä), joten se oli selvin painopisteala. Kognitiivista & oppimisen psykologiaa käsitteli 14,6 % kirjoista (1050 nimekettä). Persoonallisuuden psykologian (9,5 % / 683 nimekettä) sekä tunteiden & emootioiden (5,6 % / 400 nimekettä) osuudet kirjakokoelmasta olivat pienehköjä. Käsikirjaston karsitussa noin 100 nimekkeen kokoelmassa on hakuteoksia, sanastoja, bibliografioita jne. Painettuja lehtiä oli 11 nimekettä (Behavior Analyst, Cognition and Emotion, Mielenterveys, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Perheterapia, Psychological Reports, Psychotherapy Research, Psykologi, Psykologia, Ryhmätyö ja Voltti). Sähkökirjoja kokoelmassa oli 22 nimekettä NetLibrary-tietokannassa, noin 487 nimekettä Ebrary-tietokannassa sekä 3 nimekettä sähköisinä hakuteoksina (Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences ja A Dictionary of Psychology). Verkkolehtiä kokoelmassa oli noin 450 nimekettä. Tietokantoja oli 4 kokotekstitietokantaa (PsycArticles, EbscoHost Academic Search Premier, Elsevier ScienceDirect ja Annual Reviews: Social Sciences) sekä 3 viitetietokantaa (PsycINFO, PsiTri ja Social Sciences Citation Index).

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New perspectives on the melanocortins and their cardiovascular effects: Potential implications for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases with melanocortin analogues

The melanocortin peptides, including melanocyte-stimulating hormones, α-, β- and γ-MSH, are derived from the precursor peptide proopiomelanocortin and mediate their biological actions via five different melanocortin receptors, named from MC1 to MC5. Melanocortins have been implicated in the central regulation of energy balance and cardiovascular functions, but their local effects, via yet unidentified sites of action, in the vasculature, and their therapeutic potential in major vascular pathologies remain unclear. Therefore, the main aim of this thesis was to characterise the role of melanocortins in circulatory regulation, and to investigate whether targeting of the melanocortin system by pharmacological means could translate into therapeutic benefits in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension. In experiments designed to elucidate the local effects of α-MSH on vascular tone, it was found that α-MSH improved blood vessel relaxation via a nitric oxide (NO)-dependent mechanism without directly contracting or relaxing blood vessels. Furthermore, α-MSH was shown to regulate the expression and function of endothelial NO synthase in cultured human endothelial cells via melanocortin 1 receptors. In keeping with the vascular protective role, pharmacological treatment of mice with α-MSH analogues displayed therapeutic efficacy in conditions associated with vascular dysfunction such as obesity. Furthermore, α-MSH analogues elicited marked diuretic and natriuretic responses, which together with their vascular effects, seemed to provide protection against sodium retention and blood pressure elevation in experimental models of hypertension. In conclusion, the present results identify novel effects for melanocortins in the local control of vascular function, pointing to the potential future use of melanocortin analogues in the treatment of cardiovascular pathologies.

Power semiconductor nonlinearities in active du/dt output filtering

This doctoral thesis introduces an improved control principle for active du/dt output filtering in variable-speed AC drives, together with performance comparisons with previous filtering methods. The effects of power semiconductor nonlinearities on the output filtering performance are investigated. The nonlinearities include the timing deviation and the voltage pulse waveform distortion in the variable-speed AC drive output bridge. Active du/dt output filtering (ADUDT) is a method to mitigate motor overvoltages in variable-speed AC drives with long motor cables. It is a quite recent addition to the du/dt reduction methods available. This thesis improves on the existing control method for the filter, and concentrates on the lowvoltage (below 1 kV AC) two-level voltage-source inverter implementation of the method. The ADUDT uses narrow voltage pulses having a duration in the order of a microsecond from an IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) inverter to control the output voltage of a tuned LC filter circuit. The filter output voltage has thus increased slope transition times at the rising and falling edges, with an opportunity of no overshoot. The effect of the longer slope transition times is a reduction in the du/dt of the voltage fed to the motor cable. Lower du/dt values result in a reduction in the overvoltage effects on the motor terminals. Compared with traditional output filtering methods to accomplish this task, the active du/dt filtering provides lower inductance values and a smaller physical size of the filter itself. The filter circuit weight can also be reduced. However, the power semiconductor nonlinearities skew the filter control pulse pattern, resulting in control deviation. This deviation introduces unwanted overshoot and resonance in the filter. The controlmethod proposed in this thesis is able to directly compensate for the dead time-induced zero-current clamping (ZCC) effect in the pulse pattern. It gives more flexibility to the pattern structure, which could help in the timing deviation compensation design. Previous studies have shown that when a motor load current flows in the filter circuit and the inverter, the phase leg blanking times distort the voltage pulse sequence fed to the filter input. These blanking times are caused by excessively large dead time values between the IGBT control pulses. Moreover, the various switching timing distortions, present in realworld electronics when operating with a microsecond timescale, bring additional skew to the control. Left uncompensated, this results in distortion of the filter input voltage and a filter self-induced overvoltage in the form of an overshoot. This overshoot adds to the voltage appearing at the motor terminals, thus increasing the transient voltage amplitude at the motor. This doctoral thesis investigates the magnitude of such timing deviation effects. If the motor load current is left uncompensated in the control, the filter output voltage can overshoot up to double the input voltage amplitude. IGBT nonlinearities were observed to cause a smaller overshoot, in the order of 30%. This thesis introduces an improved ADUDT control method that is able to compensate for phase leg blanking times, giving flexibility to the pulse pattern structure and dead times. The control method is still sensitive to timing deviations, and their effect is investigated. A simple approach of using a fixed delay compensation value was tried in the test setup measurements. The ADUDT method with the new control algorithm was found to work in an actual motor drive application. Judging by the simulation results, with the delay compensation, the method should ultimately enable an output voltage performance and a du/dt reduction that are free from residual overshoot effects. The proposed control algorithm is not strictly required for successful ADUDT operation: It is possible to precalculate the pulse patterns by iteration and then for instance store them into a look-up table inside the control electronics. Rather, the newly developed control method is a mathematical tool for solving the ADUDT control pulses. It does not contain the timing deviation compensation (from the logic-level command to the phase leg output voltage), and as such is not able to remove the timing deviation effects that cause error and overshoot in the filter. When the timing deviation compensation has to be tuned-in in the control pattern, the precalculated iteration method could prove simpler and equally good (or even better) compared with the mathematical solution with a separate timing compensation module. One of the key findings in this thesis is the conclusion that the correctness of the pulse pattern structure, in the sense of ZCC and predicted pulse timings, cannot be separated from the timing deviations. The usefulness of the correctly calculated pattern is reduced by the voltage edge timing errors. The doctoral thesis provides an introductory background chapter on variable-speed AC drives and the problem of motor overvoltages and takes a look at traditional solutions for overvoltage mitigation. Previous results related to the active du/dt filtering are discussed. The basic operation principle and design of the filter have been studied previously. The effect of load current in the filter and the basic idea of compensation have been presented in the past. However, there was no direct way of including the dead time in the control (except for solving the pulse pattern manually by iteration), and the magnitude of nonlinearity effects had not been investigated. The enhanced control principle with the dead time handling capability and a case study of the test setup timing deviations are the main contributions of this doctoral thesis. The simulation and experimental setup results show that the proposed control method can be used in an actual drive. Loss measurements and a comparison of active du/dt output filtering with traditional output filtering methods are also presented in the work. Two different ADUDT filter designs are included, with ferrite core and air core inductors. Other filters included in the tests were a passive du/dtfilter and a passive sine filter. The loss measurements incorporated a silicon carbide diode-equipped IGBT module, and the results show lower losses with these new device technologies. The new control principle was measured in a 43 A load current motor drive system and was able to bring the filter output peak voltage from 980 V (the previous control principle) down to 680 V in a 540 V average DC link voltage variable-speed drive. A 200 m motor cable was used, and the filter losses for the active du/dt methods were 111W–126 W versus 184 W for the passive du/dt. In terms of inverter and filter losses, the active du/dt filtering method had a 1.82-fold increase in losses compared with an all-passive traditional du/dt output filter. The filter mass with the active du/dt method was 17% (2.4 kg, air-core inductors) compared with 14 kg of the passive du/dt method filter. Silicon carbide freewheeling diodes were found to reduce the inverter losses in the active du/dt filtering by 18% compared with the same IGBT module with silicon diodes. For a 200 m cable length, the average peak voltage at the motor terminals was 1050 V with no filter, 960 V for the all-passive du/dt filter, and 700 V for the active du/dt filtering applying the new control principle.

Yhdistetyn voima- ja kestävyysharjoittelun vaikutukset maksimaaliseen voimantuottoon, kehon koostumukseen ja taakan kantamiseen

Varusmiesten peruskoulutuskauden aikana koulutettavien maksimaalinen hapenottokyky paranee ja elimistön rasvan määrä vähenee. Kestävyyssuorituskyvyn nousu ja kehon koos-tumuksen muutokset ovat sitä myönteisemmät, mitä huonommassa fyysisessä kunnossa va-rusmies on palveluksen alussa ja mitä alhaisempi on palvelusta edeltävä liikunta-aktiivisuus. Voimaominaisuuksien kehittymisen osalta peruskoulutuskauden kestävyyspainotteinen soti-laskoulutus saattaa osittain estää voima- sekä kestävyysharjoittelun spesifiset vaikutukset. Erikoiskoulutuskauden aikana toteutettu koulutussuunnitelmien mukainen fyysinen harjoitte-lu ei yleisesti paranna voimaominaisuuksia. Tämä tutkimus on ensimmäinen Suomessa tehty kenttätutkimus, jossa tarkastellaan suoma-laisten varusmiesten erikoiskoulutuskauden koulutukseen lisätyn voimaharjoittelun vaikutus-ta maksimaaliseen voimantuottoon, kehon koostumukseen ja taakan kantamiseen. Tuloksia voidaan soveltaa pohdittaessa maavoimien jalkaväkisotilaalle asetettavia fyysisiä vaatimuk-sia, koulutettavien valintaa eri tehtäviin, eri koulutuskausien liikuntakoulutuksen rakennetta ja kannettavan taakan massan vaikutusta sotilaan kuormittumiseen ja toimintakykyyn taiste-lukentällä. Tutkimusjoukko (n=25) koostui vapaaehtoisista Kaartin Jääkärirykmentin varusmiehistä. Kontrolliryhmä (n=12) harjoitteli erikoiskoulutuskauden koulutussuunnitelman mukaisia harjoitteita. Koeryhmän (n=13) erikoiskoulutuskauden koulutukseen lisättiin kahdeksan vii-kon ajan, kaksi kertaa viikossa, toteutettu voimaharjoittelu. Alkumittaukset suoritettiin eri-koiskoulutuskauden alussa ja loppumittaukset erikoiskoulutuskauden lopussa. Muuttujina käytettiin yläraajojen, keskivartalon ja alaraajojen maksimaalista voimantuottoa, kehon koos-tumuksen muutoksia ja kahden mailin taakkajuoksua. Koeryhmän yläraajojen maksimaalisessa voimantuotossa ei havaittu muutoksia. Kontrolli-ryhmän yläraajojen maksimaalisen voimantuotto kasvoi 990 ± 320 N  1140 ± 360 N, p<0,05. Koeryhmän vatsalihasten maksimaalisen voimantuotto kasvoi 3260 ± 510 N  3740 ± 750 N, p<0,05. Selkälihasten maksimaalinen voimantuotto laski molempien ryhmien osalta, koeryhmä 4290 ± 990 N  3570 ± 480 N, p<0,01 ja kontrolliryhmä 3920 ± 720 N  3410 ± 530 N, p<0,05. Molempien ryhmien alaraajojen maksimaalinen voimantuotto laski, koeryhmä 5250 ± 1110 N  4290 ± 720 N, p<0,001, kontrolli 5170 ± 1050 N  4330 ± 1230 N, p<0,05. Kahden mailin taakkajuoksun suoritusajan muutos oli erittäin merkitsevä. Koeryhmä 1162 ± 116 s  1047 ± 81 s, p<0,001 ja kontrolliryhmä 1142 ± 95 s  1035 ± 819 s, p<0,001. Kehon rasvaprosentin ja kahden mailin taakkajuoksuun käytetyn suoritus-ajan välillä havaittiin loppumittauksissa koeryhmän osalta positiivinen korrelaatio r =0,65*, p≤0,05. Kehon koostumuksen muutosten tai voimantuoton muutosten ja taakkajuoksun muu-tosten välillä ei havaittu yhteyttä. Varusmiespalveluksen erikoiskoulutuskauden aikana toteutetun yhdistetyn voima- ja kestä-vyysharjoittelun harjoitusvaikutuksiin saattaa vaikuttaa erikoiskoulutuskauden kestävyyspai-notteinen koulutus, harjoittelun kokonaisvolyymi ja puutteellinen palautuminen. Nämä saat-tavat johtaa ylirasitustilaan ja siten haitata optimaalista voimantuoton kasvua. Koulutettavien yksilölliset fysiologiset ominaisuudet tulee huomioida yksityiskohtaisemmin ja yksilölli-semmin erikoiskoulutuskauden harjoittelun optimoinnissa. Fyysisten ominaisuuksien kehit-tämisessä tulee entistä tarkemmin huomioida palveluksen kokonaiskuormittavuus, voima- ja kestävyysominaisuuksien tasapainoinen ja nousujohteinen kehittäminen sekä laadukas palau-tuminen.

The Role of Structural Imperfections in Sr2FeMoO6 Thin Films

In this work, Sr2FeMoO6 (SFMO) thin films were studied with the main focus on their magnetic and magneto-transport properties. The fabrication process of pulsed laser deposited SFMO films was first optimized. Then the effects of strain, film thickness and substrate were thoroughly investigated. In addition to these external factors, the effect of intrinsic defects on the magnetic properties of SFMO were also clarified. Secondly, the magnetoresistivity mechanims of SFMO films were studied and a semiempirical model of the temperature dependence of resistivity was introduced. The films were grown on single crystal substrates using a ceramic target made with sol-gel method. The structural characterization of the films were carried out with X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and high kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy. The magnetic properties were measured with SQUID magnetometer and the magneto-transport properties by magnetometer with a resistivity option. SFMO films with the best combination of structural and magnetic properties were grown in Ar atmosphere at 1050 °C . Their magnetic properties could not be improved by the ex situ post-annealing treatments aside from the treatments in ultra-high vacuum conditions. The optimal film thickness was found to be around 150 nm and only small improvement in the magnetic properties with decreasing strain was observed. Instead, the magnetic properties were observed to be highly dependent on the choice of the substrate due to the lattice mismatch induced defects, which are best avoided by using the SrTiO3 substrate. The large difference in the Curie temperature and the saturation magnetization between the SFMO thin film and polycrystalline bulk samples was connected to the antisite disorder and oxygen vacancies. Thus, the Curie temperature of SFMO thin films could be improved by increasing the amount of oxygen vacancies for example with ultra-high vacuum treatments or improving the B-site ordering by further optimization of the deposition parameters. The magneto-transport properties of SFMO thin films do not follow any conventional models, but the temperature dependence of resistivity was succesfully described with a model of two spin channel system. Also, evidences that the resistivity-temperature behaviour of SFMO thin films is dominated by the structural defects, which reduce the band gap in the majority spin band were found. Moreover, the magnetic field response of the resistivity in SFMO thin films were found to be superposition of different mechanisms that seems to be related to the structural changes in the film.