Puolustusvoimien lessons learned -toiminta oppivan organisaation ilmentäjänä suomalaisissa kriisinhallintajoukoissa

Kansainvälinen kriisinhallinta on yksi puolustusvoimien kolmesta päätehtävästä. Suomi on osallistunut kansainvälisiin rauhanturva- ja kriisinhallintaoperaatioihin jo yli puolen vuosisadan ajan. Jokaisessa operaatiossa joukon organisaatio on ollut erilainen, tehtävästä ja mandaatista riippuen. Myös joukkojen koulutuksessa on tapahtunut muutoksia vuosien varrella, lähinnä suoritustasovaatimusten ja edellisistä operaatioista saatujen kokemusten myötä. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan lessons learned -toimintaa ja sen roolia oppivan organisaation ilmentäjänä ja miten puolustusvoimat asiasta käskee liittyen sotilaallisten kriisinhallintajoukkojen toimintaan. Tutkimuksesta on rajattu pois siviilikriisinhallinnan käsittely. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten puolustusvoimat käskee kriisinhallintajoukon toiminnasta liittyen operaatioista saatujen kokemusten raportointiin ja koulutuksen kehittämiseen. Pääkysymykseen, millaisia oppivan organisaation tunnusmerkkejä puolustusvoimien lessons learned -toiminnasta kriisinhallintajoukkojen osalta on löydettävissä, saadaan vastaus selvittämällä seuraavat alakysymykset: 1. Miten lessons learned -toiminta ilmentää oppivan organisaation mallia? 2. Miten lessons learned -toiminta ilmenee puolustusvoimien toiminnassa ja erityisesti kriisinhallintaoperaatioissa? 3. Mitä puolustusvoimat käskee kriisinhallintajoukoille operaatioalueelta saatujen kokemusten keräämisestä ja kuka/ketkä sen suorittaa/-tavat? Tutkimuksen näkökulma on sotilaspedagoginen. Tutkimuksessa keskitytään kriisinhallintajoukon saamien kokemusten jalostamiseen edelleen koulutukseen lessons learned -toiminnan kautta oppivan organisaation ilmentäjänä. Tutkimus toteutetaan käyttämällä sisällönanalyysimenetelmää paneutumalla kirjallisuuslähteisiin ja vertailemalla niitä. Lisäksi perehdytään Puolustusvoimien asiakirjoihin ja asetuksiin/ normeihin.

When Metadata Collides: Lessons on Combining Records from Multiple Repository Systems.

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Metabolite and light regulation of metabolism in plants: lessons from the study of a single biochemical pathway

We are using molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches to study the structural and regulatory genes controlling the assimilation of inorganic nitrogen into the amino acids glutamine, glutamate, aspartate and asparagine. These amino acids serve as the principal nitrogen-transport amino acids in most crop and higher plants including Arabidopsis thaliana. We have begun to investigate the regulatory mechanisms controlling nitrogen assimilation into these amino acids in plants using molecular and genetic approaches in Arabidopsis. The synthesis of the amide amino acids glutamine and asparagine is subject to tight regulation in response to environmental factors such as light and to metabolic factors such as sucrose and amino acids. For instance, light induces the expression of glutamine synthetase (GLN2) and represses expression of asparagine synthetase (ASN1) genes. This reciprocal regulation of GLN2 and ASN1 genes by light is reflected at the level of transcription and at the level of glutamine and asparagine biosynthesis. Moreover, we have shown that the regulation of these genes is also reciprocally controlled by both organic nitrogen and carbon metabolites. We have recently used a reverse genetic approach to study putative components of such metabolic sensing mechanisms in plants that may be conserved in evolution. These components include an Arabidopsis homolog for a glutamate receptor gene originally found in animal systems and a plant PII gene, which is a homolog of a component of the bacterial Ntr system. Based on our observations on the biology of both structural and regulatory genes of the nitrogen assimilatory pathway, we have developed a model for metabolic control of the genes involved in the nitrogen assimilatory pathway in plants.

Influence of cueing on the preparation and execution of untrained and trained complex motor responses

This study investigated the influence of cueing on the performance of untrained and trained complex motor responses. Healthy adults responded to a visual target by performing four sequential movements (complex response) or a single movement (simple response) of their middle finger. A visual cue preceded the target by an interval of 300, 1000, or 2000 ms. In Experiment 1, the complex and simple responses were not previously trained. During the testing session, the complex response pattern varied on a trial-by-trial basis following the indication provided by the visual cue. In Experiment 2, the complex response and the simple response were extensively trained beforehand. During the testing session, the trained complex response pattern was performed in all trials. The latency of the untrained and trained complex responses decreased from the short to the medium and long cue-target intervals. The latency of the complex response was longer than that of the simple response, except in the case of the trained responses and the long cue-target interval. These results suggest that the preparation of untrained complex responses cannot be completed in advance, this being possible, however, for trained complex responses when enough time is available. The duration of the 1st submovement, 1st pause and 2nd submovement of the untrained and the trained complex responses increased from the short to the long cue-target interval, suggesting that there is an increase of online programming of the response possibly related to the degree of certainty about the moment of target appearance.

Open publishing: lessons from particle physics

Syksy Räsänen's presentation at Kirjastoverkkopäivät, Helsinki 21.10.2015.

Analysis and guidelines for implementation of EN 1090-2 Standard to assist execution class assignment of steel structures

Finnish design and consulting companies are delivering robust and cost-efficient steel structures solutions to a large number of manufacturing companies worldwide. Recently introduced EN 1090-2 standard obliges these companies to specify the execution class of steel structures for their customers. This however, requires clarifying, understanding and interpreting the sophisticated procedure of execution class assignment. The objective of this research is to provide a clear explanation and guidance through the process of execution class assignment for a given steel structure and to support the implementation of EN 1090-2 standard in Rejlers Oy, one of Finnish design and consulting companies. This objective is accomplished by creating a guideline for designers that elaborates on the four-step process of the execution class assignment for a steel structure or its part. Steps one to three define the consequence class (projected consequences of structure failure), the service category (hazards associated with the service use exploitation of steel structure) and the production category (manufacturing process peculiarities), based on the ductility class (capacity of structure to withstand deformations) and the behaviour factor (corresponds to structure seismic behaviour). The final step is the execution class assignment taking into account results of previous steps. Main research method is indepth literature review of European standards family for steel structures. Other research approach is a series of interviews of Rejlers Oy representatives and its clients, results of which have been used to evaluate the level of EN 1090-2 awareness. Rejlers Oy will use the developed novel coherent standard implementation guideline to improve its services and to obtain greater customer satisfaction.

Til eder, ährade och älskelige bröder i Christo, warder i thesse dagar ... kungiordt, then tillförende ohörlige execution, som i går här skedde på fyra personer, ..

Nimeke tekstin alusta.

The geographic dynamics of industry employment in Brazilian metropolitan areas: lessons for São Paulo

ABSTRACTWe discuss historic trends in large metropolitan areas in Brazil showing that manufacturing has decreased its share in the country but the movement was, in general, more intense in large metropolitan areas and particularly in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). This movement was more intense in the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s. From mid 1990s up to the end of the 2000s, the manufacturing share trend became flat. We speculate that the first period reflects the exhaustion of the process of import substitution that took place in the previous three decades (1950 to 1980). The second period, from 1993 to 2009, is representative of a new model of growth and the evidence that manufacturing share became flat is reinforcing the idea of a new period in terms of manufacturing employment. While concentration has risen from 1996 to 2005, it decreased again in the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. The SPMA reinvented itself very quickly from late 1970s to mid-2000s.

Divers traitez de paix conclus et signez a Munster et a Osnabrug en Westphalie le 24. octobre 1648. Comme aussi ceux qui furent faits a Nuremberg en execution des premiers, touchant la staisfaction des milices, l'evacuation des places, et le licenciement des troupes en l'année 1650. Avec le bref de nôtre St. Pere le Pape... et les prerogatives d'Aix la Chapelle... . Avec le bref de nôtre St. Pere le Pape, contenant sa protestation contre ces traitez, et les prerogatives d'Aix la Chapelle. Le tout servant de preuves à l'histoire de l'Empire.

[Traité. 1648-10-24. Munster. Autriche-Empire-Francefrançais)]

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting documents containing the information required by the resolution of Mr. Wright, on the 22d inst. relative to the execution of the act fixing the military peace establishment. --

14th Congress, 1st session, 1815-1816. House. Document no. 33.

Remembering Lessons Learned: knowledge management techniques for building generational memory

A presentation made at the CAUT Librarians Conference in Ottawa, Ontario in October 2005.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting documents containing the information required by the resolution of Mr. Wright, on the 22d inst. relative to the execution of the act fixing the military peace establishment

14th Congress, 1st session, 1815-1816. House. Document no. 33. January 27, 1816. Read and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Message from the President of the United States transmitting documents relative to the execution of the first article of the late treaty between the United States and Great Britain.

"February 7, 1817, ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate." Message addressed to the Senate and dated February 7th, 1817. Consists of the covering letter from the President and a report from the Secretary of State, dated Department of State, February 5th, 1817; which itself consists largely of diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain Relates to the restitution of captured slaves by the British during the War of 1812-1814.