44 resultados para turvallisuus - yksityistäminen


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Painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC) is a chronic urinary bladder disorder of unknown etiology characterized by symptoms of bladder pain and urinary frequency. PBS/IC is a chronic disease in which drug therapy has not led to significant success over the course of time. If the symptoms of PBS/IC are refractory to standard treatments, a possible cure might demand surgical intervention involving cystectomy. The eventual autoimmune etiology in mind, immunosuppressive drug therapy with cyclosporine A (CyA) was started to patients with refractory PBS/IC. CyA is a potent anti-inflammatory drug, a calcineurin inhibitor which inhibits T lymphocyte IL-2 produc-tion. T cells are present in abundance in inflammation of the bladder in PBS/IC. On the basis of a pilot, short-term study with CyA on PBS/IC, use of CyA was continued empirically over the long term. We conducted a prospective, randomized, six-month study in 64 patients comparing the effect of CyA with the FDA approved treatment, pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS). We measured the drug effect on patient s symptoms, the potassium sensitivity test, and on urinary biomarkers. We further tested the impact of CyA, PPS, DMSO and BCG therapy on a health-related quality of life questionnaire and evaluated the response rate to treatment with these therapies. Long-term use of CyA was safe and effective in PBS/IC patients. The good clinical effect matured individually during the years in which CyA was continued. Cessation of medication led to the reappearance of symptoms, and restarting CyA to renewed alleviation, so that CyA was administered as continuous medication. The response rate to CyA increased during the study period, comprising 75% of CyA patients at six months. 19% of patients responded to PPS therapy. Adverse effects were more common in the CyA group, underlining the importance of monitoring the drug safety and appropriate titration of the dose. The potassium sensitivity test is positive in the majority of PBS/IC patients. Successful therapy of PBS/IC can alter nerve sensitivity to external potassium. This effect was seen more often after CyA therapy. Successful treatment of PBS/IC with CyA resulted to decreasing urinary levels of EGF. IL-6 levels in urine were higher among older patient with a longer history of PBS/IC. In these patients, reduced levels of urinary IL-6 were measured after CyA therapy. Patients who experience the best treatment response have improved quality of life according to the post-treatment health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire. CyA had more impact on the ma-jority of the aspects of QoL than PPS. Despite DMSO therapy being more successful than BCG in the count of responders, DMSO and BCG had equal effects on the HRQOL questionnaire.

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Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. Vision in the affected eye is threatened by both the tumor and side-effects from the treatments currently available. Poor prognosis for saving vision increases with tumor size and, consequently, enucleation has been the treatment of choice for large uveal melanomas in most centers. However, increasing evidence suggests that no survival benefit is gained (nor lost) by enucleation as compared to eye-conserving methods. The Helsinki University Eye Hospital has since 1990 offered episcleral iodine-125 plaque brachytherapy (IBT) for all patients unwilling to undergo enucleation for a large uveal melanoma. The primary aim of this study was to assess survival, local tumor recurrence and preservation of the eye and vision after IBT in a population-based series of 97 patients with uveal melanomas classified as large by the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) criteria. Further aims included reporting the incidence of side-effects and assessing the role of intraocular dose distribution and clinical risk factors in their development. Finally, means to improve the current treatment were investigated by using computer models to compare existing plaques with collimating ones and by comparing the outcome of a subgroup of 54 IBT patients with very thick tumors with 33 patients with similarly-sized tumors managed with transscleral local resection (TSR) in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Kaplan-Meier estimates of all-cause and melanoma-specific survival at 5 years after IBT were 62% and 65%, respectively, and visually comparable with the survival experience of patients reported after enucleation by the COMS. Local recurrence developed in 6% of eyes and 84% of eyes were conserved at 5 years. Visual prognosis was guarded with 11% avoiding loss of 20/70 vision and 26% avoiding loss of 20/400 vision in the tumor eye at 2 years. Large tumor height and short distance from the posterior pole were independently associated with loss of vision. Using cumulative incidence analysis to account for competing risks, such as enucleation and metastatic death, the 5-year incidence of cataract after IBT was 79%, glaucoma 60%, optic neuropathy 46%, maculopathy 52%, persistent or recurring retinal detachment (RD) 25%, and vitreous hemorrhage 36%. In multivariate competing risks regression models, increasing tumor height was associated with cataract, iris neovascularization and RD. Maculopathy and optic neuropathy were associated with distance from the tumor to the respective structure. Median doses to the tumor apex, macula and optic disc were 81 Gy (range, 40-158), 79 Gy (range, 12-632), and 83 Gy (range, 10-377), respectively. Dose to the optic disc was independently associated with optic neuropathy, and both dose to the optic disc and dose to the macula predicted vision loss after IBT. Simulated treatment using collimating plaques resulted in clinically meaningful reduction in both optic disc (median reduction, 30 Gy) and macular (median reduction, 36 Gy) doses as compared to the actual treatment with standard plaques. In the subgroup of patients with uveal melanomas classified as large because of tumor height, cumulative incidence analysis revealed that while long-term preservation of 20/70 vision was rare after both IBT and TSR, preservation of 20/400 vision was better after TSR (32% vs. 5% at 5 years). In multivariate logistic regression models, TSR was independently associated with better preservation of 20/400 vision (OR 0.03 at 2 years, P=0.005) No cases of secondary glaucoma were observed after TSR and optic neuropathy was rare. However, local tumor recurrence was more common after TSR than it was after IBT (Cumulative incidence 41% vs. 7% at 5 years, respectively). In terms of survival, IBT seems to be a safe alternative to enucleation in managing large uveal melanomas. Local tumor control is no worse than with medium-sized tumors and the chances of avoiding secondary enucleation are good. Unfortunately, side-effects from radiotherapy are frequent, especially in thick tumors, and long-term prognosis of saving vision is consequently guarded. Some complications can be limited by using collimating plaques and by managing uveal melanomas that are large because of tumor height with TSR instead of IBT. However, the patient must be willing to accept a substantial risk of local tumor recurrence after TSR and it is best suited for cases in which the preservation of vision in the tumor eye is critical.

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Infertility treatments are relatively easily available in most Western countries today, but the psychological consequences of these high-tech treatments have scarcely been addressed. The purpose of this controlled longitudinal study was to explore the early environment of the infant born by assisted reproductive treatment (ART). We focused on the parents mental well-being, marital relations and experience of parenting. In addition to this, we assessed parent child interaction and parents mental representations of their child after long-standing infertility and several unsuccessful ART attempts. The subjects were infertile couples who achieved a singleton pregnancy by in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). The control group comprised of spontaneously conceiving couples with singleton pregnancies. ART women showed fewer depressive symptoms than controls during pregnancy and after delivery, but the difference vanished by the end of the child s first year. ART men consistently had lower levels of anxiety symptoms, sleeping difficulties, and social dysfunction than control men. Control women experienced a decrease in dyadic consensus during the child s first year, which did not happen among ART women. After the child was born, ART men reported a higher level of sexual affection compared with control men. Psychic symptoms and stressful life events were differently related to marital relations in ART and control groups. The parenting experiences of ART mothers were in general at a higher level, compared with controls, and they changed in a positive direction during the child s first year. Fathering experiences were at the same level in both groups, and they changed positively in both groups by the end of the child s first year. The parenting experiences of ART mothers and fathers were more resilient to certain child-related stressors than those of control group. Both mothers and fathers with long-term infertility showed more sensitive behaviour with their child in toddler-age than in infancy. Correspondingly, children s cooperation increased. Mothers often mentioned a fear of miscarriage and difficulty in creating representations of the child during pregnancy. Descriptions of the infants were mainly rich, vivid and loaded with positive features. In conclusion, ART parents in general seem to adapt well to the transition to parenthood. Former infertility and ART do not seem to constitute a risk for parents mental health, marital relations or experience of parenting. Even longstanding infertility with several unsuccessful treatment attempts did not create a risk as regards parenting behaviour or parents mental representations of their child. In this group, however, women were found to have fear for losing the child and difficulty in creating representations of the child during pregnancy, which in some cases may indicate need for psychosocial support. Even though our results are encouraging, infertility and infertility treatments are generally considered as a stressful experience. It is a challenge for health authorities to recognize those couples who need professional help to overcome the distressing experiences of infertility and ART.

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This dissertation considers the problem of trust in the context of food consumption. The research perspectives refer to institutional conditions for consumer trust, personal practices of food consumption, and strategies consumers employ for controlling the safety of their food. The main concern of the study is to investigate consumer trust as an adequate response to food risks, i.e. a strategy helping the consumer to make safe choices in an uncertain food situation. "Risky" perspective serves as a frame of reference for understanding and explaining trust relations. The original aim of the study was to reveal the meanings applied to the concepts of trust, safety and risks in the perspective of market choices, the assessments of food risks and the ways of handling them. Supplementary research tasks presumed descriptions of institutional conditions for consumer trust, including descriptions of the food market, and the presentation of food consumption patterns in St. Petersburg. The main empirical material is based on qualitative interviews with consumers and interviews and group discussions with professional experts (market actors, representatives of inspection bodies and consumer organizations). Secondary material is used for describing institutional conditions for consumer trust and the market situation. The results suggest that the idea of consumer trust is associated with the reputation of suppliers, stable quality and taste of their products, and reliable food information. Being a subjectively constructed state connected to the act of acceptance, consumer trust results in positive buying decisions and stable preferences in the food market. The consumers' strategies that aim at safe food choices refer to repetitive interactions with reliable market actors that free them from constant consideration in the marketplace. Trust in food is highly mediated by trust in institutions involved in the food system. The analysis reveals a clear pattern of disbelief in the efficiency of institutional food control. The study analyses this as a reflection of "total distrust" that appears to be a dominant mood in many contexts of modern Russia. However, the interviewees emphasize the state's decisive role in suppressing risks in the food market. Also, the findings are discussed with reference to the consumers' possibilities of personal control over food risks. Three main responses to a risky food situation are identified: the reflexive approach, the traditional approach, and the fatalistic approach.

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This study examines how Finnish foreign and security policy has been influenced by the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It points to a growing interplay and misfit between the external expectations originating from the European level and the domestic expectations and traditional ways-of-doing-things. It is concluded that the deepening European integration in the sphere of foreign, security and defence policy has played a significant role in a number of transformations in the Finnish policies since 1995. New, more European, meanings have been attached to the key concepts of Finnish foreign and security policy. Neutrality and traditional peacekeeping have been replaced by a minimalist reading of military non-alignment and participation in crisis management operations and EU battle groups. Traditional small state identity has been recast more and more as small member stateness . At the same time Finland has entered an era of post-consensus in national foreign and security policy. A key theoretical argument in the background of the study is that collective understandings attached to European policies, when not resonating well with domestic understandings, cause adaptation pressures on domestic-level processes and may lead to changes in the way interests and identities are constructed. This means that Europeanization is principally seen as identity reconstruction. Consequently, the theoretical framework of the study builds on the Europeanization research literature and constructivist IR theory on state identity. Foreign and security policy is defined as the practice in which state identity is reproduced, and the key foreign and security policy concepts are seen as the vehicles of identity production. It is concluded that for Finland, participation in the EU s foreign, security and defence policies represents not only a tool for responding to the changes in the international security environment but also a new means of self-identification. Concerning the Finnish attempts of projecting national interests on the European security policy agenda, it is concluded that they mainly relate to the compatibility of the potential development of EU s defence dimension with the Finnish military non-alignment. Although neutrality was cast aside in the official security policy when Finland joined the EU, the analysis shows that its impact has continued in the domestic political debate and in the mind-set of the decision-makers. The primary research material includes official Finnish foreign and security policy documentation and the related parliamentary debates from 1994 to 2007. This study serves also as a comprehensive empirical overview on Finland s reactions and contributions to the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy.

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The 1980s and the early 1990s have proved to be an important turning point in the history of the Nordic welfare states. After this breaking point, the Nordic social order has been built upon a new foundation. This study shows that the new order is mainly built upon new hierarchies and control mechanisms that have been developed consistently through economic and labour market policy measures. During the post-war period Nordic welfare states to an increasing extent created equality of opportunity and scope for agency among people. Public social services were available for all and the tax-benefit system maintained a level income distribution. During this golden era of Nordic welfare state, the scope for agency was, however, limited by social structures. Public institutions and law tended to categorize people according to their life circumstances ascribing them a predefined role. In the 1980s and 1990s this collectivist social order began to mature and it became subject to political renegotiation. Signs of a new social order in the Nordic countries have included the liberation of the financial markets, the privatizing of public functions and redefining the role of the public sector. It is now possible to reassess the ideological foundations of this new order. As a contrast to widely used political rhetoric, the foundation of the new order has not been the ideas of individual freedom or choice. Instead, the most important aim appears to have been to control and direct people to act in accordance with the rules of the market. The various levels of government and the social security system have been redirected to serve this goal. Instead of being a mechanism for redistributing income, the Nordic social security system has been geared towards creating new hierarchies on the Nordic labour markets. During the past decades, conditions for receiving income support and unemployment benefit have been tightened in all Nordic countries. As a consequence, people have been forced to accept deteriorating terms and conditions on the labour market. Country-specific variations exist, however: in sum Sweden has been most conservative, Denmark most innovative and Finland most radical in reforming labour market policy. The new hierarchies on the labour market have co-incided with slow or non-existent growth of real wages and with a strong growth of the share of capital income. Slow growth of real wages has kept inflation low and thus secured the value of capital. Societal development has thus progressed from equality of opportunity during the age of the welfare states towards a hierarchical social order where the majority of people face increasing constraints and where a fortunate minority enjoys prosperity and security.

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Organisaatioiden kehittäminen yhteiskunnallisen työnjaon muutoksessa –julkaisu esittelee kuvauksen yhteiskunnallisen työnjaon eli julkisen, yksityisen ja kolmannen sektorin välisen työnjaon muutosprosessissa syntyneiden hybridiorganisaatioiden (mm. tilaaja-tuottajamalli) ominaisuuksista. Toiseksi julkaisu esittelee kehittävän työntutkimuksen metodologian inspiroiman kehittämismenetelmän hybridilaboratorion, jota pilotoitiin Tampereen kaupungin päivähoidossa ja esiopetuksessa sekä Työvalmennussäätiö Tekevässä.. Hybridilaboratoriomenetelmän tavoitteena on kollektiivisesti paljastaa päätöksentekojärjestelmän rakenteita sekä luoda osallistumisen paikkoja perinteisiä hierarkiasuhteita ja organisaatiorajoja ylittävällä tavalla. Julkaisu on Yksityistämisen ja yhteisvastuun ylisektoraaliset vaihtoehdot –menetelmäkehitysprojektin loppuraportti ja sen kirjoittajat projektin tutkijoita Helsingin yliopiston Toiminnan teorian ja kehittävän työntutkimuksen yksiköstä. Projekti toteutettiin kokonaisuudessaan Tykes-ohjelman rahoituksella.

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Tutkimuksessa lähestytään oikeusvaltion paradoksia tarkastelemalla sen ilmenemistä valtiopäiväkeskusteluissa, joita käytiin hallituksen esityksistä tasavallan suojelulaiksi vuosina 1930 ja 1936. Oikeusvaltion paradoksin ytimessä on kysymys siitä, miten yksityisen oikeussubjektin myös valtion harjoittamalta mielivallalta nauttima suoja voidaan taata, kun eduskunta on ylin lainsäätäjä ja voi muuttaa myös perustuslakia, jossa tuo suoja taataan. Tämä kysymys korostuu etenkin poikkeusoloissa, jolloin toimeenpanovallalla tulisi olla riittävät valtuudet vaikean tilanteen ratkaisemiseksi. Oikeusvaltion paradoksin kannalta keskeisiä ovat muodollinen, laillisuutta ja muotoja painottava sekä materiaalinen, oikeusjärjestyksen sisällöllisiä periaatteita, kuten perusoikeuksia painottava oikeusvaltiotulkinta. Nämä kaksi tulkintaa ovat vaikeissa tilanteissa toistensa kanssa ristiriidassa ja päättäjät joutuvat tasapainoilemaan niiden välillä: toimiako tehokkaasti yhteiskuntajärjestyksen turvaamiseksi, jolloin on riski valtion sisältä käsin tapahtuvasta oikeusvaltion murenemisesta, vai kunnioittaako perusoikeuksia ja altistaa valtakunta ulkoiselle vallankaappaukselle tai muille järjestyshäiriöille. Tutkimuskysymystä tarkastellaan vuosina 1930 ja 1936 eduskunnalle annettujen hallituksen tasavallan suojelulakiesitysten myötä. Esitykset tasavallan suojelulaiksi antoivat presidentille oikeuden, mikäli valtakuntaa uhkasi vaara tai yleinen järjestys ja turvallisuus olivat uhattuina, rajoittaa tiettyjä hallitusmuodon toisessa luvussa taattuja perusoikeuksia. Vuonna 1930 lapuanliikkeen aiheuttama vallankaappauksen uhka oli todellinen ja hallituksen oli pakko antaa sen vaatimia säädöksiä kommunistisen toiminnan tukahduttamiseksi. Paradoksaalisesti laki oli samanaikaisesti lapuanliikkeen painostuksen tulos että yritys ottaa tilanne haltuun poikkeuslailla. Vuonna 1936 tilanne oli huomattavasti rauhallisempi. Lakia perusteltiin sekä maailmanpoliittisen tilanteen epävakaudella että tarpeella säätää poikkeustilanteista etukäteen osana pysyvää lainsäädäntöä. Valtuuksia ei kuitenkaan haluttu säätää osaksi valtiosääntöä, vaan säädös annettiin erillisenä poikkeuslakina. Eduskuntakeskustelussa kannat jakautuivat yleisesti ottaen siten, että lakien vastustajat esittivät materiaaliseen oikeusvaltiotulkintaan ja kannattajat muodolliseen oikeusvaltiotulkintaan lukeutuvia argumentteja. Vastustajien mielestä oli tärkeää kunnioittaa kansalaisten perusoikeuksia ja perustuslakien pysyvyyttä. He myös pelkäsivät lakien mahdollistamaa hallinnollista mielivaltaa. Lakien kannattajat puolestaan korostivat demokratian itsepuolustuksen tärkeyttä: oli yksilön kannalta parasta oikeusturvaa, että kumoukselliset voimat voitiin pitää kurissa. Vuoden 1930 laki jätettiin lepäämään yli vaalien ja hyväksyttiin lopullisesti syksyllä 1930. Se oli osa kommunistilakipakettia, mutta sitä käytettiin lapuanliikkeen hillitsemiseksi ja Mäntsälän kapinan kukistamiseksi vuonna 1932. Vuoden 1936 laki hylättiin eduskunnassa. Vuonna 1939 annettiin vielä kolmas hallituksen esitys tasavallan suojelulaiksi. Se jätettiin lepäämään yli vaalien ja hyväksyttiin syksyllä 1939. Hallituksen laajennettuja valtuuksia tarvittiin tällä kertaa sellaisia henkilöitä vastaan, joista voisi olla uhkaa Suomen ulkoiselle turvallisuudelle. Lain nojalla tehtiin satoja poliittiseen vasemmistoon kohdistuneita turvasäilöpidätyksiä sodan aikana. Tämä laki on kuitenkin rajattu tutkimuksen ulkopuolelle.

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Tutkielman kirjallisuusosassa perehdyttiin vehnän, rukiin ja ohran, eli Triticeaeprolamiinien erityisasemaan keliakianäkökulmasta tarkasteltuna ja prolamiinien hydrolyysiin proliinispesifeillä entsyymeillä. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin prolamiinien immunologisia määritysmenetelmiä. Keliakiassa haitalliset gluteenipeptidit sisältävät runsaasti proliinia ja ovat hankalia pilkkoa muilla kuin proliinispesifeillä peptidaaseilla. Suurin osa immunologisen reaktion aiheuttavista gluteenilähtöisistä peptideistä voidaan pilkkoa idätetyn viljan endogeenisilla entsyymeillä happamissa olosuhteissa, mutta jäljellejäävä prolamiinipitoisuus ylittää edelleen gluteenittomille tuotteille sallitun rajan. Kokeellisen työn tavoitteena oli eliminoida happamalla mallasinkubaatiolla valmistettujen vehnä-, ohra- ja ruismallasautolysaattien sisältämä jäännösprolamiini Aspergillus niger -homeen tuottamalla proliinispesifillä endopeptidaasilla (AN-PEP) siten, että hydrolysaattia voitaisiin käyttää gluteenittomissa leivontasovelluksissa. Proteiinien hydrolyysiä tarkkailtiin kokoekskluusiokromatografialla (SEC), vapaan aminotypen (FAN) muodostumisena ja SDS-PAGE-elektroforeesilla. Jäännösprolamiinien pilkkoutumista seurattiin immunologisella R5-ELISA-menetelmällä. AN-PEP-inkubaatiolla saatiin aikaan voimakasta prolamiinien pilkkoutumista; mallasautolysaattien jäännösprolamiinista pilkkoutui yli 96 %. SEC- ja FAN-analyysien perusteella inkubaatioaikaa kannatti jatkaa yli 4 h, jolloin polypeptidit pilkkoutuivat edelleen pienemmiksi hydrolyysituotteiksi. Vehnä- ja ruismallashydrolysaattien prolamiinipitoisuuden todettiin laskevan 22 h inkubaation aikana alle tason 100 mg/kg R5-ELISA-menetelmällä määritettynä. Matalimmat prolamiinipitoisuudet saavutettiin AN-PEP-pitoisuudella 35 ?l / g mallasautolysaattia. Codex Alimentarius -komission säädöksen mukaan keliakiaruokavalioon soveltuvat ns. erittäin vähägluteeniset tuotteet saavat sisältää gluteenia enintään 100 mg/kg. Erityisesti AN-PEP-käsiteltyä ruismallasraaka-ainetta voitaisiin mahdollisesti käyttää tuomaan rukiista aromia gluteenittomiin leipiin. Ennen kuin mallashydrolysaatit ovat valmiita kaupallisiin sovelluksiin, on tarkasteltava niiden todellisia mahdollisuuksia parantaa elintarvikkeiden makua ja aromia sekä todettava uuden teknologian turvallisuus keliaakikoille.

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The aim of this masters thesis was to examine subjective wellbeing and personal happiness. Empirical study of happiness is part of broader wellbeing reseach and is based on an idea that the best experts of personal wellbeing are the individuals themselves. In addition to perceptions of personal happiness, the aim was also to acquire knowledge about personal values and components personal happiness is based on. In this study, moving into certain community and the charesteristics of neigbourhood contributing happiness, were defined to represent these values. The object was, through comparative casestudy, to obtain knowledge about subjective wellbeing of the inviduals in two different residental areas inside metropolitan area of Helsinki. In comparative case study the intention usually is that the examined units represent spesific "cases" from something broader and therefore the results can be somehow generalized. Consequently the chosen cases in this study were selected due to their image of "urban village" and thus the juxtapositioning was constructed between secluded post-suburban village and more heterogeneous urban village better attached to excisting urban structure. The researh questins were formed as follows: Are there any differencies between the areas regarding the components personal happines is based on? Are there any differencies between the areas regarding the level of residents subjective wellbeing? Based on the residents assesments, what are the most important charesteristics of neigbourhood contributing personal happiness? The data used in order to gain aswers to these questions was obtained from internet-based survey questionnaire. Based on the data residents of post-suburban village Sundsberg seem to share highly family oriented set of values and actualizing these values is ensured with high income, wealth and secure work situation. Insteadt in Kumpula the components of happiness seem place more towards learning and personal developement, interesting leisure and hobbies and specially having an influence regarding communal decisions. Conserning subjective wellbeing of residents there can be seen some differencies as well. Personal life is experienced a bit more happier in Sundsberg than in Kumpula. People are more satified with their personal health and job satisfaction in Sundsberg and additionally feelings of loneliness, inadequancy and frustration are bit more common in Kumpula. Regarding the charesteristics of neigbourhood contributing happiness data suggests that key charesteristics of area are peacefulness and safely, good location and connections and proximity of parks and recreational areas. These charesteristics were concidered highly significant in both areas but they were experienced to actualize better in Kumpula. In addition to these components the residents in Kumpula were overall more satisfied with various charecteristics contiburing happiness in their residental area. Besides these attributes mentioned above residents in Kumpula emphasize also some "softer" elements connecting into social, functional and communal side of area. From Sundsberg point of view residental area best contributing happiness is child friendly and safe community based on likeminded people who share the same sosioeconomical situation. The results of this study can be linked back into the society and metropolitan area, which they were chosen from as a cases to be studied. The results can thereby be seen as an example of differentation of conditions of personal happiness between certain population segments. It is possible to detect an spatial dimetion to this process as well and thereby the results suggests that regional segmentation affects between high-ranking residental areas as well. Thereby the results of this reseach contributes to the debate on innovative, diverse and dynamic urban area and as well cohesion of metropolitan area and the society in whole.

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Tämän pro gradu- tutkielman tavoitteena oli löytää kuluttajien palvelukokemukseen vaikuttavat tekijät lastenvaatteiden- ja tarvikkeiden -verkkokaupassa. Empiirinen tutkimus lähestyi aihetta netnografian avulla. Aineistoksi tähän tutkielmaan valittiin sosiaalisen median keskustelut. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen osa muodostui kolmesta aiheesta: verkko-ostamisesta ja palvelun laadusta, sosiaalisesta mediasta sekä word-of-mouth-viestinnästä. Verkko-ostamisessa käsiteltiin ostamisen eri vaiheet, kuluttajien motivaatiot verkosta ostamiseen, sekä siihen liittyvät riskit ja tarkasteltiin sähköisen palvelun laatua. Sosiaalinen media-luku kertoi sosiaalisen median käytöstä sekä eri medioista. Word-of-mouth-viestintä esitteli perinteisen word-of-mouth-viestinnän lisäksi sähköisen WOM-viestinnän ulottuvuudet. Empiirinen tutkimus oli laadullinen ja se toteutettiin netnografisesti. Netnografia on etnografiaan perustuva menetelmä, jota käytetään internet-aineistoissa. Aineiston analysoinnissa käytettiin teemoittelua. Aihetta lähestyttiin faktanäkökulmasta, eli tutkimuksessa oltiin kiinnostuneita niistä tosiasioista joita keskustelijat kertoivat. Aineisto kerättiin perhe-aiheisten lehtien keskustelupalstoilta sekä blogeista Google-haun avulla. Sosiaalisen median keskustelut valittiin aineistoksi, koska niistä uskottiin saatavan kaikkein totuudenmukaisinta tietoa, johon tutkijan kysymyksen asettelu ei vaikuta. Spontaanit keskustelut antavat erilaista tietoa kuin suoran kysymyksen vastaukset. Tutkimuksen tuloksena löytyi seitsemän teemaa, joita keskusteluissa käsiteltiin. Nämä ovat toimitus, palvelu, palautus ja normalisointi, ulkoasu ja toimivuus, hinta, maksaminen sekä tuotteet ja valikoima. Sen sijaan teorian pohjalta odotettavissa olleet turvallisuus ja yksityisyys eivät tulleet aineistosta lainkaan esiin. Erityisen huonona palveluna asiakkaat pitivät varastosaldojen paikkansapitämättömyyttä, hitaita toimituksia sekä epäystävällistä palvelua. Hyvää palvelua olivat nopeat toimitukset sekä yksilöllinen palvelu ja reklamaatioiden hyvä hoito.

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War children were sent away to shelter without their parents to other Nordic countries, mainly to Sweden. The phenomenon was remarkable. During the Second World War nearly 80,000 children were sent from their homes by trains or boats. These children travelled to foster homes where they were placed with new parents looking after them. After the conclusion of the peace, for some months or sometimes years later, orders were given to send the children back to their families in Finland. Returning back to Finland and to their biological parents and families was not always easy. Deep bonds between the children and their foster families were created and leaving caused grief to those small travellers once again. In some cases, distances were created in the relations between Mothers and their daughters. Many had forgotten their Finnish, and returning to school proved difficult. Some of the war children felt rootlessness, a result of being torn away from their family and culture. The aim of this study is to describe how former war children became mothers by themselves, and later on grandmothers. The study also explores how they describe the meaning of the war and their childhood in their own parenthood and what were their experiences of time in foster homes. Seven former war children and three daughters were interviewed for this study. Interviews were biographical. A narrative approach and thematic reading (by Riessman 2008) has guided the analysis of the texts. According to the results of this study, the importance of having your own home , family and security in childhood relationships is significant. Caring and having responsibility for disadvantaged others was important for former war children. What come from the detailed experiences of the 'war childhood' most of all were the difficulties they found on returning to Finland. Some of them had become very attached to their foster parents. There were varying degrees of language problems among the returnees. Some of the interviewees had completely forgotten their native language. Given that, starting the school at home was difficult. They also remembered continuous travelling.When asked on the outcome of their relationship with their biological mother, most interviewees were happy, with a few experiencing some distance in this relationship. Security and being available to protect their children were important in their own motherhood and grand motherhood. In difficult family situations like divorce, they wanted to give their time and support for helping with grandchildren. Another important aspect in family life is interaction between all its members. Talking things through in families and also in War Child Associations was highly valued. However, talking of war childhood had been silenced in some families. In conclusion, the experiences of former war children should take in consideration when difficult situations between parents and children or children s positions in war zones are resolved. War children also have a lot to give for further educational study.

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Lokakuussa 2002 voimaan astunut laki yksityisistä turvallisuuspalveluista ja eräiksi siihen liittyviksi laeiksi uudisti yksityistä turvallisuusalaa määrittävän lainsäädännön Suomessa. Tämän työn tarkoitus on avata kyseisen lakiuudistuksen valmistelua ja taustaa. Tarkastelun painopiste on ‘yleisen edun’ käsitteen käytössä. Tutkimuskysymyksiä ovat muun muassa kuka yleisen edun käsitettä käytti, mitä sillä perusteltiin ja mitä merkityksiä sille annettiin. Alkuperäislähteinä on käytetty lain valmistelun yhteydessä syntyneitä muistioita, mietintöjä, pöytäkirjoja ja lausuntoja. Tärkeimmän lähdeaineiston muodostavat lakia valmistelleelle hallintovaliokunnalle jätetyt niin kutsutut ‘asiantuntijalausunnot’. Näissä lausunnoissa kattava joukko turvallisuusalaan vaikuttavia organisaatioita työmarkkinajärjestöistä viranomaisiin esitti näkemyksensä lakiesitykseen. Asiantuntijalausuntojen ryhmittelyssä on käytetty apuna Jorma Hakalan kansainväliseen vertailuun perustuvaa, yksityisen turvallisuusalan säätelyn perustelujen jaottelua. Aineiston esittelyn, ryhmittelyn, tarkastelun ja havaintojen pohtimisen tuloksena työn keskeisimmät väitteet ovat seuraavat: 1) Lain valmistelu oli kaikkiaan kymmenen vuotta kestänyt prosessi, ja suhtautuminen yksityisen turvallisuusalan säätelyn kiristämiseen jakoi alan yrityksiä. Pienet yritykset ja maaseudulla toimivat yritykset vastustivat lakiehdotusta. Suurimmat toimijat ajoivat mahdollisimman tiukkaa säätelyä. Säätelyn kiristämisellä on merkittävä vaikutus alan kilpailutilanteeseen. 2) Asiantuntijalausuntojen antajat perustelevat mitä erinäisimpiä, jopa keskenään ristiriitaisia näkemyksiä yleisellä edulla. Lausuntoja voikin tarkastella kilpailutilanteena, jossa eri yleisen edun määritelmät kamppailevat käsitteen sisällöstä. 3) Yleinen etu - yksityinen etu vastakkainasettelu purkautuu lain voimaan astuessa lisääntyvänä julkisen ja yksityisen turvallisuussektorin yhteistyönä. 4) Laki on eräänlainen vedenjakaja, joka ilmentää turvallisuuden tuottamisen muutosta Suomessa. Lain myötä yksityinen turvallisuusala siirtyi osin asetuspohjaisesta säätelystä lakiperusteisen, systemaattisemman viranomaisvalvonnan alle. Laki havainnollistaa yksityisen turvallisuusalan kasvanutta yhteiskunnallista merkitystä ja Suomessa tapahtuvaa kehitystä kohti moninapaista turvallisuuden tuottamista, jossa yksityinen sektori on poliisin kumppani, ei nuorempi apulainen. Yksityinen turvallisuusala on huomattavan vanha palveluliiketoiminnan muoto. Yksityistä turvallisuusalaa määrittävän lainsäädännön kehittymiseen Suomessa on vaikuttanut muun muassa turvallisuusalan nopea kasvu ja palveluiden siirtyminen yksityisistä tiloista julkisiin tiloihin. Kehitys kohti moninapaista turvallisuuden tuottamista pakottaa määrittämään yksityisen turvallisuusalan aseman suhteessa julkiseen valtaan ja kansalaisten perusoikeuksiin.

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The modern subject is what we can call a self-subjecting individual. This is someone in whose inner reality has been implanted a more permanent governability, a governability that works inside the agent. Michel Foucault s genealogy of the modern subject is the history of its constitution by power practices. By a flight of imagination, suppose that this history is not an evolving social structure or cultural phenomenon, but one of those insects (moth) whose life cycle consists of three stages or moments: crawling larva, encapsulated pupa, and flying adult. Foucault s history of power-practices presents the same kind of miracle of total metamorphosis. The main forces in the general field of power can be apprehended through a generalisation of three rationalities functioning side-by-side in the plurality of different practices of power: domination, normalisation and the law. Domination is a force functioning by the rationality of reason of state: the state s essence is power, power is firm domination over people, and people are the state s resource by which the state s strength is measured. Normalisation is a force that takes hold on people from the inside of society: it imposes society s own reality its empirical verity as a norm on people through silently working jurisdictional operations that exclude pathological individuals too far from the average of the population as a whole. The law is a counterforce to both domination and normalisation. Accounting for elements of legal practice as omnihistorical is not possible without a view of the general field of power. Without this view, and only in terms of the operations and tactical manoeuvres of the practice of law, nothing of the kind can be seen: the only thing that practice manifests is constant change itself. However, the backdrop of law s tacit dimension that is, the power-relations between law, domination and normalisation allows one to see more. In the general field of power, the function of law is exactly to maintain the constant possibility of change. Whereas domination and normalisation would stabilise society, the law makes it move. The European individual has a reality as a problem. What is a problem? A problem is something that allows entry into the field of thought, said Foucault. To be a problem, it is necessary for certain number of factors to have made it uncertain, to have made it lose familiarity, or to have provoked a certain number of difficulties around it . Entering the field of thought through problematisations of the European individual human forms, power and knowledge one is able to glimpse the historical backgrounds of our present being. These were produced, and then again buried, in intersections between practices of power and games of truth. In the problem of the European individual one has suitable circumstances that bring to light forces that have passed through the individual through centuries.

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Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää yhteiskuntavastuun sisältöä elintarviketeollisuusalalla Suomessa. Tavoitteena oli saada käsitys siitä, mitkä yhteiskuntavastuun ulottuvuudet ovat alan yrityksille tärkeitä ja mitkä vähemmän tärkeitä. Samalla selvitettiin, onko elintarviketeollisuuden eri toimialojen ja yritysten välillä eroa yhteiskuntavastuun painotuksissa ja millaisia toimiala- ja yrityskohtaisia erityiskysymyksiä alalta löytyy. Teoriaosassa käydään läpi yhteiskuntavastuuta ja sen historiaa, ulottuvuuksia ja raportointia sekä yhteiskuntavastuun taustalla olevaa sidosryhmäteoriaa. Kirjallisuuden pohjalta tehtiin synteesi elintarviketeollisuusalan yhteiskuntavastuun ulottuvuuksista, joka toimii tutkimuksen viitekehyksenä. Tässä on kahdeksan pääulottuvuutta – taloudellinen vastuu, ympäristövastuu, henkilöstövastuu, tuotevastuu, vastuullinen hankinta, paikallisyhteisöt ja yhteiskunta, ihmisoikeudet ja tasa-arvo sekä eläinten hyvinvointi – ja näillä yhteensä 42 alaulottuvuutta. Tätä teoreettista viitekehystä käytettiin mittaristona empiirisessä tutkimuksessa. Menetelmänä oli sisällönanalyysi, jonka aineistona käytettiin kymmenen Suomen suurimman elintarviketeollisuusalan yrityksen yhteiskuntavastuuraportteja vuodelta 2009. Toimialojen välistä ja sisäistä vertailua varten yritykset jaettiin ryhmiin seuraavasti: lihanjalostus (HKScan ja Atria), maidonjalostus (Valio ja Arla), vilja- ja öljykasviala (Fazer, Vaasan ja Raisio) sekä juoma-ala (Altia, Sinebrychoff ja Hartwall). Tutkimuksen mukaan yhteiskuntavastuu ei näyttäydy kaikille yrityksille samanlaisena, vaan yritykset painottavat raporteillaan yhteiskuntavastuun ulottuvuuksia hyvin eri tavoin. Summatasolla tärkein ulottuvuus oli ympäristövastuu, jota seurasivat tärkeysjärjestyksessä seuraavina henkilöstövastuu, tuotevastuu ja taloudellinen vastuu. Alaulottuvuuksista tärkein oli päästöt, jätevedet ja jätteet. Maidonjalostusala painotti muita aloja voimakkaammin vastuuta omistajille, maaseudulle ja kuluttajille sekä tuotteisiin liittyviä yhteiskuntavastuukysymyksiä. Vilja- ja öljykasviala puolestaan keskittyi voimakkaasti henkilöstö- ja ympäristökysymyksiin. Juoma-alalla energiankulutus, työterveys ja turvallisuus sekä vastuullinen markkinointi nousivat alakohtaisiksi erityiskysymyksiksi. Sisäisesti epäyhtenäisin tutkituista toimialoista oli liha-ala, jolla Atria painotti voimakkaasti henkilöstö- ja ympäristövastuun kysymyksiä ja HKScan tuotteisiin liittyviä vastuukysymyksiä. Muillakin toimialoilla yritykset poikkesivat huomattavasti toisistaan. Tuloksiin vaikuttivat mm. erot yritysten omistajuudessa, toimintaympäristöissä, hankintaketjujen pituudessa, tuotteiden luonteessa, alan työvoimavaltaisuudessa jne., mutta myös erot yritysten raportointikäytännöissä ja niissä periaatteissa, joiden perusteella yhteiskuntavastuuraportissa käsiteltävät teemat valitaan. Tutkimuksesta saatiin tukea ennakko-oletukselle, että eri elintarviketeollisuuden alat ja yritykset todella ovat erilaisia ja niiden yhteiskuntavastuuhaasteet poikkeavat toisistaan, vaikka yhtäläisyyksiäkin löytyy. Tämä tulisi huomioida tutkittaessa elintarvikealan yhteiskuntavastuuta ja pyrittäessä luomaan sille kattavia malleja ja ohjeistuksia.