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Työn stressitekijöiden ja hoidon laadun väliset yhteydet vanhusten pitkäaikaisessa laitoshoidossa

Laura Pekkarisen väitös The relationships between work stressors and organizational performance in long-term care for elderly residents (Helsingin yliopisto 2008).

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Is it possible to utilize VIX for a profitable trading strategy of S&P 500 Index?

The goal of this research was to make an overall sight to VIX® and how it can be used as a stock market indicator. Volatility index often referred as the fear index, measures how much it costs for investor to protect his/her S&P 500 position from fluctuations with options. Over the relatively short history of VIX it has been a successful timing coordinator and it has given incremental information about the market state adding its own psychological view of the amount of fear and greed. Correctly utilized VIX information gives a considerable advantage in timing market actions. In this paper we test how VIX works as a leading indicator of broad stock market index such as S&P 500 (SPX). The purpose of this paper is to find a working way to interpret VIX. The various tests are made on time series data ranging from the year 1990 to the year 2010. The 10-day simple moving average strategy gave significant profits from the whole time when VIX data is available. Strategy was able to utilize the increases of SPX in example portfolio value and was able to step aside when SPX was declining. At the times when portfolio was aside of S it was on safety fund like on treasury bills getting an annual yield of 3 percent. On the other side just a static number’s of VIX did not work as indicators in a profit making way.

”Hollywood-syndromi”, jazzia ja dodekafoniaa : elokuvamusiikin funktioanalyysi neljässä 1950- ja 1960-luvun vaihteen suomalaisessa elokuvassa

Musiken som hördes i de finländska filmerna vid skiftet av 1950- och 1960-talet var mycket varierande. Det fanns till exempel jazzschlager, modern konstmusik som innovativt kombinerats med Hollywood-klichéer, dodekafonisk musik och mainstream jazz. Gällande stilval, kompositionssätt, instrumentering, harmonisering och användningssätt av filmmusik rådde det då möjligen en större frihet än någonsin i Finland. Anu Juvas avhandling behandlar musiken till fyra filmer genom filmmusikens funktionsanalys och i sitt kulturhistoriska sammanhang. Näranalyserna har gjorts av Lasisydän ( Glashjärtat 1959) och Komisario Palmun erehdys ( Mysteriet Rygseck [sic!] 1960), som Matti Kassila har regisserat, Maunu Kurkvaaras Yksityisalue ( Privatområde 1962) och Erkko Kivikoskis Kesällä kello 5 ( Klockan 5 denna sommar 1963). Musiken till dessa filmer har komponerats av Jaakko Salo, Osmo Lindeman, Usko Meriläinen och Pentti Lasanen. Regissörerna och kompositörerna till dessa filmer var alla på olika sätt förnyare av sin tids konventioner. Funktionsanalysen avslöjar, hur musiken i filmerna fungerar, dvs. vilka dess uppgifter är i dessa filmer som låter mycket olika. Vidare granskas det, hur musik valdes till olika filmer samt de olika genrernas ställning inom det kulturella fältet. Undersökningen öppnar en utsikt över en av de mest intressanta tidpunkterna inom finländsk filmmusik.

Människa – moral – miljö : en undersökning av livsåskådningar i finländskt miljötänkande

I Människa – moral – miljö undersöks syner på människa och moral i finländskt miljötänkande. Den pågående brytningen mellan modernitet och senmodernitet avspeglas i olika former av nutida finländskt miljötänkande. I avhandlingen analyseras fyra miljötänkares texter: teologen Seppo Kjellberg, biologen Pentti Linkola, miljöfilosofen Leena Vilkka och filosofen Georg Henrik von Wright. Alla fyra formerna av tänkande uttrycker försök att komma till rätta med miljöproblemen i sent 1900-tal. Vart och ett av försöken vill erbjuda en väg ut ur den moderna världens dilemma. Men samtliga försök som studerats i avhandlingen uppvisar oförlösta spänningar. De flesta försök till nytänkande uppvisar senmoderna drag. T.ex. delar alla fyra uppfattningen att det vetenskapliga tänkandets utveckling och dess sätt att umgås med naturen skapar problem som inte kan lösas enbart med tekniskt vetenskapliga medel. Men i samtliga analyserade tankesystem är bundenheten till viktiga drag i moderniteten fortfarande stark. T.ex. när det gäller moraluppfattning kan man spåra en syn där vägen till moralisk kunskap liknar vägen till faktakunskap. Det tolkas i avhandlingen som ett uttryck för moderna tankestrukturer, där tron på möjligheten att heltäckande beskriva verkligheten är stark, liksom tilltron till att man med förnuftets hjälp (ensamt) kan tänka ut och motivera de rätta vägarna till ett moraliskt förhållningssätt gentemot den övriga naturen. De moderna tendenserna i materialet tycks i samtliga fall göra försöken att lösgöra sig från det som åstadkommer miljöproblemen om intet. Miljöproblemen är en följd av modernitetstänkandet och de kan därför knappast lösas utan en medveten brottning och uppgörelse med flera av de drag som konstituerar den moderna världen och den moderna kulturen.

Innovations of ageing and societal transition : Dynamics of change of the socio-technical regime of ageing

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the dynamics of the socio-technical system in the field of ageing. The study stems from the notion that the ageing of the population as a powerful megatrend has wide societal effects, and is not just a matter for the social and health sector. The central topic in the study is change: not only the age structures and structures of society are changing, but also at the same time there is constant development, for instance, in technologies, infrastructures and cultural perceptions. The changing concept of innovation has widened the understanding of innovations related to ageing from medical and assistive technological innovations to service and social innovations, as well as systemic innovations at different levels, which means the intertwined and co-evolutionary change in technologies, structures, services and thinking models. By the same token, the perceptions of older people and old age are becoming more multi-faceted: old age is no longer equated to illnesses and decline, but visions of active ageing and a third age have emerged, which are framed by choices, opportunities, resources and consumption in later life. The research task in this study is to open up the processes and mechanisms of change in the field of ageing, which are studied as a complex, multi-level and interrelated socio-technical system. The question is about co-effective elements consisting of macro-level landscape changes, the existing socio-technical regime (the rule system, practices and structures) and bottom-up niche-innovations. Societal transitions do not account for the things inside the regime alone, or for the long-term changes in the landscape, nor for the radical innovations, but for the interplay between all these levels. The research problem is studied through five research articles, which offer micro-level case studies to macro-level phenomenon. Each of the articles focus on different aspects related to ageing and change, and utilise various datasets. The framework of this study leans on the studies of socio-technical systems and multi-level perspective on transitions mainly developed by Frank Geels. Essential factors in transition from one socio-technological regime to another are the co-evolutionary processes between landscape changes, regime level and experimental niches. Landscape level changes, like the ageing of the population, destabilise the regime in the forms of coming pressures. This destabilization offers windows for opportunity to niche-innovations outside or at fringe of the regime, which, through their breakthrough, accelerate the transition process. However, the change is not easy because of various kinds of lock-ins and inertia, which tend to maintain the stability of the regime. In this dissertation, a constructionist approach of society is applied leaning mainly to the ideas of Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration, with the dual nature of structures. The change is taking place in the interplay between actors and structures: structures shape people’s practices, but at the same time these practices constitute and reproduce social systems. Technology and other material aspects, as part of socio-technical systems, and the use of them, also take part in the structuration process. The findings of the study point out that co-evolutionary and co-effective relationships between economic, cultural, technological and institutional fields, as well as relationships between landscape changes, changes in the local and regime-level practices and rule systems, are a very complex and multi-level dynamic socio-technical phenomenon. At the landscape level of ageing, which creates the pressures and triggers to the regime change, there are three remarkable megatrends: demographic change, changes in the global economy and the development of technologies. These exert pressures to the socio-technical regime, which as a rule system is experiencing changes in the form of new markets and consumer habits, new ways of perceiving ageing, new models of organising the health care and other services and as new ways of considering innovation and innovativeness. There are also inner dynamics in the relationships between these aspects within the regime. These are interrelated and coconstructed: the prevailing perceptions of ageing and innovation, for instance, reflect the ageing policies, innovation policies, societal structures, organising models, technology and scientific discussion, and vice versa. Technology is part of the inner dynamics of the sociotechnological regime. Physical properties of the artefacts set limitations and opportunities with regard to their functions and uses. The use of and discussion about technology, contributes producing and reproducing the perceptions of old age. For societal transition, micro-level changes are also needed, in form of niche-innovations, for instance new services, organisational models or new technologies, Regimes, as stabilitystriven systems, tend to generate incremental innovations, but radically new innovations are generated in experimental niches protected from ‘normal’ market selection. The windows of opportunity for radical novelties may be opened if the circumstances are favourable for instance by tensions in the socio-technical regime affected by landscape level changes. This dissertation indicates that a change is taking place, firstly, in the dynamic interactionbetween levels, as a result of purposive action and governance to some extent. Breaking the inertia and using the window of opportunity for change and innovation offered by dynamics between levels, presupposes the actors’ special capabilities and actions such as dynamic capabilities and distance management. Secondly, the change is taking place the socio-technological negotiations inside the regime: interaction between technological and social, which is embodied in the use of technology. The use of technology includes small-level contextual scripts that also participate in forming broader societal scripts (for instance defining old age at the society level), which in their turn affect the formation of policies for innovation and ageing. Thirdly, the change is taking place by the means of active formation of the multi-actor innovation networks, where the role of distance management is crucial to facilitate the communication between actors coming from different backgrounds as well as to help the niches born outside the regime to utilise the window of opportunity offered by regime destabilisation. This dissertation has both theoretical and practical contributions. This study participates in the discussion of action-oriented view on transition by opening up of the socio-technological, coevolutionary processes of the multi-faceted phenomenon of ageing, which has lacked systematic analyses. The focus of this study, however, is not on the large-scale coordination and governance, but rather on opening up the incremental elements and structuration processes, which contribute to the transition little by little, and which can be affected to. This increases the practical importance of this dissertation, by highlighting the importance of very tiny, everyday elements in the change processes in the long run.

Fågelkvartett C-dur

Soitinnus: viulut (2), alttoviulu, sello.

Endymion

Soitinnus: huilu, englannintorvi, klarinetti, bassoklarinetti, viulu, alttoviulu, sello, lyömäsoittimet (2).

[Pianotrio C-duuri]

Soitinnus: piano, viulu, sello.

[Trio klarinetille, fagotille ja pianolle]

Soitinnus: klarinetti, fagotti, piano.

Körsbärsblommor : 5 korta japanska kärleksdikter

Soitinnus: lauluääni (baritoni), huilu, englannintorvi, sello, lyömäsoittimet (2).