Berättelse om Kejsar Alexanders färd från Nissilä gästgifveri till staden Kajana under Hans majestäts senaste resa uti Stor-Furstendömet Finland om sommarn år 1819

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Описанiе путешетвиiя государя Императора Александра 1., изъ станцiи Ниссиле въ город Каяну во время послѣднаго вояжа Его величества въ Ведикое княжество Финляндское лѣтомъ 1819 года

Schilderung der Fahrt des Kejsers Alexander von der Station Nissilä nach der Stadt Kaiana auf der letzten Reise Seiner Majestät in dem Gross-Fürstenthume Finland während des Sommers 1819.

Relation du trajet de l’Empereur Alexandre de la station Nissilä à la ville de Kaïana duran le dernier voyage de sa majesté dans le Grand Duché de Finlande pendant l’été 1819.

Tribosähköiseen ilmiöön perustuvan hiukkaspitoisuusmittarin kehitys

Diplomityön tarkoituksena oli kehittää mikroprosessoriohjattu digitaalinen pölymittarituoteperhe vanhan analogisen hiukkasmittarin tilalle. Työssä käydään läpi mittarin teoreettista perustaa ja kehitysprojektin eri vaiheita sekä tutustutaan hiukkasmittauksen perusteisiin, lainsäädäntöön sekä hiukkasten terveysvaikutuksiin, joista saadaan motivaatiota sille, miksi hiukkasia yleensä kannattaa ja pitää mitata. Työssä tutustutaan myös lainsäädännön mittarilta vaatimiin hyväksyntöihin eri sovelluskohteissa, käytännön mittauksissa esiintyviin haasteisiin sekä käydään läpi hyväk-syntöjen läpäisemiseksi vaaditut testit. Diplomityön lopuksi tutustutaan mittarin kaupalliseen menestykseen, ehdotetaan kehi-tyskohteita ja tutustutaan tribosähköisen mittauksen tulevaisuuden mahdollisuuksiin.

Development of IT Service Management in a Large International Company

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine the IT Service Management (ITSM) capabilities of a large international company and develop a design for the IT Service Management of the company. The thesis consists of two parts: a literature review and a case study. The first part is the literature review. It examines different aspects of IT Service Management. The purpose of the literature review is to increase the credibility of the case study. In the case study, the IT Service Management of a large industrial company is assessed, and an improved design for IT Service Management is created. The services are limited to common IT services, and management is limited to operative management. To assess and develop the case company’s IT Service Management, the IT organization and its ITSM capabilities are analyzed, and on the basis of the analyses, an improved IT Service Management model is created. As a result of the analyses, it was found out that the management of the IT organization is function-oriented. Therefore, the organization needs a management model that breaks the functional borders and brings services to the center of management. The designed model aspires to achieve this by defining IT services and modeling management processes from the service perspective.

Juha

Digitoitu 11. 10. 2007.

Games in Education and Process Development

The aim of the thesis is to devise a framework for analyzing simulation games, in particular introductory supply chain simulation games which are used in education and process development. The framework is then applied to three case examples which are introductory supply chain simulation games used at Lappeenranta University of Technology. The theoretical part of the thesis studies simulation games in the context of education and training as well as of process management. Simulation games can be seen as learning processes which comprise of briefing, micro cycle, and debriefing which includes observation and reflection as well as conceptualization. The micro cycle, i.e. the game itself, is defined through elements and characteristics. Both briefing and debriefing ought to support the micro cycle. The whole learning process needs to support learning objectives of the simulation game. Based on the analysis of the case simulation games, suggestions on how to boost the debriefing and promote long term effects of the games are made. In addition, a framework is suggested to be used in designing simulation games and characteristics of introductory supply chain simulation games are defined. They are designed for general purposes, are simple and operated manually, are multifunctional interplays, and last about 2.5 4 hours. Participants co operate during a game run and competition arises between different runs or game sessions.

Testing the Random Walk Hypothesis on the Baltic Stock Markets

The purpose of the thesis is to analyze whether the returns of general stock market indices of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania follow the random walk hypothesis (RWH), and in addition, whether they are consistent with the weak-form efficiency criterion. Also the existence of the day-of-the-week anomaly is examined in the same regional markets. The data consists of daily closing quotes of the OMX Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius total return indices for the sample period from January 3, 2000 to August 28, 2009. Moreover, the full sample period is also divided into two sub-periods. The RWH is tested by applying three quantitative methods (i.e. the Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test, serial correlation test and non-parametric runs test). Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression with dummy variables is employed to detect the day-of-the-week anomalies. The random walk hypothesis (RWH) is rejected in the Estonian and Lithuanian stock markets. The Latvian stock market exhibits more efficient behaviour, although some evidence of inefficiency is also found, mostly during the first sub-period from 2000 to 2004. Day-of-the-week anomalies are detected on every stock market examined, though no longer during the later sub-period.