Analyzing the Lives of Finnish Academic People 1640–1899 in Nordic and Baltic Countries : AcademySampo Data Service and Portal

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Where Did They Go? A Study on Newly Established Universities and Graduate Mobility in Finland

This paper investigates cross-regional mobility in Finland using individual-level data on a cohort of people over a period of 15 years. The backdrop is that of the institutionalization of science and technology policy in the 1960s, part of which consisted in the expansion of universities in five regions. This had a threefold rationale: increasing participation rates to higher education, widening the recruitment base by facilitating young generations the right to study in their native regions, and stimulating regional economic development by providing skilled labour force. Our empirical analysis reveals high levels of spatial mobility and uneven retention rates across regions. Despite the policy action, graduates are still attracted towards the capital city Helsinki. Through a binary logit regression model we observe that mobility is influenced by the type of studies and to a lesser extent by the socioeconomic background.Higher Education; Regional Development; Labour Mobility

IBM's Tiny Peripheral: Finland and the Tensions of Transnationality

IBM Finland, a small national subsidiary, was at once a Finnish business and an interface to much larger networks of technological innovation and knowledge sharing. We contextualize its development within a nested set of institutions and identities: IBM's Nordic operations, its European business, and its World Trade Corporation. Its development was profoundly shaped by Finland's unique geopolitical position during the Cold War. IBM's internal structures anticipated and paralleled those of the European Union, with mechanisms for international cooperation, for the creation of transnational identities, and for the resolution and regulation of disputes between national subsidiaries. </div

Temperature effects on incidence of surgery for acute type A aortic dissection in the Nordics

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Times of Change in the Demoscene : A Creative Community and Its Relationship with Technology

The demoscene is a form of digital culture that emerged in the mid-1980s after home computers started becoming commonplace. Throughout its approximately thirty years of existence it has changed in a number of ways, due to both external and internal factors. The most evident external driver has been the considerable technological development of the period, which has forced the community to react in its own particular ways. A modest body of research on the demoscene already exists, even though several topics still remain unstudied. In this thesis I approach the scene from three different angles: community, artefacts and relationship with technology. The most important frames of reference are subcultural studies, history of computing, game studies, domestication of technology and software studies. The research material is equally diverse, consisting of texts, creative works and interviews. The study paints an uncommon picture of the scene as a meritocracy that actively and even aggressively debates technological change. Technical prowess does not imply embracing new gadgets uncritically, in particular because their perceived ease is in dire contrast with the shared ethic that emphasises individuals’ skill. Practices, interests and relationships to other communities – gamers in particular – are still subject to constant change and, therefore, we should not consider the demoscene as a frozen monoculture, but rather as a group of phenomena that are linked to different periods of time, locations and computing platforms.Times of Change in the Demoscene: A Creative Community and Its Relationship with Technology (Muutoksen aikoja demoskenessä: luova yhteisö ja sen teknologiasuhde) Demoskene on 1980-luvun puolivälissä kotitietokoneiden yleistymisen myötä syntynyt digitaalisen kulttuurin muoto. Noin kolmenkymmenen vuoden olemassaolonsa aikana se on muuttunut monin tavoin, johtuen sekä ulkoisista että sisäsyntyisistä tekijöistä. Ilmeisin ulkoinen muutosvoima on ajanjakson huomattava tietotekninen kehitys, johon yhteisö on sopeutunut omissa puitteissaan. Demoskenestä on jo olemassa jonkin verran akateemista tutkimusta, vaikka lukuisia aiheita onkin yhä täysin kartoittamatta. Tässä työssä lähestyn skeneä kolmesta eri näkökulmasta: yhteisön, artefaktien sekä teknologiasuhteen suunnasta. Tärkeimpiä viitekehyksiä ovat alakulttuuritutkimus, tietotekniikan historia, pelitutkimus, teknologian kotoutuminen sekä uusimpana tulokkaana ohjelmistotutkimus. Tutkimusmateriaali on samoin monimuotoista, koostuen teksteistä, luovista töistä sekä haastatteluista. Tutkimuksen myötä hahmottuu poikkeuksellinen kuva skenestä meritokraattisena yhteisönä, joka ottaa aktiivisesti ja usein kärkkäästi kantaa teknologiseen muutokseen. Tekninen kyvykkyys ei johda uutuuksien kritiikittömään omaksumiseen, etenkin kun uusien laitteiden mukanaan tuoma näennäinen helppous sotii yhteisössä vallitsevaa yksilön osaamista korostavaa etiikkaa vastaan. Käytännöt, mielenkiinnon kohteet ja suhtautuminen muihin yhteisöihin – etenkin pelaajiin – ovat edelleen jatkuvassa muutoksessa, eikä demoskeneä siten voikaan tarkastella jähmettyneenä yhtenäiskulttuurina, vaan pikemminkin ryhmänä eri ajanjaksoihin, paikkoihin ja laitteisiin kytkeytyneitä ilmiöitä.Siirretty Doriast

A Dean, A Scholar, A Friend : Texts in appreciation of Markus Granlund

Markus Granlund is an almost staggeringly many-sided person. He is a prolific scholar of first class, the Dean of the Turku School of Economics, capturing and skilful teacher, a family man with four sons, a super-talented ice-hockey player and what not. Everything he does seems to happen with ease and calmness. This is not because his work-life would be without challenges. These are not easy times to be a Dean at a Finnish university, but demanding and turbulent indeed. It seems to be a “new normal” that funding is a continuously bothering issue and so is indicating systematic high volume and quality performance, nowadays measured in numerous dimensions and in accelerating pace. As the Dean of TSE, Markus has not saved himself from super-committed work and putting himself fully at stake – and turned out to be a successful dean. It is certainly of much help that Markus is a man who can find humour even in the toughest situations and conditions. This is a fabulous feature in anybody: sense of humour, especially warm irony, is an ice-breaker and relaxer for all. It is also almost impossible to pull his leg. He seems always ready to see directly behind such attempts and to me this is one aspect of his superb sense of humour. Working with him has never been only work, but always a lot of fun, too. Markus is my closest colleague of all times. We started collaborating in the early 1990s, when we conducted a survey research on cost and management accounting practices in Finland. Soon thereafter we were jointly responsible for the scholarly program of the EAA Congress that was held in Turku in 1993 as members of the organizing committee. Oh boy that we had good times in doing that! Over the years, Markus and I have conducted several management accounting studies together, most of which leading to an international journal publication. Our collaboration has always taken place in the spirit of total quality in our work: to carry out each and every bit of the work processes so that quality is ensured right from the beginning. This “total quality principle” was essential in the biggest joint project I have conducted with Markus. It was teaming up for running the editorial office of the European Accounting Review in 2000-2005 – Markus first as an Assistant Editor and soon an Associate Editor, splendidly supporting me as the Editor. There are no words to indicate how thankful I am for the highly professional scholarly and administrative support that Markus offered me during those hectic years, during which we so intensively worked for developing the journal towards being a more and more respected outlet for serious scholarly publications in accounting. We shared the same vision of making the journal globally known as the paradigmatically, methodologically and theoretically open-minded accounting journal. Our joint efforts also paid off: European Accounting Review has been an ISI indexed journal now for more than ten years and it is ranked at level 3 in the ABS ranking (and Jufo 2 in Finland). That said, journal and university rankings and league tables have never been the major driving force for Markus. Yet he knows we are in the world with others, so we cannot entirely omit rankings and that sort of things. But Markus is consistent in not allowing the “tail wag the dog” even in these times of publish or perish. He has systematically resisted the lures of letting the measures and proxies of academic performance take the primary role in academic work. Good scholarship is a central value for Markus, always over and above just looking great in terms of performance indicators. It adds to the picture of many-sidedness of Markus that, in addition to being an Accounting Professor, he has also held a position as a Professor of Information Systems Science at TSE for some time. In fact, Markus is certainly one of the leading management accounting and information systems scholars in the world. Despite his being the Dean, he is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. Along this line of thought, Markus has always been an extremely international scholar. He has, for instance, visited Copenhagen Business School and University of Technology Sydney for longer periods. He has collaborated with many scholars both nationally and internationally. The works in this volume, which are prepared in the huge appreciation of Markus Granlund celebrating his 50th birthday, nicely echo the many-sidedness of the person they are written for. They form a collection of several kinds of texts: scholarly pieces, personal recollections and poems. All these works are clearly conducted with warm thoughts on Markus, a chap of great wit and charm. I wish to express my sincere thanks to all contributors to this volume, feeling assured that Markus will pretty curiously take a look at these works that are written for him with caring collegial and friendly appreciation. Special thanks are devoted to Karolina Laine, who has greatly helped me in the editorial work for this book

The birth and development of clinical physiology in Finland

The specialty of clinical physiology was established in Finland about 20 years later than in Sweden. In the early 1960s, six physicians working mainly in preclinical departments of physiology were certified as specialists in clinical physiology. Many of the first specialists working in hospitals received specialist training in Sweden. The first hospital laboratories of clinical physiology were established in Tampere Central Hospital and Turku University Hospital in 1968. Thereafter, laboratories of clinical physiology were also established in Helsinki University Hospital and in Kuopio University Hospital and later also in most central hospitals. After clinical physiology laboratories were set up in hospitals and the number of specialists increased, the specialty gradually had more impact in clinical work. In the 1999 reform, nuclear medicine, which had previously been a subspecialty, was combined with clinical physiology. Arto Uusitalo was nominated the first professor of clinical physiology in Tampere University in 1984. The first professor in Helsinki University was Anssi Sovijarvi (1994), in Kuopio University Esko Lansimies (1998), and in Turku University Jaakko Hartiala (2003). Today, at four universities professors of clinical physiology and nuclear medicine lead research and medical education in this specialty. The hospital laboratories have modern equipment, which promotes multidisciplinary research with clinicians in fruitful collaboration. The Finnish Society of Clinical Physiology was founded in 1975. Today, it has about 160 members, about half of whom are specialists in the field. On its 40th anniversary, the Society decided to publish the history of clinical physiology in Finland.Peer reviewe

Smelling Machine History Olfactory Experiences of Information Technology

This article analyses users' olfactory recollections of computers, based on large-scale, online inquiry material collected between 2002 and 2003 and in 2013. It discusses how olfactory experiences and recollections can be classified based on narration and the causes of odors. Furthermore, it explores the changes of olfactory recollections over the course of ten years, and deals with age and gender in these recollections and in their representations. This project develops new paths and possibilities for studying the cultural history of technology and the collection of research material, as well as the exhibition of the history of computing by examining the historical, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of sensations and senses