Seiväsmatkat ja vodkaturistit : tarkastelun kohteena 1960- ja 1970-luvun matkakertomukset

Tutkimus käsittelee suomalaisia matkakertomuksia 1960-ja 1970-luvuilta. Tarkastelu sijoittuu suomalaisen massamatkailun ekspansion vuosikymmenille, jolloin ulkomaanmatkailusta lähes kaikille mahdollinen vapaa-ajan vieton ja kulutuksen kohde. Matkailu arkipäiväistyi ja menetti elitistin maineensa. Massojen matkailusta syntyi samalla suomalaiseen matkailuhistoriaan käsitteitä, kun Kalevi Keinänen lennätti turisteja "seivästelemään" etelän lomakohteisiin. Neuvostoliittoon, erityisesti Leningradiin, suuntautuneet edulliset kaupunkimatkat synnyttivät puolestaan käsitteen "vodkaturistista", joka laittomalla kaupustelulla ja reippaalla alkoholinkäytöllään aiheutti keskustelua. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, mitä turistit lähtivät hakemaan kohteesta, sekä konstruoida tyypillinen turisti ja tyypillinen suomalainen matkakertomus Espanjaan, Mustanmeren rannikolle ja Neuvostoliittoon suuntautuneista lomamatkoista. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytetään kertomusanalyysia, jonka avulla pyritään löytämään kohderyhmittäin matkakertomuksista perustapahtumia ja niiden yhdistelmiä. Tapahtumarakenteiden tarkastelun lisäksi tutkimuksessa käytetään apuna Greimasin aktanttimallia kuvamaan kertomuksen toimijoiden vaihtuvia rooleja. Kertomuksissa esiintyy juonirakenteiltaan samanlainen kaava, joka toimii tutkimuksen runkona. Ensin tarkastellaan matkapäätöksen tekemistä ja matkalle lähtöä, sitten turistisen roolin syntyä kohteessa ja matkaa jäsentäviä toimintoja. Lopuksi tarkastelun kohteena on matkan anti, paluu kotiin ja arkirooliin. Turistien roolit ja matkoja jäsentäneet toiminnot ovat lopulta melko samankaltaisia kohteesta riippumatta. Matkustusmotivaatio ja lomalla harjoitetut aktiviteetit luovat käsitystä turistien samankaltaisista ulkoisesti ja sisäisesti orientoituneista tarpeista matkakohteesta huolimatta. Rentoutuminen, nautiskelu, uteliaisuus, jännitys ja pois pääsy arjesta ovat tärkeimpiä motivaation lähteitä. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostuu Museoviraston kansanperinteen keruukilpailun vastauksista, joista 52 matkakertomusta on valittu lähempään tarkasteluun

The nature and experiences of the dyslexia population in higher education : a case study

This research investigated factors influencing the approach of dyslexic higher education students to support in one UK higher education institution. While considering the nature of the population of dyslexic students as a whole, it also looked for potential sub-groups with a view to differentiating support needs and usage. The research considered data for past dyslexic students of the institution, over nearly a decade, in the context of national data (HESA and UCAS) to establish the nature of the population being investigated. A range of measures were completed by current students of the institution, addressing: aspects of experiences of dyslexia; personality; learning mode preferences; and support use, including DSA Needs Assessment recommendations. These findings, in conjunction with WAIS intelligence test indices scores (where available from dyslexia assessments), were statistically analysed where appropriate. The research concluded with interviews of selected participants. The main findings included a trend of late identification of women. Evidence of the impact of dyslexia recognition and support during compulsory schooling was seen in subsequent support use and outcomes. How students attributed outcomes at school was important for self-concept and motivation, although this was not always related to recognition of dyslexia or support. The Perceptual Organisation Index of the WAIS-III test was central to grouping participant cases. Patterns were seen in use of higher education support, relating to age of identification as dyslexic, age when starting the course and gender. The implications include the way Learning Mode preference awareness has a role in developing self-awareness and meta-cognitive skill. Study environment requirements are an area of student needs that would benefit from further investigation. Feedback on Needs Assessment recommendations highlights the need for more training opportunities and better ways to introduce students to assistive technology before recommendations were made. Better understanding of support use patterns has implications for support resource management

Alien Registration- Peterson, Joel Eld (Paris, Oxford County)

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The effects of inversion chair therapy on intraocular pressure and systemic blood pressure

Intraocular pressure (lOP) was recorded before, during, and after the use of an inversion chair by 11 young, healthy, male subjects. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures (BP) were also measured. Subjects were seated on the chair while baseline lOP and BP measurements were taken. The subjects were then rotated 1800 to e head-down (inverted) position. The hips and knees remained flexed and the subjects were supported at the hips by the chair. lOP and BP were measured after the subjects had been inverted for 2 1/2 minutes and again after 5 minutes. Subjects were returned to e sitting position and lOP and BP were recorded after 2 1/2, 5, 7 1/2, and 10 minutes. Subjects remained at rest during the test. Mean upright right eye lOP increased from 12.5 mmHg to 25.1 mmHg end mean upright BP increased from 117.3178.9 to 140.2/106.7 mmHg after 2 1/2 minutes of inversion. Both lOP and BP remained elevated during inversion and returned to near normal values after the subjects were once again placed in the sitting position. Since lOP rose significantly during inversion, use of this chair or other types of inversion devices may be contraindicated for patients with high blood pressure, glaucoma, and ocular hypertension. One subject developed a subconjunctival hemorrhage es a result of the inversion. This indicates that inversion therapy should not be undertaken by persons with vascular changes, such as those which occur in diabetes

Defining a National Web Sphere over time from the Perspectives of Collection Technology and Scholarship

This paper describes a framework supporting definition of how to automatically identify national webpages outside a country’s top level domain. The framework aims at a definition that can be put into operation in order to make automatic detection of national web pages. At the same time the framework aims at a definition that can be reused independent of changed behaviours on the net, changes in jurisdiction and changes in technology. A crucial point in this framework is that the perspectives of collection, technology and Scholarship are present in decision making.The framework origins from a study that aimed at evaluation of different two different strategies for automatic identification of national webpages outside a country’s top level domain; one strategy was based on data from Internet Archives wide_005 world wide webcrawl, and the other was based on a local web crawl based on bulk harvests from the Danish national web archive, Netarkivet. However in both cases a definition of national webpages was needed. Thus the creation of the framework was a prerequisite for the rest of this study.Motivation of the study and framework is based on the fact that human communication activities are moving more and more onto the internet. This means that a lot of present and future research in the 20th century information flow depends on optimised collection and archiving of such information in web archives. Web archives often reside within national cultural heritage institutions, regularly having a collection scope outlined within some form of legal deposit legislation. The challenge to define “national webpages” showed out to be is far from trivial, and in creation of the framework it quickly became obvious that such a definition requires that three important perspectives in order to make qualified decisions. In this paper this definition is based on input from three important fields represented by each of the authors, representing the perspectives of scholarship, the Danish web Archive, and computer science. This represents the perspectives of collection, technology and scholarship, which are all very different but also crucial perspectives when formulating definition of national webpages that is basis for actual collection and thus consequently form a web archive. Besides the non-trivial need for formal, the study also found reason for arguing that it is necessary to repeatedly adjust web collection strategies within a web archive. The conditions for web collection is constantly changing. Even over a five year period we see: change in technology that can assist in collection, change in human behavior moving away from countries top levels domains and out on .com, .org etc., and changes in jurisdiction influencing the way that the web can be collected technology, thus regularly adjustments of what is national web pages may likely be needed. Therefore the presented framework consists of a list of general criteria as basis for adjustment of web collection strategies which can be made operational in a specific context taking into account the three perspectives.<br/

Non-random dispersal in the butterfly Maniola jurtina: implications for metapopulation models

The dispersal patterns of animals are important in metapopulation ecology because they affect the dynamics and survival of populations. Theoretical models assume random dispersal but little is known in practice about the dispersal behaviour of individual animals or the strategy by which dispersers locate distant habitat patches. In the present study, we released individual meadow brown butterflies (Maniola jurtina) in a non-habitat and investigated their ability to return to a suitable habitat. The results provided three reasons for supposing that meadow brown butterflies do not seek habitat by means of random flight. First, when released within the range of their normal dispersal distances, the butterflies orientated towards suitable habitat at a higher rate than expected at random. Second, when released at larger distances from their habitat, they used a non-random, systematic, search strategy in which they flew in loops around the release point and returned periodically to it. Third, butterflies returned to a familiar habitat patch rather than a non-familiar one when given a choice. If dispersers actively orientate towards or search systematically for distant habitat, this may be problematic for existing metapopulation models, including models of the evolution of dispersal rates in metapopulations

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