"Ask the Dog about the Cold, Ask the Slave about Early Hours": Contours of slavery in Ovamboland during the late 19th century

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Verkkopalveluiden saavutettavuuden arviointi: automaattisten työkalujen tehokkuus ja käyttö

Digitalisaation myötä ihmisille tärkeät palvelut, kuten pankit, virastot ja työnhakupalvelut ovat siirtyneet verkkoon. Sen vuoksi on varmistettava, että mahdollisimman monella on mahdollisuus käyttää verkkopalveluita tasavertaisesti ja ilman esteitä. Esimerkiksi eri tavalla rajoitteiset henkilöt, kuten näkövammaiset, kuulovammaiset tai ikääntyneet voivat kokea haasteita sekä verkkopalveluiden käytössä että niihin pääsyssä. Tämän takia on tärkeää, että verkkosivut ovat saavutettavia erilaisille käyttäjille. Saavutettavuudella tarkoitetaan sitä, että pyritään vastaamaan eri tavoin rajoitteisten henkilöiden verkkopalveluiden käytön haasteisiin. Suomessa on tullut voimaan vuonna 2019 Euroopan unionin saavutettavuusdirektiiviin pohjautuva digipalvelulaki, jolla on pyritty varmistamaan tietty saavutettavuuden taso. Laki määrittelee, että julkisen sektorin digitaalisten palveluiden on ylitettävä tietty saavutettavuuden vähimmäistaso. Tällöin saavutettavuudella tulisi taata erilaisille kansalaisille mahdollisuus käyttää digitaalisia palveluita, esimerkiksi Kelan verkkopalveluita. Saavutettavuuden merkityksen korostuminen on kannustanut kehittämään työkaluja saavuttavuuden arviointiin. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena on selvittää, kuinka tarkkoja tuloksia saavutettavuuden arviointityökalut antavat sekä millaisia saavutettavuusongelmia ne kykenevät tai eivät kykene tunnistamaan. Tutkielma on muodoltaan kirjallisuuskatsaus, joka on jaettu kahteen osaan. Ensimmäisessä osassa käydään läpi yleisesti saavutettavuuden määritelmä, WCAG 2.0-ohjeistus ja saavutettavuuden arviointikeinot. Toisessa osassa paneudutaan tarkemmin työkaluihin ja niiden antamien tulosten arviointiin. Saavutettavuuden arviointityökalujen antamia tuloksia tutkimalla huomattiin, että työkalut tunnistavat varsin heikosti saavutettavuusongelmia. Ne kuitenkin auttavat verkkopalveluiden kehittäjiä varmistamaan saavutettavuuden vähimmäistason. Jotta tuloksista saadaan mahdollisimman luotettavia, tulisi kehittäjien käyttää vähintään kolmea tai useampaa työkalua arvioinnissa. Tutkimus osoittaa, että ihmisen tekemä arviointi on edelleen välttämätöntä saavutettavuuden varmistamiseksi ja tarkin tulos saadaan usein yhdistelemällä kaikkia saatavilla olevia arviointikeinoja

3D printing as a part of Finnish practical nurse students’ technological acceptance – a qualitative study

3D printing is a solid part of the health care environment, and in the future, it could assume a more innovative role in the work carried out by practical nurses. However, the educational context may not support the preparedness to face and adapt new and creative technologies on the part of practical nursing students. This study aimed to describe practical nursing students’ technological acceptance towards 3D printing before and after six hours of 3D printing instruction. The technological acceptance model was used as a framework of the study. The data was collected using focus group interviews that 14 practical nursing students participated in before and after their six-hour 3D teaching course. Along with the thematic analysis, the interview themes were created in accordance with the theoretical elements concerned. The results showed four narrative themes that described how a six-hour lesson series changed the students’ technological acceptance towards 3D printing, from: 1) professional meaningless to everyday usefulness, 2) resource dominance to a part of working life, 3) special competence to ease of use, and 4) assumptions to limitless possibilities. Every theme consisted of two subthemes. Despite having been a new thing for students, 3D printing could be conceived in terms of having professional significance. The students described 3D printing as being easy to adapt to and they highlighted the meaning of its educational usage, as it could prepare them to be better with respect to applying creative working life-based technological solutions. As a conclusion, it can be stated that even short educational sessions can promote practical nursing students’ technological acceptance towards 3D technology and the know-how to implement it in working life. This requires educational institutions to target resources to 3D printing and on teacher education

Prevalence and diagnostic outcomes of children with duodenal lesions and negative celiac serology

Background: Celiac disease diagnostics begin by measuring autoantibodies, which may fail to identify seronegative patients. Duodenal lesion in the absence of antibodies is scarcely studied, especially in children. Aims: To investigate the prevalence and diagnostic outcomes of children with seronegative duodenal lesion in two countries with different disease profiles. Methods: Medical data, including the results of histology and transglutaminase (tTGab) and endomysium (EmA) antibody measurements were collected from 1172 Finnish and 264 Romanian children with systematic duodenal sampling. Database of 509 Finnish children with celiac disease was examined to identify earlier seronegative patients. Results: Celiac disease was diagnosed in 307 Finnish and 83 Romanian children in the endoscopy cohorts. No seronegative patients were found among 899 celiac disease patients, although some were only tTGab or EmA positive. Non-celiac duodenal lesion was detected in eight Finnish and 32 Romanian children, their most common diagnoses being inflammatory bowel disease and infections, respectively. Six children with morphological lesion received no diagnosis. None of them developed celiac disease during a follow-up of 3-11 years. Conclusion: Pediatric seronegative celiac disease is exceptional in the era of modern autoantibodies. Other reasons for duodenal lesion should therefore be sought, bearing in mind possible differences across countries. (C) 2019 Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana S.r.l. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

ANKRD54 preferentially selects Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) from a Human Src-Homology 3 (SH3) domain library

Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) is a cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinase with a fundamental role in B-lymphocyte development and activation. The nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of BTK is specifically modulated by the Ankyrin Repeat Domain 54 (ANKRD54) protein and the interaction is known to be exclusively SH3-dependent. To identify the spectrum of the ANKRD54 SH3-interactome, we applied phage-display screening of a library containing all the 296 human SH3 domains. The BTK-SH3 domain was the prime interactor. Quantitative western blotting analysis demonstrated the accuracy of the screening procedure. Revealing the spectrum and specificity of ANKRD54-interactome is a critical step toward functional analysis in cells and tissues.Peer reviewe

Engolo and Capoeira. From Ethnic to Diasporic Combat Games in the Southern Atlantic

This article provides a re-examination of the main Afrocentric narrative of capoeira origins, the engolo or ‘Zebra Dance’, in light of historical primary sources and new ethnographic evidence gathered during fieldwork in south-west Angola. By examining engolo’s bodily techniques, its socio-historical context and cultural meanings, the piece emphasises its insertion into a pastoral lifestyle and highlights the relatively narrow ethnic character of the practice in Angola. This analysis and the comparison with capoeira helps us to develop certain hypotheses about the formation, migration, and re-invention of diasporic combat games between southern Angola and coastal Brazil, and more broadly, to increase our understanding of how African cultures spread across the southern Atlantic

Extraktion, analys och visualisering av arbetsplatslokalers nyttjandegrad hos AB Stokab

Arbetet är utfört på AB Stokab. Ett företag som arbetar med fiberförbindelser i Stockholm stad och deras nät är störst i världen med över 1.25 miljoner kilometer av fiberkablar. Företaget har i många år haft ett system som loggar alla accesser som gjorts via en id-bricka som dras vid ingång till ett antal utrymmen i byggnaden. Dessa loggar är väldigt svåra att tyda och innehåller mycket onödig information som en människa knappast kan ta in och tolka. Problemet som skulle lösas var just att hjälpa till att tolka denna information och visa upp detta på ett enkelt sätt för användaren. Syftet med detta är att det också skulle kunna hjälpa till att spara in pengar och förbättra arbetsplatsen genom att visa korrekt information om vilka utrymmen som används. Resultatet var ett program som kunde tyda denna information och utföra enklare analys och statistik över denna data genom att visualisera det för användaren. Det system som skapades kan också hjälpa till ekonomiskt genom att minska slitage på dörrar då det är enkelt att låta en dörr stå upplåst under vissa tider då programmet kan visa om, och i så fall när, det sker mycket trafik igenom den. Förbättring av arbetsplatsen är också möjlig, då det är enkelt att se vilka rum som kan behöva mer, eller mindre, underhåll som i sin tur skulle bidra till en renare och bättre arbetsmiljöThis degree work has been done at AB Stokab, a company that works with fiber optic connections in the city of Stockholm. Their network is the largest in the world with their 1.25 million kilometers of fiber optic cables. The company has for a long time had a system that logs all the accesses made via an id-tag that is swiped when entering a number of spaces in the office building. These logs are very hard to interpret manually, as it contains a lot of unnecessary and redundant data. The problem was that they needed a way to interpret this data and display it in a way that is understandable to a user. The reason was that it could help to improve the work environment for employees as well as save money in the process by simply displaying the correct information in a way that is understandable The result was a program that could interpret this information stored in the log files and run relatively simple analysis and statistics on it so that it could be shown to the user via a simple graphical interface. It could help the company economically by reducing the tear on doors by simply checking the program and see which doors are used to a great extent compared to others. All that is left to do is to leave that door open within a certain time and not have the motors and servos inside the doors take a beating. The work environment could also be improved because it’s easy to see what rooms are being used a lot and have more maintenance done inside these spaces. This would end up creating a cleaner and better environment to work i

Extraktion, analys och visualisering av arbetsplatslokalers nyttjandegrad hos AB Stokab

Arbetet är utfört på AB Stokab. Ett företag som arbetar med fiberförbindelser i Stockholm stad och deras nät är störst i världen med över 1.25 miljoner kilometer av fiberkablar. Företaget har i många år haft ett system som loggar alla accesser som gjorts via en id-bricka som dras vid ingång till ett antal utrymmen i byggnaden. Dessa loggar är väldigt svåra att tyda och innehåller mycket onödig information som en människa knappast kan ta in och tolka. Problemet som skulle lösas var just att hjälpa till att tolka denna information och visa upp detta på ett enkelt sätt för användaren. Syftet med detta är att det också skulle kunna hjälpa till att spara in pengar och förbättra arbetsplatsen genom att visa korrekt information om vilka utrymmen som används. Resultatet var ett program som kunde tyda denna information och utföra enklare analys och statistik över denna data genom att visualisera det för användaren. Det system som skapades kan också hjälpa till ekonomiskt genom att minska slitage på dörrar då det är enkelt att låta en dörr stå upplåst under vissa tider då programmet kan visa om, och i så fall när, det sker mycket trafik igenom den. Förbättring av arbetsplatsen är också möjlig, då det är enkelt att se vilka rum som kan behöva mer, eller mindre, underhåll som i sin tur skulle bidra till en renare och bättre arbetsmiljöThis degree work has been done at AB Stokab, a company that works with fiber optic connections in the city of Stockholm. Their network is the largest in the world with their 1.25 million kilometers of fiber optic cables. The company has for a long time had a system that logs all the accesses made via an id-tag that is swiped when entering a number of spaces in the office building. These logs are very hard to interpret manually, as it contains a lot of unnecessary and redundant data. The problem was that they needed a way to interpret this data and display it in a way that is understandable to a user. The reason was that it could help to improve the work environment for employees as well as save money in the process by simply displaying the correct information in a way that is understandable The result was a program that could interpret this information stored in the log files and run relatively simple analysis and statistics on it so that it could be shown to the user via a simple graphical interface. It could help the company economically by reducing the tear on doors by simply checking the program and see which doors are used to a great extent compared to others. All that is left to do is to leave that door open within a certain time and not have the motors and servos inside the doors take a beating. The work environment could also be improved because it’s easy to see what rooms are being used a lot and have more maintenance done inside these spaces. This would end up creating a cleaner and better environment to work i