Exploring origin of food as a source of meanings for Finnish consumers: A qualitative comparison of meanings in Swedish, German and French food

The findings show that Finnish consumers attach partly overlapping partly distinct cognitive, affective, and normative meanings to Swedish, German, and French food. Swedish and French foods are perceived healthier than German food. Finnish consumers also think that Swedish and French food is of high quality, safe and pure while in the case of German food consumers were more doubtful

Dissipation-induced squeezing

We present a method for phase and number squeezing in two-mode Bose systems using dissipation. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by considering cold Bose gases trapped in a double-well potential. The extension of our formalism to an optical lattice gives control of the phase boundaries of the steady-state phase diagram, and we discover a new phase characterized by a non-zero condensate fraction and thermal-like particle-number statistics. We also show how to perform amplitude squeezing in a single-mode system using dissipation.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; published in Phys. Rev.

Losses of sediment and phosphorus through subsurface drains in a clayey field in southern Finland

Seasonal and short-term transport of eroded soil (TSS), total phosphorus (total P) and dissolved orthophosphate phosphorus (DP) via tile drains were studied using on-farm monitoring data from a clayey field under cereal cultivation

Orthonormal Compactly Supported Wavelets with Optimal Sobolev Regularity

Numerical optimization is used to construct new orthonormal compactly supported wavelets with Sobolev regularity exponent as high as possible among those mother wavelets with a fixed support length and a fixed number of vanishing moments. The increased regularity is obtained by optimizing the locations of the roots the scaling filter has on the interval (pi/2,\pi). The results improve those obtained by I. Daubechies [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 41 (1988), 909-996], H. Volkmer [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 26 (1995), 1075-1087], and P. G. Lemarie-Rieusset and E. Zahrouni [Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 5 (1998), 92-105].Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure