Multimediakeskus kotiin : digi-tv ja teräväpiirto

Päättötyössä perehdytään teräväpiirtoon, digi-tv:hen ja uuteen DVB-T2 tekniikkaan. Perehdytään saatavilla oleviin multimedialaitteisiin, niiden ominaisuuksiin ja tärkeimpiin tekniikkoihin kuten DLNA ja UPnP. Päättötyössä käytävät multimedialaitteita ovat: digisovitin, NAS-palvelin, multimediasoittimet, VDR, HTPC, pelikonsolit PlayStation 3 ja Xbox 360. Valitaan sopiva multimediakeskus kotikäyttöön, jonka tehtävänä on suorittaa mahdollisimman monta asiaa, kuten esimerkiksi toistaa tv-lähetyksiä ja tallentaa näitä sekä toistaa: kuvia, musiikkia ja videoita parhaalla mahdollisella laadulla. Multimediakeskuksen tiedostot olisivat kaikkien muiden laitteiden saatavilla verkossa.The thesis concentrates on high definition, digi-TV and recent DVB-T2 technology. The reader is familiarized with available multimedia devices, their qualities and primary methods such as DLNA and UPnP. The multimedia devices used in the thesis were: digibox, NAS-server, multimedia players, VDR, HTPC, video game consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A multimedia center for domestic use was chosen, being aimed for a maximum number of applications, e.g. to play and record TV broadcasts and to replay pictures, music and videos with the optimal quality. Files of the multimedia center would be available for other devices via the Internet

REST-pohjaisen web-rajapinnan kuvaaminen - Case Tax Treatment Service

Tämä toiminnallinen opinnäytetyö perustuu Profit Software Oy:n toimeksiantoon kuvata REST-arkkitehtuuriin perustuva web-rajapinta. Casena toimi Tax Treatment Service, joka on Profit Softwaren kehittämä vakuutustuotteen edunsaajan verokohtelupalvelu. Työssä määritellään Tax Treatment Servicen RESTiin pohjautuva web-rajapinta ja resurssit. REST on HTTP-protokollaan pohjautuva erilaisista rajoitteista muodostuva arkkitehtuurimalli. Opinnäytetyössä määritellään web service –teknologioita ja esitetään HTTP:n käyttämistä REST-rajapintojen kuvauksessa. Tax Treatment Service on teknologia- ja ohjelmistokieliriippumaton. Lisäksi se on itsenäinen palvelu, joka on helposti liitettävissä mihin tahansa toiseen ohjelmistoon. Tax Treatment Ser-vice tässä muodossa on tarkoitettu Profit Softwaren sisäiseen käyttöön, mutta on helposti muunnettavissa kaupalliseksi palveluksi.This functional thesis is based on Profit Software Ltd's commission to describe web interface based on the REST architecture. As a case there is a service named Tax Treatment Service, which defines the tax treatment of an insurance beneficiary. The Tax Treatment Service is developed by Profit Software. This work defines the REST based web interface and resources of Tax Treatment Service. REST is an architectural pattern consisting of various constraints based on the HTTP protocol. The thesis defines web service technologies and describes HTTP protocol as part of the REST interface description. The Tax Treatment Service is independent of technology and software language. In addition, it is an independent service that is easily connected to any other software. The Tax Treatment Service in this form is intended to Profit Software for the company`s internal use, but the Tax Treatment Service is easily convertible into commercial service

Adaptation of loanwords of the suffix type *-eTA in Finnish and Saami

This article concerns loanwords that have been adapted to the adjective suffix type *-eTA in Finnish (-eA) and North Saami (-at). The questions to answer are: From which languages the loanwords have been borrowed and adapted to this adjective type? Which processes have been used to adapt loanwords to the suffix type *-eTA? Can we say something about the productivity of a suffix by studying the loanwords it has adapted? According to the data, the loanwords have been gained especially from Germanic and Scandinavian languages. Also, the North Saami and Finnish do not have common loanwords. They have borrowed words from same source but separately, i. e. they cannot be reconstructed to common Finno-Saamic form. However, both languages have used the same methods in adapting loanwords to the suffix type *-eTA. Both Finnish and North Saami has also young loanwords in suffix type *-eTA which indicates that the suffix has been productive enough to adapt loanwords perhaps longer than thought. It is likely that the Finnish -eA adjectives would be even now adapted to -at in North Saami

The terms for black and white and their development in the Uralic languages

This article deals with the colour terms for black and white in the Uralic languages, concentrating on their semantic development. Berlin and Kay (1969) suggest that all languages should have at least two basic colour terms: 'black' and 'white'.  In the Uralic languages there is more than one old term for white, but the terms for black are rather young and etymologically unclear. The reason for this may lie in affect. In the Uralic data words denoting 'dirty' or 'unclear' may develop into a term for black. However, the denotation 'dark (of light)' does not seem to develop into a term for black. The old terms for white have the denotations 'bright' and 'pure, clean', but these denotations do not overlap without the denotation 'white'

Identification of the monetary policy shock under the effective lower bound

Monetary policy plays a key role in steering the economy through business cycles fluctuations. Because of this, it is important to be able to estimate the consequences of a surprising or discretionary change in the monetary policy. These are changes in monetary policy that cannot be attributed to changes in the economic environment. However, in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, the emergence of low, zero or even negative interests as well as the unconventional monetary policy measures implemented during that era have made the old methods insufficient. This thesis provides an overview of both the old insufficient structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models as well as two new models by Mavroeidis (2021). These two models, kinked and censored vector autoregression, offer possible solutions to the challenges posed by the effective lower bound (ELB) in the interest rates as well as a method for incorporating unconventional monetary policy measures into the model without changing, for example, the identification scheme. These approaches are compared and applied to euro area data in a simple New Keynesian three-variable model of the economy. The standard and kinked SVAR models suggest that monetary policy is not effective at steering the economy, whereas the censored SVAR suggests the opposite. Furthermore, while the censored model has certain attractive features over the kinked model, the empirical results lead to anomalies, which makes these results less clear. Overall, more research is needed and the conventional wisdom may not provide us with the answers we seek.Rahapolitiikalla on keskeinen rooli suhdannepolitiikassa. Tämän takia on tärkeää, että voidaan arvioida yllättävien tai harkinnanvaraisten rahapolitiikkapäätösten seurauksia. Nämä ovat siis päätöksiä, jotka eivät ole seurauksia taloudellisen ympäristön muutoksista. Vuosien 2007–2009 suuren taantuman myötä useissa teollistuneissa maissa kuitenkin saavutettiin ennätyksellisen matalia ja jopa negatiivisia korkoja. Samaisissa maissa alettiin myös käyttämään epäkonventionaalista rahapolitiikkaa, ja nämä faktat ovat tehneet vanhoista analysointimenetelmistä riittämättömiä. Tämä tutkielma tarjoaa katsauksen sekä vanhaan riittämättömään rakenteelliseen vektoriautoregressioon (engl. Structural vector autoregression, SVAR) että kahteen uuteen Mavroeidiksen (2021) kehittämään malliin. Nämä mallit, mutkistunut (engl. kinked) ja sensuroitu (engl. censored) vektoriautoregressio, tarjoavat mahdolliset keinot ratkaista nollakorkorajoitteen (engl. effective lower bound, ELB) tuomat haasteet ja sisällyttää epäkonventionaalisen rahapolitiikan mahdollisuuden malliin ilman, että esimerkiksi identifikaatio strategiaa tarvitsee muuttaa. Näitä eri menetelmiä verrataan ja sovelletaan euroalueen aineistoon yksinkertaisesssa uusikeynesiläisessä kolmen muuttujan mallissa. Konventionaalinen ja mutkistunut SVAR-malli viittaavat siihen, ettei rahapolitiikalla ole juuri kykyä vaikuttaa talouden kehityksen, kun taas sensuroidulla SVAR-mallilla tulokset ovat päinvastaiset. Edelleen, vaikka sensuroidulla mallilla on muihin malleihin verratessa puoleensavetäviä ominaisuuksia, empiriassa se tuottaa anomalioita, mikä tekee tuloksista kyseenalaiset. Kokonaisuudessaan lisää tutkimustyötä tarvitaan eivätkä vanhat opit välttämättä ole enää toimivia

Venture capital vs. equity crowdfunding in Finnish entrepreneurial ventures - the strategic reasons behind the choice of funding and the impact on company growth and international expansion

Entrepreneurial ventures are the key drivers of innovation, job creation and economic growth worldwide. These entrepreneurial ventures however require external assistance to be able to compete against bigger players in the global market. It has been recognized that the main issue in hindering growth of these entrepreneurial ventures relates to the lack of financial resources and also partly the lack of knowledge and expertise of global markets. Due to the shortages in available capital, alternative forms of financing have emerged in addition to the more traditional venture capital. One of these emerging forms of financing is called equity crowdfunding, which is essentially collecting monetary investments from a large pool of people through an online platform. With relation to the often highlighted resource shortages hindering the growth of entrepreneurial ventures, the objective of this study was to investigate the differences between venture capital and equity crowdfunding in the context of Finnish entrepreneurial ventures. In more detail, this research examines the strategic reasons that companies have on choosing their funding instruments and how this choice affects the company’s growth and internationalization in the subsequent years. The empirical part of this study has been conducted as a multiple case study with six entrepreneurial ventures all operating in the technology sector. In addition the empirical part of this study also utilizes three industry expert opinions in order to provide a more in-depth data collection process. Research data was collected through nine semi-structured thematic interviews, with six interviews with the entrepreneurs of the chosen case companies and three external industry experts, who represented the views and opinions of the venture capital and equity crowdfunding industries. The findings of this study demonstrate that Finnish entrepreneurial ventures primarily prefer venture capital as their financing instrument. The entrepreneurs perceive that venture capital aids them in their growth and international expansion through the connections and experience of the venture capitalist, while also future funding and exit opportunities were seen as major strategic reasons to choose venture capital. Equity crowdfunding on the other hand was primarily seen as a complicated financing instrument, which is still suffering from the previous legal restrictions, which prevented companies from utilizing online crowdfunding to the fullest potential. Strategic factors related to equity crowdfunding were focused on the additional visibility and market traction it creates, while also on the flexibility in terms of governance. Finally this study finds that both of these funding instruments can be seen to aid companies in growth and international expansion through the non-monetary assets they provide, however venture capital was found to provide even better foundations for this growth

Physical activity counseling in primary health care: factors influencing the physical activity counseling and promotion of the physical education programs in medical schools

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