Technology and Adaptation in Logging

Between 1880 and 1917 there was a dramatic shift in technology with the coming of mechanization. This dramatic process, which started just after the end of the American Civil War, in a Period of Transition (1870-1880) would continue to gain speed with the Period of Rapid Advances (1880-1900) in technology all the way to the start of the First World War with the Rapid Proliferation of Technology (1900-1917) into everyday life. As a result of these shifts loggers, mill owners and their respective associations that represented them and the logging industry as a whole, in the Pacific Northwest, were increasingly able to adapt to an increasingly changing economy and market

Immeasurability loss? : An analysis of the impacts of accountability measures on counselling within VET

Comparative measures of learning outcomes and professional actions are set out to indicate accountability of VET. Individualisation and fragmentation of education emphasise counselling of students as support for their learning. The purpose of the article is to identify how counsellor and teacher practitioners perceive opportunities and challenges in merging their pedagogical and fundamental conventions of their work with structures and frameworks of accountability constituting their practice. Theoretically the study is influenced by socio-cultural perspectives. The analysis follows an abductive approach, reporting on the results from ethnographic observations of guidance counselling (N=29) within VET and subsequent interviews (N=12). We ask how the tension between the immeasurable and measurable contextualises within counselling, and how counselling is construed by counsellors and teachers. The results suggest adherence to quality measures in VET exchanged processes of human interactions and agreements with assumptions of outcomes. The effort of reaching the measures led to failure in achieving the purpose of what the targets are meant to underscore, portraying a disillusion of control. Accountability addressed a critical point concerning responsibility and evoked professional ethical dilemmas for the practitioners. Certain categorised actions of counselling processes were made externally visible by documentation but depleted counselling as learning processes inwards.Peer reviewe

En designbaserad forsknig om handledning som formare av individualisering inom yrkesutbildningen i Finland

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VET and the “Competency-Tetris” : Inclusion of Whom, to What, and Where?

The purpose of the article is to empirically analyse how the idea of inclusion is portrayed within the boundaries of the “Competency-Tetris”: a metaphor that should not be confused with the Tetris® game but used to theoretically capture individualised, competency-based, and managerially governed Vocational Education and Training (VET). We argue that the meaning of social inclusion within and through VET is unclear and vested by the human capital doctrines and the neoliberal assumptions from which it is derived. Whom does inclusion in VET involve, and to what and where does inclusion take place? Employing a design-based research (DBR) approach, we used abductive applications to analyse data produced through participatory ethnographic observations in VET (N=32) of which counselling sessions (n=29), meetings (n=2) and a workshop (n=1) followed with subsequent semi-structured interviews (N=12) with VET counsellor and teacher practitioners. The results identified four abstracted themes: (1) Fitting the workforce auction; (2) Multi-professional support trajectories; (3) Inclusion of qualification measures; and (4) Social and cultural learning commu-nities. Concerning inclusion, the Competency-Tetris materialised as a social divider, providing the self-governing stu-dents a fast-track to the “work-force auction,” separating them from students in need of support in their learning. Be-cause of the “go-forward” engine, equal learning for all students faces a U-turn whilst the economic value accumulated in competency-based qualification measures is accentuated. Albeit obscured, another aspiration starts to take form, requiring inclusion in VET to concern major domains of life, human encounters based on dignity, mutual respect, and social generosity approached as part of, within, and through VET.Peer reviewe

Kyberturvallisuuslaboratorion jäähdytysjärjestelmä

On tutkittu, että konesalien energiankulutuksesta tavallisesti noin 30 - 50 % kuluu konesalin jäähdytykseen. Tämä onkin nykypäivänä yksi suurimmista osa-alueista, jossa energiatehokkuutta voidaan parantaa. Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulun ICT-laboratorion tiloissa sijaitsee uusi kyberturvallisuuslaboratorio, CyberLab. CyberLabin tarkoitus on tulevaisuudessa toimia mahdollisimman realistisena oppimisympäristönä tunkeutumistestausta tai yritysten tietoturvaselvitysten harjoittelemista varten. Tavoitteena vuonna 2015 on myös toteuttaa laajalle yleisölle tarjottavia opetuspelejä. CyberLabiin oli vuoden 2014 aikana rakennettu edistyksellinen jäähdytysjärjestelmä. Tämän työn tarkoituksena oli dokumentoida kyseinen järjestelmä, ja toteuttaa siihen liittyvät kriittiset valvonta- ja hälytysyhteydet. Tarvittavat hälyttimet ja anturit hankittiin Rittal Oy:ltä, joka oli rakentanut CyberLabin jäähdytysratkaisun. Työn alussa on käyty läpi erilaisia konesalien jäähdytysratkaisuja teoriassa, ja sen jälkeen CyberLabin oma jäähdytysjärjestelmä ja sen valvontalaitteet ja niihin sisältyvät anturit ja hälyttimet piirustuksineen. Lopputuloksena CyberLabin jäähdytyksen valvonta oli sillä tasolla, että aktiivilaitteet sekä jäähdytyslaitteet voitiin laittaa käyntiin.Studies show that the cooling makes up approximately 30 to 50 percent of the energy consumption in a data center, thus being one of the major areas where energy efficiency can be improved. Inside the ICT laboratory in KyAMK University of Applied Sciences is the new cybersecurity laboratory, CyberLab. The future purpose of CyberLab is to act as a realistic penetration testing environment and as a training environment for developing information security inspections for corporations. In 2015 the object is to develop educational games for larger audience. An advanced cooling system was installed in CyberLab during 2014. The purpose of this thesis was to document the cooling system, and to build necessary surveillance and alarm systems. The alarms and sensors were acquired from Rittal Ltd, which had built and installed the cooling system inside CyberLab. This thesis begins with the introduction of different kinds of cooling solutions, and the cooling solution of CyberLab, and then the installations of the alarms and sensors inside CyberLab are presented with the electrical drawings. As a result of this study, the surveillance of the cooling system of CyberLab had reached a level where the active devices as well as the cooling system can be put to use

Postural asymmetries, pain, and ability to change position of children with cerebral palsy in sitting and supine: a cross-sectional study

PurposeTo examine any associations between postural asymmetries, postural ability, and pain for children with cerebral palsy in sitting and supine positions.MethodsA cross-sectional study of 2,735 children with cerebral palsy, 0-18 years old, reported into the Swedish CPUP registry. Postural asymmetries, postural ability, the gross motor function classification system levels I–V, sex, age and report of pain were used to determine any relationship between these variables.ResultsOver half the children had postural asymmetries in sitting (n = 1,646; 60.2%) or supine (n = 1,467; 53.6%). These increased with age and as motor function decreased. Children were twice as likely to have pain if they had an asymmetric posture (OR 2.1–2.7), regardless of age, sex and motor function. Children unable to maintain or change position independently were at higher risk for postural asymmetries in both supine (OR 2.6–7.8) and sitting positions (OR 1.5–4.2).ConclusionsAn association was found between having an asymmetric posture and ability to change position in sitting and/or lying; and with pain. The results indicate the need to assess posture and provide interventions to address asymmetric posture and pain.Implications for rehabilitationPostural asymmetries are present in children with cerebral palsy at all levels of gross motor function.Postural asymmetries increase with age and are associated with pain.Assessment of posture should be included in surveillance programs to enable early detection and treatment

The Web Can Be Suitable for Learning

The authors discuss the advantages and difficulties of Web-based online distance learning. Web-based ODL can and does work for most learners when designed with high levels of interactivity and when cost and access issues can be adequately addressed. However, Web-based ODL requires a fundamental paradigm shift in how we define concepts like education and the classroom