Conjunto clash : competition and sustainability in 21st-century cultural heritage management

Scholar Dan Margolies has noted the growing presence of music initiatives in the Texas-Mexican conjunto community that conform to the framework of “cultural sustainability,” as defined by ethnomusicologist Jeff Todd Titon (Margolies 2011: 30). Titon’s model “decenters the top-down discourse by cultural heritage experts, and instead … repositions cultural workers collaboratively” (Titon 2009: 703). One program identified by Margolies as culturally sustainable is the Big Squeeze statewide youth accordion contest (Margolies 2015). The Big Squeeze attempts to promote the many accordion traditions of Texas by showcasing talented young performers. In practice, the event conforms to a co-operative mode of cultural heritage management in that it stages auditions throughout the state, often in underserved or rural areas, and collaborates extensively with local musicians, teachers, cultural workers, and business owners. The Big Squeeze has also created professional opportunities for its winners. On the other hand, many issues emerge as a result of the event’s sustainable structure. In the case of conjunto, the element of competition is at constant odds with the music’s resonance as a symbol of working-class solidarity among Mexican-Americans. More broadly, competition can have the effect of discouraging young participants from playing. Other problems arise when attempting to address the needs of multiple music communities through one framework. Ultimately, the lessons from the Big Squeeze build upon Titon’s scholarship by identifying and attempting to create solutions for unforeseen issues presented by culturally sustainable heritage efforts.Musi

Vaasan tiepiirin viitoituksen yleissuunnitelma : valta- kanta- ja seututiet

TIEH 1000234-v-09 Toiminta- ja suunnitelma-asiakirja

Euroscepticism vs. Political Pragmatism: The Finns Party tones down its criticism of the EU. EPIN Commentary No. 19, 26 June 2014

While many Eurosceptic parties in Europe achieved historical successes in this year’s EP elections, Finland’s populist Finns Party was unable to fulfil its own high expectations. With the eurozone crisis at least temporarily subsiding and Finland’s own economy struggling, the party has been unable to find a new electoral trump card. Facing a changed political climate and stiffer competition, the party is currently toning down its criticism of the EU, as indicated by its recent decision to join the British Tories in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group

Comparative quantitative study on learning outcomes of major study groups of an information and communication technology bachelor educational program

Higher Education system reforms, especially Finnish system of Universities of Applied Sciences in 2014 are discussed. The new steering model is based on major legislative changes, output-oriented funding and open information. The governmental steering reform, especially the financial model and the resulting institutional level responses, such as a curriculum reforms are discussed, focusing especially in engineering programs. The paper is motivated by management need to establish objective steering-related performance indicators and to apply them consistently across all educational programs. The close relationship to governmental steering and funding model imply that internally derived indicators can be directly applied. Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) as a case institution is briefly introduced, focusing on engineering education in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and its related programs. The reform forced consolidation of previously separate smaller programs into fewer units of student application. New curriculum ICT students have a common first year before they apply for a Major. A framework of parallel and longitudinal comparisons is introduced and used across Majors in two campuses. The new externally introduced performance criteria are applied internally on ICT Majors using data ex-ante and ex-post of program merger. A comparative performance of the Majors after completion of joint first year is established, focusing on previously omitted Majors for completeness of analysis. Some new research questions resulting from transfer of Majors between campuses and quota setting are discussed. Practical orientation identifies best practices to share or targets needing most attention for improvement. This level of analysis is directly applicable at student group and teaching team level, where corrective actions are possible, when identified. The analysis is quantitative and the nature of the corrective actions are not discussed. Causal relationships and factor analysis are omitted, because campuses, their staff and various pedagogical implementation details contain still too many undetermined factors for our limited data. Such qualitative analysis is left for further research. Further study must, however, be guided by the relevance of the observations

Distal Femoral Focal Deficiency

Distal femoral focal deficiency is an extremely rare type of congenital femoral deficiency that comprises hypoplasia of the distal femur, with a normally developed hip. We represent a unique case of distal femoral hypoplasia and deficiency of knee extensors, childhood follow-up and final treatment with exarticulation, and a comparison with previous literature.Peer reviewe

Röntgenhoitajien oppimisympäristö työelämässä : Jorvin ja Peijaksen röntgenyksiköiden esittelysivut

Projektimme tarkoituksena oli tuottaa esittelysivut Jorvin ja Peijaksen röntgenyksiköistä ja niiden alaisuuteen kuuluvista perusterveydenhuollon yksiköistä Helsingin ja Uudenmaan sairaanhoitopiirin verkkosivuja varten. Jorvin ja Peijaksen röntgenyksiköt tulivat vuoden 2006 alussa osaksi HUS-Röntgen liikelaitosta. Tästä syntyi tarve kerätä myös kyseisistä yksiköistä tiedot verkkoon tulevia esittelysivuja varten. Pyrimme kehittämään esittelysivujen sisältöä edelleen tarkastelemalla HUS-Röntgeniä röntgenhoitaja-opiskelijan oppimisen kannalta työharjoittelupaikkana ja oppimisympäristönä pedagogisesta, pragmaattisesta ja sosiaalisesta näkökulmasta. Työelämässä tapahtuvassa oppimisessa painotimme myös opiskelijan oman sitoutumisen ja motivaation merkitystä. Esittelysivujen tarkoituksena on auttaa röntgenhoitajaopiskelijoita valitsemaan itselleen juuri sillä hetkellä opintoihinsa sopiva harjoittelupaikka. Röntgenyksiköt ovat verkkosivuilla keskenään helposti vertailtavissa. Sivut palvelevat myös työelämää. Röntgenyksiköt saavat oman työympäristönsä esille ja pystyvät kertomaan eri työskentelymahdollisuuksista potentiaalisille tulevaisuuden työntekijöille. Esittelysivujen sisältämien tietojen mahdollisesti muuttuessa ne ovat helposti päivitettävissä keskitetysti ja sähköisesti verkkoa hallinnoivan henkilön kautta. Esittelysivujen merkitys tulee kasvamaan tulevaisuudessa edelleen kehittyvän tietoyhteiskunnan ja opiskelijoiden kasvavan tietotekniikkaosaamisen myötä. Mahdollisesti tulevaisuudessa uusien HUS-Röntgen liikelaitokseen liittyvien röntgenyksiköiden esittelysivujen tuottaminen oppilastyönä luo hyvät edellytykset esittelysivujen edelleen kehittämiseen

A case study on theme-based approach in health technology engineering education : customer oriented software applications

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Degree Programme provides full-time Bachelor-level undergraduate studies. ICT Degree Programme has seven different major options; this paper focuses on Health Technology. In Health Technology, a significant curriculum change in 2014 enabled transition from fragmented curriculum including dozens of courses to a new integrated curriculum built around three 30 ECTS themes. This paper focuses especially on the second theme called Customer Oriented Software Applications. From students’ point of view, the goal of this theme is to get familiar with existing health related ICT solutions and systems, understand business around health technology, recognize social and healthcare operating principles and services, and identify customers and users and their special needs and perspectives. This also acts as a background for health related web application development. Built web application is tested, developed and evaluated with real users utilizing versatile user centred development methods. This paper presents experiences obtained from the first implementation of Customer Oriented Software Applications theme. Student feedback was gathered with two questionnaires, one in the middle of the theme and other at the end of the theme. Questionnaires had qualitative and quantitative parts. Similar questionnaire was implemented in the first theme; this paper evaluates how the theme-based integrated curriculum has progressed in Health Technology major by comparing results between theme 1 and 2. In general, students were satisfied for the implementation, timing and synchronization of the courses, and the amount of work. However there is still room for development. Student feedback and teachers’ observations have been and will be used to develop the content and operating principles of the themes and whole curriculum

Nutrition of Elderly Patients and a Survey of the Factors Connected to It on an Acute Ward,

Tämä opinnäytetyö liittyy Helsingin kaupungin Akuuttisairaalaosaston ja Helsingin ammattikorkeakoulun Stadian tutkimus- ja kehittämishankkeeseen "Kuntoutumista ja selviytymistä edistävän hoitotyön kehittäminen". Opinnäytetyö tehtiin yhteistyössä Helsingin kaupungin terveyskeskuksen Laakson sairaalan osasto 2 kanssa. Opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli kehittää Laakson sairaala osasto 2 ravitsemushoitoa. Tarkoituksena oli kartoittaa potilaan ravitsemushoidon toteutumista osastolla ja laatia kehittämisehdotuksia ravitse-mushoidon toteuttamiseen osastolla. Opinnäytetyön tutkimusmenetelminä käytettiin ruokailun seurantalomaketta ja strukturoitua haastattelulomaketta. Opinnäytetyön ruokailun seurantaan osallistui 10 potilasta, joiden ruokailua hoitajat ha-vainnoivat kahden päivän ajan. Strukturoituun haastatteluun osallistui 18 potilasta, joista nuorin oli 40-vuotias ja vanhin 98-vuotas. Aineisto analysoitiin SPSS for Windows 14.0 -ohjelmalla. Ruokailun seurantalomakkeella arvioituna potilaat söivät viljatuotteita liian vähän ja maitotuotteiden nauttiminen saattaa olla liian vähäistä. Aterioiden annoskoot olivat liian suuria. Haastatteluosuudessa selvisi, että yli puolella potilaista oli alhainen BMI ja kalkki- ja D-vitamiinivalmisteiden käyttö oli vähäistä. Osa potilaista oli sitä mieltä, että ruoka ei ollut riittävän lämmintä ja ateriat olivat suolattomia. Ilta-päiväkahvin tarjoilua huoneisiin ja ruokalistasta tiedottamista ennakkoon toivottiin myös. Kolmanneksella potilaista oli ainakin joskus huono ruokailuasento. Kaikki potilaat olivat omasta mielestään omatoimisia ruokailun suhteen, eikä heillä ollut syömisvaikeuksia. Tulokset osoittavat, että tulevaisuudessa olisi aihetta kiinnittää enemmän huomiota osastohoidossa olevien potilaiden ravitsemukseen liittyviin tekijöihin. Hyvä ravitsemustila parantaa elämänlaatua ja edesauttaa toimintakyvyn säilymistä. Huono ravitsemustila aiheuttaa monilta osin terveydellisiä ongel-mia, pitkittää kuntoutumista ja lisää ikääntyneiden hoidon kustannuksia

Essays In Academic Specialization And Career Incentives

The first chapter studies academic specialization and misallocation of skills in the labor market. I develop a general equilibrium version of the Roy model to study occupations where occupation-specific human capital is obtained through university education and people incur considerable upfront costs to work in a particular occupation. The model embeds a market failure: risk-averse individuals face an incomplete markets problem because they are not able to purchase insurance against adverse occupation-specific shocks. I compare production efficiency and utilitarian welfare in competitive equilibrium to the outcomes of two social planning problems: (i) unconstrained planning problem (ii) ‘constrained efficient’ planning problem. To get quantitative estimates of the importance of academic specialization, I calibrate the model using data on petroleum, chemical and mechanical engineers. The output loss caused by the lack of insurance depends on model parameters and can potentially be very large. The objective of the second chapter is to study career concerns in teams and the possibility of multiple equilibria. I use a information structure where only the joint output of the team, rather than signals for each team member, is observed by the principal. As opposed to the previous literature on the topic, I show the existence of multiple equilibria if either (i) the labor market exhibits increasing returns to perceived talent (ii) there is complementarity in hidden effort. In one equilibrium, both workers exert little effort and have bad career prospects. In the other equilibrium, both workers exert high effort and have good career prospects. I show that linear wage contracts will eliminate the bad equilibrium in case (i) but not in case (ii)