Verkkokauppapalveluiden vertailu ja valinta Case Sapira Oy

Opinnäytetyö tehtiin toimeksiantona kauhavalaiselle sisustus- ja lahjatarvikkeita myyvälle yritykselle Sapira Oy:lle. Työn tavoitteena oli selvittää, mikä verkkokauppapalveluista olisi yritykselle sopivin ja vastaisi sen tarpeita verkkokauppaa perustettaessa. Työssä vertailtiin kolmea Suomen johtavaa verkkokauppapalvelua. Verkkokaupan tarjoamia palveluita ja ominaisuuksia vertailtiin. Vertailu ja analysointi perustuivat kohdeyrityksen omistajalle tehtyyn haastatteluun, jossa selvitettiin yrityksen vaatimuksia ja tarpeita verkkokaupan perustamiselle. Valitut verkkokauppapalvelut olivat Finqu, MyCashflow ja Vilkas. Opinnäytetyön teoriaosuuden alussa avataan, mitä verkkokauppa itsessään tarkoittaa, nostetaan esiin sen etuja ja haittoja sekä tutkitaan tilastotietoa suomalaisten käyttäytymistä verkko ostoksia tehtäessä. Toisessa teoriaosuudessa käydään läpi verkkokaupan markkinointia kahden eri markkinointikokonaisuuden avulla. Viimeisessä teoriaosuudessa esitellään työhön valitut verkkokauppapalvelut. Opinnäytetyön tutkimuksessa käytetään laadullista (kvalitatiivista) tutkimusmenetelmää. Laadullisen menetelmän lisäksi myös määrällistä (kvantitatiivista) tutkimusmenetelmää käytettiin hyödyksi, koska sen avulla saatiin koko tutkimukselle monipuolisempaa näkemystä. Tässä tutkimuksessa kohdeyritykselle sopivimmaksi verkkokauppapalveluksi valikoitui Finqu. Vilkas verkkokauppapalvelu tarjosi hyvän vaihtoehdon, mutta tässä tutkimuksessa ratkaiseva eron tekivät toimeksiantajayrityksen kriteerit ja vaatimukset. Niihin kaikkiin Finqu Oy:n Finqu verkkokauppapalvelu vastasi parhaiten.The thesis was done for the interior decoration company Sapira Oy. The target was to find out which web shop service is more suitable for the company. In the thesis three different solutions Finnish web shop services were compared and the services and qualities offered were analyzed. The analyses and comparisons were based on interviewing the owner of the company. The target of the interview was to find out the demands of the company and the need for establishing a web shop. The selected web shop services were Finqu, MyCashflow and Vilkas. The beginning of the theoretical study examines what a web shop is and what the advances and disadvantages of a web shop are. Also, statistical information of the shopping behavior of Finnish consumers was collected. Second, the theory examines web shop marketing by means of the two different marketing entities. The last section presented the selected web shop service. The qualitative method of study was used in this thesis. Also, the quantitative method was used to gain a more versatile outlook on the research topic. After the study, the best web solution was found to be Finqu, the second best was Vilkas. Based on the case company’s criteria and demands the best solutions for them was Finqu

What do experts and stakeholders think about chemical risks and uncertainties? – An Internet survey

This report presents results from a web-based explorative survey on integrated risk assessment. The survey was conducted in the EU-funded project NoMiracle (Novel Methods for Risk Assessment of Cumulative Stressors in Europe) which develops methods for assessing cumulative risks from combined exposures to multiple stressors. The objectives of the survey were to give a general picture of perceptions and views among experts and stakeholders concerning risks, risk assessment and risk management. The survey focused on chemicals with an emphasis on information related to complex risks and uncertainties in a management context. The methodology of the survey combined traditional multiple choice questions and a novel approach that charted the importance of different types of information in two-dimensional graphs describing simultaneously use in regulatory procedures and public discussion. Another part was linked to new methods of presenting risks and explored the ranking of separate and cumulative risks in map grids. The survey was e-mailed to 952 recipients representing researchers, national and EU level administrators, enterprises, NGOs and international organizations, and most EU member states and some other countries. The response rate (26 %) can be considered acceptable but limits the possibilities to make quantitative claims concerning the views held by different groups although it gives an overview of the types of views one encounter among experts. A key finding was the pronounced variability of concepts and views regarding risks and uncertainties, and regarding information and knowledge about these. Opinions on risks and risk assessment, particularly on integrated risk assessment, on related principles, and on the role of experts are genuinely variable. They cannot be reduced to any simple model, and cannot (and need not) be dispelled in a forced manner. The observations should be taken into account in the development and application of novel methods for risk assessment by ensuring the transparency of the methods and by communication between actors

Inclusive J/psi production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s=5.02 TeV

Inclusive J/psi production is studied in minimum-bias proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 5.02 TeV by ALICE at the CERN LHC. The measurement is performed at mid-rapidity (vertical bar y vertical bar and are extracted and compared with results obtained at other collision energies.Peer reviewe

TOTEM Physics

This article discusses the physics programme of the TOTEM experiment at the LHC. A new special beam optics with beta* = 90 m, enabling the measurements of the total cross-section, elastic pp scattering and diffractive phenomena already at early LHC runs, is explained. For this and the various other TOTEM running scenarios, the acceptances of the leading proton detectors and of the forward tracking stations for some physics processes are described.Peer reviewe

Forward-central two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV

Two-particle angular correlations between trigger particles in the forward pseudorapidity range (2.5 2GeV/c. (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B. V.Peer reviewe

Event-shape engineering for inclusive spectra and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-S=2.76 TeV

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Elliptic flow of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76TeV

The elliptic flow, v(2), of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity (2.5 <y <4) is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)= 2.76TeVwith the ALICE detector at the LHC. The scalar product, two- and four-particle Q cumulants and Lee-Yang zeros methods are used. The dependence of the v(2) of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays on the collision centrality, in the range 0-40%, and on transverse momentum, p(T), is studied in the interval 3 <p(T)<10 GeV/c. A positive v(2) is observed with the scalar product and two-particle Q cumulants in semi-central collisions (10-20% and 20-40% centrality classes) for the p(T) interval from 3 to about 5GeV/c with a significance larger than 3 sigma, based on the combination of statistical and systematic uncertainties. The v(2) magnitude tends to decrease towards more central collisions and with increasing pT. It becomes compatible with zero in the interval 6 <p(T)<10 GeV/c. The results are compared to models describing the interaction of heavy quarks and open heavy-flavour hadrons with the high-density medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V.Peer reviewe