Lessons from Remote School and Work : New Vistas for Research on Children’s Well-Being

In autumn 2021, Covid-19 still has effect on our daily living and our possibilities to conduct everyday life practices such as work and studies. Current realities of ‘new normality’, based on remote work and restrictions of social activities, for example, are grounded on the vast changes that occurred when the pandemic began. In this text we take a look back to the period of school closures in Finland, and their effect on families’ daily practices related to children’s well-being and school work. We explore the impacts of remote school to learning opportunities to find ways to utilize the new, good practices of remote school also in the future. At the same time, we emphasize the significance of support from home for children’s school achievement and accordingly, the need to find new ways to study school work more holistically.nonPeerReviewe

Digitaalisten sisältöjen jakelu internetissä : kyselytutkimus

Internetin rooli ihmisten jokapäiväisessä elämässä kasvaa jatkuvasti suuremmaksi. Samalla monet sellaiset tuotteet, jotka perinteisesti on tuotettu ja myyty fyysisessä muodossa, ovat muuttumassa digitaaliseen muotoon. Tämä muutos on tuonut mukanaan uusia tapoja ostaa ja myydä tuotteita. Yleisimpiä digitaalisen sisällön lajeja ovat muun muassa musiikki, elokuvat, televisio-ohjelmat ja tietokonepelit. Opinnäytetyössä käydään läpi miten nämä erilaiset tuotteet ovat siirtyneet digitaaliseen myyntiin, ja mitä etuja ja haittoja muutos on tuonut tullessaan. Digitaaliset tuotteet eivät ole vielä korvanneet fyysisiä tuotteita, mutta ne muodostavat huomattavan osan kokonaismyynnistä. Opinnäytetyön osana toteutettiin kyselytutkimus Seinäjoen ammattikorkeakoulun opiskelijoille, minkä tarkoituksena oli selvittää heidän kokemuksiaan ja käsityksiään digitaalisista tuotteista.The internet is an inseparable part of many people’s daily life. Many products, that have traditionally been produced and sold in a physical form, are currently turning into a digital form. This change has brought in many new possibilities for business, for both customers and service providers alike. Music, movies, television programs and video games are examples of products that have a large presence in the digital world. This thesis described how these products have adapted to digital distribution, and what advantages and disadvantages the change has brought with it. Digital products haven’t replaced their physical counterparts yet, but they constitute a significant part of the overall business. As a part of this thesis, a survey for the students of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences was carried out. The goal was to study their experiences and opinions about digital products

Didaktische Konzeption einer Augmented-Reality-Experimentierumgebung

Ziel des Forschungsprojekts “Erfahrungsbasiertes Lernen durch interaktives Experimentieren in erweiterten Realumgebungen - ELIXIER” ist die Verbesserung experimenteller Praktika in der naturwissenschaftlichen sowie ingenieurstechnischen Bildung. Eine adaptive Mixed-Reality-Experimentierumgebung ermöglicht dazu eine nahtlose Lernbegleitung (Seamless Learning) über alle Phasen des Experimentierzyklus (Orientieren - Vorbereiten - Durchführen - Nachbereiten). Die Integration multimedialer und interaktiver Elemente soll die Experimentiererfahrung erweitern und den experimentellen Kompetenzerwerb verbessern. Der Lernprozess wird durch die Analyse von Handlungen, Experimentzuständen und über die intelligente Vernetzung aller Komponenten in einer webbasierten Infrastrukturlösung im “Seamless Smart Lab (S2L)” unterstützt. Eine virtuelle, tutorielle Assistenz begleitet den Experimentierzyklus und stellt bedarfsgerecht Informationen und weiterführende Hinweise zur Verfügung. In ersten Nutzerstudien wurde das System als nützlich zum Lernen eingestuft und die Funktionen als sinnvoll erachtet

Metsien monimuotoisuuden turvaamisen välilliset vaikutukset Suomen metsäsektoriin ja kansantalouteen

Tieteen tori: Metsäluonnon monimuotoisuus ja suojel

Design of Novel Yagi Aperture Antennas for Indoor TV Reception Using Low Cost Materials

Most commercial Yagi antennas for TV reception are built based on wires. These Yagi wire-antennas are commonly used as outdoor antennas due to their size and weight properties. In this paper, novel light weight Yagi aperture antennas are introduced. Two prototypes had been built by using low cost materials such as aluminum (insects) screen, cylinder can, aluminum foil, and styrofoam. The antennas worked at the TV band and have gains around 9.7 – 13.5 dBi comparable to the outdoor Yagi wire antennas. Due to their lightweight and smaller dimension nature, they were suitable for used as indoor TV antennas. The antennas had also unique property due to the use of Styrofoam. They were portable, easy to construct and deconstruct

n-Rayleigh Distribution in Mobile Computing for Flat-Fading Channel

In wireless communication, the presence of reflectors, obstacles etc, the signal experiences variation in characteristics like amplitude and frequency is known as fading channel [1]. This paper, explain the importance of Rayleigh distributed random variables in mobile computing field. At present time in emerging wireless technology, n-Rayleigh distribution has played an important role. The concept of random process in communication is expansion of cdf and pdf which are mostly used in application of physical science, statistics, and experimental data collection in wireless environment, random modeling and estimation of fading channel