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Automatic Image Annotation Using Transfer Learning on Convolutional Neural Networks
(Åbo Akademi, 2018)Categorizing images in order to create image tags for easy searching is often a manual, and thus time-consuming, process. By utilizing a convolutional neural network to perform image classification, one can automate this ... -
Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart? : Examining Second-Generation Sweden-Finnishness
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An entrepreneur’s external social capital, innovation capability, and fundamental resources in their startup community: An analysis of Finnish startups in the knowledge-intensive sector
(Åbo Akademi, 2018)Providing various social and economic benefits at national and global levels, entrepreneurship becomes a prominent topic in various aspects of academic research. According to resource-based view and knowledge-based view, ... -
Book review. The artist through a glass darkly
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Anna Laestadius Larsson's Hilma. En roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint (Stockholm, Piratförlaget, 2017). -
Book review. A deconstructed guru
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Tobias Churton's Deconstructioning Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician (Rochester, Inner Traditions, 2017). Gurdjieff, Western Esotericism, Guru, Tobias Churton, Deconstructionism, Steven Sutcliffe -
Book review. At the borders of knowledge
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Egil Asprem's The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900–1939 (Brill 2014). -
Book review. Esotericism throughout the centuries
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Review of Wouter J. Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge University, 2012). -
Esotericism in reverse
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Western esotericism appears to be a field most precarious in terms of positioning. This article will highlight the divide between ‘critics’ and ‘religionists’ from a pre-Enlightenment position by discussing René Descartes’ ... -
A relation of Swedenborgianism and anthroposophy
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)My article discusses the influence of Emanuel- Swedenborg on a Finnish female author, Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) through one of Bergroth’s novels Eläviä ja kuolleita (‘The Living and the Dead’, 1945). Bergroth was a ... -
Putting the spiritual into practice
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)The aim of this article is to examine how Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical ideas were reflected and put into practice in the lives of the Finnish couple Olly (Olga) Donner (1881–1956, neé Sinebrychoff) and Uno Donner ... -
The Symbolist aesthetic and the impact of occult and esoteric ideologies on modern art
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)Within the past couple of decades, art-historical scholarship has developed a more acute awareness of the need to reassess and re-evaluate its dominant narratives. It has become apparent that the value judgements that have ... -
Catalytic transformation of algae, tall-oil fatty acids and triglycerides to renewable fuels and chemicals
(Åbo Akademi University, 2018-06-18/2018)It has become increasingly obvious that sustainable energy is becoming more engaging owing to the eventual depletion of the world reserves of fossil resources of energy and to the increase of the greenhouse gas emissions. ... -
Vera Hjelt and the calling of theosophical universal work, 1894–1904
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)This article discusses the theosophy of Vera Hjelt (1857–1947), who was inspired by Annie Besant. Hjelt led an active life as a schoolteacher, factory owner, writer, occupational safety inspector and member of parliament. ... -
Backsourcing i finländska kommuner : En kartläggande studie om orsaker till att finländska kommuner tar tillbaka utlagda tjänster
(Åbo Akademi, 2018)Fenomenet outsourcing, som innebär att en organisation lägger ut en tjänst till en tredje part, har blivit ett allt vanligare förfaringssätt för organisationer i världen. Outsourcing tar sig i praktiken uttryck genom ... -
'The one and only true and salvational faith'
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)In the 1880s, the religious life in Finland was in the midst of a turbulent period which, for some, presented a threat to traditional moral values and social cohesion while for others it was the beginning of a new, more ... -
Editorial. The history of modern Western esotericism
(The Donner Institute, 21.04.2018)The study of Western esoteric traditions and practices has been a growing research field since the 1990s. This thematic issue aims at opening this field particularly in the context of Finnish cultural history, although the ... -
Book review. Finding beauty, goodness and truth in an ugly world
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of Kimberly Vrudny's Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation (Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press, 2016). -
Book review. Agency in image production
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery, eds. Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel and Birgit Schneider (The University of Chicago Press in associ-ation with the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, 2015). -
Book review. Thermodynamics and theology
(The Donner Institute, 04.12.2017)Review of Helge S. Kragh's Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (London and New York, Routledge, 2016) (first published in 2008 by Ashgate). -
Book review. The sublime
(04.12.2017)Review of Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science, eds. Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd Whyte (New York, Oxford University Press, 2011).
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