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Overcrowding, Sleep Depravation, and Infectious Diseases as Risk Factors for Aggressive and Antisocial behaviour in Nigerian Adolescents
(Åbo Akademi University, 15.10.2021)The studies in the current thesis investigated the relationships between overcrowding, domestic aggression, and antisocial behaviour in adolescents in Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria (Study 1); domestic aggression and negativity ... -
Medical Technology Innovation Ecosystems : Factors influencing the formation of new companies
(Åbo Akademi University, 08.10.2021)This thesis focuses on how the medical technology (MedTech) innovation ecosystems contribute to the formation of start-ups. An innovation ecosystem involves collaboration and the exchange of resources in order to stimulate ... -
Mångvetenskaplig undervisning i klassläraruppdraget : Mellan autonomi och normativitet
(Åbo Akademi University, 24.09.2021)I denna avhandling undersöks mångvetenskaplig undervisning som en del av det finländska klassläraruppdraget. Mångvetenskaplig undervisning är en ansats som vunnit insteg i många länders utbildningsreformer under de senaste ... -
The Effect of Vascular Brain Changes on Cognitive Function in Normal Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(Åbo Akademi University, 17.09.2021)Aging is associated with an increased risk for developing vascular pathology in cerebral white matter (WM). These brain changes can have a variety of cognitive repercussions, ranging from insignificant to mild cognitive ... -
Development of Academic Well-Being during Secondary Education : Relations to Performance, Motivational Beliefs, and Aspirations
(Åbo Akademi University, 17.09.2021)The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the developmental dynamics between academic well-being (school engagement and burnout), academic performance (mathematics and reading tests), and motivational beliefs ... -
Direct Democracy and Policies : Mapping Out Practices and Success Factors
(Åbo Akademi University, 02.07.2021)There is an increased interest in democratic innovations as a way to foster citizens’ direct participation in the decision-making process and counteract the ‘democratic malaise’. Governments around the globe have adopted ... -
Public Libraries Meet Big Data : Roles, Comprehension and Practical Applications
(Åbo Akademi University, 18.06.2021)The world is witnessing the advent of Big Data. Meanwhile, the development of technology accelerates the spread of Big Data. As such, organizations have started to realize that Big Data can be important resource owing to ... -
Physical Punishment, Acceptance of Violence, Tolerance of Diversity, and School Burnout : A Comparative Study of Three Educational Systems in Pakistan
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2021)Aims: The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate attitudes towards different forms of aggression, school burnout, and psychological concomitants among students from three different school systems in Pakistan; namely ... -
Early Numeracy Development : Identifying and Supporting Children at Risk for Mathematical Learning Difficulties
(Åbo Akademi University, 07.05.2021)Early numeracy skills are important for later mathematical learning. Already in kindergarten and the early school years there are large individual differences in children’s early numeracy skills. Early identification and ... -
Lärare som aktörer i praktiker för pedagogiskt utvecklingsarbete
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 16.04.2021)The dissertation is based on the ambition and the need to develop the pedagogical development work at a given university of applied science (UAS). The experience-based assumption that there are untapped resources in the ... -
Gambling in Stock Markets : Empirical Evidence from a Few Important Markets
(Åbo Akademi University, 09.04.2021)This thesis is mostly related to the speculative investment nature of market participants of a few stock markets over the world. Evidence shows that investors are poorly diversified, and they have a preference for lottery-type ... -
Well-being in the light of being very old : Conceptualizations, associations, and variations
(Åbo Akademi University, 09.04.2021)Well-being has been increasingly acknowledged as an important measure of societal progress, as well as within paradigms such as successful, active, and healthy aging. Nevertheless, research focusing on well-being in very ... -
Decentering Care for Mothers : The Politics of Midwifery and the Design of Finnish Maternity Services
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Is it not just common sense to do the right thing? : On corporate (mis)conduct, corporate governance and management control in a Nordic context
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 19.02.2021)In the wake of a corporate scandal, stakeholders question how the misconduct, such as payment of bribes, enabling money laundering and management fraud, was possible. The organisations, their directors, managers and auditors, ... -
Staying Afloat : Studies on the subjective wellbeing and coping strategies of families with children in Finland
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 29.01.2021)Finland has become known for its generous and comprehensive family policy. However, during the 2010s, the economic recession created worry and insecurity amongst a number of families with children; in times of recessions, ... -
Dancing/Reading/Writing : Performative Potentials of Intra-Active Teaching Pedagogies Expanding Literacy Education
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 11.12.2020)This thesis contributes to the fields of creative dance and literacy education by developing teaching pedagogies that integrate creative dance into students’ reading and writing processes and by exploring what is produced ... -
FICSA : The Finnish Investigative Instrument of Child Sexual Abuse : Machine Learning Applied to Criminal Investigations
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Utredningar av misstänkta sexuella uttnyttjanden av barn (SUB) är krävande. Medan förekomsten av SUB minskat över de senaste åren så har antalet anmälningar ökat. Ofrånkomligen är en del av anmälningarna ogrundade vilket ... -
Finnish mathematics curriculum materials and teachers´ interaction with them in two cultural-educational contexts
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Previous research has shown that teachers are central actors in teaching, but the great importance of the use of curriculum materials for teachers has also been highlighted. However, much of the research on curriculum ... -
Lärarlegitimation som facklig professionsstrategi : En analys av den svenska legitimationsreformen som argument för lärares (re)professionalisering
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 25.09.2020)Avhandlingens syfte är studera läraryrkets professionalisering i Sverige genom att särskilt undersöka hur de fackliga organisationerna, Lärarnas Riksförbund och Lärarförbundet, argumenterat för införande av lärar-legitimation. ... -
Shaking Hands with the Past : Origins of the Political Right in Central Europe
Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium : 50 (The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1996)