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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"Finnish"”.
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The structure of Finnish shamanic therapy
… of the traditional shamanic therapy in the rural Finnish society of the past one hundred years. The emphasis is on the organization of the most salient dimensions of the shaman-client interaction and their causal antecedents.</p><p>As a secondary objective, an evaluation is made of the utility of …
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Finnish media discourses on Calais, France 2016
… migrants and refugees in Calais, France in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The topic is related to wider socio-political events that took place especially during the years of 2015 and 2016, when more refugees arrived in Europe than usual especially due to unrest in countries outside of …
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Modern Finnish choral music and Joonas Kokkonen's "Requiem"
… that is virtually unknown in North America--Finnish choral music. Because the arts reflect the cultures in which they are created, Chapter One will present an overview of Finland's history which is an important source of insight into the Finnish personality. Also, the first chapter will …
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Finnish comprehensive vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes
… this study was to describe relationships between Finnish comprehensive vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes and selected personal and professional variables, and to analyze to what extent these variables separately and in combination explained the variance of sex-role attitudes. The …
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Invenitive-locational constructions in Finnish: a mixed methods approach
Erinevates keeltes on erinevaid viise väljendada, kuidas asjad paiknevad ruumis. Sellised erinevad grammatilised strateegiad sõltuvad näiteks sellest, kas räägime kividest, puudest, loomadest või inimestest, kas need on olemas konkreetses või abstraktses kohas, aga ka sellest, kas paiknev asi …
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Creating large semantic lexical resources for the Finnish language
Finnish belongs into the Finno-Ugric language family, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the people living in Finland. The motivation for this thesis is to contribute to the development of a semantic tagger for Finnish. This tool is a parallel of the English Semantic Tagger which has been …
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Exploring Finnish degree students' attitudes toward English as a lingua
The current study is an exploration of native Finnish-speaking Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students’ attitudes toward English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF). The author of this thesis, like many ELF scholars, harbors serious concerns about the issues of language attitudes and prestige …
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Speaking of pragmatics: Addressing discourse in Finnish and Japanese syntax
… can be found here. The comparison focuses on Finnish and Japanese, chosen as they are genetically and geographically unrelated, yet typologically similar in manifesting a great degree of discourse-sensitivity. I argue that to wholly understand a variety of discourse-related phenomena – …
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Sentiment Analysis with Language Models on Finnish Workplace Well-Being Surveys
… evaluating the use of language models on the Finnish sentiment analysis task. Additionally, we evaluated the feasibility of implementing these methods based on their operating costs and the time it took to create classifications. We found that the traditional machine learning trained on …
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Finnish EFL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Using Computer-assisted Language Learning Tools
… The aim of this study is to investigate Finnish EFL teachers’ attitudes and perceptions towards using CALL tools in their classrooms. First, the study presents an overview of the CALL tools that the teachers use in their EFL instruction. Then, it explores the teachers’ reasons behind …
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The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Speakers of Finnish
… complementation by adult native speakers of Finnish. A written test consisting of six production tasks and a small comprehension section was administered to forty-three Finnish students studying English at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. The production tasks covered nineteen aspects of …
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Using the Finnish Response to Immigrants in Schools in the American System
… raged for years about the transposability of the Finnish education model to the American model. Critics point to Finland’s relatively uniform demographics and political leanings in contrast to the dramatically varied cultures within the United States as a primary concern with comparing the two …
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Economic evaluations in adopting new vaccines in the Finnish national vaccination programme
This study presents the materials, methods, and results of the economic evaluations of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV7) programme, influenza vaccination programme and human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cost of illness study, all of which were used in the vaccine adoption …
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Wicked problems and the welfare state: Segregation in Finnish urban planning policy
… segregation is recognized in the twenty largest Finnish cities. Perceptions are of interest to urban planning, as they are linked to selective moving patterns, which are one driver of the segregation process. The first article finds interlinkages between neighborhood satisfaction, socioeconomic …
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