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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Helsinki"”.
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A Sauna house in Helsinki
… I start to imagine a sauna house in the city of Helsinki by means of designing certain moments constructed by the interreaction of physical elements and approach its design as stated above, in this case with clear and fair form, light, material and temperature. These elements, work together to …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
… poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the late 1960s. The study focuses on three fields of work: street trade, home industries, and general labour, all of which were ridden with informality, irregularity and low income. Paradoxically, people …
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Spatial analysis of cycling risk in Helsinki using crowdsourced risk exposure data
… risk index values were calculated in the City of Helsinki by combining official and surveyed accident data and Strava Metro risk exposure data on a 500 m x 500 m grid. Spatial heterogeneity of the risk data was assessed using global Moran’s I statistics, followed by local indicators of spatial …
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Characteristics and costs of electric scooter injuries in Helsinki : a retrospective cohort study
Tausta: Sähköpotkulautaonnettomuudet ovat lisääntyneet voimakkaasti monissa maissa, kun sähköpotkulautojen vuokrausfirmat ovat lisääntyneet ja näin helpottaneet sähköpotkulautojen saatavuutta. Sähköpotkulautaonnettomuuksien taloudellista vaikutusta yhteiskunnalle ei ole tutkittu laajemmassa …
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Notes from the Suburb: the Image of Helsinki in the works by Kjell Westö
… doctoral thesis aims at analysing the suburbs of Helsinki as the urban space where the social, economic, cultural and linguistic transformations of the Finnish post-war society took place. Starting with the neo-marxist discourse elaborated by Marshall Berman in his essay "All that is solid melts …
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Fear and belonging in Kontula : negotiating difference in everyday urban encounters at an East Helsinki shopping centre
… kohtaamisia ja sosiaalista vuorovaikutusta helsinkiläisessä lähiössä. Tutkimus käsittelee, kuinka Kontulan lähiön asukkaat kohtaavat sosiaalista ja kulttuurillista erilaisuutta arkielämässään. Tutkimuksessa keskitytään Kontulan ostoskeskuksen puolijulkisiin tiloihin ja tarkastellaan …
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Boulevards of Growth : Assessing the planned boulevardizations in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities
… thesis studies the planned boulevardizations in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities. Interest conflicts inside regional growth machines are typical and the examination of these interest conflicts and their effects on the city-region and its …
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The Lemmatisation of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry with a Relational Database of Old English Dictionaries
… group the attested spellings of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry (Pintzuk and Plug 2001) under a unified headword using the Interface of Old English Dictionaries (IOED) relational database framework. This relational database integrates key Old English lexicographical …
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Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimization of the Helsinki District Heating System and Establishing the Basis for Modeling the Finnish Power Network
… focuses on the modeling and optimization of the Helsinki district heating system and establishing the basis for modeling the Finnish power network. The optimization of the district heating system is conducted for a twenty four hour winter demand period. Partial load behavior of the generators is …
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Were do they get their protein from? : Dietary nutrient intake of children in Helsinki day-care centres eating either vegan or omnivore meals
… omnivore meals offered by the municipality of Helsinki. Additionally, to describe the dietary sources of intakes from both meals. Data and methods: This thesis is part of the MIRA Helsinki study, conducted by the University of Helsinki. The objective of the project is to study the impact of a …
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Organiseringen av antirasistisk verksamhet i Helsingfors svenska grundskolor
… Activities in Swedish Speaking Schools in Helsinki a bachelor’s thesis in political science that aims to investigate how anti-racist activity is being implemented in Swedish speaking schools of basic education in Helsinki. Many reports show that anti-racism has not been implemented in the …
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Einojuhani Rautavaara's Vigilia: From cathedral to concert hall
Einojuhani Rauatavaara (b Helsinki, 9 Oct 1928) is Finland’s preeminent contemporary composer, known internationally for both his symphonic and choral music. His Vigilia was commissioned by the Helsinki Festival and the Orthodox Church of Finland for the Uspenki Cathedral in Helsinki. Rautavaara …
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Exploring the Role of Urban Green Spaces: Perceptions and Experiences of International Students Living in Hoas Viikki
The proportion of immigrants in Helsinki has been growing since the 1990s, being a significant part of this flow from students who come to pursue a degree in Finland. The universities and the government highlight the importance of retaining these talents after graduation, as they bring new …
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The impact of Europeanisation on policy-making inTurkey: controversies, uncertainties and misfits in broadcasting policy, 1999-2005
… candidacy for European Union (EU) membership at Helsinki European Council Summit in December 1999 marked a profound shift in EU-Turkey relations, which has been difficult and turbulent for decades. Turkey started undergoing a drastic transformation after the Helsinki Summit and was successful in …
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Design as a context for research : the design of a museum of modern art as a vehicle for studying Alvar Aalto's work
… two design exercises. It introduces the sites in Helsinki and Boston and discusses the pedagogical intention behind conducting two design exercises for this enquiry. It also includes the interpretation of the program of a Museum of Modem Art used in the design exercises. --Section Three presents …
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Aceh conflict resolution lessons learned and the future of Aceh
… was finally signed on August 15, 2005, in Helsinki, Finland. The agreement brought an end to the nearly thirty years of bloody armed conflict that claimed 15,000 lives, displaced tens of thousands and impacted the whole country economically, as well as politically. In the early process, …
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A study of the semantic characteristics of the modal auxiliaries may and might in Scots
… this paper are derived from several corpora, the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots and the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) or several dictionaries, e.g. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and Dictionary of the Scottish Language (DSL) The frequency of MAY-avoidance in late Middle Scots is …
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A design strategy for transforming an old power plant into a cultural center
… energy production in the region of Kalasatama, Helsinki. The most idealistic proposal for renovating this place is a cultural center where people can recall and celebrate its history. Kalasatama has been selected as an industrial area for Finland's energy production from the very early 1900s up …
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Motivaatiotekijät ja matematiikan osaaminen : sukupuolierot ja koulujen väliset erot peruskoulun kolmannella luokalla
… an emerging segregation, especially within the Helsinki metropolitan area. There has also been frequent discussions revolving around motivation and learning outcomes differences between genders. The connections between motivation factors and mathematical skills have been vastly researched, but …
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