Understanding corporate moral development in the context of rapid and radical changes : the case of Estonia by Kooskora, Mari

“…The results suggest that the changes are caused by external sources, while internal forces had less impact. Therefore the model of CMD needs to be completed so that the triggers do not always have to come from within business organizations, but also from external forces. …”
Get full text Get full text

Interspecific social information in habitat choice by Seppänen, Janne-Tuomas

“…Such situation arises in boreal forests between small cavity-nesting passerines, such as migrant Ficedula spp. flycatchers and resident tits Parus spp. …”
Get full text Get full text

Efficient numerical methods for pricing American options by Ikonen, Samuli

“…Componentwise splitting methods are applied for a solution of the American option pricing problem with a stochastic volatility setting and shown to be highly efficient. In a basic form of this splitting a discrete linear complementarity problem is divided in such a way that three linear complementarity problems with tridiagonal matrices need to be solved. …”
Get full text Get full text

Children's conversation management : native speaker - non-native speaker talk by Hirvonen, Tuula

“…The subjects are ten native English-speaking children and eight learners of English. Studies on foreigner talk have established modification s that are generally observed by adults when talking to speakers a t low proficiency levels. …”
Get full text Get full text

Brain responses to pitch changes in an acoustic environment in cats and rabbits by Ruusuvirta, Timo

“…Second, rather than neural refractoriness, this effect may represent an active process related to the formation of the short-term memory trace of repeated stimuli. …”
Get full text Get full text

Walter Frank ja taisteleva tiede : aseena Ranskan historia by Komppa, Jukka

“…In both battling science and Frank's historical work, anti-Semitism is brought to the fore. Therefore, this study is also concerned with the extent to which French anti-Semitism, as conveyed by Frank's work, was reflected in German national socialist thinking. …”
Get full text Get full text

Minäkokemuksen merkitys liikuntamotivaatiotekijänä by Sarlin, Eeva-Liisa

“…The group of daily physical education (n=57) was formed by those who had attended the programme of daily Physical Education for at least two years. …”
Get full text Get full text

Dimitâr Dimovin Tupakkaa ristiriitojen romaanina : bulgarialaisen kriisin horjutetut kuvat by Suvilehto, Eero

“…Dimov was forced to write another edition in which he tried to adapt it according to the directions given to him. …”
Get full text Get full text

Painted and photographed portraits in Finland 1839-1870 by Käyhkö, Unto

“…The severe age lasted in its strict form as the hard period up until the early part of the 1850's. …”
Get full text Get full text

Determinants of clutch size and reproductive success in the pied flycatcher by Siikamäki, Pirkko

“…The adjustment of clutch size was affected by habitat quality. Females that were forced to breed in a habitat of poorer quality than where they had initially settled, laid smaller clutches than control females. …”
Get full text Get full text

The ecological succession and characteristics in small Finnish polyhumic reservoirs by Koskenniemi, Esa

“…Despite the differences in water level regime and bottom characteristics, the biota of Finnish reservoirs are quite similar to those of natural forest lakes. The reservoir zoobenthos is characterized by a dominance of insects and community composition places reservoirs as somewhat intermediate between pools and lakes. …”
Get full text Get full text

Nuoren sairastuminen skitsofreeniseen häiriöön : perheterapeuttinen tarkastelutapa by Pihlajarinne, Marja-Leena

“…The quantitative data so formed was designeed to support the qualitative analysis. …”
Get full text Get full text

Aesthetic criteria for musical interpretation : a study of the contemporary performance of western notated instrumental music after 1750 by Sundin, Nils-Göran

“…The study examines in particular the cognitive processes and logic(s) of implementation of interpretational ideals based on phenomenology, hermeneutics, semiotics, formalism and Schenkerian Vortragslehre. By means of phenomenological analysis the study discusses the philosophical, scientific and musicological grounds for a methodology of interpretation analysis and proposes a theory of interpretation concerned with the relational network of intentional interpretive acts. …”
Get full text Get full text

Kurssimuotoisuus opetussuunnitelman moduulirakenteen sovelluksena lukiossa by Välijärvi, Jouni

“…Students were willing to diversify the forms of study, although they felt that the great number of lectures and tests are a natural part of upper secondary school work. …”
Get full text Get full text

Erkki Huttunen liikelaitosten ja yhteisöjen arkkitehtina 1928-1939 by Jokinen, Teppo

“…Simultaneous to the pursuit of finding construction solutions, he also aimed at creating aesthetic forms and establishing a harmonious balance between the different parts of a building. …”
Get full text Get full text

Sosiaalityön rajasysteemit ja kehitysvyöhyke by Arnkil, Erik

“…The contradictions of "Fordist" welfare production create a developmental zone, a battlefield with the following options: (1) rationalization within the Fordist model, (2) modifications of the Fordist model with long term economical considerations, (3) joint service -oriented experiments within short term economy and (4) cross-sectional services with long term economical considerations. …”
Get full text Get full text

From business correspondence to message exchange : the notion of genre in business communication by Louhiala-Salminen, Leena

“…In addition, the present book includes a report of a substudy that analyzed authentic business messages as textual products focusing on the characteristic formal elements, on the one hand, and on the metadiscoursal items found in letters, faxes, and email messages, on the other. …”
Get full text Get full text

Ylioppilastutkinnon muotoutuminen autonomian aikana by Lindström, Aslak

“…School leaving examinations in different countries have similar aims but differ in form and in their emphasis on various tasks. This research looks at the development of the Matriculation Examination in the period of autonomy in Finland. …”
Get full text Get full text

Genuskongruens och genus i finska gymnasisters inlärarsvenska by Lahtinen, Sinikka

“…The present study explores how Finnish learners use uter and neuter forms in their Swedish interlanguage and what kinds of errors they make in using the forms. …”
Get full text Get full text

Sensitivity of ecosystem functioning to changes in the structure of soil food webs by Laakso, Jouni

“…The role of wood ant Formica aquilonia Yarr. in the soil food web and system functioning was studied using field samplings and manipulations of wood ant density. …”
Get full text Get full text