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Item does not contain fulltext Although Turkey's legal arrangements stimulated by the EU harmonisation process has empowered the number of NGOs and trade unions and increased women's representation in decision-making institutions, EU gender equality incentives have been weakened by domestic factors, such as political polarisation between unions and the symbiotic relationship between conservative unions and Turkey's ruling party, JDP. Based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with three confederation chairs and novel data from their public discourses between 2009 and 2020, this chapter examines how political polarisation in Turkey inhibits the representation of women's interests in collective bargaining process. In light of neo-corporatist framework, we argue that although women union leaders are in higher executive positions in left-wing trade unions, and they particularly target gender-related issues, such as quotas, equal pay and parental leave, their ideological stances and legal constraints are the most significant determinants for including them in collective bargaining.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of computer simulation and the immersive virtual reality (IVR) technology for occupational risk assessment improvement. It achieves this by conducting a risk assessment on a 3-D simulation of a Lithium-Ion battery (LIB) manufacturing factory. This is necessary since calls for the enhancement of occupational risk assessments continue to dominate safety improvement measures in manufacturing context. Meanwhile, industries such as aviation, mining and healthcare employ advanced versions of IVR for risks awareness with successes. However, applications for safety in manufacturing context is only at the infancy although it utilizes IVR profitably for product and production optimization issues. The study involved 19 participants who performed the assessment with the aid of a safety checklist followed by open-ended semi-structured questions and interviews. Results indicates an outstanding utilization capability of IVR for risk assessment. Furthermore, the assessment pinpoints specific safety issues in the factory that requires attention and improvement.

Purpose: This study aims to develop a pedagogy which would help a school become a workplace for learning and professional development. Essentially, this objective addresses the following critical question. How can a school become an attractive workplace where learning and professional development of teachers positively contribute to better teaching and learning for the students? Design/methodology/approach: The research is considered as a case study. The pilot project or experiment has taken place at Mattayom Suwitserianusorn School which is part of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Design Thinking and Finnish practices have been explicitly integrated into peer-learning community (PLC). Design Thinking, through the use of empathy, helps highlight the interrelationships among motivation, emotion and cognition of students. Follow-up meetings provide insights into teacher’s professional development and impacts on student’s learning. The verification is based on award and recognition gathered over the past years for students and the school. Findings: PLC helps improve a school as a place for learning and professional development. The significance of integrating Design Thinking is extensively discussed. The project shows how co-teaching can be applied, given a proper selection of a problem. Higher motivation and better behavior among students are noticeable. The pilot project reinforces the importance of PLC in the current pedagogical development as it helps transform a school into workplace learning for both teachers and students. Blending Design Thinking helps strengthen the sustainability of PLC, as a lesson plan should be revised according to the students’ background and needs. Research limitations/implications: The study responds to the call by several international studies for better pedagogical development and in-service training for teachers’ continuous learning and professional development. More vigorous comparisons with other schools will be needed to help verify the study’s findings. This is due to the need to have a longitudinal study of PLC’s impacts. Practical implications: For teachers, an understanding of their common interests and the recognition on the need to learn from one another is important. For students, an understanding of their psychology and emotional intelligence through the use of Design Thinking is highlighted. Motivation, emotion and cognition of students are interrelated and can help transform a school into learning space. Originality/value: The study contributes to the transformation of a school as a workplace for learning and professional development which is based on the aforementioned pedagogical development. Also, Design Thinking helps strengthen PLC as an alternative pedagogical practices.

Item does not contain fulltext The rise of international students has generated significant attention around the world including in the EHEA which has set out to increase international student mobility. In this paper we analyze patterns in the mobility of international students using the temporal framework developed by Choudaha [1]. We also look at variation within the EHEA and, more importantly, variation in the sending countries. The aim of this paper is therefore to increase our understanding of patterns in International student Mobility by focusing on the region of origin of students. By analyzing data made available by the UNESCO institute of statistics we uncovered that there are indeed substantial differences when looking at both host and countries. The implications of these findings are discussed with regards to effectively attracting and retaining international students. International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (Washington D.C., USA, July 24-28, 2019)

Contains fulltext : 167552.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Since the financial crisis we seem to be witnessing a re-invigorated refusal to acknowledge, analyse or rectify the gendered impacts of the EU’s strategic policies. This chapter examines how this ‘U-turn’ on EU commitment to gender equality has occurred, focusing on the contestation of gendered meanings and assumptions embedded in EU economic policy. Drawing on insights from Feminist Political Economy and a new approach, Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis, findings shows how common disciplinary practices in economic policy and economics, obscure gendered impacts of economic policy and insulate them from contestation. Here, shifts in the balance between the EU’s ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ economic aims, have played a key role, as EU strategic policy has become increasingly dominated by abstract, rule-based macro economically conceived goals.

Mobile games are relatively new industry, and their relevance on the game markets are rising. At the same time, it is very competitive market, as new games are coming out by hundreds every day. The challenges for the new game development come from the creative process and the human factors on how to make the game appealing. In this research, we study the use of test groups as part of new mobile game and concept development process in the early phases. They were used to complement the testing automation at the development phases when use of analytics was not yet possible. Six separate feedback collection sessions were arranged using different methods. The paper presents the main learnings of each used method, the perceived usefulness of the methods for the entire development process. We also contribute to the growing knowledge for mobile game development, focusing on methods for the testing with test user approaches. We conclude that testing with user groups can help clarify the mobile game design to create a more appealing game, but choosing the right groups and right moments in the game development phase can be difficult, as can be the interpretation of the feedback for decision making.

This study investigated lag structure in the resting-state fMRI by applying a novel independent component (ICA) method to magnetic resonance encephalography (MREG) data. Briefly, the spatial ICA (sICA) was used for defining the frontal and back nodes of the default mode network (DMN), and the temporal ICA (tICA), which is enabled by the high temporal resolution of MREG (TR=100ms), was used to separate both neuronal and physiological components of these two spatial map regions. Subsequently, lag structure was investigated between the frontal (DMNvmpf) and posterior (DMNpcc) DMN nodes using both conventional method with all-time points and a sliding-window approach. A rigorous noise exclusion criterion was applied for tICs to remove physiological pulsations, motion and system artefacts. All the de-noised tICs were used to calculate the null-distributions both for expected lag variability over time and over subjects. Lag analysis was done for the three highest correlating denoised tICA pairs. Mean time lag of 0.6 s (± 0.5 std) and mean absolute correlation of 0.69 (± 0.08) between the highest correlating tICA pairs of DMN nodes was observed throughout the whole analyzed period. In dynamic 2 min window analysis, there was large variability over subjects as ranging between 1–10 sec. Directionality varied between these highly correlating sources an average 28.8% of the possible number of direction changes. The null models show highly consistent correlation and lag structure between DMN nodes both in continuous and dynamic analysis. The mean time lag of a null-model over time between all denoised DMN nodes was 0.0 s and, thus the probability of having either DMNpcc or DMNvmpf as a preceding component is near equal. All the lag values of highest correlating tICA pairs over subjects lie within the standard deviation range of a null-model in whole time window analysis, supporting the earlier findings that there is a consistent temporal lag structure across groups of individuals. However, in dynamic analysis, there are lag values exceeding the threshold of significance of a null-model meaning that there might be biologically meaningful variation in this measure. Taken together the variability in lag and the presence of high activity peaks during strong connectivity indicate that individual avalanches may play an important role in defining dynamic independence in resting state connectivity within networks.

Tämän työn tavoitteena oli tutkia UV-absorboivien selluloosananokiteiden valmistusta ja käyttöä kalvojen lisäaineena estämään UV-säteiden läpäisyä sekä toimimaan lujitteena kalvomateriaalissa. Työn kirjallisuuskatsauksessa etsittiin tietoa selluloosasta, selluloosananokiteistä, selluloosananokidekomposiittien ominaisuuksista sekä metallinanopartikkeleiden käytöstä kalvorakenteissa. Työ koostui pääasiassa kokeellisesta osiosta, jossa valmistettiin perjodaattihapetuksen avulla UV-absorboivia selluloosananokiteitä, joita käytettiin polyvinyylialkoholifilmien lisäaineena. Työssä valmistettiin viisi kalvoa, joihin lisättiin erisuuruiset määrät selluloosananokiteitä. Kuudes valmistettu kalvo toimi vertailukohteena, ja tähän ei lisätty selluloosananokiteitä. Valmistetuista kalvoista mitattiin kalvojen vetolujuudet ja läpinäkyvyydet eli transmittanssit. Valmistetuista kalvoista mitattiin vetolujuudet käyttäen kuitu- ja partikkelitekniikan laboratorion vetolujuuslaitteistoa. Läpinäkyvyys- eli transmittanssimittaukset mitattiin UV-Vis-spektrometrillä. Kalvomittausten lisäksi suoritettiin transmittanssi- ja absorptiomittauksia nanoselluloosaliuosnäytteistä, joiden avulla pystyttiin vahvistamaan kalvomittauksien tuloksia. Mittaustuloksista havaittiin, että selluloosananokiteiden lisääminen kalvojen lisäaineeksi parantaa kalvojen mekaanisia ja optisia ominaisuuksia. Vetolujuusmittauksia tehdessä näytepalojen venymä kuitenkin vaihteli melko paljon jokaisen kalvon kohdalla, vaikka vetolujuuksien suuruuksissa ei tapahtunut merkittävää hajontaa. Tämä voi johtua mm. kalvojen valmistuksessa johtuneista virheistä. Näytepalojen rakenteeseen saattoi vaikuttaa heikentävästi se, että vakuumin avulla ei saatu aivan pienimpiä ilmakuplia poistettua tai koska alustalle valetut kalvot säilytettiin laboratoriokaapeissa, missä on mahdollista että kalvoihin pääsi pieniä määriä pölyä tms. Tulokset olivat kuitenkin pääasiassa onnistuneet, kun niitä vertaillaan aikaisempiin tutkimuksiin. Selluloosananokiteiden käyttö esimerkiksi pakkausmateriaalien lisäaineena on tällä hetkellä suuren kiinnostuksen kohteena tutkijoiden keskuudessa, sillä niiden ympäristöystävällisemmät ja luonnolliset ominaisuudet ovat vahva haastaja raskaampien ja haitallisempien metallinanopartikkeleiden käytön korvaajaksi kalvomateriaalien lisäaineena. Tässä työssä käytettiin kuitenkin vain yhtä kalvomateriaalia, johon selluloosananokiteitä lisättiin, joten tuloksia ei voida yleistää niin, että selluloosananokiteiden lisääminen parantaisi kaikkien kalvomateriaalien ominaisuuksia.

Contains fulltext : 131975.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) This article is concerned with policy making, which can help (re)produce gender and gender inequality, beginning with a wider overview of feminist policy studies and then connecting the available knowledge from different subdisciplines. It then examines the early studies on the analysis of the lack of women in the policy-making process. The next section explains the broader context and process of policy making and how political goals or interests that come from different feminist movements manage in the policy-making process. The article also discusses the genderedness of policy making, gendered bias, and recent developments in research on gender and gender equality

Sustainable development, sustainable consumption and short supply chains are nowadays acquiring increasing relevance in the literature. On the other hand, from the consumer's attitudinal statement, ethical consumption is also requiring more attention from marketing sciences. Besides that, the integration of the last concept on sustainability remains in a complete lack of systematic and integrative conceptualization. This paper tries to promote a potential integration of all the dimensions of sustainable consumption and to understand the potential linkage and interaction among them, in order to promote the Sustainable Development Goal 15 from the United Nations. The methodology follows a systematic literature review and preliminary information comes from a case study of the approved project SDGsConsum. The results confirm that, besides a huge development in sustainable development and sustainable consumption in the literature, the focus on shortly supply chains of production is yet modest. Moreover, the motivations and constraints that drive and restrain, respectively, consumers toward ethical and sustainable consumption presents several incongruences. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

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This paper aims to assess the degree to which sustainability, namely, economic, social, environmental and institutional dimensions are integrated within the public discourse on crowdfunding in social media and in Google Trends. The utilizing Social Media Analytics and Google Trends search queries, respectively, we track discussions on crowdfunding in user-generated content published in social media and analyse the Google Trends queries. Quantitative methodology, namely, multivariate analysis and econometric models was used, in order nowcast the insights about the importance of the sustainability dimensions in the crowdfunding. The results show an interesting trend of increasing popularity search terms in sustainability dimensions as a proxi of marketing strategies to involve the participants in the crowdfunding projects. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

This article is concerned with critical and liberal multiculturalism as well as the gender dilemmas between relativism and universalism. It identifies four liberal answers to the question of how to deal with the issue of universalism–relativism and discusses in detail the “multiculturalism versus feminism” debate. The article ends with a section on the important contributions of feminists to multiculturalism.