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Multi-modal close-range laser scanning individual tree point clouds for tree age prediction (n = 339) at the Evo test site (May-June 2023)
No full textClose-range terrestrial and airborne laser scanning point clouds extracted for individual trees (n = 339) along with increment borer-derived observations of tree age at the breast height. The data was acquired from the Evo test site during May-June 2023 using a Leica RTC360 terrestrial laser scanner and a helicopter-borne three-sensor ALS system at a low altitude for dense point cloud data acquisition
Employee-driven innovation
No full textEmployee-driven innovation (EDI) shifts the focus from traditional top-down approaches to innovation by actively involving employees at all levels in the generation and implementation of new ideas. Unlike conventional models that centralize innovation within upper management, EDI leverages the unique insights and expertise of employees, who are closest to daily operations. This approach fosters a culture of continuous innovation, enhancing problem-solving capabilities, employee motivation, and organizational agility. EDI's success depends on factors such as employee empowerment, knowledge sharing, and a supportive organizational culture. The practical application of EDI in a small retail store revealed challenges, including limited time for creative thinking due to a fast-paced work environment, insufficient opportunities for innovation, and communication barriers. Effective implementation of EDI requires balancing control and autonomy, ensuring strong management support, and fostering an environment of trust and open communication. Further research is needed to explore EDI, for example in diverse cultural and organizational contexts
Ethnic Identity as Social Curse: Intergenerational Transmission of Historical Trauma
No full textHigh ethnic identification is known to support well-being. In the context of historical trauma, however, a sense of belonging to a persecuted community can contribute to social curse processes. This study explores the relationship between ethnic identity and mental distress among second- and third-generation Ingrian women with a family history of displacement and ethnic persecution. It analyses the intergenerational transmission of historical trauma by investigating whether mothers' stronger ethnic identities contribute to daughters' greater mental distress, and whether this relationship is more pronounced in mother-daughter pairs where a mother knows more than her daughter about the family's traumatic past. We analyse dyadic data from 94 mothers (i.e., second generation, Mage = 64.9 years, SD = 9.8) and 94 daughters (i.e., third generation, Mage = 36.8 years, SD = 12.2) using the actor-partner interdependence model and the structural equation modelling framework. We find a positive relationship between a mother's ethnic identity and both her own mental distress and that of her daughter, a relationship intensified when a mother knows more than her daughter about the family's traumatic past. Our findings demonstrate the intergenerational carryover of collective victimisation. They also suggest that knowledge of past events can hinder intergenerational social curse processes and the transmission of historical trauma
Bridging NbS and legal literature: Institutional, procedural and substantive barriers to nature-based solutions implementation
No full textNature-based solutions (NbS) are considered key measures for tackling various environmental challenges and attaining multiple urban sustainability goals. In recent years, the barriers to urban NbS implementation have been increasingly discussed by the literature in an effort to highlight what factors impede widespread NbS in cities. However, the urban NbS literature generally neglects the legal perspective of these barriers, which have been rarely highlighted and assessed through a legal lens, despite the significant role that the law plays in influencing urban sustainability transitions. Thus, a legal perspective seems to be missing from the current literature on barriers to urban NbS implementation. This paper aims to test this hypothesis and, by connecting some of these barriers with relevant ongoing discussions in the legal literature, to establish an agenda for future legal research on NbS. To do so, a scoping review is firstly conducted on the literature on governance- and policy-related barriers to urban NbS implementation. The review reveals a number of barriers which, although not discussed from a legal perspective in the literature, can be divided into three categories, namely institutional, procedural and substantive. The main findings of the review are then discussed in the light of the current debates in the legal literature on the division of powers, participatory rights, and the notion of ownership. This analysis demonstrates how some of the issues raised by the legal literature are similar and, at times, overlapping with the problems encountered when implementing urban NbS. The agenda resulting from this comparison suggests that future legal research on NbS should focus on facilitating decentralised governance approaches, enable tailored and easily enforceable public participation mechanisms, and promote the reconsideration of private land ownership on the basis of its socio-environmental function
Lännen ja rajan välissä : Retrospektiivinen tutkimus valokuvasta Suomen idän representaationa 1870-luvulta 2000-luvun alkuun
No full text"If it cannot be better utilized in wellbeing services counties, we are practically flying blind" - The use of knowledge of effectiveness in the political decision-making of the county council as experienced by county councillors
No full textJoukkoäly ja demokratia: joukkoistaminen osana lainvalmistelua ja päätöksenteon prosesseja
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