618 research outputs found
Uuden pitopalvelun konseptointi : Catering Studio Soma
Get PDFOpinnäytetyön tekijä on toiminut pitopalveluyrittäjänä kuluneet kaksi vuotta, jonka aikana hänelle on tullut ajatus uudistaa perinteistä alaa yhtiökumppaninsa kanssa. Opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli selvittää yhdistelmätutkimuksen avulla Pirkanmaalla toimivien yritysten pitopalvelutottumuksia. Tavoitteena oli luoda tutkitun tiedon pohjalta uusi pitopalvelukonsepti Tampereelle, joka vastaa paremmin asiakkaiden tarpeisiin, kuin kilpailijat. Uudella konseptilla tavoiteltiin perinteisestä alasta poikkeavaa pitopalvelua, joka tarjoaa lounaita ja kokoustarjottavia. Uusi pitopalvelu käynnistyisi tammikuussa 2019.
Työssä esitellään palveluiden ja konseptoinnin teoriat sekä kvalitatiivisen ja kvantitatiivisen tutkimuksen teoriat. Yhdistelmätutkimuksen laadullinen osio koostuu yrittäjien haastatteluista. Määrällinen tutkimus toteutettiin sähköisen verkkokyselyn avulla. Yhdistelmätutkimuksessa saatujen vastausten perusteella luotiin palvelumuotoilun avulla asiakkaita parhaiten palveleva pitopalvelukonsepti.
Tutkimuksen mukaan yritysasiakkaita parhaiten palveleva pitopalvelu on joustava, luotettava, tarjoaa hyvät ruuat ja omaa nopean reagointikyvyn. Tilauksen tekemisessä verkkokauppaa ja mobiilisovellusta pidettiin ajankohtaisina. Lounaspalvelu ei saanut odotettua suosiota, mutta sen sijaan kokoustarjottavissa nähtiin potentiaalia.
Tuloksena on Catering Studio Soma, joka tutkimuksessa nousseiden vastausten ja siitä seuranneen konseptoinnin ansiosta sai ääriviivat liiketoimintasuunnitelmaa varten. Catering Studio Soma tulee erottumaan muista pitopalveluista luomalla yritysten tarpeita vastaavia tuotepaketteja. Tuotteet ovat ostettavissa verkkokaupasta vuorokauden ympäri.The author of this thesis has been working as a catering entrepreneur for the past two years. During this time, an idea arose to reform traditional catering business. The objective of this thesis was to study the use of catering services in the companies operating in Pirkanmaa. The study was carried out using a combination of qualitative and quantitative studies.
The goal was to create a new catering concept in Tampere that meets the customers’ demands better than the competitors’ concept does. With the new concept, a catering service diverging from the traditional catering industry was pursued. New catering service would start in January 2019 and serve lunches and meeting refreshments.
The theories of services, conceptualization, and qualitative and quantitative studies are introduced in the text. The qualitative part of the study included interviewing entrepreneurs. The quantitative part was carried out as an online survey. The new catering concept that meets the customers’ demands was created using service design and the answers from both the qualitative and quantitative part.
According to the study, to meet business customers’ demands the catering service must be flexible and reliable, serve delicious food and respond quickly. The respondents considered online store and mobile application to be timely for ordering catering services. Lunch service did not obtain much support, but meeting refreshments were considered potential.
The result of the study is Catering Studio Soma, which is now ready for making a business plan. Catering Studio Soma will stand out from other catering services by creating product lines that meet business customers’ demands. Products will be available online around the clock
Ciało nie jest ważne? Modernistyczne eksperymenty ze sferą soma w dramacie Ołeksandra Ołesia
Get PDFThe body is not important? Modernist experiments with a soma-sphere in the Oleksandr Oles’ drama Way to the fairy-tale 1908 The contents of the article are regarded as an effort to answer the question outlined in the title about the importance of the somatic sphere in the drama of the Ukrainian modernism epoch writer — Oleksandr Oles real name: Oleksandr Kandyba 1878–1944. In the Way to the fairy-tale 1908 the author avoids direct information on carnality. Following the prevailing epoch trend, the writer gives up the traditional ethnographic and realistic model of artistic creation. His reflexion about the soma-sphere is expressed by an ambiguous myth and symbol. The symbolism is one of the basic trends at the beginning of the 20th century and makes up an essential mean for Oles’ dramatic expression, the author is therefore more interested in the presentation of state of mind than in sensual body. The body appears to be important insofar as it is a soul’s expression and sign. Like the symbol, the body remains in the sensation and imagination sphere. The body is not important? Modernist experiments with a soma-sphere in the Oleksandr Oles’ drama Way to the fairy-tale 1908 The contents of the article are regarded as an effort to answer the question outlined in the title about the importance of the somatic sphere in the drama of the Ukrainian modernism epoch writer — Oleksandr Oles real name: Oleksandr Kandyba 1878–1944. In the Way to the fairy-tale 1908 the author avoids direct information on carnality. Following the prevailing epoch trend, the writer gives up the traditional ethnographic and realistic model of artistic creation. His reflexion about the soma-sphere is expressed by an ambiguous myth and symbol. The symbolism is one of the basic trends at the beginning of the 20th century and makes up an essential mean for Oles’ dramatic expression, the author is therefore more interested in the presentation of state of mind than in sensual body. The body appears to be important insofar as it is a soul’s expression and sign. Like the symbol, the body remains in the sensation and imagination sphere.  
Soma Design: On Articulation, Materiality, Politics, and the Body. Interview with Kristina Höök
Get PDFKristina Höök is Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), where she leads the Somaesthetic Design Research Group, a lab that explores ways to reincorporate the body and movement into a design regime that has long privileged language and logic. Höök’s research on affective interaction, somaesthetic design, and the Internet of Things seeks to make life with technology more meaningful, enjoyable, creative, and aesthetically appealing by focusing on the soma, that is, on our living, purposive, sentient, perceptive body.
Author of Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2018), Kristina Höök starts by briefly defining soma design in connection with somaesthetics and feminist theories. In light of the fundamental definition of somaesthetics and the role of cultivation and appreciation, Höök makes some distinctions between soma design and other design approaches, discussing, for example, the tensions between the use of language and body, cultivation versus correction, slowness versus solutionism, culture versus nature, and tangible versus digital materiality. She clarifies how the significance of articulating experience in detail for soma design does not betray the centrality of the body, where sketching, making, and coding could represent means of articulation in themselves
Soma Design: On Articulation, Materiality, Politics, and the Body. Interview with Kristina Höök
Get PDFKristina Höök is Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), where she leads the Somaesthetic Design Research Group, a lab that explores ways to reincorporate the body and movement into a design regime that has long privileged language and logic. Höök’s research on affective interaction, somaesthetic design, and the Internet of Things seeks to make life with technology more meaningful, enjoyable, creative, and aesthetically appealing by focusing on the soma, that is, on our living, purposive, sentient, perceptive body.
Author of Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2018), Kristina Höök starts by briefly defining soma design in connection with somaesthetics and feminist theories. In light of the fundamental definition of somaesthetics and the role of cultivation and appreciation, Höök makes some distinctions between soma design and other design approaches, discussing, for example, the tensions between the use of language and body, cultivation versus correction, slowness versus solutionism, culture versus nature, and tangible versus digital materiality. She clarifies how the significance of articulating experience in detail for soma design does not betray the centrality of the body, where sketching, making, and coding could represent means of articulation in themselves
Soma Design: On Articulation, Materiality, Politics, and the Body. Interview with Kristina Höök
No full textKristina Höök is Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), where she leads the Somaesthetic Design Research Group, a lab that explores ways to reincorporate the body and movement into a design regime that has long privileged language and logic. Höök’s research on affective interaction, somaesthetic design, and the Internet of Things seeks to make life with technology more meaningful, enjoyable, creative, and aesthetically appealing by focusing on the soma, that is, on our living, purposive, sentient, perceptive body.
Author of Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2018), Kristina Höök starts by briefly defining soma design in connection with somaesthetics and feminist theories. In light of the fundamental definition of somaesthetics and the role of cultivation and appreciation, Höök makes some distinctions between soma design and other design approaches, discussing, for example, the tensions between the use of language and body, cultivation versus correction, slowness versus solutionism, culture versus nature, and tangible versus digital materiality. She clarifies how the significance of articulating experience in detail for soma design does not betray the centrality of the body, where sketching, making, and coding could represent means of articulation in themselves
Sema i soma u pjesmama Konstantina P. Kavafija o smrti
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to analyse Constantine P. Cavafy’s poems on death with the help of theoretical and hermeneutical literary principles and the interplay of the Greek words sema (“a grave”) and soma (“the body”). The aim is to study their forms and symbolisms as one of the fundamental motifs of Cavafy’s oeuvre. Simultaneously, the article will compare the poetic symbols with ancient philosophy on death (exemplified by Plato), as well as with the later authors’ (for instance, Stephane Mallarme’s) symbolistic considerations of death, which inspired Cavafy’s, modern, poetry. Through a textual analysis of his poetry on death, the poet’s influence and the sense of destruction he arouses in the reader will be explored. Furthermore, the article will focus on the thymotic power of his poetry, arguing that this author of historical heritage—that is, of the inheritance of Eros inheritance—is also an author of the inheritance of Thanatos.Cilj je rada analizirati pjesme Konstantina P. Kavafija koje tematiziraju smrt, a kroz vizuru teorijskih i hermeneutičkih književnih načela i igara riječi na temelju grčkih pojmova sema („grob”) i soma („tijelo”). Cilj je proučiti njihove oblike i simbolizme, promišljajući o njima kao o temeljnim motivima Kavafijeva stvaralaštva. Pritom će se primijeniti komparativno načelo povezivanja pjesničkih simbola s antičkom filozofijom smrti (oprimjerenom Platonom) te s kasnijim, simbolističkim promišljanjem smrti autora (npr. kod Stéphanea Mallarméa), iz kojih se Kavafijevo moderno pjesništvo i izrodilo. Tekstualnom analizom njegove poezije usmjerene na smrt, istražit će se pjesnikov utjecaj i osjećaj razornosti koji pobuđuje u čitatelju. Nadalje, rad će se usmjeriti na timotičku snagu njegove poezije kroz tvrdnju da se pjesnik naslanja na povijesno naslijeđe ponajprije Erosa, ali i Tanatosa
Comparing the RTOG/EORTC and LENT-SOMA scoring systems for the evaluation of late skin toxicity after I-125 seed brachytherapy for parotid gland cancer
No full textPURPOSE: The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and Late Effects Normal Tissue Task Force-Subjective, Objective, Management and Analytic (LENT-SOMA) scoring systems were compared for grading late skin effects after iodine-125 seed brachytherapy in parotid gland cancer patients. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A total of 109 patients diagnosed with parotid gland carcinoma were treated postoperatively with iodine-125 seed brachytherapy at a dose of 100-120 Gy. After 6-24 months of followup, telangiectasia, skin pigmentation, atrophy, fibrosis, and ulceration were scored according to both RTOG and LENT-SOMA scale criteria. The strength of correlation between the scores and the interobserver variability were calculated. RESULTS: Of 109 patients, 22.9% had telangiectasia; 78.9%, pigmentation; 28.4%, fibrosis; 4.6%, edema; 0.9%, ulceration; 37.6%, retraction and/or atrophy; 22.9%, sensation change; and 11%, scaliness and/or roughness. Compared with RTOG, LENT-SOMA criteria resulted in the upgrading of pigmentation in 17% of cases, the downgrading of all instances of telangiectasia and the downgrading of one instance of Grade 4 ulceration to Grade 3. Between the two scales, fibrosis and atrophy correlated well (Spearman p, 0.992, 0.986). An additional 229 side effects were observed using LENT-SOMA criteria. CONCLUSIONS: The LENT-SOMA scale was more accurate than the RTOG scale for the evaluation of late skin and subcutaneous toxicity. The downgrading of telangiectasia and upgrading of pigmentation with the LENT-SOMA scale reflected the patients' conditions better than the scores obtained with the RTOG scale. The assessment of fibrosis and atrophy correlated well between the two scales. The use of the sum of the individual scores of the LENT-SOMA is therefore advocated. The addition of decreased sweating and the removal of the alopecia (scalp) metric should be considered to standardize the reporting of late radiation morbidity. (C) 2017 American Brachytherapy Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.SCI(E)ARTICLE4,SI877-8831
The bijection from data to parameter space with the standard DEB model quantifies the supply–demand spectrum
No full textThe standard Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) model assumes that food is converted to reserve and a fraction κ of mobilised reserve of an individual is allocated to somatic maintenance plus growth, while the rest is allocated to maturity maintenance plus maturation (in embryos and juveniles) or reproduction (in adults). The add_my_pet collection of over 300 animal species from most larger phyla, and all chordate classes, shows that this model fits energy data very well. Nine parameters determine nine data points at abundant food: dry/wet weight ratio, age at birth, puberty, death, weight at birth, metamorphosis, puberty, ultimate weight and ultimate reproduction rate. We demonstrate that, given a few other parameters, these nine data points also determine the nine parameters uniquely that are independent of food availability: maturity at birth, metamorphosis and puberty, specific assimilation, somatic maintenance and costs for structure, allocation fraction of mobilised reserve to soma, energy conductance, and ageing acceleration. We provide an efficient algorithm for mapping between data and parameter space in both directions and found expressions for the boundaries of the parameter and data spaces. One of them quantifies the position of species in the supply–demand spectrum, which reflects the internalisation of energetic control. We link eco-physiological properties of species to their position in this spectrum and discuss it in the context of homeostasis. Invertebrates and ray-finned fish turn out to be close to the supply end of the spectrum, while other vertebrates, including cartilaginous fish, have stronger demand tendencies. We explain why birds and mammals up-regulate metabolism during reproduction. We study some properties of the bijection using elasticity coefficients. The properties have applications in parameter estimation and in the analysis of evolutionary constraints on parameter values; the relationship between DEB parameters and data has similarities to that between genotype and phenotyp
3D Reconstruction of the Mitochondrial Network within the Neuronal Soma from SBF-SEM Volume Data
No full text\ua9 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Neurons contain three compartments, the soma, long axon, and dendrites, which have distinct energetic and biochemical requirements. Mitochondria feature in all compartments and regulate neuronal activity and survival, including energy generation and calcium buffering alongside other roles including proapoptotic signaling and steroid synthesis. Their dynamicity allows them to undergo constant fusion and fission events in response to the changing energy and biochemical requirements. These events, termed mitochondrial dynamics, impact their morphology and a variety of three-dimensional (3D) morphologies exist within the neuronal mitochondrial network. Distortions in the morphological profile alongside mitochondrial dysfunction may begin in the neuronal soma in ageing and common neurodegenerative disorders. However, 3D morphology cannot be comprehensively examined in flat, two-dimensional (2D) images. This highlights a need to segment mitochondria within volume data to provide a representative snapshot of the processes underpinning mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy within healthy and diseased neurons. The advent of automated high-resolution volumetric imaging methods such as Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBF-SEM) as well as the range of image software packages allow this to be performed.We describe and evaluate a method for randomly sampling mitochondria and manually segmenting their whole morphologies within randomly generated regions of interest of the neuronal soma from SBF-SEM image stacks. These 3D reconstructions can then be used to generate quantitative data about mitochondrial and cellular morphologies. We further describe the use of a macro that automatically dissects the soma and localizes 3D mitochondria into the subregions created
Body Maps: A Generative Tool for Soma-based Design
No full textBody maps are visual documents, where somatic experiences can be drawn onto a graphical representation of an outline of the human body. They hold the ability to capture complex and non-explicit emotions and somatic felt sensations, elaborating narratives that cannot be simply spoken. We present an illustrative example of "how-to"complete a body map, together with four case studies that provide examples of using body maps in design research. We identify five uses of body maps as generative tools for soma-based design, ranging from sampling bodily experience, heightening bodily self-awareness, understanding changing bodily experience over time, identifying patterns of bodily experience, and transferring somatic experiential qualities into physical designs. The different requirements for scaffolding the use of body maps in user-centred design versus first-person autobiographical design research are discussed. We provide this Pictorial as a resource for designers and researchers who wish to integrate body maps into their practice. © 2022 Owner/Author.</p
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