15 research outputs found
Police Wellness
No full textA career in Law Enforcement allows people to build partnerships with community members to work towards a common goal of enhancing public safety through collaboration and trust. It\u27s a rewarding yet often challenging career because officers must make split-second decisions in high-stress situations while working long hours and missing family events. Over time, police officers experience stressors from their jobs and personal lives that become overwhelming and difficult to navigate due to the unforeseen challenges of their chosen career in law enforcement. These challenges make it crucial for officers to find approaches that enable them to overcome these challenges that oftentimes can be prevented or worked through with the necessary resources and guidance from their department. This paper examines the value of implementing and actively revamping wellness programs and initiatives to empower police department personnel to adequately care for themselves as they navigate their careers and lives. A review of research and scholarly articles reveals the need for proactive approaches to overcome poor officer health, habits, and mindset and the impact police culture, leadership, and policy have in shaping officer wellness and the success of these initiatives
[[alternative]]A study on the reproductive cycle of Chinese green tree viper, Trimeresurus s. stejnegeri, in northern Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]I studied the reproductive cycle of Chinese green tree vipers, Trimeresurus s. stejnegeri in northern Taiwan by examining seasonal changes in the morphology and histology of their reproductive organ and the hormonal activity. From March 1996 to August 1997, I collected a total of 288 snakes with an average of 7 female and 9 male snakes per month. Based on the size of follicles and the presence of corpora lutea, I classified mature female snakes into 7 stages. The snakes in the first stage had only primary follicles of which the maximal length is less than 5 mm. The snakes that belonged to stage 2 to stage 6 had secondary follicles with the length ranged between 5- 10 mm, 10- 15 mm, 15- 20 mm, 20- 25 mm and above 25 mm respectively. The last stage snakes had both primary follicles and corpora lutea. I found estrogen level was highest in the snakes of stage 5 while that in stage 6 had the peak concentration of progesterone in serum. The numbers of reproductive females which belong to stage 2 to 7 versus that of nonreproductive females, classified in first stage, was close to unity. This suggested that female T. s. stejnegeri reproduced biennially rather than annually. The mass of fat body correlated negatively with the process from first stage to last stage. Fat reserves may become the limiting factor of reproductive frequency. Female Chinese green tree vipers had seasonal cyclic changes in morphology and histology of reproducitve organs as well as hormonal activities. Their timing of vitellogenesis belongs to postnuptial type (type II) vitellogenesis, which is common in the viperids.According to the morphological difference of seminiferous epithelium, I classified male Chinese green tree vipers into five stages, which were early recrudescence, late recrudescence, spermiogenesis, early regression and late regression. Early recrudenscence stage started from March and could last till May. Spermiogenesis stage occurred mainly in summer and autum. While in winter, I found most male snakes belonged to regression stages. Other parameters, such as diameter of seminiferous tubule, renal sexual segment and fat body mass also revealed seasonal cylcic changes. However the peak of each cycling may not be the same. For example, the peak of renal sexual segment diameter, which correlate well with copulation was later than that of seminiferous tubule diameter. The same as many other viperids, male Chinese green tree vipers had postnuptial spermaotgenesis cycle.
HUOLTOKORJAAMON TYÖOHJEISTUKSEN LAATIMINEN
No full textOpinnäytetyön tarkotuksena oli tehdä työohjeistus, koskien sähkömoottoreiden huoltoa ja käämintää, Flowplus Osakeyhtiön Tampereen toimipisteeseen. Työohjeistusta ei aiemmin ollut olemassa kirjallisessa muodossa. Tarkoitus oli tehdä lyhyet ja selkeät ohjeet jokapäiväiseen käytöön ja uusien työntekijöiden perehdytykseen sekä mahdollisten työssäoppijoiden tietopaketiksi.
Vierailemalla Flowplus Osakeyhtiön kolmessa toimipisteessä syksyllä 2017, saatiin selvitettyä näissä käytettäviä toimintatapoja ja toimintahistoriaa. Vierailulla käydyissä keskusteluissa asentajien ja työnjohdon kanssa selvitettiin työtapoja ko. kohteissa.
Työohjeistuksen tekeminen oli tekijälleen mielekästä ja aihe oli kiinnostava. Oma työtausta sähkömoottoreiden korjauksessa ja kunnossapidossa loi pohjaa tutkielmalle ja tehdylle ohjeistukselle.
Työohjeistuksesta saatiin melko kattava ohjeistus moottorihuollon ja kääminnän osalta.The purpose of this thesis was to declare and make working instruction for maintenance, repair and re-winding of electrical motors for Flowplus Oy in Tampere.
There was no written documents of working instruction before available. This thesis aim was to make short and clear guidelines for everyday use and familiarisation with new employeesas well as information packs for potential jobseeker.
By visiting three sites of Flowplus Oy in autum 2017, the operating methods and operating history used were explained. During the visit there were discussions with the employees and host, the working methods were studied.
Making the instructions was meaningsful to the author and the topic was interesting. My own work in repairing and maintaining of electric motors created the foundation for this thesis and guidance.
The work report was quite comprehensive, with guidance, covering electric motors maintenance and winding
PC-tekniikan ja Laitesuunnittelun laboraatio ympäristö
No full textTIIVISTELMÄ
Oulun seudun ammattikorkeakoulu,Tekniikanyksikkö,Raahen kampus
Tietotekniikan koulutusohjelma
Tekijä: Markku I. Höglund, Imad Abdulla
Opinnäytetyön nimi: PC-tekniikan ja laitesuunnittelun laboraatio ympäristö
Työn ohjaaja: Juha Räty
Työn valmistumislukukausi ja -vuosi: syksy 2011 Sivumäärä:48
Tämän päättötyön päämääränä on tuottaa laboratorioympäristö laitesuunnittelun, PC-tekniikan
ja audioelektroniikan opiskeluun. Nämä sisältävät laite-, ohjelmisto-, ja audiotekniset testit ja mittaukset.
PC-tekniikassa laitteistoa voidaan käyttää demonstroimaan oheislaitteiden toimintaa, tietokoneen rakennetta ja perusosia, jotka yhdessä muodostavat tietokoneen. Tämä työ on kuitenkin keskittynyt pääasiassa laitesuunnitteluun kuin PC-tekniikkaan ja on jatkoa Okayl Kevanin aiemmin työlle.
Tämän työn ohessa tehdyt laitteet on suunnattu opiskelijoille siten, että he voivat opiskella lämpötilan, kosteuden jne. käyttäytymistä reaaliympäristössä ja saavuttaa käytännön ymmärryksen siitä, kuinka esimerkiksi jäähdytys toimii.ABSTRACT
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Computer technology
Author: Markku Höglund, Imad Abdulla
Title of bachelor’s thesis: Laboratory Environment of PC-technology and Device Desing
Supervisor: Juha Räty
Term and year of completion: autum 2011 Number of pages: 48
This Bachelor's thesis was made for Raahe Campus of School of Oulu University of Applied Sciences. The aim of this thesis was to produce a laboratory enviroment for device design, PC technology and audio electronics courses. This includes devices, software and audio technical tests. In PC technology the devices can be used to demonstrate the operation of devices, the construction of a computer and it basic components.
This thesis is concerned more on device design than PC technology alone and it is a further study for Okayl Kevan's thesis. Devices created during this thesis are made for students so that they can study the behaviour of temperature, moisture and sound in practise and achieve practical understanding on how, for example, cooling system works
El huerto escolar, una apuesta ecológica para afianzar la escritura en inglés con niños de primaria
No full textFrequently the English´s teachers are worried about student’s motivation when they start to learn a new language, but the find view is opposite, because the students evidence a predisposition by learn a language, so they different cultural life situations , which do not establish a real reason to get it, besides the teachers have to accomplish to some predetermined standards in the institutions where they work, without to take into account the educational community ´s characteristics and interests .
This article looks for to present an experience developed in a private school at the Bogota city, where the students have to the opportunity of create and organize a school garden, reporting these experiences using short English writing.
In this intervention takes into account the studies developed by author as: Autum (2015), Gonzales (2018) and Mejia (2017), who implant the school garden topic like a pedagogical tool, also it includes Gonzales (2015 who highlight the importance to learn a foreign language.
This study used the qualitative method where gather the information through an interview, some diaries made by the participants and some observations made by the researcher.
Into the investigation was done a diagnosis, which raised the intervention afterwards it presented an analysis of the achieve results.
To conclude, the achieve results allowed to define that is possible to the research teacher goes about pedagogical actions and generate conscience about the natural care and engages the second language short writing to allow it report their experiences showing a language acquisition.Frecuentemente los docentes de inglés se preocupan por motivar a los estudiantes por el aprendizaje de un idioma, más el panorama que encuentran es contrario, porque estos muestran una predisposición por el aprendizaje de una lengua, también dadas por sus circunstancias socioculturales que no les da razón de ser para lograrlo, además del peso exigido por el cumplimiento de unos estándares preestablecidos en las instituciones donde laboran, sin contemplar las características ni los intereses de la comunidad educativa. Este artículo presenta una experiencia desarrollada en un colegio privado de la ciudad de Bogotá, donde los estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de crear y organizar un huerto, consiguiendo comunicar a través de escritos cortos en inglés, las vivencias experimentadas dentro de este espacio. Para la intervención se tuvo en cuenta los estudios desarrollados por autores tales como: Autum (2015), Gonzales (2018) y Mejía (2017), quienes plantean el tema del huerto escolar usada como herramienta pedagógica, al mismo tiempo, se consideró a Gonzales (2015), quien resalta la importancia del interés de quien aprende una lengua extranjera. El estudio se valió del método cualitativo y para recolectar los datos se aplicó una encuesta, unos diarios elaborados por los participantes y unas observaciones realizadas por el investigador. En la investigación se hizo un diagnóstico que dio luces para planear la intervención y posteriormente se hizo un análisis de los resultados alcanzados en esta. Para concluir, los resultados obtenidos permitieron definir que es posible que el docente investigador pueda emprender acciones pedagógicas, como en este caso, que generen conciencia frente al cuidado de la naturaleza y promuevan el desarrollo de escritos cortos en una segunda lengua, que permitan comunicar sus vivencias, dejando ver así la apropiación del idioma.
Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
No full textThe Plant Patent Act of 1930 was the first step towards creating property rights for biological innovation: it introduced patent rights for asexually-propagated plants. This paper uses data on plant patents and registrations of new varieties to examine whether the Act encouraged innovation. Nearly half of all plant patents between 1931 and 1970 were for roses. Large commercial nurseries, which began to build mass hybridization programs in the 1940s, accounted for most of these patents, suggesting that the new intellectual property rights may have helped to encourage the development of a commercial rose breeding industry. Data on registrations of newly-created roses, however, yield no evidence of an increase in innovation: less than 20 percent of new roses were patented, European breeders continued to create most new roses, and there was no increase in the number of new varieties per year after 1931.
The Archaeology of Pewter Vessels in England 1200-1700: A Study of Form and Usage
No full textThe first aim is to study the main types of pewter vessels surviving for the period, and to show how they were suited to their domestic purpose, especially the serving of food, and as eating and drinking implements.
The second aim is to attempt to further investigate the alloy ‘trifle’ by having a sample of typical objects analysed by ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry). This alloy was introduced by the Pewterers’ Company (WCP) by the 16th century for the purpose of providing an extended range of wares in a more durable metal than ‘lay’ metal, but less expensive than ‘fine’ metal, as specified by the Company.
The third aim is to explore the occupations of the differing types of ‘potter’ who worked within the Company during the second half of the 17th century. The growth of this separate capitalist group of middle men ‘potters’ or retailers of ceramics and glassware has not previously been noted. The differing levels of wealth and work of other, mainstream, Pewterers is explored by comparison.
The majority of the finds came from anaerobic marine rather than traditional land sites and consisted chiefly of medieval to 17th century tablewares – dishes, saucers, plates, porringers, salts, beakers and other smaller drinking vessels, together with a few larger flagons. Such smaller drinking vessels were frequently listed as ‘trifles’ from the early 17th century in the Company records.
Individuals described as potters were sometimes identified amongst the Company’s membership. It was decided to try to determine their actual occupations by further examining the Court Minutes and wills and inventories of likely individuals.
It was found that the various dishes, saucers and platters were component parts of the ‘garnish’ the chief serving vessels used between the 14th to 18th century to serve food to the middling sort of people, and that this played a central role not only as utilitarian wares but as objects of decoration and status as well. The Pewterers’ Company members were highly innovative and also produced the country’s first plate (apart from in silver) by the mid-16th century and which remained in use unaltered until the 1670s. Linear dimensions were correlated with the more usual sizes by weight for the first time from the remains of the garnish on the Mary Rose, lost 1545.
Analysis of a sample of the smaller drinking vessels by Sheffield Assay Office detected an alloy of some 4-6% lead and this was likely to qualify as trifle alloy.
While some individuals did indeed make drinking wares, it was discovered that the term potter usually applied to retailers of glassware and ceramics – a new occupational label. A number of such individuals within the Pewterers’ Company played formative roles in setting up a new Glass Sellers Company in 1664. The business activities of this group – typical of individualist ventures during the 17th century – had not previously been noted by historians of the Company and indicated the Pewterers’ heterogeneous and commercial make up from this time
TYÖSSÄKÄYVIEN ETÄOMAISHOITAJIEN KOKEMUKSIA OMASTA ARJESTA JA SEN HALLINNASTA
No full textTIIVISTELMÄ
Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu
Sosiaalialan koulutusohjelma
Tekijä: Varpu Nurmi
Opinnäytetyön nimi: Työssäkäyvien etäomaishoitajien kokemuksia omasta arjesta ja sen hallinnasta
Ohjaajat: Kaija Bakala & Seija Kokko
Valmistumisajankohta: Syksy 2014
Sivumäärä: 42 sivua+ 8 liitesivua
Tämä opinnäytetyö kuvailee työssäkäyvien etäomaishoitajina toimivien henkilöiden kokemuksia omasta arjestaan ja sen hallinnasta. Ikääntyvien kansalaisten jääminen asumaan reuna-alueille ja työssäkäyvien keskittyminen kaupunkikeskuksiin tulee ilmeisesti lisäämään tätä yhtä omaishoidon muotoa. Opinnäytetyöni aihe on sovittu yhdessä Oulun seudun omaishoitajat ja läheiset ry:n kanssa.
Etäomaishoitaja on omaishoitaja, jonka hoidettava asuu jossain muualla, yleensä eri paikkakunnalla. Hoitaja on usein sukulainen, jolla on hoidettavana myös oma perhe ja omat arjen toimet.
Arki on tavanomaisia, ei erityisiä päiviä, muuta kuin juhlapäivät. Arki on jotain mikä on meidän ympärillä, meidän tavoissa ja tekemisissä, arki on niissä käytännöissä, joihin osallistumme kotona, työssä ja muissa arkielämän areenoilla. Arkea ei voi paikallistaa johonkin tiettyyn paikkaan kuten kotiin, vaan se on joka puolella meidän ympärillä.
Tutkimukseni on laadullinen tutkimus ja aineiston sain teemahaastattelujen avulla. Haastattelujen sisällön analysoin teoriaohjaavasti.
Tutkimukseni tulosten mukaan ajanpuute ja ajankäytön suunnittelu ovat etäomaishoitajien arjen päällimmäisiä kokemuksia. Haastateltavani mainitsivat etäomaishoitajasuhteen olevan oman arkensa ajan käyttöä eniten määrittävä tekijä. Jatkuva valmiustilassa oleminen on usein stressaavaa etäomaishoitajalle.
Etäomaishoitajuus ilmiönä olisi siis hyvä tehdä näkyväksi omaishoidon osaksi, johon myös voisi saada apua, rahallista tai muuta joustoa, myös yhteiskunnalta. Työnantajien olisi hyvä tietää myös tällaisesta työntekijän arkea muokkaavasta elämäntilanteesta ja tähän olisi hyvä kirjata selkeitä pelisääntöjä.
Keskeiset käsitteet: etäomaishoitaja, arki, työssäkäynti, aika ja ajan hallintaABSTRACT
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Degree Program in Social Services
Author: Varpu Nurmi
Title of thesis: Everyday Life Experiences of Working Remote Care Givers
Supervisors: Kaija Bakala & Seija Kokko
Term and year when the thesis was submitted: Autum 2014
Number of pages: 42 pages + 8 appendix pages
This thesis describes everyday life experiences of working remote care givers. The term “remote care giver” means a person, who takes care of his/her loved ones living within distance. This study was agreed with Oulu regions Care Giving relatives and Friends Association.
Everyday life is something around us, some familiar habits we all know. We can`t say exactly what it is, because it belongs to everyday. Everyday life is something else than celebration days.
More and more aging people are living alone in peripheral areas whereas working people are concentrated in city centers. This often means a distance between the care giver and the inmate. Care givers must plan their time use carefully because they have to go to work and also take care of their own family members and other everyday affairs. Our collective agreements in labor markets include paragraphs for childcare but not for any other form of need.
The purpose of this thesis is to describe everyday life experiences of working remote care givers, how they manage to plan their everyday life and how they feel about spending their time.
In this paper I have used qualitative methodology. I got my material by using a theme interview method. The research material was analyzed applying a theory-guided contents-analysis.
The remote care givers, who I interviewed, told me that remote care giving is the most important thing in their everyday life time planning. They have to be ready to travel to help their nearest in a short time if needed. It is quite a stressful situation for remote care givers.
Remote care givers need help from their families and relatives to manage everyday time planning. Also they need understanding and flexibility from their employers. My per-sonal wish is that the term “remote care giver” would be more known as a result of this study.
Key words: remote care giver, everyday life, working, time and handling i
