338 research outputs found
First person - Tiina Viita
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tiina Viita is first author on 'Nuclear actin interactome analysis links actin to KAT14 histone acetyl transferase and mRNA splicing', published in JCS. Tiina is a PhD Student in the lab of Maria Vartiainen at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland, investigating the nucleus, proteomics, chromatin remodeling, actin and post-transitional modifications of histones.Non peer reviewe
Biography, Gender and History:Nordic Perspectives
No full textDoing biography / Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Tiina Kinnunen, Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, page 7How does one relate a complex life? Reflections on a polyphonic portrait of the minister and intellectual Bodil Koch (1903-1973) / Brigitte Possing, page 37Biography as a way of challenging gender stereotypes : reflections on writing about the Swedish author and feminist Frida Stéenhoff (1865-1945) / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, page 61A biography of her own : the historical narrative and Sigríður Pálsdóttir (1809-1871) / Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, page 81Group biography as an approach to studying manhood and religion in late nineteenth-century Finland / Antti Harmainen, page 101Love and emotions in the diplomatic world : the relationship between Bodil Begtrup's public and private lives, 1937-1956 / Kristine Kjærsgaard, page 121'Fighting sisters' : a comparative biography of Ellen Key (1849-1926) and Alexandra Gripenberg (1857-1913) in the contested field of European feminisms / Tiina Kinnunen, page 143Telling stories of gendered space and place : the political agency of the Swedish Communist Valborg Svensson (1903-1983) / Irene Andersson, page 165Remembering mother : relations and memory in the biographical project on Minna Krohn (1841-1917) / Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, page 187Coming together : early Finnish medical women and the multiple levels of historical biography / Heini Hakosalo, page 209Bad girl biographies : child welfare documents as gendered biographies / Kaisa Vehkalahti, page 231Afterword : future challenges / Tiina Kinnunen, Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Brigitte Possing, page 25
Biography, Gender and History:Nordic Perspectives
No full textDoing biography / Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Tiina Kinnunen, Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, page 7How does one relate a complex life? Reflections on a polyphonic portrait of the minister and intellectual Bodil Koch (1903-1973) / Brigitte Possing, page 37Biography as a way of challenging gender stereotypes : reflections on writing about the Swedish author and feminist Frida Stéenhoff (1865-1945) / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, page 61A biography of her own : the historical narrative and Sigríður Pálsdóttir (1809-1871) / Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, page 81Group biography as an approach to studying manhood and religion in late nineteenth-century Finland / Antti Harmainen, page 101Love and emotions in the diplomatic world : the relationship between Bodil Begtrup's public and private lives, 1937-1956 / Kristine Kjærsgaard, page 121'Fighting sisters' : a comparative biography of Ellen Key (1849-1926) and Alexandra Gripenberg (1857-1913) in the contested field of European feminisms / Tiina Kinnunen, page 143Telling stories of gendered space and place : the political agency of the Swedish Communist Valborg Svensson (1903-1983) / Irene Andersson, page 165Remembering mother : relations and memory in the biographical project on Minna Krohn (1841-1917) / Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, page 187Coming together : early Finnish medical women and the multiple levels of historical biography / Heini Hakosalo, page 209Bad girl biographies : child welfare documents as gendered biographies / Kaisa Vehkalahti, page 231Afterword : future challenges / Tiina Kinnunen, Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Brigitte Possing, page 25
Finnish women making religion: between ancestors and angels
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The influence of Theosophy and Anthroposophy in Finland is approached by Tiina Mahlamäki through the writer Kersti Bergroth’s (1886–1975) life and work. Emmanuel Swedenborg’s and in particular Rudolf Steiner’s Theosophical and Anthroposophical writings strongly emphasized creativity and thus appealed to many artists, who, from this perspective, became conveyors of hidden spiritual truths. One of these artists was Bergroth, who declared that she had expressed her whole life in her writings, “but always veiled, covered, deceptive, quite different than it was ever lived.”. Despite a career lasting over more than sixty years and with more than seventy published novels, Kersti Bergroth remains nearly unknown as an author to Finnish readers of today.</p
Healthcare professionals' perceptions on medication communication challenges and solutions - text mining and manual content analysis-cross-sectional study
No full textBackground Communication challenges contribute to medication incidents in hospitals, but it is unclear how communication can be improved. The aims of this study were threefold: firstly, to describe the most common communication challenges related to medication incidents as perceived by healthcare professionals across specialized hospitals for adult patients; secondly, to consider suggestions from healthcare professionals with regard to improving medication communication; and thirdly, to explore how text mining compares to manual analysis when analyzing the free-text content of survey data. Methods This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. A digital survey was sent to professionals in two university hospital districts in Finland from November 1, 2019, to January 31, 2020. In total, 223 professionals answered the open-ended questions; respondents were primarily registered nurses (77.7 %), physicians (8.6 %), and pharmacists (7.3 %). Text mining and manual inductive content analysis were employed for qualitative data analysis. Results The communication challenges were: (1) inconsistent documentation of prescribed and administered medication; (2) failure to document orally given prescriptions; (3) nurses' unawareness of prescriptions (given outside of ward rounds) due to a lack of oral communication from the prescribers; (4) breaks in communication during care transitions to non-communicable software; (5) incomplete home medication reconciliation at admission and discharge; (6) medication lists not being updated during the inpatient period due to a lack of clarity regarding the responsible professional; and (7) work/environmental factors during medication dispensation and the receipt of verbal prescriptions. Suggestions for communication enhancements included: (1) structured digital prescriptions; (2) guidelines and training on how to use documentation systems; (3) timely documentation of verbal prescriptions and digital documentation of administered medication; (4) communicable software within and between organizations; (5) standardized responsibilities for updating inpatients' medication lists; (6) nomination of a responsible person for home medication reconciliation at admission and discharge; and (7) distraction-free work environment for medication communication. Text mining and manual analysis extracted similar primary results. Conclusions Non-communicable software, non-standardized medication communication processes, lack of training on standardized documentation, and unclear responsibilities compromise medication safety in hospitals. Clarification is needed regarding interdisciplinary medication communication processes, techniques, and responsibilities. Text mining shows promise for free-text analysis.Peer reviewe
Religion and atheism from a gender perspective
No full textTiina Mahlamäki, University of Turku
Dr and Docent Tiina Mahlamäki is Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Turku, Finland. She is member of the executive board of the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion, and the co-editor-in-chief of Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion. Her main research themes are: literature and religion, gender and religion (both religiosity and non-religiosity) and civil religion. She has recently written on Emanuel Swedenborg’s influence on Finnish national literature and on the Anthroposophical themes in the works of the Finnish female author Kersti Bergroth.In August 2010 the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, summarising the results of the World Values 2005 survey, released them under the headline ‘Religion is a women’s issue’. Is atheism and secularity then, by contrast, an issue for men? It is tempting to answer the question positively when one looks at the names of the new atheist bestselling authors, or the names in the index lists in the back pages of books with reference to atheism, as well as the names of the researchers into atheism and secularity: they tend to be male much more often than female. In this paper I will examine the ways in which both religiosity and non-religiosity and atheism are gendered phenomena. I also look at feminists’ views on religion by pointing out in which ways they intersect with the opinions of the new atheist texts. Because both (second wave) feminists and atheists consider religion from a relatively narrow point of view, I’ll bring out the ways in which the contemporary study of religion defines, sees and studies religion and religiousness, while it takes the concept of gender seriously. I also discuss the seemingly indisputable fact which the statistics point to; namely that women tend to be more religious than men and men tend to be more often atheist than women (my examples are mostly from the Finnish context). I also present some models of explanation which scholars have applied to these problems
Palverändurite usundilised arusaamad Santiago de Compostela ja Glastonbury palverännakust: välitööpõhiseid käsitlusi
No full textVäitekirja elektrooniline versioon ei sisalda publikatsioone.Väitekiri käsitleb tänapäevase Euroopa rahvausundi ja nüüdisaegse palverännaku erinevaid aspekte Põhja-Hispaanias kulgeva Camino de Santiago (püha Jaakobuse tee) ja Edela-Inglismaal asuva Glastonbury näitel. Palverändu vaadeldakse kui jutustatud teekonda, kus juhtuvad imed ja toimuvad kohtumised üleloomulike olenditega: erineva religioosse taustaga palverändurid räägivad endaga juhtunud lugusid, muistendeid ja legende.
Tähelepanu all on ka palverännakul valitsevad võimusuhted ja palverändurite hierarhia. Üks lugude läbivaid teemasid on autentse palveränduri identiteedi konstrueerimine; otsitakse vastust küsimusele, kellel on õigus otsustada selle üle, kes on tõeline palverändur, ning milliste põhjenduste kaudu otsus tehakse. Autori eesmärgiks ei ole mõisteid „palverännak“ ja „palverändur“ defineerida, vaid vaadelda nende tähendusvälja muutumist nii akadeemilises kui ka rahvapärases diskursuses.
Uurimus kajastab ka erinevate uskumissüsteemide, eriti katoliikluse ja New Age’i kokkupõrkeid. Uurija tähelepanu all on inimesed ja nende usundilised praktikad, mitte „religioon“ ja „usk“ kui abstraktsioonid. Uuritakse seda, kuidas religiooni kogetakse ja praktiseeritakse nii üksikisiku kui ka kogukonna tasandil. Käsitletakse ka välitööde metodoloogia probleeme, eriti uurija rolli dialoogilises tööprotsessis. Töö põhiliseks allikaks on välitööd Camino de Santiagol ja Glastonburys.
Väitekirja moodustavad sissejuhatus ja neli artiklit, mis on ilmunud rahvusvahelise levikuga publikatsioonides (Journal of Indian Folkloristics, Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics) ja kirjastuse Equinox kogumikus Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life. Lisaks väitekirja aluseks olevatele artiklitele on Tiina avaldanud kaks raamatut, kus käsitleb oma välitööde kogemusi: „Peregrina päevik“ ilmus 2007. aastal Loomingu Raamatukogus; selle järjena ilmus 2009. aastal „Kas jääte ööseks? Hospitalera päevik“.This dissertation is based on the author’s extensive fieldwork conducted in two important destinations in the spiritual landscape of European vernacular religion – the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain and Glastonbury in southwest England. One of the aims of this dissertation is to provide insight into the phenomenon of contemporary pilgrimage while reflecting upon fieldwork experiences. One of the recurrent themes is the construction of the image of the ‘authentic’ pilgrim.
The research has been carried out in the broad framework of vernacular religion, i.e. religion as it is experienced and practiced rather than as it is prescribed. By looking at the wide range of belief narratives expressed by pilgrims, Tiina Sepp studies pilgrimage as a narrated journey, including miracles and supernatural encounters. The co-existence of the different belief systems of Christianity and New Age and the conflicts and tension between them are explored.
Throughout her fieldwork Tiina Sepp has observed people’s attitudes towards pilgrimage and their fellow pilgrims. By looking at different, competing narratives about the Camino de Santiago and Glastonbury, she looks into the power relationships that exist on the pilgrimage, describes how hierarchies of pilgrims are created and maintained, and reflects on the meaning of the words pilgrim and pilgrimage. With her markedly self-reflexive methodology, the author attempts to give voice to as many different people as possible: many primary narratives have been reproduced.
The dissertation consists of an introduction and four articles that have been published in the international publications the Journal of Indian Folkloristics and the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, as well as in Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life (a collection of articles published by Equinox). In addition to these four articles, Tiina Sepp has published two books in Estonian that deal with her fieldwork experiences
The case of the Finnish author Kersti Bergroth and her novel The Living and the Dead
No full textMy article discusses the influence of Emanuel- Swedenborg on a Finnish female author, Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975) through one of Bergroth’s novels Eläviä ja kuolleita (‘The Living and the Dead’, 1945). Bergroth was a prolific author with an anthroposophical bent, and an admirer of German idealism. In this particular novel Bergroth refers explicitly to Swedenborg and the story discloses a number of Swedenborgian themes: the doctrine of correspondences; a world divided into material, spiritual, and divine realms; and communication with the spirits of the dead. As Bergroth was an active member of the anthroposophical movement, I will also consider the route, spread, and place of Swedenborg’s ideas within anthroposophy and theosophy in the twentieth century
Communication issues contributing to medication incidents: Mixed method analysis of hospitals´ incident reports using indicator phrases based on literature
No full textAbstract Aim To identify the types and frequencies of communication issues (communication pairs, person related, institutional, structural, process, and prescription-related issues) detected in medication incident reports and to compare communication issues that caused moderate or serious harm to patients. Background Communication issues have been found to be amongst the main contributing factors of medication incidents, thus necessitating communication enhancement. Design A sequential exploratory mixed-method design. Methods Medication incident reports from Finland (n=500) for the year 2015 in which communication was marked as a contributing factor were used as the data source. Indicator phrases were used for searching communication issues from free texts of incident reports. The detected issues were analysed statistically, qualitatively, and considering the harm caused to the patient. Citations from free texts were extracted as evidence of issues and were classified following main categories of indicator phrases. The EQUATOR?s SRQR checklist was followed in reporting. Results Twenty-eight communication pairs were identified, with nurse-nurse (68.2%; n=341), nurse-physician (41.6%; n=208), and nurse-patient (9.6%; n=48) pairs being the most frequent. Communication issues existed mostly within unit (76.6%, n=383). The most commonly identified issues were digital communication (68.2%; n=341), lack of communication within a team (39.6%; n=198), false assumptions about work processes (25.6%; n=128) and being unaware of guidelines (25.0%; n=125). Collegial feedback, and communication from patients and relatives were the preventing issues. Moderate harm cases were often linked with lack of communication within the unit, digital communication and not following guidelines. Conclusions The interventions should be prioritized to (a) enhancing communication about work-processes, (b) verbal communication about digital prescriptions between professionals, (c) feedback among professionals, and (f) encouraging patients to communicate about medication. Relevance to clinical practice Upon identifying the most harmful and frequent communication issues, interventions to strengthen medication safety can be implemented.Peer reviewe
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