9 research outputs found
Ebba and Horace - a Literary Battle? : An Analysis of the Reception of Ebba Witt-Brattström's Århundradets kärlekskrig and Horace Engdahl's Den sista grisen
No full textThis thesis is a study of the press reception of Ebba Witt-Brattström's Århundradets kärlekskrig (2016) and Horace Engdahl's Den sista grisen (2016). The study questions comprise the following; how the critics value the novels, what the critics' expectations are, and if non-literary assessment criteria have influenced the reviews and author personas. The study is performed by examining the critics' description, interpretation, and evaluation of the novels. Reception theory supplemented with literary criticism as well as author persona and medialisation are applied in the study. The conclusion is that Witt-Brattström's novel is highly valued for its contribution to confessional literature. The criticism of her novel is mostly based on the question of whether the novel should be read biographically or not. Engdahl's novel is valued as outspoken and provocative but also unconvincing and criticized for lacking credibility on certain subjects.The critics' horizons of expectation differ between the authors. The expectations of Den sista grisen lead to the fusion of the horizon because it corresponds to the expectations. The expectations of Århundradets kärlekskrig change the critics' horizon as the novel presents a new understanding of a contemporary topic. The non-literary assessment criteria have had an effect. Witt-Brattström addresses the issue of domestic violence and reinforces her persona. Engdahl is described as conservative and weakens his persona. In one area the authors are on the same level, medialisation. It involves an interplay between authors, literature, and media, which Witt-Brattström and Engdahl have mastered
Ebba and Horace - a Literary Battle? : An Analysis of the Reception of Ebba Witt-Brattström's Århundradets kärlekskrig and Horace Engdahl's Den sista grisen
No full textThis thesis is a study of the press reception of Ebba Witt-Brattström's Århundradets kärlekskrig (2016) and Horace Engdahl's Den sista grisen (2016). The study questions comprise the following; how the critics value the novels, what the critics' expectations are, and if non-literary assessment criteria have influenced the reviews and author personas. The study is performed by examining the critics' description, interpretation, and evaluation of the novels. Reception theory supplemented with literary criticism as well as author persona and medialisation are applied in the study. The conclusion is that Witt-Brattström's novel is highly valued for its contribution to confessional literature. The criticism of her novel is mostly based on the question of whether the novel should be read biographically or not. Engdahl's novel is valued as outspoken and provocative but also unconvincing and criticized for lacking credibility on certain subjects.The critics' horizons of expectation differ between the authors. The expectations of Den sista grisen lead to the fusion of the horizon because it corresponds to the expectations. The expectations of Århundradets kärlekskrig change the critics' horizon as the novel presents a new understanding of a contemporary topic. The non-literary assessment criteria have had an effect. Witt-Brattström addresses the issue of domestic violence and reinforces her persona. Engdahl is described as conservative and weakens his persona. In one area the authors are on the same level, medialisation. It involves an interplay between authors, literature, and media, which Witt-Brattström and Engdahl have mastered
Whistling past the trenches - Shell shock, nationalism and Soldier's tale
No full textMaisterin opinnäytteessä Soitellen Sotaan – Sotapsykoosi, nationalismi ja Sotilaan tarina, tarkastellaan taustatutkimuksen merkitystä lavastus- ja pukusuunnittelulle käsiteltäessä laajoja historiallisia aiheita. Kirjallinen työ liittyy kiinteästi tekijän taiteelliseen opinnäytteeseen, lavastukseen ja pukusuunnitteluun Sotilaan tarinaesitykseen, joka oli osa Sibafest 2018 -tapahtumaa Teatterikorkeakoulun ja Sibelius-Akatemian yhteistyönä. Keskeisenä kysymyksenä opinnäytteessä on, miten suunnittelija voi lähestyä laajoja ja potentiaalisesti herkkiä aiheita, kuten sotapsykoosia ja kansallisuusaatetta taustatutkimuksen kautta. Opinnäytteessä käydään läpi taiteellisen opinnäytteen ennakkosuunnittelua ja teoksen tulkinnan sijoittamista Suomen jatkosotaan. Komiikan tekemistä sodan kaltaisista synkistä histori-allisista aiheista tutkitaan käyttäen esimerkkeinä englantilaisia komediasarjoja Monty Pythonin Lentävä Sirkus ja Musta Kyy.
Tämän jälkeen esitellään tekijän taustatutkimusta sotapsykoosista ja tämän tutkimuksen vaikutusta itse teoksen suunnitteluun. Lavastuksen ja pukusuunnittelun kehittelyä seurataan laajasti, ja prosessi välittyy myös tekijän työpäiväkirjaotteiden kautta. Toista teoksen ja opinnäytteen keskeistä teemaa,nationalismia, lähestytään Benedict Andersonin kansallisaateteorian pohjalta. Tähän liittyen opinnäyte pohtii Suomen historian ja erityisesti sotahistorian käsittelyyn liittyviä kysymyksiä ja C.G. Mannerheimin henkilökuvan käyttöä suomalaisessa fiktiossa ja edelleen Sotilaan tarinassa. Lopuksi opinnäyte sivuaa myös kansallissosialistisen kuvaston kuten hakaristien käyttöä koomisten elementtien yhteydessä, ja tähän liittyvää problematiikkaa. Taustatutkimuksen merkitys intuitiota johdattavana ja sen kanssa vuorottelevana voimana suunnittelutyössä välittyy voimakkaasti Sotilaan tarinan prosessissa.The Master thesis Whistling past the Trenches - Shell Shock, Nationalism and Soldier's Tale, reflects the importance of back-ground research for set and costume design when treating large historical themes in a story. The work is elementally connected to the artistic thesis of the author, the set and costume design of Soldier’s Tale, which was produced as a co-production by Theatre Academy and Sibelius Academy for the Sibafest festival in 2018, Helsinki. The central question of the thesis is how a designer can approach vast and potentially sensitive topics, such as mental traumas caused by war, or nationalism, through extensive background research. The thesis examines the artistic preproduction of Soldier’s tale, and the decision to set the story to the Finnish Continuation War. The English tv-series Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Black Adder are cited as models of comic and absurd treatment of heavy historical subjects for the production.
The thesis presents the research of the author on the subject of mental traumas caused by war and the effect of this research on the artistic process. The design process of the set and costumes of the production is covered extensively, and illuminated also through takes from the writer’s work diary. The other big subject of research, nationalism, is approached through Benedict Anderson’s theory of nation states as imagined communities. This is employed to further discuss the use of Finnish history, especially war history, and the person of C.G. Mannerheim in the Finnish fiction and again in Soldier’s tale. Finally, the thesis discusses the problems of using national socialistic symbolism, like swastikas, in a comedic environment. The importance of background research and intuition as complementary forces leading the artistic process is evident in the production of the Soldier’s Tale
The transformative public of Jane Addams
No full textThis article provides an alternative contribution to journalism studies on a foundational concept by analysing texts of Jane Addams, a public intellectual contemporary with the seminal scholars Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. The author uses methods of intellectual history to construct the concept of the public from Addams’s books: Democracy and Social Ethics and The Newer Ideals of Peace, showing that all three authors, Lippmann, Dewey and Addams, discuss the same topic of individuals’ changed engagement with public political life. Addams departs from Lippmann and Dewey in setting out from the standpoints of exclusion and cosmopolitanism. Her argument regarding the public, as constructed by the author, consists of two premises. First, public engagement is a method of democratic inclusion as well as social and political inquiry for Addams. She sees the extension of relationality across social divisions as a necessary method to understand society and materialise democracy. Second, Addams emphasises cooperative and reflexive involvement especially in the characteristic developments of a time. She considers industrialisation and cosmopolitanism as characteristic developments of her own era. Addams suggests an in-principle cosmopolitan concept of the public that includes marginalised persons and groups. Compared to Lippmann’s and Dewey’s accounts of the public, Jane Addams’s argument is more radical and far more sensitive to the social inequality and plurality of a drastically morphing society.Peer reviewe
Teachers as reflective learning experience designers : Bringing design thinking into school-based design and maker education
No full textSchool-based design and maker education foster the acquisition of 21st-century competencies. Teachers play a crucial role in integrating explorative design thinking and digital fabrication into schools; however, gaps remain in designing, implementing, and reflecting on these processes. This research positions teachers as reflective designers of learning experiences. The case study outlines key elements of learning design and explores the implementation of a project tailored for 13-14-year-old students. A thematic, theory- and data-driven analysis examined the challenges and opportunities in the in-situ and post-reflections of the teacher and researcher-teacher (Noora, the first author) on pedagogical practices and the teacher's role. Three intertwined themes emerged: design leader, collaboration and co-teaching, and (co-)reflection. Through (co-)reflections, they structured and led the design process while simultaneously developing their professional skills. The article also advocates for the necessary mindset and skillset of teachers, emphasizing the importance of professional development and collaboration in enhancing the quality of school-based design and maker education. These insights can guide the application and evolution of existing frameworks to assist teachers, researchers, and other facilitators in introducing creative, hands-on learning experiences into formal education.Peer reviewe
Long‐term metabolic syndrome is associated with periodontal pockets and alveolar bone loss
No full textAbstract
Aim: To investigate whether the metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with deepened periodontal pockets and alveolar bone loss.
Materials and Methods: This study was based on a subpopulation of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 survey (n = 1964). The criteria of the AHA/NHLBI were used to determine MetS. The analyses were based on the metabolic data at ages 31 and 46, and probing pocket depth and alveolar bone level data at age 46. Relative risks (RR, 95% CI) were estimated using Poisson regression models.
Results: Relative risks for PD ≥ 4 mm and BL ≥ 5 mm were higher in individuals with an exposure to MetS ≥ 15 years (RR 1.8, 95% CI 1.6–2.1 and RR 1.5, 95% CI 1.3–1.9, respectively) than in those whose exposure was <15 years (RR 1.2, 95% CI 1.1–1.3 and RR 1.1, 95% CI 1.0–1.3, respectively). Consistently stronger associations were found in never smokers. Women showed stronger associations of MetS with PD ≥ 4 mm than men. The association with BL ≥ 5 mm was observed only in men.
Conclusion: A long‐term exposure by MetS was associated independently and in an exposure‐dependent manner with periodontal pockets and alveolar bone level
Genome-wide association study of periodontal pocketing in Finnish adults
No full textAbstractBackground: A genome‐wide association study is an analytical approach that investigates whether genetic variants across the whole genome contribute to disease progression. The aim of this study was to investigate genome-wide associations of periodontal condition measured as deepened periodontal pockets (≥ 4 mm) in Finnish adults.Methods: This study was based on the data of the national Health 2000 Survey (BRIF8901) in Finland and the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study totalling 3,245 individuals. The genotype data were analyzed using the SNPTEST v.2.4.1. The number of teeth with deepened periodontal pockets (≥ 4 mm deep) was employed as a continuous response variable in additive regression analyses performed separately for the two studies and the results were combined in a meta-analysis applying a fixed effects model.Results: Genome-wide significant associations with the number of teeth with ≥ 4 mm deep pockets were not found at the p-level of Conclusion: No statistically significant genome-wide associations with deepened periodontal pockets were found in this study.Abstract
Background: A genome‐wide association study is an analytical approach that investigates whether genetic variants across the whole genome contribute to disease progression. The aim of this study was to investigate genome-wide associations of periodontal condition measured as deepened periodontal pockets (≥ 4 mm) in Finnish adults.
Methods: This study was based on the data of the national Health 2000 Survey (BRIF8901) in Finland and the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study totalling 3,245 individuals. The genotype data were analyzed using the SNPTEST v.2.4.1. The number of teeth with deepened periodontal pockets (≥ 4 mm deep) was employed as a continuous response variable in additive regression analyses performed separately for the two studies and the results were combined in a meta-analysis applying a fixed effects model.
Results: Genome-wide significant associations with the number of teeth with ≥ 4 mm deep pockets were not found at the p-level of < 5 × 10⁻⁸, while in total 17 loci reached the p-level of 5 × 10⁻⁶. Of the top hits, SNP rs4444613 in chromosome 20 showed the strongest association (p = 1.35 × 10⁻⁷).
Conclusion: No statistically significant genome-wide associations with deepened periodontal pockets were found in this study
A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores.
No full textSubstantial genetic correlations have been reported across psychiatric disorders and numerous cross-disorder genetic variants have been detected. To identify the genetic variants underlying general psychopathology in childhood, we performed a genome-wide association study using a total psychiatric problem score. We analyzed 6,844,199 common SNPs in 38,418 school-aged children from 20 population-based cohorts participating in the EAGLE consortium. The SNP heritability of total psychiatric problems was 5.4% (SE = 0.01) and two loci reached genome-wide significance: rs10767094 and rs202005905. We also observed an association of SBF2, a gene associated with neuroticism in previous GWAS, with total psychiatric problems. The genetic effects underlying the total score were shared with common psychiatric disorders only (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, insomnia) (rG > 0.49), but not with autism or the less common adult disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or eating disorders) (rG 0.29). The results suggest that many common genetic variants are associated with childhood psychiatric symptoms and related phenotypes in general instead of with specific symptoms. Further research is needed to establish causality and pleiotropic mechanisms between related traits
Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms
No full textOBJECTIVE: To investigate the genetic architecture of internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence.METHOD: In 22 cohorts, multiple univariate genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were performed using repeated assessments of internalizing symptoms, in a total of 64,561 children and adolescents between 3 and 18 years of age. Results were aggregated in meta-analyses that accounted for sample overlap, first using all available data, and then using subsets of measurements grouped by rater, age, and instrument.RESULTS: The meta-analysis of overall internalizing symptoms (INT overall) detected no genome-wide significant hits and showed low single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability (1.66%, 95% CI = 0.84-2.48%, n effective = 132,260). Stratified analyses indicated rater-based heterogeneity in genetic effects, with self-reported internalizing symptoms showing the highest heritability (5.63%, 95% CI = 3.08%-8.18%). The contribution of additive genetic effects on internalizing symptoms appeared to be stable over age, with overlapping estimates of SNP heritability from early childhood to adolescence. Genetic correlations were observed with adult anxiety, depression, and the well-being spectrum (|r g| > 0.70), as well as with insomnia, loneliness, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, and childhood aggression (range |r g| = 0.42-0.60), whereas there were no robust associations with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or anorexia nervosa. CONCLUSION: Genetic correlations indicate that childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms share substantial genetic vulnerabilities with adult internalizing disorders and other childhood psychiatric traits, which could partially explain both the persistence of internalizing symptoms over time and the high comorbidity among childhood psychiatric traits. Reducing phenotypic heterogeneity in childhood samples will be key in paving the way to future GWAS success.</p
