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    • [18F]F2 – New production methods and applications 

      Krzyczmonik, Anna
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI: Astronomica - Chemica - Physica – Mathematica : 597 (Turun yliopisto, 19.12.2018)
      Fluorine-18 is a positron emitting radioisotope. It has a half-life of 109.8 min, a simple decay profile and low positron energy as a result of which properties fluorine-18 is an excellent candidate for use in the production ...
    • A comparative study of parasitism in insects : why some Odonata species have parasites and others do not? 

      Ilvonen, Jaakko
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AII: Biologica - Geographica – Geologica : 344 (Turun yliopisto, 31.08.2018)
      Parasites are one of the most diverse groups of animals, capable of infecting virtually all other organisms on the planet. They are a strong evolutionary force, influencing genetic diversity and thereby affecting individuals, ...
    • Ab initio investigations of the durability of iron alloys and titanium 

      Nurmi, Eero
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja A I: Astronomica – Chemica – Physica – Mathematica : 605 (Turun yliopisto, 14.06.2019)
      In this ab initio work the oxidation of Fe-Cr, Fe-Al, Fe-Cr-V and Fe-Cr-Al, and the elasticity of Fe-Cr-Al alloys and titanium were investigated. The computational method used was Exact Muffin-tin Orbitals method (EMTO). ...
    • Acclimation responses of hydrogen producing cyanobacteria 

      Murukesan, Gayathri
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI: Astronomica – Chemica – Physica – Mathematica : 591 (Turun yliopisto, 14.09.2018)
      During recent years, cyanobacteria have been gaining popularity rapidly as a platform for CO2 sequestration and production of a wide range of industrially attractive products. Factors such as simple nutritional requirements, ...
    • Activity and dust environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 

      Zaprudin, Boris
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI: Astronomica - Chemica - Physica – Mathematica : 583 (Turun yliopisto, 01.06.2018)
      Comets are scientifically interesting objects for several reasons. Comets are among the most pristine objects of the Solar System, which can give us a way to directly study the imprints of the Solar System formation ...
    • Adaptive Knobs for Resource Efficient Computing 

      Kanduri, Anil
      TUCS Dissertations : 236 (Turku Centre for Computer Science, 13.12.2018)
      Performance demands of emerging domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and vision, Internet-of-things etc., continue to grow. Meeting such requirements on modern multi/many core ...
    • An Algebraic Approach to Nivat's Conjecture 

      Szabados, Michal
      TUCS Dissertations : 234 (Turku Centre for Computer Science, 17.08.2018)
      This thesis introduces a new, algebraic method to study multidimensional configurations, also sometimes called words, which have low pattern complexity. This is the setting of several open problems, most notably Nivat’s ...
    • An outline for Finnish tephrochronology – Volcanic ash as a dating method in Finland 

      Kalliokoski, Maarit
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser A II: Biologica - Geologica : 347 (Turun yliopisto, 20.11.2020)
      Tephrochronology is a high-precision dating method that uses volcanic ash horizons as isochrons in correlating and dating geological records and archaeological sites. First developed in the volcanic regions of the world, ...
    • Application of NMR metabolomics profiling on questions arising from molecular biology 

      Jafari, Tahareh
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI: Astronomica – Chemica – Physica – Mathematica : 579 (Turun yliopisto, 20.04.2018)
      In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy metabolomics to understand different biochemical mechanisms of living organisms. Metabolomic profiling can ...
    • Applications in bioinformatics with Markov models 

      Robinson, Sean (Turun yliopisto, 01.06.2018)
      In this thesis we present four applications in bioinformatics with Markov models. That is, we extend the use of such models in the mathematical and statistical analysis of biological data. The data we consider are drawn ...
    • Around the Domino Problem – Combinatorial Structures and Algebraic Tools 

      Moutot, Etienne
      TUCS Dissertations : 254 (Turku Centre for Computer Science, 15.07.2020)
      Given a finite set of square tiles, the domino problem is the question of whether is it possible to tile the plane using these tiles. This problem is known to be undecidable in the planar case, and is strongly linked to ...
    • Automatic Pain Assessment by Learning from Multiple Biopotentials 

      Jiang, Mingzhe (Turun yliopisto, 28.11.2019)
      Kivun täsmällinen arviointi on tärkeää kivunhallinnassa, erityisesti sairaan- hoitoa vaativille ipupotilaille. Kipu on subjektiivista, sillä se ei ole pelkästään aistituntemus, vaan siihen saattaa liittyä myös ...
    • Bl lac objects - view from the highest energies 

      Fallah Ramazani, Vandad
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser A I: : 628 (Turun yliopisto, 16.06.2020)
      Relativistic jets launched by a super-massive black holes are among the most extreme particle accelerators in the Universe. BL Lac objects host a relativistic jet that points very close to our line of sight. They are the ...
    • Bundle methods in nonsmooth DC optimization 

      Joki, Kaisa
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI, Astronomica-Chemica-Physica-Mathematica : 585 (Turun yliopisto, 21.06.2018)
      Due to the complexity of many practical applications, we encounter optimization problems with nonsmooth functions, that is, functions which are not continuously differentiable everywhere. Classical gradient-based methods ...
    • Calcium signalling in the filamentous and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 

      Walter, Julia
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja A I, Chemica - Physica – Mathematica : 612 (Turun yliopisto, 09.08.2019)
      Cyanobacteria fix atmospheric CO2 into sugars using water and sunlight in a process called photosynthesis, generating O2 as a by-product. Cyanobacteria not only contribute substantially to global primary production, but ...
    • Causes and consequences of variation in blue tit nest construction 

      Järvinen, Pauliina
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AII, Biologica - Geographica – Geologica : 369 (Turun yliopisto, 08.05.2020)
      Species across taxa and the vast majority of birds build nests for reproduction. The bird nest functions as a receptacle for the eggs and young and as such determines successful reproduction. Through nest construction birds ...
    • Cellular automata with complicated dynamics 

      Kopra, Johan
      TUCS Dissertations : 249 (Turun yliopisto, 13.12.2019)
      A subshift is a collection of bi-infinite sequences (configurations) of symbols where some finite patterns of symbols are forbidden to occur. A cellular automaton is a transformation that changes each configuration of a ...
    • Characterization of cytokine binding and its implications in the physiology of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans 

      Ahlstrand, Tuuli
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja A I: Astronomica – Chemica – Physica – Mathematica : 609 (Turun yliopisto, 07.06.2019)
      Bacterial pathogens cause severe infections in humans. The emergence of multiresistant bacteria requires the development of new antimicrobial strategies. Bacteria utilize various virulence mechanisms to promote their ...
    • Climate-induced variability in northern Baltic Sea zooplankton - Assessing driving forces and effects on higher trophic levels 

      Mäkinen, Katja
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja A II: Biologica - Geographica – Geologica : 358 (Turun yliopisto, 14.06.2019)
      During the recent decades, alterations in the northern Atlantic climate conditions have resulted in major modifications in the environmental conditions of the Baltic Sea that allows for a unique opportunity to assess species ...
    • Composition and phosphorylation-dependent functional interactions of thylakoid protein complexes in Arabidopsis 

      Rantala, Marjaana
      Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja AI: Astronomica – Chemica – Physica – Mathematica : 581 (Turun yliopisto, 15.06.2018)
      In higher plants the thylakoid embedded pigment-protein complexes, photosystem (PS) I and PSII together with their respective light harvesting complex (LHC) antennas work in series to harvest solar energy and convert it ...