Viimeksi syötetyt Väitöskirjat

Person-centred care is linked to quality of care. The goal of person-centred care is a meaningful life, which is particularly relevant in long-term care, where residents live their everyday lives. This two-phased study ...

This doctoral dissertation explores how the integration of language and dance can be practiced and conceptualised as an embodied approach in early additional language education, addressing the urgent need for new pedagogical ...

Family relationships begin to develop during pregnancy and provide the context for a child’s early social-emotional development. However, the contribution of parental prenatal representations and early parent–child ...

Tässä väitöskirjassa tutkitaan COVID-19-kriisin hallintaa eri tasoilla. Tutkimus valottaa eurooppalaisen ja pohjoismaisen vertailun avulla, millaisesta kriisistä oli kysymys ja kuinka sitä pyrittiin ratkaisemaan. Lisäksi ...

Very preterm birth poses a long-term risk for social development. The social functioning of very preterm children has been mainly assessed by parents and teachers, although the children’s subjective experience of social ...

Nordic noir, the distinctive form of crime fiction from the Nordic region, has become unprecedentedly successful in this millennium. Its dark crime stories have gained a global audience, especially in audiovisual form, and ...

The interplay between mechanical forces and the tumour microenvironment is critical in cancer progression, influencing tumour growth, metastasis and therapy resistance. Integrins, which mediate cell adhesion to the ...

Maternal prenatal psychological distress (PD) can steer offspring development through adaptations in fetal programming. Maternal systemic cortisol levels are hypothesized to be a major mechanism in transmitting distress ...

Distinguishing between normal disfluencies and stuttering in bilingual children is a crucial and compelling issue, warranting the attention of both clinicians and researchers. Despite the increasing number of bilinguals, ...

The focus of this thesis is in analyzing optimal stopping (OSP) and impulse control problems (ICP) of linear diffusions under regime switching and Poisson constraints. Regime switching means that the problem’s parameters ...