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Notes on Emerging Technologies
(Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2011-11-11)
This dissertation considers the impact of technology foresight in innovation within the context of a technology driven development. The main hypothesis made was that by using different methods of foresight in the industry ...
Efficient Algorithms for Coastal Geographic Problems
(Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2016-04-29)
The increasing performance of computers has made it possible to solve algorithmically problems for which manual and possibly inaccurate methods have been previously used. Nevertheless, one must still pay attention to the ...
Quantification and Clinical Relevance of Cystatin C
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A I 484, 2014-04-11)
An aging population and increasing rates of diabetes mellitus contribute to a high prevalence of kidney dysfunction – approximately 10 percent of adults in developed countries have chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD is a ...
Enabling Change in Universities: Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development with Tools for Quality Assurance
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A II 289, 2014-06-06)
Enabling Change in Universities: Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development with Tools for Quality Assurance
This thesis deals with enabling change in universities, more explicitly enhancing education for sustainable ...
On Transmission System Design for Wireless Broadcasting
(Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2009-02-20)
This thesis considers aspects related to the design and standardisation of transmission systems for wireless broadcasting, comprising terrestrial and mobile reception. The purpose is to identify which factors influence ...
Exploration and Design of High Performance Variation Tolerant On-Chip Interconnects
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis AI 410, 2010-09-08)
Solving Challenging Real-World Scheduling Problems
(Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2011-11-11)
This work contains a series of studies on the optimization of three real-world scheduling problems, school timetabling, sports scheduling and staff scheduling. These challenging problems are solved to customer satisfaction ...
Identifying and Characterizing New Ingredients in vitro for Prebiotic and Synbiotic use
(Turun yliopisto, 2011-03-04)
The endogenous microbiota, constituting the microbes that live inside and on humans, is estimated to outnumber human cells by a factor of ten. This commensal microbial population has an important role in many physiological ...
Ellagitannins in Finnish plant species – Characterization, distribution and oxidative activity
(Turun yliopistoAnnales Universitatis Turkuensis A I 518, 2015-06-17)
Ellagitannins are secondary metabolites that are produced by plants. Among other features, they are assumed to function as plants’ defensive compounds against plant-eating herbivores. This thesis focuses on a theory, which ...
X-ray bursts as a tool to constrain the equation of state of the ultra-dense matter inside neutron stars
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-15)
Neutron stars are one of the most dense objects in the Universe. However, the exact description of the equation of state (EoS) of the cold ultra-dense matter inside them is still a mystery. In this thesis, we measure the ...