Implementation of authentic leadership can affect not only the nursing workforce and the profession but the healthcare delivery system and society as a whole. Creating a healthy work environment for nursing practice is crucial to maintain an adequate nursing workforce; the stressful nature of the profession often leads to burnout, disability, and high absenteeism and ultimately contributes to t...

Service Design is a new learning domain where su9table teaching material is not (yet) available. Open Learning Resources, however, can readily been found. Triggered by the need for a course we developed a structure where students are guided through discovery learning and mutual teaching. We will show how we started from the students’ authentic goals and how we supported them by a simple structu...

The purpose of this article is to introduce the thematics of my doctoral dissertation research. The study is a part of national KASVA -graduate school (2003-2006) which is funded by Finnish Academy. The aim of the research is to study teachability of the teaching material contents in higher engineering network-based mobile education (NBME). Teachability will be studied in authentic educational ...

We investigate whether measures of readability can be used to identify age-specific TV programs. Based on a corpus of BBC TV subtitles, we employ a range of linguistic readability features motivated by Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics research. Our hypothesis that such readability features can successfully distinguish between spoken language targeting different age groups is fu...

As an extension to our work on portals and portlets as user interfaces for remote access to instruments we are developing a set of Web Services to capture and implement tasks in a scientific workflow. The workflow described here, controlled through JSR 168 portlets, composites many different time varying data streams captured during an X-ray diffraction crystallography experiment into a single ...

Umbelliferone, Quantitative Estimation, Picea abies, Genetic Families A compound showing blue fluorescence under UV-light was isolated from spruce needles and identified as umbelliferone. Structure analysis was based on UV and mass spectroscopy as well as chromatographic comparison with authentic material. Quantitative evaluation by direct measure­ ment of the fluorescence of the umbelliferone ...

This manuscript describes vertical profiles of aerosol number density over Arctic during spring and summer and presents authentic and original scientific material that has relevant implications for atmospheric science (aerosol, clouds, CCN, and others). This study is based on very important aerosol data over Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, although the tethered-balloon-borne aerosol measurements are rest...