With respect to cervical cancer management, Finland and the Netherlands are comparable in relevant characteristics, e.g., fertility rate, age-of-mother at first birth and a national screening programme for several years. The aim of this study is to compare trends in incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in Finland and the Netherlands in relation to the introduction and intensity of th...

“We are indebted to all the FINNPEC study participants. We appreciate the contribution of the following members of the FINNPEC Study Group: Eeva Ekholm (Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland), Kaarin Mäkikallio-Anttila, (Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland), Reija Hietala, Susanna Sainio and Terhi Saisto (Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland), Tia Aalto-Viljakainen, S...

Video communication systems can often make use of unequal error protection (UEP). In order to apply UEP, video bit-streams have to be organized in portions of different importance in terms of visual quality. Techniques achieving this goal include data partitioning and scalable video coding. These techniques generally treat an entire image equally in spatial domain, while many images have distin...

Title: Area summation in human visual system: psychophysics, fMRI and modeling. 1 Abbreviated title: Area summation in human vision 2 Authors and author addresses: 3 4 Lauri Nurminen, Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, and Advanced 5 Magnetic Imaging Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland; 6 Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 7 8...

N. Neittaanmäki, M. Salmivuori, I. Pölönen, L. Jeskanen, A. Ranki, O. Saksela, E. Snellman, M. Grönroos (1) Department of Clinical Pathology, Sahlgrenska University hospital, Göteborg, Sweden (2) Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Päijät-Häme Social and Health Care Group, Lahti, Finland (3) Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (4) Departmen...

Research Group for Emotions, Sociality, and Computing, Tampere Unit for Computer–Human Interaction (TAUCHI), School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Kanslerinrinne 1, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland b Sensor Technology and Biomeasurements, Department of Automation Science and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland VTT Techni...

a Department of Bioand Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland b Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, Scotland, UK c Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Marine Centre, P.O. Box 2, FI-00561 Helsinki, Finland d Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, P.O....

Maria Närhinen Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Finland. Current address: Mikkeli Joint Municipal Board for Public Health, PO Box 167, FIN-50101 Mikkeli, Finland, e-mail: NARHIMA%[email protected] Aulikki Nissinen Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, PO Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland Pirjo-Liisa Penttilä Nation...

J. Miettunen1, M.I. Airila2, T. Makkonen1, M. Groth1, V. Lindholm1, C. Björkas3, A. Hakola2, H.W. Müller4 and the ASDEX Upgrade Team4 1 Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. Box 14100, 00076 AALTO, Finland 2 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, 02044 VTT, Finland 3 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 43, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland 4 Max-Pl...

Department of Neurology and Programme of Neurosciences, University of Helsinki, 00290 Helsinki, Finland, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK, Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, 00290 Helsinki, Finland, ...