1 University of Helsinki, Department of Physical Sciences, Finland 2 Stockholm University, Department of Applied Environmental Science, Sweden 3 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Finland 4 Institute for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK 5 Helsinki Polytechnic, Department of Technology, Finland 6 School of Mathematical Science, Qu...

S. Riikonen,1 A. S. Foster,1,2 A. V. Krasheninnikov,1,3 and R. M. Nieminen1,* 1COMP/Department of Applied Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 1100, Helsinki FI-02015, Finland 2Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FI-33101 TUT Tampere, Finland 3Materials Physics Division, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 43, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland Received 1...

Volumetric Space–Time Structure of Physiological Noise in BOLD fMRI Arno Solin, Simo Särkkä, Aapo Nummenmaa, Aki Vehtari, Toni Auranen, Simo Vanni, and Fa-Hsuan Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Advanced Magnetic Imag...

Jorma K. Merikoski: Faculty of Natural Sciences, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland, E-mail: jorma.merikoski@uta. Pentti Haukkanen: Faculty of Natural Sciences, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland, E-mail: pentti.haukkanen@uta. Mika Mattila: Department of Mathematics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland, E-mail: mika.mattila@tut. *Corresponding Aut...

Authors/Task Force Members: Lars Rydén*(ESC Chairperson) (Sweden), Peter J. Grant* (EASD Chairperson) (UK), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Christian Berne (Sweden), Francesco Cosentino (Italy), Nicolas Danchin (France), Christi Deaton (UK), Javier Escaned (Spain), Hans-Peter Hammes (Germany), Heikki Huikuri (Finland), Michel Marre (France), Nikolaus Marx (Germany), Linda Mellbin (Sweden), Jan Oster...

G. Scotti, P. Kanninen, M. Mäkinen, T. Kallio, S. Franssila Department of Micro and Nanosciences, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 13500, Aalto 00076, Espoo, Finland Department of Chemistry, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16100, Aalto 00076, Espoo, Finland Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aalto University School of Science ...

OBJECTIVES To look for possible regional differences in the prevalence of rheumatoid factor (RF) in the presence and absence of arthritis. METHODS The study covered a representative sample of the Finnish population aged 30 years or over, primarily comprising 8000 people, of whom 7217 participated in the field survey carried out in 1978-80. RF from serum samples from 7116 subjects was determin...

BACKGROUND The concept of work ability (WA) has a 30-year history in Finland, where it has been used extensively in occupational health (OH) research and practice. The extent to which WA has been integrated into UK OH practice is unclear. AIMS (i) To compare knowledge, understanding and use of WA among OH nurses and physicians in the UK and Finland and (ii) to identify factors that influence ...

Human Siglec-10 can bind to vascular adhesion protein1 (VAP-1) and generate enzymatic products Elina Kivi, Kati Elima, Kristiina Aalto, Yvonne Nymalm, Kaisa Auvinen, Erkki Koivunen, Diana M. Otto, 7 Paul R. Crocker, Tiina A. Salminen, Marko Salmi, and Sirpa Jalkanen MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Tykistokatu 6A4, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland; and The Finnish National Graduate Sc...

Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins 2009; Goldscheider, Oláh and Puur 2010), we present evidence from Finland as a country well into the second phase of the so-called gender revolution. We examine how gender role attitudes relate to childbearing intentions at the onset of family life, intentions to have many (3 or ...