In today’s intensifying and turbulent working life, employees and organizations highly value ways of supporting careers that promote happiness, health and productivity. This dissertation examined the role of leadership-related ...

Water transport in porous materials is an important phenomenon in many practical applications. Modeling of water transport is often used to evaluate the performance of such applications in real conditions. The modeling can ...

Rikos kiehtoo. Historiantutkija ei ensi sijassa etsi rikoksen historiasta sensaatiota vaan vastausta ihmisen ja yhteiskunnan perustaviin kysymyksiin.

In this doctoral thesis, I addressed the coordination problem between literary studies and game theory by investigating the ways in which the systematic study of decisions can contribute to the understanding of literature. ...

Conventional macroeconomics regards money as a neutral tool. Neutralization gives rise to the problem of mediation, where money is an abstraction from the real flows of goods and services. Money then acts as an alienation ...

This study focuses on school experiences of Finnish early school leavers. The processes of leaving school before graduating were examined through narrative accounts of eleven Finnish early school leavers, who were in prison ...

Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) is a frequent and disabling injury. In the last decade the incidence of ATR has been increasing especially in middle aged men participating in recreational sports. Plantar flexion strength ...

This dissertation explores the prospects of postdeflationary substantive theorizing about truth. Postdeflationary theories define the concept of truth or the property of being a true truthbearer in a way that respects the ...

Problems in labour market matching can cause unemployment to remain high and vacancies unfilled. Public employment services (PES) provide job matching services and active labour market policies (ALMPs), which can promote ...