Agora Center: Recent submissions
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Developing a Conceptual Framework for Investigating Communication Supporting Community Resilience
(MDPI, 2015)In crisis management, cooperation within the response network is seen as crucial. Usually, this network refers to authorities and nongovernmental organizations, such as the Red Cross. However, the authors argue that to ... -
Dyslexia : early Identification and Prevention: Highlights from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia
(Springer, 2015)Over two decades of Finnish research, monitoring children born with risk for dyslexia has been carried out in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD). Two hundred children, half at risk, have been assessed ... -
Mothers’ non-standard working and childcare-related challenges : A comparison between lone and coupled mothers
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to particularly focus on lone-mother families, comparing the childcare-related challenges experienced by working lone mothers and coupled mothers in three European countries in the ... -
Monitoring Training Adaptation With a Submaximal Running Test in Field Conditions
(Human Kinetics, 2016)Regular monitoring of adaptation to training is important for optimizing training load and recovery, which is the main factor in successful training. Purpose: To investigate the usefulness of a novel submaximal running ... -
Customer Perception Driven Product Evolution : Facilitation of Structured Feedback Collection
(SCITEPRESS, 2016)Competitive environment not only requires effective advertising strategies from the product producers and service providers, but also to do comprehensive and sufficient analysis of their customers to understand their ... -
Prolonged sleep restriction induces changes in pathways involved in cholesterol metabolism and inflammatory responses
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Sleep loss and insufficient sleep are risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases, but data on how insufficient sleep contributes to these diseases are scarce. These questions were addressed using two approaches: an ... -
Ruoansulatuskanavan tähystysten monimuoto-opetus kirurgian ja sisätautien runkokoulutuksessa
(Suomen lääkäriliitto, 2016)Lähtökohdat - Keski-Suomen keskussairaalassa on vuodesta 2011 järjestetty gastroenterologian monimuotoista perehdytyskoulutusta, joka on pakollinen kaikille kirurgian ja sisätautien alojen runkokoulutettaville. Tavoitteena ... -
Tietokoneavusteinen suomen kielen kvantiteetin harjoittelu: venäjänkielisen suomea opettelevan lapsen ja suomenkielisen luku- ja kirjoitushäiriöisen lapsen vertailu
(Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen yhdistys, 2011)Kaksi ensiluokkalaista lasta, oppimispulmaton venäjänkielinen suomenoppija ja suomenkielinen luku- ja kirjoitushäiriöinen lapsi, joilla kummallakin oli ongelmia vokaalikvantiteetin tunnistustaidossa, osallistuivat ... -
Identity Development in Adulthood : Introduction
(Psychology Press; Society for Research on Identity Formation, 2016)In line with Erikson’s suggestions, increasing empirical evidence substantiates that considerable identity development takes place over the course of adulthood. What then does identity development during adulthood entail? ... -
Crisis Communication Competence in Co-Producing Safety with Citizen Groups
(M D P I AG, 2016)The aim of this article is to explore interpersonal communication competence needed by crisis communication and management experts when co-operating with citizen groups in response to emergencies. Moreover, the purpose is ... -
Use cases for operational decision support system
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Parental Identity and Its Relation to Parenting and Psychological Functioning in Middle Age
(Psychology Press, 2016)Objective. This article focuses on identity as a parent in relation to parenting and psychological functioning in middle age. Design. Drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, 162 ... -
Identity Formation in Adulthood : A Longitudinal Study from Age 27 to 50
(Psychology Press; Society for Research on Identity Formation, 2016)Longitudinal patterns of identity formation were analyzed in a representative cohort group of Finnish men and women born in 1959 across ages 27, 36, 42, and 50. The data were drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of ... -
The Attentional Demand of Automobile Driving Revisited: Occlusion Distance as a Function of Task- Relevant Event Density in Realistic Driving Scenarios
(Sage Publications, Inc.; Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2016)Objective: We studied the utility of occlusion distance as a function of task-relevant event density in realistic traffic scenarios with self-controlled speed. Background: The visual occlusion technique is an established ... -
Seamless Learning Environments in Higher Education with Mobile Devices and Examples
(I G I Global; Information Resources Management Association, 2016)The use of seamless learning environments that have the potential to support lifelong learning anytime and anywhere has become a reality. In this sense, many educational institutions have started to consider introducing ... -
Language development, literacy skills and predictive connections to reading in Finnish children with and without familial risk for dyslexia
(Sage publications, 2010)Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in which children at familial risk for ... -
Enhancing citizen response to crises through communication : investigating expert views
(Inderscience Publishers, 2015)The purpose of this paper is to clarify how citizen response to crises is currently being enhanced, and how it might be increased, by emergency response organisations in member states of the European Union via communication ... -
Parental literacy predicts children’s literacy: A longitudinal family-risk study
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011)This family-risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child–parent dyads where both had dyslexia (FR-D) ... -
Metrics Framework for Cycle-Time Reduction in Software Value Creation
(IARIA, 2015)Agile software development methodologies driving cycle-time reduction have been shown to improve efficiency, enable shorter lead times and place a stronger focus on customer needs. They are also moving the process ... -
Is School a Better Environment than Home for Digital Game-Based Learning? : The Case of GraphoGame
(Jyväskylän Yliopisto; Agora Center, 2015)This study investigated how the use of an online reading game differs in home and school environments. First and second graders (N = 194) participated in an 8-week training during which they used the reading program ...