University of Lapland

About: University of Lapland is a education organization based out in Rovaniemi, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Arctic & Context (language use). The organization has 665 authors who have published 1870 publications receiving 39129 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Rovaniemi & Lapin yliopisto.

What is it like to be at home: the experiences of five- to seven-year-old Finnish children

Abstract: What kind of place is the home for the children of today’s world where the tight working pace and schedules frame children’s lives and transitions between home and day care? The primary significance and value of home is unquestionable for children’s development and rarely have the adults stopped in order to listen to the children’s thoughts about how they experience home. The purpose of this article is to describe on the one hand the experiences that the children have of the home as a place and on the other hand to bring out how the children talk about their experiences. Twenty-nine Finnish day care children (aged 5–7) are the research subjects. This study uses the existential phenomenological method to describe children’s experiences as they appear to the children themselves. The children’s opinions on a home are an essential means for developing parenthood. In addition, the working hours in the modern society are worth reflecting: other surroundings hardly substitute for home.

Natural evolution of sleepiness. A 5‐year follow‐up study in a middle‐aged population

Abstract: The prevalence and natural evolution of sleepiness were investigated in a 5-year follow-up study in a middle-aged population in Finland. In the original study a structured sleep questionnaire was completed by 1190 subjects and a 5-year follow-up questionnaire was returned by 626. The prevalence of sleepiness, meaning here an unintentional tendency to fall asleep weekly in the course of everyday living, was 9.6% in the first survey and 10.6% 5 years later in the same cohort; 3.7% had been sleepy in both surveys. Sleep fragmentation, leg jerking and awakenings during sleep were common findings among sleepy subjects in both surveys. Shift-workers and those who had irregular working hours ran a risk of chronic sleepiness. Sleepiness was also associated with poor subjective health, obesity, depression, nervousness and tension. In particular, chronically sleepy subjects had an increased risk of sleepiness-related traffic accidents and premature retirement. Contrary to common findings from sleep laboratories, neither snoring nor self- or spouse-reported breathing pauses during sleep were significantly associated with long-term sleepiness in a non-selected middle-aged population. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to subjects suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness even if they do not have a history of respiratory or other known organic sleep disorder.

Intersectionality in Finnish adult education research: insights from the journal Aikuiskasvatus 2010–2016

Abstract: The article studies intersectionality in Finnish research on adult education. Specifically, we investigate the kinds of discussions on differences and their relations that are going on in such research. To this end we seek to identify intersectional approaches in the articles published in the journal Aikuiskasvatus between 2010 and 2016, a period marked by an increase in multiculturalism and social division as well as in gendered and sexual diversity in Finnish society. We understand intersectional differences as performative processes, not stable essences. Our study indicates that only few articles analysed intersectional differences explicitly. Implicitly recognised differences were mostly seen as givens. Categories such as ethnicity and race were found to be lacking in the data, but age, gender, social class, education, occupation and learning difficulties were discussed.

Seven Rules on Having a Happy Marriage Along With Work

Abstract: In modern society, men and women want to have a successful marriage and a career. However, people are faced with new demands at work and home, and therefore, finding a balance between work and fami...

Dynamic modelling of future glacier changes: mass-balance/elevation feedback in projections for the Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

Abstract: Future projections of the evolution of ice caps as well as ice sheets and consequent sea-level rise face several methodological challenges, one being the two-way coupling between ice flow and mass-balance models. Full two-way coupling between mass-balance models – or, in a wider scope, climate models – and ice flow models has rarely been implemented due to substantial technical challenges. Here we examine some coupling effects for the Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, by analysing the impacts of different coupling intervals on mass-balance and sea-level rise projections. By comparing coupled to traditionally deployed uncoupled strategies, we prove that neglecting the topographic feedbacks in the coupling leads to underestimations of 10–20% in sea-level rise projections on century timescales in our model. As imposed climate scenarios increasingly change mass balance, uncertainties in the unknown evolution of the fast-flowing outlet glaciers decrease in importance due to their deceleration and reduced mass flux as they thin and retreat from the coast. Parameterizing mass-balance adjustment for changes in topography using lapse rates as a cost-effective alternative to full coupling produces satisfactory results for modest climate change scenarios. We introduce a method to estimate the error of the presented partially coupled model with respect to as yet unperformed two-way fully coupled results.