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Uutisen oletuskuva
News 01.06.2015
WiMAX is a wireless access technology which offers high speed broadband connections and provides a wider coverage area. It has inexpensive equipment’s and more importantly it brings about an acceptable QoS. Moreover its ease of deployment further nominates it among other wireless access networks. Nowadays, WiMAX is considered as one of the most common broadband technologies mainly deployed in developing countries.
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News 27.05.2015
Niklas Lundström’s dissertation is a study on the wicked game of regional development. It builds on complexity sciences and the concept of wicked problems. The aim of the study was to develop the concept of wicked problems further through the idea of a wicked game and to examine the compatibility of Citizens’ Juries in regional development.
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News 19.05.2015
Although long-run event studies have seen many advances over the years, the proper methodology for measuring the stock price performance of firms for periods of one to five years following certain corporate events is much debated in the literature. While a large number of recent studies consider applying the buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR) approach and the calendar time portfolio (CTP) method for investigating long-term anomalies, each of the methods is a subject to criticisms. A fundamental choice for many recent studies, therefore, concerns the measure of long-run stock price performance.
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News 07.05.2015
Pekka Kurvinen’s dissertation examines media professional’s inner speech, the fragmentary, narrative mental image. The data were collected by using biographic journals and career stories written by the informants. The study provides an input in the study of professionalism, management and narrative discussion, and it concentrates on the individual, implicit narrative, empirical desires, needs, and motivation through emotions.
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News 06.05.2015
Marika Salo’s thesis develops tools for rational business decision making. The criteria created determine when the liability is implied to directors and on the other hand, they are means for appropriate decision making. When the decisions are made within the criteria developed in this study, the decision making and risk taking are free from liability. The outcome of the process is good business decision. The financial result of the decision doesn’t determine whether the decision was “good”; of the most important concern is the proper decision making process.
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News 12.02.2015
The February issue of Research News presents the newest research projects, assistant professor Klaus Grobys and research group The Social and Cultural Phenomena.