Adil Yazigi's dissertation is about Gaussian processes, their representations and regularity.
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The problems encountered with battery charging by wind turbines are that the charging is poor in both low and high wind speeds. The main objective of Bertil Brännbacka’s dissertation is to find methods of improving the charging of batteries at low and high wind speeds by developing auxiliary devices using original components.
Anu Norrgrann’s dissertation aims at providing an understanding of how products function as symbolic resources in business networks. It builds on the resource interaction discussion within the network research tradition (IMP) and addresses the symbolic dimension of embeddedness and its importance for the ability of products to function as value-providing resources for intermediate and final customers.
The Institute for Multilingualism, a joint venture between the University of Vaasa and Åbo Akademi University, hosted an expert seminar at the University of Vaasa on 4th–5th of June 2015. The seminar was the first meeting for an international research network on multilingualism called Workshop on Multilingualism. The purpose of the seminar was to plan future cooperation and establish connections between different countries and fields of science. The theme of the first seminar was language needs.
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.
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.
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.
Linda Turunen’s dissertation seeks to contribute to the literature by providing insight into what constitutes luxury and how it is determined by consumers.
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.
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.