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Review of Anna-Maija Multas PhD thesis from 2022: New health information literacies. A nexus analytical study. Acta universitatis OuluensisB Humaniora 192, University of Oulu, Oulu

There is no inherent meaning in endurance experiences. The experience is accorded meaning in dialogue with the world around us. In this critical exploration of endurance running, endurance runners’ accounts of their consumption of endurance are analysed to reveal what they indicate about contemporary society. The findings question the idea - prevalent in consumer research - that endurance experien

Since 2011, LUNARC has aimed to provide an interactive HPC environment for its resource users. Several different architectures have been used, but since 2013, we have been using a remote desktop environment based on Cendio's ThinLinc [1] combined with a custom backend framework, GfxLauncher [2], supporting hardware-accelerated graphics applications and Jupyter Notebooks [3] submitted to the backen

This article examines how the principle of ‘the best interests of the child’, as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), is interpreted, constructed, and applied in court cases involving child custody disputes. These disputes provide a globally relevant example of the CRC’s social dynamics, as they often involve interactions and negotiations among diverse professional groups.

In the 1970s, researchers and theoreticians of states of consciousnessjointly discussed hypnosis and psychedelic alterations of consciousness,but recent research has mostly kept these topics apart. This paperdiscusses the similarities and differences of hypnosis and psychedelicalterations of consciousness, stressing that states of consciousnessshould not be defined by their preceding contexts. Pre

Background: Knee replacement (KR) is the most common osteoarthritis (OA) related surgery. Studies suggest that there are major international and national disparities in pre-operative information, support and access to rehabilitation which have a substantial impact on patients’ perceived outcomes of the KR. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore experiences and perceptions of the care pat

In seven billion years, the Sun will be dead. As stars like the Sun pass from their present state to that of a dead white dwarf star, they undergo two phases of extremely high luminosity and radius—the red giant branch and the asymptotic giant branch—during which they will lose half or more of their mass. These changes to the star have a significant impact on orbiting planets, asteroids, and comet