Dissertation press releases

Lifestyle habits significantly affect pelvic floor health

MA Jiaqi Zhu’s dissertation investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying executive control's influence on first language and second language metaphor comprehension across varying familiarity levels.

YTM Tuija Kuorikoski defends their doctoral dissertation in Social Work "Aikuissosiaalityön moniäänisen tietopohjan rakentuminen".

M.Sc. (Econ.) Konsta Lavaste studied topics related to the special features of healthcare markets in his article-based dissertation in Economics. According to research, patient freedom of choice can improve public healthcare provision.

A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä shows that using infrared sauna after exercise may accelerate recovery and support performance in team-sport athletes. The method appears particularly promising d

In his PhD thesis work, Jouni Ruotsalainen determined the Q values of two double-beta decaying and one beta decaying nucleus. For this purpose, he measured the mass difference of the decay parent and daughter nuclei using the JYFLTRAP double-Penning trap.

Xiaoxuan Hu examined how sensitive various aquatic species were to enhanced sulfate concentrations and conducted a multi-species modeling to derive predicted no effect concentrations for sulfate in boreal freshwater and in the coastal Baltic Sea brackish.

In her doctoral dissertation in Economics, Sanni Kiviholma, studied immigrants in the labour market as well as the impact of immigration on the labour market. According to her findings, integration measures facilitate entry to the labour market.

In his doctoral dissertation on management and leadership, M.Sc. Timo Vilpponen investigated the significance of implementing a lean-inspired production system for an organisation’s internal social responsibility.

Sonja Kujanpää has developed and commissioned a new laser spectroscopy setup, called RAPTOR at the Accelerator Laboratory. RAPTOR will strengthen the ability to address questions about how atomic nuclei change across the nuclear chart.

Hennariikka Mäenpää's doctoral dissertation results show that tardigrade communities are not uniform across peatlands. They vary particularly with peatland type, but management history, microtopography, and moss species also play important roles.

Abhishek Sarkar developed context-sensitive models that help identify driver inattentiveness in different driving situations.