Robotics and Intelligent Machines
When humans look at the world, they can automatically quantify important distances, even without binocular disparity due to previous knowledge about similar situations. Humans are also able…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The study examines the unofficial urban names used by the residents of Maunula, a suburban area in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Moreover, the study touches upon the etymology and sosio-…
Systems Software
To meet the Finnish CO2 reduction goals, the Finnish government set a goal of increasing the amount of electric cars from 10,000 (0.352%) to 700,000 (25%) by 2035. We studied how the current…
Biochemistry
Hydrogen peroxide is a harmful oxidizing agent produced as a side product of the metabolism of many organisms. Catalase is an enzyme which occurs naturally in these organisms to facilitate t…
Plant Sciences
My thesis examines the occurrence of certain mathematical phenomena in the phyllotaxis and seed formations of certain plants. I begin by presenting the mathematical background behind the Fib…
Mathematics
This essay aims to understand the basics of the four color theorem, why it was so hard to prove, and why false proofs failed to prove the theorem. The four color theorem states that a map ca…
Biomedical Engineering
This project focused on creating a motion capture suit for lumbar spine and a software for displaying the recorded movements. The device is meant for athletes, such as swimmers and hockey pl…
Physics and Astronomy
The objective of the research was to find out which factors influence to the cooling characteristics of a liquid in different containers for example a cooling time of hot drinks in different…
Systems Software
Currently, the most commonly used mobile keyboard layout is QWERTY which was designed for ten fingers in the 1870s. The biggest flaws of QWERTY in the mobile environment are its small key si…
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of this project was developing a system for measuring the efficiency of single-stage electromagnetic launchers. This device was designed to measure the amount of energy dumped into…
Mathematics
\textit{Draw of choice} (Finnish: "hutunkeitto") in Finnish baseball can be seen as a finite two-player game with winning and losing positions. By inspecting winning and losing positions one…
Systems Software
We created an encryption software for encryption of personal files. We started our work with online questionnaire so we could have base requirements for our software. At the same time we stu…
Systems Software
In this paper we describe a composing program written in Python. The purpose of the program is to ease the work of a human composer by providing inspiration. It is also possible to generate…
Systems Software
Working safety in technical work is an important thing in elementary schools. It is learned as a side subject in technical work, but we think that with traditional learning methods students…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
The purpose of our project was to design an educational game about animals adapting to an urban environment. It is meant to be used as a tool in elementary schools. The urbanizing modern wor…
The issue of this study was about the unnecessary work that was caused by the fish plantations the high mortality rates of the fry and finding biodegradable materials for roe incubators. The…
EppaBasic is a web browser based programming language especially designed for educational use. Our work consists of designing the language and writing a compiler, a runtime and an editor for…
Chemistry
Although music is characterized as the world’s most common shared language, it can be quite abstract and complex. It is my mission to revolutionize the way how people learn to play and compr…