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  • Museo kohtaa kulttuurit : museoammattilaisten näkemyksiä monikulttuurisuuden tuomista haasteista ja mahdollisuuksista kulttuuriperintökasvatuksessa 
    Tupala, Tiia (2015)
    Aim of the study. Society has become more diverse during the last decade. Tolerance is the key to today's society. Knowing cultural heritage helps to construct cultural identity. Understanding cultural heritage and cultural identity helps to understand other cultures better. Museums have an important role in cultural heritage education. Museums can offer visitors things they can relate to and identify with. In this way museums can help to construct cultural identity. The aim of this study is to find out how different cultures are taken into account in museums according to professionals. The aim is also to find out how museums can help to construct cultural identity. Methods. This study is a qualitative case study. The data was collected from two professionals in museum field. The research data was collected by individual interviews using theme interviews. Data from the interviews was analysed by qualitative content-based analysis. The data was analysed by themes utilizing the themes from the interviews. Results and conclusions. The results show that the aim in museums is to have an interactive relationship with the museums visitors. Museums have also tried to get more diverse spectrum of visitors. The professionals consider multiculturalism as an important topic. Multiculturalism and the increasing diversity of society create new challenges for museums. Multiculturalism also brings new possibilities and new perspectives. Museums have an important role in the society as an advocate of tolerance. The professionals are worried that tolerance education is not appreciated enough in the society though. Museums can increase tolerance by providing information about different cultures. It is important to provide culture for the minorities also. Professionals see that museums can support the process of constructing cultural identity. It is important that museums highlight the issues visitors can identify with.
  • The Independent but Simultaneous Evolution of Host Resistance and Tolerance to Pathogens 
    Viitikko, Tanja (2023)
    Pathogens are everywhere in nature, so organisms have developed various defense mechanisms in order to defend themselves against the pathogens. Two of the defense mechanisms are known as resistance and tolerance. Resistance describes the host's ability to avoid being infected by the pathogen, while tolerance describes the host's ability to reduce the fitness loss caused by the infection. We assume that investing into resistance reduces the transmission rate of the pathogens and investing into tolerance reduces the host's virulence. Developing the defense mechanisms is costly to the host. In this thesis, we assume that the resources invested into resistance and tolerance are taken away from the host's fecundity. The independent but simultaneous evolution of resistance and tolerance is modeled with an SIS model. The model is studied with the methods of adaptive dynamics. We concentrate on finding continuously stable strategies, which serve as the evolutionary end points for the population. We study the varying ecological parameters to determine which strategies are optimal for the host in different environments. We find that for low values of transmission rate, the hosts favor resistance over tolerance. When the transmission rate increases, resistance is traded for tolerance and the host benefits more from high tolerance. Low values of virulence result in tolerance being favored over resistance. Increasing virulence leads to a change in the defense mechanism as for high values of virulence investing into resistance is more beneficial to the host. The same holds for recovery rate, as tolerance is favored for low values of recovery rate and changed for resistance when the recovery rate increases. Patterns and associations between resistance and tolerance are also studied. Positive correlation between resistance and tolerance is found with low values of transmission rate, low and high values of virulence and high values of recovery rate. Resistance and tolerance correlate negatively with high values of transmission rate, intermediate values of virulence and low values of recovery rate.

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