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Author Archives: Villu Päärt
Your Personality Is an Open Book
General belief has long held that part of our personality always remains hidden from outside observers. However, a team of University of Tartu psychologists recently conducted a survey of the Estonian Genome Project’s gene donors which seriously challenges this assumption. The study indicates that it is impossible to hide anything from a relative or a close friend. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged genome project, personality studies, personality traits, psychology
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How to Make Computations Whilst Preserving Privacy?
If a country’s supermarket chains would like to know who sells more milk or cheese, it would be virtually impossible without spying on competitors’ accounting data. This problem has a solution: Sharemind allows computations on input data to be made without compromising privacy. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged computation, confidential data, IT, privacy, Sharemind
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Tartu Students on a Moon Mission
About 200 students from 19 universities across Europe are working hard to get a satellite into lunar orbit in 2014. After launch the University of Tartu students will be in charge of steering the satellite into lunar orbit and ensuring that it stays there. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Student life
Tagged ESMO, Estcube, Moon, satellite, student project
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The Afghanistan Mission Strains Body Like a Marathon
Serving a 6-month mission in Afghanistan showed similar effects on Estonian soldiers’ health as running a marathon. Continue reading
Estonians Don’t Get Enough Vitamin D
Even at the end of the summer season, one third of Estonians have too little vitamin D in their bodies. According to the doctoral thesis which Mart Kull defended at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, this is most severe during the winter, when 73% of the Estonian population has less vitamin D than required and 8% suffers from complete vitamin deficiency. Continue reading
How to Detect GHB in Your Drink
GHB is a “club drug” used at nightclubs and parties. It is often used to facilitate sexual assault as it induces memory loss, which makes it difficult for the victim to recall what happened. Unfortunately, detecting GHB isn’t easy, since the fluid is colorless and odorless, and its slightly salty taste may remain unnoticed when mixed with other drinks. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged analytical chemistry, drink, drug, GHB, night club, party, test
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