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Category Archives: Research
7 Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Read the 7 recipes on how to become a top researcher, kindly shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged career, publishing, recipes, research, researcher, scientist, tips
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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Traffic Culture in Estonia: What Reflex Reflectors and Saint Christopher Have in Common
Natalia Hoffman, an independent researcher into the visual communication of Estonia, analyses the traffic culture in Estonia and questions the value of reflex reflectors which pedestrians are obliged to wear by law. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged accidents, cultural analysis, Estonia, pedestrian, reflectors, reflex reflectors, road safety, semiotics, traffic, traffic culture, travel
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What Do Women Appreciate in Men?
Men’s slender body is even more enticing to women than an alpha-male face, according to a study published in the Royal Society B journal and co-authored by Indrikis Krams, a visiting professor at the University of Tartu. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged attractiveness, body weight, immune system, macho, masculine, men, sex hormone, testosterone, women
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The Curious Case of Kalev’s Product Placement
Natalia Hoffman, an independent researcher into the visual communication of Estonia, analyses the packaging of two Kalev’s chocolate products and their placement in a local supermarket. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged analysis, chocolate, Christmas, cognitive semiotics, culture, Estonian, Kalev, product placement, semiotics, supermarket, sweets
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Weather Forecast for Christmas and Winter
Marko Kaasik, senior researcher at the Laboratory of Physics of Atmosphere at the UT Institute of Physics, predicts white Christmas and relatively warm January and February in Estonia. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Tartu
Tagged Christmas, forecast, meteorology, physics, weather, weather forecast, winter
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Where Do the European Romani (Gypsies) Come From?
Researching paternal genetic lineage, scientists of the Estonian Biocentre made it possible to more precisely identify the historical homeland of Romani (Gypsies), who now live in Europe as nomads. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged European, genetics, India, linguistics, origin, Roma, Romani
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