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Category Archives: Research
How Safe Is a Time Stamp?
Margus Niitsoo’s doctoral dissertation focused on the safety of a time-stamping solution developed by the Estonian IT company GuardTime. “I found a better way to measure the safety of time-stamping, so it can be performed faster. In a way, it’s as effective as it can be – there’s no pushing further.” Continue reading
How The Weather Affects Our Emotions?
Many believe that the sun makes us happy and rain brings sorrow. Doctoral candidate in psychology Liisi Kööts and her supervisors Jüri Allik and Anu Realo compared weather data with individuals’ self-evaluated emotions. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged emotions, Estonia, mood, mood and weather, psychology, weather
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How to Protect The Rare Alvar Forests?
In her doctoral thesis, Elle Rajandu has studied the rare alvar forests and investigated factors contributing to their biodiversity. The research revealed that deadwood is particularly important for supporting species richness. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged alvar forests, biodiversity, bryophytes, deadwood, ecosystem, Estonian forests, lichens, Rapla
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Reading Human Gene Codes and Minds
In an interview with Sigrid Kõiv, UT professor of Cognitive and Forensic Psychology Talis Bachmann explains the possibilities and problems of reading other peoples’ minds. Professor’s research interests include consciousness studies, visual awareness, advertising effects and much more. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged brain, consciousness, genetics, genome, human mind, man, personality, personality traits
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How To Fix Our Image of Man?
Common understanding of man and the world needs serious involvement from philosophy. Philosopher Bruno Mölder discusses how philosophy of mind can assist in fixing our world view by combining improved folk psychology and corrected ideas from scientific research. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged astrology, esotericism, Estonia, folk psychology, human, man, philosophy, philosophy of mind, the self
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The Baltic States: Moving Together or Apart?
Andres Kasekamp, professor of political science at the University of Tartu published “A History of The Baltic States” with the Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. He presented the book and his views on cooperation of the Baltic states at Vilnius University. A short summary and the video of the presentation are enclosed. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Research, Social sciences
Tagged Baltic region, Baltic states, Baltics, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, political science
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What Is Dark Diversity?
The absent species in nature are as important as the existing ones, says the newly published theory from the University of Tartu ecologists. Researchers call species in the region that are absent but can potentially inhabit those particular ecological conditions ‘dark diversity’. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged biodiversity, dark diversity, dark matter, diversity, ecology, ecosystem
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