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Category Archives: Research
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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European Football in The Iron Grip of Elite Clubs
The real game of football is being played between UEFA and the rich clubs in the dark corners of the offices of managers and directors, and out of the reach of the stadium lights. For clubs, players are not much more than a raw material in the final product: the game. And the product is there to be sold to the highest-bidding broadcasting company. Fans are there to buy their tickets and merchandise and clubs do not have warm feelings towards their fans, in fact it is often a case of unrequited love. Continue reading
Posted in General, Research, Social sciences
Tagged Berlusconi, ECA, European football, FIFA, football, G14, UEFA
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“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”
I’m a Mobilitas-funded post-doc in Tartu University, working in the lab of Tanel Tenson in the Institute of Technology. I write a blog about my research, and I’ve been kindly invited to write a guest post for the UT blog. … Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged biology, evolution, post-doc
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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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Podcast: Museum of The Future (Part 2/2)
In the second part of the “Museum of the Future” podcast, museology experts discuss the Mona Lisa, Peter the Great’s boot and other “real objects” that people hope to see in museums. Participating: Mariann Raisma, director of the University of Tartu History Museum, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, head of the University of Tartu’s Department of Journalism and Communication and Agnes Aljas, a doctoral student at the University of Tartu and Research Secretary at the Estonian National Museum. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Research, Social sciences
Tagged future museum, history museum, Mona Lisa, museology, museum, Peter the Great
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Tip: How to Survive Your Seated Lifestyle
Long periods of seated immobility have become the norm, bringing in a multitude of serious health problems, even death. Based on 40 years’ work in rehabilitation medicine and his recently defended PhD at the University of Tartu in Estonia, doctor Ragnar Viir gives an easy-to-follow tip on how to survive the seated lifestyle. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged exercise, lifestyle, muscle tension, myoton, PhD, rehabilitation medicine, seated lifestyle, sitting
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A Robot Salesman?
A small Tartu-based company has commissioned a team of robotics engineers at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Technology to build a prototype of a small, knee-high or slightly taller, advertising robot. It will be able to make sounds, move around, flash lights, offer candies or distribute flyers, and talk to people. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged advertising, marketing, robot, robotics, salesman
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