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Tag Archives: PhD thesis
What Belarusian people joke about
Anastasiya Fiadotava writes about the jokes that Belarusian people make about their families and politics. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Research
Tagged Belarus, Belarusian, family humour, humour, jokes, Lukashenko, PhD, PhD thesis, political jokes
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How Lyudmyla leads semiotic research in a Moscow agency
In an interview to UT Blog, fresh PhD Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva unveils how she leads semiotic research at a marketing research agency in Moscow. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Research
Tagged cultural codes, marketing, Moscow, PhD, PhD thesis, Russia, semiotics, semiotics of culture, Ukraine
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A Discovery Puts the Brakes on a Cancer-Inducing Virus
A freshly defended PhD thesis outlines novel inhibitors of the cancer-inducing human papillomavirus. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research, Studies
Tagged biomedicine, cancer, cervical cancer, HPV, papilloma virus, PhD, PhD thesis
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How Selective Is Your Attention?
Why do we notice a remarkably beautiful person in a crowd? In his PhD thesis, Andero Uusberg studied specific mechanisms that the brain uses to pay attention. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences, Tartu
Tagged affective attention, attention, attention system, PhD, PhD thesis, psychology
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How Understanding Our Mobility Makes Societies Smarter
Human geographer Olle Järv shows how understanding personal mobility improves urban and transportation planning, and helps to identify social segregation. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged CDR data, ICT-based sensor technologies, mobile phone based data, mobility, personal mobility, PhD, PhD thesis, privacy, smart society, urbanisation
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My Farm Is My Stage: Insights into Estonian Rural Tourism
Ethnologist Ester Bardone explores how rural experiences become commodities that are staged and performed by tourism entrepreneurs, backed up by institutions and media. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged Estonia, ethnography, experience economy, hospitality services, performance, PhD, PhD thesis, rural life, rural tourism, rurality
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