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Tag Archives: PhD thesis
Nature or City? The Brain Makes the Difference
When you see a picturesque forest lake from your window, the brain is working differently than when the view includes a maze of tall buildings. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged artificial, brain, brain imaging, experiment, natural, PhD, PhD thesis, study, view
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Can The Financial Crisis Snowball Be Avoided?
Andres Kuusk from UT Institute of Economics argues that sound macroeconomic fundamentals and policies do not protect countries against crisis caused by ‘financial contagion’. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged economics, financial contagion, financial crisis, herding behaviour, international finance, investor behaviour, macroeconomic fundamentals, PhD, PhD thesis
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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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140 Years Ago Wolves Still Ate People in Estonia
On a cold day, a tipsy drum player happened to come home in the dark in Tartu County. While on the road, he was attacked by a pack of wolves. Only some rags and bare bones were left of the … Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research
Tagged humans and wolves, man-eating wolves, PhD, PhD thesis, wolf, wolves in Estonia
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The Historical Jesus: The Problem of Science in the Context of Religion
Ain Riistan, a researcher of religious studies at UT and an associate professor at Tartu Theological Seminary, discusses his PhD thesis entitled “The Historical Jesus: the Problem of Science in the Context of Religion”. Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Research
Tagged historical Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Christ, PhD, PhD thesis, religion studies, religious studies
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