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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

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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

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From +34°C in India to -32°C in Estonia

This is a story of the first Indian student to have defended his PhD thesis in Molecular Biology at the University of Tartu. Gyaneshwer Chaubey arrived to Estonia on a cold and dark day in January 2006, his supervisor was waiting for him with two enormous jackets. Continue reading

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Estonians Don’t Get Enough Vitamin D

Even at the end of the summer season, one third of Estonians have too little vitamin D in their bodies. According to the doctoral thesis which Mart Kull defended at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, this is most severe during the winter, when 73% of the Estonian population has less vitamin D than required and 8% suffers from complete vitamin deficiency. Continue reading

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