Universities across the U.S. are being obliged by state laws to allow concealed handguns on campus. Researcher Albion M. Butters writes how the John Morton Center examines this issue at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Cancer Drug Resistance laboratory is looking for two doctoral candidates to join a new and exciting research group in the University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Women who have experienced childhood trauma become mothers earlier than those with a more stable childhood environment shows a new study conducted in collaboration between the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki. The trauma children experience form living in war zones, natural disasters or perhaps even epidemics can have unexpected effects that resurface later in their lives.
Everything you wanted to know about the Baltic Sea is now gathered in one place. Go to MarineFinland.fi to find real-time data from the sea and the best places to visit. Or maybe you want to learn more about marine habitats, different species and changing sea nature? It’s all there.
Food Studies Online provides researchers archival content, visual ephemera, monographs and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Food studies is a relatively new field of study; key disciplines include history, biology, anthropology, environmental studies, business and sociology.
Issue 2/2020 of the Baltic Rim Economies (BRE) review was published on the 29th of May introducing articles on current topics concerning trade policy.
At the University of Turku, teaching is mainly organised remotely during the first period of the academic year 2020–2021. An exception are the first-year degree students whose orientation into the University community are organised on the Turku, Pori and Rauma campuses while also taking health and safety into account.
Glucocorticoids, which are widely used as treatment in intensive care, can nearly quadruple the death rate of patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome. Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, discovered the reason for the higher mortality. The findings are also important in the fight against COVID-19 disease.
Opioids regulate the feelings of pleasure and pain in the brain. A study by the national Turku PET Centre shows that age, sex and smoking influence μ-opioid receptor density in the brain. The results of the study help to better understand the differences between individuals when it comes to neuropsychiatric disorders.