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Celebration of Advent is one of the Finnish traditions of celebrating Christmas. The tradition arrived in Finland in the late 1800s from Sweden, and it created a new way of celebrating Christmas. The Finnish Christmas Celebrations feature explores Finnish traditions and customs.

​On each Advent Sunday, a candle is lit to celebrate the occasion. It is traditional to light one candle on the first Sunday, two on the second, and finally four on the last Advent Sunday.

When people retire from work life, they sleep approximately 20 minutes longer than before retirement. The quality of sleep also improves, as retired people experience less early morning awakenings or nonrestorative sleep, unlike in their last working years.

Xenon gas was studied at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Turku University Hospital, Finland in 2009–2014 as a treatment for minimising the damage of cardiac arrest, and now it enters drug development in spring 2018. NeuroproteXeon is advancing the study of xenon in a pivotal phase III trial. An earlier study discovered that xenon protects the white matter in the brain from damage and the latest research showed that xenon can also protect the heart.

In the past 30 years, substantial R&D efforts in the field of Earth Observation (EO) have been made globally, but the observation data has not yet been commercialised on a larger scale. The European Regional Development Fund has financed the international BalticSatApps project, which aims at speeding up the market uptake of EO data in the Baltic Sea Region. The project is led by the Brahea Centre of the University of Turku.

The University of Turku has long traditions in multidisciplinary sea and maritime research. At the moment, the University is recruiting two assistant or associate professors (tenure track) and a research director.

For decades, machine translation has been discussed to replace humans, but the goal has not yet been achieved. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a newer development in machine translation, and there are high expectations for it. The School of Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Turku organises courses on translation technology and machine translation with emphasis on practical approach to modern technology. Neural machine translation is marketed in the media as the solution to the problems between languages. Is that also the case beneath the surface?

Application for the programmes opens 1 December 2017 and ends on 31 January 2018 at 3pm (Finnish time). The application form is online at studyinfo.fi.

The Master’s Degree Programme in Nordic Cultural and Social Resilience (NOCURE), tackles the questions of how societies react and adjust to cultural, environmental and social change.

Neutron stars are made out of cold ultra-dense matter. How this matter behaves is one of the biggest mysteries in modern nuclear physics. Researchers developed a new method for measuring the radius of neutron stars which helps them to understand what happens to the matter inside the star under extreme pressure.

The French government has given Louis Clerc, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Turku, the Chevalier decoration of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, the national order of France for distinguished academics, on 13 October 2017. Professor Clerc received the recognition for his contributions to the cultural relations between Finland and France.