A new application developed at the University of Turku, Finland, can detect atrial fibrillation that causes strokes. Atrial fibrillation can be detected with the mobile phone application without any extra equipment. The mobile application can save lives all over the world as timely diagnosis of atrial fibrillation is crucial for effective stroke prevention.
Researchers of the University of Turku, Finland, have studied a timber elephant population in Myanmar and discovered that Asian elephant personality manifests through three different factors. The personality factors identified by the researchers are Attentiveness, Sociability and Aggressiveness.
The international Developments in Language Theory (DLT) Conference focusing on formal languages, automata theory, and related topics has decided to create the Salomaa Prize, which is awarded for the first time this year. The Prize is given to a researcher who has advanced automata theory, and it is named after Academician Arto Salomaa, a long-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of Turku as well as the founder of the DLT Conference.
Photos from the Master’s degree graduation ceremonies of the Faculties of Law, Humanities, and Science and Engineering as well as Turku School of Economics are now available for download in the University’s Media Bank.
The Master’s degree graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Science and Engineering in December 2017.
An international research team has shown that the modelling of species distributions in Amazonia requires information not only of climate but also of soils. At the same time, they found considerable inaccuracies and other problems in the available soil maps. For conservation planning, it is important to obtain reliable information on where and how widely different species are distributed in Amazonia.
Scientists have been familiar with Finnish landforms for decades. Now, however, researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new landform previously unknown to science with the aid of laser technology. After the initial discovery in Finland, similar forms have also been found in Sweden.
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.
Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover which species adult dragonflies and damselflies prey upon, as modern laboratory techniques enabled the study of the insects’ diet. In the study, prey DNA was extracted from the tiny dragonfly droppings and the researchers managed to identify dozens of prey species from the samples. The results shed light on dragonflies’ position in natural food webs with an unprecedented specificity.
There are nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2018 onwards. The call for applications is open 1–20 September and positions are open to all the 16 doctoral programmes.
Like many other cereal grain food products, beer contains several chemical compounds which can be considered as beneficial for our body. In his doctoral dissertation, MSc Juha-Matti Pihlava showed that the chemical diversity of hordatines in barley and barley malt beer is much larger than previously know. He also found that wheat and rye malt beers contain benzoxazinoids, which in other studies have been indicated to have anticarcinogenic properties.
