Tag: Peer review
The Academy of Finland allocates 41 million euros to research in life sciences, health and the environment
The funding of the academy project is intended for the establishment of research groups and covers various research costs. It is awarded to Finnish universities or research organizations that are responsible for using the funding on behalf of the Academy project. The duration of the funding is four years, during which the Academy of Finland…
The Academy of Finland finances 59 new Academy of Natural Sciences and Technology research grants
This funding round is the first application round in the Academy’s renewed funding systems for early researchers. The applicants for the Academy of Natural Sciences and Technology researcher grants applied for a total of almost 220 million euros. Granted funding is managed by researchers’ organizations, which manage its use according to research needs. The flexibility…
25 million euros in funding from Finland’s recovery and survival plan granted to local and regional research infrastructures
The funding was granted on the basis of Finland’s national recovery and survival plan (RRP). The plan is part Finland’s sustainable growth program, which supports ecologically, socially and economically sustainable growth. The granted funding is a total of 25 million euros. The call for applications collected a total of 103 applications. FIRI 2022: Call for…
Science Round-Up: ‘Baby talk’ is a universal phenomenon and similar across languages, study shows
A joint study from Aarhus University and the University of York shows that the way of communicating with babies and toddlers, child-directed-speech (CBT), is a global phenomenon with many identical aspects that are shared by many languages. What is known as CBT generally involves high-pitched, slow-paced and animated speech. PhD student Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox,…
Do not buy random corona rapid test, warns study. Some of them are sad!
A study conducted by the Central Jutland Region on behalf of the Danish Agency for Security of Supply reveals that some corona rapid tests are sad. There are 46 different kinds of throat, nose and saliva tests approved for sale in Denmark, and one of them had an accuracy of only 2.5 percent when detecting…
Finnish research: The third vaccine gives working-age people good protection against omicron
“It is important that immunity develops after the third dose of the vaccine. Presumably, it also protects against infection and, of course, serious disease. Ilkka Julkunen, a professor of virology at the University of Turku, told Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday. Julkunen is one of the factors in the pending peer review. More than a third…
Use of two effective and safe Covid vaccines, preliminary research results
According to a preliminary study, the combined use of adenovirus vector vaccines and mRNA vaccines is effective, the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) said on Wednesday. This means that people who received the first dose of AstraZeneca Covid can safely take the second vaccine, such as the one made by Pfizer. As the…
Danish study: Most infected citizens are not detected
The study has not yet been peer reviewed, which means it has not yet been reviewed by independent experts. Four Danish and international researchers are behind the study. One of them is Steen Rasmussen, who is a theoretical physicist and center director at the University of Southern Denmark. He believes that the study is so…
The Internet and what it has become
However, since the time desktops and modem connections have been cramped, we have come a long way. Most of us now have broadband in our homes and smartphones in our pockets as we travel through the world. In 2019, there were 5.11 billion individual mobile phone users worldwide, and 2.71 billion of them use smartphones.…
OVERVIEW: We know about the South African corona variant
On Saturday, Denmark registered the first case with a South African variant of coronavirus. It is reminiscent in some respects of the British and is more contagious than the varieties that have been in the country so far. Here is an overview of what you know about the new variant: * The South African variant…