Tag: University of Oxford
Interview: Is Putin A Modern-Day Tsar?
Andrei Zorin is a cultural historian and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford. In a recent interview with Vazha Tavberidze of RFE/RL Georgian Service, Zorin discusses whether Russian President Vladimir Putin meets the criteria of a modern-day tsar, Russia’s long legacy of authoritarian rulers, and how Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may have been…
De-risking: I want your market, but you need to slow down tech development
© Provided by Xinhua Simply put: While fearing being held hostage by China on the demand side, Washington and its allies also fear being unable to hold China hostage on the supply side. These moves disregard the fact that interdependence is a natural result of economic globalization, and economic insecurity has nothing to do with…
Virtual consultation can significantly reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare: Research
A new study led by Sara Shaw and the team aims to answer this question. The study, titled “The Role of Virtual Consultation in Developing Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review,” was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. This study examines the environmental impact of virtual healthcare consulting and how it could…
Why Old Norse myths persist in popular culture
From Wagner to William Morris in the late 19th century, via Tolkien’s dwarves and CS Lewis The final battleuntil last year controversial film The NorthmanScandinavian gods and heroes have been central to the stories we tell ourselves. As a professor of medieval European literature, I have been exploring Old Norse mythology since my undergraduate degree.…
Denmark among the world’s most tech-enabled countries
African games Looking at the subcategories, Denmark was particularly high for Governance (2nd), and also well placed for Impact and People (both 7th). The Danes are in 11th place for Technology. Finland, Germany, South Korea and Norway completed the top 10, while other notables included the UK (12), Japan (13), Australia (14), China (23), Russia…
How taxing the rich can help everyone
These countries, like the UAE or Qatar, usually have another stable source of income, such as oil or other natural resources, from which they can cover the costs of development, education, healthcare, etc. They also rarely provide any social security except for their own citizens, who often do not need it . This is the…
The skill of silence and the manipulation of trust? Prosecution for the NATO debate in Finland
Indeed, when the anti-NATO perspective was set out, for example, in articles on 24, 25 and 27 April Erkki Tuomioja, Anna Kontula and Hassan Kaafi Halane the condition of each article was a lack of support or criticism from the person’s point of view. To the alleged opposition of the Somali community, they added the…
Research: Children placed in out-of-home care as adults face more problems than their peers
According to a joint study by Finland and the United Kingdom, children placed in outpatient care are at increased risk of having problematic consequences in adulthood. The research carried out by researchers from the University of Helsinki, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oxford was exceptionally extensive and covered all children born…
Research: Children placed in out-of-home care as adults face more problems than their peers
According to a joint study by Finland and the United Kingdom, children placed in outpatient care are at increased risk of having problematic consequences in adulthood. The research carried out by researchers from the University of Helsinki, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oxford was exceptionally extensive and covered all children born…
Scientific conclusion: Life expectancy fell globally under COVID-19 but increased in Denmark
An analysis of data from Europe, the USA and Chile carried out by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Oxford reveals a large-scale reduction in life expectancy in 2020, except in Denmark and Norway, where it actually increased. The pandemic caused the largest one-year decline in life expectancy in Western…
Escape from Afghanistan
Cast: Haji Nader and Mahnaz, residents of Mazar-e-Sharif, Ahmed, Kabulbo who fled to Tajikistan, Kalina Czwarnog from the Polish aid organization Fundacja Ocalenie, Bogdana Bogdan, residents of the Polish border village of Krynki, Ruben Andersson, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, Juma Lomani, hazar activist in Stockholm, Brian Castner, war crimes investigator…
Expert group: Denmark must continue to be prepared for corona
– The current epidemiological situation for covid-19 in Denmark is generally good, the report states. – The roll-out of the vaccination program has led to a significant decrease in admissions, intensive care units and deaths related to covid-19, as the target groups with the greatest risk of a serious course of covid-19 have been vaccinated.…
There are still questions about the expected return of the flu
Earlier this week, the Finnish government announced plans to lift restrictions that have kept people socially distant and safer from getting coronavirus infection after 80 percent of the population has been vaccinated against Covid disease. But what does it mean for other infectious diseases – will the flu come back when life gradually returns to…
The University of Helsinki is the only Finnish university on the top 200 list
The University of Oxford in the UK was declared the best university in the world (public or private) for the sixth year in a row. The California Institute of Technology (USA) and Harvard University (USA) ranked second, while Stanford University (USA) ranked fourth. U.S. universities rose from the top eight to ten, strengthening the country’s…
On Monday, the Prime Minister will give status to the corona in Denmark
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) convenes a press conference on Monday, where she will give a status on the corona situation in Denmark. The press conference will take place at 2 pm in the Prime Minister’s Office, it appears from a notice convening the meeting. This is the first time since 24 February that a…
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli is Head of Research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. He has mainly studied the biological diversity of the tropics and worked to map the threats from environmental degradation. For this he has received several awards and he is today one of the world’s most cited researchers. Alexandre Antonelli’s Summer is about…
Cool the planet
Grandiose plans to cool the earth and save the planet from overheating by using low-tech balloon flights that spray particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar radiation back to outer space has been delayed, no one knows for sure when or if it will continue. The planetary cooling scheme called the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment…
Covishield is not effective for people over 64: Owaisi
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 1 (ANI): Asks about the effectiveness of the Serunm Institute Covishield, the coronavirus vaccine, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said it was not “as effective” for humans over 64 years. “According to the German government, Covishield is not as effective for people over 64. The vaccine is…
COVID-19 shaves 1 year of US life
The COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out more than a decade of life expectancy improvements in the United States and increased racial and ethnic inequality. according to new government data. Life expectancy decreased by one year in 2020 to 77.8 years, a figure seen by 2006, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said…
Live COVID-19 updates: Russia logs 13,447 new cases
BEIJING, FEBRUARY 18 (Xinhua) – The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. – – – – MOSCOW – Russia registered 13,447 more COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, up from 12,828 a day earlier, the country’s COVID-19 response center said on Thursday. The national number has thus increased…
"Brain waste" squanders potential and talent in Finland
While the Finnish government has announced ambitious employment targets, many highly qualified foreigners and Finnish returnees lament how difficult it is to find steady employment in their own fields in Finland. Anne*'s experiences of job-seeking in Finland are similar to many foreigners. Originally from Denmark, she moved to Finland in 2014. At the time, she…
Tuesday’s magazines: AstraZeneca vaccine for most in Finland, less passports, more snow, microplastics on the beaches
Finland’s largest daily Helsingin Sanomat reports that most healthy working-age Finns receive a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford Mika Rämet, Director of the Vaccine Research Center, University of Tampere. AstraZeneca has promised to produce three billion doses of the vaccine this year. That would be enough to vaccinate 1.5 billion people.…
Astra Zeneca has applied for EU approval
The pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca has now applied for approval of the company’s covid 19 vaccine with the EU Medicines Agency EMA. This is stated by EMA, according to the news agency Reuters. AstraZeneca’s vaccine has been developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford. The responsible pharmaceutical committee at EMA can make its decision…
Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory? Two experts discuss
To be properly protective, COVID-19 vaccines must be given to most people worldwide. Only through extensive vaccination can we reach flock immunity – where enough people are immune to prevent the disease from spreading freely. To achieve this, some have suggested that vaccines should be made mandatory, although the British Government has done so excludes…
Another vaccine with good results
According to the company, the vaccine against covid-19 that the pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca has developed together with the University of Oxford can provide 90% protection, if it is given in a special dose combination. This now means that three different vaccines have recently shown good results. – The vaccine was well tolerated, and no…
The first batches of Covid may arrive in Finland by the new year
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started reviewing the marketing authorizations for two candidates for coronavirus vaccines. Vaccine experts told Yle they believed the first vaccines could hit the market by the end of the year. "It’s possible we’ll get the vaccine again this year, but I still think it’s more likely to last until…
How the Danish balance between work and private life starts long before you get a job
Copenhagen International School may be an international school, but it breathes Danish if the remarks of four of the most successful graduates in the last two years are something to go by. Three potential Oxford students along with the proud recipient of a perfect score in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program agree that the school…
COVID-19 vaccine pre-order on hold amid reminders that it is not curative
As the world waits impatiently for a COVID-19 vaccine, Denmark’s chosen candidate has hit a stumbling block after a trial participant was admitted to hospital. It is not the only vaccine that is being manufactured, but it is the one that Europe had hoped for. Meanwhile, Danish medical experts offer a bitter-sweet reminder that humanity’s…
AstraZeneca pauses vaccine testing
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has paused its clinical trials of the covid-19 vaccine that the company is developing together with the University of Oxford in the UK. This after one of the test participants in the UK became inexplicably ill. The process of developing the Swedish-British company AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine recently entered its third phase…
The coronavirus is voluntary in Finland
Work to combat a safe and effective relative against the new coronavirus is continuing in laboratories around the world, and work appears to be progressing faster than expected, even recently. However, some have wondered about the safety of such a rapidly developed vaccine. At the same time, some are also wondering if jab could be…
From Iceland – Sweden to distribute COVID-19 vaccine sales to Iceland
Sweden will distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to Iceland as well as Norway through the European Union’s co-operation project. This was stated in a Press conference by Lena Hallengren, Swedish Minister of Health. According to her, Sweden will participate in a joint project to purchase 300 million doses of the coronary heart virus vaccine from the…
