Tag: University of Southern Denmark
‘Dark Side of Hygge’ author: What internationals need to understand
After yesterday’s story about the report ‘The dark side of hygge: Acculturation of foreign workers in Denmark’, the author Dr. Julia Jones, PhD, told The Copenhagen Post that international people “must understand their own cultural norms and values, as well as Danish”. “This is important to be able to navigate everyday life without interpreting cultural…
Smoke-free nicotine products are increasing in popularity among Danish youth
About 35.1 percent of youth ages 15-29 use nicotine products daily or occasionally, according to ‘§SMOKE‘, a report prepared by the University of Southern Denmark for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health – a significant jump from 2020, when the figure was 26.3 per cent. While tobacco-based products are less popular, falling from 20.1 to…
Over 45s in Denmark give birth to more than teenagers
For the first time in Denmark’s history, over 45 are giving birth to more children than teenagers, according to Denmark’s statistics. In 2022, those over 45 gave birth to 220 children – 23 more than the total number provided by mothers aged 19 and under. Approximately 50 years ago in 1973, the year when Statistics…
Government-appointed, curative health commissions that do not replace real staff warn that health expects
Long waiting times, especially for cancer patients, huge increases in hospital admissions of both the elderly and people with chronic diseases, and staff shortages exacerbated by the continued belief that nurses are undervalued and underpaid – these are the eternal shortcomings of the Danish healthcare system. And no amount of fancy dressing, or promises of…
Outside INnovation: Jutland collection
Wheels down, Aarhus-bound. I skip the bridge, but the Great Belt still needs to be navigated. I sprint to the boat. Dark skies greet the ferry as the cars spill out into the large Jutland city. I have moderator duty for a collection of Danish and German organizations that merge electronics, satellite and drone data…
Science Round-Up: Sourcing the spring of solidarity
In a recent study, researchers at Copenhagen Business School established a tangible link between how people behave in their daily lives and their solidarity with those who suffer from tragedy. Take, for example, the world’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Across the globe, sympathy led people to raise a flag that was not theirs…
Science Round-Up: Study finds bias against female politicians in Denmark
The latest election represented a historic moment for women’s representation in Danish politics, where the proportion of 44 percent of elected women in the Folketing exceeded 40 percent for the first time. However, this is most likely the result of women’s sheer willpower in a society that continues to stack the deck against them, a…
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,…
Forget parallel society: Is the ghetto plan stuck in a parallel universe?
On September 11, Denmark’s neighbors crossed the Øresund to the polls. A right-wing bloc has now emerged with a majority in the Swedish parliament, depriving Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and her Social Democrats of their position at the head of the government. However, it was the days and weeks before the election that revealed the…
We knew that the Danes got taller, but not that heavily…
Statisticians like to tell the public that they are getting higher. It strengthens us. By the year 2250 we will all be seven feet tall, we are often told. But this is not true. While ethnic Danes are getting taller and heavier, this is not the case with the overall population. Immigration and assimilation are…
Science Round-Up: 2050 target for all energy to be sustainable a realistic goal, universities conclude
University researchers from 14 worldwide institutions believe that we can completely switch to sustainable energy by 2050. Researchers from Aarhus University present together with 13 other international universities in an energy plan article published in IEEE Access. Work togetherThe researchers have stated that the technology to make this possible is already in place. Poul Alberg…
Heat wave that covers the whole of Europe reaches Denmark
An extreme heat wave is currently washing over Europe, causing temperatures of up to 41 degrees in several major cities. In the UK, high temperatures have prompted authorities to issue a national emergency alert. And according to several media outlets, up to 1,000 people in Spain and Portugal have lost their lives this month due…
Over the top? Denmark will secure 22 million COVID-19 vaccines by 2022
Waste of taxpayers’ money?So far in 2022, only about one million doses have been used in Denmark, far from the 22 million doses that are soon on the way. “The first thing that comes to my mind is that it is a bad business and a very unsatisfactory use of taxpayers’ funds,” says Jes Søgaard,…
Our woman in Washington leads by a good example: how green frontline missions make an impression
In the vicinity of Embassy Row in Washington DC, the Danish government is demonstrating how retrofitting buildings with solar panels can reduce the dependence on burning fossil fuels. The Danish embassy’s solar cell plant has generated 11 percent of its total demand for electricity and reduced its CO2 emissions by 13 tonnes in February, the…
Hundreds of Danes have eaten PFAS-contaminated meat
The toxins from a fire drill site have leaked to a beach meadow with grazing cows. PFAS pollution led to new stricter limit values in Denmark Research shows that the immune system in children can be impaired by PFAS and the incident in Denmark has, among other things, led to much stricter limit values for…
Science Round-Up: Corona was never a major threat to children, the study concludes
Danish children and young people have found it relatively easy to cope with the coronavirus and then recover from it, according to one University of Southern Denmark study. Academics felt the study was necessary in light of scare stories from abroad, but did not find much to be concerned about. The study compared the after-effects…
Science Round-Up: Danish universities form huge green-food collab
Denmark’s eight universities – DTU, University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, Aalborg University, University of Southern Denmark and Roskilde University – have joined forces on a unique new project on the green transition in food. . An interdisciplinary facility based at Aarhus University called the START Center for Sustainable…
National round: Two men deny guilt in killing 22-year-old Aalborg woman
Two 36-year-old men from Vendsyssel today deny guilt in the murder of Mia Skadhauge Stevn, a 22-year-old woman who is still missing after getting into a vehicle early Sunday morning in Aalborg. Confirmation of the vehicle’s license plate dramatically led police to the address of one of the suspects yesterday morning. Searches have been made…
Science Round-Up: How Space Technology Could Help Detect Breast Cancer
It may not be obvious what connects a violent collision between two distant neutron stars far out in the universe and a small lump of cancer in a human’s breast. But Irfan Kuvvetli, senior researcher at DTU Space, has invented something that could help discover them both. He argues that it makes it easier to…
Science Round-Up: ‘Historically poor’ wind speeds blamed for renewable energy dives
The level of wind energy supply in the Danish electricity system fell in 2021 due to a “historically bad” year with wind speeds, according to Jesper Kronborg, senior business developer at the energy company Energinet. The contribution of the wind supply experienced a “noticeable decrease” from 46.5 to 43.6 percent between 2020 and 2021 –…
Carnivores are more susceptible to cancer: Research
Despite the extent to which animals are exposed to cancer and how often this disease affects their health, little is known so far. This is not surprising, as in wildlife, any serious illness is likely to result in the animal’s untraceable death due to famine or predation. In addition, cancer is an age-related disease in…
Science Round-Up: Malaria medicine protects lung cells from covid-19
A new study from Aarhus University has revealed that the malaria medicine Atovaquone helps prevent COVID-19 infection in various cells. The research showed that the medicine has a protective effect both before and after infection – which means that if approved, it can be used for both prevention and treatment of COVID-19. HHowever, the efficacy…
Defense: It will take over 50 years to clean up after pollution
It will take more than 50 years to clean up the contaminants with the toxic substances PFAS at the Armed Forces’ areas. The Danish Armed Forces’ Property Agency assesses this to Radio4 and Avisen Danmark. Last week, the two media outlets described that the Armed Forces has known about pollution with PFAS for many years.…
Parties neglect female front-runners
But she also stands out by being one of the few female mayors. Only in 14 of the 98 municipalities was it a woman who after the local elections in 2017 could sit in the mayor’s chair. The imbalance will remain largely unchanged after the local elections on 16 November, according to a forecast from…
The defense knew for several years of massive pollution
Every year since 2016, the Ministry of Defence’s Property Agency has, through extensive studies, followed how the Armed Forces’ pollution from fire foam at the air stations has spread to a river, a stream, a lake, groundwater and nature. Nevertheless, over the years, the agency has done nothing to stop the spread of pollution, writes…
Doctors for patients: Remember test if you cough
Others with cough, fever, sore throat or cold sit down in the consultation without first having a coronary test or talking to their doctor about the symptoms. – We experience that people have not understood that there is still a requirement for a mask at their own doctor, says Jørgen Skadborg, who is a general…
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…
The defense was aware of PFOS contamination on leased land
The Ministry of Defence’s Property Agency has for more than two years been aware of PFOS pollution in Hessellund Bæk in Viborg Municipality. Nevertheless, in the same period, the Armed Forces leased out the land and the brook to a cattle farmer who has had beef cattle walking there. This is what Avisen Danmark writes,…
The same exam assignments in Danish are assessed very differently
Solveig Troelsen, who has written the PhD thesis “Rejected or recognized” at the University of Southern Denmark, believes that the censors’ different assessments of the same assignments point to a problem. “It is not a reliable assessment system. You can not count on the number that comes out being telling for what the student can…
Professor with an interest in defense will be the new SDU rector
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) will have a new rector from 1 November. This is stated by SDU in a press release. This is 48-year-old Jens Ringsmose. He is a trained historian, and in his research career has focused on the field of defense policy. Previous places of employment include the Danish Institute for…
SDU professor spearheads Scandinavian Star study
An expert in maritime law from the University of Southern Denmark has been appointed to lead the attempt to clarify the economic conditions surrounding the ferry “Scandinavian Star”, which burned down 31 years ago. 159 people lost their lives. The ferry had just been used for sailing between Frederikshavn and Oslo when the disaster happened…
Science Round-Up: Lockdown lounge lizard … proof in the characters, both numerically and physically
Consumption of sweets and sodas jumped 40 percent during the first corona lockdown, according to a new DTU Food Institute survey. The amount of screen time also increased. According to the survey, 23 percent of respondents ate more than usual, 21 percent ate more candy and chocolate and 14 percent ate more cake. The study…
Party leaders on charm visits kick off the election
Already, several of the party’s top leaders have been around to back up the local candidates and to talk to those who decide it all: the voters. And citizens across the country can well prepare for further influx of party leaders, predicts political commentator Hans Engell. – We see that the party leaders, parties and…