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On the 11th of August 2025, M.Sc. Yang Liu defends her PhD thesis on Methodological and Extrinsic Challenges in Offline Evaluation of Recommender Systems. The thesis is related to research done in the ...
Since 1991 the Faculty of Law has maintained a bilingual program of legal study in Vaasa. The students are able to take the Bachelor of Laws degree in Vaasa. In addition, starting from autumn 2010, ...
Need to do Zonation analyses in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, but previous Zonation 5 distributions were not applicable? The spatial prioritisation tool Zonation 5 is now available as an ...
At Juntos Farm in Ibiza, COVERE² has taken a bold step forward in energy transparency by applying Power Flow Tracing (PFT) using ELEKS' advanced DAKAR grid simulation tool. This innovative approach ...
EveryBuddy needs SomeBuddy! The UniBuddy programme helps international staff get settled at the University of Helsinki and meet new people. The programme is available for not only University ...
To solve the world’s biggest challenges, we need to bring the best international minds together. Our Global Scholarship Fund provides full tuition fee scholarships and study grants for the brightest ...
Studies have linked the high consumption of ultra-processed foods with multiple diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and dementia. A recent international study ...
An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved ...
A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...
Tuore tutkimus paljastaa, että saimaannorppa on evolutiivisesti selvästi eriytyneempi kuin aikaisemmin on tiedetty. Tutkijat ehdottavatkin, että alalajin sijasta saimaannorpan tulisi olla oma ...
Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more ...
5-6 September 2024, Helsinki, FinlandOn the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Alva Noë's Action In Perception, a seminal work in enactivist theory, this conference brings together leading ...