The paper will give an overview of developments in Estonia in the field of Human Language Technologies. Despite of the fact that Estonian is one of the smallest official languages in EU and therefore in less favourable position in the HLT-market, the national initiatives are undertaken in order to promote HLT development in Estonia. The paper will introduce recent activities in Estonia, includi...

background: initiating a national poisoning information centre (pic) in estonia took about 12 years of challenging work on research, training and attracting governmental support and funding. in this study we described the establishment process and the profile of phone calls in the first year which the pic started to be available full time (24h/day 7days/week).  methods: this was a descriptive r...

objectives analysis of ns5a polymorphisms in hcv genotype 1b pre-treatment serum samples from estonian patients and their effect on the treatment response. patients and methods twenty-nine complete ns5a sequences obtained from patients with chronic hcv-1b infection who had received combined therapy with pegifnα-2a/rbv were analyzed and compared with the prototype strain hcv-j. twelve patients a...

1 Department of Animal Health, Estonian Agricultural University, Kreutzwaldi 62, 51014, Tartu, Estonia, Phone: Andres Aland: 372 7 313221; Jaan Praks: 372 7 313202; Fax: 372 7 422259; 2 – Institute of Animal Science, Estonian Agricultural University, Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014, Tartu, Estonia, Phone: 372 7 313448; Fax: 372 7 313429; 3 – Department of Food Technology, Estonian Agricultural University,...

T Estonian Science Foundation awards grants for research projects in basic and applied research. Grants are for ≤4 years. Applicants (permanent residents of Estonia and citizens of other countries provided that their application is submitted through an Estonian institution) should have a doctoral degree from Estonia or an equivalent academic degree within the past 5 years and should have publis...

Background The study presents data on a sample of children under one year of age hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in Lithuania and Estonia. Subjects and methods This large, retrospective, cross-sectional, observational epidemiologic survey was conducted in 12 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Eligible subjects were under one year of age, hospitalized for LRT...

1 Immunology Group, IGMP and Centre of Excellence for Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia 2Competence Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tiigi 61b, 50410 Tartu, Estonia 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and IGMP, University of Tartu, 51014 Tartu, Estonia 4Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Henri Poincaré and Nancytomique, CHU...

The study analysed the seasonality of foreign tourists’ space consumption in Estonia using mobile positioning dataset with anonymous roaming data. The method which uses mobile phone positioning coordinates in space–time movement studies in Estonia is called the social positioning method. The dataset allowed analysis of the distribution of foreigners’ country of origin in Estonia with the precis...

Design. Age-adjusted suicide rates were compared for Russians in Estonia, Estonians in Estonia and inhabitants of Russia in radically changed socio-political situations (before and after the dissolution of the USSR). Results. High, but still lower suicide rates for Russians in Estonia were observed in comparison with Estonians during the study period (1983–1990) when Estonia was a part of the S...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the eventual extra loss of life incurred to cancer patients in Estonia compared with those in Sweden that was possibly attributable to differences in society. DESIGN Population based survival of cancer patients in Estonia was compared with that of Estonian immigrants to Sweden and that of all cancer patients in Sweden. The cancer sites studied were female breast and ovar...