Tallinn University

The Diffusion of Cohabitation Among Immigrants in Europe: The Role of the National Cohabitation Context

Abstract Immigrants and their descendants constitute an increasing share of European populations, yet research on how immigrant background shapes the cohabitation experience remains limited. This study investigates how generational status at the individual level and national cont...

Inversion monotonicity and asymptotic enumeration of 1324-avoiding permutations with few inversions

Let A(n,k) count the 1324-avoiding permutations of length n with k inversions, let D(n,k) and I(n,k) count the decomposable and indecomposable ones, and put a(k) = sumj=0k p(j)p(k-j), where p is the partition function. We prove A(n,k) ≤ A(n+1,k) for 0 ≤ k ≤ floor(n2 / [20 log2(n+...

Stochastic Analysis and Stability of Diabetic Population Dynamics

Modeling diabetic illness with random perturbations is the goal of this work. The proposed model consists of three classes: the pre-diabetic population, the diabetic population with complications, and the diabetic population without complications. We examined the suggested proble...

The West from its Edge: Reading Georgios Varouxakis, The West: The History of an Idea

I am reading Georgios Varouxakis’ The West: The History of an Idea, and writing this commentary surrounded by a white, winter forest in the sparsely inhabited countryside near Haapsalu, a small coa...

Building a One Health mobile laboratory workforce: strengthening public health preparedness across Europe and Africa

Abstract The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases remain a major public health threat in Europe. The Horizon Europe-funded MOBILISE project addresses this challenge by establishing a One Health Mobile Laboratory capable of handling risk group 3 and 4 pathogens, while...

Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality

Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustne...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

Imagery Interventions and Cognitive‐Behavioural Therapy for Psychological Complaints Related to Bullying: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

ABSTRACT Bullying is associated with internalizing symptoms and impaired everyday functioning. Cognitive‐behavioural therapy (CBT) and imagery interventions have been studied as treatments to improve mental health after such experiences. This meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate the e...

Toward Agent-Based Educational Science: Rethinking Educational Research in the Age of AI

Educational science faces a structural mismatch between the pace of educational innovation and the methods used to evaluate its developmental impact. While new pedagogical approaches and AI-driven learning technologies are rapidly deployed, the empirical paradigm of classroom-bas...

An Empirically Grounded Framework for Documenting Digital Cultural Heritage Use/Reuse

Over several decades, digital cultural heritage has been increasingly reused across research, education, creative practice and through public community engagement. However, these activities remain undescribed or inconsistently documented and difficult to compare. Organisations ty...

Exploring Mixed Copies: Evidence From English-Estonian Bilingual Speech

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Recently, contact linguistics has become increasingly interested in multiword units. At the same time, the code-copying framework (CCF) includes the notion of mixed copies (MCs) that are in-between global copies (‘borrowing’) and se...

Mnemonic bordering: ‘Eastness’ and the politics of refugee recognition in Estonia

This article examines how Estonia’s asylum regime reveals the entanglement of migration governance, historical memory, and global hierarchies of belonging. It introduces the concept of mnemonic bordering – the use of official historical narratives as a technology of migration gov...