Tallinn Technical University News & PhD Dissertations

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29.04.2020, 3:00 PM
Olga Mikheeva, "Governance of Innovation and Development Financing: Policies, Strategic Functions and Bureaucracies"

Supervisor: Prof Rainer Kattel, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
&
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK

Opponents:

• Dr Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK
• Prof Yamina Tadjeddine Fourneyron, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

08.04.2020, 3:00 PM
Kaija Valdmaa, "Opportunities and Challenges Arising from Adapting to External Discourses, Policies, and Instruments Aimed for Sustainability Transitions: Case Studies from Estonia"

Supervisor: Prof. Ringa Raudla, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Co-supervisor: Dr. Erkki Karo, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Dr. Sara Moreno Pires, Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
• Prof. Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

03.04.2020, 2:00 PM
Jekaterina Krištal, "Application of Differentiated SH-SY5Y Cells for Toxicological Studies of Alzheimer's Amyloid Beta Peptide"

Supervisors:

• Vello Tõugu, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
• Professor Peep Palumaa, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
• Olga Bragina, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Professor Aleksandr Žarkovski, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
• Anna Gharibyan, PhD, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

24.03.2020, 10:00 AM
Priit Järv, "Place Recommendation with Geo-tagged Photos"

Supervisor: Professor Tanel Tammet, Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Professor Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
• Professor Christian S. Jensen, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark

From March 18 to April 15 the Global Newsstream Trial is open for TalTech

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Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that date back to the 1980s – from over 2,800 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format.

Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian‎, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, BBC Monitoring, Dow Jones Institutional News etc. are cross searchable on the ProQuest Global Newsstream platform.

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Competition is postponed! We will post a new date as soon as possible.

On the 19th of March a virtual reality competition for schools will be held at the TalTech IT College, address Raja 4C.

Seminar of the Department of Economics and Finance

Wednesday, 11 March 2020
16:00–17:00 in room SOC-417

NATALIA LEVENKO
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Eesti Pank, Estonia

ABSTRACT: At the time of the Great Recession, there occurred a noticeable shift in the level of survey uncertainty measured as the mean individual variance of density forecasts. Meanwhile, the disagreement of forecasters, or cross-sectional variance of point forecasts derived from the same dataset, has shown completely different and much more expected countercyclical dynamics. Seeking to explain a puzzling regime shift in the mean individual variance, the paper applies smooth transition regression analysis to the data from European Survey of Professional Forecasters and shows that this measure of uncertainty has a long-run nonlinear relationship with the share of non-rounded responses in the survey. Results suggest that the mean individual variance, often referred to as a direct measure of uncertainty, is a “noisy” variable directly associated with the changes in the methodology used by forecasters and as such absorbs information irrelevant for measuring uncertainty. The results are robust after having accounted for potential endogeneity.

Keywords: survey uncertainty; disagreement of forecasters; density forecasts; surveys of professional forecasters; Great Recession; smooth transition; instrumental variables.
JEL codes: C25, C32, C83, D81, E32, E37
 

Seminar: Smart City on the way to the Future on 20 October

27.02.2020, 10:00 AM
Piret Saar-Reismaa, "Analysis of Psychoactive Compounds in Oral Fluid by Capillary Electrophoresis"

Supervisor: Senior Researcher Maria Kulp, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Co-supervisor: Researcher Jekaterina Mazina-Šinkar, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Petr Kubáň, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
• Michał Woźniakiewicz, PhD, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

02.03.2020, 1:00 PM
Palanivel Molaiyan, "Solid-State Electrolytes for Fluoride-ion Batteries"

Supervisor: Dr. Raiker Witter, PhD

Co-Supervisor: Lead Research Scientist Ago Samoson, Department of Health Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Docent Tao Hu, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
• Associate Professor Martin Kirkengen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

6.03.2020, 1:00 PM
Anna Kidakova, "Photo- and Electropolymerization Approaches for Molecular Imprinting of a Neurotrophic Factor Protein"

Supervisor: Dr. Vitali Syritski, School of Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Co-supervisor: Prof. Andres Öpik, School of Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Dr. Peter Lieberzeit, Full professor, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Dr. Evgenia Korzhikova-Vlakh, Associate professor, Institute of Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

13.02.2020, 10:00 AM
Mikk Kaasik, "Synthesis, Characterisation and Catalytic Activity of Enantiopure Triazole-based Halogen Bond Donors"

Supervisor: Professor Tõnis Kanger, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Professor Stefan M. Huber, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
• Dr. Uno Mäeorg, Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

12.02.2020, 2:00 PM
Anneli Talvik, "Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring as a Guide to Drug Treatment of Uncontrolled Hypertensive Patients"

Supervisor: Prof. Margus Viigimaa, Department of Health Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Opponents:

• Prof Peter M. Nilsson, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Prof Marius Miglinas, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

TalTech, Department of Economics and Finance Open Lecture:

Guest Lecture under Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module „The Economic and Legal Evaluation of Digital Ecosystems in the EU“

Tuesday February 11, 2020

18:00–19:00

In room SOC-311, Akadeemia tee 3, Tallinn

TalTech will celebrate the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia with a Ceremony on February 21 at 2 P.M. in the TalTech Assembly Hall.

Defences of Diploma Theses will take place on January 20-22 at TalTech IT College on the following curricula: IT Systems Administration, IT Systems Development, Information Systems Analysis and on English language based curriculum Cyber Security Engineering. Defences of Master's Theses in the curriculum Analysis and Design of Information Systems.

A live broadcast of the Defences of Diploma and Master's Theses will also be available on website (taltech.ee/itcollege) on January 20 and 22.

Wednesday, January 22 at 15.00-17.00, room 217, curriculum Cyber Security Engineering

Chairman of the Defence Committee: Priidu Paomets

The Defence Committee: Mohammad Tariq Meeran, Kaido Kikkas, Aleksei Talisainen, Toomas Lepikult

• Countermeasures to Deepfakes
  Gabriel Apeh Adoyi

• Implementing Authentication and Authorization in Dynamic Web Applications
  Christian Cataldo
   

• Windows User Simulation for Scalable Cybersecurity Training Platform
  Kustas Kurval 

20.12.2019, 1:00 PM
Vaiva Kiaupaite-Grušniene, "Conceptual Model for Cash Flow Statement: History, Analysis and Further Development"

Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Jaan Alver, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Co-supervisor: Lehte Alver, PhD, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Opponents:

• Professor Alla Ozeran, Accounting and Taxation Department, Faculty of Accounting and Management Taxation, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Ukraine
• Associate professor Kertu Lääts, School of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia

This thesis investigates the historical development of the cash flow statement and identifies the main reporting challenges still prevailing. The main purpose of financial statements, as defined by both the FASB and the IASB is to provide the users with comparable, verifiable, timely and understandable information for projecting future cash flows of a company. However, this study shows that there are problem areas in the preparation of the cash flow statement, which diminish its usefulness for the users.

Department of Economics and Finance Research Seminar:

Guest Lecture under Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module „The Economic and Legal Evaluation of Digital Ecosystems in the EU“

Tuesday December 17, 2019
14:00–15:00, room SOC-416