Best of the best in TTÜ science in 2017
The Scientific Committee of the University Council named its best of the past year at its meeting on February 8.
TTÜ researcher of the year 2017 is Irina Hussainova, Professor at the School of Engineering: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
TTÜ junior researcher of the year 2017 is Pirjo Spuul, Senior Research Fellow at the School of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology: Division of Gene Technology.
TTÜ best research articles in 2017:
- in the field of nature, science and health:
Mari Sepp, Hanna Vihma, Kaja Nurm, Mari Urb, Stephanie Cerceo Page, Kaisa Roots, Anu Hark, Brady J. Maher, Priit Pruunsild, Tõnis Timmusk The intellectual disability and schizophrenia associated transcription factor of TCF4 is regulated by neuronal activity and protein kinase. A.J. Neurosci., 2017, 37, 10516-10527
- in the field of technics and technology (two articles):
Dmitri Vinnikov, Andrii Chub, Elizaveta Liivik and Indrek Roasto High-Performance Quasi-Z-Source Series Resonant DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Module-Level Power Electronics Applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 3634-3650, May 2017.
Hillar Aben, Johan Anton, Marella Õis, Koushik Viswanathan, Srinivasan Chandrasekar, M. Munawar Chaudhri On the extraordinary strength of Prince Rupert's drops. Applied Physics Letters, 109 (23), Art. No. 231903,
- in the field of social sciences and the humanities
Vasili Niara, Vasileios Kostakis, Wolfgang Johannes Max Drechsler Making the Intelligent City: The emergence of makerspaces. Telematics and Informatics, 34 (7), 1143-1152.
Kersti Vähi,
TTÜ Research Administration Office
Outdoor Cinema in TTÜ on September 6
Enjoy a movie outdoors on September 6 at 9 PM in TTÜ Courtyard – Bad Hair Friday (Vasaku jala reede).
TTÜ Film Club presents: the most anticipated event of the autumn semester will be back! The TTÜ Courtyard Outdoor Cinema, organised by the Film Club and the TTÜ Kino, will take place already for the 8th time.
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School-Level Policies and the Efficiency and Equity Trade-off in Education
Seminar of the TTÜ Department of Economics and Finance:
Wednesday 8 March 2017
15:45–17:00 in room SOC-214
School-Level Policies and the Efficiency and Equity Trade-off in Education
SIMONA FERRARO, KAIRE PÕDER
Department of Economics and Finance, TTÜ
Estonian Business School
Abstract: This paper identifies the relationship between pupils’ Family Background, their mathematics scores, and school-level policies, using the 2012 Programme of International Student Assessment for Italy and multilevel modelling. School-level policies have played a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries, but there is no straightforward empirical evidence for how they affect pupils’ outcomes and the equality of educational outcomes. Our findings show that that only some school policies intensify the Family Background Effect - (educational equity) and affect student outcomes (educational efficiency) simultaneously. We find that competitive schools are able to screen students by selecting higher socio-economic status parents, which mainly harms equity without having much effect on efficiency. There are some policies which allow some trade-off between aforementioned objectives, mainly policies related to management schools.
The seminars of the Department of Economics and Finance (DEF) usually take place on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. The seminars are public and the purpose is to strengthen discussion and research cooperation. The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion, in total one hour. The seminars will generally be held in English. Copies of the paper will be available at the seminar. The DEF seminar series is organised in collaboration with the project “Institutions for Knowledge Intensive Development”, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 734712. Questions regarding the seminar can be addressed to Prof Karsten Staehr, karsten dot staehr at ttu dot ee, organiser of the seminars.
