Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet) is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. During the seventies the university became known as the "red university" due to a large number of student strikes and a large share of left-wing politically active students. Since then conditions have normalised and Umeå University now has over 15,500 full-time students, including master students. It has more than 4,000 employees, including 332 full professors. Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the Populus tree (Life sciences), contributions to the Gleason problem and function spaces on fractals (mathematics) and its school of industrial design which gives degree programs in English open to students from all of the world. It is also the one of largest providers of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.
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The new mRNA vaccines have just as good a protective effect against COVID-19 for the very oldest as for younger people. This is evident in a study at Umeå University, where researchers have followed individuals in special ...
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The dreaded tick-borne TBE virus infects different types of brain cells in different parts of the brain, depending on whether the sick person's immune system is activated or not. This is shown by a new study at Umeå University.
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High intensity exercise (HIT) in untrained older adults had similar positive effects on oxygen uptake and blood pressure as Moderate Intensity Exercise, (MIT), despite half the exercise duration. HIT also led to a greater ...
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Substance use problems, particularly alcohol problems, are "invisible epidemic" among older adults. In his thesis "Alcohol and aging: a multimethod study on heterogeneity and multidimensionality," Wossenseged Birhane Jemberie, ...
Mar 22, 2023
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The fact that obesity is a major risk factor for disease and death is well known, as is the fact that obesity is more common in the United States than in Europe. On the other hand, a new thesis at Umeå University shows that ...
Feb 28, 2023
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The core benefits of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are weight sharing and that they can automatically detect important visual features. Minh H. Vu and his group found that CNNs are very efficient in automatically segmenting ...
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Researchers at Umeå University have discovered a previously unknown cellular component, an organelle, inside neurons that we use to perceive smell. The discovery may have implications for further research on impaired sense ...
Jan 4, 2023
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In the older European population, men, as well as those with lower socioeconomic status, weak social ties, and poor health, might experience more difficulties getting informal support and are considered to have a higher risk ...
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In some people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, levels of a particular substance in their blood can be seen to start rising slowly as early as two years before the cancer was diagnosed. This is the finding of a study at ...
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Raising children requires a reorganization of both professional and private lives, with potential consequences for mental health. In a new study published in Acta Sociologica, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, associate professor in ...
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