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HUMAN AWARENESS AND BEHAVIOUR IN A CHANGING WORLD
October 14-15, 2004 Tallinn, Estonia
Program
| I DAY |
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00 - 10.10 | Opening - Peeter Normak,
Tallinn Pedagogical University, Vice-Rector,
Euroscience Estonia, Member of the Board |
I session - Psychosocial aspects in human awareness
Moderator: Jaanus Harro |
| 10.10-11.00 | Jane Henry, Open University, UK
Systems for improving human awareness and experience - a psychological perspective (theses); |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Tapio Varis, University of Tampere
Public awareness in the knowledge society (theses); |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Andres Soosaar, University of Tartu, Department of Physiology
Consciousness in the leveled world (theses); |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | LUNCH |
| 13.00 - 13.40 | Jaanus Harro, University of Tartu
The pursuit of drugs of abuse - individual and collective dissatisfaction with the state of consciousness (theses); |
| 13.40 - 14.10 | Julia Hirsch, City University of New York
Language and Change: Some reflections on a dynamic process; |
| 14.10 - 14.30 | Kaivo Thomson, Tallinn Pedagogical University
Self-realization: undamaged or damaged mental health (theses); |
| 14.30-14.45 | Anne Tiko, Tallinn Pedagogical University
Childhood experience as road sign in the search for the “I” (theses); |
| 14.45 - 15.15 | COFFEE BREAK |
II session - Social-economic aspects of human awareness and behaviour
Moderator: Jaan Ennulo |
| 15.15 - 15.40 | Pekka Ruohotie, University of Tampere
Self-Regulation Abilities for Professional Learning (theses); |
| 15.40 - 16.00 | Eha Rüütel, Ene Lausvee, Tallinn Pedagogical University
Sense of coherence, its predictors and relation with health (theses); |
| 16.00 - 16.20 | Jaan Ennulo, Anu Virovere, Estonian Business School
Quality of management decisions based on conflict analysis (theses); |
| 16.20 - 17.00 | Ruth Alas, Estonian Business School
The Influence of organizational culture and employees attitudes to organizational learning (theses); |
| 17.00 - 17.15 | Anu Virovere, Jaana Liigand, Estonian Business School
Ethics as a criteria in decision-making (theses); |
| 17.15 - 17.40 | Taimi Tulva, Aino Kiis, Tallinn Pedagogical University
Aging in Estonia: changing perceptions of the life cycle (theses). |
| 17.40 - 18.30 | Poster session |
| 1. Mare Leino, Tallinn Pedagogical University | The problem child at school: whose problem? (theses); |
| 2. Piia Berting, Anu Virovere, Estonian Business School | Impact of work environment, on work motivation, and organizational success (theses); |
| 3. Jaana Liigand, Jaan Ennulo, Estonian Business School | Ethics in the execution of powers (theses); |
| 4. Ene Pill, Ilme Hunt, Tallinn Education Department | Does today's socienty turn women masculine? (theses); |
| 5. Margo Kikas, Ene Lausvee, Tallinn Pedagogical University | Psychosocial and economic coping in various groups of the today Estonian population (theses); |
| 6. Viivi Eksta, Pedagogical Archive Museum in Estonia | Some features of personality connected with cardio patology (theses); |
| 7. Izold Pustõlnik, Tartu Observatory | Paleoastronomical and geophysical data on global climate variations and their impact on human awareness (theses); |
| 8. Arvo Valton, Writer | Adaptation processes in cultural tides (theses). |
| II DAY |
III session - Neurobiological basis of human awareness and behaviour
Moderator: Toomas Asser |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Toomas Asser, Tartu University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Biological neurosurgery (theses); |
| 10.00 - 10.50 | Urmas Arumäe, University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology
Programmed cell death and its special features in the neurons (theses); |
| 10.50 - 11.25 | Aleksei Turovski, Tallinn Zoo
Signs of awareness in animal communication; |
| 11.25 - 12.00 | Jaanus Harro, University of Tartu
Neorobiology of affective consciousness (theses); |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | LUNCH |
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Andres Veske, Tallinn Technical University, Institute of Gene Technology (theses)
Associations between the brain volume and general intelligence with genotype; |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | Jüri Liivamägi, University of Tartu, Department of Psychiatry
Conciousness and psyhopathology (theses); |
| 14.00-14.20 | Anita Turovskaja, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research
Brain tumor affecting human awareness. |
IV session - Environment, behaviour and health
Moderator: Moderator: Laurits Leedjärv |
| 14.20 - 14.50 | Laurits Leedjärv, Tartu Observatory
Universe in man and man in Universe (theses); |
| 14.50 - 15.10 | Kalju Eerme, Tartu Observatory
The major factors influencing the climate change in Northern Europe, including Estonia (theses); |
| 15.10 - 15.40 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15.40 - 16.00 | Heino Tooming, Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Impact of climate change on society (theses); |
| 16.00 - 16.35 | Arvo Mesikepp, East-Tallinn Central Hospital
Sudden cardiac death - before and after (theses); |
| 16.35 - 17.05 | Jüri Kaik, Estonian Institute of Cardiology
Psychosocial factors in the development of cardiac ischemic disease (theses); |
| 17.10 - 17.30 | Heino Tiik
Interaction between light perception and health (theses). |
| 18.30 | Deputy Mayors' Reception, Tallinn City Hall |
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