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• Cancer Detection: How To Stay Out of Harm’s Way

  …ething that's curable. · The tumor shall not be too "slow" as well. · The method of detection has to be specific, · The harm from it shall be minimal. · The risk of cancer must be high, higher than the risks from the adverse effects for the method used. So, it’s easy to conclude that not every tumor should be screened. Actually, we've created an information sys…

  31.10.2016

• Technology Brokers: Who Are They and How to Become one?

  …particular field or just know how to deal with scientists. The ability to discern real innovative technologies from "fake" ones is most important, as well. A successful broker must be familiar with the scientific community so as to not make mistakes", explained Nikolai Bovtunov. Having ties and connections in industry and universities is also an important requireme…

  28.10.2016

• 25 Years on: CIS Representatives Visit ITMO

  …terests, and on these trips we find like-minded people not only from our country, but also others", — said the Belarusian representative. A delegate from Azerbaijan, Alekper Mustafayev agreed with the thoughts of his colleagues. According to him, the outcome of the current session of the YIA is to strengthen communication between countries, and form an understandin…

  27.10.2016

• Open Day at the School of Photonics: Education at the Speed of Light

  …ty. Open Day at the School of Photonics Alexei Itin, the executive secretary of the Admission Committee, also reminded that to apply for studying at the School, an applicant must have no less than 60 points for every Unified State Exam. And that's only the minimum requirements — the average score of applicants to the School last year was 80 points. If you want t…

  24.10.2016

• Pokémon and Headaches: What is Big Data?

  …st enough. To straighten things out, we can send a particular hash-tag to a particular server. This way, there will be less confusion. And that's some solution. Still, servers must be maintained; also, this solution is no good at adapting to related tasks — like making statistics by countries or adding data from other social networks. We are all human, and we make…

  17.10.2016

• Indexes That Matter: Elsevier’s Consultant on How to Use Bibliographic Databases

  …t's not always easy to decide if you can trust a particular media. Most know of Cell or The Lancet, but it all gets harder when you deal with middle-level journals. The source must at least be in the leading scientific indexes. What is the first thing you should look at? When we talk about scientific bibliographic databases, or indexes, we usually mean Sco…

  14.10.2016

• Researchers Find Way to Enhance Photon Entanglement

  …, there were virtually no investigations into the quantum effects of plasmonic metamaterials, since it was thought that in order to observe them, the heat losses in the system must be very low. "Two years ago, American scientists managed to entangle plasmons. The work was experimental, and theorists tried to explain it. But it turned out that quantum optics cannot de…

  14.10.2016

• The Ceaseless Chain: Why Schools and Universities Have to Collaborate?

  …uidance We are a physical-mathematical lyceum, so the problem of training future engineers is something we can relate to. The deep theoretical knowledge the children get here must be further developed during practical sessions, including research and project activities. This helps promote science to children, which can become the key aspect in choosing one's future …

  05.10.2016

• New Optical Biosensor Can Diagnose Infections in Few Seconds

  …chnologies did not make it possible to fabricate real prototypes that could be tested in laboratory settings and clinical practice. This presents another major challenge that must be addressed by scientists before propelling the new technique into medical practice — the formation of a reference database (IR-spectral library) of bacteria that will be used to compare …

  05.10.2016

• New ITMO Accelerator Creating Businesses that Benefit Society

  …began to pay more attention to the social sector. However, there is still no «golden standard» to define social-oriented businesses, there’s no fixed percentage of income that must go to charity, and even the term «social entrepreneurship» is yet to be legislated in Russia. A bill was submitted to the state Duma three years ago, then the Ministry of Economic Developm…

  29.09.2016