Search results for «etw» 23 results

• Can artists save St Petersburg's crumbling palaces?

  …Between 2013 and 2016, around 20 new art-oriented spaces opened in St Petersburg each year, from galleries and private museums to co-working spaces. Now there are upwards of 200 creative spaces in the city, located in everything from former palaces to old Soviet warehouses. These artistic clusters come and go, giving a sense of transience to this aspect of St Peters…

  27.07.2018

• The science of the World Cup: What Russian researchers did for the competition

  …l media and images from CCTV. The researchers also designed a VR simulator to help manage streams of people. To forecast the future streams of fans and their routes to and between cities, the university also created a solution helping to adapt public transportation to the fans’ plans. The system allows working out a route, paying for the trip using a smartphone, d…

  29.06.2018

• Russian Researchers Create Software that Predicts Parkinson’s Symptoms

  … can predict with an accuracy of 96 percent the form of Parkinson’s disease and future symptoms that a patient may experience. The software was the result of a collaboration between researchers at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), the Institute of Experimental Medicine, and ITMO University, in Russia. This technology may improve early d…

  28.06.2018

• Silicon Nanoparticles Perform Bioimaging and Drug Delivery

  …ell visualization and drug delivery system based on nanoparticles coated with luminescent dye molecules. Scientists have found out that the particle material and the distance between the dye and the particle’s surface affect the intensity of the luminescent signal. It turned out that silicon nanoparticles coated with dye molecules are more efficient than similar part…

  29.05.2018

• Electromagnetic wizardry: Wireless power transfer enhanced by backward signal

  …d a way to increase the efficiency of wireless power transfer over long distances and tested it with numerical simulations and experiments. To achieve this, they beamed power between two antennas, one of which was excited with a back-propagating signal of specific amplitude and phase.  …

  18.04.2018

• Russia creates digital platform for 'the university of the future' news

  …participants in the project), explains: «The role of ITMO University in the development of the University 20.35 is, first and foremost, the delivery of the best solutions for networked educational programs and individual trajectories of the students, as well as their implementation in order to meet the personnel needs of the companies that are leaders of the STI mark…

  01.01.2018

• Artificial Intelligence made in Russia

  … Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok) focuses on the future of AI. Its goal is to build, in conjunction with the world's leading educational centers, a trans-Eurasian network with the Master’s program, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Digital Liberal Arts. …

  12.12.2017

• Metagenomic Analysis Software Reveals New Causes of Superbug Emergence

  …icine developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiota DNA and revealed additional evidence of resistance genes transfer between different bacterial species. The method can not only contribute to the development of effective therapy schemes, but also curb the spread of superbugs. …

  09.11.2017

• This Algorithm Mines Instagram For 'Authentic' Travel Experiences

  …ly dressed, selfie stick-wielding cliches. Computer scientists at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia, have developed a high-tech answer. They found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists based on how they use social media, then developed an algorithm that mines the app’s publicly available data to create a “g…

  28.09.2017

• Can you keep a secret?

  …ect, the researchers mined Instagram pictures based on geo-tagging to help tourists see cities from a local's perspective. On Instagram, they also “found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists based on how they use social media.” …

  27.09.2017