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• ITMO Researchers Create MRI Antennas That Allow For Better MRI Scans

  …care, where it is used for high-precision diagnostics. However, this technology also plays a big role in research – scientists analyze scans of volunteers to better understand the functions of a particular organ or track the mechanisms behind the development of diseases or syndromes. The scanners used in healthcare, in general, have a relatively weak magnetic fiel…

  22.01.2021

• What Can AI Tell About Us Through Our Social Media Profiles

  …emes appeared. Only tips of an iceberg are published on social networks these days. Such “insincerity” is challenging for researchers. For example, during the last presidential election in the US, no algorithm predicted that Donald Trump would win. The thing is, people didn’t want to openly support him on social media, so algorithms only detected potential votes f…

  21.01.2021

• ITMO University Holds Course on Science Communication for Scholars and Grantees of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation

  …ng their ideas and their practical approach: it may be risky to suggest fashionable tools to audiences. At best, you won’t find your audience and at worst, it might cause negative reactions. The entire course was centered on an evidence-based approach to science communication and a critical approach to the choice of communication tools. Our course is indeed insightfu…

  21.01.2021

• Student Spotlight: Alexander Ramos, Ecuador

  …versity?  This question is asked to me very often, and I can say that I did not choose Russia, Russia chose me. It is a bit vague, but it is the truth. I always had a special attraction to this wonderful country. Also, since I was a child, I knew that my future was not in Ecuador. So I decided to apply for a scholarship through the Russian embassy in Ecuador and t…

  21.01.2021

• Carbon Dots and Solar Cells: Best Graduation Papers Among ITMO Students

  … samples for two or three full days, ask your colleagues to help you with the deposition of layers, and when you finally get the cells, they are ‘dead’. I mean, they lack charge extraction or it’s not enough for the experiment. And it’s hard to find the roots to this problem. Maybe I miscalculated something or just overheated the sample a bit during firing. And it ha…

  20.01.2021

• Startup for Startups: How UXSprint Helps Projects Get Better Before They Even Hit the Market

  …ing to end, do not conduct interviews and do not build user paths in the classical sense, but use it as an additional tool for selecting respondents, searching for hidden motives in actions and getting acquainted with the experience of users. That is, the customer sends us pictures with the design, we make a small prototype out of it  and show it to our test audience…

  20.01.2021

• What Fashion and Urban Design Have in Common

  …e 75% of natural resources, produce half of the waste worldwide, and 80% of greenhouse emissions. Olga Johnston Antonova believes that fashion of the future is about ecology, production and consumption of clothes, as well as about changes in people’s lifestyle. In fashion, much like in urban studies, design and the visual aspect are very important. Both cities and…

  19.01.2021

• How to Study Effectively: Five Memorization Techniques for Acing Any Exam or Test

  …an illustration or a vivid image. You can easily memorize items when they have visual forms and for a more effective result, you can exaggerate the size of the object, imagine it in action, etc. Application: it’s best for visual learners and requires a vivid imagination, you can use it to remember numbers, faces, and names, various types of information, etc. …

  19.01.2021

• ITMO Scientists Propose Systems With Unique Interaction Between Photons and Mechanical Motion of Atoms

  …certain conditions, light particles (photons) can affect the movement of atoms of matter. It happens because the emission and absorption of photons are followed by recoil. Such interactions are a study subject of one of the physics’ subdivisions, namely, quantum optomechanics. A study of how and under which conditions particles of matter interact with light has a …

  19.01.2021

• Three Monsters of Thinking: ITMO Holds a Lecture on Evidence-Based Policy As Part of Hard Core Philosophy Project

  …d. This means that the solution is effective and well-founded, and therefore can be applied to other groups. But the underlying problem with the RCT method is that it is based on induction, that is, we extrapolate a particular case to the whole picture. The evidence-based scheme of RCTs suggests that if the desired result is obtained in one area and with one categ…

  18.01.2021