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• St. Petersburg's Nobel Prize Legacy

  …e was named the 21st most cited psychologist of the 20th century because of the contribution his discovery made to the understanding of human and animal behavior as well as neurological sciences. And yes, behaviorism as a theory is quite debatable but we can’t deny that this approach is at the base of several types of therapy and treatments for various mental disorde…

  27.07.2020

• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

  …nton Nikolaev. “To, roughly speaking, convert a plate of stem cells into neurons, you’ll need a month or even more than that. The second problem is that you don’t have any control over which neurons the cells on the plate will turn into. We, however, want to learn how to grow specific types of neurons.” The defining feature of the Sheffield – St. Petersburg join…

  27.07.2020

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  … level,” comments Evgeny Abritalin.  Grigory Krutov, a kinesiologist and doctor at the NL-Clinic Center for Preventive Medicine, was invited to provide additional control and split volunteers into groups based on their level of chemophobia. His task is to determine the degree of chemophobia’s progression in volunteers based on their bodily and muscle respons…

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …g with continuous carbon fibers. An invention by the Russian company Anizoprint which allows us to produce complex and durable plastic parts. Life-support systems and their role in future space exploration There’s no doubt that scientists and engineers work on creating energy sources, materials, and conditions suitable for deep space exploration. One of the…

  24.07.2020

• Evolutionary Computations Explained in 9 Simple Questions

  … very wide: evolutionary computations can come in handy whenever something needs to be optimized and are used in the industry, such as in industrial design, logistics, and control, as well as other fields of science: bioinformatics, medicine, robotics, and machine learning (for example, to generate neural network structures). An active branch of the field of evolutio…

  23.07.2020

• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …at has its own advantages. Delivering talks as part of the program were Mario Pagliaro from the Italian National Research Council, Kirill Afonin from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Phillip Buckhaults from the University of South Carolina.  Another defining feature of this year’s school was the expansion of its…

  22.07.2020

• Scientists Suggest Using Gold Nanoparticle Metasurfaces to Determine Substance Molecular Composition

  …Today, more and more attention is paid to the quality of air and water and control of any harmful compounds they may contain. Even a small concentration of such compounds can have a tremendous negative effect on the health of humans and animals. Moreover, these days chemists, physicists and materials scientists experiment with extremely small quantities of various su…

  21.07.2020

• Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout

• ITMO University and VK Carry Out Research in the Field of Machine Learning and User Metrics

  …o podcasts,” she comments. “We can take these parameters into account when forming our smart feed, which will impact how much news is viewed by one user, how much they enjoy scrolling through the feed. This is just one example of the dependencies we want to track down. Thanks to our joint project with ITMO, we, as it seems, are now capable of doing that; what’s more,…

  17.07.2020