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• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  … listen to a different opinion and come to the point that it is wrong. At the same time, scientific views don’t have to be the ultimate truth. Science communication has to control this. Andrey: I’d like to add that despite the fact that we have to educate society as much as possible, we must analyze the statistics. Otherwise it will give the reverse effect. Promotin…

  02.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  …stablishments. If three years ago, no more than a fourth of these establishments did it, in 2016 it was 40% for research institutes and 35% for universities. What's the role of science communicators in universities and research institutes? Every science communication unit has similar functions, even though they often have different names: most commonly, it …

  02.03.2017

• Like Doesn’t Cure Like: Homeopathy and Its Fake Medications

  …shed in journals of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the British Homeopathic Association, the Russian Homeopathy Portal and others. "The Committee for Pseudoscience Control of the RAS encourages developers of homeopathic medications to label medications with the information that their efficiency is not proved and also point out the concentration, in other word…

  01.03.2017

• JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes

  …rch Associate at the Department of Computer Engineering and Design. This is why projects like the "Website in 45 Minutes" are not just educational resources, but also play the role of some "historians" of web development. "Yesterday, you’d hear that the best practices are ones, today — others, and tomorrow they'll be different again. For example, we now use Angu…

  28.02.2017

• VR for Medicine: from Placebo to Robotic Exoskeletons

  …tments is to remind patients about the traumatic situation. VR-based treatment can be combined with talk therapy. The method may seem cruel, but in fact, it teaches how to control oneself and avoid panic attacks. Source: ScientificAmerican. VR for diagnostics One other application of VR is early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. For this purpose scientist…

  28.02.2017

• Co-creation Concept: How to Manage Creativity?

  …of productivity. It is better to prepare for exams or make repairs together. It is also much easier when you can discuss a problem with somebody. The first step towards controlled creativity is to understand that there are two worlds — real and ideal. Many people deny the second one. When you are walking during night time and notice something strange in the bushes…

  28.02.2017

• Why Design Programs: Anatoliy Shalyto on Automata-Based Programming

  …the developer just doesn't have enough people to do it in time. The fun part is that sometimes, software is first meant to be used for three-four years, and then this span is prolonged to 25; yet, even in this case no one develops design documentation for it. If there's a need to change something in the software, programmers usually change the code as they see fit an…

  27.02.2017

• Experience Exchange in the Field of Social Design: ITMO’s Specialists Visited UCLA

  …ermines a state of disease and sends the information to a physician. To create the algorithms the developer used a methodology created by specialists of St.Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute. The app also contains special brain exercises. This is what makes the project socially important; at the same time, the app can find its market niche. The system c…

  22.02.2017

• New Program for Crowd Behavior Analysis

  …se multimodel agent-based simulations. This approach implies that behavior of a crowd is determined by a trajectory and speed of single agents. AI systems are used here to control the behavior of each participant of the crowd. The researchers from ITMO’s eScience Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico University of Amsterdam, Massachusetts In…

  21.02.2017

• ITMO’s Bioengineering Center Presents Research on New Bio-Compatible Implants

  … so as to minimize the free space's volume. One of the ways to it is injecting nanoparticles into the polymer. The second option is to inject some antibacterial compound with prolonged effective duration that is compatible with live tissues. Noble metal particles are amongst the best choices here. "Silver's antibacterial effect is based on its atoms being constantl…

  21.02.2017