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• Urbanist Dhiru Thadani: to Improve Cities, We Must Focus on People

  …ion and, secondly, they need to be made more accessible to people with disabilities. What is to be done with areas that are far from the historic center? For example, the abandoned industrial estates and areas in our city, referred to as the “grey belt”? Different cities around the world have tried different approaches to this issue; which do you believe is the mo…

  03.10.2017

• Controlling Propagation of Surface Waves Using Ultra-Small Nano-Antenna

  …earcher at the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at ITMO University.   The researchers note that the developed method will make it possible in the future to abandon the use of large devices and to separate the surface waves of different frequency, by using dielectric particles with properly chosen parameters. Compared to other promising devices that …

  03.10.2017

• Urban Evolution: Artists, Journalists and CEOs Discuss Future of St. Petersburg

  …tests. There is no point in always looking back, said Shnurov, and the future of St. Petersburg is that of a metropolis. Art is a weapon Andrey Bartenev and Semyon Alexandovsky Andrey Bartenev – a painter, sculptor and creator of provocative and interactive installations and performances – expressed his belief that any work of art created in the urban envi…

  02.10.2017

• Baltic International Summer School 2017: How to Transform a City in Nine days

  …cal problems separately and created a three-stage strategy. The first part involves developing those parts of the district where people already live. Even though the plot is abandoned, today it is visited by the inhabitants of the neighboring area to look at trains, draw graffiti, look at the nearby canals around the area. All these areas can be improved and made mor…

  22.09.2017

• How to Launch a Tech Project and Succeed

  …-development will be enough – at least during the initial stages. A good tip is to have a friend or colleague to study with to make sure you learn more effectively and don’t abandon your education halfway through. Geek Picnic 2017 “Skills are more accessible than ever. Even schoolkids know how 3D printers work. A lot of people are familiar with using Arduin…

  14.09.2017

• Baltic Weekend 2017: Why Creators Will Always Be In Business

  …s should program driverless cars to kill. That sounds horrific, yet they will have to do it - in case of an accident which will certainly lead to someone dying, people act at random; yet, a program will have to act according to some algorithm, i.e. choose who's going to die and who isn't. Scientists approach this problem in different ways. Some propose developing …

  14.09.2017

• Art, Love and Depression: How Your Brain Controls Your Life

  …because the drug’s chemical compounds combine with serotonin receptors and disrupt their normal functions, causing neurotransmitters to activate various zones of the brain at random. Serotonin is also an indirect cause of depression, which occurs due to the lack of this neurotransmitter, which controls negative emotions and balances them against positive ones.…

  13.09.2017

• ITMO Student Joins Research at XFEL

  …elds the team you'll be part of works on? The first is organic-inorganic nanocomposites; Sergei Molotsov's group wants to find nanocomposites that'll do good for resistive random access memory (RRAM). The memory elements used now are lacking, as it's volatile; as soon as we turn a computer off, the data is lost. Yet, resistive memory is non-volatile and can store …

  12.09.2017

• Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Polariton Laser Technology

  …rgy requirement. There is also another process which concerns the type of emission that is called spontaneous: in that case, an electron on the high-energy level can, at a random time, emit a photon and fall into a low-energy state. The issue with spontaneous emission is that the exiting photons tend to be incoherent, with a random p…

  06.09.2017

• THE World University Rankings 2017−2018: Results

  …or the rankings is collected from three sources: the universities, the Scopus bibliometric database, and the annual Academic Reputation Survey (respondents for the survey are randomly chosen from authors for Scopus). Each year's ranking takes into account the two most surveys, which amounts to more than 20,000 responses. THE WUR 2018 includes 1000 universities, …

  05.09.2017