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• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  … key factors contributing to the development of a heat island are not the emission rates, but a factor that has to do with the changes in albedo, which characterizes the diffuse reflection of solar radiation. St. Petersburg’s surface has greatly changed over time; earlier on, the incoming shortwave radiation was reflected, and the corresponding part of the spectre wa…

  05.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …earables. Social media use not that scary after all. Contrary to the popular assumption, researchers found that social media use has no significant negative effect on social interactions or social well-being.…

  05.03.2018

• Mining Hardware Helps Scientists Gain Insight into Silicon Nanoparticles

  …s is not entirely true and an even distribution of plasma inside particles is not the only possible scenario.” Scientists found that the electromagnetic field caused by an interaction between light and particles has a more complex structure. This leads to a light distortion which varies with time. Therefore, the symmetry of particles is disturbed and optical pro…

  02.03.2018

• Dmitry Moscovich, CIO at Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg, on Introducing IT Systems at Enterprises

  … Still, the work of business analysts is to know when the refusal to introduce a new system threatens facing even greater risks in the near future. For instance, in 2014 the first sanctions were imposed on Russia. At that time, our company used systems by Oracle and Microsoft, so we analyzed the risks and decided to develop a domestic platform so as to not depend on …

  02.03.2018

• ITMO Students Develop VR Lecture Hall to Replace Onsite Education

  …niversity. It is possible to interact with our program using eye movement, and soon we’ll add gestures, meaning that users do not just watch a video on the internet, but can perform actions that are essential for their training. In other words, this can act as a replacement of intramural education,” explains Roman Vakhrushev. The project’s unique feature is that…

  02.03.2018

• ITMO University’s Business Incubator Named Among World’s Best

  …ed Russia’s top business incubator. In late 2017 it was announced that the Business Incubator would undergo a transformation – in its place the university now has the multi-functional Entrepreneurship Center; its primary goal is to train staff and accelerate projects. Every student, scientist, and staff member of an innovative company or a startup can take par…

  01.03.2018

• ITMO Researchers Develop Wireless Signal Transfer Method for MRI

  …uency fields affects the hydrogen atoms in the soft tissues of the body. These conditions create nuclear magnetic resonance which leads to a strong synchronous change in the spin direction of protons. Once the excitation ceases, atoms gradually return to their original state. However, all protons emit radio-frequency radiation during this transition. In different org…

  28.02.2018

• ITMO Researchers Participating in Targeted Drug Delivery Research

  …(ellipsoid-shaped ones, for instance) are more likely to be captured by cancer cells. “I synthesized particles of cubic, elliptical, and other shapes and studied their interactions with cancer cells. It wasn’t a difficult project, but I still learned many new chemical synthesis methods and some physical methods, too,” – says Mikhail. Particles for the s…

  28.02.2018

• Science Communication at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

  …as with a few universities in the Netherlands. So I think that the Fellowship program offers a great opportunity to promote your university abroad and support the development of connections between your university and foreign universities. We’re planning to launch some projects together with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Now we are applying for a scholarship…

  27.02.2018

• ITMO-Developed Nanoparticle Technology Helps Stop Internal Bleeding

  …urs in various body parts including the brain or the stomach. Yet the prognosis for majority of cases is quite pessimistic, as internal bleeding usually causes hematomas, organ dysfunction and massive blood loss. Although there are several drugs that can stop severe blood loss, none of them can help entirely without surgical intervention. In an attempt to stop bleedi…

  27.02.2018