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• Indexes That Matter: Elsevier’s Consultant on How to Use Bibliographic Databases

• Training the Next Generation of Information Security Specialists

  …ng strategy) and other applied aspects. Both the educational programs, and the number of threats, methods and means of protection against them, are growing and evolving simultaneously. The gap between university and industry is disappearing and businesses expect graduates who are immediately prepared for the workforce, and thus companies cooperate with univ…

  07.10.2016

• Relativity Theory in Layman’s Terms: a New Lecture at the «Gutenberg's Lounge»

  …ive some maths — something from the Game Theory. The task was the following: There is a tank that moves on our positions. We have two cannons, each has one shot, both fire simultaneously. We consider the tank destroyed if at least one of the shots hit, and as it's quite close the probability of a shot hitting the tank is 0.8. The lecturer explained as follows: you ar…

  05.10.2016

• The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Topological Phases of Matter over the Experimental Discovery of Gravitational Waves

  …pants three were chosen as Nobel Prize nominees: MIT’s professor Rainer Weiss, physicist Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne — an expert in general relativity theory (he was the consultant for the Interstellar movie). All three of them are among founders of the LIGO collaboration. «In essence, the Nobel Prize is given for significant contribution to development of scie…

  04.10.2016

• In Terms of Science: the Explanation for Paranormal Phenomena

  … Indian neurologist, created a special mirror box. A patient puts the unaffected hand inside and focuses on its' reflection. Then he has to imagine that he move both hands simultaneously. This procedure helps many patients with amputated limbs. Everybody can receive such an experience by taking part in the experiment described in various publications. One puts a f…

  04.10.2016

• Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT

  …ch gives the opportunity to receive much more information than previous generations of equipment. As of now, it helps to analyze thousands of genes from dozens of patients simultaneously. However, the specialists use both sanger sequencing method and the new one so as to compare the results. «Activating the device is much easier than the preparing biomaterial for s…

  29.09.2016

• Combining Work and Study — Six Rules to Manage It All

  …ave to do it, assign it to a set time. Thus you can stop thinking about it until you get to it. Rule 5: Multitasking is a myth! No one can do several tasks simultaneously — some just switch really fast. And this «switching» takes time and energy. So, if we're talking about combining work and studying, you'd better split them. When you start planning y…

  20.09.2016

• New Online Courses on the Open Education Platform. Part 1

  …ll be a lot to learn at the beginning of the course, but it'll become easier with time, when the practical lessons start», — shared Vadim Goihman, the course's author and consultant for the Department of Network and Cloud Technologies. Upon completing the course, its students will also have practical skills in working with different information and communicati…

  20.09.2016

• The Shock of the New — Latest Developments in St. Petersburg Theater Part 2

  …ence members in a fine layer of dust; an impromptu punk-metal concert; a spinning, time-travel cube that carried the sole remaining performer away in the final part, while simultaneously "live-stream' broadcasting from inside via iPhone. As with all of AKHE’s work, mere descriptions can only go so far in explaining the sheer visceral impact of the performance; to ful…

  09.09.2016

• Innovation Russian-Style

  …used on creating their own business, but it’s important for them to understand what is happening in the world, in other universities, in order to be professional business consultants. It’s important to attract their attention to the fact that Russia also has high-quality innovative R&D, since in ten years, they will represent their field. We are also trying to promot…

  09.09.2016