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• Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network: Connecting Small Businesses and Clients

  …, which offer affordable but personalized services. The project’s team members view themselves as researchers of natural human behavior in the urban environment. “We find inspiration in the ideas of the Chicago Sociological School, which emerged in the 1920s and was the first major body of works specializing in urban sociology,” shares Aleksandra Nenko, the head…

  20.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 22-23

  …ptures will be launched in the Peter and Paul Fortress. More than 30 renowned artists from Russia, Belgium, France, Germany and other countries will demonstrate their works inspired by this year’s theme “Around the World”. Admire Australia’s most extraordinary marine life, make your way through a dangerous jungle somewhere in South America, see ancient Egyptian py…

  19.12.2018

• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …es and receptor inhibitors, hormone antagonists (which affect target cells by causing hormonal disruptions), and proteasome inhibitors (which block complexes that destroy proteins). Drug development process It’s impossible to make a universal drug for all targets. A target molecule has to have a stereochemically unique cavity (also known as a ‘pocket’) able to …

  19.12.2018

• Virtual Influencers: What Are They?

  …wo other notable figures in the virtual influencer movement are Miquela Sousa and Shudu Gram. Miquela is a 19-year old Brazilian-American from California who first appeared on Instagram in 2016. While her posts were quite typical, consisting mostly of food photos, clothes, and selfies with friends, the public soon realized that Miquela wasn’t real. Along with Bermuda…

  19.12.2018

• ITMO University in 2018: A Year in Review

  … Gulag History Museum. Degree Power After being granted the right to grant PhD degrees, this year ITMO developed a transparent system for high-quality thesis defense and instigated a new approach to forming interdisciplinary thesis boards. These changes will ultimately make it easier for ITMO graduates to work with their international colleagues on joint resear…

  18.12.2018

• ITMO University Lecturers on Benefits of Using Online Courses in Teaching

  …art from having to pay for the course certificate, another downside of online courses is that the format they come in is de-personalized. What makes this an issue is that, for instance, some students know the theory perfectly well, but they may experience difficulties in making the computations, and they submit wrong answers as a result. When you’re working in the on…

  18.12.2018

• Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed

  …ind practical advice most useful. The book is absolutely practice-oriented. Each of its 12 chapters is dedicated to a particular step of launching a new business. It all begins with choosing a field to work in. According to my approach, you shouldn't choose it based on some market development prospects, growth rates or anything like that. The most important factor…

  18.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …ents, that they had only been tested on their spatial intelligence, and that the positive effect named only lasted for ten minutes. The mass media busted with a fit of endless instructions on how parents need to force their kids into listening to Mozart on a daily basis. Listening to music is better than sitting in silence with nothing to do From this point…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …u been able to achieve? It is indeed a very small, and yet highly efficient, robot, made entirely with plastic. The latter part is crucial, as that’s what allows it to work inside an MRI unit. Conducting a biopsy during an MRI scan greatly increases its accuracy: it lets us see the abnormalities in the tissue, locate tumors and direct the system to that area. We c…

  17.12.2018

• Yaks and the Milky Way: Warming up on a Cold Day

  …When friends ask me what I want from Russia, I almost always say instant soup. They do a double take and I ask them to go to a Lenta store and buy a bag of “Tomato and Basil” and “Chicken Noodle with Croutons,” but not the creamy kind. That adds to my overall image of their slightly insane friend, but they do it nevertheless, and on col…

  17.12.2018