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• The New Mandatory Russian Exam for Foreign Applicants — Is There Anything to Worry About?

  …nd prepare accordingly. «The other pressing problem is the difference in the level of Russian between applicants from the neighboring states and from other countries. The introduction of the mandatory language testing can disturb the balance between these categories of students. I really hope that this novelty will do more good than bad. Surely, the necessity to…

  16.09.2016

• Why Sugar the Pill: Indian Scientists on How Sweet Pills Make Treatment More Effective

  …issolved in saliva. The signal with the information about the molecule goes through a regular neurotransmitter that stimulates the according nerve and launches particular chemical reactions. Taste masking techniques At present, there are several technologies of taste masking. The most common is adding flavoring agents. Still, the probl…

  15.09.2016

• «Smart Home»: Apps, Advices, Solutions

  … smartphone app (a separate remote control doesn't make your teapot smarter, does it?), notifications are to be sent to the owner’s phone as well. The system can include different functions: Climate control — turns on air conditioning, heaters, under floor heating to maintain the desired temperature; Smart Lighting regulates the lighting depending on the time of th…

  15.09.2016

• The New NANO-year in Saint Petersburg

  … ITMO University organized an interactive mini-exhibition on the university's projects. The schoolers had the chance to immerse into the virtual reality of the videos by Video360Production team, to see the human body structure using the interactive atlas created at the eScience Research Institute and play computer games without even touching the computer — using a sm…

  13.09.2016

• ITMO’s Graduate Ilya Czech on How to Develop the Prosthesis Market in Russia

  …onths. Obviously, there's no special course for management of such companies as ours, but I believe almost any manager or PR-specialist can learn the necessary skills. In what direction will the prosthesis technologies evolve? Our company's main concept is that prosthetics is not about just replacing the limbs — its something more. We try to fix our prostheses …

  13.09.2016

• METANANO-2016: Best Reports and Future Collaboration

  …is field, including the prospects of practical use of photon and acoustic topological insulators. They allow us to control light and sound, direct electromagnetic waves in preset directions with no loss or dispersion even through curved waveguides. Plasmonic microchips: theory and application Mr. Valentin Volkov, Nanooptics Center of the University of Southern …

  10.09.2016

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

  … of BDT for a series of performances called Mezhdu Dvyumy or Between the Two of Us, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. This included some astonishing scenes: the real-time construction onstage of a gigantic musical instrument — like an enormous Aolean Harp — made from actual-size coffins, a very long piece of guitar string and a swinging pendulum. There was also …

  09.09.2016

• British Royals Acknowledge Video360 Arctic Footage

  …rival of the first Allied convoy «Dervish» in the port of Arkhangelsk. According to Mr. Denis Stolyarov, engineer for ITMO's Design and Multimedia Center and head of the Video360Production project, the video was specially prepared during the expedition in June. The film was synced by a British studio, Superb Films Corporation Limited. «Our operator participate…

  09.09.2016

• Quantum Perspectives: Present and Future Tech

  …mena. I guess that I don't have to explain what "quantum" means; "many-particle", on the other hand, requires explaining, as it's not about just the multitude of particles. The interactions between particles are even more important - they lead to different collective effects in such systems, and those are really hard to describe. The application of quantum technol…

  09.09.2016

• Keeping Things Simple: ITMO Freshman Makes Reading English Easier

  …n, when I got home, I made a graphics interface, and I have continued to develop it since. You can find the project on GitHub. From where does your app take words? There is a dictionary that can be used to get synonyms via an API request. Then I choose those that would be the easiest to understand — I have a separate database where each word is indicated by the…

  08.09.2016