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• How Robots Help Us Deal With Online Toxicity

  …ning popularity. What that means is specialists teach a massive model to work with a language that already has a lot of data, then use a smaller sample size to teach it the specifics of the target language. It’s quite effective for certain language pairings and tasks, but others still require the classic approach. Ethics of discourse are changing constantly. D…

  16.09.2020

• ITMO Researchers Present New Inventions at AGRORUS-2020 Expo

  …anova, author of the project and researcher at the Faculty of Biotechnology. “It possesses anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and immunostimulatory properties. Besides, the specifics of its structure make this natural polysaccharide useful in the food industry as a coagulant, emulsifier, or stabilizer. If you look up the prices on biologically active supplements, you…

  15.09.2020

• Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  …oice is up to you (though we strongly suggest the latter option)! Ridesharing Need a cab? In addition to international services like Gett and Uber (get the Russia-specific app on App Store or Google Play), commonly used ridesharing services in St. Petersburg include the ubiquitous Yandex.Taxi (App Store; Google Play) and Taxovichkof (App Store; Google Play)…

  15.09.2020

• Medical Discoveries That Changed the World

  …ed.  The second method is the most promising – it’s about creating vaccines based on messenger RNA (mRNA). RNA vaccines work by inserting an mRNA sequence that encodes a specific antigen in order to activate the immune system. Such vaccines are safer, cheaper, and faster to produce.  The third option is protein-based vaccines. They are a mix of antigens and the…

  15.09.2020

• ITMO Graduate Wins National Theses Competition

  …me other organic objects in our experiments. Under certain localization conditions, the particle changes its trajectory – from a low-amplitude straight one to a very specific “extended orbit”. In particular, this orbit resembles a rhombus or four-pointed star in the form. The manifestation of such an effect depends both on the characteristics and the particle …

  15.09.2020

• Blended Learning: Best of Online and Offline

  …al right not to use their camera, can lose attention or “sleep in” during lectures. The speaker suggested asking students to share their thoughts in the chat in response to specific questions or to ask them to participate in a discussion. In the case of low involvement, teachers always have the option of deducting points – or giving extra to students who show interes…

  14.09.2020

• ITMO Scientists are on the Verge of Designing Pathogen-Based Drug Delivery Systems

  …ells. It also is known as a white food color (E170). In pharmacies, you can find a lot of biological supplements with this substance. “We are developing material for a specific task, namely, for combating bacterial infections,” says Nikita Serov, an engineer of the ChemBio Cluster and a PhD student at ITMO University. Calcium carbonate is an affordable and exper…

  11.09.2020

• 100+ ITMO Teaching Staff Receive Professional Development Certificates as ITMO.EXPERT Course Wraps Up

  …means is you get two extra hours of time that you save by not having your commute. But I got the impression that it was somewhat more difficult for students. But if you set specific deadlines, it all goes well. I handled the transition to distance learning fine, and I have to thank ITMO University for that. This is because in the lead-up to the spring semester, I …

  09.09.2020

• Who Are This Year’s Art & Science Students?

  …he opportunity to find people who study electronics, electrical engineering, use equipment, and tools. And it is also possible to reconcile with science.  I don't have a specific project yet. But lately, I've been reading a lot about psychoacoustics –  this is how people perceive different frequencies and how these frequencies affect them. High frequencies warn of…

  09.09.2020

• ITMO.GO Celebration of First-Year Students: Open Air, Dancing and DJ Sets

  …nal points in the entrance competition.  I also contacted older students before entering to ask them about their experiences. They told me I simply had to enter ITMO and specifically FTMI, because the faculty is like a big family. Generally, a lot of my friends study at ITMO, and they are very different people – those who ace their studies, and those who have to w…

  07.09.2020