The Centenary of the Birth of Professor Georgy I. Dorofeev by A. V. Gordienko

“…The article is devoted to one of the leaders of the Leningrad school of gastroenterologists of the second half of the last century. …”
Get full text

Al confine tra ufficialità e underground. Forme di istituzionalizzazione della ‘seconda cultura’ sovietica by Alice Bravin

“… From the second half of the 1970s, some organizations of unofficial and independent artists and writers were created in the Soviet Union, which were officially recognized by Soviet authorities: in 1976 in the Moscow City Committee of Graphic Artists a section of painting was set up that united non-formal artists who exhibited their works in the halls in Malaia Gruzinskaia street; in 1981 in Leningrad the literary club “Klub-81” was created, a unique organization of unsanctioned writers under the direct control of the KGB; in 1985 an alternative literary association, the “Klub Poeziia”, was also founded in Moscow. …”
Get full text

The edge of chaos is that where consciousness manifests itself through intermittent dynamics by Valeriy Sbitnev

Get full text

Investigating the Use of Generative Adversarial Networks-Based Deep Learning for Reducing Motion Artifacts in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance by Ma ZP, Zhu YM, Zhang XD, Zhao YX, Zheng W, Yuan SR, Li GY, Zhang TL

“…Image quality pre- and post-optimization was assessed using metrics including Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), Leningrad Focus Measure, and a 5-point Likert scale.Results: After GAN optimization, notable improvements were observed in the PSNR, SSIM, and focus measure metrics for the 100 images with simulated artifacts. …”
Get full text