Seventy Percent of Russians Not Interested in Museums
Access to cultural heritage, including museums, is guaranteed under numerous international and domestic Russian documents, but certain disadvantaged groups are unable to exercise this right in practice, according to the report 'Access to Russian Museums: Internal and External Factors' by Tatyana Abankina, Director of the HSE’s Centre for Applied Economic Research.
9.4%
of students in conventional schools and universities age 15 to 30 are prone to ‘conspicuous consumption’, i.e., buying the most expensive items.
Russian Statistics Unhelpful in Predicting Future
Russian statistics are scarce, inaccurate, ormissing – and therefore misleading, rather than helpful. Their limited temporal depth makes any reliable long-term projections of the country's socio-economic development impossible, according to the report 'Russian Statistics: What Do They Preserve for History?' by Vladimir Bessonov, Head of the HSE’s Laboratory for Research in Inflation and Growth.
HSE Professors on How to Protect Spaceships
At the end of July, Professor Andrey Tyutnev of HSE’s Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM) became the only Russian presenter at the13th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference organized in California under the auspices of NASA. Professor Tyutnev presented two reports prepared with colleagues from the Higher School of Economics and the Lavochkin Research and Production Association.
84%
of Russians do not go to museums: 70% do not know they are nearby, while the other 14% have simply never had the desire to visit them.
LINIS Found the Limitations of Text Clustering on the Internet
Sergey Koltsov, Deputy Director of the Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS), presented his project on the problems of topic modeling of on-line texts at the Web Science conference in Bloomington.
Parents financially support their adult children and grandchildren
Grown-up children usually help their parents with housework and care for them when they are sick, while the parents provide financial support and help raise their grandchildren, Anna Mironova, Junior Research Fellow with HSE’s Center for Studies of Income and Living Standards, said in the report ‘Private Intergenerational Transfers in Terms of Demographic Aging in Russia’
61.9%
is the amount by which the real value of savings in Russia’s defined contribution pension system declined in 2004-2011. Only four out of 68 management companies saw returns on investment exceed inflation during this period.
Mathematicians Help Detect Domestic Violence
Mathematical science can help with the detection and classification of offences. In the Netherlands, the lack of a reliable automatic police report classification system was seriously hampering the detection of domestic violence. An international group of researchers, which included Associate Professor of the HSE's Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence Dmitry Ignatov found an effective solution. They proposed an automatic classification method which allows for faster detection and response to domestic violence.