Our congratulations to Sergei Nikolenko and Yury Rykov who have been awarded 2-year scholarships for publications in the international peer-reviewed high-rank journals.

July 23 HSE Academic Fund announced the results!

Yury Rykov got his scholarship for the paper:

P.Meylakhs, Y.Rykov, O.Koltsova, S.Koltsov An AIDS-denialist Online Community in a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions with the Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion // Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014. Т.16. 11. C.e261.

The paper describes how the community of those who deny the existence of AIDS uses VKontakte social networking site for mutual support, for converting newcomers and for convincing them to refuse from medication. The results of this research may be used in public health for prevention refusals from medication.

Sergei Nikolenko was awarded the scholarship for the paper:

Alexandrov T., Chernyavsky I., Becker M., von Eggeling F., Nikolenko S. I. Analysis and interpretation of imaging mass spectrometry data by clustering mass-to-charge images according to their spatial similarity// Analytical Chemistry. 2013. Vol.85. No.23. P.11189-11195.

The authors propose a new method for automatic grouping of mass spectrometry images that can help in preliminary data analysis when such images number to dozens of thousands. Such clustering approaches can also be used to find groups of other objects – for instance, internet texts or internet users.