Ural Federal University Courses

Hacking PostgreSQL: Data Access Methods

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This course is about data storage and data processing technologies with examples from PostgreSQL. It is geared toward database core developers, operation systems developers, system architects, and all those who want to understand databases in more detail. PostgreSQL is considered the most advanced free open-source database engine. It is developed by a community of hackers around the world - some of them are students just like you! In this course, you will learn how to use PostgreSQL indices, how to change them according to your demands, and how to implement your ideas and give back to thecommunity.

Organism resources development (for people with limited health abilities)

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The "Organism resources development" discipline studying purpose is to acquire skills for mobilizing and optimizing the student's individual capabilities. A person suffers maximum tension and stress during growing up, which can lead to a motivation and efficiency decrease, nervous breakdown. The students' adaptation process is a serious trial for the organism. The content of the discipline provides with: 1. Stress tolerance skills formation. Discipline includes practical guidelines for managing breathing, muscle tone and visualization skills. 2. Adaptation process mechanisms understanding. Knowledge of the adaptation process stages allows to estimate one's own dynamics, develop a more effective adaptation concept, predict possible risks and problem situations. The discipline reflects students' characteristics, focuses on social adaptation features of the people with disabilities in higher educational institutions. 3. Brain resources development. Memory, attention and mindset indicators reduce in a stressful situation. The students are invited for rapid examinations undergo for described indicators existence detection. Further, students will be able to independently conduct a training course, using practical recommendations for brain resources development. At the end, participants will have re-examination and compare indicators with input data.

Batteries, Fuel Cells, and their Role in Modern Society

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In today's world, we see game-changing movements in transportation and energy markets. A better understanding of the processes involved can help you to find your own role in these incipient shifts and take advantage of monumental changes down the road. This course is an elementary introduction to batteries and fuel cell, the cornerstone of electromobility and renewable energy, the main drivers of sustainable development. Learning the lessons of history, understanding the main driving forces, and gaining the basic knowledge of the key technologies will build your basic all-around comprehension of the subject. This course aims tobridgescience and society. For students focused on science, it will help illustrate the demands of society and industry. For learners from industry, business, or from generalist backgrounds, it will be the lucid introduction to the subject. The short course will not make you an expert in batteries, fuels cells, and electric vehicles, but will help you incommunicating with scientists and engineers and make your further education (or self-education) more productive. The main focus of the course is on batteries - namely, lithium-ion batteries - and electric vehicles as the key market.

Engineering Mechanics

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Are you interested in improving your mechanics or introducing yourself to the subject all together? Join our unique course, devised by the Ural Federal University. Through our innovative approach, you will receive the basic traditional material by engaging in practically-oriented tasks and learn the strictly theoretical mathematical analysis of basic concepts. You will be introduced to mathematical modelling of engineering designs, standard machines, and mechanisms using 2D and 3D diagrams. The course begins with statics, which is the science of forces.By the end of the course you will be able to:write down equilibrium conditions of structural elements and units of machines and mechanisms.perform the substitution of one system of forces that acts upon the structural elements and components of mechanisms with another equivalent one.create 2D and 3D diagrams of equilibrium in the standard engineering objects.choose appropriate mathematical models for calculating geometric parameters and force loads in the problems related to equilibrium of the engineering structures.apply combinations of mathematical operations according to the obtained mathematical models, when creating and solving equations describing equilibrium of the engineering structures.The weekly course includes video lectures on theoretical concepts, video demonstrations of the solutions of practical problems, tasks for students’ training, individual task, interim and final tests.

Generating discrete sequences: language and music

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This course covers modern approaches to the generation of sequential data. It includes the generation of natural language as a sequence of subword tokens and music as a sequence of notes. We mostly focus on modern deep learning methods and pay a lot of attention to challenges and open questions in the field. The main goal of the course is to expose students to novel techniques in sequence generation and help them develop skills to use these techniques in practice. The course aims to bring students to the point where they have a general understanding of sequence generation and are ready to do a deeper dive into any particular area they are interested in: language, music or bioinformatic sequences.

Personal growth basics (for people with limited health abilities)

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The “Personal growth basics” discipline studying aim is to form a congruous personality, adapted to social interaction in a higher educational institution. Maturity and concordance of personality is determined by an adequate response to external influence, as well as the ability of effective interaction. Each course theme adapts to the students’ characteristics with hearing disorder and dysopsia: 1. For hearing impaired and deaf students, the lecture material is presented in the form of simple visual diagrams, short sentences. All video lectures are accompanied by subtitles. 2. For visually impaired and blind students, the lecture material and tasks are presented in the form of audio tracks.