Dr. habil. biol. Isaak Rashal, Full Member of the LAS, receives the Award of the Baltic Academies of Sciences in Vilnius, May 2019

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... is awarded during the Baltic Conferences on Intellectual Cooperation. Medals and diplomas of the three Baltic Academies of Sciences for the development of intellectual relations between the Baltic countries are awarded to scientists and intellectuals. In 2019, the Baltic awards were presented to the Latvian geneticist Professor Isaak Rashal (Fig. 2) for essential research in genetics and important pedagogical and organisational input into development and strengthening of basic and applied research in plant genetics in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; to the Estonian geneticist Professor Maris Laan for major input into cooperation in basic and clinical reproductive genetic research ...

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... Since it is well documented that a physically active and nutritionally healthy lifestyle supports normal mitochondrial functioning, immunity status and reduces the risk for the development of diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease, the questions arise if immune cells are ensuring crosstalk between organs on bioenergetics level (Fig. ...

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... on the RIS3 in Latvia and Germany, as well as of the Switzerland's research strategy directions, it is clear that establishment of BBCE in Latvia will have national support in all project partner countries; therefore, the success rate for the implementation of the project is very high and credible. The linkage between the project partners and RIS3 is summarised in Figure 2. ...

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... images. The portable device developed for early contactless diagnosis of skin cancer is based on the methodology developed by I. Lihačova (ex. Diebele), which was first published in 2012 [3]. The method was developed based on differences in the average optical density (OD) spectra of skin lesions obtained with a multispectral imaging camera (see Fig. 2) [4]. The melanoma diagnostic parameter p' was created by combining three optical density images at the following wavelengths: 540 nm, 650 nm, and 950 nm. It was possible to distinguish melanomas from nevi with high-sensitivity (97%) and specificity (96%) and differentiate pigmented basal cell carcinomas from nevi and melanomas with ...

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... RTU was working even before the official establishment in bringing particle physics, also in early stages, to the Latvian students. Since 2016, HEP RTU has organised a scientific mission for pupils on Latvian Shadow days to CERN (Fig. 2). On these trips to CERN, every year RTU PhD students and school students are guided around CERN and introduced or get a deeper understanding of fundamental physics, research and research facilities performance. On a regular basis, RTU HEP is working on the coordination of the Baltic research institutions' activities towards CERN and ...

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... in Antarctica. Therefore, the cooperation agreement was signed between the University of Latvia and the National Antarctic Scientific Centre of Ukraine in 2017, and the first expedition to the Vernadsky Station was conducted in 2018 by geologists of the Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences -Jānis Karušs, Kristaps Lamsters and Māris Krievāns (Fig. ...

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... station (Fig. 2B) is situated on the Galindez Island in the group of Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago, which is opposite Kiev Peninsula of the west coast of the Graham Land of the Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1). Administration of the station is performed by the National Antarctic Scientific Centre of Ukraine under the Ministry of Education and ...

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... models of the subglacial topography which was supposed to be heavily articulated as the exposed rock surfaces on all of the surveyed islands. The measurements were performed by two GPR systems -Zond 12-e with 75 MHz antenna (developed by a RadSys company in Latvia) and VIY3-300 with 300 MHz antenna (Transient Technologies, Ukraine). Zond 12-e (Fig. 2C) allowed reaching best results where the ice thickness was largest and VIY3-300 were most suitable for shallow ice measurements. Both used systems proved to be very accurate and fully comparable. The GPR data obtained with Zond GPR were processed and interpreted with Prism 2.6 software and the data obtained with VIY GPR were processed ...

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... 2.6 software and the data obtained with VIY GPR were processed and interpreted with Synchro and Planner software. The electromagnetic impulse propagation speed was determined using englacial hyperbolic reflections allowing more precise determination of the ice thickness. Aerial images were obtained with UAV -DJI Phantom III Advanced Quadcopter (Fig. 2D) which is ca-pable of approximately 20 min of flight time during cold weather. This UAV is equipped with a GPS/ GLONASS satellite positioning system and a 12 megapixel digital compact camera. The planning and execution of flights (automated missions) were done with Pix4Dcapture software, and the UAV was launched from the highest areas ...