PROJECTS - European CommissionEUCYS 2017 a page 29 Biology Stand: 1 | Biology-01 Spain Juan Sánchez Mateos Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez On the structure and mechanics in vivo of

PROJECTS

EUCYS 2017 Tallinn page 29

Biology

Stand: 1 | Biology-01Spain

Juan Sánchez Mateos Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez

On the structure and mechanics in vivo of the ostial cells and the aortic valve of the Drosophila melanogaster larva heart by analyzing high resolution microscopic images

Stand: 2 | Biology-02Turkey

Özge Ceren Apali Mehmet Can Dursun

Investigating the cytotoxic effect of Juniper (Juniperus excelsa M. BIEB subsp. excelsa) oil on A431 epidermoid cancer and A549 lung cancer cells

Stand: 3 | Biology-03South Korea

Jeongsu Song Kisoo Kim Jinwoo Lee

A Statistical Study on the Influence of Color Wavelength on Human Color Differentiation Capacity

Stand: 4 | Biology-04Canada

Crystal Kelly Radinski

EEG Coherence as a Marker for Alzheimer’s Dementia

PROJECTS BY FIELDStand: 5 | Biology-05Czech Republic

Karina Movsesjan

The role of RAD51 mutations in cancer development

Stand: 6 | Biology-06Poland

Aleksander Paweł Kostrzewa

A comparison of primates’ memory and learnig skills, with use of an interactive platform in the Warsaw Zoological Garden

Stand: 7 | Biology-07Georgia

Teona Chokheli Nestan Iobashvili

AIN Productions

Stand: 8 | Biology-08Sweden

Josefin Kristina Nyberg Emma Kristina Witt Virág Nóra Angyal

Short term memory: Differences between children and adults

Stand: 9 | Biology-09Slovakia

Lukáš Marcin Adriána Pazdičová

Characteristics of decolorizing properties of selected substances useful in the production of a potential tooth whitening mass

Stand: 10 | Biology-10Finland

Stefan Elias Rua

Which types of genes are most significantly differentially expressed in lung and lymph node tissue?

Stand: 11 | Biology-11Israel

Leyla Vinopal

Immune system activity can affect Alzheimer’s disease- implications from a mouse model

Chemistry

Stand: 12 | Chemistry-01Spain

Laura García Villagrasa Isabel Hartgring

Looking for the ideal cocktail for water decontamination: Study on the photocatalytic efficiency of Fe-Ni metal organic materials over the deterioration of organic compounds.

Stand: 13 | Chemistry-02Norway

Olivia Margrethe Lynch

Self-made Spectrophotometer

Stand: 14 | Chemistry-03Egypt Yara Khalid Said Sara Sayed Mohamed

Efficient Stable Perovskite

EUCYS 2017 Tallinnpage 30

Stand: 25 | Computing-06Ireland Shane Curran

qCrypt: The quantum-secure, encrypted, data storage platform with multijurisdictional quorum sharding technology

Stand: 26 | Computing-07Austria

Gregor Widhalm Andreas Fußthaler HeadStat – Measurement and Analysis of Forces in Sports

Engineering

Stand: 27 | Engineering-01Hungary

Áron Molnár New high accuracy tilt sensor

Stand: 28 | Engineering-02Italy

Filippo Pairotti Mattia Borgna Andrea Domenico Mourglia

CardioID: Tell me how your heart beats and I’ll tell you who you are!

Stand: 29 | Engineering-03Egypt

Seifeldin Mohamed Mohamed Dina Ahmed Abdelaal Algae Energy

Computing

Stand: 20 | Computing-01Hungary

Ábel Kocsis

Rolly: radiation dose free spine control on young persons

Stand: 21 | Computing-02Turkey

Atalay Kutlay Nur Eylül Öncel

RDS of things: Using RDS technology for smart cities

Stand: 22 | Computing-03Bulgaria

Radoslav Stoyanov Dimitrov Vasilena Aleksandrova Tsvetanova

Computing unsigned reversal distance using genetic algorithms

Stand: 23 | Computing-04South Korea Sungjun Han

Automatic Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema with Image Processing

Stand: 24 | Computing-05Lithuania

Adomas Paulauskas

Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation

Stand: 15 | Chemistry-04 Slovakia

Eva Marasová Natália Bátorová

Production and application of biodegradable plastics

Stand: 16 | Chemistry-05Latvia

Rebeka Anna Lipina

Synthesis of arylidene Meldrum’s acids and their reactions

Stand: 17 | Chemistry-06Iceland

Vifill Hardarson

Saponification of Icelandic Fish Oil

Stand: 18 | Chemistry-07 China

Songrui Zhao

A Research on Synthesis, Characterization and CO2 Absorptive Character of Pyridinium-based Ionic Liquids

Stand: 19 | Chemistry-08Germany

Johannes Nicolas Waller Philipp Nikolas Kessler

Fehling’s solution – Do we need a new interpretation?


Stand: 30 | Engineering-04South Korea

Jaeho Park Je-Eon Lee

Combining Single-Channel EEG Measurement and Verbal Fluency Test - A Groundwork for Ambulatory Diagnosis of Dementia

Stand: 31 | Engineering-05Canada Danish Mahmood

W.I.N.I.T.S. (Wireless Interconnected Non-Invasive Triage System)

Stand: 32 | Engineering-06Georgia

Giorgi Pkhakadze Olegi Jatchvliani

The Magnetic Lift

Stand: 33 | Engineering-07Lithuania

Matas Aliuškevičius

Honeybee Colony Sounds Reveal Secrets of Life in Hives

Stand: 34 | Engineering-08Belgium Hayteme Ziani Younes Zahouane Hamza Blaada

Rescue snake

Stand: 35 | Engineering-09United Kingdom

David Alexander Bernstein Sankha Kahagala Gamage

E1

Stand: 36 | Engineering-10Israel

Ohad Rave Nitai Edelberg

CPR bridge

Stand: 37 | Engineering-11Luxembourg Leo Loch Max Arendt

iStudent

Stand: 38 | Engineering-12Germany Philipp Sinnewe

A more energy-efficient aeroplane engine

Stand: 39 | Engineering-13Ukraine Yana Zhabura Enhancement of technical capabilities of delta robot

Stand: 40 | Engineering-14Austria Thomas Lederer Philipp Hetzenauer

Modular pallet system for transport within companies

Stand: 41 | Engineering-15Portugal Luís Miguel Afonso Pinto Beatriz Sampaio BastiãoOlavo Filipe Estima Saraiva EasyPark

Environment

Stand: 42 | Environment-01Cyprus

Daphne Roumba Florentia Karaiskaki Ekaterini Veroe Protopapa

Investigation of effect of sunlight concentration on energy yield and system efficiency

Stand: 43 | Environment-02Italy

Elia Gambarin Marco Battisti Alessandro Gaburro

AE Space Herbs: the future in aeroponics

Stand: 44 | Environment-03Poland Kamil Humański

Taxonomic diversity of the Middle Ordovician – early Silurian echinoderms from Siljansringen, Sweden


Stand: 45 | Environment-04Denmark Ayumi Rie MayerOlivia Linnea Rygaard-Hjalsted Sound PoliSea

Stand: 46 | Environment-05Belgium Robbe Timmerman Andries Dedeurwaerder Sebastiaan Lamers

Fish-O-Matic

Stand: 47 | Environment-06Russia Ekaterina Alexandrovna Basharina

Oil impact on mollusks̀ Mya arenaria and Macoma balthica burrowing reaction

Stand: 48 | Environment-07United Kingdom

George Rabin Edward James Thurlow

Do birds have a favourite colour?

Stand: 49 | Environment-08Estonia Anni Britta Pajoma

The study of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase’s effect on Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes C70 by the construction of knockout mutant strain

Stand: 50 | Environment-09Israel Gal Levy

Production of biodiesel from organic wastes by the “black-soldier” fly larvae

Stand: 51 | Environment-10France Benoit Simon Pâques Louis Marie Godron Pierre Nicolas Boulanger DusTrack’R The ultimate low cost particulate matter sensor in response to withdraw of US from Paris climat agreement

Stand: 52 | Environment-11Portugal Gabriel Silva Silva Eduardo Teixeira Rocha Nogueira Francisca Santos Martins ShealS - Sea Heals Soil

Stand: 53 | Environment-12USA

Kendra Zhang

A paper-based microbial fuel cell for self-powered glucose monitoring in saliva

Materials

Stand: 54 | Materials-01 Hungary

Dávid Puskás

3D printed Moonbase

Stand: 55 | Materials-02 Estonia

Brita Laht

Anaerobic decomposition of starch-containing compostable plastic bag of Maxima and three novel LDPE and cellulose stearate composites in activated sludge

Stand: 56 | Materials-03 European Schools

Camilla Hurst

The role of materials and surfaces in the transmission of bacteria in public places

Stand: 57 | Materials-04USA

Nicole Megan Wojtania

Cellulose Nanocrystals for Security Applications: Embedding Non-Optical Signatures Provided by Nanoparticles into Cellulose Nanocrystal Chiral Nematic Films

Mathematics

Stand: 58 | Mathematics-01Belarus Andrei Shvedau Nikolay Sheshko

Any Heron Set can be Embedded in Z2

Stand: 59 | Mathematics-02Bulgaria Chavdar Tsvetanov Lalov

The structure of self-avoiding walks and the connective constant


Stand: 65 | Mathematics-08Finland Barry Philip Owiti

An Application of Queuing Theory On Relief Systems

Stand: 66 | Mathematics-09Russia Alena Igorevna Teselkina

Centered figurate numbers

Stand: 67 | Mathematics-10Austria Florian CäsarMichael Plainer Sigma – Learning how computers learn

Medicine

Stand: 68 | Medicine-01Slovenia

Domen Kulovec Uroš Prešern Tristan Kovačič

Active targeting of cysteine cathepsins with liposomes conjugated with cystatin C

Stand: 69 | Medicine-02Egypt

Seif Aser Rady Mohamed Mahmoud

The potential of multi-pathway therapy replacing the multi-drug therapy in cancer treatment

Stand: 60 | Mathematics-03Slovenia Tjaš Božič Miha Torkar Sara Maraž

Origamics: Mathematical exploration of the equilateral triangle through paper folding

Stand: 61 | Mathematics-04Czech Republic Alexandr Jankov

The Basel problem

Stand: 62 | Mathematics-05Poland Adam Piotr Klukowski

The floor-polynomials

Stand: 63 | Mathematics-06Denmark

Gustav Møller Grimberg

Use of comparative entropy analyses for dating and quantifying historical divergences between languages

Stand: 64 | Mathematics-07Latvia Aleksandrs Jakovlevs Edvards Janis Recickis

Magic Polyiamonds

Stand: 70 | Medicine-03Canada

Colette Benko

Novel Pediatric Cancer Therapy: Targeting Epigenetics to Induce Differentiation

Stand: 71 | Medicine-04Czech Republic Tereza Kačerová

Molecular Diagnostics of Pulmonary Diseases Based on the Analysis of Exhaled Breath Condensate

Stand: 72 | Medicine-05China

Wanzhuo He

Asparagus polysaccharide selectively inhibits myeloid-derived suppressor cells by inducing apoptosis

Stand: 73 | Medicine-06Estonia

Jasper August Tootsi

Galactosemia screening using the Beutler method

Stand: 74 | Medicine-07Switzerland Nina Chiara Kathe

Small non-coding RNA induced gene silencing of tetracycline resistance gene in E. coli


Stand: 85 | Physics-11Switzerland

Jerome Schmidiger

The Theory and Detection of Gravitational Waves

Social sciences

Stand: 86 | Social sciences-01Spain

Paula Teresa Tovar Rodríguez A study on the effects of Baroque music on concentration: Can Winter, from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, enhance attention in adolescent students?

Stand: 87 | Social sciences-02Iceland

Herdis Agusta Linnet

The status of children seeking international protection in Iceland - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – a safe haven for all children?

Stand: 88 | Social sciences-03Luxembourg

Sylvie-Anne Soares-Pereira Sophie Klein Emily Cordier The effect of wearing colourful clothing in class

Stand: 89 | Social sciences-04Switzerland

Adam Jan Alexander Ohnesorge

The forgotten prisoners – Civilian prisoners of the Great War inCorsica

Physics

Stand: 75 | Physics-01Cyprus

Katerina Telamitsi Anastasia Eliofotou Savvina Nikolaou Meteorological observation of the vertical structure of the troposphere. Research, Explanation and conclusions

Stand: 76 | Physics-02Turkey

Can Pak

Measuring the surface vibration frequency with laser diode

Stand: 77 | Physics-03Bulgaria

Teodor Dimitrov Aleksiev Simona Lyubomirova Hristova Searching for variable stars in open clusters: a new algorithm and application

Stand: 78 | Physics-04Georgia

Zurab Mujirishvili Ramaz Javakhishvili

TrogloByte

Stand: 79 | Physics-05 Slovakia

Miroslav Kurka

Dynamic magnetization behavior in soft magnetic alloys of different structure

Stand: 80 | Physics-06Latvia

Dana Konisevska

Optimization of dielectric properties in sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) containing compounds

Stand: 81 | Physics-07China

Sijia Zhong

A New Way of Reducing the Friction of ships Based on the Biological Characteristics of Earthworm

Stand: 82 | Physics-08France

Solène Noémie Dumas-Grollier Emma Marie-Christine J. J. Robin

Les mystères de la Tasse (A mysterious cup)

Stand: 83 | Physics-09Germany

Arne Jakob Geipel Matthias Paul Grützner Julian Egbert

Liquid stream hits rough surfaces – showing an extraordinary and stable wave pattern

Stand: 84 | Physics-10Ukraine

Mykola Veremchuk

The investigation of the distribution of the density in gases using the Schlieren photography


Austria Stand: 26 Project: Computing-07

HeadStat – Measurement and Analysis of Forces in Sports Gregor Widhalm [email protected]

Andreas Fußthaler [email protected]

American Football is a tough sport with a lot of collisions, which can cause the players serious head injuries and neck problems. It is often a lack of opportunity to assess potential injuries that can lead to something more serious further down the line. As a member of an American Football team, Gregor Widhalm together with his team mate Andreas Fußthaler developed a helmet module at IT-HTL Ybbs that can check during the game whether an impact was so intensive as to require immediate intervention. A rechargeable helmet module sends data to a mini server that displays the measured values in graphic form in real time. The data is also saved in a database for later evaluation.

Austria Stand: 67 Project: Mathematics-10

Sigma – Learning how computers learn Florian Cäsar [email protected]

Michael Plainer [email protected]

So-called “Artificial Intelligence” is now to be found in previously unimaginable places thanks to powerful computers becoming more affordable. With the project “Sigma – Learning how computers learn”, Florian Cäsar and Michael Plainer from the HTL Wels have set themselves the objective of distributing AI so that it is available to and understandable for everybody. Sigma is an intuitive building block system that automates almost every application for which human intuition is normally needed–available freely, without cost, and for any purpose. From students without previous knowledge through to professionals, with Sigma everybody can realise innovative ideas, work together directly with others and enable computers to learn complex relationships by themselves using only examples.


Austria Stand: 40 Project: Engineering-14

Modular pallet system for transport within companies Thomas Lederer [email protected]

Philipp Hetzenauer

Even just a few minutes’ transport can require huge amounts of packing time and material. That is why Philipp Hetzenauer and Thomas Lederer at HTL Jenbach developed ingenious pallet systems for EMPL to save time, material and costs. The concept designed by Thomas Lederer consists of welded steel profiles and shaped plate sections with the intention of ensuring that the company needs to fabricate as little as possible themselves. The side panels consist of standardised steel profiles that are readily available by the metre. Philipp Hetzenauer’s design is based on the assumption that the client would like to reduce investment costs and fabricate as much as possible themselves. Using plug-in fittings, all the components slot together easily.

Belarus Stand: 58 Project: Mathematics-01

Any Heron Set can be Embedded in Z2 Andrei Shvedau [email protected]

Nikolay Sheshko [email protected]

This work is about sets of points with integer pairwise distances (ideal sets) and Heron sets – ideal sets of points with integer area of its convex hull. It shows that any two-dimensional Heron set has an isometric copy in Z2. The main intermediaries of the proof are Gaussian integers, quadratic residues, and triangulations of planar sets. There are also the properties of the Heron sets and, in particular, construction of non-collinear Heron sets.


Belgium Stand: 34 Project: Engineering-08

Rescue snake Hayteme Ziani Younes Zahouane Hamza Blaada

This snake can save people stuck under rubbles by sneaking in. Its infrared sensor detect body heat and transfer the information to the computer through an Arduino card. The snakes describe a sinusoid movement, we configured the robot via an equation of a harmonic movement configuring each parameter to bring the snake to opperate a movement alike. The snake contains six servo motors each of them configured to turn in harmony with the others. All the extra components like the battery, the cable, etc. are at the rear of the snake. Our project has a Humanitarian objective. We wanted to rescue people as fast as possible, the time being critical. This project is an innovation in the field of rescuing people involving mathematical and physical approach. A huge gain of time for rescuers.

Belgium Stand: 46 Project: Environment-05

Fish-O-Matic Robbe Timmerman Andries Dedeurwaerder Sebastiaan Lamers

The concept of our project is to imitate and fully automate a closed circle as in nature. We start with an aquarium with some fish. Instead of filtering the aquarium with a classic filter system we use a vegetable garden to filter the wastewater. The waste of the fish becomes the manure for the vegetable garden. The vegetables will filter the water and this clean water will return into the aquarium. If we adjust the size of the vegetable garden and the flow of the recycling water to the amount of fish in the aquarium we can create a perfect environment for both fish and vegetables.We can eat the produced fish and the vegetables from our project. Our project will be automated as much as possible, and you will be able to interact with the aquarium via an app on your phone or another device.


Bulgaria Stand: 22 Project: Computing-03

Computing unsigned reversal distance using genetic algorithms Radoslav Stoyanov Dimitrov [email protected]

Vasilena Aleksandrova Tsvetanova [email protected]

The project is focused on a problem in bioinformatics – finding the minimum number of times an operation needs to be performed on a permutation to transform it to another permutation. In the context of bioinformatics, the permutations stand for genetic sequences of different species. The authors work with operations, called “reversals”. The considered problem is NP-hard, so various heuristics are used for it. In this work, genetic algorithms were used to attempt to tackle the problem. The solution was tested with different methods for selection and crossover and different authors’ ideas. Some of the implementations gave better results than the ones produced by already existing algorithms.

Bulgaria Stand: 77 Project: Physics-03

Searching for variable stars in open clusters: a new algorithm and application Teodor Dimitrov Aleksiev [email protected]

Simona Lyubomirova Hristova [email protected]

Deep photometry of open clusters was made in order to find unidentified eclipsing binaries. We selected the clusters NGC 7243 and NGC 6940 based on their age, location on the sky and stellar density. We used our own algorithm based on the light curves to select variable star candidates. We took into account several effects to determine which stars express true variability. As a result we found 9 new variable stars in the cluster NGC 7243 and more than 20 in NGC 6940. We classified the registered variable stars by interpreting their light curve features. Most objects proved to be eclipsing binaries. The portion of W UMa-type binaries is considerably higher in NGC 6940 which can be explained by the more advanced evolutionary stage of the cluster.


Bulgaria Stand: 59 Project: Mathematics-02

The structure of self-avoiding walks and the connective constant Chavdar Tsvetanov Lalov [email protected]

A self-avoiding walk (SAW) is a path that does not self-intersect, and the study of its properties leads to important applications in chemistry, biology and computer networks. We consider SAWs on a restricted square lattice with a finite height equal to 3 and infinite length. We obtain close lower and upper bounds for the number of SAWs of length n and for the connective constant. Additionally, we present a transformation of SAWs on the square lattice to a special kind of walks on the honeycomb lattice. By using H. Duminil-Copin and S. Smirnov’s results for SAWs on the honeycomb lattice we present ways by which close bounds for the connective constant of the non-restricted square lattice could eventually be obtained without the need of thousands of hours of computer calculations.

Canada Stand: 31 Project: Engineering-05

W.I.N.I.T.S. (Wireless Interconnected Non-Invasive Triage System) Danish Mahmood [email protected]

W.I.N.I.T.S. is a cost-efficient vital sign monitoring system based on a novel wearable biomedical device, W.I.N.I.T. Band. The device can be attached to a patient’s finger during mass casualty incidents, providing first responders, paramedics, and hospital staff with real-time updating of vital signs on an online dashboard and a small screen on the device, eliminating the need for patient reassessment. W.I.N.I.T. Band wirelessly and non-invasively measures cuffless blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen (SpO2), and body temperature in real-time. The algorithms automatically adjust to each patient, so they do not require calibration. W.I.N.I.T. Band improves on existing commercial monitoring systems by eliminating the need for blood pressure cuffs and electrocardiogram (ECG) attachments.


Canada Stand: 70 Project: Medicine-03

Novel Pediatric Cancer Therapy: Targeting Epigenetics to Induce Differentiation Colette Benko

Neuroblastoma (NB) is a deadly childhood cancer arising from immature nerve cells. One of the methods of treating NB is by inducing cell differentiation, the process of specializing to form a specific cell type. Inducing differentiation allows for better treatment outcomes and a lower chance of relapse, but the current drug (CRA) has significant side effects. I investigated how epigenetics – the control of gene expression - could be used to treat NB by “turning on” genes responsible for cell differentiation silenced by the disease. In my testing, the drug DZNep was more effective in inducing NB cell death at a lower concentration than CRA, with the added benefit of increasing cell differentiation. As a result, DZNep has the potential to be an effective treatment for NB in the future.

Canada Stand: 4 Project: Biology-04

EEG Coherence as a Marker for Alzheimer’s Dementia Crystal Kelly Radinski [email protected]

Improving the accuracy and reducing the time needed to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease could allow more timely interventions and cost reduction. Even in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, transmission of signals between neurons in the brain is disrupted. This study examined whether these disruptions would reduce a person’s ability to perform certain tasks and whether the breakdown in transmission could be detected using EEG (brainwave measurement) technology. The EEG patterns of Alzheimer’s patients and healthy individuals while completing various tasks were compared. One particular task – drawing a 3-D cube – and EEG pattern differences while performing this task could help distinguish between Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia and memory loss.


China Stand: 72 Project: Medicine-05

Asparagus polysaccharide selectively inhibits myeloid-derived suppressor cells by inducing apoptosis Wanzhuo He [email protected]

MDSCs are a group of heterogeneous cells which derived from immature bone marrow cells.They are the precursor cells of dendritic cell, macrophage and granulocyte. In tumor carrier’s body, they can strongly suppress the anti-tumor immune response. Other researchers found that if we cleared MDSCs, tumor will shrink. So it’s important to find a drug that could kill MDSCs.This research studied the inhibitory effect and molecular mechanism of asparagus polysacchride(AP) on MDSCs. Found that AP can selectively induces MDSCs to apoptosis. Apoptosis-related gene such as P53 participated in the process. TLR4 is possible the receptor of AP on MDSCs. This study proved that AP could assisted in anti-tumor therapy based on the study of mechanism and this provides basis for the development of new drug.

China Stand: 18 Project: Chemistry-07

A Research on Synthesis, Characterization and CO2 Absorptive Character of Pyridinium-based Ionic Liquids Songrui Zhao [email protected]

In this work, three kinds of pyridium-based ionic liquids were synthesized as new solvents for CO2 capture. Their physical properties and CO2 absorbing abilities were measured, calculated and analyzed. The cycling abilities and absorbing principle of these liquids were also discussed. The results shows the three kinds of ionic liquids can absorb CO2 efficiently and can be recycled completely. They can be widely used in industrial CO2 capture process.


China Stand: 81 Project: Physics-07

A New Way of Reducing the Friction of ships Based on the Biological Characteristics of Earthworm Sijia Zhong [email protected]

In order to reduce the friction between ships and water, based on the biological characteristics of dorsal pores of earthworms, the author put forward a design of plates with holes. In the experiment, the author used per-experiments, control experiments and analysis on error data to research on it. In addition, the author got the regulations between the speed and four main variables, which were the number of holes, the size of holes, the arrangement of holes and the opening degree of holes. The speed can be increased by 2% to 9% compared with the plate without holes. It showed that this new way of reducing resistance could be better researched to save energy in the area of ship.

Cyprus Stand: 42 Project: Environment-01

Investigation of effect of sunlight concentration on energy yield and system efficiency Daphne Roumba [email protected]

Florentia Karaiskaki [email protected]

Ekaterini Veroe Protopapa [email protected]

Solar Thermal Power technologies offer much promise for satisfying global and local energy needs. Concentrated Solar Power systems, interested us the most, since they use reflective or refractive optics to focus incoming direct sunlight onto an absorber, or receiver which can accomplish high temperatures that generate power. CSP with chemical heat storage means is able to create day and night baseload power.We constructed our own solar dishes, a spherical and a parabolic and by comparing their results we came to our conclusions. Furthermore we used the Tonatiuh Ray Tracing Software to examine the relationship between the number of heliostats, the position in the field and the power produced


Cyprus Stand: 75 Project: Physics-01

Meteorological observation of the vertical structure of the troposphere. Research, Explanation and conclusions Katerina Telamitsi [email protected]

Anastasia Eliofotou [email protected]

Savvina Nikolaou [email protected]

In our project, we dealt with the radiosonde to see how one can proceed to the weather forecast and to study the variation of meteorological parameters against the altitude above sea level in the troposphere. At first, we searched online for trusted sources that would help us understand terms as the atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, radiosonde, tephigrams etc. We visited the Radiosonde department in Cyprus and understood how the radiosonde helps meteorologists predict the weather. Finally, through the analysis of the tephigrams we attempted to predict the weather situation about a particular area, date and time and explained whether it was a sunny or a rainy day.

Czech Republic Stand: 61 Project: Mathematics-04

The Basel problem Alexandr Jankov [email protected]

The work’s primary goal was to create a new and original solution to the Basel problem, the statement of which is to find the sum of reciprocals of squares of all positive integers. The prestented approach mainly aims for being as free of an application of very strong mathematical theorems which would be hard to prove as possible . In addition the approach can be further easily generalized so it would provide the general formula for the sum of reciprocals of any even integer powers. The solution itself primarily relies on a manipulation with the gamma function and the psi function, later derived from the gamma function. As the secondary goal the work also presents an original proof of the reflection formula for the gamma function, which is generaly very hard to prove.


Czech Republic Stand: 71 Project: Medicine-04

Molecular Diagnostics of Pulmonary Diseases Based on the Analysis of Exhaled Breath Condensate Tereza Kačerová [email protected]

The work is aimed at the personalized diagnostics of pulmonary diseases. As a part of the work, a biomarker panel based on the determination of biomarkers generated from arachidonic acid or coupled with oxidative stress in the exhaled breath condensate was created. It was unambiguously proved that the developed panel allows differentiation of pulmonary diseases, asthma phenotyping, monitoring of pharmacotherapy and that it could enable quicker and more accurate diagnostics. An idea of constructing a biochip that would even more simplify the current diagnostics is sketched up as well. Finally, the work “discovered” the lipoxin receptor which may represent an interesting target for new drugs with anti-asthmatic effect that would enhance the natural defence of organism against inflammation.

Czech Republic Stand: 5 Project: Biology-05

The role of RAD51 mutations in cancer development Karina Movsesjan [email protected]

RAD51 protein repairs highly toxic DNA damage via homologous recombination and protects replication forks from nucleolytic degradation. Recently, RAD51 mutations were identified in several tumor types. However, the mechanism of how these mutations contribute to tumorigenesis remains elusive. This work reports a biochemical characterization of RAD51 S121Y mutation found in uterine carcinosarcoma. Intriguingly, while RAD51 S121Y is recombination proficient, reconstitution of fork protection using synthetic DNA substrates revealed that RAD51 S121Y is unable to efficiently prevent MRE11 exonuclease-mediated DNA degradation. All together these results elucidate a mechanism by which can RAD51 mutations promote tumorigenesis.


Denmark Stand: 45 Project: Environment-04

Sound PoliSea Ayumi Rie Mayer [email protected]

Olivia Linnea Rygaard-Hjalsted [email protected]

The anthropogenic marine noise pollution is a serious problem on the rise that poses a great threat to marine wildlife. The Northern Atlantic right whale is critically endangered and fully dependent upon the noisy U.S. east coast, where current protection methods don’t take sufficient regard to noise. In order to protect the species, we propose a solution, where via a network of actively monitoring sound buoys, we’d be able to create flexible protected areas based on the sonic needs. In line with NOAA’s Ocean Noise Roadmap and with NOAA’s authority, we’d ideally be able to sufficiently control and mitigate noise sources, and taking expensive noise byproducts such as cavitation into regard, we’d realistically be able to protect the Northern Atlantic right whale against noise pollution.

Denmark Stand: 63 Project: Mathematics-06

Use of comparative entropy analyses for dating and quantifying historical divergences between languages Gustav Møller Grimberg [email protected]

Through studies of Danish text material and chosen passages from the Danish and Swedish Bible, it is investigated how the information theoretical entropy can be applied to quantify linguistic differences. It is shown that the relative entropy between Danish texts is nearly zero, whereas the relative entropy between the Danish and Swedish Bible is considerably higher. This affirms that entropy analyses can be used for quantitative studies of linguistic differences between different written language systems, and enables the use of comparative entropy analyses to quantitatively analyse the historical ancestry between related languages. Additionally, other ways of calculating the relative entropy and the potential of multilingual entropy analyses are discussed


Egypt Stand: 69 Project: Medicine-02

The potential of multi-pathway therapy replacing the multi-drug therapy in cancer treatment Seif Aser Rady [email protected]

Mohamed Mahmoud [email protected]

Pharmacy has been frozen for ages at direct chemical exploitation of new compoundswhich caused fluctuating efficiencies, side effectsand costs. However, nature is so specified in how diseases and pathogens evolve, and so we have to be in drug development. Cancer is our era’s epidemic nightmare, always evolving and developing resistance against any treatment in use forcing the use of drug combinationsraising complications at the cost of the patient’s body. Development of multi-pathway therapy helps keep the efficiency of multi drugs at low side effects and cost. We conducted cancer research using wiskostatin, which we claim to have multi-pathway and high selectivity for cancerous cells. Our IC50 and cancer resistance results assure wiskostatin is highly efficient compared to other drugs.

Egypt Stand: 29 Project: Engineering-03

Algae Energy Seifeldin Mohamed Mohamed [email protected]

Dina Ahmed Abdelaal [email protected]

Our research is trying to find alternative source of energy to solve these both problems environmental pollution and energy shortage. Cultivation of microalgae and extraction Biodiesel from it can be a great source for clean energy it is also cheap and algae sucks (co2) during growth so it’s environment cleaner. Extraction Biodiesel from algae by being compressed by our device (Exgester) which has been modified to use biomass to extract biogas and Natural fertilizer based on the principle of anaerobic fermentation of organic materials. Exgesteralso purifies the biogas to separate it from acid gases and increase the heating value of CH4. Finally the outcomes from this project by cultivating about 3%-8% from Egypt desert we will not need diesel from petroleum.


Egypt Stand: 14 Project: Chemistry-03

Efficient Stable Perovskite Yara Khalid Said [email protected]

Sara Sayed Mohamed [email protected]

Perovskite cell is the highest cell efficiency produced to produce energy. Therefore, solving its problems will help in solving the problem of energy around the world. Solving the stability of perovskite using Tetrabutylammonium iodide (TBAI) instead of methylammonium iodide (MAPbl3) was successful, because TBAI has longer CH2 group than MAPbl3, so it absorbs less water, making the cell more stable. Also, by making a combined way between its two ways of fabrication, & getting one with less cost, and high efficiency. In addition, replacing the Spiro MeOtad by copper iodide gives a great results, which decreased the cost of the cell from 33.95 $ to 3.07 $. this hypotheses lead to further improvement in perovskite cell’s crystallinity, better light stability, less hysteresis, & lower cost.

Estonia Stand: 73 Project: Medicine-06

Galactosemia screening using the Beutler method Jasper August Tootsi [email protected]

This research paper focuses on implementation of classical galactosemia screening using the Beutler method. Classical galactosemia is a hereditary disease and is caused by the ability to break down galactose, a monosaccharide in lactose, thus causing toxic intermediates to accumulate. This causes organ failure and if left untreated even death. It is second most frequent metabolical disorder with a frequency rate of 1:19 700 in Estonia. Before this project, classical galactosemia was tested by manually drawing blood when the baby already came to the hospital with extreme organ system damages. After this project, every newborn is being tested in Estonia on its second day.


Estonia Stand: 49 Project: Environment-08

The study of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase’s effect on Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes C70 by the construction of knockout mutant strain Anni Britta Pajoma [email protected]

This study focuses on capability of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes C70 to degrade phenol and salicylate. These persistent and toxic aromatic compounds may reach to the environment as pollution from industries or as a result of oil pollution. Strain C70 has a great potential for the bioremediation of contaminated areas as it possesses two catechol meta pathways. To study the role of two key enzymes, catechol 2,3-dioxygenases (C23O), a mutant strain was constructed. Based on the conducted experiments it can be stated that the studied mutant strain C70∆pheB possessing only one C23O cannot function in the proper way on phenol – naphthalene route’s C23O is not able to replace phenol route C23O. Two copies of C23O in wt strain allow to grow on higher concentrations of contamination.

Estonia Stand: 55 Project: Materials-02

Anaerobic decomposition of starch-containing compostable plastic bag of Maxima and three novel LDPE and cellulose stearate composites in activated sludge Brita Laht [email protected]

Although biodegradability is an important property of plastics, studies on their anaerobic biodegradability are sparse. Thus the anaerobic biodegradation of a commercially available starch-based plastic Bioplast® and three novel, cellulose-stearate-based plastics was studied. The samples were degraded in anaerobic activated sludge and the amount of gas produced was measured. Bioplast® degraded faster than cellulose-based plastics confirmed by weight loss of samples and by the amount of gas produced. The majority of weight loss of Bioplast® was probably due to disintegration preceding further biodegradation to gas. The biodegradability of cellulose stearate and LDPE mixtures was found to be determined by their content of cellulose stearate, and also by the crystallinity of these materials.


Finland Stand: 10 Project: Biology-10

Which types of genes are most significantly differentially expressed in lung and lymph node tissue? Stefan Elias Rua [email protected]

Which types of genes are most significantly differentially expressed in lung and lymph node tissue? This is investigated using publicly available RNA-seq data from Array Express and analyzing it using a computer program called Chipster. It was found that there was a large amount of differential expression between lung and lymph node tissue, indicating that the genes expressed most in each tissue are specific to them and their functions.

European Schools Stand: 56 Project: Materials-03

The role of materials and surfaces in the transmission of bacteria in public places Camilla Hurst [email protected]

This project is a study into the bacteria found in schools and measures that can be taken to reduce person-to-person transmission. The first stage of the project identified that some bacteria in the school was potentially harmful. The project continued with tests on the survival of bacteria on different surfaces. The results show a very quick reduction of bacteria on pine. Through extractions, the compounds in pine that might contribute to its antibacterial property were analysed. This effect is due to the defensive mechanisms of the plant. Materials like untreated pine can be used to reduce transmission risks. However, door handles pose a particular problem due to the frequency of use. A prototype door handle was built that dispenses a small quantity of disinfectant during each use.


Finland Stand: 65 Project: Mathematics-08

An Application of Queuing Theory On Relief Systems Barry Philip Owiti [email protected]

Natural disasters and complex disasters produce significant numbers of casualties that overload a region’s medical infrastructure. Field hospitals (FHs) help cope with this high influx of casualties. Often, they struggle with high patient arrival rates and limited personnel. This imbalance is representable as a queueing problem. By representing a field hospital as a queueing model, tracing the different patient’s paths through it, and finding the patients’ sojourn time distributions, an estimation of the necessary personnel is possible. The research question of this work is: “How can the sojourn time distribution of patients’ paths through a field hospital (FH) be modelled through Queueing Theory and analyzed to make predictions on the number of personnel required to run a field hospital?”

France Stand: 51 Project: Environment-10

DusTrack’R The ultimate low cost particulate matter sensor in response to withdraw of US from Paris climat agreement Benoit Simon Pâques [email protected]

Louis Marie Godron [email protected]

Pierre Nicolas Boulanger [email protected]

Particulate matter (PM) is a type of air pollution that is generated by a variety of human activities, can travel long distances in the atmosphere and causes a wide range of diseases and a significant reduction of life expectancy in most of the population. Our project is to develop a portable device at low cost to map with a high precision and in 3D the pollution in cities. DusTrack’R performs real-time computation of prediction models to calculate PM concentration using a set of sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity, GPS) that were assembled, programmed and validated in various conditions such as during peaks of pollution in France. DusTrack’R can be attached to a drone and its accuracy is as good as expensive stations for air quality monitoring in use by the French government.


France Stand: 82 Project: Physics-08

Les mystères de la Tasse (A mysterious cup) Solène Noémie Dumas-Grollier [email protected]

Emma Robin [email protected]

A cup or a glass is able to produce sounds sometimes strange, as the one you can hear when you struck a cup that contains hot milk and in which you added chocolate powder. Indeed, the frequency of the sound keeps growing with every stroke. To understand the origin of this increase of frequency, we have followed a scientific process. Each step of this process has helped to better inform us on the answer to the riddle. But our project can go farther than solve a riddle. Indeed, medical applications may emerge.

Georgia Stand: 32 Project: Engineering-06

The Magnetic Lift Giorgi Pkhakadze [email protected]

Olegi Jatchvliani [email protected]

One of the main problems in the world is to evacuate people safely from the skyscrapers in extreme situations. As it’s already shown that in such kind of situations existed elevators and stairs are useless, cutting off electricity. In this project the evacuation lift has been invented, which is vital and very useful. Using it in practical life we will be able to survive a great number of people in extreme situations. The acting principle of the lift is founded on the magnetic inductive physical effect. Particularly free falling in the magnets’ vertical tube is nearly constant and with low speed (4m/sec). The Simple model of the magnet lift has been made, the series of experiments have been held, which have been proved the idea’s viability.


Georgia Stand: 7 Project: Biology-07

AIN Productions Teona Chokheli [email protected]

Nestan Iobashvili [email protected]

The purpose of our team is to use the most common culture in Kakheti, grape, in biodiesel production. Such project hasn’t been done yet. Of course there are many ways to produce biodiesel, but not from grape seed and ethanol. This is the innovation. As project authors, we can state, that we received alternative fuel, biodiesel from one waste and we used grape seed oil and ethanol, instead of methanol for its production. Our purpose, to receive cheap and pure fuel, is reached.

Georgia Stand: 78 Project: Physics-04

TrogloByte Zurab Mujirishvili [email protected]

Ramaz Javakhishvili

Caves always are objects of scientific interest but they present serious challenge for many researches. Exploring caves is a dangerous and resource consuming process, but our project aims to change that by replacing human explorers with distantly controlled robots. Similar robots exist but the ones only rely on flashlight and cameras which do not yield enough information for researchers. TrogloByte uses different approach - the use of ultraviolet radiation and fluorescence. Emission of light after a certain substance has absorbed some amount of electromagnetic radiation is called fluorescence and can be used for detecting and approx. identifying minerals/living organisms in the cave ecosystem. Our device is capable to retrieve more information than its predecessors using ultraviolet light.


Germany Stand: 38 Project: Engineering-12

A more energy-efficient aeroplane engine Philipp Sinnewe [email protected]

Air traffic is known to be harmful to the climate because aeroplanes emit a considerable amount of CO2. Philipp Sinnewe investigated whether there is a more efficient and more climate friendly alternative to conventional aeroplane engines. He built a small model of a jet engine and used it to test a new type of fuel. The young researcher used a water-alcohol mixture in combination with kerosene, the fuel typically used in aircraft. The water in this set-up expands in the engine as it turns to steam, increasing the thrust. The results of the experiments on his self-built engine test rig are promising. They suggest that this fuel can cut CO2 emissions by a third compared to kerosene.

Germany Stand: 19 Project: Chemistry-08

Fehling’s solution – Do we need a new interpretation? Johannes Nicolas Waller [email protected]

Philipp Nikolas Kessler

Fehling’s solution is used in classrooms as an example of a pH-dependent redox reaction. Johannes Waller and Philipp Kessler realised that glucose and fructose react at different speeds and that this phenomenon cannot be explained by their molecular structures. Their laboratory tests have demonstrated that Fehling’s solution follows more complex laws of chemistry than those presented in school books. During the reaction, the substances pass through various intermediate stages and form oxidation products, which, in turn, have reduction effects. The colouration follows a different mechanism for each sugar and depends on the formation of certain intermediate products. This explains why the fructose-based Fehling reaction generates a red colour more quickly than the glucose-based reaction.


Germany Stand: 83 Project: Physics-09

Liquid stream hits rough surfaces – showing an extraordinary and stable wave pattern Arne Jakob Geipel [email protected]

Matthias Paul Grützner

Julian Egbert

A steady stream of water, hitting a rough surface (e.g. a wooden board) perpendicularly, yields a surprising result. A water wall encloses a regular spiral pattern centered on the water stream. The objective of our paper is to both explain the pattern’s emergence and describe its shape mathematically. Ultimately, we were able to explain the appearance of the pattern. Starting from simple assumptions about the flow, we derived a mathematical model that describes the shape accurately. The surprising result is that all spiral arms are semi-circles. We could show that this structure is stable for different viscosities, flow rates and protrusion densities of the considered surface. Dependence of the size of the pattern on various parameters will be considered as well.

Hungary Stand: 54 Project: Materials-01

3D printed Moonbase Dávid Puskás [email protected]

Space colonisation is one of the greatest challenges of mankind. The most appealing idea is exploiting habitats on the Moon by using the novel technology of 3D printing. This idea would use a 3D printer to build a concrete-like dome from the lunar soil, which would be consolidated with a binding liquid. The aim of my research is to study the feasibility, the endurance of a 3D printed lunar habitat to the harsh environmental conditions and to put these ideas into practice. After creating the proper lunar soil simulant, I carried out measurements of the physical properties of concrete in order to design the structure of the base. Finally, I developed a self-built Moon-printer by designing a concrete-printing head, an innovation in this field, and printed a scale model of the lunar outpost.


Hungary Stand: 27 Project: Engineering-01

New high accuracy tilt sensor Áron Molnár [email protected]

A new generation tilt sensor was created in a totally new vision in order to accomplish the tasks where wide measurement range, high accuracy and simplicity required. In our work, we invented a tilt sensor which uses ferrofluid to measure tilt. We developed two variants of the sensor: one has an extremely high resolution while the other has a virtually infinite measuring range. We built a sensor that can detect the gravitational effect of the Moon. The proposed sensors do not contain moving parts, and the reaction time has been reduced using lower viscosity ferrofluids. Our sensor can widely be used in industrial applications, for example in medical robots or airplanes.

Hungary Stand: 20 Project: Computing-01

Rolly: radiation dose free spine control on young persons Ábel Kocsis [email protected]

Most people know teenagers with back pain, and this symptom usually refers to scoliosis. If we diagnose this disease in an early state, it is easily treatable. Rolley was developed from scratch based on a myRIO by NI, a battery and sensors. Rolley enables users to assess their spines’ condition in an easy and effective way. Using this device, backs’ shape can be mapped then displayed in two perpendicular views based on gathered data if connected to a PC. Rolley is aiming at prevention, to warn young people if they should consult a specialist. It is important to emphasize that the measurement is radiation dose free. Possible use cases for Rolley can be health checks conducted by school nurses as well as regular assessments of a patient’s back in a non-clinical environment like at home.


Iceland Stand: 17 Project: Chemistry-06

Saponification of Icelandic Fish Oil Vifill Hardarson [email protected]

Fish oil is a big part of the Icelandic culture and is used for many health purposes. However, the byproduct of processed fish oil is not consumed and I therefore decided to find one way in which we can use it. I thus decided to produce soap from the byproduct, but before I could do that I needed to see if it was practical to create the soap at all through the process of saponification. Furthermore, I wanted to compare the saponification number to that of coconut oil, since it is a widely popular and efficient source of soap. Hence, the research question for my project became: Can Icelandic cod oil be as efficiently saponified as coconut oil by comparing its saponification value to that of coconut oil?

Iceland Stand: 87 Project: Social sciences-02

The status of children seeking international protection in Iceland - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – a safe haven for all children? Herdis Agusta Linnet [email protected]

Children are individuals with independent rights that must be respected. The researchers wish to draw attention to what rights are applicable when a child seeks international protection in Iceland, and explore whether those rights are respected or not. The researchers‘ hypothesis is that the rights of children applying for international protection in Iceland have been violated when it comes to certain rights. By taking the rights of children into consideration, the child can be provided with what it needs. According to article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, all decisions or actions by authorities concerning children should be based on their best interests.


Ireland Stand: 25 Project: Computing-06

qCrypt: The quantum-secure, encrypted, data storage platform with multijurisdictional quorum sharding technology Shane Curran [email protected]

qCrypt is a software platform for the purposes of storing secrets in a verifiably secure manner. It consists of new cryptographic and technological methods for data security, including a new key exchange scheme which is significantly faster than alternatives while providing protection against the ever-nearing dawn of quantum computers. qCrypt also consists of a new data storage technique known as “multijurisdictional quorum sharding”, whereby a mathematical “secret sharing” scheme is used in conjunction with the novel key exchange algorithm to distribute a piece of data between multiple legal jurisdictions, requiring a predefined quorum in order to rebuild it. All of these technologies have been implemented and integrated in an easy-to-use web interface.

Israel Stand: 50 Project: Environment-09

Production of biodiesel from organic wastes by the “black-soldier” fly larvae Gal Levy [email protected]

Contemporary organic waste disposing method is buried it underground which accounts for environmental hazards such as polluting the air, water and ground. The “black-solider” fly is species that does not harm humans, animals or crops. The larvae feed on non-fibrous organic waste, consuming daily 2-3 folds its own body weight. The larvae’s body mass has 35% proteins which are recycled to feed animals and comparable amount of fats which currently are not being used. The research examined using these fats in producing biodiesel fuel for two kinds of organic wastes: agriculture and animal waste. Results show production of 34 and 8.5 liters of biodiesel fuel from a ton of tomatoes waste and cow manure. The biodiesel can be used as a substitute to or as an additive for conventional diesel fuel.


Israel Stand: 11 Project: Biology-11

Immune system activity can affect Alzheimer’s disease- implications from a mouse model Leyla Vinopal [email protected]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, characterized by progressive age-associated memory and learning deficits. In mice, recruitment of white blood cells to the brain slowed down AD progress. PD-1 is a receptor expressed on immune cells to restrain their activation. We examined whether treatment with anti-PD-1 i.e. blocking of the receptor to trigger an immune response, could affect AD pathology. We found that mice with AD-like pathology treated with anti-PD-1 showed a significant improvement in cognitive and memory abilities, together with a positive effect on amyloid plaque burden, hippocampal neurogenesis, synaptic activity, and neurons death. Our findings support in increasing immune system activity as a potential way to treat brain pathology.

Israel Stand: 36 Project: Engineering-10

CPR bridge Ohad Rave [email protected]

Nitai Edelberg [email protected]

Chest compression is the most important part of CPR. However, it is preformed in many cases by untrained bystanders, which leads to ineffective and sometimes harmful CPR. To overcome this challenge, we developed a product that will increase the effectiveness of CPR by bystanders before the arrival of medical crew. Our product, the CPRBridge, prompts the user to perform CPR and gives feedback on the correct location, and on the appropriate pressure and rate needed. The product is feasible as it is cheap and easy to produce and its operation does not require any special training. Moreover, it is lightweight and very comfortable to use. Our product improves the chance of a successful CPR in critical time and therefore may increase survival of people requiring CPR.


Italy Stand: 43 Project: Environment-02

AE Space Herbs: the future in aeroponics Elia Gambarin [email protected]

Marco Battisti [email protected]

Alessandro Gaburro [email protected]

Pollution, lack of arable lands and low global water availability are some of the main problems which the farming process faces nowadays. Our solution is inspired by aeroponics, a method whereby plants grow thanks to a nutritive fog, and vertical farming. Without using soil, our solution uses 90% less water than a conventional cultivation, paying close attention to environment and health, since it limits the use of pesticides and fertilizers. Plants cultivated with aeroponics gain typical benefits of soil-based cultivated plants and they have the same or a superior concentration of active ingredients. Choosing AE Space Herbs is the first step for a better future.

Italy Stand: 28 Project: Engineering-02

CardioID: Tell me how your heart beats and I’ll tell you who you are!

Filippo [email protected]

Mattia [email protected]

Andrea Domenico Mourglia [email protected]

The development of IT in the last twenty years has affected each aspect of human life. People’s health and financial data are interconnected through the Internet. In order to allow a secure data exchange, sensible information have to be protected. For this reason, passwords must be non-reproducible and intrinsically linked to their owners. Nowadays there are different kinds of ID systems from finger prints to the simplest passwords. Are they a really secure way to protect sensitive data? Of course not. Actually, all these credentials could be stolen or replicated. However, each person has biometrical parameters different from one to another. One of them satisfies all our requirements: HEART SIGNAL. From this idea we have built a system which is able to use this signal as a password.


Latvia Stand: 64 Project: Mathematics-07

Magic Polyiamonds Aleksandrs Jakovlevs [email protected]

Edvards Janis Recickis [email protected]

The aim of this project was to research a previously unresearched subject in combinatorial geometry - magic polyiamonds. To assist the research, multiple computer programs have been made by the authors, allowing for the collection of precise and accurate data regarding the subject, such as all magic polyiamonds for any given n value, their numbers, and areas. Magic polyiamonds have a wide range of applications, which include architecture, games, Mathematics and Informatics olympiad exercises, as well as theoretical mathematics.

Latvia Stand: 80 Project:Physics-06

Optimization of dielectric properties in sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) containing compounds Dana Konisevska [email protected]

People all over the world desire to live in uncontaminated environment. Many European Union directives state that member countries should restrict the wide usage of lead containing materials, as lead and lead zirconate titanate (PZT) containing compounds are toxic and easily volatile. However, an effective lead-free material with piezoelectric properties equivalent to PZT materials has not been found yet. Therefore it is necessary to develop the NBT-based material research. A potential application type could be the usage of NBT materials for production of capacitors with a stable capacity value over a wide temperature range. The author synthesized 9 NBT samples (using 4 unique chemical formulas) which were modified with Er and NaNbO3.


Lithuania Stand: 24 Project: Computing-05

Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation Adomas Paulauskas [email protected]

Virtual reality improves the effectiveness of the rehabilitation process because it raises the patient’s motivation and grants the ability to follow the rehabilitation process. We have created a new virtual reality game for rehabilitation of patients which have suffered leg trauma or gone through surgery. The goal of the game is to kick as many balls, which are falling from above, in a set amount of time. Artificial intelligence has been applied to adapt the difficulty of the game to any person’s physical abilities. The algorithm also accommodates for the fact that the player gradually becomes more tired during the length of the game. Our rehabilitation game could be used not only in specialised health centres but also in the comfort of many people’s homes.

Latvia Stand: 16 Project: Chemistry-05

Synthesis of arylidene Meldrum’s acids and their reactions

Rebeka Anna Lipina [email protected]

As the world is shifting from fossil fuel to alternative energy sources the total volume of biodiesel produced is increasing. It has caused overproduction of crude glycerol which is the byproduct of biodiesel and is harmful for the environment.The aim of the project was to study arylidene Meldrum’s acids as one of the possible crude glycerol utilization routes and to investigate their reactions. Utilization of overproduced crude glycerol as a solvent in organic chemistry agrees to the philosophy of Green Chemistry and eco-friendly thinking. Valuable compounds were synthesized using crude glycerol as a solvent. New method was developed and three completely new compounds were synthesized. The structures of products were proved with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy method.


Lithuania Stand: 33 Project: Engineering-07

Honeybee Colony Sounds Reveal Secrets of Life in Hives

Matas Aliuškevičius [email protected]

Nowadays bees are one of the most important factors responsible for flowering plants’ pollination around the world, being especially sensitive to the conditions of rapid climate change. The aim of my project is to study the evolution of honeybee colonies and prevent their degeneration by non-invasive monitoring of bee colony health. For this purpose I constructed a smartphone-controlled system to register sounds inside beehives and developed a sophisticated method, based on the spectral analysis of bee buzzing, to recognize processes within bee colonies. By using this method I can predict and trace a bee colony’s evolution from normal to queenless and to a laying-worker-dominated; therefore, it is now possible to prevent colony death by timely human interference.

Luxembourg Stand: 88 Project: Social sciences-03

The effect of wearing colourful clothing in class Sylvie-Anne Soares-Pereira

Sophie Klein [email protected]

Emily Cordier [email protected]

Which colours cause that we participate more in class? 13 teachers and 9 students were our test group and completed some questionnaires for this project. Our goal was to observe and analyse people’s reactions and motivation on specific colours. After a month our test group had worn specific colours, other things being equal, we summed up the dates in tables and evaluated them in statistics. For the teachers Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Pink, Blue and Green are positive: the students seem more active and attentive. Black, Grey and White are neutral for them. For the students, Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Pink and Purple are neutral and negative. Grey and Black are negative for them, White and Yellow positive and neutral.


Luxembourg Stand: 37 Project: Engineering-11

iStudent Leo Loch [email protected]

Max Arendt [email protected]

„iStudent int.“ is an App that was created to help students all over the world organize their school life. You can save your grades, calculate your average in more then 7 different school systems. Set up your own schedule and the App tells you in realtime where you need to go. Save your homework and exam dates and iStudent will remind you to do your homework and to study for your exams and much more! It is available in different languages and in every country in the world for iOS and Android. We are currently working on a big LogIn System allowing you to connect with your schoolmates and synchronize your homework, your exams and your schedule.

Norway Stand: 13 Project: Chemistry-02

Self-made Spectrophotometer Olivia Margrethe Lynch [email protected]

Spectrophotometers can be expensive instruments. By decomposing the standard build of a spectrophotometer, and using only a cellphone camera, a computer and a few affordable parts, an instrument of possibly equal accuracy can be built. This study compares results from a self-made spectrophotometer to a commercial spectrophotometer. The aim of this study is to investigate whether a self-made spectrophotometer can deliver precise enough results to be used for school purposes. The theory behind instruments like spectrophotometers can sometimes be hard to grasp, but by studying each component while building the instrument from the bottom, a deeper understanding is developed.


Poland Stand: 44 Project: Environment-03

Taxonomic diversity of the Middle Ordovician – early Silurian echinoderms from Siljansringen, Sweden Kamil Humański [email protected]

Palaeontology is mostly associated with dinosaurs. Of course, overlords of early continents can affect our imagination, but only few people realize that occurrence of huge reptiles was very short part of the life timeline. For the most time of its existence, life hadn’t even left the ocean. In my project I focused on identifying fossilized echinoderms – most evolutionary advanced invertebrates. Crinoids and blastozoans described in my project, may not look frightfully, but they had become a dominant species in Palaeozoic seas. They even had created their own ecosystems, called crinoid meadows, providing shelter and food for many other species. The magnificent complexity and geometry of their calcite armour helps me with identifying in total 23 species: 16 blastozoans and 7 crinoids.

Poland Stand: 6 Project: Biology-06

A comparison of primates’ memory and learnig skills, with use of an interactive platform in the Warsaw Zoological Garden Aleksander Paweł Kostrzewa [email protected]

The purpose of this study was to compare learning and memory skills among three species of primates. Each of the studied species represented different branches of evolution: black-and-white ruffed lemur Varecia variegate – the lemuriform primates; golden-bellied capuchin Sapajus xanthosternos – the New World monkey; Diana monkey Cercopithecus diana – the Old World monkey. The series of experiments which employed interactive platforms were the combination of behavioral training and observational study. The intent of the experiment was to measure the time it takes the object of the experiment to get the food (motivational factor) out of the interactive platform. Diana monkeys seem to possess the most evolved learning and memory skills of the three species studied in the experiment.


Portugal Stand: 41 Project: Engineering-15

EasyPark Luís Miguel Afonso Pinto [email protected]

Beatriz Sampaio Bastião [email protected]

Olavo Filipe Estima Saraiva [email protected]

The EasyPark project aims to reduce social inequality; it is an innovative initiative that will improve the life quality of physically disabled people and increase their independence. Our mission is not only to increase the independence of people with disabilities, but also to educate people to respect more. Our plan is to install in every priority parking location an automatically activated bollard, which is a sturdy vertical post, to prevent illegal parking; the bollard is activated by a license plate recognition system. This device will keep priority parking places free for those who really need it and will teach physically healthy people to do the right thing.

Poland Stand: 62 Project: Mathematics-05

The floor-polynomials Adam Piotr Klukowski [email protected]

Modular arirhmetic, aka arithmetic of clock, is a branch of mathematics studying remainders in division. Although it may seem unnecessary, it’s the central part of most bank or e-mail login systems and is a key idea of checksums that allow to find errors in long numbers, such as ISBN. Palindromes are words that are the same when read backwards. In antiquity used as spells, recently were discovered to take part in self-organisation of DNA. Continuous function is one that can has no jumps or holes. It is a key concept in topology, branch of mathematics concerned with shapes and their deformations, commonly known as science that cannot differentiate between a mug and a doughnut. I connected these three ideas. I used them to locate roots of a certain family of polynomials on the complex plane.


Portugal Stand: 52 Project: Environment-11

ShealS - Sea Heals Soil Gabriel Silva Silva

Eduardo Teixeira Rocha Nogueira

Francisca Santos Martins [email protected]

ShealS project aimed to create a natural fungicide based on algae extracts to control Phytophthora cinnamomi, a microorganism that does not react to any commercially available fungicide and is included in the list of the 100 most harmful phytopathogens worldwide. As marine macro algae increase the defence of plants against pathogens, three marine macro algae extracts were used to test an inhibitory effect against what is known as ink-disease. Corallina sp. inhibited fungal growth by 63%, which is a promising result regarding P. cinnamomi-Macro algae interaction pathways.

Russia Stand: 66 Project: Mathematics-09

Centered figurate numbers Alena Igorevna Teselkina [email protected]

In this work figurate numbers on a plane and figurate numbers in a space were analyzed, as well as new figurate numbers (centered cubic numbers) were made. Common properties and features were revealed and the comparative analysis was made. When considering the structure of Pascal’s triangle, were designed and are constructed trapezes of calculus (polygonal numbers regular polygons, the tetrahedral numbers, pyramidal numbers and two kinds of сentered cubic numbers).


Russia Stand: 47 Project: Environment-06

Oil impact on mollusks̀ Mya arenaria and Macoma balthica burrowing reaction Ekaterina Alexandrovna Basharina [email protected]

Nowadays water areas pollutions, connected with oil and petroleum products, occur quite often. This is the pressing challenge for arctic and boreal seas, in particular for the White Sea, because some of its parts are polluted with petrol products. That is the reason why species, which can indicate oil pollutions, are important. My project is devoted to exploring the opportunity of manifesting these properties for White Sea intertidal bivalves. Under the experimental conditions, carried out on the territory of Kandalaksha State Nature Reserve (White sea, Russia), mollusks from 2 different species took part. Results showed that oil products in sediment altered the studied mollusks̀ burrowing behavior, but a degree of reaction to pollution varies for different species.

Slovakia Stand: 9 Project: Biology-09

Characteristics of decolorizing properties of selected substances useful in the production of a potential tooth whitening mass Lukáš Marcin [email protected]

Adriána Pazdičová [email protected]

In our research, we investigated the coloring effect of beverages, the decolorizing effect of natural oils and natural sorbents. In addition, we’ve found the coloring effects of selected drinks (red wine,Coca Cola,black tea,coffee). The most coloring was Coca Cola and red wine. Activated charcoal proved to be the most effective bleach, which has shown 182% of bleaching properties of the Colgate whitening toothpaste. After statistic determination of the coloring properties of the substances we formulated whitening blends consisting of a combination of the most effective oils and sorbents. All the bleaching masses which we produced showed a higher bleaching efficacy than conventional whitening toothpaste. The best bleaching mass recorded 188% of bleaching properties of whitening toothpaste.


Slovakia Stand: 15 Project: Chemistry-04

Production and application of biodegradable plastics Eva Marasová [email protected]

Natália Bátorová [email protected]

The usage of biologically degradable plastics is a simple step to improve protection of our environment. The goal of our project is to test suitability of many different materials for production of biologically degradable plastics. We also compare their heat, electric and mechanical qualities with qualities of chemically-modifitied polymers. Plastics, which are made from pure natural materials have clearly advantage in their health and ecological harmlessness. Our materials for production ecological plastics are mainly starch and milk, which are renewable sources in nature. For production of classic plastics are mainly used unrenewable source – petroleum. Final ecological plastics can well replace harmfull plastics made by chemical modification of polymers in many different areas.

Slovakia Stand: 79 Project: Physics-05

Dynamic magnetization behavior in soft magnetic alloys of different structure Miroslav Kurka [email protected]

This study is devoted to the investigation of magnetization dynamics in soft magnetic alloys based on CoFeSi, FeSi and NiFe in amorphous, single crystal and polycrystalline state, respectively. Owing to the difficulties in the observation of dynamic variations in magnetic domain structure, we scrutiny the magnetization process by means of complex permeability approach determined by impedance spectroscopy. Researched materials exhibits relaxation behavior at certain frequency, which can be fairly predicted by distribution model. It was determined that the CoFeSi sample is the most responsive material in the studied frequency range, therefore has higher relaxation frequency ,whereas FeSi and NiFe materials have lower relaxation frequency.


Slovenia Stand: 68 Project: Medicine-01

Active targeting of cysteine cathepsins with liposomes conjugated with cystatin C Domen Kulovec [email protected]

Uroš Prešern [email protected]

Tristan Kovačič [email protected]

Targeted drug delivery uses properties of tumour cells and microenvironment, and increases the concentration of drugs in cancer cells. This research aimed at assembling a liposome with cystatin C, capable of active targeting and encapsulating cytotoxic drugs. Cystatin C is an inhibitor of cathepsins. Cathepsin B was found to be a liable target. Cystatin C’s DNA was mutated, substituting in cysteine to introduce a free -SH, capable of conjugation with a liposome. It was then expressed by E. Coli and isolated from the cell lysate. It was successfully tested for its inhibitory activity. PEG liposomes were conjugated with cystatin C and tested. The inhibitiory activity was not confirmed. -S-S- reduction and cystatin C dimerisation can and will be further investigated to confirm this activity.

Slovenia Stand: 60 Project: Mathematics-03

Origamics: Mathematical exploration of the equilateral triangle through paper folding Tjaš Božič [email protected]

Miha Torkar [email protected]

Sara Maraž [email protected]

Origami is a Japanese art of folding paper. Mathematical origami is a special type of origami in which a sheet of paper (a plane model) is folded and then the resulting mathematical attributes of the objects in the plane (straight lines, points) are studied. It was named Origamics by Kazuo Haga and has been proved to be a stronger mathematical tool than an unmarked ruler and a pair of compasses. For example, both the duplication of the cube problem and the angle trisection were solved by folding paper since cubic equations can also be solved in the same manner. The aim of the research project is to set up and prove as many mathematical hypotheses (challenges) originating from the folding of equilateral triangle as possible. More than 30 challenges have been proved in the research.


South Korea Stand: 23 Project: Computing-04

Automatic Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema with Image Processing Sungjun Han

As diabetic retinopathy is a growing disease worldwide, an automated method of DR screening is necessary to possibly avert the progression to vision impairment. This project was started off by sorting the fundus photos depending on the retinopathy severity level (0~3) given. Then, each retina was partitioned into small parts which were later represented as 3D graphs with their brightness being the z-axis. 3D regression was used to find the lesions. The quadratic polynomial surface was fitted on top of the original 3D brightness graph. The healthy portions could be modeled with the surface but lesions could not, so the points of the original graph that were further away from the surface were the lesions. Through this method, the lesions of each retina were successfully detected.

South Korea Stand: 30 Project: Engineering-04

Combining Single-Channel EEG Measurement and Verbal Fluency Test - A Groundwork for Ambulatory Diagnosis of Dementia Jaeho Park [email protected]

Je-Eon Lee [email protected]

This paper aims to enhance the accuracy of low-cost ambulatory diagnosis of dementia by augmenting Verbal Fluency Test with single-channel Electroencephalography measurement. We developed a methodology to interpret EEG signals at Fp1 of the frontal lobe during VFT in order to detect whether the EEG signal suggests dementia. We hypothesized that the difference in EEG patterns between normal controls and dementia patients with damaged semantic networks would show similar characteristics to the difference in EEG patterns between normal controls performing “easy” VFT tasks and normal controls performing “hard” VFT tasks. We then identified EEG indexes that represent the differences of VFT difficulty. Our results showed a 65% diagnostic accuracy which is significantly higher than chance.


South Korea Stand: 3 Project: Biology-03

A Statistical Study on the Influence of Color Wavelength on Human Color Differentiation Capacity Jeongsu Song [email protected]

Kisoo Kim [email protected]

Jinwoo Lee [email protected] We investigated the ability of human vision to distinguish colors in order to help guide the guideline conceived for developing the display market. We made the following tests to measure human coloring ability; testers select 2 color tiles of different colors from a total of 16 color tiles, earned points when correctly matched, and measured the color separation ability for a specific color. We tested it on a web page to get more data. Based on the basic information of the participants, the color discrimination ability was measured using the CIE Lab color space for each gender and age, and the color discrimination ability of the 10th to 20th groups was the highest, and men have a better ability than women. We are planning to develop a program which makes suitable color contrast on display.

Spain Stand: 12 Project: Chemistry-01

Looking for the ideal cocktail for water decontamination: Study on the photocatalytic efficiency of Fe-Ni metal organic materials over the deterioration of organic compounds. Laura García Villagrasa [email protected]

Isabel Hartgring [email protected]

Water pollution caused by various agents including organic compounds is a global problem that is getting worse at an alarming rate. This project was aimed at finding a method to decontaminate water in an efficient and sustainable way by using advanced oxidation processes. The photocatalytic capacity of the different semiconductor materials in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, oxygen and visible light was evaluated, with metal-organic MOF’s performing best. Within them, the MOF based on Fe showed excellent degradation speed of Methylene blue used as a base pattern, which also permitted re-use through several consecutive cycles, thus achieving the proposed objectives.


Spain Stand: 86 Project: Social sciences-01

A study on the effects of Baroque music on concentration: Can Winter, from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, enhance attention in adolescent students? Paula Teresa Tovar Rodríguez [email protected]

It has been shown that music has an effect on the brain. This study explored whether listening to music helps concentration. Previous research on the effects of music on brain development and concentration has shown that Baroque music promotes learning because its 60 beats rhythm favours a state of calmness which improves attention. A visual discrimination task was performed under two conditions: control (without music) and assessment (with music: Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons). I hypothesized that performance in the test would improve when listening to music. The statistical analysis of the data proved the hypothesis.

Spain Stand: 1 Project: Biology-01

On the structure and mechanics in vivo of the ostial cells and the aortic valve of the Drosophila melanogaster larva heart by analyzing high resolution microscopic images Juan Sánchez Mateos [email protected]

Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez [email protected]

Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most useful invertebrate models in the research of both normal and pathologic physiology of the human heart. The larvae have a dorsal tubular vessel, which has three pairs of ostiolar valves and one intracardiac aortic valve. In contrast to the existence of extensive knowledge on the genetics of cardiac control, little is known about its pumping mechanics and the activity of its ostia cells and much it is assumed. We strongly believe that we provide enough evidence to doubt about the passive nature attributed to the ostiolar cells. We got unique images of the larval heart and of its ostiolar cells in action. Moreover, we can say now that the Drosophila larva heart contracts and expands as a whole, as in the embryo. Its heart is not peristaltic


Sweden Stand: 8 Project: Biology-08

Short term memory: Differences between children and adults Josefin Kristina Nyberg Emma Kristina Witt Virág Nóra Angyal [email protected]

Memory is something everybody possess, we wanted to learn more about how it develops as a human grows older. To do that, we examined what children at the age 10-11 and adults at the age 30-50 can remember and retell from a 5.55 minutes long, pre recorded story. How much do they remember and what kind of information is prioritized? Does it differ between the age categories? Our results indicate that adults remember about 30% of a story, and children 15%. Most easily remembered are relatable things and situations. The kind of information the different age categories remember is similar.

Switzerland Stand: 89 Project: Social sciences-04

The forgotten prisoners – Civilian prisoners of the Great War inCorsica Adam Jan Alexander Ohnesorge [email protected]

Did you know that during the Great War thousands of civilians were detained in France? This project examines the fate of civilian detainees and the role of Swiss peace missions in Corsica from 1914 to 1918. Extensive research was done in various European archives and three prisoner memoirs were studied. There are only scant academic publications on this topic and documentation in the archives is poor. The detention camps in Corsica were crowded, living conditions were largely desolate and the mortality rate was high. The results reveal the forgotten prisoners and remind us of the humanitarian aid supplied by the neutral states and the ICRC. They also urge us to reflect on the current situation of prisoners in war zones.


Switzerland Stand: 85 Project: Physics-11

The Theory and Detection of Gravitational Waves Jerome Schmidiger [email protected]

This paper outlines the detection of gravitational waves and the theory behind them in a simple way. It identifies the type of the source (two rotating black holes), their theoretical mass, total mass (70 M), distance from the earth (344 & 245 Mpc), and their rotational speed (up to 70% of the speed of light). The data measured by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration team was used. However, the theory as well as the analysis of the measured data were developed and evaluated independently (with Excel), and simplified as much as possible. Instructions for this data analysis are available, but only in German. Further, this paper presents an additional method. With this method of detecting gravitational waves, it is now possible to discern and identify distant objects even without light.

Switzerland Stand: 74 Project: Medicine-07

Small non-coding RNA induced gene silencing of tetracycline resistance gene in E. coli Nina Chiara Kathe

The aim of this project was to determine whether small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are able to silence, i.e. to shut down the activity of antibiotic resistance genes. If so, the bacteria would lose their resistance and the antibiotics would become effective again. Therefore, such sRNAs were designed against tetracycline (Tc) resistance gene. In presence of these sRNAs, only few Tc resistant bacteria were able to grow in the presence of the antibiotic. Thus, the sRNAs successfully silenced the Tc resistance gene. Consequently, the antibiotic became effective again. However, efficiency of these sRNAs was not 100 percent. Thus, this method must be further adjusted and improved. Nevertheless, this work validated the viability of sRNAs as a means to overcome antibiotic resistances in bacteria.


Turkey Stand: 2 Project: Biology-02

Investigating the cytotoxic effect of Juniper (Juniperus excelsa M. BIEB subsp. excelsa) oil on A431 epidermoid cancer and A549 lung cancer cells Özge Ceren Apali [email protected]

Mehmet Can Dursun [email protected]

Our project is to use juniper oil as a treatment instead of chemicals that are used to treat lung cancer and epidermoid cancer which are common cancer types in today’s World. Juniper oil had killed 83% of A431 cancer cells and 84% of the A549 cancer cells at the highest concentration we applied, which is 800 µg/ml. After testing juniper oil on the cancer cells, oil was applied to healthy BJ Fibroblast cells in order to learn its cytotoxic effect on healthy cells. Due to this test’s results, 76% of the healthy fibroblast cells survived even at the highest concentration of juniper oil. In order to compare juniper oil with a real chemotherapy drug, we used Paclitaxel and observed its cytotoxicity on A431 and A549 cells. As a result, juniper oil is practic in use for cancer treatment.

Turkey Stand: 21 Project: Computing-02

RDS of things: Using RDS technology for smart cities Atalay Kutlay [email protected]

Nur Eylül Öncel [email protected]

The growth of cities causes some difficulties. Living in metropolises gets easier by smart city concepts. However, only Internet of Things is being used nowadays for smart cities by Long Range Wi-Fi. These projects are expensive and hard to set up in big cities scale. Our aim was to find new solutions for the listed problems by using an existing technology. RDS Technology fits our purposes. It does not need so many transmitters as Long Range Wi-Fi needs, its price is as half of Internet of Things’ and it has been already used over 1 billion devices such as modern cars’ radios or smart phones. But we are using this technology to inform public in emergency situations, reduce energy and water consumption, give way to priority vehicles, manage barriers to prevent criminals from escaping etc.


Turkey Stand: 76 Project: Physics-02

Measuring the surface vibration frequency with laser diode Can Pak [email protected]

Using of the laser interferometer in the industrial and laboratory environments for measuring the movement, speed and vibration is widespread. Especially the self-mixing technique used has preserved its importance for many years. Despite the fact that self-mixing mechanism is simple, obtaining its signal can be more difficult than the focusing problem. Because of this problem, an experimental setup that can measure the imitation of the oscillations of the egg with the aim of solving the problem of light diffraction on rough and curved surfaces and for lighting the future work was developed. A sensitive vibration detector that can be used on rough surfaces has been obtained by using the self-mixing technique.

USA Stand: 57 Project: Materials-04

Cellulose Nanocrystals for Security Applications: Embedding Non-Optical Signatures Provided by Nanoparticles into Cellulose Nanocrystal Chiral Nematic Films Nicole Megan Wojtania [email protected]

Counterfeiting dramatically impacts society, creating a demand for irreproducible security technologies. Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) free-standing films, which combine multiple properties—structural color, iridescence, and light polarization for covert and overt encryption—in a single material are well-suited for security applications. The experiment created new, CNC-based composite materials with various nanoparticles that have unique, nanoparticle-dependent, optical and electrical signatures. Quantifying the films’ electrical properties, a novel research aspect, adds forensic encryption. In addition, an authentication device was created to show the practicality of the materials as new, industrially-applicable, anti-counterfeiting materials with multi-dimensional security levels.


USA Stand: 53 Project: Environment-12

A paper-based microbial fuel cell for self-powered glucose monitoring in saliva Kendra Zhang

Present-day blood glucose monitoring (BGM) systems require daily finger pricks to draw blood, which is painful and expensive. However, saliva is a noninvasive indicator of systemic glucose levels, and salivary glucose levels (SGL) correlates to that of blood (R^2= 0.823). This study developed a novel 3-layer paper-based microbial fuel cell (pMFC) for glucose monitoring in saliva consisting of an anode, an anodic reservoir/wax membrane, and an air-cathode. The pMFC showed a linear voltage (R= 0.96) to distinguish GL ±0.2 mg/dL (p<0.005). Each device costs $0.15 to fabricate, and requires a $2 voltmeter to read device output, costing $110 annually, versus BGM today which costs $340 annually. Future studies will fabricate pMFCs to test for other disease biomarkers such as allergens.

Ukraine Stand: 39 Project: Engineering-13

Enhancement of technical capabilities of delta robot Yana Zhabura [email protected]

Robots are used in different spheres of life; in particular, manipulators allow to move people away from dangerous manufacturing processes and routine work. It is important to develop new kinds of manipulators that can do the work more efficiently. The prototype of a manipulator, developed in this project, is a modification of delta robot. The developed prototype differs from the known constructions as it is the combination of ability to both move and rotate the instrument, relatively wide workspace and high operation speed caused by relatively simple construction of the moving part. Software used to demonstrate prototype capabilities and the mathematical model of its kinematics have been developed. A robot made with respect to the proposed prototype can be used for many applications.


Ukraine Stand: 84 Project: Physics-10

The investigation of the distribution of the density in gases using the Schlieren photography Mykola Veremchuk

The investigation of the dependence between the density of the air inhomogeneity and the respective parameter of the air inhomogeneity Schlieren photo was made. The installation for the Schlieren photography was assembled. The tungsten coil connected to the power supply was used as the source of the air density inhomogeneities. Research to define the dependence between the air density and the average relative intensity of the pixels of the concrete image on the Schlieren photo was made, and results were analyzed using computer program MatLab, after that experimental equation which gave a possibility to find the density of any gas inhomogeneity with the similar nature was defined. It is possible to develop the noncontact method to define the air density using the results of the project .

United Kingdom Stand: 35 Project: Engineering-09

E1 David Alexander Bernstein [email protected]

Sankha Kahagala Gamage [email protected]

E1 is a wearable vest designed to monitor the vital signs of a patient, enabling the device to accurately predict an epileptic seizure prior to it occurring. The use of this device is aimed at preventing the significant stress and worry in the lives of people who make up our epileptic community and even allow them to prevent some of the symptoms of a seizure when it occurs. The idea came about when Sankha witnessed a passer-by have an epileptic seizure and convulse, this drew him to research and consider ways into which the condition is being treated, and having concluded that modern efforts are simply not sufficient he decided to team up with David and create a solution.


United Kingdom Stand: 48 Project: Environment-07

Do birds have a favourite colour? George Rabin

Edward James Thurlow

This was a field-based experiment to attempt to answer a question: Do birds have a favourite colour? Four coloured feeders (dark blue, green, yellow and red) and a clear control were used. The number of visits and the mass change in the feeders was recorded so preferences could be gauged. The results show a clear trend for blue being the preferred colour; red and yellow were unpopular. We suggest that this is because high energy colours (blue and UV) are used by birds in short distance communication; blue is also in the middle of the birds’ visual spectrum. We also suggest that red and yellow were unpopular because they are employed for aposematic colouration (toxins) in insects. Applications of this research could include influencing the design of turbines or aeroplanes, to deter birds.

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