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Xxxxxxomosis robot tool (Art) is an advancement of the surgical instrument “circular stapler”. It may be used in surgery to reconnect two ends of bowel after a bowel re-section (i.e. cutting out a segment of large bowel that is affected by cancer). In order to realise a minimally inva-sive operation for all parts of the large bowel it was nec-essary to miniaturize the circular stapler and execute all movements and actions in an electromechanical way. re-mote control and the small dimension allow the surgeon to move Art through the whole large bowel.

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ProjeCts by CountryaUSTrIa

thomas steinlechnerdominik kovacsYuki trippelanastomose robot Tool - arTENgINEErINg

Lorenz LeutgebMoritz wanzenböckVariable Neighborhood Search for the Partition graph Coloring ProblemCOMPUTINg

BELarUS

Uladzislau Paulovichalgorithms for generating treesCOMPUTINg

Raman PaliakouHow to create a supercondenser: the practical usage of the concept of the double electric layerPHYSICS

Maksim BezrukovAliaksandr stadolnikPercolation games on Cayley graphs of groupsMaTHEMaTICS

BELgIUM

Jasper d’eerJonas BorgmansPlants in agarose gelBIOLOgY

BULgarIa

ekaterina Latinovaresearch on the fungicidal activity of Silver-Nanoparticles embedded into hybrid materialsMEDICINE

hristo staykovDynamic road Conditioning NetworkENgINEErINg

nikolay dakovDeafTalk – analysis and recognition of human gesturesCOMPUTINg

CaNaDa

Jessie MacAlpineMustard Oil as an apicomplexan-tar-geting Drug Therapy for Plasmodium falciparumMEDICINE

CHINa

Yuelin wangThe Ecological Benefits from Intercrop-ping Bioenergy Plant (Switchgrass) and grain Crop (Maize)ENVIrONMENT

kaizheng Lian Innovative Zipper PullerENgINEErINg

qinying YiIdentification and Screening of lignin-de-grading Fungi of Inscribed Bamboo Tablets of Wu Kingdom and the application in Treatment of Papermaking Black LiquorENVIrONMENT

CZECH rEPUBLIC

klára novákovákateřina FialováOccurrence of Branchiobdellid worms (annelida: Branchiobdellidae) on the stone crayfish (austropotamobius tor-retium) in the south-west part of the Czech republicBIOLOgY

Michal vyvlečkaDetermining parameters of extrasolar systems from CCD photometry of their transitsPHYSICS

Lukáš ČervenkaConnection Between Optimization Pro-grams and Quantum Chemical Soft-ware Packages: Its Use in Exploring Hypersurface of Potential EnergyCOMPUTINg

DENMarK

Alexander Mørchastrobiology: to what extent can life-supporting amino acids form on cosmic dust?CHEMISTrY

Martin sørensenThe astronomical Unit and the Venus passagePHYSICS

emilia wódzkaQuantification of the effect of contami-nation in lithium-air batteriesENgINEErINg

EgYPT

Mohamed Alaaeldin MohamedPrevention of aircraft Fall by Using He-lium gasENgINEErINg

Aly Abdelfatah seisaInnovative an inexpensive, riskless and proper device that help deaf people to communicate with normals through visualizing the soundENgINEErINg

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ESTONIa

Mari Liis Pedakanalysis of the aquatic humic sub-stances in Lake Harku using high pres-sure liquid chromatographyENVIrONMENT

kristiin ResikPolymer coating PolyE-323 for capillary electrophoresis of compound lipidsCHEMISTrY

Martin talvikEstonian High School Students’ atti-tude Towards global Problems and Change of Perception between 1991 and 2012SOCIaL SCIENCES

EUrOPEaN SCHOOLS

Alexander thanosSubmergible Energy apparatus – Linearly Extending generatorENgINEErINg

FINLaND

Perttu PölönenMusic a’ ClockSOCIaL SCIENCES

eero-Pekka Rätysamuli thomassonMap Coloring - Finding the Number of Colorings of Maps Colorable with Four ColorsMaTHEMaTICS

FraNCE

Adrielle RakotomalalaAymeric Jacquin Benjamin LazardThe chameleon robotENgINEErINg

Fabian RainouardMargaux Le BrunConstant diameter sets and their appli-cationsMaTHEMaTICS

gEOrgIa

temur chichuaLightning in the rainy Window – a wa-ter curtain functioning as an air ionizer combining Kelvin dropper and Van-de-graaf generator in a single devicePHYSICS

guram Beraiaautonomic accumulator charging deviceENgINEErINg

ketevan topchishviliSpace diagonal equation of perfect cuboidsMaTHEMaTICS

gErMaNY

Michael LauePreparation of Electrically Conductive Carbon Layers by Chemical Converting graphene OxideCHEMISTrY

Lennart kleinwortFreegeo – the world’s first dynamic android mathematics system appCOMPUTINg

daniel PfluegerMeasuring water wavesPHYSICS

HUNgarY

Áron Perez-LopezHow can protein networks help the de-sign of drugs having less side effects?MEDICINE

donát hegyesiPoker robotENgINEErINg

Balázs zsomboriPiktoVerb – giving Everyone a VoiceCOMPUTINg

IrELaND

ciara Judgeemer hickeysophie healy-thowa statistical investigation of the effects of diazotroph bacteria on plant germi-nationBIOLOgY

ISraEL

Idan dinovetskyziv BoguslavskyBar hickriImproving Paralyzed Functional Inde-pendence using Brainwave SignalsCOMPUTINg

victor IsarovStructural Defects with Trapped Ions in Multiple TrapsPHYSICS

ITaLY

emilio dorigattivioletta totonanoWebgISCOMPUTINg

Luca Maria colombo gomezdaniele Maggioligionata PandiniLow cost equipment for the physics laboratoryPHYSICS

LaTVIa

Jekabs FridmanisSequencing of LEPrEL1 gene in Myopic Patient FamilyBIOLOgY

edgars viziņšEnergy harvesting with piezoelectric materialsENgINEErINg

Agnese LiceSpatial location of carbon stars in galaxy and in H-r diagramPHYSICS


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LITHUaNIa

Agnė gudaitėIs knee joint degeneration predeter-mined by the shape of the patella? MEDICINE

edvinas MisiukevičiusDaylily (Hemerocallis L.). a New Meth-od of Breeding and CultivationBIOLOgY

Akvilė gintautaitėeglė stonkutėThe sawdust filter to clean water from Pb(II) ionsENVIrONMENT

LUXEMBOUrg

daniela IlieMika schmitFlorian MalyUV-LightPHYSICS

Joé hoffmannBen weberPatrick LuxDevelopment of an anthropomorphic robot handENgINEErINg

MaLTa

Joachim zammitMatthew AttardSwitch Off, Unplug, Save!PHYSICS

NEW ZEaLaND

hannah ngLocus of the focusMEDICINE

NOrWaY

Maria zakharovaFactors That affect the accuracy of 3-Dimensional acoustic Locating for Sound Emitting Object.PHYSICS

POLaND

Aleksander horawaInvariants of Finite Metric SpacesMaTHEMaTICS

Arkadiusz JankiewiczHoney bee’s (apis mellifera L.) foraging range based on panlynological analysis of the composition of its pollen loadsBIOLOgY

Michał gumielaRafał kozikStudies of the applicability of CMOS and CCD sensors for detection, dosim-etry and mapping of alpha, beta, gam-ma, X-ray and proton beamsPHYSICS

POrTUgaL

soraia gasparJessica santosJéssica MarquesSmartKITMEDICINE

sofia FernandesPedro oliveiraAna sofia LopesDetermination of the temperature and spectral classification of stars: an ex-periment in astrophysicsPHYSICS

rUSSIa

Pavel kurbatskiyHardware-software navigation devices for blind peopleENgINEErINg

vilena savinovaThe results of the integrated research of the natural and anthropogenic land-scape of island medvezhi (the poria bay, the white sea, 2010 - 2012)ENVIrONMENT

dmitrii sukhotckiia New approach to Studying Cloud Technologies in roboticsENgINEErINg

SLOVaKIa

Peter kickoThe influence of the economic crisis brought up in 2008 on progressive econ-omies of Brazil, russia, India and ChinaSOCIaL SCIENCES

emília Petríkováaspirin and salicylic acid in the combi-nation with inhibition of PI3K promote cell death in malignant melanomaMEDICINE

Martin sarkerMolecular aspects of nitrogen excess on wheat plants in the vegetative stageBIOLOgY

SLOVENIa

Marko stručićExtraction of arsenic and its metabo-lites after ingestion of contaminated mineral waterMEDICINE

Jure Fabjantilen komelOzonation process as a suitable meth-od for degradation of wastewater from hair-dresser salonsENVIrONMENT


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SOUTH KOrEa

hye Min choiDevelopment of red-Fluorescent Ma-terials using POSS-HybridCHEMISTrY

Junsu kwonso hyun ParkThe recycling of abandoned Silk Sel-vage as Silk PaperENVIrONMENT

Ye-lim shinBokyung kimnayoon YooUtilization of Korean Traditional Flower Pattern on a Double Soundproofing ScreenENgINEErINg

SPaIN

Anna olivé Abellóglaciers: an endangered wonder. Study of the retreat of glaciers in EuropeENVIrONMENT

Roger Ferran i Bañosaranese and gardiol: phonetic study about two poles of the Occitan languageSOCIaL SCIENCES

Álvaro Mingote Lladógonzalo Maortua LangdonJaime Fernández de santaella sunyer The energy of the future: Microbials Fuel CellsENgINEErINg

SWEDEN

Johanna JanebäckAnton olssonMoa Berglund PrOOF - the waterproof PET-roofENgINEErINg

Martin göök Johanssonantibacterial substances in clothes - do they fulfil their purpose?BIOLOgY

SWITZErLaND

Alex höngernicolas Mesotautonomous arduino-based recircula-tion of radiosondesENgINEErINg

Jasmin AllenspachLSLLSLSLLSLLSLS – Modern Mathe-matics in Islamic MosaicsMaTHEMaTICS

Lisa cortiLucia Ronchetti Mila RoncoroniImpregnation of hydroxyapatite with growth factors for the osteogenesisMEDICINE

TUrKEY

Mert gülşennur UzunayThe effect of ankaferd and l-carnitine on angiogenesis in chorioallontoic membrane (CaM)BIOLOgY

talha durmuşa web based interpreter rhodeus ScriptCOMPUTINg

ege salmanecem ekerIllumination of cancer cells by fluores-cent carbon nanotubesCHEMISTrY

UKraINE

Roman trygubresearching semistructured problems of multicriteria optimization using the software systemCOMPUTINg

Illya Litkinautomated system for searching de-fects and quantitative evaluation of damaged surfacesENgINEErINg

UNITED KINgDOM

Frederick turnergenetics at home: Building a PCr ma-chine and other equipment for setting up a home genetics labENgINEErINg

USa

zeyu Liu a Novel Modular repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES SystemsENgINEErINg


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ProjeCts by FielDBIOLOgY

BeLgIUMJasper d’eerJonas BorgmansPlants in agarose gel

czech RePUBLIcklára novákovákateřina FialováOccurrence of Branchiobdellid worms (annelida: Branchiobdellidae) on the stone crayfish (austropotamobius tor-retium) in the south-west part of the Czech republic

IReLAndciara Judgeemer hickeysophie healy-thowa statistical investigation of the effects of diazotroph bacteria on plant germi-nation

LAtvIAJekabs FridmanisSequencing of LEPrEL1 gene in Myop-ic Patient Family

LIthUAnIAedvinas MisiukevičiusDaylily (Hemerocallis L.). a New Meth-od of Breeding and Cultivation

PoLAndArkadiusz JankiewiczHoney bee’s (apis mellifera L.) foraging range based on panlynological analysis of the composition of its pollen loads

sLovAkIAMartin sarkerMolecular aspects of nitrogen excess on wheat plants in the vegetative stage

swedenMartin göök Johanssonantibacterial substances in clothes - do they fulfil their purpose?

tURkeYMert gülşennur UzunayThe effect of ankaferd and l-carnitine on angiogenesis in chorioallontoic membrane (CaM)

CHEMISTrY

denMARkAlexander Mørchastrobiology: to what extent can life-supporting amino acids form on cosmic dust?

estonIAkristiin ResikPolymer coating PolyE-323 for capillary electrophoresis of compound lipids

geRMAnYMichael LauePreparation of Electrically Conductive Carbon Layers by Chemical Converting graphene Oxide

soUth koReAhye Min choiDevelopment of red-Fluorescent Ma-terials using POSS-Hybrid

tURkeYege salmanecem ekerIllumination of cancer cells by fluores-cent carbon nanotubes

COMPUTINg

AUstRIALorenz LeutgebMoritz wanzenböckVariable Neighborhood Search for the Partition graph Coloring Problem

BeLARUsUladzislau Paulovichalgorithms for generating trees

BULgARIAnikolay dakovDeafTalk – analysis and recognition of human gestures

czech RePUBLIcLukáš ČervenkaConnection Between Optimization Pro-grams and Quantum Chemical Soft-ware Packages: Its Use in Exploring Hypersurface of Potential Energy

geRMAnYLennart kleinwortFreegeo – the world’s first dynamic android mathematics system app

hUngARYBalázs zsomboriPiktoVerb – giving Everyone a Voice

IsRAeLIdan dinovetskyziv BoguslavskyBar hickriImproving Paralyzed Functional Inde-pendence using Brainwave Signals

ItALYemilio dorigattivioletta totonanoWebgIS

tURkeYtalha durmuşa web based interpreter rhodeus Script


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UkRAIneRoman trygubresearching semistructured problems of multicriteria optimization using the software system

ENgINEErINg

AUstRIAthomas steinlechnerdominik kovacsYuki trippelanastomose robot Tool - arT

BULgARIAhristo staykovDynamic road Conditioning Network

chInAkaizheng Lian Innovative Zipper Puller

denMARkemilia wódzkaQuantification of the effect of contami-nation in lithium-air batteries

egYPtMohamed MohamedPrevention of aircraft Fall by Using He-lium gas

Aly seisaInnovative an inexpensive, riskless and proper device that help deaf people to communicate with normals through visualizing the sound

eURoPeAn schooLsAlexander thanosSubmergible Energy apparatus – Linearly Extending generator

FRAnceAdrielle RakotomalalaAymeric Jacquin Benjamin LazardThe chameleon robot

geoRgIAguram Beraiaautonomic accumulator charging device

hUngARYdonát hegyesiPoker robot

LAtvIAedgars viziņšEnergy harvesting with piezoelectric materials

LUXeMBoURgJoé hoffmannBen weberPatrick LuxDevelopment of an anthropomorphic robot hand

RUssIAPavel kurbatskiyHardware-software navigation devices for blind people

dmitrii sukhotckiia New approach to Studying Cloud Technologies in robotics

soUth koReAYe-lim shinBokyung kimnayoon YooUtilization of Korean Traditional Flower Pattern on a Double Soundproofing Screen

sPAInÁlvaro Mingote Lladógonzalo Maortua LangdonJaime Fernández de santaella sunyer The energy of the future: Microbials Fuel Cells

swedenJohanna JanebäckAnton olssonMoa Berglund PrOOF - the waterproof PET-roof

swItzeRLAndAlex höngernicolas Mesotautonomous arduino-based recircula-tion of radiosondes

UkRAIneIllya Litkinautomated system for searching de-fects and quantitative evaluation of damaged surfaces

UnIted kIngdoMFrederick turnergenetics at home: Building a PCr ma-chine and other equipment for setting up a home genetics lab

UsAzeyu Liu a Novel Modular repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems


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ENVIrONMENT

chInAYuelin wang The Ecological Benefits from Intercropping Bioenergy Plant (Switchgrass) and grain Crop (Maize)

qinying YiIdentification and Screening of lignin-de-grading Fungi of Inscribed Bamboo Tablets of Wu Kingdom and the application in Treatment of Papermaking Black Liquor

estonIAMari Liis Pedakanalysis of the aquatic humic sub-stances in Lake Harku using high pres-sure liquid chromatography

LIthUAnIAAkvilė gintautaitėeglė stonkutėThe sawdust filter to clean water from Pb(II) ions

RUssIAvilena savinovaThe results of the integrated research of the natural and anthropogenic land-scape of island medvezhi (the poria bay, the white sea, 2010 - 2012)

sLovenIAJure Fabjantilen komelOzonation process as a suitable meth-od for degradation of wastewater from hair-dresser salons

soUth koReAJunsu kwonso hyun ParkThe recycling of abandoned Silk Sel-vage as Silk Paper

sPAInAnna olivé Abellóglaciers: an endangered wonder. Study of the retreat of glaciers in Europe

MaTHEMaTICS

BeLARUsMaksim BezrukovAliaksandr stadolnikPercolation games on Cayley graphs of groups

FInLAndeero-Pekka Rätysamuli thomassonMap Coloring - Finding the Number of Colorings of Maps Colorable with Four Colors

FRAnceFabian RainouardMargaux Le BrunConstant diameter sets and their appli-cations

geoRgIAketevan topchishviliSpace diagonal equation of perfect cuboids

PoLAndAleksander horawaInvariants of Finite Metric Spaces

swItzeRLAndJasmin AllenspachLSLLSLSLLSLLSLS – Modern Mathe-matics in Islamic Mosaics

MEDICINE

BULgARIA ekaterina Latinovaresearch on the fungicidal activity of Silver-Nanoparticles embedded into hybrid materials

cAnAdA Jessie MacAlpineMustard Oil as an apicomplexan-tar-geting Drug Therapy for Plasmodium falciparum

hUngARY Áron Perez-LopezHow can protein networks help the de-sign of drugs having less side effects?

LIthUAnIA Agnė gudaitėIs knee joint degeneration predeter-mined by the shape of the patella?

new zeALAnd hannah ngLocus of the focus

PoRtUgALsoraia gasparJessica santosJéssica MarquesSmartKIT

sLovAkIA emília Petríkováaspirin and salicylic acid in the combi-nation with inhibition of PI3K promote cell death in malignant melanoma

sLovenIAMarko stručićExtraction of arsenic and its metabo-lites after ingestion of contaminated mineral water

swItzeRLAndLisa cortiLucia Ronchetti Mila RoncoroniImpregnation of hydroxyapatite with growth factors for the osteogenesis


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PHYSICS

BeLARUsRaman PaliakouHow to create a supercondenser: the practical usage of the concept of the double electric layer

czech RePUBLIcMichal vyvlečkaDetermining parameters of extrasolar systems from CCD photometry of their transits

denMARkMartin sørensenThe astronomical Unit and the Venus passage

geoRgIAtemur chichuaLightning in the rainy Window – a wa-ter curtain functioning as an air ionizer combining Kelvin dropper and Van-de-graaf generator in a single device

geRMAnYdaniel PfluegerMeasuring water waves

IsRAeLvictor IsarovStructural Defects with Trapped Ions in Multiple Traps

ItALYLuca Maria colombo gomezdaniele Maggioligionata PandiniLow cost equipment for the physics laboratory

LAtvIAAgnese LiceSpatial location of carbon stars in galaxy and in H-r diagram

LUXeMBoURgdaniela IlieMika schmitFlorian MalyUV-Light

MALtAJoachim zammitMatthew AttardSwitch Off, Unplug, Save!

noRwAYMaria zakharovaFactors That affect the accuracy of 3-Dimensional acoustic Locating for Sound Emitting Objects

PoLAndMichał gumielaRafał kozikStudies of the applicability of CMOS and CCD sensors for detection, dosim-etry and mapping of alpha, beta, gam-ma, X-ray and proton beams

PoRtUgALsofia FernandesPedro oliveiraAna sofia LopesDetermination of the temperature and spectral classification of stars: an ex-periment in astrophysics

SOCIaL SCIENCES

estonIAMartin talvikEstonian High School Students’ atti-tude Towards global Problems and Change of Perception between 1991 and 2012

FInLAndPerttu PölönenMusic a’ Clock

sLovAkIAPeter kickoThe influence of the economic crisis brought up in 2008 on progressive econ-omies of Brazil, russia, India and China

sPAInRoger Ferran i Bañosaranese and gardiol: phonetic study about two poles of the Occitan language


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● THOMaS STEINLECHNEr [email protected]

● DOMINIK KOVaCS [email protected]

● YUKI TrIPPEL [email protected]

● LOrENZ LEUTgEB [email protected]

● MOrITZ WaNZENBöCK

aUSTrIa

Engineering-13 | Stand No. 46

AnAstoMose RoBot tooL - ARt

anastomosis robot Tool (arT) is an advancement of the surgical instrument “circular stapler”. It may be used in surgery to reconnect two ends of bowel after a bowel re-section (i.e. cutting out a segment of large bowel that is affected by cancer). In order to realise a minimally inva-sive operation for all parts of the large bowel it was nec-essary to miniaturize the circular stapler and execute allmovements and actions in an electromechanical way. re-mote control and the small dimension allow the surgeon to move arT through the whole large bowel.

aUSTrIa

Computing-08 | Stand No. 62

vARIABLe neIghBoRhood seARch FoR the PARtItIon gRAPh coLoRIng PRoBLeM

Today’s “always-on” mentality and increased use of the in-ternet introduces new challenges when designing com-munication networks. Modern fiber-optic networks can be modelled as mathematical structures to overcome those defiances. This project emphasizes on the distribution of wavelengths (channels) in fiber-optic networks. By solving the Partition graph Coloring Problem (PCP), the structure of target networks can be optimized in order to eventually save money. The PCP is of non-deterministic polynomial-time complexity, meaning it belongs to the group of prob-lems most difficult to solve. Therefore clever methods must be developed to obtain a solution in reasonable time. an adoption of Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) for the PCP is proposed and implemented.


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● ULaDZISLaU PaULOVICH [email protected]

● raMaN PaLIaKOU [email protected]

BELarUS


ALgoRIthMs FoR geneRAtIng tRees

geometric models of trees are used in many areas of modern computer graphics, such as advertising, anima-tion, games, programs, landscaping, etc. The result of such programs depends on the realism of used images. The main purpose of investigation was to create effective software tool for generating geometric models of trees. There was also an attempt to make the interface of pro-gram as simple as possible. It was written by two slightly different algorithms. also was written an easy-to-use library that can be easily integrated into any project. The resulting three-dimensional models are saved in a well known format .obj.

BELarUS

Physics-06 | Stand No. 26

how to cReAte A sUPeRcondenseR: the PRActIcAL UsAge oF the concePt oF the doUBLe eLectRIc LAYeR

Characteristics of industrial samples of ionistors were in-vestigated. Self-discharge curves, charging curves and discharge curves of voltage and current were construct-ed. research of materials for separators, types of ionistor assembly, and also physical and chemical properties of electrolytes has been carried out. Dependence between the maximum outlet voltage of an ionistor and theenergy of electrolyte activation used in an ionistor, and also, correlation between charging voltage and the great-est possible voltage of an ionistor was established. The experimental gelkind electrolyte with a high electrolysis voltage threshold, was created. Own samples were creat-ed and their properties were investigated, the possibility to create own ionistor using cheap and available materi-als with the parameters close to the industrial ones was shown.


BELarUS

Mathematics-03 | Stand No. 17

PeRcoLAtIon gAMes on cAYLeY gRAPhs oF gRoUPs

Consider the following deterministic game (a percolation game) suggested by the mathematician Itai Benjamini in 2002. Two species compete on a graph: the red and the blue. Start with one red vertex and one blue vertex. Each second the blue colour blue all its neighbours which are not yet coloured. The red is lazy and grow only at even times. If both species aim at the same vertex, it becomes blue. a question arises: will the blue surround the red after some finite time? If the red will be able to grow infi-nitely many times, we say that the blue lose, otherwise the blue win. In our work, we investigate the game on Cayley graphs of finitely generated abelian groups and Cayley graphs of the integer Heisenberg group.

BELgIUM

Biology-09 | Stand No. 14

PLAnts In AgARose geL

Our project is, like the title already states, about plants in gel. a combination which most of us already now, but there’s a big difference between our gel and the gel you can buy at your local garden supplier. The gel you get from your retailer doesn’t give any nutrition to your plants, it only gives water and support. We researched if you could use a gel which contains nutrition to grow plants. For this gel we made use of agar (more purified form = agarose), this product is used as a substitute for gelatin and is used in biological labs. People could use this instead of natural soil when for example their soil is polluted, isn’t solid enough, can’t hold enough water,…

● MaKSIM BEZrUKOV [email protected]

●aLIaKSaNDr STaDOLNIK [email protected]

● JaSPEr D‘EEr

●JONaS BOrgMaNS


BULgarIa

Medicine-05 | Stand No. 81

ReseARch on the FUngIcIdAL ActIvItY oF sILveR-nAnoPARtIcLes eMBedded Into hYBRId MAteRIALs

recently, examinations of hybrid materials with a low concentration of silver nanoparticles included in a poly-mer matrix have shown a distinct activity in the fight against multi-resistant clinical strains. The exact silver concentration remains to be reported. Hybrid materials with thermally reduced silver nanoparticles (agNps) were used. The first one is a hybrid film. Disks from chroma-tography paper FN7 were impregnated before the poly-merisation . In order to obtain silver nanoparticles em-bedded into a PVa/aPTEOS matrix, the disks were heated at 100 °С. Testing of the fungicidal properties by the Disk Diffusion Method (DDM) is conducted with control and clinical yeast strains. The same strains were also tested with the liquid hybrid material (PVa/agNps) through mac-rodilutions. The main goal is to determine quantitatively the Minimal Fungicidal Concentration (MFC) and the cir-cumstances under which the hybrid material exhibits its fungicidal properties. It is also necessary to determine the quantitative correlation and the concentration of the components. The obtained results, especially those from the synergetic experiments, are effective and very promising. Possible fields of application are pharmacy, microelectronics, biomarking, nano- and biotechnology. The materials might be effective against some of the most persistent multi-resistant fungal strains.

BULgarIa


dYnAMIc RoAd condItIonIng netwoRk

The project explores the possibility to use hardware de-vices embedded in non-specialised vehicles in order to determine road condition. an embedded electronic device was constructed. The device records the vehicle’s vibra-tions and then the data is processed. Specifically devel-oped software analyses the acceleration signal by com-puting its Crest factor and rMS values and visualises the road condition on a map. The collected data can be used by drivers to choose the safest route and by municipali-ties to optimise road repairs. Choosing a good route can be essential for safety and transportation of high risk and high value cargo. Optimising road repairs is also impor-tant because a repair can cause traffic jams, therefore, a good repair priority list is important. The data can also be used to analyse car accidents and determine the rea-sons for it‘s occurence.

● EKaTErINa LaTINOVa [email protected]

● HrISTO STaYKOV [email protected]


BULgarIa


deAFtALk – AnALYsIs And RecognItIon oF hUMAn gestURes

The project analyzes one very interesting problem - the recognition of human gestures. It is separated in two parts. The first part of the project is a library for record-ing and recognizing gestures. It is useful for the develop-er community because it is easy to use and effective. It can be used for creating modules in existing software. In general, it will be capable of improving the user experi-ence regardless their speaking and hearing disabilities. The functuality of the library is based on a combination of Kinect and advanced machine learning algorithms like Hidden Markov Models and Support Vector Machines. The second and more important goal of the project is to facili-tate in the communication of deaf people by creating products that uses the library and can recognize the sign language. This can help many people and make their lives easier and better. Taking into account the relevance of our system, we hope that it will find applications in many different fields.

CaNaDa


MUstARd oIL As An APIcoMPLeXAn-tARgetIng dRUg theRAPY FoR PLAsModIUM FALcIPARUM

Half of the global population is susceptible to malarial infec-tion, with over one million annual deaths occurring as a result of the disease. Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, contains a vital plastid-organelle homologous to the chloro-plasts of plants, known as the apicoplast. It was determined in previous studies that allyl isothiocyanate (aITC) is able to inhibit plant growth in a variety of species through effects on photo-synthetic function. The purpose of this experiment was thus to examine the antimalarial properties of mustard oil, a natural form of aITC used as cooking oil in developing countries. a one-step fluorescence assay used for antimalarial drug screening was employed throughout the experiment; resulting in the dis-covery that a 2μg/mL solution of pure mustard oil is able to sig-nificantly reduce Plasmodium falciparum infection in human red blood cells. results of an MTT assay and light microscopy indicate that mustard oil exhibits equivalent mammalian toxic-ity to the common antimalarial drug Doxycycline. aITC is cur-rently sold as an antibiotic, where clinical studies indicate that oral administration results in 90% absorption and rapid urinary drug recovery. With no organic solvent necessary, pure mustard oil (purchased from a local grocery) inhibits over 94% of para-site growth. Thus, the necessary dose of 10mg has potential to be taken orally, a treatment costing one million times less than the next leading antimalarial. Mustard oil production already occurs in malaria-endemic regions such as Brazil and India, making this cooking oil an inexpensive, accessible and effective alternative to current treatments.

● NIKOLaY [email protected]

● JESSIE MaCaLPINE [email protected]


CHINa

Environment-03 | Stand No. 67

the ecoLogIcAL BeneFIts FRoM InteRcRoPPIng BIoeneRgY PLAnt (swItchgRAss) And gRAIn cRoP (MAIze)

The cultivation of bioenergy plants in large areas could occupy cropland that will threaten food safety. To solve this contradiction, we proposed a new technology by in-tercropping bioenergy plant switchgrass, with common crop maize, taking the advantages of differences in their developmental features and rooting depths. In this study, soil quality, microbe and biomass were assessed by com-paring intercropping with cropping each alone. The re-sults showed that, as compared with single cropping of maize, (1) the intercropping could enhance soil aggre-gates, organic matter, and nutrients (NPK) significantly by 27.40%, 25.99%, 21.88%, 64.13% and 11.51%, respective-ly; (2) the intercropping could increase soil microbial numbers, microbial biomass and microbial functional di-versity by 45.70%, 34.50% and 24.61%, respectively; (3) The intercropping could also increase crop biomass and economic value by 24.79% and 41.82%, and reduce CO2 emission by 21.47%, respectively. Therefore, the exten-sion of intercropping bioenergy plant and grain crop will improve soil environment the land values and simultane-ously improve food production and bioenergy development.

● YUELIN WaNg [email protected]

CHINa


An InnovAtIve zIPPeR PULLeR

For the people who have used a plastic zipper bag, they know that plastic zipper bags are convenient but extremely nondurable. Due to the material used and the structure of the zipper pullers of plastic zipper bags, those zipper pull-ers easily slip out of their positions with even a slightly firm pull. Without a zipper puller, the plastic zipper bags are worthless. Probably eight out of ten are scrapped in advance because of the falling off of their zipper pullers. an innovative zipper puller with “stop pole” adding to the base of its dividing piece has been developed. all products made with new zipper puller are durable and safer. (1) In-novation: This type of zipper pullers has received “utility model” patent certificate and “design patent certificate”, from China‘s State Intellectual Property Office. The design of this type of zipper pullers is full of initiative. (2) Scienti-ficity: By adding “stop pole” to the base of dividing piece of regular zipper pullers, the project realizes a change in zip-per pullers in limit, which is a transformation from the tra-ditional way of limiting by depending on welding edges and auxiliary stopping position to fix to a self-limiting way of zipper pullers. Though it is only a small innovation in the design, it fundamentally solves the major problem of plas-tic zipper puller falling off easily. (3) Practicability Technol-ogy transfer contracts of the patent of this type of zipper pullers have been signed with companies in Hong Kong and China mainland.

● KaIZHENg LI [email protected]


CZECH rEPUBLIC


occURRence oF BRAnchIoBdeLLId woRMs (AnneLIdA: BRAnchIoBdeLLIdAe) on the stone cRAYFIsh (AUstRoPotAMoBIUs toRRetIUM) In the soUth-west PARt oF the czech RePUBLIc

The aim of this work is to map the occurrence of Bran-chiobdella species on the stone crayfish (a. torrentium) and to investigate the basic population characteristics (abundance and length structure) of Branchiobdellid worms in 5 localities of Pilsen region. Specimens were taken from caught crayfish and then determined on the base of morfological features of body, jaws and spermatheca using an optical microscope. Five species of Branchiobdella were found. They are Branchiobdella parasita, B. astaci, B. italica, B. hexodonta and B. pentodonta. all results were compared with already existing data of the occurrence of Branchiobdellid worms in the Czech republic and Europe.

● KLára NOVáKOVá [email protected]

● KaTEřINa FIaLOVá [email protected]

CHINa


IdentIFIcAtIon And scReenIng oF LIgnIn-degRAdIng FUngI oF InscRIBed BAMBoo tABLets oF wU kIngdoM And the APPLIcAtIon In tReAtMent oF PAPeRMAkIng BLAck LIqUoR

The wastewater drained from the alkaline (soda process and sulfate digestion process) pulping process in paper industry contains a large amount of lignin with the color of dark brown so the water is called black liquor, which contains large amount of suspended solids, organic pol-lutants and toxic substances and they will cause serious pollution when directly discharged into the water. The au-thor screened the efficient lignin-degrading fungi called LD-2 from bamboo soaking liquid which was seriously af-fected by bamboo plaque disease reserved in Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum, Hunan Province. The identifica-tion had shown that LD-2 belonged to Sphingobacterium, and it was named Sphingobacterium sp. LD-2. When the concentration of (NH4)2SO4 was 1g l-1and and pH=7, the degradation rate of lignin by LD-2 was 47.6%. When LD-2 was applied in in treatment of papermaking black liquor, test showed that LD-2 could treat the black liquor in which the COD was 25000 mg l-1 in a high basicity, pH=10. and five days later from the experiment, the re-moval rate of COD would reach 48.9% with pure biological method. This research provides a new biological resource for the treatment of high concentration in alkaline condi-tions of papermaking black liquor.

● QINYINg YI [email protected]


CZECH rEPUBLIC


deteRMInIng PARAMeteRs oF eXtRAsoLAR sYsteMs FRoM ccd PhotoMetRY oF theIR tRAnsIts

This work deals with a determination of some parameters of transiting exoplanets. This group of exoplanets is very interesting because we can observe their transit over their parent star. The parameters of these exoplanets were determined from the decrease of brightness of the parents star. This decrease was measured with a help of CD photometry. The features of measured light curves were processed with using of the PC program which was created in this work to find out some figures which the observe extrasolar system is characterized.

● MICHaL VYVLEčKa [email protected]

CZECH rEPUBLIC


connectIon Between oPtIMIzAtIon PRogRAMs And qUAntUM cheMIcAL soFtwARe PAckAges: Its Use In eXPLoRIng hYPeRsURFAce oF PotentIAL eneRgY

Today, various optimization algorithms exist which can effectively find stacionary points of functions. There are also quantum-chemistry software packages which con-tain different types of energy computation. The software package I made represent a novel software bridge be-tween these two groups of programs. The main function of the developed software package is to find stable struc-tures or structural isomers of, in principle, any molecule. The developed bridge has been applied to finding classi-cal equilibrium structures of ionized clusters of helium HeN+, N = 3 - 10. These clusters are very important in modeling of cold helium plasma which has been shown recently to have great potential for medical applications (non-destructive and highly efficient sterilization, chronic wounds healing). The use of cold helium plasma jets in medicine is currently extensively investigated by several laboratories worldwide.

● LUKáš čErVENKa [email protected]


DENMarK


the AstRonoMIcAL UnIt And the venUs PAssAge

Have you ever looked, gazing at the Sun, wondering, how far away that big yellow thing is? Well, I did, and my pro-ject determines the astronomical Unit, defined as the dis-tance between the Sun and The Earth. I determined this distance using pictures of the Venus passage from June 2012. This is a phenomena where the Sun, Venus and the Earth is on a line, so we can see Venus on the solar dish. This is a phenomena that won‘t happen until the year 2117 again. I have determined the astronomical Unit with a deviation of 0,53 % of the theoretical value. I have done this by evaluating my calculations, looking for sources of errors. These errors, I have done my best to counter these errors. a lot of this work has been with the pic-tures, making sure that the Sun is equally big on both pic-tures, that the Suns aren‘t turned to each other, and that the pictures are taken at the same time.

DENMarK

Chemistry-02 | Stand No. 02

AstRoBIoLogY: to whAt eXtent cAn LIFe-sUPPoRtIng AMIno AcIds FoRM on cosMIc dUst?

astrobiology and amino acids. We know a surprising amount of information about how the universe was creat-ed. We know a surprising amount of information about how the Sun came about and how its planets formed around it. But the concept of how life evolved on Earth re-mains an unresolved albeit miraculous mystery. My project is focused on investigating the origin of some of the key molecules believed to have been involved in reactions in-tricately linked to life – molecules like amino acids. re-search is indicating that the Earth’s initial supply of amino acids was from outer space, which is why scientists have been searching for them in extraterrestrial environments for years on end. I believe to have found a molecule that can act as a precursor to amino acids and is perhaps even responsible for our presence in the universe.

● MarTIN SørENSEN [email protected]

● aLEXaNDEr MørCH [email protected]


DENMarK


qUAntIFIcAtIon oF the eFFect oF contAMInAtIon In LIthIUM-AIR BAtteRIes

Lithium-air (Li-air) batteries are a new type of battery that could play a key role in the electrification of transport, reducing considerably the range anxiety of electric vehicles. However, there are some technical problems in connection with developing a practical Li-air battery. One of the most fundamental is the limited power density and non-reversible degradation of the battery when water vapor and carbon dioxide from ambient air react at the electrodes. My project aims to expand and improve the existing experimental setup that has been used for conducting the pilot research, which demon-strated the unwanted influence of water vapor and carbon dioxide on the Li-air cell performance. The goal is to quantify the relationship between the amount of CO2 and H2O in the battery and the battery’s reversibility. Then a threshold level can be estimated and used in developing an active cleansing system, as well as in evaluating the technology’s future development and possibilities.

● EMILIa WóDZKa [email protected]

EgYPT


PReventIon oF AIRcRAFt FALL BY UsIng heLIUM gAs

New method have been developed for decreasing the pos-sibility of aircraft crushing that may occur due to the fast/free fall by action of mechanical or fuel injection problems. This method is based on using of helium-bags inside the aircraft body, where these bags have to be distributed ho-mogenously through the available spaces inside the air-craft. Helium has very low density (1.78×10-7 gm/m3) in comparison with air (0.31 gm/m3), so when helium re-place air inside the aircraft, the total mass of the aircraft will decrease and its falling speed will be strongly re-duced. The total volume of helium gas required to fill, the helium-bags, the fuel tank and the passenger’s cabinet were calculated for the aircraft Model a320. Twenty one compressed helium cylinders (at 200 PSI) are required with a total mass of 1155 Kg. These cylinders are con-nected in the lower part of the interior body of the aircraft and each cylinder was connected to a gas aspirator which speeds up the gas release from the cylinder. The maxi-mum escaping time for helium gas from the cylinders should be 10 seconds. The present study was tested on a aircraft simulator model a320 in the Egyptian air lines station. The results indicated that, the mass of the simu-lator is much decreased in presence of helium and its falling speed was reduced from 444 km/s2 to 100 km/s2. The reduction in the falling speed will decrease the dam-aging effect that occurs from the strong bombardment of the aircraft with earth surface.

● MOHaMED MOHaMED [email protected]


ESTONIa


AnALYsIs oF the AqUAtIc hUMIc sUBstAnces In LAke hARkU UsIng hIgh PRessURe LIqUId chRoMAtogRAPhY

The objective of the research project was to investigate the aquatic humic substances (aHS) in the lake Harku, Tallinn, Estonia. aHS are a major fraction of dissolved organic mate-rial in natural water which play a significant role in the car-bon and energy cycle, and can have effect on food chains in aquatic systems. Despite remarkable advance in recent years, there is still insufficient data about the composition, and temporal and spatial variability of aHS in northern natu-ral ecosystems, including water bodies in Estonia. Variation of the aHS with the changing weather conditions and the aquatic environment in the lake was investigated. In the ex-perimental part the high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was applied. as a result this research 1) has produced new scientifically accurate information about hu-mic substances in a northern natural ecosystem; 2) identi-fied the major components of aHS, and assessed molecular weights and rates of aHS first time in the polluted lake Harku; demonstrated the dependence of the concentration of aHS on water temperature and the amount of nutrients in water; 3) identified the dangerous pollutants in the lake Harku, which are not systematically monitored; demonstrat-ed the usefulness of the HPLC method for environmental research.

EgYPT


InnovAtIve An IneXPensIve, RIskLess And PRoPeR devIce thAt heLP deAF PeoPLe to coMMUnIcAte wIth noRMALs thRoUgh vIsUALIzIng the soUndBeing in the 21st century with no major solution for more than 360 mil-lion people who are deaf is a problem.Even with the cochlear implants being the most successful aid argued, the expensive cost, danger and side effects of the implanting surgery still a barrier for most of them to take it as hope.My project design aim to provide convenient mean of communication to deaf people,it will not only help them to interact with voices and sounds,but it also will be engaged with information window to help them to interact andtake decision based on a knowledge base . Dag would simply recognise the voices and sounds,and convert them into visual text and meaningful signs on the surface of the glasses through HUD. The voice recognition will be carried through directed in-tegrated microphones and give the indication from where the sounds are coming from.The micro-controller will processes the signals from the microphones to define the sound source and the spot of interest to the user.afterwards if sound is detected,visual signs would be dis-played on the glasses,moreover smooth vibrations would be activated in case of alarm sounds detection.However if voice is detecte d,the mi-croprocessor would handle the recognition of the different spoken lan-guages and display the translated text accordingly.The software archi-tecture would be an embedded Linux OS that will handle the application.The application will provide a neat and simple graphical interface,and the recognised speech will be displayed as a subtitle over the glasses,the application will also communicate with the trackpad wirelessly,to give the user the freedom to navigate through the soft-ware. With an intuitive keyboard,the user will type texts easily,and the typed text will be spoken accordingly.Statistically more than 360 million are deaf,which more than the population of the United Staes and the current hearing aids meets less than 10% of the global needs. would be the most inexpensive solution , with a cost less than 100$ which is 900 times less expensive than the cochlear implants. Moreover , no risks have to be taken ; Dag will be a turning solution for the hearing impaired population .

● MarI LIIS PEDaK [email protected]

● aLY SEISa [email protected]


ESTONIa


PoLYMeR coAtIng PoLYe-323 FoR cAPILLARY eLectRoPhoResIs oF coMPoUnd LIPIds

In the current work a positively charged polymeric capil-lary coating PolyE-323 for capillary electrophoresis was under study. The aim was to investigate the compatibility of PolyE-323 coated capillaries with electrophoretical analysis of glycerophospholipids as well to evaluate PolyE-323 tolerance towards organic solvents. In-depth series of analysis with chloroform, methanol, acetonitrile, isopropyl alcohol, toluene and acetic acid – commonly used organic solvents were carried out. Capillary electro-phoretical analyses of lipid samples were performed us-ing various background electrolytes containing different organic solvents. During the experiments PolyE-323 coat-ing was proved to be stable under the influence of various solvents and potentially suitable for analysing lipids.

● KrISTIIN rESIK [email protected]

ESTONIa

Social sciences-02 | Stand No. 74

estonIAn hIgh schooL stUdents’ AttItUde towARds gLoBAL PRoBLeMs And chAnge oF PeRcePtIon Between 1991 And 2012

global problems are threatening the continuance of hu-mankind. To get information about whether people un-derstand the importance of these problems a survey was conducted. The supplemented version of “a world prob-lem questionnaire”, worked out by Z. Chlewiński in 1991, was used. The students had to evaluate how important the described 39 global problems are for them and esti-mate the change of importance of the problems within the next 50 years. In 2012, 1,391 high school students were questioned all over Estonia. The results were com-pared to earlier studies. It appeared that students consid-er the global problems generally important and believe that these problems will become even worse in the fu-ture. The youth of today are worried about the exhaustion of energy resources, the continuous growth of the world population and the issues of social inequality. In addition, it appeared that the results of the survey were affected by gender, place of habitation and language of study. There is a connection between world problems deemed impor-tant by high school students and those most reflected by the media.

● MarTIN TaLVIK [email protected]


FINLaND


MUsIc A‘ cLock

Music a’Clock is a musical innovation and a tool to study-ing music theory. It is a device and teaching method that looks like a round clock face with twelve keys on it. With pointers and stencils the student can learn names and use of notes, chords, intervals, scales and grades visually instead of having to memorize them. Music a’Clock revo-lutionizes the traditional approach to teaching music the-ory, because it is a sensible, logical and above all a visual tool to perceive music theory, which is often considered complicated and difficult. This is due to the fact that in the current system theoretical concepts are taught to too young children without connection to their playing skills and developmental stage. Music a’Clock fills this peda-gogical gap, prevents students from frustration, helps to motivate and maintain interest – with visuality, practical-ity and playability. a’Clock enables the student to concen-trate on music and musicality during the learning pro-cess. Patent for Music a‘ Clock is pending (Jan 2013) and marketing research is currently in process. Music a’Clock includes various applications. There are Piano a’Clock, rhythm a’Clock, guitar a’Clock and Xylo a’Clock.

EUrOPEaN SCHOOLS


sUBMeRgIBLe eneRgY APPARAtUs – LIneARLY eXtendIng geneRAtoR

The project concerns the identification of plate-like ob-jects which experience strong hydrodynamic forces in water currents. Such objects are used as dragging “sails” interconnected via a strong cable forming a loop. a toothed wheel and a wheel having a smooth surface are separated from each other and pivotally connected to an elongated wooden frame. The wheel axes have a horizon-tal orientation. The loop of cable and sails roll over these wheels. The cable is so constructed that it mechanically engages to the toothed wheel carrying an electric gener-ator. This device is submergible in tidal flows. In a partic-ular water flow direction, the upper sails are oriented perpendicular to the flow direction and the force acting upon them drives the electric generator and the lower sails are folded parallel to flow; in the opposite flow di-rection, the sails’ role reverses.

● PErTTU PöLöNEN [email protected]

● aLEXaNDEr THaNOS [email protected]


FINLaND


MAP coLoRIng – FIndIng the nUMBeR oF coLoRIngs oF MAPs coLoRABLe wIth FoUR coLoRs

The four-color theorem states that every planar map can be colored with four colors such that every adjacent re-gion is colored with a different color. However nothing is said about the number of possible colorings. This re-search inspects the impact of the features of planar maps on the number of ways the regions can be colored through graph theory and computer-assisted simulation. We present a relation between the features and colorings applicable to e.g. time-complexity analysis and optimiza-tion of algorithms. We created a program which calcu-lates the possible colorings and inspected a total of 633 maps used to prove the four-color theorem. We present a formula y = 3338754,0 ∙1, 7997866 ∙ z -17;705562, which ties together the colorings y, the vertices (regions) x and the vertices’ proportion to edges (adjacent regions) z. The formula’s coefficient of determination in our cases was 99.98%, which is enough for analysing computational complexity.

● EErO-PEKKa räTY [email protected]

●SaMULI THOMaSSON [email protected]

FraNCE


the chAMeLeon RoBot

The aim of our project is to develop a small mobile robot, remotely piloted with a Smartphone, and able to hide in its environment by taking the color of the ground on which it operates. To do so, we used rgB LED matrixes coupled with sensors, that can identify the ground color, and a system able to receive and interpret the information provided by the Smartphone, using Bluetooth, in order to control the motors that ensure the mobility of our robot. It features independent zones, each being able to mock up the color of a portion of the ground beneath the robot (so that it can be camouflaged on a multicolored checker-board). The principle of our robot, extended to a larger scale, could for example be used in the military field, in order to cover substantial systems like tanks. We can also imagine, following the same principle, spy robots, wildlife photography, etc.

● aDrIELLE raKOTOMaLaLa

●aYMErIC JaCQUIN [email protected]

●BENJaMIN LaZarD


gEOrgIa


LIghtnIng In the RAInY wIndow – A wAteR cURtAIn FUnctIonIng As An AIR IonIzeR coMBInIng keLvIn dRoPPeR And vAn-de-gRAAF geneRAtoR In A sIngLe devIce

This paper presents a water curtain which can be used for decorative purposes as a high-tech interior design feature. It differs from the known prototypes by an added function of an air ionizer. The device could contribute to health and safety of indoor public spaces and could be crucial for pre-venting epidemics. Indoor public spaces have a high con-centration of germs and other harmful pollutants which are mainly charged positively and can be destroyed by negative ions. The presented device induces electrostatic charges on falling water drops and acts as a small scale model of light-ning in the clouds. The water streams are electrified as in Lord Kelvin’s invention and the separated charges are trans-ferred to spherical high voltage dischargers by a simple de-vise working on the principles invented by Van-de-graaf. Electrostatic energy is released through coronal discharges generating ions of both signs. The relative concentration of positive and negative ions is adjustable.

FraNCE


constAnt dIAMeteR sets And theIR APPLIcAtIons

For two years, we have been working on constant diame-ter sets. They are flat geometrical figures with a distance between two points which is always inferior or equal to the diameter. The circle is an example of constant diame-ter set but there are many others. after drawing and building some models of these sets, we tried to work out properties that they could have. Then, we did a study in 3D. For a few months we have been thinking about appli-cations of the theory. Cams and British coins are the most famous applications. But the application to tubular boil-ers is an innovation. Moreover it’s a good illustration of the properties of constant diameter sets and could result in a patent.

● TEMUr CHICHUa [email protected]

● FaBIaN raINOUarD [email protected]

●MargaUX LE BrUN [email protected]


gEOrgIa


AUtonoMIc AccUMULAtoR chARgIng devIce

Power harvesting systems that utilize rechargeable bat-teries are the key to developing commercially viable self-powered electronic systems. For these reasons, the goal of research was to increase the efficiency of the piezoe-lectric generators. Charging current depends on the pie-zoelectric tools, applied force, oscillation duration, fre-quency and system damping factors. There can be constructed autonomic accumulator charging device. It represents the shoe, at the heel of which is installed pie-zoelement with the mechanism, which accumulates the energy at the motion due to gravitational force. Mechani-cal strike generates electric voltage on the PZT piezoele-ment and the resonant LC-contour, which by the electro-magnetic induction is connected to the electric current rectifier and to the battery. resonant LC contour exhibit high efficiency of the PZT crystal due to secondary reverse piezoelectric effect- the internal generation of a mechanical strain resulting from an applied electrical field.

● gUraM BEraIa [email protected]

gEOrgIa


sPAce dIAgonAL eqUAtIon oF PeRFect cUBoIds

a perfect cuboids (PC) is a rectangular parallelepiped with rational sides: a, b, c whose face diagonals d_ab, d_bc, d_ac and space (body) diagonal d_s are rationales. The existence or otherwise of PC is a problem known since at least the time of Leonard Euler (1707-1783). The perfect cuboids problem is equivalent to the following system[1], [2]: {■(2mn(1-k^2 )=(1-m^(2 ) )(1-n^2 )k@2mn(1-p^(2 ) )=(1-m^2 )(1+n^2 )p)-| Our research ad-dresses the solution of the second equation. In our pro-ject we find all rational solutions of the second equation of the given system. n=√XZ/N m=√((X-N)/(X+N) (Z+N)/ (Z-N)) p=√(Z/X (X^2-N^2)/(Z^2-N^2 )) These solutions are obtained by two arbitrary nontrivial different rational so-lution of arbitrary congruent number equation. Ten solu-tions in case of congruent number N=34 are found. Find-ing Perfect Cuboids, doesn’t only mean finding an answer for a three-century problem, but it can also be used for science for environment. Mainly it will be used in architec-ture, for constructing music halls with the best acoustic.

● KETEVaN TOPCHISHVILI [email protected]


gErMaNY


FReegeo – the woRLd‘s FIRst dYnAMIc AndRoId MAtheMAtIcs sYsteM APP

Smartphones and tablet computers enjoy immense popu-larity. They are not only practical due to portability, but their touch-sensitive screens also make them convenient and intuitive to operate. Lennart Kleinwort has taken advantage of these features for his project: He has written a software program that makes it possible to draw and modify geometric figures on smartphones and tablets. The program enables the user to move, rotate or enlarge cir-cles simply by swiping multiple fingers across the screen simultaneously. In addition, users can draw geometric ob-jects on the screen in free-hand mode, which the comput-er then adds to an existing figure automatically.

gErMaNY


PRePARAtIon oF eLectRIcALLY condUctIve cARBon LAYeRs BY cheMIcAL conveRtIng gRAPhene oXIde

The objective of Michael Laue‘s project was to create electrically conductive carbon layers using simple means. First, the young researcher oxidised commercially availa-ble graphite – a form of the element carbon – into graph-ite oxide using strong acids. He then used ultrasound to split off individual layers, called graphene oxide. Finally, to expel the oxygen, he experimented with flashbulbs, laser beams, microwaves and various chemicals. His infrared spectra show that he was successful in generat-ing carbon layers which are conductive despite their quite irregular structures.

● LENNarT KLEINWOrT [email protected]

● MICHaEL LaUE [email protected]


gErMaNY


MeAsURIng wAteR wAves

These slow-motion photographs never cease to amaze: a drop falls onto the surface of the water, which is smooth as glass. While part of the drop disappears into the water, the rest bounces out again. Invisible to the hu-man eye, this spectacle repeats itself many times within fractions of a second. Usually, high-speed cameras are used to make this process visible. However, such camer-as are expensive - which is why Daniel Pflueger thought of a more cost-effective method. His method does not photograph the drop hitting the water directly, but analy-ses the water waves generated in the process. By pre-cisely measuring the height of the waves using a laser and digital camera, Daniel Pflueger was able to provide an initial approach to measuring the complex water play when the drop hits the water.

● DaNIEL PFLUEgEr

HUNgarY


how cAn PRoteIn netwoRks heLP the desIgn oF dRUgs hAvIng Less sIde eFFects?

The best drug targets against infectious agents and can-cer are usually the central nodes of protein-protein inter-action networks (interactomes). However, in other diseas-es influencing central proteins may cause severe adverse effects. In this study, I investigated how network-based methods can help the identification of drug targets having potentially few side-effects. Based on the perturbation analysis of the human interactome of 12.439 proteins and their 350.528 connections, which started from 3,926 drug targets with 99,423 known side effects, I developed a new, network-based screening method to select drug target candidates with potentially less side-effects. I found that the ideal drug targets are those proteins that propagate information either very quickly or very slowly in the hu-man interactome.

● árON PErEZ-LOPEZ


HUNgarY


PIktoveRB – gIvIng eveRYone A voIce

PiktoVerb is currently a bilingual (Hungarian-English) android application that breaks down the walls of com-munication separating the mentally disabled, vocally im-paired, hard of hearing and foreign language speakers. The system uses universally recognizable symbols to pro-duce fully correct audio sentences. This intuitive commu-nication tool has three levels. Level one was designed specifically for hospital patients. Level two facilitates ne-gotiating, asking questions and making specifications (quantity, quality, etc.). at level three the user can type anything not facilitated at the first two levels and save useful phrases that are particular to that user. With PiktoVerb one can easily make emergency calls without any knowledge of one’s location or the local language.

HUNgarY


PokeR RoBot

I have built a robot which can play poker with anybody. It consists of two parts. The first one is a control panel and a robotic arm that can move poker chips. a small micro-controller controls the arm, which consists of six servo motors. In order to stand the arm to the right position the microcontroller needs to calculate the angles of motors. The second part is an industrial computer. The poker program runs on this computer. It can communicate with the robotic arm. I have made special cards and poker chips. They have a colour code which the robot can recog-nise. Two webcameras send pictures to the computer, with which the robot can see the cards and poker chips on the table. The aim of poker is to make the best combi-nation of your two own cards and five common cards. The poker robot checks every time what combination it has. The robot‘s decision depends on its combination. Its strategy is good, so it is very enjoyable to play with the poker robot.

● BaLáZS ZSOMBOrI [email protected]

● DONáT HEgYESI [email protected]


IrELaND


A stAtIstIcAL InvestIgAtIon oF the eFFects oF dIAzotRoPh BActeRIA on PLAnt geRMInAtIon

Diazotroph bacteria are well known to have a symbiotic relationship with the legume plant family whereby the bacteria thrive while providing energy to the plant itself via the nitrogen fixation process. The project outlines an extensive experimental program to assess the impact of such bacteria on non legume crop species. The results show that two types of the rhizobium family of Diazotroph bacteria produce a statistically significant acceleration ( increase of 17% for rhizobium leguminosarum and 28% for rhizobium japonicum.

ISraEL


IMPRovIng PARALYzed FUnctIonAL IndePendence UsIng BRAInwAve sIgnALs

The target audience of our project is the population of paralyzed people all over their bodies whether able to speak or not. This population contingent caregiver basic life activities. Our system allows a paralyzed person to communicate with his environment and it is based on BCI sensor (sensor which receives data of electrical signals of brain activity) placed on the forehead. The sensor receives data of electrical signals from the frontal lobe, which is related to a human blinks. a communication pro-tocol that we developed based on the bits zero and one obtained from the sensor (blink or do not blink). The user initiates a sequence of blinks translated into executable-commands such as computerized speech, sending mail, text message or TV control. In an economically aspect, our system is cheap. The materials costs are only 150$ compare to known systems which costs in the 5000$ area for example The Wadsworth Center Brain-Computer Interface System.

● CIara JUDgE

●EMEr HICKEY [email protected]

●SOPHIE HEaLY-THOW

● IDaN DINOVETSKY [email protected]

●ZIV BOgUSLaVSKY [email protected]

●Bar HICKrI [email protected]


ISraEL


stRUctURAL deFects wIth tRAPPed Ions In MULtIPLe tRAPs

an ion trap is an important tool used in performing ex-periments throughout the natural sciences. an important use of ion traps is mass spectrometry, with which it is possible to analyze samples of different materials and identify their constituents. In physics, ion traps are used for explorations of quantum-mechanical phenomena, for very precise measurements, and for studying fundamen-tal physical laws. Using advanced techniques of laser cooling, ions can be cooled to very low temperatures such that they crystallize near the minimum configuration of the potential energy. The focus in this work is on charac-terizing the ions configuration in a multiple trap for differ-ent parameters, finding the normal mode frequencies and the components of the ions oscillations, and search-ing for defects in the minimum configuration. Mat lab is used for numerical simulations. I try to characterize the trapping configuration and the normal mode properties, in a manner most useful for an experimental investiga-tion of these configurations.

ITaLY


nAnoweBgIs

Our project is a web platform aimed towards biologists‘ need to automatically collect and analyze large datasets of cell images. One of the most notable points of this pro-ject is the use of a gIS software in the analysis process; in other words we treat cells and tissues as if they were landscapes and analyze them with algorithms originally devised for geography. The platform is entirely web based, thus allowing easy access from anywhere in the world and making possible to share data between re-search laboratories. It was developed using free and open source components, from the libraries to the image man-agement and elaboration softwares.

● VICTOr ISarOV ● EMILIO DOrIgaTTI [email protected]

● VIOLETTa TOTO [email protected]


ITaLY


Low cost eqUIPMent FoR the PhYsIcs LABoRAtoRY

This work was born by an original idea of Dr. roberto giudici, our lab engineer, with the aim of improve our physics laboratory. We bild two instrument, “The Magic Box“ and “Panda“. The Magic Box is a platform, com-posed of an electronic circuit and a pc software to which it is possible to connect some different sensors using common phone cables. The data acquired by the sensor are sent to a pc which elaborate them. We also built an alternative version of the platform, called Panda, cheaper in prize and easier to carry. Instead of a normal pc, we used a microcomputer called raspberryPi, which can do all the essential operations needed during the experi-ments but costs much less than a traditional PC. This project was very useful for us because we had the oppor-tunity to get into new scientific topics, such as program-ming and electronic, which are not studied in our school. all the equipment we produced will be used in our school laboratory to make several experiments. We also adopted an open-source mentality, in order to make all our work available to students of other schools, who will be able to change and improve the projects. With our instrumenta-tion every school, or a single person too, could make his own laboratory with some cheap but fully functional workstations. It‘s really important to create a network of users, both school or private person, that will develop new equipments and help new users to join the project.

LaTVIa


seqUencIng oF LePReL1 gene In MYoPIc PAtIent FAMILY

Myopia or near-sightedness is one of the most common eye diseases in the world. although it can be easily cor-rected with the help of corrective lenses such as glasses or contact lenses, such vision enhancement methods are uncomfortable as they are not permanent. The only way to permanently enhance vision is surgical intervention, which is expensive and can cause side effects. Like other hereditary disorders, myopia is induced by alterations in genetic material. Therefore it is important that the genes causing myopia are found and examined, so that people who are carriers of these alterations can be made aware about the condition and undertake precautionary actions to hinder the development of myopia. at present there is only one known gene – LEPrEL1, alterations of which cause nonsyndromic myopia. In this research paper the author has analysed the nucleotide sequence of LEPrEL1 gene exons in a nonsyndromic myopia patient family and has found a nucleotide variation that may cause myopia.

● LUCa MarIa COLOMBO gOMEZ [email protected]

●DaNIELE MaggIOLI [email protected]

●gIONaTa PaNDINI [email protected]

● JEKaBS FrIDMaNIS [email protected]


LaTVIa


eneRgY hARvestIng wIth PIezoeLectRIc MAteRIALs

Edgars is interested in physics, engineering and has a great experience in motor sport and that is why this research project was carried out. The Project “Energy harvesting with piezoelectric materials” deals with development of measuring device (called d33 measuring cell) for measurements of piezo-electric properties as well as new source of electrical energy for racing motor bikes. In this research piezoelectric materials (called NBT) have been studied. NBT can substitute environmentally unfriendly piezoelectric materials with high lead content. This scientific research project shows the research cycle starting from examining of materials up to the practical application of them. New type of measuring device, NBT and piezo-electric converter have prospective possibilities for being applied in practice. The popularization of d33 measuring cell has to facilitate the work of piezoelectric material producers. NBT materials have to substitute piezoelectric materials with high lead content conforming to EU regulations of fabrication. New piezo-electric converter can be used for all braking systems of vehicles.

LaTVIa


sPAtIAL LocAtIon oF cARBon stARs In gALAXY And In h-R dIAgRAM

Carbon stars are stars in a late phase of evolution. These are interesting and rare stars for the reason that there is unusual large amount of carbon in the atmosphere of the star. Furthermore, these stars can be observed in large distances. For this reason carbon stars can be used to study the structure of our galaxy and to prove the existance of the arms of galaxy, furthermore, possible conclusions can be made about other similar galaxies. Observation of these stars is a traditional latvian research field. 975 sky sphere spectral pictures were analyzed. Identified carbon stars were analyzed. Conclusions about the structure of our galaxy was made. In the result 111 carbon stars were identified including 20 yet not discovered carbon stars.

● EDgarS VIZIņš [email protected]

● agNESE LICE [email protected]


LITHUaNIa


Is knee JoInt degeneRAtIon PRedeteRMIned BY the shAPe oF the PAteLLA?

I analyse data from 21,124 knee joint arthroscopies and find, that the most frequent location of articular cartilage degeneration (aCD) in the knee joint is a patella region. In the studied sample, there are 28 % cases of severe, 60 % – of mild, and 12 % – of normal type anatomic dysplasia of the patella shape. I show that the anatomic shape of the patella has strong influence on aCD in the knee joint. The patients with aCD in the patella region, possessing severe dysplasia of the patella shape, have larger areas of aCD and lower physical activity levels, compared to the patients with normal or mild dysplasia of the patelpa shape.

LITHUaNIa


dAYLILY (heMeRocALLIs L.). A new Method oF BReedIng And cULtIvAtIon

Over the last 10 years daylily breeding has reached its peak, however, the majority of daylily varieties are created in the U.S.a., thus making them barely resistant to the Lithuanian climate. Hence, I decided to create a new variety of daylilies resistant to the climate of Lithuania. To fasten the process, I decided to grow the seedlings indoors, which shortens the bloom time to 9 months. I investigated 3 main factors: temperature, pollination time and ploidy (tetraploid or diploid), and found that the best time for crossing daylilies is 10 a.m., the most efficient temperature is 18-20 °C, and the diploids set pods better than tetraploids. The main result is a new variety of daylily – Hemerocallis ‘Mitsu’, which I tested for 3 years, and it grows well after winter.

● agNė gUDaITė [email protected]

● EDVINaS MISIUKEVIčIUS [email protected]


LITHUaNIa


the sAwdUst FILteR to cLeAn wAteR FRoM PB(II) Ions

Water is the source of life. as only 3 percent of water on the Earth is fresh, our responsibility is to keep it clean. The contamination is the one of dangers foreseen for the 21st century. That is why we decided to find an effective and economically acceptable way to clean contaminated water from lead ions, Pb(II). We discovered that sawdust filters could be a reasonable choice. The price of 5 kilograms of sawdust, needed to clean up one cubic meter of contaminated water, is about 3 euro. according to our study, the most efficient sawdust absorbs up to 92 % of lead ions. We found that the most reasonable way to increase efficiency of sawdust significantly is its activation with microwaves, which costs additionally only 1 euro cent per 5 kg of sorbent. In our project we present an eco-friendly way to utilize the used sawdust.

LUXEMBOUrg


Uv-LIght

With a polystyrene-block (sensor support), a UV-light source (UV lamp which emits UV-a light), a UV-measur-ing device (UV-radiation, with a measuring sensor), a slide and a protection shield, we analyzed the permeabil-ity of UV radiation. Brand and cheap sun protecting prod-ucts were tested. The measurements showed that most of the sunglasses did well in the experiments. There were substantial differences in the measurements of the sun creams, it turned out that the more expensive products are not always the best!

● aKVILė gINTaUTaITė [email protected]

●EgLė STONKUTė [email protected]

● DaNIELa ILIE [email protected]

●MIKa SCHMIT [email protected]

●FLOrIaN MaLY [email protected]


LUXEMBOUrg


deveLoPMent oF An AnthRoPoMoRPhIc RoBot hAnd

This project aimed to develop an animatronic hand, able to accomplish the basic functionalities of the human hand. Fur-thermore, the robotic hand shall be comparable to the human hand in sense of dimensions and mass properties, all at low production costs. The robotic hand consists of 2 identical fin-gers and an opposable thumb. The robotic hand provides only 9 DOF (Degrees of Freedom), necessary to accomplish those functionalities, compared to the 23 DOF in the human hand. Furthermore, an actuation concept was developed, whereby only one servomotor per finger and two motors for the thumb are needed. Extension of the fingers is assured by torsion springs installed in every joint. all parts are printed out of PLa plastic material thus being lightweight while providing suffi-cient rigidity. In order to test the functionality of the robot hand with regard to the objectives, a master-slave system has been implemented, while the hand is actuated with com-mands coming from a sensor glove and thus mimics the masters hand position. Experiments were showed that the two basic grips of the human hand are fully accomplished by the robot hand and that grasping of lightweight objects is pos-sible. Position deviations and time delays in comparison to the master’s commanded reference trajectories occurred. Position inaccuracies are mainly due to corrupt outputs of the sensor glove and do not occur when the hand is controlled numerically. In this project, functionality of the robotic hand could be successfully proven. This anthropomorphic hand of-fers sufficient potential for future research.

MaLTa


swItch oFF, UnPLUg, sAve!

The aim is to investigate the different uses of electricity at home and to find ways to save power and energy. The WaTT Team investigated three electrical appliances and measured how much energy they consumed over a period of time by using a watt meter. Some appliances can also consume some energy when left on standby mode. This energy con-sumption is called the phantom load. This experiment sug-gests how power consumption can be improved. The fridge consumes the most power, followed by the television and then the desktop computer. The easiest savings in power of consumption can be obtained from the TV as this can be switched off from the socket after usage. Phantom loads can be eliminated by switching off appliances, power switch or from the wall sockets when not in use. In this way, a number of watts can be saved over a period of time! Simple life style changes can save a lot of electricity and reduce a person’s carbon footprint. Maltese Participants Matthew Ben attard Joachim Zammit.

● JOé HOFFMaNN [email protected]

●BEN WEBEr [email protected]

●PaTrICK LUX [email protected]

● JOaCHIM ZaMMIT

● MaTTHEW aTTarD [email protected]


NEW ZEaLaND


LocUs oF the FocUsMyopia (short-sightedness) occurs when the eye is too long for its focusing structures so that light rays converge in front of, rather than on the retina, producing a blurry image. Han-nah investigated a recent theory that maintaining clear pe-ripheral vision is important for slowing the progression of my-opia. She studied rapidly growing chicks rather than human beings, fitting diffuser lenses over one eye of each to blur their central vision, their peripheral vision or both. The uncov-ered eyes of each chick were used as controls. after 3 days of these treatments the lenses were removed and she meas-ured the focusing error, corneal curvature and the length of each eye in order to quantify the progression of myopia. Han-nah found that the control eyes without the lenses were not myopic, but all eyes covered by a diffuser lens developed my-opia. The degree of myopia was greatest in the eyes where both central and peripheral vision was blurred, followed by the eyes where the central vision was blurred. Myopia devel-opment was least, but still significant, where only the periph-eral vision was blurred. These results indicate that form dep-rivation in any part of the retina contributes to myopia development, but unlike previous studies Hannah‘s suggests that the blurring in the central retina has a much greater ef-fect than in the peripheral region. She goes on to suggest that it is the number of photoreceptors exposed to blurring rather than their location that matters in the development of myopia - an hypothesis now under test at the University of auckland. Hannah‘s results have considerable relevance to the question of whether peripheral defocus caused by wearing glasses might accelerate myopia progression in children.

NOrWaY


FActoRs thAt AFFect the AccURAcY oF 3-dIMensIonAL AcoUstIc LocAtIng FoR soUnd eMIttIng oBJects

This study in acoustics/physics deals with such phenomena as “sound” and “waves”. an audible sound source (punc-tured balloon) is being located using experimental time-of arrival measurements on four microphones pre installed in a room. a localization algorithm has been implemented us-ing a gPS-inspired method. Some hypotheses have been formulated regarding factors that may affect the locating ac-curacy (such as reduced accuracy with range, dependency of microphone layout geometry, and effect of sampling fre-quency), and tested experimentally. Particular attention is given to theoretical explanation of the experimentally ob-served effects and dependencies. The main theory for ex-plaining observed errors is the Positional Dilution of Preci-sion theory which is used in gPS. The challenge of explaining some observed anomalies is solved through analysis of the discrete nature of data acquisition. The re-sults of this investigation may be of interest for those who design 3D acoustic locating systems.

● HaNNaH Ng ● MarIa ZaKHarOVa [email protected]


POLaND


InvARIAnts oF FInIte MetRIc sPAces

Understanding Distance (Invariants of Finite Metric Spac-es): Metric spaces are one of the key notions in mathemat-ics. a metric space is a set (whose elements are “points”) equipped with a notion of distance, that is to every pair of points we assign a nonnegative real number, the distance between them. This geometric notion has found many ap-plication, not only in geometry itself but also in algebra and number theory, where we can use the relation of division by a given prime number to define distance between inte-gers. The reason for usefulness of metric spaces lies with-in the definition, which is simple enough to capture a broad class of examples, while expressive enough to build a rich theory. My paper approaches the study of (finite) metric spaces by assigning to them various invariants which are less complicated than the spaces themselves, but allow us to distinguish between spaces in a simple way. These in-variants are twofold: algebraic and combinatorial. The algebraic invariant is the “isometry group” of a space, that is a set with a binary operation (we can think of it as “mul-tiplication”); the combinatorial one is a graph (a set of ver-tices connected by edges) which decodes information about distance in a simpler way that is easier to imple-ment. The main theorem shows how to compare these in-variants. Professor Peter Clark (University of georgia, USa) suggested on a mathematical forum, Math Overflow, that these invariants contain the same information about a given metric space. The paper shows that this in fact is not the case and studies the relation between them in detail.

POLaND


honeY Bee‘s (APIs MeLLIFeRA L.) FoRAgIng RAnge BAsed on PAnLYnoLogIcAL AnALYsIs oF the coMPosItIon oF Its PoLLen LoAdsMinute bees - great ventures (Honey bee‘s (apis mellifera L.) for-aging range based on panlynological analisis of the composition of its pollen loads): My study of honey bees foraging range was based on a self made, innovative method. The proposed method uses simple, cheap and, imprimis, harmless tools. My method starts with the permisses, that: • honey bees polinate flowers and take pollen from indicative plants • bees form pollen loads, where the wanted pollen is located • they always return home • we are able to take from bees their pollen loads (and then ana-lyse them) I found a few unitary species, e.g. two sweet chest-nuts (marrons), two manna ashes and three buckwheat fields. Once a week (during 16 weeks), I took pollen loads from pollen trap located in Langsroth‘s beehive. The collected material was stored properly, whereupon microscopic slides were compiled and then submitted for palynological analysis. It was a must to analyze 300 pollen grains every week, what eventually enabled me to: • examine honey bees foraging range • compose their “menu“ during sixteen weeks My method is: • safe for bees • relatively cheap and easy to do (there is no need to involve the whole research team) • enables us to examine Apinae‘s (inter alia bumblebees and western honey bees) and Osmia rufa‘s for-aging range • futhermore, it enables beekeepers to locate their apiary properly and obtain the aimed apian products Let me draw your attention to these tiny creatures, older than mankind. They live in terrific, well-ordered communities and they are ex-tremly salutary to us. I would like mankind to focus on requiting them, e.g. without devouring their populations by enviromental contamination or supermanuring plant fields.

● aLEKSaNDEr HOraWa [email protected]

● arKaDIUSZ JaNKIEWICZ [email protected]


POLaND


stUdIes oF the APPLIcABILItY oF cMos And ccd sensoRs FoR detectIon, dosIMetRY And MAPPIng oF ALPhA, BetA, gAMMA, X-RAY And PRoton BeAMs

Studies of the applicability of image sensors for detection of ionising radiation: The impulse to start the project was a single image from the Internet. The photo shows damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the most intriguing are a countless number of strange dots on the whole surface of the photo. In our minds arose the question whether the ordinary cameras are sensitive to ionising radiation. We decided to investigate the influence of ionising radiation on commercial CCD and CMOS image sensors. as it turned out, image sensors can be used to detect different types of radiation. Moreover, as it was shown by our measurements, a mobile phone with a built-in digital camera can be used as an alert against dangerous level of radiation for human beings. Image sensors can be also used in laboratories. Because of a high spatial resolution they can be used in imaging of the beams of protons and X-rays. Our system provides more accurate, faster and more convenient solutions than currently used methods offer. and all this at a very low price.

POrTUgaL


sMARtkIt

SMarTKIT is an INNOVaTIVE concept to support people during the process of medication – especially the ones having limitations to do it. SMarTKIT is an equipment which gives back aUTONOMY to patients during their medication process. SMarTKIT has 6 pills containers per day (6 different daily moments of medication), for a range of 7 days. It provides visual and sound alerts to inform the patient about the rIgHT moment and rIgHT medication. Can be programmed using a laptop or a Smartphone pro-viding also feedback concerning the medication process.

● MICHaŁ gUMIELa [email protected]

● raFaŁ KOZIK [email protected]

● SOraIa gaSPar [email protected]

● JéSSICa SaNTOS [email protected]

● JéSSICa MarQUES [email protected]


POrTUgaL


deteRMInAtIon oF the teMPeRAtURe And sPectRAL cLAssIFIcAtIon oF stARs: An eXPeRIMent In AstRoPhYsIcs

The experimental astrophysics project in the spectrosco-py area is aimed to obtain star temperatures and its spec-tral classification. Thus, two different methods were used accordingly to the star’s emission peak whether within the “visible” spectrum or not: 1- The first method enabled us to accomplish the estimation of the star temperature applying Wien’s law, taking into account the wavelength where the stars has the maximum flow. 2- The second method consists in using a Plank curve (black body radia-tion fit) applied to a spectrum, and therefore we estimate its temperature. It is to mention that our project can be easily replicated in various schools throughout the world as an effective and interesting experimental exercise in astronomy.

rUSSIa


hARdwARe-soFtwARe nAvIgAtIon devIces FoR BLInd PeoPLeThe work purpose - organization of the available environment for people with limit-ed possibilities on sight. generally the system consists of two types of devices: 1. In-dividual set: – googles with the PCBs which included the main microprocessor unit, Flash memory (micro Sd), gPS receiver, 3-axis magnetometer, an ultrasonic locator, real Time Clock (rTC), mini loudspeakers, back-up battery, 2 set of Ir-sensors and 2-channel amplifier; - control box with six tactile buttons for menu management, a microphone with the amplifier and main 7.4v LiPo battery. 2. Infrared Informers: - not limited quantity of devices for record, storages and cyclic transfer through Ir-Channel of speech information messages about buildings, offices, vehicles on which Ir-Informers is fixed. Inside is located: microprocessor, SerialFlash memory IC, voice record circuit and Ir LEDs. System work example. The owner of a building re-cord an information message in Ir-Informer, fixes it on an entrance door. Short speech is constantly transferred through Ir LEDs. Blind with an individual set pass-ing not far from a door, accepts signals from Ir-Informer by means of Ir-sensors. When the door is on the right, signals are accepted by the right Ir sensor, if door at the left hand –left sensor. In a case, when the users face is turned to direction of a door both sensors work. according to level of the received signals after its passing through 2-channel amplifier, loudness of a sound changes for the right and left loudspeakers fixed near ears on details of googles. Thus, the blind person deter-mines by a method of binaural property of human hearing the direction to a door and from the text of a voice message learns about its appointment. For increase of independence of users the individual set is added with two more subsystems: 1. Special system of gPS signals processing: - is based on the gPS receiver, a digital compass and rTC; - allows to keep in own memory of an individual set geographical coordinates of objects in the form of speech labels; - at a label choice in point of the menu to inform on distance and the direction on the corresponding object; - for a case when the blind person lost orientation, “Where am I?” program function is written, at which choice the microprocessor finds three most nearest located labels in the memory list and reports about their distance and direction to; - for conveni-ence of application serves the digital compass (3-axis magnetometer) by means of which the microprocessor transfers the directions message as “North“, “South-East“ etc. to “right“, “rear-Left” etc., concerning turn of the head of the user; - speaking clock automatically correct a time at each successful connection with sat-ellites of gPS system. 2. Ultrasonic locator: - consists of ultrasonic 40 kHz transmitter-receiver and PCB with the amplifier; - determines by means of the mi-croprocessor existence and distance (by the direction of turn of the head) to possible obstacles in distance to 2.5m and informs voice messages or change of tone of a sound signal. Conclusion: as a result of development it was created and tested the navigation complex allows to be guided independently in unfamiliar surrounding space to people with limited possibilities on sight by the organization of the available environment. For achievement of the target the method of consecutive approach step-by-step is used: gPS, Ir-Informing, Ultrasonic location.

● SOFIa FErNaNDES [email protected]

● PEDrO OLIVEIra [email protected]

● aNa SOFIa LOPES [email protected]

● PaVEL KUrBaTSKIY [email protected]


rUSSIa


the ResULts oF the IntegRAted ReseARch oF the nAtURAL And AnthRoPogenIc LAndscAPe oF IsLAnd MedvezhI (the PoRIA BAY, the whIte seA, 2010 - 2012)Our work made under the contract with the Kandalaksha Nature re-serve (contract № 2012_05 dated l March 2012). The relevance of the re-search. Island Medvezhi (Fig. 1) is a unique natural and anthropogenic complex that needs to be explored. The landscape of the island was formed as a result of natural phenomena and high anthropogenic im-pact. On this island there is the first silver mine in russia, which is a monument of russian mining industry (Zhirov, 2004, p. 45). Current bio-geocenoses developed on the site of anthropogenic barren, which was the result of the exploitation of these copies. Island Medvezhi is located in the Kandalaksha Nature reserve, therefore its research and preserva-tion has a great scientific value. The old nameplates of mines on Island Medvezhi are dilapidated, and they need of renewal. The island is con-taminated by anthropogenic debris, which ejected by the sea. There are no data about all areas of mining on the island. The hypothesis. If the present landscape of Island Medvezhi was formed under the influence of natural processes and anthropogenic impact, the vegetation of the island is diverse, successional processes occur at different rates and have dif-ferent stages of plant development. The objective of the research. To ex-plore the current natural and anthropogenic complex of Island Medvezhi. To achieve this aim were set and solved the following problems: 1) to identify any traces of anthropogenic impact on Island Medvezhi; 2) to ex-plore the flora and vegetation of the island; 3) to study the processes of formation of different types of vegetation on areas exposed to anthropo-genic impacts; 4) to identify the species composition of the vertebrate fauna of the island. The scientific novelty. For the first time in science we have given an accurate and complex description of Island Medvezhi, which is a unique natural and anthropogenic complex. The approbation of the work. Materials of the first phase of our work were presented at the VIII all-russian open geological Olympiads “Earth and the Man“ and the Scientific Council of the Kandalaksha reserve. We have published an article in The Chronicle of Nature of Kandalaksha nature reserve in 2011 (Panarina N.g, Savinova V.D., 2011). One article is being published at the moment. The practical value. Preservation of unique island ecosystems. Data capture for The Chronicle of Nature of Kandalaksha state nature re-serve. The object of the research. Island Medvezhi. The subject of the re-search. Current natural complex of Island Medvezhi.

rUSSIa


A new APPRoAch to stUdYIng cLoUd technoLogIes In RoBotIcs

Today’s robotics needs experts capable not only of designing state-of-the art robots but also of setting up global databas-es for them to use. Professional training in relevant subjects must begin in the school age. To that end, a new concept fo-cused on school students is proposed for studying cloud technologies in robotics. The project builds upon basic knowledge of school-grade mathematics. robot inter- actions with the cloud are modeled for study purposes using a robotic construction set together with a server emulating the cloud. Shapes studied in the school geometry class can be used as scenery for the working area. The robot uses its sensors to discover an object and transmits its path to the server as it moves around the object. By matching the ro-bot’s path to a set of features describing various objects, the server determines the type of a particular object and then performs computations necessary to model robot’s behav-ior. all this data is input into a database. Special attention is paid to describing object features in order to populate the database. Future plans call for replicating these objectives in roboEarth, the European cloud robotics project. an appli-cation-specific microcontroller module enables supple-menting the robot with various sensors and servo drives. Therefore it is possible to evolve the project toward design-ing a multifunction educational robot or one for partaking in contests. The project can be implemented in technology centers and schools, as well as other education establish-ments providing instruction in the field.

● VILENa SaVINOVa [email protected]

● DMITrII SUKHOTCKII [email protected]


SLOVaKIa


the InFLUence oF the econoMIc cRIsIs BRoUght UP In 2008 on PRogRessIve econoMIes oF BRAzIL, RUssIA, IndIA And chInA

Instability of world financial markets can weaken even the strongest economic players. Even the richest countries can-not look to the future with confidence. However, the circum-stances from the recent past let the countries with the ab-breviation BrIC (Brazil, russia, India and China) succeed measurably. Their economies were marked by economic growth and positive future prospects. The aim of this project is to characterise the impact of the financial crisis from 2008 on otherwise progressive economies of BrIC countries. In this project we will compare the main macroeconomic and social indicators: status and growth of gross domestic prod-uct, gross national income, the rate of foreign debt, balance of the state budget, inflation of consumer prices, production of main commodities and unemployment from economic in-formation about these territories for the years 2007 to 2011. Thanks to the gained information we managed to take a stand on economic situation of each of the BrIC countries and define the negative effect on their economic environ-ment. With the new knowledge we discovered huge differ-ences among countries, which are connected by their eco-nomic growth.

SLOVaKIa


AsPIRIn And sALIcYLIc AcId In the coMBInAtIon wIth InhIBItIon oF PI3k PRoMote ceLL deAth In MALIgnAnt MeLAnoMA

aspirin – acetylsalicylic acid and salicylic acid are anti-in-flammatory drugs. Because of their acts on cyclooxyge-nases and NF-kappaB, aspirin and salicylic acid are re-cently tested as a cure for various types of cancer. Malignant melanoma is a very dangerous type of cancer responsible for 75 % of death realted to skin cancers. There is still a lack of effective treatment of melanomas. We decided to try the ability of these drugs to suppress the proliferation of melanoma cell lines. Tests of cell via-bility and Western blot assays showed that aspirin or sali-cylic acid could be used to trigger apoptosis in malignant melanoma cells when they are combinated with gossy-pol, an inhibitor of PI3K. These results can help in finding a treatment for malignant melanoma in future.

● PETEr KICKO [email protected]

● EMíLIa PETríKOVá [email protected]


SLOVaKIa


MoLecULAR AsPects oF nItRogen eXcess on wheAt PLAnts In the vegetAtIve stAge

Increased content of inorganic nitrogen in soil is responsible not only for various ecological problems, but also induces stress to plants. In other hand, in some environmental or biotic stresses (pathogens) is it’s consumption increased over the optimal level of unstressed plants because of high energetic costs of defen-sive responses (synthesis of defensive proteins and other ni-trogenous compounds). Unlike physiology of insufficient nitro-gen nutrition or physiology of various stresses is physiology of excess nitrogen nutrition very poorly investigated. Objective of our work was to investigate impact of high nitrogen dosages in form of ammonium nitrate to plants of wheat in vegetative stage in ideal growth conditions. Our applied dosages of inor-ganic nitrogen in watering solutions (7 – 35 mM) induced inhib-ited growth and production of biomass, thinning of stems and decrease of count and total area of stomata in the epidermis of the leafs. Plants stressed by excess nitrogen in soil in our ex-periments in increased rate accumulated chlorophylls, free proline and soluble proteins, mostly small and large subunit of enzyme ruBisCO. activity of isoforms of glucanase with lower molecular weights (30 kDa and 38 – 40 kDa) was impaired, rather than activity of heavier isoform (49 – 52 kDa) was stimu-lated. With our work we contributed to extension of still poor knowledge of physiology of plants in condition of excess nitro-gen supply. results can be used in further experiments leading to improvement of management of nitrogenous fertilization, especially in conditions of various stresses.

SLOVENIa


eXtRActIon oF ARsenIc And Its MetABoLItes AFteR IngestIon oF contAMInAted MIneRAL wAteR

The purpose of research was to find out how fast is the excretion of inorganic arsenic and which are the main metabolites of inorganic arsenic in urine. In first step of the experiment I was consuming contaminated water and collecting samples of urine for later analysis. In time of collecting my urine I had to be careful about my nutrition and I had to write down everything that I ate that was pos-sibly contaminated with organic arsenic. For urine analy-sis I used the technique of liquid chromatography on HPLC column Hamilton PrP-X100 coupled on-line with hydride generation and atomic fluorescence spectrome-try. after processing the data I realized that arsenic ex-cretes relatively quickly and that its influence on organ-ism in such low concentrations is very small. I assume that if concentrations were bigger the effects would be stronger and if body would be chronically exposed to ar-senic the consequences could be fatal.

● MarTIN SarKEr [email protected]

● MarKO STrUčIć [email protected]


SLOVENIa


ozonAtIon PRocess As A sUItABLe Method FoR degRAdAtIon oF wAstewAteR FRoM hAIR-dResseR sALons

The wastewater generated in the hairdresser salons is usu-ally washed directly into the drain and it should be empha-sized, that the effects of wastewater on the water environ-ment is still not well known. Our team applied ozonation process as a tool for wastewater degradation. Wastewater sampling was conducted in hairdresser salon, where the wastewater was collected, stored in refrigerator and the next day analysed in laboratory. The ozone has very high po-tential for generation of highly reactive oxygen species, which have the ability to convert organic pollutants into CO2 and H2O. Therefore the efficiency of ozonation as potential method for wastewater treatment was tested. The ozonation process was led for 120 minutes and the degradation effi-ciency was investigated by several analytical techniques. The mineralization rate revealed high percentage of organic compounds removal and what is more, the complete discol-oration of the wastewater was achieved. High attention was also paid to the toxicity monitoring within before and after ozonation process. The toxicity measurements with lumi-nescent marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri, which are common-ly used for toxicity testing, revealed extremely high toxicity of raw wastewater. However, after ozonation treatment, the toxicity decreased significantly. Therefore, our team proved that ozonation process can be an effective method for treat-ment of wastewaters from hairdresser salon. Moreover, it can be also practically applied.

SOUTH KOrEa


deveLoPMent oF Red-FLUoRescent MAteRIALs UsIng Poss-hYBRId

In this study, I chose the 2,6-pyridinedicarbonyxylic acid chloride (PDC) as the original ligand to construct the bridge molecule with POSS amine hybrid compound, which afterward bound with Eu3+ to obtain the binary lanthanide organic-inorganic hybrid material Eu-PDC-POSS. The figure below shows efficient fluorescent activ-ity when subjected to different excitation wavelengths, such as 254 nm, 288 nm, 393 nm, and 464 nm. More im-portantly, all of these excitation wavelengths match well with the prominent excitation wavelengths of different light-emitting devices.

● JUrE FaBJaN

● TILEN KOMEL

● HYE MIN CHOI [email protected]


SOUTH KOrEa


the RecYcLIng oF ABAndoned sILk seLvAge As sILk PAPeR

Jinju in korea is one of the world‘s five major silk produc-tion city. The quality of pearl silk is known as very high, but we have yet to know about it. Each time, 10% of high-grade silk is discarded on silk separation process. This discarded silk is called ‚Selvage‘. Selvage is classified as an environmental waste so someone has to pay a consid-erable amount of money to discard the selvage according to Environmental Wastes Control act. Therefore, we wanted to recycle the selvage as a raw material of paper. We made some paper with selvage and measured dura-bility, flexibility, dyeing property, warmth retaining proper-ties, hygroscopicity, and flame resistance of them. When the mass ratio of selvage was increased, durability, dyeing property, flexibility, warmth retaining properties, moisture absorption, and flame resistance were enhanced. So we could make a High-quality paper this way. We can also utilize these silk paper as wallpaper and material for paper crafts.

SOUTH KOrEa


UtILIzAtIon oF koReAn tRAdItIonAL FLoweR PAtteRn on A doUBLe soUndPRooFIng scReen

On a hot summer day, the noise is sometimes too much to bear if the windows are open. However, we cannot ventilate the room if the windows are closed. To solve this problem, re-search was conducted concerning how to make a screen with soundproofing and ventilation ability. The traditional Korean flower pattern was used in this experiment because this pat-tern has been used in doors and windows since the ancient times of Korea, and it was expected to have some sound-proofing ability. also, it emphasizes the beauty of the Korean traditional house. It has lots of irregularities, so it has more chances of sound waves to interfere with each other. Thus, it was hypothesized that it can exclude noise better than a grid screen. also, the traditional flower pattern is a suitable struc-ture for research because it has good air permeability and light penetrability. It was concluded that the soundproofing efficiency of the traditional flower pattern screen is better than the formal grid screen. There were the specific frequen-cies of particular noises used in this study, and an optimal design, screen material and shape of the screen was deter-mined for the specific noises. From this research, stress due to lound noise can be resolved in ordinary life using flower pattern screens. This screen can be used to reduce noise pol-lution, and help people enjoy a more pleasant life.

● JUNSU KWON [email protected]

● SO HYUN ParK [email protected]

● YE-LIM SHIN [email protected]

● BOKYUNg KIM [email protected]

● NaYOON YOO [email protected]


SPaIN


gLAcIeRs: An endAngeRed wondeR. stUdY oF the RetReAt oF gLAcIeRs In eURoPe

This paper uses an extensive photographic collection ac-cumulated over many years by a family of glacier enthusi-asts to measure the retreat of glaciers. The main objec-tives of this work are to show the regression of glaciers and to assess the current rate this of retreat, to make comparisons and to suggest predictions. a total of 13 gla-ciers has been analyzed, 8 in the alps and 5 in Norway. The retreat of glaciers has been measured with the help of google Earth from 1850 up to the present. The graphi-cal representation of the results allows us to observe and compare the retreat of the glaciers each, and see that from 2000 to the graph of the average velocity of retreat becomes exponentially. The analysis of this regression al-lows us to find the average acceleration of this retreat. The current speed of melting allows us to predict the dis-appearance of a large number of glaciers during the XXIst Century.

SPaIN


ARAnese And gARdIoL: PhonetIc stUdY ABoUt two PoLes oF the occItAn LAngUAge

aranese and gardiol, phonetic study about two poles of the Occitan language compares the phonetics of these Occitan varieties showing their differences to determine if Occitan is a single language or not. In order to do it, a very extensive study is required; but I could only study from this point of view because my High School limited my work in 70 pages. Therefore, my project cannot com-pletely demonstrate if we are talking about one or more languages. But, despite all, as there is mutual intercom-prehension between both varieties and the so-called standard Occitan (Languedocien), it is possible to classify Occitan as a single language. This project has also anoth-er objective: to divulgate what are aranese and gardiol, because although Occitan is official in Spain (in Catalo-nia), it is an unknown reality and a seriously endangered language.

● aNNa OLIVé aBELLó [email protected]

● rOgEr FErraN I BañOS [email protected]


SPaIN


the eneRgY oF the FUtURe: MIcRoBIALs FUeL ceLLs

In this project we propose a new enhanced model (88.6% cheaper and 7% more efficient) for a microbial fuel cell. after several experiments where heated the battery, we reached the conclusion that the increase of the tempera-ture will reduce the voltage. On the other hand, after try-ing many different concentrations of glucose (0-111mM), we can assert that an addition of glucose, found in this in-terval, will provoke an increase of the potential of, at least, 300 mV. With the researches done about bacteria of the anode we are able to claim that 2 possible species might have the capacity of producing electricity: Coccus gram-negative and Propionibacteriumsp. Finally, we studied the change of the voltage over time. We observed that there are three stages: adaptation, exponential growth, and plateau.

SWEDEN


PRooF – the wAteRPRooF Pet - RooF

The aim of this project was to find a new use for old and used plastic bottles. The idea is named PrOOF- The wa-terproof PET-roof, and the key is to use a very simple weaving technique to join several halves of plastic bottles, until they form a roof. This roof looks the same as the roofs made of roof tiles. all you need is a knife and some bottles, and you can easily make it yourself. The idea is very simple, and everybody can make use of it. The build-ing process is very cheap, and in most cases completely free. We have made a description only in pictures, to teach people how to build the roof. The purpose of this project is to reduce the number of waste plastic-bottles in the environment and thereby improve our nature’s wealth, and at the same time give people in developing countries a cheap way to improve their standards of liv-ing. another good thing about the PrOOF is that you can easily collect the water from the down pipes.

● áLVarO MINgOTE LLaDó [email protected]

● gONZaLO MaOrTUa LaNgDON [email protected]

● JaIME FErNáNDEZ DE SaNTaELLa SUNYEr

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● JOHaNNa JaNEBäCK [email protected]

● aNTON OLSSON [email protected]

● MOa BErgLUND [email protected]


SWEDEN


AntIBActeRIAL sUBstAnces In cLothes – do theY FULFIL theIR PURPose?

During recent years, the usage of several domestic anti-bacterial substances has increased. Triclosan is such a substance and it has also proven to be a toxic substance. Triclosan has also known to cause long term catastrophic effects on the marine environment and can potentially disrupt the endocrine system and the reproduction of marine species. It can also disrupt the reproduction North american bullfrogs. The purpose of this study has been to find out whether Triclosan, has any antibacterial effect in socks. I have also found out if Triclosans antibac-terial properties are reduced after wash. My results indi-cate that that Triclosan does not have any significant anti-bacterial effect in socks, compared to untreated socks. In my paper I discuss whether Triclosan can be removed from the market.

SWITZErLaND


AUtonoMoUs ARdUIno-BAsed RecIRcULAtIon oF RAdIosondes

In our work we analyze the feasibility of an autonomic re-turn of radiosondes. These instruments are used to meas-ure different atmospheric values up to 30 kilometers height. Daily, over 1000 radiosondes are started and many of them will never be found. Our idea is to bring them back with a glider. The first part of our work deals with the fea-sibility at many different degrees (economic feasibility, leg-islation, physical and technical feasibility etc.). The second part was to program an autopilot for a model airplane in the field of vision of the pilot in sort to gain experience for the prosecution of our final goal, an automatic system to bring back radiosondes to their starting point.

● MarTIN gööK JOHaNSSON [email protected]

● aLEX HöNgEr [email protected]

● NICOLaS MESOT


SWITZErLaND


LsLLsLsLLsLLsLs – ModeRn MAtheMAtIcs In IsLAMIc MosAIcs

“Islamic artists were 500 years ahead of Western scien-tists” – headlines like this one appeared all over the world when an acclaimed Science paper investigated Is-lamic mosaics in 2007. These so-called girih patterns were suggested to have been conceived as tilings, the jig-saw-like geometrical concept of putting shapes together to cover the plane. The Science authors argued that some of these Islamic tilings have a quasi-periodic structure – whereas in the Western world, such complex structures were not invented until the 1970s. However, my analysis of the Science patterns and six additional mosaics from Iran suggests that this sensational claim should be re-vised: The Science proof of the quasiperiodicity is not convincing. In addition, the mosaics were not constructed in the 15th but rather in the 18th or 19th century. My dis-covery of ammann bars – a feature of quasi-periodic tilings – in girih patterns might serve as an alternative proof of their quasi-periodicity.

SWITZErLaND


IMPRegnAtIon oF hYdRoXYAPAtIte wIth gRowth FActoRs FoR the osteogenesIs

Damage to human bones caused, either by the surgical removal of tumours, or through serious trauma requires the bone structure to be reconstructed via osteogenesis. In our work we developed a process which permits the impregnation of synthetic porous materials or denatured sponge with BMP proteins without triggering immuno-activity, under conditions that ensure the sterility of a surgeon implantable product.

● JaSMIN aLLENSPaCH ● LISa COrTI [email protected]

● LUCIa rONCHETTI [email protected]

● MILa rONCOrONI [email protected]


TUrKEY

Biology-06 | Stand No.11

the eFFect oF AnkAFeRd And L-cARnItIne on AngIogenesIs In choRIoALLontoIc MeMBRAne (cAM)

angiogenesis is needed for tumor growth and metastasis. For this reason, it represents an exciting target for cancer treat-ment. Some anti-angiogenic drugs may be useful to prevent an-giogenesis during cancer treatment. The aim of this study is to investigate if ankaferd(standardized herbal extract obtained from five different plants namely Thymus vulgaris,glycyrrhiza glabra, Vitis vinifera, alpina officinarum,and Urtica dioica) and L-Carnitine (a quaternary ammonium compound biosynthe-sized from the amino acids lysine and methionine) have an ef-fect on angiogenesis in chick embryo chorioallontoic mem-brane. ankaferd was applied at 1,5,20 ,50% and L-Carnitine 390 mmol/L in concentration to the fertilized eggs on the 6th day. Physiologic serum was used for control group. at the end of the study (day 7 and 8), all eggs were opened and vessels were ex-amined by magnifying glass. No significant changes were ob-served in 1% ankaferd group and control group. But significant inhibition in angiogenesis was observed in 5,20,50% ankaferd groups. In L-Carnitine group, angiogenic effect was marked. In conclusion, the anti-angiogenic effect of ankaferd was shown experimentally in this study (first time in the medical literature). So, ankaferd may be an antineoplastic drug in the future. ac-cording to our results, L-Carnitine has angiogenic effect. Due to this effect, it may be beneficial in the treatment of ischaemic disease and endothelial dysfunction. although these results are promising, large-scale, prospective studies are needed in hu-mans to provide more information about these drugs.

TUrKEY


A weB BAsed InteRPReteR RhodeUs scRIPt

The aims of the project were finding out how to imple-ment an interpreter, actually implementing one, learning about the architecture of programming languages, and setting an example for others who may also be interested in similar projects. This project was created as a new interpreter which would have a simpler syntax than the other programming languages. The interpreter developed in this project was influenced by PHP, Python, D, and ruby. The implementation of the interpreter took advan-tage of both finite automata, which is already in use in many other interpreters, and the HumanLook algorithm, which was developed by the author.

● MErT gÜLŞEN [email protected]

● NUr UZUNaY [email protected]

● TaLHa DUrMUŞ [email protected]


TUrKEY


ILLUMInAtIon oF cAnceR ceLLs BY FLUoRescent cARBon nAnotUBes

In this study, cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) was chosen as fluorescent probe for cancer cell imaging. CFP was noncovalently (adsorption) conjugated to acid-treated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). The obtained f-MWCNT/CFP conjugates were then linked to folic acid via –NH3 ends of proteins. The application potential of the obtained bioconjugates was investigated using HeLa cell line and a549 cell line which were chosen as model cells. In vitro fluorescence microscope images show that these conjugates can be used as an efficient fluorescent probe for targeting and imaging of folic acid over expressed cancer cells.

UKraINE


ReseARchIng seMIstRUctURed PRoBLeMs oF MULtIcRIteRIA oPtIMIzAtIon UsIng the soFtwARe sYsteM

People’s opportunities to analyze information in a deep way are not unlimited. Nowadays, it is felt especially, because humanity gradually enters the era of the informational soci-ety, when, on the one hand, we receive more and more knowledge about the world around us, and on the other hand, we don’t have enough time to reconsider this informa-tion, because we are often forced to make decisions under time constraints. The situation could be improved by “smart” computer programs with an easy interface, which would play the role of assistants. goal of research in this work is to develop the optimal decision support system for solving semistructured problems of multicriteria optimiza-tion, in which alternatives can change (improve) their states. Currently existing software tools, which solve this class problems are limited only by finding the best alternative, whereas the proposed system also (in addition to solving this problem) allows to develop instructions (“guidelines for actions”) for any of losing alternatives so that the obser-vance of them will guarantee the winning for this alterna-tive. This is the scientific novelty of the work. The practical significance of the work is reflected in construction of com-plete software product, which can be used by people who make responsible decisions (in various areas of human activity).

● EgE SaLMaN [email protected]

● ECEM EKEr [email protected]

● rOMaN TrYgUB [email protected]


UKraINE


AUtoMAted sYsteM FoR seARchIng deFects And qUAntItAtIve evALUAtIon oF dAMAged sURFAces

Problem of flaw detection is actual in modern industry and science. Typical defects of surfaces are cracks. The aim of the project was to create automated system for fixation, visualization and calculation of quantitative char-acteristics of cracks and other formations on solids with help of computer technologies. The main task of research was creating technical complex (mini lab) for visualization and processing images by computer program for evalua-tion quantitative characteristics of defects on solids sur-faces. For visualization surfaces we proposed mini lab consist hand made microscope (500 times enlargement) with USB output and computer. Computer program for processing was created with special algorithm that was invented by us. Offered method and computer program is universal for researching micro and macro surfaces. Pro-cessing photos by special programs on the spacecrafts and sending final results as tables and plots can be effec-tive because much important information about planets formations and inside processes we can get from cracks on the surfaces.

UNITED KINgDOM


genetIcs At hoMe: BUILdIng A PcR MAchIne And otheR eqUIPMent FoR settIng UP A hoMe genetIcs LAB

The aim of this project was to build the equipment required to carry out some basic genetic tests at home for as little cost as possible. I designed and built a fully working PCr machine which copies specific regions of DNa many times as well as several other pieces of lab equipment which can be used to test for SNPs or mutations in genes.

● ILLYa LITKIN [email protected]

● FrEDErICK TUrNEr [email protected]


COUNTrY

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XXeLoP gResgeRs ReMent IM eRsggRe sgeRsgA

Xxxxxxomosis robot Tool (arT) is an advancement of the surgical instrument “circular stapler”. It may be used in surgery to reconnect two ends of bowel after a bowel re-section (i.e. cutting out a segment of large bowel that is affected by cancer). In order to realise a minimally inva-sive operation for all parts of the large bowel it was nec-essary to miniaturize the circular stapler and execute all movements and actions in an electromechanical way. re-mote control and the small dimension allow the surgeon to move arT through the whole large bowel.

● JMENO PrIJMENI [email protected]

●JMENO PrIJMENI [email protected]


● JMENO PrIJMENI [email protected]



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USa


A noveL ModULAR RePULsIve tYPe hYBRId MAgnetIc BeARIng FoR Fes sYsteMs

Billions of dollars are invested annually in finding more efficient ways of storing energy. although technologies for chemical batter-ies are mature, their drawbacks prevent them from being the most efficient energy storage device. Flywheel Energy Storage (FES) sys-tems store energy as rotational energy. They have many advantag-es over chemical batteries including a higher energy density, free-dom from capacity degradation, and extremely fast recharge. These make them ideal for storing electrical energy for applica-tions that demand large reservoirs of power. However, FES sys-tems can be subject to issues such as energy loss through friction and mechanical instability. This research highlights the construc-tion and testing of an innovative hybrid magnetic bearing designed for FES systems. The device consists of two permanent magnetic bearings, two electromagnetic bearings, and two thrust bearings. The permanent magnet bearings provide most of the levitation while the electromagnetic bearings stabilize the system. a PID control algorithm is used to control the electromagnetic bearing. The whole system is modular which makes it easy for maintenance and expansion. Vibration and force tests demonstrated that the system is mechanically stable and resilient to external forces. Fly-wheel tests demonstrated that the hybrid bearings greatly in-creased energy storage capacity, reduced recharging time, and re-duced energy loss of the flywheel. With further development, it is likely that the advantages of this novel magnetic bearing system will increase the viability of FES systems and enable the imple-mentation of these systems as the main source of high capacity energy storage in applications like electric cars.

● ZEYU LIU [email protected]


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