Browse 51 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2006, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The human ear is known to be a stable structure from childhood to the age over 75. My project is to determine if humans can be distinguished by their ears imaged in 2D and 3…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research project is to determine the most accurate techniques in predicting short-term stock market fluctuations by identifying recurring patterns in t…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project aims to solve the problem in computational seismology of automatically picking the arrival of an earthquake from data points that represent a seismogram. The al…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose is to determine whether the manual riffle method of shuffling a deck of cards produces a more random deck than an automatic card shuffling machine. I hypothesize…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to design a computer program that could accurately simulate Optic Flow and its effects on a predator/prey relationship. Methods/Materials A…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Many diseases have been linked to apoptosis, but the advance of new treatments is halted due to the limited knowledge of it. An identification of proteins involved in the pr…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To determine which Anti-Virus software on the market is the most effective,cost efficient, and has the most features. Methods/Materials 2 home built computers-AMD Athlon 280…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My question is, "Can a Computer Accurately Simulate Rolling a Dice?" Methods/Materials 1. Notebook, pencil or pen (to record results) 3. 1 six-sided die 4. Flat area such as…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective with this project is to define the once unknown operators and create a basic #road map# for the topic. My goal is to lead the way into a new field of mathematic…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to create a digital model for evolution in the Java programming language. The simulation attempts to emulate the natural allowance for infinit…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The effect of spacing between motion sensors on the number of detection zones will be determined by programming a computer simulation. Sensor spacing can be expressed as a f…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if cycling various antibiotics can reduce antimicrobial resistance using a model I created on Excel. Methods/Materials Computer wit…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine a new way of extracting and tracking a moving object from an inferior movie sequence generated by an inexpensive commercial web-…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out which file format (TIFF, GIF, JPEG)had the best image quality. Methods/Materials First, I took four different photographs with the…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether the formula used by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), college football ranking system, placed the most qualified teams in the National Cha…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Different divisibility rules for some specific numbers have been established. But is there a general divisibility rule, or pattern, that applies to any number? I hypothesize…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to observe the occurrences of Fibonacci numbers, sequences, the Fibonacci ratio, and the Fibonacci spiral in nature. Methods/Materials The expe…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This experiment will attempt to determine what kind of street configuration will best remedy traffic problems in dense cities by comparing one-way and two-way street systems…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To create a program demonstrating menus and 3D graphics that will allow the user to control the flight of an airplane within the 3D environment. Methods/Materials Windows Me…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this student's project is to explore four things new to the researcher: (1) computer programming, (2) a graphing calculator, (3) algebra, and (4) fractals fou…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to derive the value of PI using the Monte Carlo Effect with particles of different densities, and to determine whether or not the density of th…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if it is reasonable in Blackjack to act differently with a 2-card 16 than with a 3-card 16 against a dealers 10. I think it is reasonable to sa…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out why when a multiplication table is folded diagonally so that the fold runs from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, the numbers that…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The puropse of this experiment is to determine if the shape of a die affects the fairness of the roll. Methods/Materials 1.I will roll each polyhedral dice 25 times per side…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if the Monty Hall Theory, created by Marilyn vos Savont,is mathematically correct. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtaine…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this year's investigation was to see if there was a way to verify mathematically the patterns I noticed last year when I added a sine function to a circular g…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Some recent studies have focused on the winding number of a random walk. Given a random walk s starting at (1,1) on the unit lattice, the winding number w of s is the number…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of these experiments was to determine if there is a correlation between the ratio of the two axes of an ellipse and the number of times the ellipse can be packed in…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The advanced encryption standard, AES, is the standard for encryption in the United States. However, AES carries with it some flaws that may jeopardize its security. This pr…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goals and objectives of this project are to compare three distinct formulas to find the most accurate and quickest formula that calculates Pi, find the importance of Pi,…