Earth and Environmental Sciences
Noise in data can mask underlying trends. These trends can consist of ramps, steps, spikes, sinusoids, etc., and may provide important information about the process being monitored. In order…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Melanoma has an incidence rate of more than 75000 per year with mortality rate of 10000 approximately per year, so early detection highly increases the chance of treatment. A new method prop…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Developing antimalarial drugs has always been an important objective for the pharmaceutical industry. However, in the past few decades, there has been an increase in malaria parasites that h…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, we developed an intelligent motion tracking system incorporating both software and hardware. The software reads in a video stream from a webcam, processes it to recognize mo…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The main goal of the project was presenting options of artificial intelligence (namely genetic algorithms) on simple but complex example. The example being the simulation of robots with goal…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Blindness forms a significant barrier to participate in physical activities including entertainment. Playing video games is one way of having fun. At present the current video game technolog…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many of the current theories regarding the origin of life on Earth rely heavily on the assumption that amino acids were present in the ‘primordial soup’, some 4 billion years ago. However, r…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The project seeks to build a program that uses the FORTH 3D HandTracking Library (An API for a framework to track hands in 3D) in conjunction with a 3D camera to identify handshape, one of t…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Locally, Goleta Beach erosion has become a problem so we chose this area for study and Mesa Lane beach is physically different from Goleta. Methods/Materials Materials:2, 5…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The endophytic tree fungus, Gliocladium Roseum from the Ulmo tree, expels hydrocarbons which could be used as fuel. The purpose of this project is to identify the fungus, Gliocladium Roseum,…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Have you ever wondered how nutritionists know how many calories a certain food contains? In this project, I used a more homemade method for measuring how much chemical energy is available in…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test the randomness of various pseudorandom linear congruential number generators. It is hypothesized that these four LCGs are not random, but that they wil…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Crystallization is a scientific process which has often been examined. Due to the number of parameters involved, questions still remain. This is especially true for dendritic crystallization…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dendrimers and hyperbranched (hb) polymers possess a number of properties, which make them promising candidates for various chromatographic applications. The purpose of our study was to iden…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The polydentate ligands have a great importance in catalysis, design of biomimetics and supramolecular chemistry. Recently poly(oximinoalkyl)amines were proposed as prospective polydentate l…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death world-wide. Coronary CT angiography (CTA) provides a noninvasive method for diagnosing CAD by creating 3D data of the heart. Detec…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mainstream content on the Internet is becoming less text-based, with more emphasis given to videos. As a result, the demands on automatic summarization are rapidly increasing. In the summari…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Local search is a powerful optimization method used to approach numerous computationally intensive, real-world problems. This research focused on designing an algorithm using local search op…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals Providing vital services to a vast variety of species, salt marshes retain the distinction as one of the most productive ecosystems on the terrestrial biosphere. Due to incr…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Transcribing music is a difficult and time consuming task. Currently, no commercial software has been released to transcribe music automatically. The goal of this continuation project was to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
A pencil doppler is the primary tool used in detection of devastating vascular tissue transfer-related ailments through analysis of vascular flow. However, the doppler is ineffective because…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Mammograms are the most popular method of early detection for breast cancer, the 3rd leading cause of death among women in the United States. In the United States, about 37 million mammograp…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to find out whether altitude affects background radiation. The hypothesis stated that an increased altitude would result in increased backgroun…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if soil density affects water evaporation rates in soil. I believed that soils with greater densities will have lower water evaporation rates tha…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The Moon and the Sun have the largest gravitational effects on the Earth of all the celestial bodies. The resulting land tides may have the capability to trigger earthquakes…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Robots and other machines typically need to be pre-programmed with instructions to perform and are not actually provided with what their end goal is. This project aims to change that and giv…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Software environment for probabilistic comparison of protein sequences has been developed. It contains algorithms and tools for finding matrix of alignment probability for aminoacid pairs as…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enzymes play a vital role in the human body. One most notably, in the digestive system, where they digest any starch you had previously consumed. Which lends itself to the problem, what woul…