Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water evaporation by direct heating is a method to generate water from salt water. on the other hand, it was observe that bubbling air through a body of water would cause water evaporation w…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This design investigation in its present form was to engineer a quantum gomoku game in C# that could successfully simulate the concepts of quantum mechanics with an Artificial Intelligence p…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to identify two species of Ordovician Gastropods and then determine if either of these species survived the End-Ordovician Extinction and due…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to expedite the process of apprehending known criminals and terrorists . There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras deployed in the United States…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Although several models have been proposed to account for the varying stabilities of alkanes, the ability of these models to fit experimental data remains controversial. The work presented h…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Flax is an agricultural commodity produced in the Northwestern United States, including Montana and Minnesota. Because of high omega 3 fatty acid concentrations, flax seed oil is valuable in…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to determine the relationship between altitude and the cosmic ray count. The secondary objectives were to make measurements of temperature, pressur…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to find out why animals make subnivean (meaning in the snow) homes in the freezing cold snow during winter. Methods/Materials We conducted our experiment in Januar…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The protein chemokine ligand-5 (CCL5) is naturally produced in the human body and plays a major role in induced chemotaxis (movement of responsive cells to certain environments) of white blo…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enantioselective drug synthesis is a critical research problem as evidenced by the billions of funding the field gets. In this research, a novel method of enantioselectively synthesizing dru…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The 1,2,3-triazole is a stable and biologically active organic compound that can be used in a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical chemistry. The purpose of this study was to sy…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The objective of this project was to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where the face is angled away from the camera or partially obscured. Current state-of-the-art face r…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine how different factors affect the accuracy of artificial neural network, specifically for cancer detection. Every factor tested did lead to a ch…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project studied how temperature affects the intensity of fluorescence in fluorescent mineral samples. I studied four different rock samples (Argonite, Flourite, Scapolite…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To learn how much soil can be carried away by water from a hillside Methods/Materials 1 large sheet of wood; 2 long pieces of wood; miter box; Saw; Power Drill; Hot Glue Gun…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project was to create a program that would analyze digital images of pollen cells and quickly identify them. A digital library of images was created of the pollen grains then each image…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Does the circumference or the mass of an impactor cause a larger impact crater as measured by the crater diameter, depth, and/or longest ejecta ray? Methods/Materials 6 impa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. To help treat more…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Storm surges, created by high winds of storms, and tsunamis, generated by large disturbances in water, result in damage and flooding to coastlines if left unchecked. Current…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pest infestation is a major problem for greenhouse growers worldwide. In the United States it is estimated that insect pests damage between 4% and 21% of all crops. In greenhouse settings, y…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine what additives could potentially make saturated soil stronger. Methods/Materials We filled PVC pipes with different mixtures of p…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Electrolytes – specifically sodium, chloride, magnesium, potassium, and other minerals – are vital to the body’s functions. They speed the nervous system’s rate of function, re-hydrate the b…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of the experiment is to test whether micrometeorites fall in greater quantities in locations where earth#s magnetic forces increase. Methods/Materia…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“In the modern world it is necessary to establish a self-sustainable and ecological approach to allow the technological and productive development of developing countries, to achieve it, it´…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
"Chinese Silver Staining Diagnosis" is a traditional Chinese Medicine procedure. Despite its popularity and long history in southern China, its mechanism remains unclear. In this research, a…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that multiple frequency Bluetooth enhanced mobile devices with string-shape based structural-spectra pattern recognition software can provide a cos…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
A primary problem of gathering hydrogen from electrolysis of water today is the high overpotential associated with the O2 evolution reaction. Research into anodic catalyst formation and comp…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
A primary goal of cryptographic research is to develop more secure cryptosystems to ensure secrecy in the information-centric era we live in. Only the one-time pad cryptosystem achieves the…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that over 285 million people are considered to be visually impaired. Current techniques that attempt to help these people navigate require ei…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The aim of presented work: 1. Elaboration of new approach for glucose-6-phosphate preparation 2. Phosphate-ions delivery into cell consisting of glucose The main target of this work is to de…