Biochemistry
PURPOSE: Using the dried milk spot (DMS) method, it is possible to reveal the nutritional balance and imbalance of human breast milk and react to the needs of the new-born. We wanted to find…
Systems Software
The main goal of my work was to develop a procedurally generated game, including its 3D models, textures, sounds, music and programming. One of my minor goals was to get deeper into the issu…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) influence growth, migration and survival of cells as well as cell division in mammary gland development. FGF signaling deregulation can thus cause formation…
Engineering Mechanics
Quality of parts made by 3D printers differs significantly. Low precision, repeatability and varying success rate prevents wider usage of 3D printers. This project explores different approac…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Light is an essential factor for plants – it provides plants with energy and reliable information about current conditions of their habitat. Under fluctuating light environments, plants dyna…
Mathematics
Optimization plays an essential role not only in mathematics, but in many related fields such as biology, robotics or transport. This particular research focuses on finding an optimal planar…
Plant Sciences
Drought is a significant part of plants' life, against which they have developed diverse defense mechanisms to survive and thrive in the ever-changing environmental conditions. One of such m…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cerebral brain ischemia is the third most common cause of death in developed countries. The neuronal death is the main cause of disruption of brain functions. Nowadays, it is impossible to t…
Physics and Astronomy
Asteroids are remnants of first planets – planetesimals. When two asteroids collide, an asteroid family is formed. I studied the mechanics of asteroid families and I applied newest methods f…
Systems Software
This work presents a deep learning based, fully automatic system for image colorization. A fully convolutional neural network was created, providing the ability to colorize images of any res…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative eye disease affecting more than 64.3 million people worldwide. The retinal degeneration is, as believed, originally caused by elevated intraocular pressure. N…
Chemistry
Third Award
Nowadays, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) is treated by inhibitors of various types, especially substances able to block key stages of HIV life cycle. Within the last years,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic wounds represent important problem for individual patients as well as for the human society. One of the possible choices to improve this problem could be Fibroblast growth factor 2.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Celtic” tribes of the La Tène culture inhabited a considerable part of Europe in the Late Iron Age (ca 500–40 BC), which indicates the necessity of the existence of certain trade mechanisms…
Systems Software
CSE-Lab is a software written in C# aimed for students, teachers and others interested in math/physics. CSE-Lab offers user friendly graphical user interface, interface for connection to mea…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes protecting ends of eukaryotic chromosome from damage. Plant telomeres consist of the typical tandemly repeated motif TTTAGGG(n), but rare changes of tel…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Replication stress is one of the major sources of genomic instability in tumor cells. DNA replication is threatened by various obstacles which impede its progression and can lead to nascent…
Systems Software
This project creates OCR software for recognition of cursive handwriting from page photos. The initial goal was to create software for converting handwritten notes into digital format. Such…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) have a huge potential use in regenerative medicine. However, the mutant frequency of hiPSC reaches the level of differentiated cells rather than…
Systems Software
Purpose: Game development without a specialized set of tools requires the developer to write interface between the game logic and the hardware layer. Using various technologies and multiple…
Mathematics
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader several unusual areas of mathematics that not many people are aware of. The principles of Latin squares, projective and affine planes can…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Fusarium oxysporum is a plant pathogenic fungus posing threat to many crops worldwide. Persistence in soil, inefficient chemical control and lack of treatment make this fungus a major cause…
Biochemistry
Fourth Award
The yeast Candida parapsilosis is a so-called opportunistic pathogen. It is harmless for healthy people, however, it is a serious threat to immunocompromised individuals, e.g organ transplan…
Embedded Systems
During radioactive decay of an atom, various particles are emitted. The kind and energy of the particles depends on the decaying element and its isotope. Spectrometer is a device capable of…
Biochemistry
Genome instability is a major driving force of tumorigenesis. To counteract destructive effects of DNA damage, cells evolved a complex system of DNA repair. RAD51 protein takes the center st…
Physics and Astronomy
A diffusion cloud chamber is a detector of ionizing radiation, which offers an opportunity to observe subatomic particles directly and to make various experiments related to particle physics…
The average cost to develop a new anticancer drug ranges around 800 million USD, which consequently increases the price of healthcare for patients. A significant part of these expenses could…
Polymer films are crucial for a variety of industrial branches such as electronics, optics, biotechnology or medicine. Hyaluronan (HA) is a polysaccharide produced in the human body, making…
The aim of my work was to find out what effect will cytokinins (phytohormones that promote cell division or cytokinesis) have for senescence of plants. Senescence (biological plant aging) is…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…