Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Today, the world is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables, necessitating energy storage due to the intermittent nature of these new sources. To address this issue, we turned to natur…
Physics and Astronomy
We decided to do this research because we wanted to see how we could use the measured period and an apparent magnitude of variable Cepheid stars to measure their distance from Earth and thus…
Chemistry
Every year air pollution causes many chronic diseases. Particulate matter (PM) is a mixture of various chemical compounds and there is strong evidence of its adverse health effects, however,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this research paper, the effect of age, gender, comorbidities and dexamethasone on the time until IgM and IgG antibodies appear in the bloodstreams of hospitalized patients, infected with…
Microbiology
Bacterial resistance against antibiotics is increasingly becoming a serious health problem. Bacterial infections are becoming harder to treat, which leads to increase in mortality and higher…
Systems Software
Despite the advancements in cryptography, breaking ciphers by hand remains a tedious and demanding work. The goal of this research was to write a computer program which would facilitate brea…
Microbiology
Today, one of the major public health problems in the world, Europe and Slovenia represent hospital-acquired infections. We are struggling against them with increased hand-hygiene and with t…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The rocket equation dictates that the maximum payload a standard rocket can carry is only a few percent due to the extreme need for fuel. Even with modern technologies the energy and cost ef…
Embedded Systems
The aim of our research was to find out if the ATMega328p processor contains undocumented instructions, and if it does, how they effect and change the registers and contents of RAM. In order…
Environmental Engineering
Due to the general opinion that carrier plastic bags represent ecological burden to the environment, the number of measures aimed to reduce their consumption has increased recently. Conseque…
Chemistry
The topic of this investigation were the properties of potato starch-based plastics as an indicator system for ammonia in processed meat. The aim was to investigate whether bioplastics made…
Soil microorganisms play an important role in soil fertility. Consequently, by acting on non-target organisms, pesticides can have a negative impact on soil quality. The aim of our research…
Fourth Award
The high frequency resonant transformer, more commonly known as the Tesla coil, is a device that combines different physical phenomena in the field of electromagnetism. The existing literatu…