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Chemistry |
BELARUS:
Physics |
BELGIUM:
Physics |
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Lab
on a chip - an advance in pharmaceutical research
and production
This project could enable some pharmaceuticals to
be researched and produced more simply, and without
using dangerous compounds as catalysts. Using miniaturisation
and a method called anodic polarisation, organomagnesium
and organolithium compounds can be synthesised more
easily and in greater quantities. This has made
it possible for the first time to deposit magnesium
by electrolysis using inorganic salts.
Participants: Stephen Schultz
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Studying
tsunamis in shallow water
A tsunami wave is an example of a soliton - a nonlinear
solitary wave with a steady structure. In the past
there has been no experimental research on the shape
of the solitary wave front, but this project proposes
a new procedure that will allow such research in
a variety of hydrodynamic experiments.
Participants: Ann Mukhortava and
Alena Abramava |
A
home-made Tesla coil
The Tesla coil, invented by Nikola Tesla in 1890,
generates an impressive electrical discharge. Science
museums around the world exhibit them, but this
team decided to build one themselves. With some
help from textbooks and the Internet and a great
deal of trial and error, they found their own solution
for each element, then tested the theory against
their own observations.
Participants: David Eskenazi, Nicolas
Innocenti and Antoine Paulus |
CZECH REPUBLIC: Environment |
DENMARK: Biology |
HUNGARY: Computing |
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Using
small forest ponds to maintain biodiversity
When cultivation forces out certain varieties of
plantlife, they can sometimes find a refuge beside
ponds in small forests. This project combined historical
and botanical approaches, reconstructing the development
of vegetation and looking at eutrophication. As
a result, Zdenek identified some steps for maintaining
biodiversity, and conservation groups have already
shown an interest.
Participants: Zdenek Janovsky |
Genetically
modified organisms (GMO)
The purpose of this project is to give people a
clear understanding of the implications of GMO technology.
Helle gives a practical and theoretical explanation
of the subject, describing how GMO can be created
and backing it up with accounts of experiments with
GM crops to illustrate how they could be used to
solve practical problems in the production of food
and medicine.
Participants: Helle Roager Jensen
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Tracing
burglars and monitoring your home - by remote control
There are a lot of machines in homes and other buildings
that can break down. This project developed three
systems for controlling these machines, relaying
warnings to their owners and even tracing burglars.
The Computational Supervisory System monitors sensors
in a house, and sends an SMS when an error occurs.
There are also Mobile and Telephone Supervisory
Systems.
Participants: Akos Kapui |
ICELAND: Social Science
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IRELAND: Computing |
ISRAEL: Medicine |
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Cuddle-me
clothes - a massage bodysuit for children
Massaging children has been shown to strengthen
the bond between parent and child, help with physical
problems such as stomach aches, and make the child
calmer. Parents are more likely to massage their
children if they are reminded to do it, and shown
how. This team designed a bodysuit for infants to
do just that.
Participants: Una Guolaug Sveinsdottir,
Lily Erla Adamsdottir and Valdis Osp Jonsdottir |
Croma:
a new web programming language
Writing sophisticated programmes that run on the
web is notoriously difficult and complex. Croma
is a new programming language, based on Lisp, designed
to make web programming easier. It uses an integrated
web-server, and its programmes are much shorter
than ones written in other languages, making them
cheaper to develop.
Participants: Patrick Collison
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Can fish
oils help control Parkinson's disease?
Parkinson's disease is a disorder of movement, caused
by a loss of neurons containing a neurotransmitter
called dopamine. This study investigates the influence
of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid most often found in
fish oil. The results suggest that a diet with enough
DHA can help to prevent damage to the dopamine-producing
system.
Participants: Ronit Shapira |
LATVIA: Engineering |
LITHUANIA: Biology
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SPAIN: Biology |
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Building and
using a small-scale aerodynamic wind tunnel
The odd wings and plates that festoon Formula 1
cars all have an aerodynamic function, but it is
almost impossible to see what it is - never mind
design them - without a wind tunnel. Kristaps has
developed and built a small wind tunnel that allows
flow patterns and aerodynamic forces to be accurately
analysed.
Participants: Kristaps Dambis
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How
cranberries adapt
The aim of the project was to investigate the physiological
and morphological changes that happened as American
cranberries adapted to the acidity of different
substrates - both in a test tube and outside. The
investigation was carried out with three cultivated
varieties of cranberry: Bergman', Black Weil' and
Bain 10'. The first two are more adaptive to acidity
than the last.
Participants: Rugile Stanyte |
Sonchus
leptacaulis: a new species in Gran Canaria
The purpose of this research was to find out whether
some plants discovered in 1998 belonged to a new
category that had not yet been described. It also
investigated whether similar specimens were to be
found in other places around the Canary Islands.
Participants: Javier Lopez Martinez
Fortun, Carlos Machado Carvajal and Eliecer Perez
Robaina |
