This project is about the cooling of solar panels with hydrogel in the Sahara desert. It is already known that solar panels lose a significant fraction of their efficiency when they are exposed to high temperatures. This project did research in the effectiveness of cooling solar panels with two types of hydrogel, Potassium Polyacrylate and with Sodium Polyacrylate. This project …
Natural seagrass residues transformed into a phosphorous absorbing ally by becoming a fertilizer
This project aims to investigate the potential use of thermally treated seagrass P. Oceanica to recover phosphate from wastewater and the production of a fertilizer substitute. Posidonia Oceanica residues were thermally treated at 550o C for 15 minutes and were tested as an adsorbent of phosphate for water collected from Finikaria dam. Results shows that thermally treated seagrass could be …
Elevator Safety and Intelligence: Door Protection Device Based on Infrared Structured Light and Smart Docking System
This project focuses on improving two important components of elevators: the door system and the electrical control system. Structured light technology is used to obtain better detection of the performance of small and transparent objects, effectively reducing shear accidents. In the project, based on the human flow recognition of the Internet of Things and image processing, an intelligent docking and …
Investigating the effect of sulphur dioxide on fruticose lichens in Luxembourg
My research focused on searching whether sulphur dioxide from factory and road emissions affect fruticose lichens species in Luxembourg. By doing a belt transect with 100 meter intervals for 1 kilometer as well as measuring abiotic factors and height and diameter, I then did a statistical test to confirmy my hypothesis that pollution has an effect on fruticose lichen species. …
Research on the rotation of common straight lines or curves
Firstly, this project deduces the rotation of the simplest function – linear function, and makes rotation animation by using geometric Sketchpad software. Secondly, this project uses the exchange formula of polar coordinates and plane rectangular coordinates to deduce the general rotation formula of other basic elementary functions and quadratic curves, uses computer softwares to verify the derivation results, and makes …
Reduction of Perchlorate Ion Concentrations in Martian Soil using Azospira oryzae
The colonization of Mars is being considered more and more as the human population continues to grow. For people to start living on Mars it is necessary to grow food as independent of planet Earth as possible, local resources, including soil, must be used. However, perchlorates are widely distributed in Martian soil and high concentrations of them are harmful to …
Developing Algorithms to Determine an Asteroid’s Physical Properties and the Success of Deflection Missions
The rate of discovery of near-earth asteroids outpaces current abilities to analyze them. Knowledge of an asteroid’s physical properties is essential to deflect them. I developed open-source algorithms that combine images from robotic telescopes, open data, and school math to determine asteroids’ size, rotation period, strength, and mutual orbital period in the case of binary asteroids. I took observations of …
Optimization of CAR-T Cell Therapy using RNA-Sequencing Analysis for Biomarker Identification
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Conventional cancer treatments have considerable side effects and may not always succeed in their intended response, taking a toll on patients and their families. CAR-T cell therapy is a novel form of cancer treatment using modified immune cells to target cancerous cells in the body with increased accuracy and precision. …
Cyclic motion path reproduction with mechanical linkages using evolutionary algorithm
The aim of this project was to create a program that could after a given arbitrary enclosed curve produce necessary parameters for mechanical assembly that could reproduce this curve cyclically. For this reason a mechanical assembly was used consisting of two gears and 2 bars connected to each gear and one another. By using the genetic algorithm and adjusting the …
A Graph Isomorphism Kernel Based on k-Vertex Connectivity and its Application in Graph Neural Networks
The most popular Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on the message-passing paradigm, where the idea is to iteratively propagate the representation information of every node to its direct neighborhood. However, in their most natural version, their expressive power is limited due to their connection to the Weisfeiler-Lehman test, a problem closely tied to the one of graph isomorphism. In this …