NJRSF Project List
March 12, 1999
Hypertext Index:
- BOTANY
- BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
- CHEMISTRY
- COMPUTER SCIENCE
- ENGINEERING
- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
- MATHEMATICS
- MICROBIOLOGY
- MEDICINE and HEALTH
- PHYSICS AND EARTH SCIENCE
- ZOOLOGY
BO.01: Steven Arthur Keat
- The Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on the Growth of Kidney Bean Plants
- The point of this project is to investigate the effects of different levels of electromagnetic fields on the growth of kidney bean plants.
BO.02: Neil Christopher
- Photosynthesis. Can Science Improve on Nature?
- The objective of this research experiment is to test
various factors to determine if photosynthetic
reactions can be enhanced by science.
BO.03: Damini Shah
- The Effectiveness of a Potash-Supplementation in Soybean Plants Grown in Sandy Soil
- The growth of soybean plants will significantly increase as a result of a potash-based solution, which will contain potassium and phosphorous deficiencies.
BO.04: Zhen Tao
- A Spectroscopic Study of the Changing Color of Trees
- Leaves were collected and dissolved in methanol
and scanned from 4-7am. Data gathered and plotted.
BO.05: Sneha Kamdar
- Nitrogen Production via Earthworms in Soil with Various pH levels.
- The point of this project is to determine whether different pH levels in soil will affect the production of nitrogen via earthworms.
BO.06: Jennifer K. Lee
- Effect of Growth Treatments on Capsaicin Levels of
\\fIfructus Capsici\\fP
- I will study how two growth treatments (epsom salt and micronutrient solutions)
affect levels orf capsaicin in hot pepper plants.
Levels will be analyzed by HPLC.
BO.07: Michael Odenthal
- How Duckweed Affects a Pond and Pond Life
- This project shows how duckweed covers a pond throughout its growing season, how it affects the ducks in the pond, and how it affects areas such as pH and oxidation.
BS.01: Rachna Patel
- The Mozart Effect with a Twist
- Using fluent English speakers, I predict
that Mozart's Cosifan Tuti in English
will have a greater influence in decreasing
the accuracy of a visual-spatial task than
Mozart's Cosifan Tuti in Italian.
BS.02: Shilpa Patel
- Effects of Electrical Shock on the Memories of Blaberus gigantus
- The Blaberus gigantus that are in the experimental group will undergo an electrical shock similar to the shock felt by humans when using a cellular phone. I will test to see if the shock affects their memories.
BS.03: Scott Koplik
- Student Scholars - An Oxymoron?
- To determine what effect, if any, athletic
participation will have on scholastic
achievement.
BS.04: Robert John Craig
- The Behavioral Pattern of a Nephilia Clavipes Subjected to an Androgen Drug(Acetabolan).
- One of the two spiders will be subjected to minute amounts of an androgen drug, in this case acetabolan. Their behaviors will be compared by recording some of the structural elements of its web. All other variable will be held constant.
BS.05: Michael Sibilia
- Behavioral Effects of Vision Therapy
- The purpose of this study was to determine if deficiencies in vision can negatively affect behavior.
BS.06: Gregory J. Strzepek
- Do birds have memory like humans?
- I will see if birds could remember where I placed the worms and if they could distinguish between worms and seeds.
CH.01: Ethan B. Abraham
- An HPLC Investigation of the Stability
of Melatonin
- Using two different High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC) detection techniques
(UV and electrochemical) the stability of
melatonin in aqueous solution will be
analyzed.
CH.02: James Louis Ganz
- Affects of temperature and carbon length
on a modified Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
- To determine how temperature and carbon chain
affects the oscillations of a Manganese-
catalyzed Bromate-Malonic Acid Reaction.
CH.03: Noelle Grohmann
- Quantification of Hypericin in Preparations
of St. John's Wort
- This study analyzed commercially available
samples of St. John's Wort for hypericin
content by fluorescence spectroscopy,
UV-visible spectroscopy, and HPLC.
CH.04: Deepak Raghavan and Steven Rein
- Chemical Consumer Report
- To test the claims of ads and the effects
of certain products.
CH.05: Kristina Kleutghen
- Stain Removal as Consumer Chemistry
- A number of common household agents such as
bleach, acetic acid and hydrogen peroxide
will be used to determine the most effective
remover and procedure for several common,
stubborn household stains.
CH.06: Daniel Chen and Domenica Ricciardi
- The Iodination of Acetone
- We did a kinetic study of the reaction of
the iodination of acetone.
CS.01: Sameer Padala
- Internet Serial Port Control
- This allows a person to control electrical appliances over the Internet.
CS.02: Erin Alexis Dollin
- Beginning Chemistry Tutor
- This project will consist of a working computer program which will assist students learning chemistry.
CS.03: Daniel N. Knapp
- An Automatic Code-Generation System for the PIC 16C84
- A program that reads a high-level description of PIC behavior, and produces a PIC program to generate that behavior.
CS.04: Emily Mok
- Internet Traffic Congestion Solution
- Application of statistical analysis,
stochastic processes and game theory
techniques to solve internet congestion.
CS.05: Christoph Naegelin
- Mp3Box Audio Studio
- The design of a Graphical User Interface
that incorporates Mpeg1 Layer 3 Audio
playing, encoding, and decoding.
CS.07: Sam Gutmann and Robert Gaddi
- PalmAID
- The Ambulance Information Device's (PalmAID)
purpose is automate and ambulance call sheet
in digital format using the PalmPilot.
CS.09: Lars Holzman
- Internet Serial Port Control: An Application
- This project integrates CGI and Basic Stamp programs that allow you to control switches and send text over the internet.
CS.10: Edward DiGeronimo, Jr.
- PIC Basic
- A programming language for use with PIC
microprocessors.
EN.01: Josh Adam Hamberger and Artem Gleyzer
- The Robotic Assistant
- The Robotic Assistant is an easily
programmable robotic arm that is able to
manipulate small objects and enable a
physically disabled individual to perform
simple desktop and office tasks.
EN.02: Luke Neer
- Bike Frame Design
- Designed a bike frame and tested it using
various physical principles and material
strengths
EN.03: Benjamin Sze Lui
- The Generating of Electricity via Exercising
- Human subjects will be pedaling on an
immobile bike apparatus that is hooked up
to a generator which, in turn, is hooked up
to a rechargable battery. The amount of
energy stored in the battery will be measured
and the effectiveness of this method of
generating electricity in a health spa
will be measured also.
EN.04: Jennifer SooMin Yoon
- Cool Computers
- A computer cooling system that focuses on lowering the ambient temperature inside the computer, thereby preventing over-heating.
EN.05: Michael Foley
- Titanium Versus Steel in Driver Heads
- A research of titanium and steel head drivers to find out which driver head produces farther hits by testing them on the course.
EN.06: William Jay Arora
- The Roll-Up Keyboard
- An extremely thin and flexible keyboard has been designed which can be rolled up and carried around in one's pocket.
EN.08: Alissa Heather Friedman and Teresa Nicole Allegretta
- Wetness Detecting Diaper
- The Wetness Detecting Diaper (WDD) is a battery-operated device that detects wetness in the diaper using continuity.
EN.09: Andrew Farrell Magenheim
- Batteries on the Go
- A rechargeable battery with a built in
charger.
EN.10: Abhiram Vijay
- The Helping Hand
- Device that can feed those who do not
have the ability to move around their
arms freely.
EN.11: Vikas Shrivastava, Scott Shapiro, and Neal Joseph
- The Automated Sentinel
- This is an invention which gives you the
ability to activate and deactivate, as well
as monitor electronic appliances via phone line.
EN.12: Levente Barczy
- The CommunicAide
- The CommunicAide is a portable, low-power
speech synthesizer which speaks words entered
through a small, five-button chording
keyboard.
EV.01: Paras Nagji Vira
- The Amelioration of Acid Mine Drainage by an Electrochemical Method - A Three-Year Study
- Acid mine drainage can be effectively ameliorated using an electrochemical method by increasing pH to an acceptable level for aquatic organisms and removing large amounts of metal contaminants.
EV.02: Jennifer DuBois
- Variations in Compost Ingredients to Aid Growth of Food Crops
- Tested different blends of organic matter to determine best blend for maximum growth of Wax Romana beans.
EV.04: Roopal Patel
- Ability of blue-green algae to remediate
contaminated water
- Algae will be introduced into a water system
contaminated by metals to see if conditions
ameliorate
EV.05: Nina Pan
- Effect of Chlorine on Dissolved Oxygen
Content
- Chlorine was added to stream water at
different concentrations to see if it
had any effect on the dissolved oxygen
content.
EV.06: Trinh Pham
- The effects of beneficial nematodes on garden insects.
- Beneficial nematodes(steinernema carpocapsae) will be compared against two brands of chemical pesticides to see which is more effective in treating garden insects, specifically aphids.
EV.07: Walter Anthony Lucas
- In energy, You get what you give
- By recording energy consumption of an average person for a sustained period of time, I will calculate an individual's contribution to global warming.
EV.08: Mark Motyka and David Scozzaro
- Rock and Roll Worms: Worm and Heavy Metals
- This research was set up to determine the
effects of heavy meatals on worms and verify
the production of MT protein as a result of
heavy metal exposure.
EV.10: Sean Marikakis
- Acid Rain Neutralization for Healthier Plants
- Spinach plants watered with low acidity levels
and had calcium added.
MA.01: Christopher Caputo
- Knight's Tours on a Cylinder
- By examining all possible cylindric boards, I'm
developing a method to determine when the
Hamiltonian circuit for the Knight's move
is possible.
MA.02: Vimal Bhalodia
- Optimizing Time Critical Multistage Decision Processes - Beyond Bellman and Karmarkar?
- In this project, I researched optimization algorithms and techniques for various types of problems, proposed a new approach to the solution of time critical multistage decision making problems, explored its mathematical basis, studied its characteristic behavior, and evaluated its viability.
MA.03: Andrew Jacobs
- Generation of Fractals with MRCMs
- To see if Dragon Curves can be generated
using Multiple-Reduction Copy Machines.
MB.01: Michael E. Thomas
- The Effects of Spices On Food-Spoilage Bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens)
- Spices will be used to determine whether or not spices do indeed prevent bacterial growth.
MB.02: Danielle Sciorra
- Use of FISH to Localize Mouse transgenes implicated in Cardiac Development
- Previous researchers created a strain of transgenic mice by inserting exogeneous DNA, which consisited of the Lac Z reporter geneand the transcription factor Ap-2, into mouse embryos. This resulted in an altered phenotype involving cardiac development in the mice. This experiment attempts to determine the nature of, as well as the location of the transgenic mutation in the mouse genome. Through the process of FISH (Fluorescent In Situ Hybirdization), followed by a statistical analysis, the site of the Ap-2 transgene's integration was successfully localized to 13C3.4-D1.5, a non-endogeneous site. The determination that the integration was not endogenous, sustains the hypothized theory that the transgene inserted randomly, and that the site of the transgene's integration is the location of a gene responsible for the phenotypic expression of normal cardiac development. This successful mapping, provides the information needed to clone, and ultimately identify the sequence of genes involved. Through this identification, the mouse sequence can be compared and matched within the human genome, thus finding a novel gene responsible for normal cardiac development in humans.
MB.03: Milind S Shah
- Effect of Temperature and Storage on bacterial counts in drinks
- see if bacteria exists in the drinks.
MB.04: Seung-Joo Lee
- Effects of Indolmycin and Azatyrosine among
the species in \\fIStreptomyces\\fP
- The efficacy of indolmycin and azatyrosine,
two potential antibiotics for the market that
are known to inhibit baterial protein
synthesis, were tested among species from
genus _Streptomyces_; indolmycin showed
effectiveness in inhibiting five strains,
while azatyrosine was not effective against
any of the strains.
MB.06: Michael Trivino
- The Effect of Folic Acid on Baker's Yeast
- Two sets of petri dishes, one with a solid
agar media, and the other with a liquid
media, were treated with a constant amount
of yeast solution and varying amounts of
folic acid solution to examine growth.
MH.01: Lindsey George and Catherine Person
- Comparison of Brands of the Non-Steroidal
Analgesic Acetaminophen
- 4 different forms of the same 2 brands of
acetaminophen are being tested to find the
rate at which they will be dissolved in
the stomach.
MH.02: Kerry Lawrence Wong
- Effect of Herbal and Holistic Medicine on Planarian Regeneration
- Apply Aloe Vera, Garlic, and Asorbic Acid Solutions, and pray for the fourth group to see how regeneration is affected.
MH.03: Audrey Esteban and Cindy Baseluos
- Effectiveness of Toothpaste
- This project will test the abrasiveness, pH,
fluoride ion content and foaming ability of
several brands of toothpaste to determine
which brand is most effective.
MH.05: David Miao
- Enhanced Survival of Cryogenically-Preserved
Planaria Via Addition of Cryoprotectants
- To determine the efficacy of glycerol and
glucose in preventing the deaths of planaria
that have been exposed to low temperatures.
PE.01: Robert Stutz
- The Success Rate of Baseball Pitches
- Different baseball pitches were observed and
studied to see which one had the best
sucess rate.
PE.02: Jane Yoon
- Flexible Lifestyles Using Spring Hinges
(F.L.U.S.H.)
- F.L.U.S.H. is a device that lowers raised toilet seats using simple machines in a cost-effective and convenient manner.
PE.03: Owen Christensen
- Acid Rain: Variations in Acid Precipitation
- From samples taken and possible factors examined, air temperature was a factor to the occurence of rainfall while wind direction was a factor to the rainfall's acidity. Second, the pH levels of 3 bodies of water tested fluctuated accordingly 4 out of 6 times sampled.
PE.04: Garrett J. Young
- Electrostatic Plasma Confinement -
Altering a Plasmas Response to
Magnetic Fields
- If introducing a chemical additive affects
the control plasma's level of response to
an electric or magnetic field then, what
additive has the highest degree of positive
influence on plasma's response?
PE.05: Rachel Latosky
- A Comparison of Water Filtration Systems: Which is Best?
- This project compared different types of water filtration systems (brands) and found out which was the most popular and efficient.
PE.07: Brian Fries
- Stream Conditions and Their Effect on Aquatic Life, Neschanic River
- To see and observe water conditions and what their effect is on the aquatic life in the Neshanic River.
PE.08: Robert Flanagan
- Factors Affecting Erosion Rate Along the Delaware Raritan Canal
- My project involved research an erosion and firsthand experience collecting the soil from erosion along the Delaware Raritan Canal and analyzing the factors of erosion rate.
ZO.01: Scott Gentile II
- A Better Japanese Beetle Trap
- The purpose of this research was to design and test a trap using wet tobacco made to catch only the beetles in the immediate area of the trap.
ZO.02: Daniel Howard Jackson and Michelle Liao
- The Synthetic Reproduction of Electric Organ Discharges
- Use a computer to reproduce the EOD signal of weakly electric fish to communicate with them
ZO.03: Michael Haney
- The Preferences of Mosquitoes to Various Colors of Illumination
- This project used different colors of light to test what colors to which mosquitoes are attracted.
ZO.04: Christine Gertsen
- The Territorial Range of the Common Crayfish
- This project contains data concerning the
territorial range of crayfish that were found
in Peter's Brook in Somerville
ZO.05: Matthew Gomez
- Flash Color Preferences of Female Photinus Fireflies in Hillsborough
- Twenty female Photinus fireflies were tested to find out what color flash they prefered most out of green, red, yellow , blue, and white.
ZO.06: Elizabeth Nguyen
- How do Squirrels Accomplish the Various Tasks of Acquiring Food?
- This project tests squirrels learning with observation of different means of accomplishing difficult tasks involved in food getting
ZO.07: James Ryan Macdonell
- The Learning Capabilities of Corvus Brachyrhynchos Exhibited Through Tool Use
- Crows were tested for food preferences and feeding location preference. Crows were also put to learning tests by using visual signals and tools.