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ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This research project was conducted to apply calculus principles to the volumes of different icicles. Icicles have very complex structures with bulges and cavities along their walls. The hyp…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to create a new method of automated theorem proving for first-order logic. The method is a template for computer programs that attempt to prove theorems. The p…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Purpose of the research: My thesis analyzes the properties of real solutions to cubic equations with integral coefficients. Using knowledge from basic number theories, calculus, and the meth…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project developed a new statistical measure of effect size: rate-adjusted standardized mean difference (RASMD). The new measure represents an adjustment to Cohen's measure of standardiz…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science First Award
The widespread use of CNTs in aquatic devices has led to an alarming amount of CNTs entering aquatic ecosystems. Due to their relatively new introduction, researchers have only been working…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Overzealous MDM2-mediated ubiquitination of p53 characterizes and sustains over 50% of all human cancers. Targeted cancer therapy hinges on a thorough understanding of the ubiquitination pro…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), affects more than 1.7 million Americans. This infection results in progressive failu…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes’ theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that the conditional p…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The researcher intends to apply the combination of different types of mathematical concepts such as Linear Algebra, Statistics and Game Theory in economic situations of real life. Game theor…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This research focuses on refining the formula of James Stirling that gives an approximation of the actual value of a factorial (Striling, 1730). A wide interval was selected for the value of…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
In this work, we observe that the right triangle with integral side lengths possess an interesting feature that the slope of the bisector of each respective interior angle is a rational numb…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Our project aims to show the effectiveness of mass data keyword frequency over social-networking sites, such as Twitter, at accurately displaying real world occurrences and enumerating a pop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Purpose: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are new battery-powered devices that resemble tobacco cigarettes and convert nicotine solutions into inhalable vapors. Thirdhand exposure occurs…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this project, we built a mathematical model to automatically generate efficient transportation networks given a simulated urban environment with variable population distribution and other…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Biogeochemistry is the study of the relationship between the chemical processes of earth, and life. Understanding these chemical processes also provide further information related to environ…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Artemia Franciscana (brine shrimp) are an integral part of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem and are impacted by variations in salinity and chemicals in their environment. Endocrine disruption h…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project was to create a credible stochastic model of the micro economic scenario of two companies in competition. This model was then used to predict the companies’ futur…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of my project was to evaluate if Brazilian pepper fibers could serve as adsorbent for phosphate removal, if fibers could be treated chemically to enhance adsorption, and test if…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems which consist of changing patterns of symbols on a grid. The changes are specified in such a way that the symbol in a given position is deter…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Fish are often raised on their own. We got the idea to raise them with rice crops. We dig the farm 50cm then raise perch fish there so that less land is wasted less water is polluted and the…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
The concept of a group is one of the main algebraic concepts. The most interesting and useful class of groups is the class of finite groups. Finite groups are actively used not only in mathe…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this paper we will introduce a new study of a new family of polynomials and geometric shapes that are related. An extension of completing the square (second order) to nth order polynomial…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Continued fractions have a long history behind them - their origin may be placed to the age of Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divisor or even earlier. However, they experience a…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
I studied the relationship between abstract algebra and young tableaux along with representation theory. I found sequences and patterns in tables which represented multiplied permutations an…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Most of the trigonometric identities and inequalities in triangles have complicated proofs, which are usually done by tedious trigonometric transformations. In this project, we focused on pr…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
HER2-positive breast cancer is characterized by an overexpression of HER2, a growth receptor protein, on the surface of the cancer cell, which increases the rate of cell growth and replicati…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Breast cancer is the second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer deaths in American women and causes around 400,000 deaths per year worldwide. The primary screening tool for breast cance…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project focuses on identifying and characterizing DNA methylation patterns and motif reoccurrences in the Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 3 gene in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia was in the p…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The idea for this project was thought during an international conference 20-24 May 2013 in Uzbekistan and performed until 2 January 2014 in Turkey and completed on 20 January 2014 in Iraq. A…