ISEF · 2014
MENTH-RID-RAT
Materials Science
Recent study showed that peppermint oil is capable to repel rats. The main purpose is to reduce the spread of contagious disease caused by rats. It is eco-friendly because it was made from n…
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ISEF · 2014
Micro and Macro Invertebrates: What's Crawling in the Water?
Materials Science
Ponds and streams are being impacted daily in complex ways. Teems of organisms that inhabit these waters are excreting nitrogenous waste products. Fisherman and farmers may also be adding sm…
ISEF · 2014
Modeling Plant Growth with Mathematical Functions
Materials Science
In the agriculture industry and other fields dealing with significant crop management, mathematical functions can be utilized as a tool to aid users and to streamline the growing process. By…
ISEF · 2014
Monitoring Ocean Microscopic Organic Material: Assessing Large-Scale Ecological Disruption on Annual Chl-a, POC, and PIC Fluctuation Equilibrium
Materials Science
According to the biodiversity theory, the decrease in piscivore population will result in direct, shrot-term increase in planktivore biomass, reductions in crustacean herbivore biomass, and…
ISEF · 2014
Nanofiber Cellulose Zero Valent Iron Filtration: Potential for Reduction of Water-Borne Particulate and Microbial Contaminants
Materials Science
A critical issue in the world today is providing clean drinking water for people throughout the world. Nearly 780 million people are unable to access clean drinking water today. Despite the…
ISEF · 2014
New Discovery of Eco Plyfibre via Pineapple Leaf and Recyclable Plastic for Future Sustainability
Materials Science Third Award
Fibre-reinforced polymeric composites have received widespread attention for the past decades because of their high specific strength and modulus.Pineapple leaf fibre is rich in cellulose,re…
ISEF · 2014
N-gon with the Maximum Area for Equal Length of Perimeter
Materials Science
This project proposes an alternative approach to proof that a regular n-gon has the maximum area when compare to other irregular n-gons with perimeters of the same length using mathematical…
ISEF · 2014
Novel Renewable Filter for Heavy Metal Removal: A Practical Application of Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Materials Science First Award
Heavy metals pose a huge threat to society by diffusing through water supplies. Many technologies have been developed for removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater and drinking water,…
ISEF · 2014
Odd Dunkl Operators and nilHecke Algebras
Materials Science First Award
Symmetric functions appear in many areas of mathematics and physics, including enumerative combinatorics, the representation theory of symmetric groups, statistical mechanics, and the quantu…
ISEF · 2014
Olympics Year Two: Battle of the Genders
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to see what the Olympic Medal results would look like if they were based on Gender and to see if Gender Equality is being promoted throughout the Olympic Games…
ISEF · 2014
On the Lower Central Series of PI-algebras
Materials Science Second Award
This project is inspired by a recent breakthrough in the study of the lower central series filtration of unitary associative Lie algebras. We consider the successive quotients of elements (a…
ISEF · 2014
On the Theory of Lures with Dynamical Action on Compact Topological Manifolds and Ordinary Hyperreal Fractal Strings
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…
ISEF · 2014
On the Unique Roles of Neurocomputational States in Neocortical Circuits
Materials Science
This work employed an information theoretic approach in order to understand how information is stored and manipulated in mammalian neocortical circuits. Through massive in silico simulations…
ISEF · 2014
Optimal Therapy Design for Pancreatic Cancer Using a Boolean Network-Based Simulation
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is very difficult to diagnose early and to treat effectively. It has a 95% mortality rate, the highest of all cancers, and only a 3-6% 5-year survi…
ISEF · 2014
P.A.H. (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) Mixtures: Using Zebrafish to Elucidate Mechanisms of Toxicity
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
ISEF · 2014
Patterns in Random Numbers
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
ISEF · 2014
Planning for the Future: Is IB the Answer?
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
ISEF · 2014
Possible Human Impact on Degradation of Surface Water Quality: Novel Bacterial Analysis with Ongoing Chemical and Macroinvertebrate Analyses of Weeks’ Bayou Subwatershed
Materials Science
Purpose: A series of biomonitoring techniques were used to assess the surface water quality of Weeks Bayou subwatershed using chemical, macroinvertebrate, and bacterial analyses. The aquatic…
ISEF · 2014
Preventing the Global Reproductive Failure of Aquatic Life through the Catalytic Treatment of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Municipal Waste Water
Materials Science Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
ISEF · 2014
Prevention of Acid Rain Effects with Sacrificial Metals and Development of a Detection System
Materials Science
The effects of acid rain on plants and soil have been carefully studied. By using sacrificial metals, like magnesium, these negative effects of acid rain can be offset. Both mortality rate a…
ISEF · 2014
Protective Effects of Turmeric on Ultraviolet-Radiation Exposed Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
Materials Science
This investigation studied the effect of various exposures of Ultraviolet radiation on Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster) cultivated in Turmeric, a spice that has previously been proven t…
ISEF · 2014
Quadratic Tool
Materials Science
Quadratic function is a second degree polynomial function that is used in many subjects, such as mathematics, statistics, and architectures. The Purpose of this study is to find out applicat…
ISEF · 2014
Rainwater Harvesting
Materials Science
One of the problems of the infrastructure of EPO 102, is the scarcity of water. This project will cover 100% of the demand for water in the rainy season and 48% annual, with a significant co…
ISEF · 2014
Removal of Dissolved Heavy Metal Pollutant Using Tropical Peat Soils of Indonesia
Materials Science
Peat soils are natural resources that have high adsorption capacity to remove heavy metal in polluted water. In this work, peat soils from Indonesian tropical forest were used to investigate…
ISEF · 2014
Reversing the Effects of Lead Toxicity on Selected Biological Models Using EDTA Chelation Therapy
Materials Science
For parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, lead mining was a prominent industry. This has created medical and ecological concerns in Picher, OK, which the EPA calls “the most toxic place i…
ISEF · 2014
Storm Water Solutions, II
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to design and develp a filtration system that will filter nitrates and/or phosphates from rain water. A media will be selected to test the pilot filter at one…
ISEF · 2014
Sun In . . .Water Out!: Light Absorbing Nanoparticles Dramatically Enhance Vaporization in Solar Desalination
Materials Science
Population growth and climate change will increase global water demand while water supplies diminish. Creating a compact, inexpensive solar desalination device to salt water into drinking wa…
ISEF · 2014
Sun River Conservation
Materials Science
In 2004, the State of Montana deemed the lower Sun River between the town of Sun River and the city of Great Falls impaired for conductivity, sedimentation, nitrogen, and phosphorous. The pu…
ISEF · 2014
Sustainable Water Purification System with UV Irradiation
Materials Science Fourth Award
There are nearly a billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water and this lack of access has led to nearly 3.4 million deaths annually. This project attempted to determine a…
ISEF · 2014
The Distribution of Enterococci in Shoreline Sediment of Lake Carroll
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the difference of enterococci levels with increasing depths of shoreline sediment beneath aquatic vegetation and sediment clear of vegetation.…