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ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
During my work experience at Astrium, Poynton in Manchester I was introduced to equipment and rack manufacture for use in hostile environments. In particular, much of the equipment was for u…
ISEF · 2015
Most prosthetic devices do not use computer-enabled mechanical components. The most advanced prototype systems, currently under development, seek to create neuro-mechanical interfaces. These…
ISEF · 2015
Abstract The global carbon dioxide emission due solely to the combustion of fossil fuels reached thirty-six billion tons, an increase of sixty-one percent since the 1990s. Therefore, in orde…
ISEF · 2015
Plankton are critically important to our ecosystem, accounting for more than half the primary productivity on earth and nearly half the total carbon fixed in the global carbon cycle. They fo…
ISEF · 2015
During the summer, many children throughout the United States (and the globe) are burned by overheated playground equipment. Since there has been little study of the issue, there are few rec…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean Acidification (OA) is caused by the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to industrialization. CO2 dissolves in the oceans to form carbonic acid. Carbonic acid dissoc…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Providing sustainable energy globally is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Health and climate risks associated with combustion of fossil fuels threaten global stability, de…
ISEF · 2015
Cosmic rays are high penetrating particles that originate in outer space and consist partly of high energy atomic nuclei (Kormen, 2009). The question was what effect does scintillator config…
ISEF · 2015
According to the Department of Meteorology and Climate Study at San Jose State University, seventy-four heat stroke deaths among children in the United States in the last two years were caus…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The neurotrophin BDNF has been shown to engage in retrograde signaling and interneuronal transport, causing increased synaptic transmission and neurogenesis, respectively. It was hypothesize…
ISEF · 2015
This project investigates the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and determines the effects it has on: rainfall rates, sea surface temperatures (SST), and wind stress on the ocean using a s…
ISEF · 2015
Antibiotic resistance is caused by over-prescription and under metabolism of antibiotics. Eventually through sewer and water processing, antibiotics find their way into our drinking water an…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cognitive impairment can be induced by conditions ranging from PTSD to the early onset of dementia (a symptom of Alzheimer’s). However, there is currently no way to inexpensively, non-invasi…
ISEF · 2015
Most computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models follow either a Lagrangian or Eulerian approach to study the performance of objects in fluid flow. These wind tunnel models monitor a multitude…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With increasing energy demand and increasing strain on the world’s resources, including supplies of fossil fuels and agricultural capacity, sustainable renewable energy is needed. Using disc…
ISEF · 2015
The project is focused on designing, building and programing a material-cutting mechanical system for applications in Nanotechnology and chemical analysis. Usually the cutting process relies…
ISEF · 2015
This project's aim is to create a multifunctional drone and study its physical characteristics. Currently, there are many civil UAV which may be used only as toys or flying cameras. So my id…
ISEF · 2015
The heat capacity (Cp) divergence of a fluid at its critical point has fascinated researchers for over 60 years. This singularity offers unlimited energy storage potential, but achieving it…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of project was to synthesize iron and iron oxide nanoparticles(NP), stabilize them by crown ethers and study catalytical properties.Diazacrown ether was used as stabilizer due to its…
ISEF · 2015
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has been introduced as a way of authorizing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route announcements. The highly centralized structure of the RPKI prov…
ISEF · 2015
Key words: Small electric unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, strong body, electric motor, remote control, cheap parts and materials. Aim of project: Elaborate, make and test custom designed small…
ISEF · 2015
Greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide emissions, and an increasing population; all part of this planet we all call home. As the carbon dioxide amounts in the atmosphere increase, and the oxygen…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Catastrophic cyber infiltrations can devastate a nation's information infrastructure. This project provides a new way to defend modern adaptive computer networks. Computer networks are autom…
ISEF · 2015
Cylindric Young tableaux are combinatorial objects that are a natural extension of Young tableaux. Young tableaux -- grids of boxes with numbers that satisfy certain rules -- are useful thro…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Graphene is a crystalline allotrope with sp2-bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice. Its versatile properties, such as high mechanical strength, biochemical functionalization, and high s…
ISEF · 2015
A preliminary research shows that 93.3% of the sample is not aware of their efficiency level relative to the use of a computer keyboard. Henceforth, the following question arises, is it poss…
ISEF · 2015
A method for the modeling and visualization of complex systems of objects was developed. The method developed implements a custom document object model to represent arbitrary data structures…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment was to test different concentrations of termiticides to effectively prevent termite infestation in the home, and to see if the average homeowner could make a cheap efficient…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
An increasing dilemma in tropical climates is that of Rat Lungworm disease, caused by human infection by A. Cantonensis larvae. These larvae typically survive within a rat or slug host, the…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research is to test the effectiveness of mycoremediation on urban soils. Mycoremediation is the process where fungal organisms such as mushrooms are used to degrade delet…