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ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the addition of peanut flour or oil to the diet of meat chickens affects the quality of meat and to determine if the meat would test positi…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to determine if the use of a) pyrolytic graphite heat sinking and of b) phase change material affects the performance of a Stirling engine. Rotational speed a…
ISEF · 2016
Analysis of protein chains has shifted into a computational biology realm in recent years because of insufficient experimental imaging. Proteins are modeled using molecular dynamics (MD) and…
ISEF · 2016
Appearance of a wave pattern staying around a stationary object in water current is a same phenomenon as a wake advancing with a moving object in still water such as Kelvin wave following a…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Increases in world population have required improved agricultural yields. Cellulose binding domain IV (CBD), the non-catalytic domain of a novel family of carbohydrate-binding hydrolases, ha…
ISEF · 2016
A large number of accidents are caused by the lack of driver's attention. Among them we can mention: Despite the fact that during the night the traffic is 15% lower, 40 % of all fatal accide…
ISEF · 2016
A LiDAR laser measurement sensor and a survey grade GPS (dual units with yaw, pitch and roll gyroscope) were connected to an on board computer with mapping software and mounted on a drone to…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…
ISEF · 2016
During the course of my project, I conducted 11 Main Procedures: Gather All the Soils, Sterilize the Soils Using Auto-Clave, Water Retention Test Using Auto-Clave, Cultivate Pathogen, Grow T…
ISEF · 2016
Drought is a severe dilemma in both the developed and the developing world. Water scarcity causes desiccation and makes it difficult to cultivate vital plants. This study investigated the po…
ISEF · 2016
Hsp90 “Heat Shock Protein 90” is a chaperone protein that helps client oncoproteins fold into their functional conformations. Since Hsp90 is upregulated in cancerous cells to possibly serve…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this project was to build muffler that serves two purposes; attenuating exhaust noise and increasing performance. Computational fluid dynamics software was used to create mode…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Waterless dyeing is the new approach in textile dyeing in order to reduce or eliminate effluents and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is an alternative solvent being considered. Since it…
ISEF · 2016
In today’s world scientists are constantly trying to discover new sources of green energy, and solar energy is a great example of this. Currently, solar cells are silicon-based. These silico…
ISEF · 2016
Pembina County, North Dakota has several examples of dikes protecting farmsteads and agricultural lands. What effect does the grade of the natural watercourse have on the dike's ability to r…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The aim of this engineering project was to design and construct a 3D printer that combats the current expensive price of many consumer grade 3D printers. I accomplished this by reducing the…
ISEF · 2016
Capacity to control outbreaks and manage patient care for debilitating mosquito-borne flaviviral diseases hinges critically on early, rapid and accurate diagnosis. However, RT-PCR and MAC-EL…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to see if convolutional neural networks can accurately predict whether a macroscopic image has skin cancer in it or not. Steps taken for the completion of…
ISEF · 2016
During the summer months, Alaska is an international crossroad for millions of migratory birds from around the world. To investigate the possibility of various avian influenza viruses carrie…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The Amazon region faces challenges in providing its population with drinking and treated water. In Brazil as a whole, piped water only supplies 36.1% of households. The Amazon is the region…
ISEF · 2016
Around the town of Starobin wildfires are frequent – peat bogs burn. That is why making an available and eco-friendly fire retardant allied to peat bogs from local raw materials is so urgent…
ISEF · 2016
This project is the combination of three different technologies, merged together to implant in any diesel based cars/vehicle to make it ecofriendly. In the first place biodiesel was prepared…
ISEF · 2016
A method was described for the inhibition of lung cancer tumor growth based on the findings of a 2012 study which shows that mutations in ciz1 found in 98% of SCLC were responsible for cance…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The present project searched to verify if it was possible to utilize virtual reality technology to benefit students and teachers of elementary school, on behalf of learning and new education…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of microplastics, defined as plastic particles with a diameter < 5 mm, in freshwater and marine ecosystems is a growing concern. Fauna across a range of feeding guilds can i…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Biohydrogen generated from algal cultures can be an effective solution as cleaner alternative fuel to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the related research is focused on limited st…
ISEF · 2016
The main purpose of this project is to see which direction of motor spinning takes better tire grip. When the motor spins, according to the newton’s third law, it always has the opposite for…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to determine the effect of biochar on the growth of Zea mays in different soil types, as well as measure the soil capacity of each. 8 pots were labeled, and 2…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Characterization of excited-state behavior of inorganic complexes will limit the set of dyes for the optimal dye-sensitized solar cell. This study goaled to elucidate Jahn-Teller distortions…
ISEF · 2016
As a natural mechanism of extruding harmful substrates, bacterial efflux pumps have become increasingly relevant in the antibiotic resistance crisis. Spanning the outer membrane of all bacte…