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ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
In the United States, skin cancer is common; it can be prevented by using sunscreen lotion. My goal was to create a natural sunscreen using plant pigments (anthocyanins) found in blueberries…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
During the course of the past two years, the effects of antioxidants on cell viability and bacterial growth have been tested. The addition of anthocyanins to cancer cell cultures significant…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
This experiment evaluates the proportionality constant between 18 selected galaxies’ distances and recessional velocities from earth. Then, compares that constant to the current accepted val…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this investigation was to measure and compare the balance ability of male soccer players and sedentary control subjects between ages 6-7. 50 male soccer players and 50 male se…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In this prospective study, “The Evaluation of Delirium in the ICU Utilizing CAM-ICU,” the impact of additional physical therapy for critically ill patients suffering from delirium will be ev…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Hemorrhoids is the medical name for piles. They are the pillow like clusters of veins that lie just beneath the mucus membranes lining the lowest part of the rectum and the anus. Hemorrhoids…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
This study was conducted in the town Quebracho, dominant ethnic population Wichí who ancestrally used the fruits of Prosopis alba (algarrobo blanco) to produce flour for home consumption. Th…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to find out at what temperature (29°C, 23°C, 20°C) adult small hive beetles(SHB) emerged first from the soil. The hypothesis of this experiment was if temp…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Background: Ventricular mass determination is essential for evaluation of the progress of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Four-dimensional echocardiography (4DE) has been shown able to de…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water evaporation by direct heating is a method to generate water from salt water. on the other hand, it was observe that bubbling air through a body of water would cause water evaporation w…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common and costly neurodegenerative disease, increasing in prevalence and expense annually. This study investigated a method of passive immunization to p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
An alternative treatment using natural plant extracts was investigated for the opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Infections with this pathogen are frequently seen in immunocom…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Iridium-based oxides have become a fertile ground for novel physics driven by strong spin-orbit coupling. Among them, honeycomb lattices Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3 have drawn a great deal of attent…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This design investigation in its present form was to engineer a quantum gomoku game in C# that could successfully simulate the concepts of quantum mechanics with an Artificial Intelligence p…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Third Award
Taro is an important crop to many nations, especially Hawaii where myth labels it the elder sibling of all Hawaiians. Being isolated, Hawaiian varieties of taro were susceptible to many fore…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Septic systems and other small-scale waste-water processing systems do little to remove NH4+, NO3- and inorganic phosphorus from waste-water. Emission of the effluent from these systems can…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Due to the recent depletion of our world’s natural resources, the expansion of technology into other methods of clean energy has become a new world focus. Wind energy has become a newly popu…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Understanding the hydrodynamic forces occurring during particle-particle collisions in viscous fluids furthers knowledge in areas such as industrial fluidized beds and bedload sediment trans…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Several theoretical models of rooftop gardening have been developed to determine the economic feasibility of a green roof by weighing the economic benefits and drawbacks. In this experiment,…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Granular segregation is a counterintuitive phenomenon in nonlinear physics where granular particles in binary granular mixtures sort by size under excitation. Although segregation is a very…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Given a number x, we consider the dynamic system x goes to x(g^x) mod (p^n), also known as the Discrete Lambert. In this equation, all variables are known other than x. The Discrete Lambert…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Coal is one of the world’s largest assets in terms of energy, in 2012 coal provided 41% of the entire worlds electricity. In order to provide so much energy large reserves of coal were burne…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Curcumin is a derivative of the Indian spice turmeric known for chelating properties. In Alzheimer’s Disease, free metal ions in the brain play a major role in protein degradation and plaque…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Aquatic plants that uptake nitrogen are an integral part of most aquatic ecosystems, serving to help prevent eutrophication and hypoxic conditions. Additionally, such plants are sometimes us…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Neutralization of hydrocarbon contamination of soils by natural microbial populations is one of the primary mechanisms. Its intensity and direction to a large extent depends upon the quality…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Production of bio-ethanol from rice straw has some limitations, as it can also be used for important cattle feed. Ideally, research is needed to develop a protocol that can produce bio-ethan…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Tetraplegia patients have a problem using computers and communicating with others. Currently used eye tracking systems for tetraplegia patients are complicated to handle, heavy in weight and…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to expedite the process of apprehending known criminals and terrorists . There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras deployed in the United States…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The “eyes on road project” is a device that is used for the purpose of monitoring roads and detecting stationary objects. The project consists of three parts; detection of stationary objects…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Similar to describing any particular color in the visible spectrum in terms of three primary colors, in a recently published medical article, scientists argued that any particular smell is c…