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ISEF · 2015
It’s important to offer alternatives to solve of environmental contamination caused by CO2 and other car emissions. The problem is: What is the effect of using different forms of energy in t…
ISEF · 2015
Hydraulic fracturing is one of the most emergent oil and natural gas extraction processes in the United States. This controversial process has been the center of a large environmental debate…
ISEF · 2015
This research is based on the study of the fractal dimension of nodular lesions in radiographic images. The purpose is to calculate the irregularity of the outline of breast nodules. In addi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that have very long lifecycles and high power densities; however, current commercial supercapacitors, which use activated carbon electrodes, have l…
ISEF · 2015
The aim of this work is to represent brain activity and, in particular, epileptic seizures by using computer technology. The model provides a visual representation of brain activity, which i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Methane is a gas with two faces. On one hand it contributes to climate change if it is released uncontrolled into the atmosphere and on the other hand it is an important source of energy if…
ISEF · 2015
Using microwave heating to produce biochar from organic solid wastes not only recycles wastes but also promotes plant growth and carbon sequestration, and thus has positive implications in l…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The focus of this experiment was to study frustration and how it affected dispositional learning for 80 middle/high school students. Each student was given a questionnaire form and their hea…
ISEF · 2015
Today, gasoline made from petroleum products is primarily used to power vehicles. These products cause pollution and one day these resources may run out. Our nation has been researching alte…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A Grätzel solar cell (nano-crystalline dye sensitized or “DSSC”) is a photo electrochemical cell that use photons to excite electrons in organic fruit dyes to create electricity. The Grätzel…
ISEF · 2015
Virtually in every home in Nigeria and several other developing countries, there is one or more power generators. If our vehicles can be fuel-less and at the same time the owner can use them…
ISEF · 2015
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) proposed by McCulloch and Pitts are machine learning algorithms that are able to approximate any mapping or function when given a dataset. ANNs model the hu…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of chitosan as a fungicidal. Will chitosan be effective as a fungicidal for Rhizopus stolonifer fungus? The proposed hypothesis was if c…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory is just a general…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The objectives of this project were (1) to utilize game theory to analyze the prevalence and effects of genetic discrimination and its implications for the future of genetic testing and tech…
ISEF · 2015
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is a condition enabling disease causing microorganisms to resist distinct antibiotics. At present, the only way to fight against this problem is to develop a new…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
There is no simple sensor for the direct real-time measuring of the concentration of gas mixtures to date. While there are a variety of different probes for gas measuring, these are usually…
ISEF · 2015
Abstract: The United States automotive market is evolving to more fuel efficient fleets and alternative power-trains. This project analyzes the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a diesel and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer is poorly responsive to available chemotherapy. miR-34a has been suggested as a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, however it needs to be specifically targeted to the…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Often times, there are instances where making certain decisions are harder than others. One may think that a person who has trouble deciding in one area should also be indecisive across a br…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to build a basic fuel cell using loamy mud and use it to generate electricity. A variety of types of mud were initially used to find out which would generate…
ISEF · 2015
Pellet Stoves have been around for many generations. They have generally been using wood as a fuel source. Although wood is a good fuel, this is a negative impact on the environment, and red…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Supercomputers have become critical to the advancement of many fields including medical research, big data analysis, and high-energy physics. Given the recent plateau in processor speeds, ho…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Due to the dynamic and variable nature of the stock market, trading strategies do have strong and weak periods. That requires periodic changes in the strategy, which involves finding the bes…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease: a type of albinism correlated to the mutation of an HPS gene and the pulmonary function of patients. Puerto Rico has the highest…
ISEF · 2015
Stem cell research is opening doors to solving medical complications in amazing and novel ways. Regenerative medicine, one of its principal applications, is responsible for having already sa…
ISEF · 2015
Halorubrum salsolis is a recently discovered halobacterium isolated from the Great Salt Lake in the western United States. H. salsolis is known for its high tolerance to UV radiation and sal…
ISEF · 2015
Our idea and purpose is to get a new reliable source of renewable energy by sample easy cheap and applicable way everywhere everytime by absorbing the negative energy charge (electrons) whic…
ISEF · 2015
Our idea and purpose is to get a new reliable source of renewable energy by sample easy cheap and applicable way everywhere everytime by absorbing the negative energy charge (electrons) whic…
ISEF · 2015
A Hadamard matrix is a square matrix that consists of 1 and -1 and whose rows are orthogonal. From the one hand, they are very useful (error-correcting codes: Reed–Muller codes, Walsh functi…