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ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrialization and urban stressors have accelerated the increasing levels of the most dangerous contaminants in our water bodies, heavy metals, because of their non-biodegradability, thei…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Zika virus infection can cause fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and joint pain, which typically last up to 1 to 2 weeks, but can also lead to severe diseases such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
My hypothesis, the angle at the top of the golf swing able to produce the greatest amount of straight shots is the 90 degree angle. Being the angle most professional golfers, players like Ad…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Poor lifestyle choices can lead to excess free radicals that shorten telomeres, the end caps of chromosomes. Telomere shortening is linked to cellular senescence and premature aging. This ex…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Chronic lung diseases are a serious world threat. According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 364 million pulmonary disease patients around the world and this number…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effect of insects on mass of decomposing organisms over time. By using ventilated, secure containers containing chicken thigh meat with four conditions (A- ant…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
In order for an aircraft to be able to leave the ground, lift must exceed the force on the aircraft due to gravity. Lift is created by the flow of air over an airfoil. The shape of an airfoi…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Vocal behavior of birds is linked to individual recognition, mate and parent-chick bonding, and enhancing social bonds. However, geographically-specific dialects have been observed in bird a…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Laser ablation in liquid is an alternative way of micro and nanostructures formation. Chemical purity of laser ablation method in ethanol is well known in literature. Nevertheless, ethanol p…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Acetabular labral tears comprise 22% of reported groin pain. Repairs involve suturing torn tissue to the bone via anchors, or removing inflamed tissue. Both prevent the body from healing nat…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The constant innovation and search for new technologies is a fundamental part of the development of the national pharmaceutical industry, wich has a integral implication in the development a…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Our project is about used the Garbages and sewages water to generate electric and methane gas and treatment the sewages water to use in watering the plant and produce fertilizers to the plan…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Piezoelectric ambient energy harvesting is a unique way to create electrical energy. The piezoelectric effect explains that when a crystal is compressed it produces a potential difference or…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last few decades, since the industrial revolution, the climate system lost its natural balance leading to noticeable change in the climate. The greenhouse gases G.H.Gs have been maj…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are used in various ways to assist the elderly and handicapped. Since the elderly and disabled often have issues with mobility and manual dexterity, they are more likely to select the…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
With the increasing number of cars, and buses and the evolution of transportation led to steadily increase the number of problems, including the problem we faced which is faulty fuel in the…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metastasis causes 100% of deaths from breast cancer, the most common cancer in women worldwide. Fusion genes, a combination of two genes due to genetic structural variation, are potential dr…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Some reviews of why children watch television closely are said to be the cause, not the result, and that the child may have one of the defects of the eye. In addition to this, to attract att…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to characterize human galectin-4 and its anti-microbial properties against self-like antigen bearing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria while identifyin…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Ghana lost close to GHS 86 million between January and September of 2016 alone. Within that same period about 4373 fire outbreaks were recorded. Majority of these cases were as a result of L…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In my project, gas price fluctuations were compared with average consumer purchase prices at two gas stations/convenience stores to identify if there was a significant correlation between th…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Outbreaks of Zika and Malaria in third world countries have proven how borderless our world has become. Scientists are paramount in combatting these global challenges. The reality exists tha…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
The theory of Lie groups and algebras is an important and developing part of mathematics. Lie groups and algebras occur in different areas of science such as quantum physics, mathematical ge…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
Problem of Apollonius is a famous geometric problem. Apollonius of Perga posed it in the 3d century BC. The statement of the problem: construct (by straightedge and compass) a circle that is…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
We address n-sided dice whose face values lie between 1 and n and whose faces sum to n(n+1)/2. We tackle the problem of generating n-sided dice by developing an algorithm to generate the int…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a recent and relatively unexplored form of basic artificial intelligence. Many applications still need development. This project is an attempt to determine the c…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Present day surgical gloves are designed to provide a protective barrier, prevent the transmission of diseases, and the breakthrough of hazardous chemicals that could otherwise permeate onto…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Glyphosate is a systemic herbicide that is absorbed through foliage and is translocated via the phloem throughout the plant following absorption through the leaf tissues. Most commonly, Glyp…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Goldenrod is an invasive plant that spreads quickly and displaces native plants. People actively struggle with it. It is almost impossible to get rid of the plant but we can figure out how t…