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ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
The adoption of distributed computing systems has grown massively in the past few years. In particular, Apache Hadoop, which allows developers to create applications that run on a cluster of…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Most people enthuse about watching curving ball made by baseball player. Perhaps, it’s because it’s difficult to make curving ball to general people. but we found the way which make curving…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this science fair project is to design a parabolic mirror with copper tubing at its focus, and use a solar-powered pump that can efficiently heat water solely from solar energ…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the first part of this research is to determine the fastest algorithm to sort a random list of numbers into sequential order. I predicted that bubble sort would be the fastest…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The scale of a parking lot is huge in urban areas nowadays, so it’s getting harder to find a vacant parking place and to get back to your car after parking. The current intelligent parking s…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) theory for dark matter predicts the production of gamma radiation from WIMP annihilation and decay. To examine the possibility of WIMP dark mat…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over the past decade, photovoltaic solar cells have been increasing in popularity exponentially despite their high cost. Photovoltaics are clean, robust, and flexible energy sources that can…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Water availability and quality are universally important issues. The imbalance between fresh water demand and supply is expected to worsen. To date, water technology has been focused on desa…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every single branch of science has its origins in math. Of all the mathematical concepts, exponents constitute one of the most fundamental and useful tools. This purpose of this project is t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, have been shown to cause a variety of adverse health effects on the immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems. Due to their once widespread usage…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
More than 25% of people worldwide suffer from mental illness (WHO, 2013). Emotion is a subjective conscious experience essential to social interaction in humans, who express emotions primari…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This experiment builds on further testing of percolation of phosphate through soil rather than homogenization to remediate lead contaminated soil. The experiment tested if percolation of a p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
A novel nanoparticle (NP) targeted cancer therapy with personalized medicine applications is described. A NP concept, applying biologically compatible quantum dots (QDs), was created for can…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
The goal of this project, that is named ARTEMIS, was to design and develop a concept of wireless body area network (WBAN) for a particular application of monitoring and processing personal p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Problem: Primary care of external bleeding is extremely important, providing basic care of any wound that is crucial in life saving and preventing future morbidity. Bleeding is a main conseq…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
There are thousands of strains of algae in our environment, but which ones have the best properties for making biofuels? Last year, research was conducted to isolate if a local strain of alg…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is an emerging non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technique used for superficial imaging of blood-related parameters in vivo without the use of contrast age…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Phthalates are used as plasticizers in many consumer products found throughout the household. Little research has been conducted on the effects of these phthalates as potential endocrine dis…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Is a program that teaches physics in an interactive way. The program is divided into sections according to the areas of physics and each section is further divided into sub-areas. The progra…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A technique called piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) was used to non-destructively image and dimension conductive nanostructures created at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Compar…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if a Raspberry Pi could be utilized as a low cost, energy efficient, home file server, and perform competitively in both speed and total cost…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cell culture is challenging due to the use of medium components such as fetal bovine serum and human serum, risk of transmission of microbial disease, allergies, and ethical issues. Thus, id…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The goal of this project is to make a management plan for raising crops by considering various farming circumstances. The project uses its database and the current status of user's managemen…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study examines the paleoenvironment of the Pleistocene Rancholabrean (210,000 – 11,000 years ago) large mammalian fauna from the Aransas River, San Patricio County, Texas based on the 1…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are highly resilient molecules that are resistant to nucleases and proteases. As formidable nucleic acid mimics, peptide nucleic acids can hybridize with complem…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The objective of the project was to create a full body exoskeleton that would increase the strength of the user though implementation of electromyographic sensors and pneumatic actuators. Th…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
My aim was to create a poker robot, not only for entertainment but also as a sparring partner which can be used to improve tactics. The first step of the project was to design and build a ro…