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ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Third Award
In this study, we have developed a thermal printing technology to fabricate circuits on the surface of ordinary paper. We designed a machine to print a paper circuit board by thermally melti…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
We present a study using microlensing event data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), recorded in the period 2002-2016 from the Galactic bulge. Our two algorithms are ba…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Fourth Award
The yeast Candida parapsilosis is a so-called opportunistic pathogen. It is harmless for healthy people, however, it is a serious threat to immunocompromised individuals, e.g organ transplan…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Mycoplasma bovis is an extremely costly disease in the dairy industry totaling about $120 million among US dairy farms in the loss of milk alone. Mycoplasma bovis can cause mastitis, poly-ar…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Energy is the force needed to do work or induce change. Without it, no work or change can be done. Since the late 1970s In Egypt, Energy’s absence in a clean, renewable, sufficient form rend…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of my project is to help find a solution to pollution. An estimated 14 billion pounds of trash, much of it plastic, is dumped in the world's oceans annually, which is tragic. The…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
It was hypothesized that If White Cornish Rock Cross Broilers are fed 1 percent of total weight of feed given, of powdered activated charcoal homogenized in their feed, the protein nutrition…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The goal of this study was to determine the variation in total phosphorus content and the fraction of each inorganic phosphorus species in riverbed sediments obtained from seven locations in…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
It has been reported that, unless new deposits are discovered, the world’s phosphorus reserves will be depleted in 40 to 400 years. Nutrient over-enrichment primarily by phosphorous in storm…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Invasive crayfish damage ecosystems and increase costs within aquaculture farms by burrowing themselves underground, creating levees, and physically harming fish by clipping fins, lacerating…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Nowadays, daily human activities related with use of vehicles and industrial processes, are generating air contamination. Main pollutants are nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur oxides (Sox), t…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Panoramic photography has been around for over 100 years and is often used in photographing large crowd or spectacular scenery. However this technique requires special and expensive camera t…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nitrate pollution is a major issue around the world, and has contributed to much environmental damage. This experiment aimed to investigate the effects nitrate pollution has on algae’s motil…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Child malnutrition is a pathological condition caused by lack of intake or absorption of nutrients. Among the nutritional diseases, a major problem is iron deficiency anemia. The objective o…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The potential salinization of agricultural land in Hawai?i due to tsunami inundation or storm surges would make the soil unsuitable for growing crops. Finding a sustainable way to remove sal…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Conventionally there are two mechanisms for measuring pressure at multiple points on a grid; Resistive/Capacitive and the Resistance/Capacitance of each single point on a grid is measured on…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Growing up I always noticed that the sections of the stores I shopped at were very different. The girl's section was always full of pink, and the boy's section was always dominated by blue.…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
How do you take the idea of an autonomous robot and develop it from a concept into a functioning prototype? This question kick-started the project. The autonomous vehicle’s design objectives…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Since 1998, dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators or vortex generators have been steadily rising in popularity. This interest is due to complex physics unraveling itself into the for…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
We investigated which issues and criteria cause Wisconsinites to vote the way they do in elections and then broke down the data based on variables, such as gender. The survey contained quest…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Bees represent a vital part of our agricultural system, supporting by their pollination activities approximately one-third of the food consumed by humans. Despite colony collapse disorder, a…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
a) Purpose - To find out if magnetic fields affect the rate of growth in the regeneration of planaria. Because magnetism alters the intracellular calcium distribution in neoblast cells, my h…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Polygon Triangulation problem is one of the problem in combinatorial mathematics. The problem is that, in how many ways can a convex polygon with n+2 sides (labelled 0,1,2,…,n) be divided in…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Currently, the search for lower costs cause companies to adopt new processing techniques, concerned with the recovery of their waste or with the attempt to use waste from other processes as…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) became associated with the autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1989. Even after years of research there´s still no cure nor preventative treatment…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
The field of Diophantine approximation is a branch of number theory which concerns itself with certain properties of real numbers in relation to the rational numbers. In specific, one may de…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Though the properties of Georgian polyphenols and anthocyanins grapes have not been thoroughly studied, it has been suspected that they possess oenological potential. This project aims to st…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Silica gels greatly impact D. magna populations, increasing the neonate and juvenile mortality rates by up to 6 and 1.5 times. Six trials were conducted, and all six were found to be statist…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Fluorescent molecular rotors (molecules that can emit light when they absorb energy and whose parts can turn one around another) can be used for observing the process of the light-caused des…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The world of 3D printing is thus far not closely aligned with the world of the consumer. In the eyes of the average consumer, 3D printers are large, abstracted, industrial machines like inje…