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ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The average human spends approximately four to 11 hours viewing electronic screens daily, which may have severe impacts on the human body. This research observed the impact of blue light on…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Stomata account for 95% of the terrestrial movement of water vapor and CO2 and are, therefore, essential aspects to the survival of plants and all organisms that depend on them. The climate…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Groundwater surrounding the nation’s largest coal fired power plant, Plant Scherer, has been reported to contain heavy metals and other contaminants exceeding the EPA’s Groundwater Protectio…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
This project focuses on the comparative gene expression in the nematode Caenorhabditis Elegan (C. Elegan) in nine specific target genes found by Selch et al. in 2008. Due to expanding space…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
The overdependence of pesticides poses a major risk to the environment, one recent example being the use of cypermethrin to combat Spodoptera frugiperda in the Philippines. In this mesocosm…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Imagine living in a world where nothing is ever truly clean. A world where diseases and pathogens are basically immortal. Endospores are a bacterial defense mechanism where “stressed '' bact…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
With the rise of wireless technology in the 21st century, the presence of unseen electromagnetic radiation (EMR) across the globe has proliferated. While much has been done to develop these…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of the experiment is to test the effects Sulforaphane has on bacterial growth. If Sulforaphane causes ring of inhibition on a bacterial plate, then Sulforaphane does have an effe…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Coconuts are economical crops that make lots of income for coconut farmers. Thai people like to use coconut meat which is the white flesh in a coconut to cook both savory and sweet recipes.…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, we extracted the chitosan from shrimp shell, and we tested its environmental applications. First, the dry shrimp shell treated CaCO3, HCl and then with NaOH to get the chitosa…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The extraction and evaluation of the bromelain and phenolic compounds from pineapple peel through ultrasound radiation. The pineapple peel contains components such as polyphenols and bromela…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immunotherapy has shown promise as a treatment approach for patients with hematologic malignancies by engineering one’s immune system to better target a particular antigen. Treatment for hem…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Procedure: Bananas of the same color index were chosen. (greenish yellow bananas were used). Banana peels were removed using a stainless steel knife. A 0.1M sodium metabisulphite solution wa…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
A wonderful fact called Thurston's geometrization conjecture states that there are essentially only eight three-dimensional geometries. For the last 20 years, there are lots of attempts to d…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
With the rapid development of science and technology, energy problems such as atmospheric pollution have also continued to occur, which has made the development and utilization of new energy…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Children start to crawl at the age of 6 months and eventually start to walk at the age of 1. As they start to move around it starts to get difficult and stressful for parents or guardians to…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkour is the utilization of complex body movements -such as jumps, landings, and vaults- in an urban environment to move from one place to another as efficiently as possible. Much of the s…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
To study the functions of Brandt's voles in the grassland ecosystem, its impact on vegetations, and the optimal density, the author researched in a fenced pasture in Inner Mongolia with dist…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Emergency rooms are overcrowded with patients who need treatment for lacerations, the most common injury after a broken bone. Such injuries require a simple treatment, sutures or staples; ye…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Iodine is a micronutrient that is crucial for the properproduction of thyroid hormones in the human body. To put a stop to iodine deficiency,iodine was implemented in salt in 1990. There are…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Skin cancer and Parkinson’s Disease are among the most serious noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the world. Early detection and treatment allow Parkinson’s patients to mitigate complication…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
As an intern in the office of my State Assemblymember, I was sometimes tasked with determining the extent to which our legislative district was affected by geographic issues, such as project…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Epilepsy is a neurological disease involving spontaneous and chronic seizures. Seizure susceptibility and intensity are affected by a multitude of factors, including caffeine exposure and di…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Soft oyster leech can cause severe damage to the oyster farming industry worldwide by breaking through oyster’s robust defense mechanism effortlessly. So, what is its unique attacking method…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A recent proposal by the EPA, if passed, will take away the Clean Water Act’s protection of headwater streams. This will reduce protection on around 9 million of America’s stream miles. With…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Carotenoids are biologically active substances, widely used as vitamins, food dyes and pigments. Main disadvantages of industrial production of carotenoids include use of organic solvents (f…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
It has been thought that intracellular symbiosis evolved chloroplast and mitochondria, and understanding the mechanism is one of the major issues in biological science. Paramecium bursaria i…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Of the current forms of renewable energy, solar energy holds the most promise for overtaking carbon-based methods. Although cost competitive, most commercial solar panels turn sunlight into…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
My project investigated if Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion can apply to orbits of the moons around each planet. My hypotheses were: there will be a strong correlation between published and…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: Cancer has been a huge problem throughout the decades, as it is very difficult to fight and permanently get rid of, so we have decided to develop an effective way of ridding bodies…