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ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
This experiment was conducted to determine whether Barringtonia asiatica or Derris malaccensis plant extracts were able to kill the crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster planci). The experime…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Breast cancer has grown significantly in the Americas becoming one of the major public health problems in the region. Only in Mexico, over the past seven years, this disease has grown by mor…
ISEF · 2015
6540 breast cancer clinical trials are performed in the world and drug life cycle takes an average of 14 years. The average pre-tax industry cost per new prescription drug approval (inclusiv…
ISEF · 2015
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven) presents an ecological problem due to its ability to out-compete native species. This project attempted to determine the presence of allelopathic chemica…
ISEF · 2015
The world is facing a growing tension of water resources. Our project states that the current concept of using drinking water for cleaning purposes is wrong. By maximizing the solubility of…
ISEF · 2015
Problem/Purpose ? This experiment of the wave in the textbook is done only in the plane which has no movement of the medium. ? Manufacture a device for advancing the wave experiment in slope…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Aim:Thymes antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer effects are also shown scientifically. In the present study, we aimed to investigate if antiangiogenic effect of Thyme has role at its an…
ISEF · 2015
Wiliwili, or Erythrina sandwicensis, is an endemic tree that Hawaiian translator Akaiko Akana said was used to treat venereal diseases. With no published modern medicinal testing on wiliwili…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project "The Application of Fertilizer and Nitrogen on Glycine Max" was to determine the most efficient way to care for your soybeans. On June 5, I planted four different p…
ISEF · 2015
Consider the following process: Take any four-digit number which has at least two distinct digits. Then, rearrange the digits of the original number in ascending and descending order, take t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Cystic fibrosis is a common fatal genetic disorder that affects over 70,000 individuals worldwide. The direct cause of death for 80% of cystic fibrosis patients is Pseudomonas aeruginosa inf…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Every year, thousands of people are diagnosed with lung cancer. 85% of patients are diagnosed at a late stage with only a 4% survival rate when diagnosed late. The purpose of this project is…
ISEF · 2015
Polystyrene, or Styrofoam, is a common household and commercial waste product that naturally decomposes in approximately 1000 years. United States landfills receive around 2.5 million tons o…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In the experiment, the relationship between the pteridine eye pigments of the drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), including wild type, sepia type, white type and brown type and their resp…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Purpose: To compare the effects of corn versus hi pro feed on dairy goats. Procedure: (1) Constructed a large pen for the goats. (2) Obtained wild hay and hi pro feed and ground corn. (3) Ne…
ISEF · 2015
In the Concentration Combination: Year II, the efficiency of a spherical and a cylindrical luminescent solar concentrator- solar water heater (LSC-SWH) combination was investigated. The purp…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Throughout history, the horrors of combat have left their mark on soldiers around the world through more than just external battle wounds. As years have passed, the number of men and women d…
ISEF · 2015
For some time now, it has been known that the ice caps on earth have been melting at unprecedented rates. This can affect the energy in the earths system and be potentially harmful to wildli…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to find out if recently reported substances found in the aerosol of e-cigarettes are present in the e-liquids and aerosol produced from a brand popular in Hawai…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of stealth aircraft design constraints on the aerodynamic performance and mission capabilities of an aircraft. It is hypothesized if o…
ISEF · 2015
Atrazine is an herbicide that is widely used in industrial agriculture to target broadleaf weeds. It is known to have detrimental effects on nontarget communities. Runoff that contains atraz…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project successfully developed a Gesture-Based Control System, which could manipulate values in a phantom three-dimensional field. The Gesture-Based Control System is a Control system t…
ISEF · 2015
Thermotaxis, the directional motion of an organism towards specific temperature gradient, has been observed in several species of bacteria. However, quantitative studies of thermotaxis in ba…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Aim: Preventing hospital-acquired infections is a challenge for healthcare facilities. This study aimed to design and create an accurate, easy to use, and inexpensive system for electronical…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Oil spills are an increasingly growing environmental threat and current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient, and toxic. The purpose of this project was to develop a novel absorbent,…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to detect a disease by breaking down the components of breath. The goal is to develop a process which captures air, breaks down the components into a format th…
ISEF · 2015
I worked on a project characterizing protein-protein interactions with the human oxidation resistance gene 1 (hOXR1). The aim of this work was to investigate possibility of an interaction be…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Purpose: a) Design and implement a gravity spatial model for the ongoing epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa; and b) use this model, to evaluate the relative effectiveness o…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Many of our everyday decisions are based on incentives. Some are conscious, and some are subconscious. Nevertheless, our decisions are mostly based on two different incentives: economic and…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A considerable amount of potential energy is lost as heat while hot beverages cool down. Until now, no effective technique of recovering this energy has been proposed. Simultaneously, there…