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ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Barnes’ and Raymond’s Packed Planetary System (PPS) hypothesis postulates that planetary formation is efficient and creates dynamically packed planetary systems that cannot contain additiona…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
New discoveries are constantly being made about the origin, components, and future of our universe. To discover traces of undetected stellar and sub-stellar companions around more than 1,100…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
\textit{Draw of choice} (Finnish: "hutunkeitto") in Finnish baseball can be seen as a finite two-player game with winning and losing positions. By inspecting winning and losing positions one…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The main goal of this project is promoting conservation of Río Negro (Black River) fish diversity by helping people to know and identify local species. A practical and users-friendly tool wa…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Majority of the collagen used for commercial products are extracted from cow and pig skins. However, with the emergence of fish collagen as a potential option of wound healing, tilapia skin…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The purpose of this project is to test out what each softener could do to flames and what changes could be done from the burning. From this we can also determine the safety of each detergent…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
GaAs photovoltaics are the most efficient but also the most expensive. If GaAs photovoltaics can be made on inexpensive metal substrates (cost $8/m^2) instead of GaAs wafers (cost $11,000/m^…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Water bodies are life lines of cities. However, water quality has become a global issue. Bangalore has become one of its victims. Bangalore was once called the “city of lakes”. “Records show…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Clean, accessible water for all” is one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Electrocoagulation(EC), a form of decontamination using electricity, can help meet this goal fo…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Commercial jet airliners use an average of $1,212 in jet fuel per hour. This translates to $34.1 billion per year spent on jet fuel by commercial carriers. There are several factors that hel…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The fabrication of electrical circuits by printing conductive inks is gaining a lot of interest, due to its promising capacity to simplify the production and reduce costs. However, the high…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Considering all of the different areas of math, including advanced geometry, one of the least heard of is fractals, geometric figures in which each part has the same statistical characterist…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND: Peanut allergy therapies, such as EpiPens, treat anaphylactic reactions, but do not cure allergies. Previously, altering a monomicrobial microbiome with Bacteroides fragilis damp…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
I study Lucas Sequences, recursive sequences that generalize the Fibonacci Sequence, and Lucas Groups, solutions of a variant of Pell’s Equation mod p. Lucas Sequences have a broad backgroun…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Plastic pollution is a major world problem; the burning of fossil fuels from petroleum-based plastics is a major contributor to global warming. Plastic kills thousands of marine species ever…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
The overall objective of this study was to examine the ethanol yield potential of barley by experimenting with starch degrading enzymes and with starch degrading enzymes plus cellulose degra…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
In the year 2016 there were 5.5 million acres burned and 62,085 firefighter injuries due to wildfires. Wildfires are a great place to create the conditions for a fuel geyser in a chainsaw (a…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Third Award
This experiment attempted to determine whether or not inertial electrostatic confinement based devices or “fusors” were capable of producing a detectable amount of fusion reactions with an i…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Surfing, one of the most thrill-seeking sports around the globe, is daily faced with a major issue. The surfing community unanimously agree that the transportation of bulky surfboards is pro…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
One unique feature of Asian Weaver Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), one species of Weaver Ants, is their capability of weaving leaf bags in trees. It has long been believed that those leaf bags…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Have you ever wondered if there are things that fall faster than gravity? We definitely want to reply with a "yes" to this question and we are providing the answer with our project. If you d…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In this investigation, an active investment strategy based on the principles of game theory was tested against the passive strategy of buy-and-hold to determine which was more effective. Inv…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a serious global health problem that is characterized by postprandial hyperglycemia. Presently, long-term use of commercial drugs in the management of diabetes ha…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The intrinsic subtype of breast cancer is a major factor considered in the development of individualized treatment regimens for patients. An understanding of when and which molecular changes…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
The fundamental paradigm of persistent homology is to vary an unknown parameter while computing algebraic invariants. The stability of the invariants is then analyzed to determine significan…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
The concept of a free object is one that relates to all kinds of algebraic structures, i.e. free groups, free algebras. In this project we investigate one of the most fundamental free object…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) are a group of macromolecules that regulate lipid activity in cells and function as lipid transporters. Notably, the inhibition of certain FABPs, namely F…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety is the most common mental illness, and adolescence is a critical time period for developing various anxiety disorders. Social media platforms allow people to generate content to conn…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The growing concerns about GMOs are causing more research to be completed to preserve the human body. This project aims to encapsulate GMOs inside of a cellulose matrix using long fibrous st…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
The commercial production of biofuel is not yet economically viable due to slow rates of production from microalgae. This problem could be alleviated by transitioning to Saccharomyces cerevi…