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ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, from both theoretical and applied points of view. In 2004, Ben Green and Ter…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
The Berkeley Pit was once an open pit mine, but today it is a highly acidic and toxic lake. The Berkeley Pit is home to many different species of extremophilic fungi. These fungi have develo…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Characterization of patient-derived glioblastoma-multiforme (GBM) cell lines uncover information on the disease’s physiology and pathology. This, in extension, helps identify new therapeutic…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of this experimentation was to analyze the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects that are exhibited by alpha-crystalline silicon dioxide. This was accomplished by using a hydr…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Glove boxes filled with inert gases are used to reduce the release of tritium into the atmosphere. A zirconium/iron (Zr-Fe) alloy is used to remove tritium chronically released into the glov…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Amyloids are misfolded proteins that have been correlated with numerous human neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, but the nature of the misfolded structure that leads t…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Chelation of nutritionally important minerals enhances bioavailability compared to simple metal salts. The extent of amino acid chelation dramatically affects the absorption of metal ions in…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Fog is a phenomenon that reflects a lot of danger on transportation. It is most infamous for its effect on visibility as this visibility impairment causes an abundance of car accidents that…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution caused by industries has become a major problem around the world. Heavy toxic metals found in industrial wastewater are listed under the environmental pollutants category due…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
Learning Chemistry is very essential. However, in some countries, the conditions to learn Chemistry (facility to do experiments, real chemical compounds to observe,…) are not fully accessibl…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Most nasopharyngeal infections are caused by strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli. These bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to pharmaceuti…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The project that is being presented is experimenting which child proof container is the most efficient. This project was chosen to determine which household container is the safest. The bott…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not chitosan microspheres are able to successfully deliver drugs into different human cell lines (CEM, HeLa, HEK 293 cells). The indicat…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) plastic, also known as poly(methyl 2-methylpropenoate), has played an important role in the field of polymer science on grounds of its characteristic properti…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The purpose of this scientific inquiry, the Chocolate Garden, was to determine the most effective method of composting waste cocoa shell from a local chocolate company. About 20% of the tota…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
RNAi-based modalities offer sequence-specific knockdown of tumor survival and growth, presenting a novel alternative to ineffective conventional treatments. This study investigated a pH sens…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
This project consisted in developing an accurate and reliable clap detecting system, using a Raspberry Pi, which read an input – the clapping – and transformed it into a visual of LEDs. The…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We wanted to invent a cheaper more efficient way of obtaining purified water in third world countries. We came up with the self-purifying water bucket. It produces sufficiently filtered wate…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
This project seeks to quantify global preferences and tendencies through a democracy-based ranking system. While pictures are used as tokens to represent the things being ranked, and hashtag…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
The future of healthcare lies in endeavors such as precision medicine where treatment options and clinical decisions are tailored to patients based on their exact characteristics, and accura…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
This investigation tried to determine if the organic infusion of the plants Azadirachta índica, Cnidoscolus aconitifolius, Moringa oleífera and Mentha spicata, is effective to eradicate the…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Directing stem cell differentiation is a very important part in the field of tissue engineering. Since one way of directing it is by the mechanical strength of the scaffolds, fine tuning it…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The Oscillating BZ Reaction is a chemical reaction initially studied by Russian military officer Belousov. Although extensively studied, it is not completely understood why or how oscillatin…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Collisions of a buckyball at various supersonic initial speeds with a single-layer graphene sheet, double-layer graphene, and single-layer SiC sheet were studied using quantum mechanics-base…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Neurological manifestations of recent viral outbreaks such as congenital microcephaly and Guillain-Barré Syndrome associated with Zika (ZIKV) infection are a global concern. An urgent need e…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Many Hospitalized patients receive multiple drugs intravenously using an Infusion system, as part of their treatment. In such cases, any interaction between the various drugs must be prevent…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Many real-world issues such as coloring geographical maps and scheduling, can correspond to one of graph theory’s most important concepts: graph coloring problems. As the complexity of these…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Ethanol is an alcohol that can be derived from fermentation of yeast. When given sugar to eat, yeast produces carbon dioxide and ethanol. Any organic material that contains starch or sugar h…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
This continuation project is new research in goat reproductive physiology by using blood plasma to accurately predict parturition. The long term purpose of this project is to create a “Goat…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the effect of pH level on phytoplankton. They are base of food chain, feeding a wide range, controlling carbon dioxide, and producing 85 per…