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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…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Most of the Zimbabwean population has no access to proper household lighting facilities. In a bid to solve this problem the researcher invented an environmentally friendly battery using loca…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Electronic cigarettes are battery operated devices using nicotine and liquids to produce vapor. They are comprised of three parts: a cartridge, a heating device, and a power source. The cart…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The objective of this study was to re-measure the effect of maximum safe dosages of multi-vitamins and minerals (MVM) on biochemical markers alterations that occurred during Alzheimer's in a…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Renal fibrosis, featured by excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), is a detrimental path of chronic kidney disease while lacking an effective treatment for 0.5 billion adults…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
With the advent of smart devices and mobility, today’s networks are increasingly dynamic. This research assesses optimal low-power communication between devices in ever-changing networks, wh…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Forward Osmosis (FO) is an alternative method of desalination that uses a hypertonic “draw" solution to leach water molecules from a hypotonic "feed" solution such as seawater across a semip…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Kinetic energy is a readily available source of energy that can be converted into usable forms, such as electricity. In addition to depleting the supply of many nonrenewable resources to com…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of my project is to find out what must be done to get the strongest and largest quantity of hydrogen gas out of my generator as possible. The generator will be used to run an eng…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer claims 150,000 Americans yearly, yet only 15.7% are diagnosed pre-metastasis. Current computer diagnostics focus on Bayesian networks using rule-based prediction. In this project…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The objective of this investigation is to determine the most accurate machine learning algorithm for recommending surgical and radiation treatment and predicting survival for lung cancer. Ma…