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ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our experiment was to determine how the coating of a pill affects the rate at which a medicine enters the bloodstream. To represent the digestive process we used hydrochloric…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interactions that explains how hadrons such as protons, neutrons, and pions form stable bound states. It is impossible to study a system…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this study was to examine the inhibitory effects of piperine, a compound found in black pepper, on B16F10 mouse melanoma cell growth, and to see, when UV is added to B16F10 ce…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone-predator of coastal pacific North America. Over the past two years it has undergone an outbreak of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) caused by sea star associa…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Plants can communicate with each other through common underground mycorrhizal networks (CMN). In this study, we show that CMN can act as a conduit for signals that affect immune response in…
ISEF · 2015
Plantations of Guandu bean (Cajanus cajan, Fabaceae) are attacked by the fungus Colletotrichum cajani (Glomerellaceae, Ascomycota) which causes severe anthracnose in stems, leaves and pods o…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of this research was to determine how exposure to plastics affected the overall health of aquatic organisms. Plastics are the main source of aquatic pollution and are known to leach…
ISEF · 2015
Semiconducting polymers opened up new avenues in electronics device technology and with advantages such as economic feasibility, low temperature processing, large area and roll to roll print…
ISEF · 2015
Aspirin is one of the most beneficial analgesic drugs created, however it’s also one to which people are most allergic to; there for creating a microcapsule that is capable to control its re…
ISEF · 2015
A large volume of oil and its derivatives are routinely disposed in the sea during the washing processes performed in oil cargo ship tanks. This occurs because after the tanks are unloaded i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The copper(l)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition(CuAAC) is one of the premier example of click chemistry, a term which means a set of 'almost perfect' bond-forming reactions useful for rap…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this work is to make a dye-sensitized solar cell with natural and synthetic dyes. The cell is usually made out of a platinum-covered cathode, which we intend to replace by a c…
ISEF · 2015
An increasing human population needs more energy. The purpose of this project was to show that solar power could meet current energy demands and that a sun tracking solar charger could be mo…
ISEF · 2015
Bacterial collagen like recombinant protein, VCLCL, from S.pyogenes is hydroxylated with dual plasmid system that codes for human prolyl hydroxylase (P4H) enzyme and 1,4 arabinono lactone ox…
ISEF · 2015
This project aims at utilizing the previously wasted energy and channel it to a battery pack installed in the boot of the car. The current in the charged batteries was passed through an inve…
ISEF · 2015
It is becoming more and more necessary to find an alternative fuel to petroleum. In the last few years crops, waste oil, coffee grounds and different seeds have been studied to produce biodi…
ISEF · 2015
The project was designed primarily to solve the challenges of epileptic power supply in Nigeria and at the same time address the shortcoming of power generation through mechanical moving dev…
ISEF · 2015
Breast cancer continues to be researched, as it is still incurable. The grading system for breast cancer, while based off of numbers, is subjective as it depends upon the interpretation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Fluid intelligence (gF) is the basis of innovation, problem solving, and leadership and evaluating gF is critical to the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of cognitive and mental disor…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a disease that affects 250 million people worldwide, and is one of the fastest growing diseases. Once acquired, the patient is faced with lifelong medication, treatment, and risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Arsenic has long been seen as an environmental toxin and carcinogen. Recent studies on the drinking water arsenic levels in Chile suggest that low concentrations of arsenic could be preferen…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this paper is to establish a new perspective on the K-theory of exact infinity-categories. I show that if the definition of K-theory is slightly modified, one can interpret th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Purpose of the Experiment: Today, it is impossible to control inner-cast pressure during the patient's healing process. The human limb can change its volume after an injury therefore irregul…
ISEF · 2015
Microwave sintering is known to provide rapid volumetric heating that reduces processing time compared with conventional furnace sintering methods. With the application of uniaxial pressure,…
ISEF · 2015
Oral Streptococcus of the viridans group are common bacteria with disease-causing potential and a high prevalence of antibiotic resistance (Whitney, 2000). The prevalence of ampicillin resis…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
One out of every twenty hospital patients will contract a nosocomial infection from invasive devices. We investigated the hypothesis that graphene, graphene oxide and silver nanoparticles po…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterized by the formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The pathological hal…
ISEF · 2015
In this project, I wished to determine the best way to increase the efficiency of a wing. I hypothesized that leading-edge wing fences or full-body wing fences would correct wingtip vortices…
ISEF · 2015
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a biodegradable plastic that can be used as a substitute for petroleum based plastics that are harmful for the environment as they do not decompose naturally. Th…
ISEF · 2015
Coal was made from two waste organic materials: coconut and orange peels, applying two approaches: physical and chemical activity respectively, in both cases both home-made and more technica…