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ISEF · 2015
Due to human dependency on oil, it is constantly being drilled for. Safety precautions are used while drilling, but some oil still ends up in the ocean. These accidents cause harmful damage…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Sorting Nexin 27 (SNX27) belongs to a super family of sortin nexins which mediate protein-protein interaction in intracellular trafficking, membrane remodeling, organelle motility, tight jun…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The drought has caused several impacts in different continents of the planet. The increase of poverty and hunger has been considered as a direct consequence of droughts for the world populat…
ISEF · 2015
The collision hazard in Earth orbit has increased due to Orbital debris that is all man-made objects in orbit about the Earth which no longer serve a useful purpose. More than 100 million pi…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Each year in the United States, at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant infections with 80% of these deaths from gram-positive bacteria. One promising…
ISEF · 2015
Amaranthus palmeri is a type of weed known for being a threat to the genetically modified crops cotton and soybeans because of its resistance to the chemical herbicide, glyphosate. Glyphosat…
ISEF · 2015
Fruits and Vegetables have a circadian clock (physiological process for all living beings). It is believed this cycle continues after being picked. This investigation is the second phase in…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In rainy days, we can see a lot of liquid layers formed in the lattice of window screen. We hypothesized that the speed of layer popping is related to the properties of liquid. First, we obs…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this investigation, the high frequency hearing sensitivity of 200 subjects were tested, replicating the author’s study performed in 2008 with 178 subjects. The results of this longitudina…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Research has shown that boys who bully are perceived as more aggressive and receive harsher punishments than girls who bully. In addition, people who bully girls are viewed as more aggressiv…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Introduction: Throughout the tropical Pacific, box jellyfish pose a medically significant sting danger to beach-goers, tourists, & swimmers. Cnidae or stinging cells, including the nematocys…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
This investigation aims to identify and optimize a composition that accelerates blood clotting. Severe bleeding is the leading cause of death on the battlefield and the second leading cause…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This work was instigated from the resistance and difficulty encountered during a geography class in the town of Antônio Cardoso, Brazil when a newspaper article was presented. The headline w…
ISEF · 2015
Graph theory, a subfield of mathematics, is a versatile subject, able to be applied to numerous other fields such as computer science, sociology, and the physical sciences. Complex networks…
ISEF · 2015
Economic production of algal biofuel requires maximum lipid productivity. Optimizing production is more complex than choosing the best algal strain, since Algal oil content varies with envir…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The purpose of this project is to depict and analyze an accurate representation of the direct effects of food on an ant colony's egg count and population size. This come from the need and re…
ISEF · 2015
Carbon composite materials generally have excellent tensile properties, low densities, high thermal and chemical stabilities. Carbon fiber may be used for forming flexible composite sheets w…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Our ancestors used eggplant peduncle to cure gum disease. Periodontal disease is commonly a decayed tooth that has inflammation and the bacteria will advance to a disease. Also, decayed or i…
ISEF · 2015
Our school is relatively colder in winter and cooler in summer when compared with the center of Daegu city. Geographically, the school is located at the valley of Palgong mountains in the ea…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Coral reefs and Cnidarians are hosts to symbiotic, nutrient-providing dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium/zooxanthellae). Almost all coral reefs experienced a major decline in the 1980s and climat…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Natural products have a long-standing history of providing medicinally important compounds from aspirin all the way to taxol. Our group has an interest in identifying medicinally relevant co…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of the present research is contributing to the area of number theory. It is focused on the study of properties observed in the set of natural numbers when applied to the cub…
ISEF · 2015
The existence of the prime numbers has being documented since 300 AD when mathematicians like Euclid found this strange and beautiful numbers. If finding a prime number on the naturals is aw…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this investigation was to find a natural process to restore water quality parameters when chlorine and pH levels were altered. Using the common household plant Epipremnum aure…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental pollution by the oil spill effect is a serious problem in many places, its consequences affect not only to aquatic life but also to the whole ecosystem. Therefore, oil spill tr…
ISEF · 2015
Current common commercial solar cells use either crystalline silicon or thin-film cadmium telluride. Silicon in bulk crystalline form is expensive and cadmium is toxic. It is therefore desir…
ISEF · 2015
Bees take nourishment with the food located entirely sugar,nectar in flowers and pollen.It is completely different from the way of sheep,goats and cattle’s’ feeding.Moreover fertilizer forme…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Garlic and garlic extracts have numerous therapeutical properties that result from its organosulfuric compounds, notably allicin. The first primary objective of this experiment was to constr…
ISEF · 2015
If the installation of an underwater piping system, a uniquely designed gas engine, and a chamber containing sphagnum moss and methanotrophic bacteria is implemented within a reservoir, we c…
ISEF · 2015
Cancer is a disease that affects more than one third of Americans and is the second leading cause of death in the United States despite the widespread use of surgery, chemotherapy, and radia…