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ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
This project examines two specific factors that influence the accuracy and confidence of eyewitness identification in criminal proceedings. Post-Identification Feedback refers to comments ma…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The main goal of the project was presenting options of artificial intelligence (namely genetic algorithms) on simple but complex example. The example being the simulation of robots with goal…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Blindness forms a significant barrier to participate in physical activities including entertainment. Playing video games is one way of having fun. At present the current video game technolog…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Housewives and cleaning workers are suffering a lot when they clean walls, windows and fans. Thus, this idea of inventing a cleaner which can move easily on the walls and windows and climb o…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Desert Bighorn Sheep thrived in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona until twenty years ago, when the population became extinct from causes yet undetermined. A multi-group restoration eff…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and salicylic acid are anti-inflammatory drugs with several molecular targets in cells. They were also found to suppress the growth of prostate and colon cance…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if selected local trees (Sage brush (Artemisia tridentate), Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides)) co…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Stents are used for a variety of purposes throughout the human body. This investigation focused on two types of stents: arterial stents – which are used to treat narrowed or weakened arterie…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Purpose: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are new battery-powered devices that resemble tobacco cigarettes and convert nicotine solutions into inhalable vapors. Thirdhand exposure occurs…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many of the current theories regarding the origin of life on Earth rely heavily on the assumption that amino acids were present in the ‘primordial soup’, some 4 billion years ago. However, r…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
A new kind of fire-retardant thermal insulating polymer material was studied. In order to improve the brittleness of phenolic foam and reduce its production cost, the tar crude phenol was us…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project was to determine if Pseudomonas putida can be used as a biofertilizer in the production of corn and wheat in salty soil environments. Corn and wheat were grown in…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Aircraft fuel consumption and carbon emissions can be reduced by improving aircraft wing efficiency. Drag inducing vortices form at the tips of aircraft wings and can be reduced by wingtip d…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Planarian flatworms are again gaining notoriety as creatures useful for scientific research. Through the use of stem cells, these worms regenerate lost tissue and repair structural damage. P…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Purpose of the Experiment: Mutations in ?-glucocerebrosidase, the genetic defect in Gaucher disease (GD), are an important susceptibility factor for Parkinson disease (PD). A PD effector is…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Every year close to 40 children die from heatstroke after being left in a car. This problem has gone largely unchecked in today’s vehicles, so the goal of this project was to end these death…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
The original purpose to this experiment was to determine the effects of ethanol concentration on the degradation of hydrogen peroxide by catalase, which forms oxygen and water. We had though…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The 70-kilodalton heat shock protein (HSP70) is a cytoprotective protein produced at an elevated concentration in individuals afflicted with atherosclerosis and has been linked to reduced ri…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Athletics play a important role in American society. Injuries in athletics are inevitable, however there are ways one can prevent these injuries from occuring. Approximately 15% of all sport…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Fruits and vegetables provide us nutrition including vitamins and minerals to stay healthy – both mentally and physically. In pursuit of a pest-free produce, farmers use pesticides, far abov…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
For many centuries, ways of delivering secret messages that only the sender and receiver could understand have been created and used, but many were ineffective. First, there were eavesdroppe…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The study of genetic variations that cause autism and the identification of associated defects in synaptic signaling pathways may lead to more effective treatments for autism. The hypothesis…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Everybody loves his car, but imagine a person forgetting an innocent child in a car, which is closed and exposed to sunlight; moreover, the child will die due to the high temperature trapped…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this project, we built a mathematical model to automatically generate efficient transportation networks given a simulated urban environment with variable population distribution and other…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The project seeks to build a program that uses the FORTH 3D HandTracking Library (An API for a framework to track hands in 3D) in conjunction with a 3D camera to identify handshape, one of t…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The goal of this project is to add auditory dimension to digital comics using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) technologies, as well as improving accuracy of exis…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Electrical activities in the heart can be detected using metallic electrodes in an electrocardiography procedure that produces the recording known as electrocardiogram (ECG). Characteristic…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Automated point design and fabricator for orthopedic Kirschner pins was implemented in the National Children’s Hospital’s (In Spanish: Hospital Nacional de Niños) Maintenance Area in order t…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Visually impaired athletes that participate in the 100 meter sprint event typically run with guides. The guide runs besides the athlete and is joined by a non-elastic rope. However, this tec…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Cancer recurrence affects a large percentage of patients who have finished initial treatment. Unfortunately, with current detection methods, the chance of tumor regrowth can be high. Therefo…