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ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The question asked was “how does ultraviolet irradiation and restriction enzymes characterize bacteriophage infecting Mycobacterium smegmatis?”. The purpose was to determine if an isolated b…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose was to determine how a concrete mix design of personal development (RG3) will perform against a certified mix of 3,600 PSI (Pounds per Square Inch) and how this new mix (RG3) wil…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) around the Milky Way are the best approaches to dark matter(DM) search and study. They can ultimately provide insight into the merit of the Cold D…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microfibers are tiny threads of plastic and a large contributor to plastic pollution. Millions enter the environment through washing machine effluent. Fiber shedding can be reduced by alteri…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of this research was to demonstrate that Biphasic CO2 is a viable alternative to liquid coolants used in subtractive manufacturing, in all ways: health, environmentally, and functio…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the past century, global temperatures and emissions of carbon dioxide have increased. This project's purpose was to see how variations of carbon dioxide levels affected the temperatures o…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to climate change, trapping heat and raising the average temperature of the atmosphere. There are a lot of talks…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In response to the growing concerns of coastal protection brought by climate change and habitat destruction, this experiment attempted to scientifically model the collision behavior between…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
The conversion of sunlight into heat is an effective way to utilize solar energy. PCM’s, such as waxes or fatty acids, are able to store heat at high temperatures and release heat at lower t…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Over the past decade the U.S. Military's fighter jets have improved in engine performance, aerodynamics, avionics, and overall aircraft structure, which enables the F-22 to reach speeds high…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
The CDC estimates that 25% of people with diabetes will develop foot ulcerations (2014). When even mildly traumatic foot injuries are not detected immediately, ulcerations may develop and be…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
The transition metals exhibit various colors due to the absorption of certain wavelength of photons by electrons when they are jumping from lower to higher energy level in the d orbit. The v…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease in which patients experience neurodegeneration and symptoms such as worsened memory, trouble learning, and motor…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
This project’s purpose was to determine if a malnourishing diet negatively affects development and cognition in D. melanogaster, if consuming eggs reduces those effects, and whether childhoo…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The ability of communication is extremely important among animals, and the way of communication is different across species. Although the communication of higher organisms has been extensive…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
When diagnosing the presence of pathogenic microbes, direct imaging of live microbes in situ even in a drop of liquid is very challenging as they move and spread out in the entire volume. Di…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Poor ventilation and sub-par construction methods cause the proliferation of indoor air pollution, especially in lower-income nations. Specifically, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pose a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research is to carry out a comparative study of two biofuels prepared based on Nostoc Commune (Cushuro) Andean seaweed found in the lagoons of the district of San Mateo a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Sucralose is a non-nutritive sweetener heavily marketed in commercial foods and beverages which is mixed with maltodextrin and widely distributed a well know sugar substitute. Sucralose is m…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Natural products such as palm leaves and sumac extracts were used to eliminate two types of bacteria (E.coli and staphylococcus bacteria,) can be used instead of antibiotic and anti-inflamma…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigated the relative importance and sources of marine plastic pollutants to reduce plastic pollution. Stratified pollution surveys investigated the relative quantities and…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study compares the effectiveness of two types of equine-assisted therapy on reducing anxiety in teenagers. Equine-assisted therapy is a therapy method that involves working with horses…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to compare a K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) algorithm with an Artificial-Neural-Network (ANN) in terms of their accuracy when detecting humans by use of thermal imag…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Does inducing auxin inhibit the plant to grow and bend towards the light? Understanding how phytohormones affect plants is vital as they are widely used in agriculture. Auxin is a class of p…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Today, one of the major public health problems in the world, Europe and Slovenia represent hospital-acquired infections. We are struggling against them with increased hand-hygiene and with t…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
There are several diseases that can be passed on from ticks to humans. Three of these diseases are tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme borreliosis and tularemia. Lyme borreliosis occurs in many pa…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In the abelian sandpile model, recurrent chip configurations are of interest as they are a natural choice of coset representatives under the quotient of the reduced Laplacian. We investigate…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Thermochromic dyes find applications in fields like material processing and studying of thermal phenomena. I hypothesized that materials based on alkylammonium salts of transition metals, wh…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Natural products from marine organisms and endophytic fungi have been proposed as groundbreaking because of their potential for supplying novel compounds unknown to the biological system. 10…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The tumor suppressor protein p53, also known as the “guardian of the genome,” is known for its various protective functions in the cell ranging from cell cycle regulation to apoptosis. The p…