20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Currently heart disease is the number one cause of death in patients with type two diabetes. Studies show that individuals with diabetes are 2 to 4 times more likely to suffer and die from h…
ISEF · 2015
Over the past years with a growing world population we have had an exponential demand in crop production and so to solve this problem the use of copious amounts of fertilizer has become a no…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Canary Seed (Phalaris canariensis) is commonly consumed in Hispanic cultures as a homeopathic remedy for diabetes. Previously, a single study showed that oral consumption of a canary seed ex…
ISEF · 2015
This project was conducted to develop a computer program that could model a situation involving decision making and control over several variables. In this case, the scientist developed a pr…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science First Award
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global health problem that affects over 31 million Americans. Kidney transplantation is an effective treatment for CKD, but is limited by donor…
ISEF · 2015
The aim of the research is to define new mathematical structure based on distinctive axioms group. While choosing main concepts and axioms I use generalization methodology; I choose objects…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Angiogenesis, the development of new vasculature, is a critical process in the growth of new tumors. Driven by a goal to understand this aspect of cancer proliferation, I developed a discret…
ISEF · 2015
We revisit the previously hypothesized time-evolution of galaxies’ color in the redshift ranges from 0 to 0.3, using the spectroscopic data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our samples…
ISEF · 2015
Packings of Platonic solids, a class of regular polyhedrons consisting of the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron, provide a model environment for mor…
ISEF · 2015
This work aims to study the kinematic properties of the Galaxy. To do this, I consider classical Cepheids as test particles in the global velocity field. These high-luminosity stars are puls…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Parasitic nematodes infect over one billion individuals globally and cause over $120 billion of crop damage annually. The first objective in this project is to investigate the diversity of s…
ISEF · 2015
Lactase is an enzyme that breaks down lactose into the simpler monosaccharide glucose. If plant sugar-digesting enzymes are affected by salinity, then lactase, an animal sugar-digesting enzy…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Secondhand cigarette smoke (SHS) exposure is the third leading cause of preventable death. More than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke and 70 of which are known to cause devastating lung dise…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this study is to examine the neurophysiology of place cells by studying the place cell firing patterns created when only visual cues are utilized in an environment. Based on p…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Do left hand or right hand dominant people have more control of their non-dominant hand? If left handed people are forced to engage in right handed activities, then they will be more likely…
ISEF · 2015
Domination in graphs has long been studied. It is applied to signal distribution problem. For example, telecommunication companies want to spread the signal from broadcast stations by transm…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
One of the hottest public health issues today is the health impact of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). Few toxicological studies have been done on e-cig vapor, and none have been done on lung…
ISEF · 2015
This project investigates properties of the perfect cuboid system, and whether such a figure exists. Data was synthesized from a wide sample of properties, from self-bounding pair values (nu…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated hydroxytoluene are synthetic phenolic antioxidants used ubiquitously in products including foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Recent evaluati…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
This research establishes Drosophila oogenesis as a new system for the study of in vivo nuclear actin rod biology. The study examines the differences in length and frequency of the nuclear a…
ISEF · 2015
With desk jobs being among the most common in the United States, the purpose of this experiment was to determine whether indigenous microorganisms and opportunistic pathogens existed on offi…
ISEF · 2015
Project's Goals Though looked hyper connected, our world has large areas yet to have communication infrastructure. Large gaps exist in areas such as African deserts and Asian jungles, and ~7…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Dye-sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) employ expensive Ru-sensitizers, toxic organic solvents and rare Pt catalyst in converting solar energy to electricity. In order to solve these disadvantag…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The increase of elderly people in society forces a smaller workforce to support a large dependent population. Cellular senescence may be one of the underlying causes of human aging. Curcumin…
ISEF · 2015
Pandanus unipapillatus of Pandanaceae family, common in coastal belt, Western Ghats along banks of streams, marshy places is investigated for its potential antibacterial and antifungal prope…
ISEF · 2015
Coconut trees are widely planted in Suratthani province. A coconut fruit composed of four layers: the outermost layer of husk, the coconut shell, the coconut meat and the coconut juice respe…
ISEF · 2015
Our research is about designing a door closer to be effective on simultaneously minimizing thermal energy loss, finger jammed accident rate, and slamming noise, which aims sustainable design…
ISEF · 2015
The issue of this study was about the unnecessary work that was caused by the fish plantations the high mortality rates of the fry and finding biodegradable materials for roe incubators. The…
ISEF · 2015
The area of the Patillas water reservoir is highly populated, there is a lot of agricultural and livestock activities and there is no sewage system, on the other hand, the surroundings of th…
ISEF · 2015
A magic pot is an insulating box in which foods, previously boiled, finish its cooking, reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Due than the traditional model of magic pot is very large…