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External P.C Ports Identity Card

This is a Completely Hardware Device which is connected between computer motherboard and external ports. This hardware has no any link with PC Operating System or Bios, so it can not be hack…

Extracting Nitrates from Water

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to find which plant, Duckweed, Water Hyacinth or Water Lettuce would extract the most amount of Nitrates from fertilizer contamina…

Extraction and Evaluation of Cancer-Preventive Properties of Green Algae from Florida

The objective of this study was to extract compounds from green algae, and evaluate them to see if they possess anti-oxidant activity for the prevention of cancer cell formation. Two unexplo…

Extracts of the Lecanicillium lecanii Fungus as Biological Controller of Coffee Leaf Rust in Turrialba, Costa Rica

The following research is the study and use of the Lecanicillium lecanii fungus as bio-controller of Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia vastatrix) in coffee plantations affected in the Turrialba are…

Extras in Your Raw Vegetables

Microbiology (General)

Objectives/Goals My Science project was about what vegetable is safer to eat raw the ones domestically produced here in the U.S.A or of the same type but imported from Mexico. I based my int…

Eye Cue: Creating a Computer Game for the Blind

Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to design a computer game that can be played successfully by sighted and blind players. My hypothesis is, if the correct audio cues are used the…

EyeMove: Using Electrooculography to Provide Mobility for the Disabled

Fourth Award

This engineering project is about investigating and developing an affordable system that is capable of controlling an electric wheelchair using ocular tracking based on electrooculographic (…

Eye Protection and Energy Saving Lamp

Various technologies are used for focusing light rays in table lamps. The conventional parabolic and cylindrical back reflectors are generally used in ordinary table lamps. Recently the ener…

Fabricating an Environment Friendly and Low Cost Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) by Utilizing Mangosteen Pericarp as Electron Transfer Dye

The purpose of our project is to invent an environmentally friendly Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC). DSSCs are photo-electrochemical cells based on principles similar to the processes in na…

Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Doped Organic Solar Cells

Today,the increase in population and rapid depletion of nonrenewable energy sources brings the need for energy.In this case,scientists are forced to develop technologies by using renewable e…

Fabrication, Characterization, and Modeling of an RRAM-Based Synapse for Neuromorphic Applications

Neuromorphic computing requires the use of electronic circuits which work analogous to the human brain. Teaching machines to recognize patterns as effortlessly as humans do, can potentially…

Fabrication of Photovoltaic Dress to Power Electronic Devices

Harnessing the fashion industry (worth $1.7 trillion) could expand the integration of photovoltaic (PV) energies (worth $80 billion) into daily life. Expansion could increase popularity of P…

Face Recognition via Projection into Lower Dimensions Using Ensembles of Fisherfaces and Eigenfaces

Mathematics & Software

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where a face is angled away from the camera, hidden, or under extreme lighting. Nove…

Face Value: How Facial Appearance Plays a Roll in Political Elections

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if, and if so, how strongly, facial appearance can affect the outcome of political elections. Methods/Materials Official portrait…

Factors Affecting Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in Northern California Coastal Streams

Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine which abiotic factors affect macroinvertebrate diversity within local streams. Methods/Materials Six study sites in five coastal…

Factors of Thrust from Directed Airflow

Applied Mechanics & Structures

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine differences in airflow propulsion by changing variables of fan blades, air ducts and power input. It was hypothesized that ai…

Factors that Cause the Dietary Anomaly of a Diamondback Terrapin Population (Malaclemys terrapin)

Biochemistry

Northern diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) do not consume eastern mudsnails (Ilyanassa obsoleta), despite the snail’s abundance and availability throughout the mudflats of New York…

Fall Detector

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Rapid technological progress has contributed to the development of a wide range of telemonitoring systems which make treatment and management of chronic diseases as well as danger prevention…

False Positive and False Negative Paradox

Mathematics & Software

Objectives/Goals Testing for diseases sometimes gives false positive or false negative results. Even for tests that are 99% accurate, it was hypothesized that, in the testing of a population…

Farming for Water: A Solar Desalination Solution for the Water Crisis Facing California's Farmers

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals In the past four years California's drought has been getting worse, this year is on pace to be the worse yet. California's economy depends on the farmers, and the farmers de…

Fast Algorithm of Commutator Length Computing in Free Group

In modern algebra there exist a lot of abstract notions and problems but very few computational algorithms. My work is devoted to the notion of free group and a problem of commutator length…

Fault-Tolerant Arithmetic Computing using Partial Triple Modular Redundancy (PTMR)

Integrated circuits fabricated using nano-scale CMOS technologies are prone to errors because of fluctuations in threshold voltage and supply voltage, electromigration, random dopant fluctua…

Feasibility of Metal-Organic Framework for Vehicular Storage of Natural Gas

Natural gas has the least carbon emissions of all fossil fuels when used as vehicular fuel. However, due to its low volumetric density, natural gas is costly and inefficient when used on-boa…

Fecal Matters: Generating Electricity with a Microbial Fuel Cell

Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to learn how using different types of wastewater in a microbial fuel cell affects the output voltage. My hypothesis was that if I use conflue…

Feeding Earthworms (Eisenia fetida): Do Different Diets Affect the Nutrient Levels of the Vermicompost?

Zoology

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find a good diet for the farmers' friends, the best composting worms, the red wigglers or red worms-Eisenia fetida. Vermicomposting plays a…

Feeling the Colors

Currently, cases of blindness have increased in people of all the world's people; because of this, it is necessary to develop tools that help them to adapt and develop within a context, whic…

#feels: Detecting and Visualizing Regional Sentiment from Cross-lingual Tweets for Specific Hashtags Using SVM and Naive Bayes Classifiers

There is a wealth of available information on sites like Twitter that is not being utilized to its full productive potential. Many barriers exist between users, such as mistranslation or mis…

Feynmans Inverse Sprinkler

Fourth Award

This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…

Fibonacci Solar Array vs. Regular Panels on a Roof

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals To measure and compare the electricity output generated by the solar panels on a rooftop to the photovoltaic cells placed on the tree branches in the Fibonacci sequence. Als…

Fields for Flight: Effects of Magnetic Fields on Butterfly Navigation

Systems Software

The goal of this project was to investigate whether Painted Lady Butterflies (Vanessa cardui) migrate using an internal compass, if the internal compass can detect strong or unnatural magnet…