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ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Fish in a confined space can only breed with themselves. Does this make it more likely for them to interbreed? The purpose of this experiment was to find the genetic diversity of Sunfish in…
ISEF · 2015
The MESSENGER mission has been journeying to Mercury for ten years, but has only been orbiting less than four. It has been able to collect data that is new and exciting for Mercury researche…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
About 90 percent of humans are right handed. Left-handedness has previously been linked with dyslexia (Geschwind and Behan). However, the connection between handedness and dyslexia has only…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Drug delivery systems such as hydrogels and nanoparticles pose substantial limitations including premature leakage and toxicity risks regarding inhalation, respectively. Liposomes, which are…
ISEF · 2015
In occlusive vascular pathologies like heart attack and stroke, rapid thrombolysis is necessary for restoring blood flow to critical organs. It is advantageous to localize the delivery and a…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: To determine if there is a difference in the amounts of nitrate nitrogen and phosphorus in tiled and non-tiled corn fields in Richland County, North Dakota, and to determine if ther…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of this research was to implement an iris recognition system with a self-developed elliptic curve algorithm or hash. It was hypothesized that if this elliptic curve hash could…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A lightweight atmospheric visibility measurement system, the mobile visual range measurement(M-Vsi), is established on the smartphone platform. The smartphone’s camera is used to take the ph…
ISEF · 2015
Astronomy is highlighted in South Africa due to the SKA telescopes. It’s a topic few South Africans are familiar with. Studying concepts like a sidereal day creates an understanding of the h…
ISEF · 2015
Transparent conductors are a class of materials widely needed for technologies such as smart phones and solar panels. The current industry standard, Indium Tin Oxide, is expensive, brittle,…
ISEF · 2015
The importance of clean water is crucial to communities all over the world. Continuing from last year, the research focus for this phase was to design and build a working filter mechanism an…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The only extant member of it’s genus, the broadnose sevengill shark, Notorynchus cepedianus, is morphologically distinguishable from other elasmobranchs, possessing seven gills, one dorsal f…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
One main problem is the high electricity consumption of air conditioners. Therefore, we have chosen our goal to design an air conditioner system in which it heavily reduces or eliminates ele…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The objective of this research was to apply a newly observed spinning behavior of silkworms in silk sheath production. The spinning behavior of each fifth instar larva of Bombyx mori (grown…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The free-radical pathologies (FRP), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, were the leading causes of population mortality in 2014 according to the WHO data. The grade of DN…
ISEF · 2015
There has been public concern in American Samoa that vegetables grown locally may be unsafe to eat. As the majority of elementary and high school students consume locally-grown produce from…
ISEF · 2015
Robotic arms have been gaining global traction in numerous fields. Despite their utility, the barrier towards adopting this technology remains high; users face issues of cost, as well as a h…
ISEF · 2015
This science fair project is an exploration of the mysterious, elusive substance of antimatter. Research has been conducted about what is currently understood about antimatter and the state-…
ISEF · 2015
Often physically challenged and aged persons have to rely on the use of mobility assistive devices such as walking frames to aid with their mobility, balance and support. In the event of the…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
On Mars, research rovers traversing the surface are frequented by harsh Martian dust storms which are harmful because dust clogs or coats their optics, sensors, and solar panels, reducing th…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder and its root cause is the aggregation of the protein a-synuclein, which leads to neural cell death. There exists no technique through whic…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The study began with an interesting phenomenon in scientific activity. The past research had shown the coloration of starch and iodine is a joint result of iodide ion and water. It is diffic…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Alzheimer’s is a devastating and debilitating condition which affects humans, particularly in their senior years. It causes loss of short-term memory which results in disorientation and crea…
ISEF · 2015
As time progresses, the world is looking for an energy that can replace the nonrenewable fossil fuels: coal, natural gas, and gasoline which release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. I e…
ISEF · 2015
This paper investigates patterns in the solutions of variations of three different “hat games,” and attempts to create generalized solutions. Hat games are logic problems phrased in terms of…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
This research determined methods for both cell lysis and cell stasis based on simple methods in metabolic engineering. These methods could be useful to maximize the amount of product produce…
ISEF · 2015
Dating more than fifty years, controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Costa Rica has been a major problem; this mosquito is the vector for the dengue virus and lately the Chikungunya virus…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
More than 60% of yearly deaths are caused by chronic and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Overexpressed free radicals are the precursors and pr…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
An exact algorithm for counting the models of Boolean formulas in CNF (the #SAT problem) was developed. Unlike conventional backtracking-based approaches which measure the effect of incremen…
ISEF · 2015
Genetic mutations, often characterized by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), have been shown to act as the main cause of varying gene expression, leading to the onset of many cancers. In…