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
This project presents a novel approach to the hardware implementation of the Kalman Filter using Faddeev’s Algorithm for improving the processing speed of an innovative human machine interfa…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study was to design a novel, effective, and highly efficient immobilized ionic liquid CYPHOS® IL 104 (IL) approach towards removal of heavy metal(s) from an aq…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
For years, cancer has been thought of as an evolutionary process, responding to varying selective pressures throughout the body in an effort to survive. Due to the fact that reiterative roun…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A defining feature of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the presence of large deposits of amyloid-beta peptide (AB) in the brain. This accumulation of AB is widely regarded as one of the most prom…
ISEF · 2015
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is a gaseous pollutant found in sewage, wastewater, and oil and natural gas fields. However, it is also produced by the human body where it acts as a gasotransmitter t…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Genetically modified crops (GMO) have become the primary source of agricultural yield. Due to interrogation of potential adaptation of insect pests, GMOs’ field vitality have become question…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A limitation held within modern prostheses lies in their prohibiting, high cost and inefficient systems of user control, which results in their inability to be optimized for utilitarian purp…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
This study explored plant architecture and growth using a novel application of mathematical tools. Fractal analysis of plant architectures was performed to quantify and describe functional o…
ISEF · 2015
In recent years, the search for new sources of energy has increased due to the depletion of hydrocarbon fuels and the environmental damages resulting from its usage. Attention has focused on…
ISEF · 2015
One approach to help visually-impaired individuals is to provide a form of visual information through a different sense. Most of the devices use ultrasonic and image-capturing sensors. These…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Flap Endonuclease-1 (FEN1) is a key protein involved in propagation and maintenance of the integrity of DNA. FEN1 mutations or abnormal expression has been linked to diseases in human and an…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Immunotherapy represents one of the more promising approaches to treating melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. This type of therapy involves boosting the immune system's ability to…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Interleukin-4 (IL-4), a cytokine found in excess in the tumor microenvironment, is known to induce cancer cell proliferation. In vitro research suggests that the IL-4-induced activation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Traditional antibiotics are becoming obsolete due to the growing danger of antibiotic resistance and their frequent toxicity to human indigenous microbiota. This investigation develops a syn…
ISEF · 2015
Worldwide 30 - 40 percent of road deaths are caused by alcohol. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 33,561 people died in traffic crashes in 2012 in the U…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Over the past few decades nanotechnology has developed rapidly. Compared with bulk materials, novel nanomaterials size-dependant physico-chemical properties (e.g., higher specific surface ar…
ISEF · 2015
Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted intracellular symbiont that is mainly localized in the reproductive tissues of arthropods. Wolbachia is responsible for feminization, parthenogenesis, m…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
Previous research has suggested that wound healing properties in stingrays may be due to an antimicrobial substance in the animal’s epidermal mucus. To investigate this, the minimum inhibito…
ISEF · 2015
The citrus industry is in danger of being completely wiped out by a disease called HLB (Huong Long Bing) or citrus greening disease, which is which is a bacterial infection spread by the inf…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Antioxidants, touted as beneficial for your health, potentially preventing degenerative, neurological and cardiovascular diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s, are found in the highest concen…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one of the most studied and challenging diseases, which is characterized by high and rapid replication. HIV treatments are targeted to lower the viral r…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of the project is to create an affordable ultrasonic sensor based travel aid glove based on “haptic feedback”. The product will greatly assists blind people in moving, using the sim…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bali has been known as a paradise, not only for its natural beauty, but also for its cultural values, tolerance, and hospitality. However, today we are witnessing the erosion of those values…
ISEF · 2015
Flame retardants (FRs) are widely used in industrial and household products. Unfortunately, toxic additive flame retardants can be released into the environment and persist in wildlife and h…
ISEF · 2015
With the aim of studying the possibility of using LED lighting sources on in vitro Chrysanthemum morifolium propagation instead of the light of fluorescent lamps, we have carried out various…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Thermoelectric (TE) generators are devices that use a temperature gradient to generate electricity (Seebeck Effect). Widespread usage of TEGs is limited due to high material costs. In this r…
ISEF · 2015
The firsts photography's researchers : a reference for today's researchers. The purpose of my Research Project was to get closer to the first researches on photography and how everything sta…
ISEF · 2015
Purposes/Goals: 1. 3D print and construct a paste extruder and 3d printer to be utilized to print UV resins? 2. Is UV resin accurate to use in fused filament deposition(FFD) 3D printing? 3.…
ISEF · 2015
MAXIMUM k-COLORABLE SUBGRAPH is a classic NP-Complete problem that inputs a simple graph G with n vertices and k colors; it asks for the largest subgraph in which every vertex is colored and…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of this project was to evaluate different types of material for use as seeding material and evaluate cucumber growth and determine which types of lettuce can harvested and regr…