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 and Health Sciences
This experiment developed a technique for improved quantitative diagnosis of mental disorders using intentionally ambiguous feedback in traditional pattern recognition testing. Pattern recog…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine the effect of heart tissue deformation on cardiac action potential duration (APD). The hypothesis was that deformation of the heart tissue would…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Radon222 is a chemically inert gas with an atomic number of 86. It forms from the natural decay of Uranium238. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in Ireland. This is due to the em…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Recent research efforts in ambient RF energy harvesting are being focused on designing ultra-low power battery free products and maximizing the efficiency of RF harvesting circuits. But the…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, drug interactions are explained by the lock-and-key model which offers a crude approach to quantifying the efficacy of drugs based on receptor communications. There is no gradient…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A method is described for the analysis of cotinine, as a metabolite of nicotine, in saliva samples. The aim of this method is to compare cotinine levels between two groups of both non-smokin…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this investigation is to assess the concentration of FD&C Blue No.1 in different beverages. Also, this experiment investigates how bleach interacts with the blue dye solution.…
ISEF · 2015
'Mechanics Simulator' is a program that simulates basic middle to high school level mechanics(also called dynamics or motion physics). It is based on Newton’s laws of motion. This program wa…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: Cancer has become a common disease in today’s society and although chemotherapy is a prevailing treatment, chemotherapy relies on the use of cytotoxic anti-neoplastic drugs which of…
ISEF · 2015
Arsenic is one of the natural compositions of our earth's crust that can present many lethal effects to our cardiovascular system. In fact, many individuals especially in third world and dev…
ISEF · 2015
Corn (Zea mays L.) is a plant belonging to the Gramineae/Poaceae family, the third most cultivated cereal planet. This way, the stigma of the plant, also known as hair, silk, beard or corn d…
ISEF · 2015
The pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars researching and developing new products; however, late in the developmental process, it is often discovered many of these seemingly hop…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimers Disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in loss of brain function and memory, caused by the build-up of Amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Mesenchymal stem cells secrete anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial products. Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that results in infection with P. aeruginosa (PA) S. pneumoniae (ST) or…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogels can be injected into localized surface tumors for the consistent release of anti-cancer drugs over a specific period of time. This project used metal-free “click” chemistry to deve…
ISEF · 2015
This study examines water quality and biota in Birds Creek to determine if levels decrease as the stream flows past a solid waste transfer station. Data collection Site #1 was 1600 meters up…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Clown fish (an anemone fish) Amphiprion ocellaris symbiotically lives among tentacles of sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantean without suffering any attacks of nematocyst discharge from the se…
ISEF · 2015
Microbeads are added to personal care products such as body scrubs to aid in the exfoliation of skin and to toothpastes as an abrasive. They do not break down readily in the environment ther…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic disease brought about by metabolic events such as insulin resistance and the progressive dysfunction of insulin-secreting beta cells. Recently, both inflam…
ISEF · 2015
Alzheimer’s disease is primarily caused by the misfolding and aggregation tau and amyloid-ß proteins interactions causing reduced neuronal function in over five million people in the United…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer arises from genetic aberrancies classified as driver mutations, which actively promote disease progression, and passenger mutations that provide no evident selective growth…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) have caused significant impacts on honey bees (Apis mellifera) in the United States through by introducing a new series of pathogens. The purpose of this res…
ISEF · 2015
In the past 80 years, Louisiana has lost over one-million acres in land, affecting plants and crustaceans that live in these environments. The first objective of this research was to determi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research sought to address the toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) when released into the environment through the addition of nontoxic surfactants and the novel method of surface functi…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of the cell. Their main function is ATP production, and they are normally thumb-shaped with lamellar cristae. Mitochondrial morphology regulates apopt…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
In this research, we have introduced and analyzed a new method of creating a large-scale network for monitoring the radiation background in big cities. The project is based on integration of…
ISEF · 2015
Introduction: In the last year the value of the online transactions increased to 2356 millions of dollars. The most part of these transactions was made using mobile gadgets. 45% of the gadge…
ISEF · 2015
The logician Patrick Blackburn proposed several times to consider modal formulas as automata that are placed at some point inside a relational model and explore their environment by making t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Extreme losses in summer Arctic sea ice pack, a leading indicator of climate change, have led to the need for significant revisions of global climate models. Part of the efforts to improve t…
ISEF · 2015
Natural gas currently supplies 22% of the energy that the United States consumes annually. As other supplies run low, there is a need to dig deeper in order to access a different resource ca…