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 · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Upon encountering antigens in the germinal centers of peripheral lymphoid organs such as the spleen or lymph nodes, mature B-lymphocytes undergo class switch recombination (CSR). CSR alters…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
With techniques allowing the simultaneous acquisition of electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, active brain regions during different stages of the…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The biggest challenge in 21 century is atmosphere pollution. There are many reasons of atmosphere pollution but the most important is launching polluted air in the atmosphere from factories.…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In this project I established the Lis1 gene as a potential novel target for pharmaceutical treatment of schizophrenia. 80% of schizophrenics currently comply poorly with medication regimens,…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Second Award
Indolethylamine N-Methyl Transferase (INMT), an enzyme known for its production of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) via endogenous substrates tryptamine and S-Adenosyl L-Methionine (SAM), coloca…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
With detailed analyses of flying motion of a helicopter like bamboo toy, “Bamboo dragonfly”, we revealed and analyzed a back flow effect on a lift force appeared under a non-stationary condi…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease that causes ganglion cell death in the retina, leading to vision loss. To study the effects of glaucoma, the DBA/2J mouse has proven to be a precise m…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Immunotoxins are synthetic protein-based targeted therapeutic compounds that have recently shown great promise for cancer treatment. NL11-PSA is one such immunotoxin peptide that has been sh…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
My research develops a tool to enable the first ever genome-wide analysis of genetic variants, specifically single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in transcription factor binding sites. The…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Concrete is the most used construction material in the world. Unfortunately, Portland cement, a major ingredient in concrete, has a massive carbon footprint. A coal byproduct, fly ash, has a…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Regular exercise helps maintaining physical fitness and preventing diseases. Many people choose to exercise at home by following training videos. Without feedback from the videos, the exerci…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Uniquely shaped leading and trailing edges of owl primary wing feathers allow owls to fly silently. Aircraft propeller blades can potentially be modified with this design to reduce noise. My…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Modern airfoils, based on 1930-40s designs, have reached their limit of efficiency. Can airfoils modeled after living things produce more lift? The purpose of this experiment was to determin…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
I developed a fast kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulator and applied it to a study of the geometrical scaling and statistical properties of resistive random access memories (ReRAMs). These dev…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Purpose: Type II diabetes, along with obesity increasing in prominence in the United States and other countries, is characterized by hyperglycemia and insulin resistance to glucose uptake in…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The study of Li-ion batteries (LIB) is critical because of their widespread application in commercial electronics and electric vehicles. Graphite, the predominant LIB anode material, fails t…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Individuals with alexithymia, a condition characterized by difficulty identifying and describing emotions, have been shown to process emotions in their brain hemispheres differently than do…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if by increasing the mass of algal species in different containers filled with contaminated water, there would be a significant decrease conce…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Green plants reflect a large part of green light rather than absorbing it. Why didn’t plants evolve to be black to capture more energy? The reason why land plants lack photosynthetic pigment…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Will a heterotrophic method for growing Chlorella vulgaris, when compared to autotrophic and mixotrophic methods, produce a high algal growth rate and lipid content, thereby reducing the ene…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project has been to develop an algorithm to determine which adjectives pertain to which nouns in a written sentence. The algorithm is written in the PHP programming language…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Allergy is a form of disease which is caused by a hypersensitivity of the immune system to different kinds of allergens. It is called “black death” of the Third Millennium as it has become a…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Genetic treatment of myopathy, through the inhibition of the MuRF1 and Atrogin-1 genes, appear to demonstrate a dramatic reduction in skeletal muscle degradation for short term treatments. A…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The aim of the project was to develop a computer application that would generate secure passwords on behalf of the user which the user does not have to store or remember. This application le…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
In this work, our aim is to design and made a low-cost vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) operating in the temperature range between 20 and 500 °C for the study of magnetic properties of ma…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The problem to be solved is current parallel parking assist systems are too expensive and not accessible for all cars to use. The purpose of the experiment is to create a low cost and, event…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Background. Prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer in men and affects nearly 240,000 males annually in the United States with about 29,700 deaths each year. Androgen blocking is the m…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
World energy consumption is expected to increase 53% by the year 2035, with a continuing dependence on fossil fuels. Therefore, the examination of alternative fossil fuel and biofuel combust…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
The well-known Jensen inequality: f(x_1 )+f(x_2 )+...+f(x_n)=nf(x_0),where l(x_1 )+l(x_2 )+...+l(x_n)=nl(x_0), holds true if f is convex functions and l(x)=x. However, we found that it is po…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Since the discovery of Alzheimer’s disease by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906, little attempt has been made to understand this disease spatially. In year 1 of this study, a correlation between A…