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
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This study was conducted to determine if utilizing a shroud around a small-scale horizontal-axis wind turbine can increase its electrical power output. Three shrouds were constructed out of…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This study investigated the prevalence of relationships between equid body size and climate by comparing the El Golfo and Rancho La Brea horse second phalanges. Bergmann's rule, which states…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test the randomness of various pseudorandom linear congruential number generators. It is hypothesized that these four LCGs are not random, but that they wil…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this experiment is to compare the evaporation rates of aquifer tapped mine lakes to the evapotranspiration rates of plant life. The expectations of this project is to observe…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics First Award
According to a recent study, 1/3 of the world population has little or no power and is not connected to the world power grid. However, enough solar energy hits the earth in 1.5 hours to powe…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the different foraging habits of Anolis sagrei and Anolis carolinensis juveniles to observe how an invasive species could affect the foraging ha…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this paper we will introduce a new study of a new family of polynomials and geometric shapes that are related. An extension of completing the square (second order) to nth order polynomial…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Halyomorpha halys, or the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, is an exotic pest in the United States that causes widespread damage to crops and fruits. The purpose of this experiment was to find a u…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Multiple renewable energy sources are intermittent in availability. This leads to fluctuations in electrical energy generation. Energy storage is used to provide ancillary energy to a system…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
An important area of pharmaceutical research is the formulation of a stabilized antibiotic that does not require cold storage, which holds promise of reducing costs and providing much needed…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The focus of this research was to computationally elucidate the change in dynamics in single-chain FV fragments (scFV) of the anti-lymphotoxin-ß receptor antibody upon various amino acid mut…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Today, several tens of millions of people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, nicotine addiction and epilepsy. These conditions not only directly cause deterioration of quality of life, but the…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
XAGE-1b is highly and strongly expressed in lung adenocarcinoma and immunogenic in patients, regarded as one of the most immunogenic antigens. In this in silico study, I worked on predicting…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (BOLD-fMRI) is a type of MRI scanning technique that makes use of the change in magnetization between oxygen-rich blood and…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Due to the high prevalence of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in medicine and biology, the need of fast and accurate semi-quantitative analysis of such IHC images arises. Nowadays such analysis i…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
There are areas of the world where energy is scarce, and access to clean drinking water is limited. After successfully manufacturing a single parabola concentrated solar system last year, de…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This research study designed and tested an alternative prototype helmet based upon the sliding-layers concepts presented in MIPS technology. Instead of simple sliding layers, this prototype…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small partially double-stranded DNA hepadnavirus, is the causative agent of B-type hepatitis. A replication-competent HBV vector bearing a reporter gene (reporter…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project consists in constructing of finite continued fractions theory in arbitrary unique factorization domains and applying this theory to optimization of the Euclidean…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Continued fractions have a long history behind them - their origin may be placed to the age of Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divisor or even earlier. However, they experience a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could revolutionize patient-specific regenerative medicine, but their premature aging symptoms, currently misunderstood, limit their clinical applicabi…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study proposes a novel algorithm inspired by CCD which varies each pair of backbone dihedral angles in each amino acid simultaneously; essentially performing 2-dimensional CCD. Upon tes…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year. Atherosclerosis (the deposition of fatty plaques in the arteries) is the underlying cause of heart disease, and cop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Castillo de San Marcos Fort in St. Augustine, FL has endured many wars and hurricanes for over 330 years. The fort was constructed from a native rock called coquina, which consists of compac…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
This project presents the development of a system that monitors the position of an employee while the worker is performing sitting activities. The biggest cause of the work abstention in Bra…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Starting from the relation between articular hypermobility and injuries in artistic gymnastics whose occurrences are among the highest indexes within the sports activities, my objective was…