Every Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair project Fairfolio holds: 17,565 entries across 13 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's ISEF projects.
17565 projects · showing 15481–15510
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One significant problem with fuel cells is that they are costly to construct because of the expensive platinum catalyst. Palladium has similar chemical properties to platinum and is approxim…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical substances used to control pests in agricultural fields cause serious problems in public health, pesticides have been associated with severe allergies, cancer, neurological damage,…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Mikania micrantha is one of the worst invasive alien species in the world. This exotic noxious weed is a perennial creeping climber grows vigorously in East Asia and US (especially Florida),…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this research project was to determine if academic performance in primary grades was an indicator of academic performance in high school. It was hypothesized that students’ ac…
ISEF · 2015
Klebsiella pneumoniae are optionally anaerobic gram-negative bacteria which cause a lot of virulent diseases in people with poor immunity. Existence of capsular polysaccharides(CPS) and anti…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to understand and determine whether single use lithium batteries had operational restrictions that could cause them to be dangerous in use. The batteries w…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether or not Haloarchaea can survive exposure to UV light by an intracellular mechanism involving manganese (Mn) or Mn complexes. The hypothes…
ISEF · 2015
Staphylococcus aureus is the most dangerous of all common staphylococcal bacteria and, to make matters worse, the treatment of its numerous infections is becoming increasingly difficult. In…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There is a clear lack of a systematic method to develop ligands for scientific and industrial applications in drug delivery, nanomaterial engineering, disease treatment and solar energy. By…
ISEF · 2015
As we become more industrialized, the concern about environmental contamination keeps increasing, so we need natural and cost effective ways to address this issue. Plants utilize photosynthe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stress in our society is a problem that affects almost everyone. This investigation sought to discover whether high perceived stress levels are related to lower prefrontal cortex functioning…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The purpose of this research was to determine if flap arrangement on a hydropower turbine would change the efficiency of the turbine. The reason this experiment is important to the public is…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Multiple medical studies have been completed regarding the speculation of if the relationship between vascular flow and the brain have a direct association with the brain’s neurologic activi…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The principle of the flow cytometry method relies on the fact that X-bearing (female) sperm contains 3.8 percent more DNA than Y-bearing (male) sperm. Flow cytometry was the only method acce…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the world, yet many deaths can be avoided if malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) are detected at an early stage of develo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment examines the effectiveness of triggers and effects of jamais vu on students in high school by comparing reports of jamais vu. It was predicted that jamais vu would be trigger…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of this engineering project is to come up with an innovative typing device useful for both disabled who are constrained with limited arm movements that a standard keyboard r…
ISEF · 2015
Positron emission tomography (PET) is considered the most advanced method of investigating neuroreceptor functionality. Promising radiotracers of PET, namely [11C]OMAR, present high binding…
ISEF · 2015
The city of Lagos has few public toilet scattered around the city, both privately owned and government owned. Same situation if not worse replicates itself in several Nigerian and developing…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to optimize enzymatic hydrolysis of waste paper to make fermentable sugars for biofuel production. I focused on adding surfactants to the paper to improve cellu…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The Great East Japan Earthquake caused serious damage due to many mountain slope failures, indicating the necessity of predicting the locations and extents of such failures in advance. In th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Problem: Post-operative pain exists following laparoscopic surgery due to trapped carbon dioxide gas. Purpose: Design a system to simulate the abdomen and test multiple methods that have the…
ISEF · 2015
Electrical utilities must be able to accurately predict the power inputs into their grid so that these inputs can be balanced against the electrical demands on the grid. A common objections…
ISEF · 2015
The Internet is a centralized communication network. In rural areas, it can be expensive or slow. Another concern is attackers can see when data on the Internet are being transferred. Using…
ISEF · 2015
A staggering percentage of our time and resources are spent on food production in the U.S. each year, and just under half of the food made goes to waste. This project investigates the possib…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of Leptomycin-B (LMB) on the subcellular distribution of a histone deacetylase protein (HDAC4) in HEK-293 cancer cells and how this response affects kidney…
ISEF · 2015
What would happen if the computers today did not use binary (Base Two) but instead used ternary (Base Three)? Theoretically a bigger base computer could store more information in the same am…
ISEF · 2015
Deferent expeditions to Mars have proven the existence of frozen water in the crust and rocks. The physical and the chemical analysis have mention that this frozen water contains a huge amou…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Today Mosquitoes are causing thousands of diseases like malaria, yellow fever, dengue, elephantiasis etc .These diseases can further cause sudden death. No one has yet succeeded to eradicate…
ISEF · 2015
During the late 1980s to early 1990s, while working on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles laser, researchers noticed they could see what they described as the…