IRS GPP

 IRS 2012

      INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Instruction to Participants:

1. Discuss with your mentor the planning and implementation issues of your project before completing this form.
2. Submit the completed form to your mentor, teacher-advisor, and School-coordinator by 21 Sept 2012.

STUDENT NAME (S) Issac Jose Ignatius, Koh Jun Kai, Xavier Ng Shan Hao, Ong Jiakang Roger	SCHOOL/TEAM SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SINGAPORE
MENTOR Ng Guohui	PROGRAMME/INSTITUTION INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROPOSAL

TITLE OF PROJECT An investigation on the effects of lack of exercise to the Body-Mass-Index.
CATEGORY (Tick appropriate category)	Chemistry  Biochemistry  Botany  Microbiology  Zoology	Environmental Science  Medicine & Health  DNA Science  Space Science	Computer Science  Physics  Mathematics  Engineering:  (Specify which area of engineering)        Others:
PURPOSE OF RESEARCH (a) For scientific investigations Hypothesis / Engineering Goals: Lack of exercise affects the Body-Mass-Index Independent variable: Amount of exercise done in regular intervals Dependent variable: Change in Body-Mass-Index Constants: People that have the healthy range of BMI before experiment. Age Group Gender
RELEVANCY OF RESEARCH Why is your research important? It allows people to know that lack of exercise might cause a change in the BMI. Having high or low BMI increases health risks. How does it contribute to existing body of knowledge? It contributes about the relationship between exercising and the BMI. With the help of this research, people would understand that it is very important to exercise regularly and the effects of exercising to the BMI. How does your research contribute to/impact the society or community? It impacts the society to think about exercise regularly because it may affect their BMI in the long run.
SCOPE OF RESEARCH The "scope" section is where you list what you are doing. The "bounds" section is where you set the boundaries and you list some thing explicitly that you are not doing because they are outside the bounds of the project. 1. Effects of low and high BMI e.g. illnesses (Bound) 2. How frequent people exercise (Scope) 3. Have a control and the variable for the experiment (Scope)
LITERATURE REVIEW What are the current research available/ you have come across? Relation of exercise capacity and body mass index to mortality in patients with intermediate to high risk of coronary artery disease. Summarise the research articles that you have encountered which may be useful to your research. Both increased exercise capacity and BMI were associated with lower mortality in patients with an intermediate to high likelihood of CAD (coronary artery disease) after controlling for confounding variables, supporting an inverse impact of BMI on mortality.
METHODOLOGY Procedures How are you going to gather data? 1)     Survey of 500 adults between the ages of 21-35 with the help of Google forms. How are you going to collate data? 2)     Google forms will put the available data into spreadsheets. How are you going to sift and sort data i.e. which data is important? 3)     Type in the relevant information into the Google Form Data Analysis How are you going to analyse the data? We will find the average amount of time spent to exercise that allows the person to be in the healthy range of the BMI. How are you going to present the data? The statistics on the amount of time spent exercising for a person who is in the low, healthy and high range of the BMI will be shown through a graph. Bibliography 1. Provide references. 1)     http://weightloss.about.com/od/obesityhealth/a/blbmi2b.htm 2)     http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Ar-Bu/Body-Mass-Index.html#b 3)     http://www.livestrong.com/article/306379-side-effects-of-a-low-bmi/ 4)     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18929704
RISK ASSESSMENT 1.     List/identify the hazardous chemicals, activities, or devices that will be used -------------------------------------------------------N/A------------------------------------------------------- 2.     Identify and assess the risks involved. 1)     Infringement of privacy or laws broken. 2)     Hackers sabotaging the Form. 3.     Describe the safety precautions and procedures that will be used to reduce the risks. 1)     Ensure that none of our questions are offensive in anyway. 2)     Give them assurance that it will be marked highly confidential. 4.     Describe the disposal procedures that will be used (when applicable). 1)     We can apologize to them by email or personally 5.     List the source(s) of safety information. NIL
DESIRED OUTCOMES/SKILL ACQUISATION ICT skills* Applied Learning skills* 21st century skills* The Scientific Method* Inter-disciplinary Research* Key: * - Will be Acquired.  ‘Blank’ – Will not be Acquired