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ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Bicycle helmets are designed to balance both safety and comfort. To understand the design trade-offs, testing methodologies need adequate fidelity to measure the relevant variables. Because…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
aWear is an innovative assistive aged care system designed to support a rapid response to accidents, particularly falls. This potentially life-saving solution has been a collaboration betwee…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), observed in infants born preterm with low birth weight, is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. ROP shows no external signs or symptoms. Currently, the g…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Precision and personalized medicine are emerging approaches for cancer therapeutics. By characterizing patients’ risk for adverse developments such as tumor progression, specialized treatmen…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Catheters are the most used devices in treating hospitalized patients and in hemodialysis procedures. However, its use represents a potential risk for blood infections (possibly sepsis or se…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Research Question: Can mankind not manipulate bionergy to create a carbon negative instead of carbon-neutral energy production system as a means of reversing the harmful effects of climate c…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
On many pattern recognition and inference tasks the human brain, which consumes just 20W and occupies only 1.5L, can outperform AI running on large von Neumann (vN) systems. Closure of this…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Current gas sensors possess many disadvantages, from low gas specificity to short life spans to the requiring of extensive maintenance. Carbon nanotubes' extremely specific structure inspire…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Abscission, the final stage of cytokinesis, is characterized by the separation of cells through the severing of the intercellular bridge at the midbody. Components of the Endosomal Sorting C…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNA molecules that are implicated in many gene expression pathways. Because they can degrade genes before translation, they have been extensively resea…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Chloramine in swimming pools is considered hazardous. It is generated by reaction of free chlorine with amine compounds including urine and perspiration. To eliminate chloramine, excessive a…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Fourth Award
The project entitled classroom 2.0, seeks a practical solution to the economic deficiencies that prevent the proper implementation of classrooms with the latest technological resources. Our…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Stuttering, a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of syllables, affects tens of millions of people. Stuttering c…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health challenge which affects about two million people in the U.S. annually. The search for new antibacterial agents is focusing on small drug mole…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Currently, new alternatives for greenhouse gases are of great interest, and hydrogen is a major player in the race for a new source of fuel. Hydrogen can be produced through a photocatalytic…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
More and more applications in industry and everyday life can be taken over by automated mobile platforms. One of the core attributes of a mobile robot is its drive, as this is the key to its…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Fourth Award
Autism is a spectrum disorder that affects regions of the brain which control a person’s communication and social interaction. It is a challenge for autistic children to communicate given th…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The spread of fake news on the internet is presenting increasing threats to national security, with the potential to incite public unrest and violence. Given Singapore’s multiracial society,…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
DNA-binding proteins play an especially important role in regulating gene expression. These proteins called transcription factors (TFs) recognize and bind to DNA-sequences called DNA motifs,…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently with the average cost of a prosthetic continually rising, and the usability of cheaper prosthetics negatively affecting the user, a prosthetic with long-term functionality and comp…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The aviation industry accounts for 11% of all transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, producing 158 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. While a sma…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Inorganic substances and heavy metals in the environment pose a chronic threat to the safety of humans and wildlife. Current wastewater treatment processes are costly, complex, and cause sec…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Soil Conductivity [soil EC], the measure of soil salinity, offers farmers invaluable information to predict crop yields, manage field sustainability, and create a decision support system [DS…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Urinary catheter is a commonly used medical device employed to drain urine from the bladder into a collection bag to relieve urinary obstruction. It has some inherent problems, the most sign…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
Saccharibacteria is an extremely small (~200nm) uncultivable microbe that lives an unique parasitic lifestyle on various host bacteria, including P. propionicum. Saccharibacteria was recentl…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The popularity of proton beam therapy in treating cancer is increasing, and further development of beam detectors is necessary to monitor the beam profile and perform quality assurance. The…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Acute cardiac arrhythmias are the No. 1 killer in industrialized countries; the mechanisms behind the onset and electrical dynamics are poorly understood, and mathematical modeling is limite…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Cancer research is a priority for medicine and modern society. Melanoma is considered one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, since this tumor has aggressive behavior and it is metastati…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Lygodium Microphyllum is an invasive species relatively new to Central Florida. It out-competes and destroys varieties of plants in multiple ecosystems. Currently, detection in Central Flori…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Fourth Award
I developed a new method to analyze expanding maps with indifferent fixed points. I applied this method to specifically analyze the iterations of the tangent map, proving both measure-theore…