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ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is a multi-factorial disorder, characterized by chronic elevation of glucose in the blood. Chronic exposure to high glucose (HG) is a leading cause of cell damage, which is responsi…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
The opioid epidemic has reached alarming levels and was declared a national public health emergency. Use of street available opioids such as heroin have doubled and deaths from overdose have…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
A rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive warning mechanism for imminent stroke and epileptic seizures was developed using gold nanoparticle-hydrogel composites. Stroke is the third leading cau…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
In this project, it is investigated a problem of exploring of the rule of number patterns. In fact, the problem is to find general term of the number sequences, if we have some consecutive t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common forms of dementia. The progression of AD occurs in the brain as well as in the eye. The retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells were recentl…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Read4me is a device that enables blind, illiterate and dyslexic people to read paper books. It uses Optical Character Recognition to detect the text in the pictures taken by a camera attache…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrial pollution has been a major environmental concern globally. A significant type of these industrial pollutants is organic dyes, which have been found to negatively affect human heal…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
Yeast species in floral nectar, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae, show high alcohol fermentation properties, with nectar-dwelling non-Saccharomyces yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima additio…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Myocardial Infraction Events (Heart Attacks) are cardiac emergencies that restrict blood flow through coronary arteries to major cardiac muscle tissue. Prolonged blood demand deficiency to t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Preventing death from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) holds great importance for the medical and public community worldwide. 326,000 people each year in the U.S. alone are afflicted and 90% do n…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
“Golden i” helps a blind person to identify the obstacles. If there is an obstacle in front of him within 3ft, the handle starts to vibrate. So he can walk carefully through the path. There…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
BACKGROUND World energy consumption will increase 28% by 2040 with renewables being the fastest growing energy source. Furthermore, renewables will increasingly replace coal. Solar updraft t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Surveillance devices using laser beams to detect sound are a security threat. The goal of this research was to quantify the ability of irregular transparent treatments to mask reflected modu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
One theory of how plants detect a change in gravity is the starch-statolith hypothesis. The hypothesis states during a change in gravity, statoliths, starch-containing organelles, settle to…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Two critical factors are involved in blooming of the morning glory, Pharbitis nil, a popular summer-flowering plant in Japan: (i) light/dark stimulus the evening before the day of flowering,…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) produces useful fuels and chemicals for various commercial industries while combating climate change. The purpose of this experiment is to s…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Abscission is the final stage of cytokinesis, the division of the cytoplasm between daughter cells, in which cells are physically separated by severing the intercellular bridge on either sid…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The task of the project is to create a cluster of 4 portable scintillation counters for recording extensive air showers (EAS) of elementary particles, suitable for placement in open areas, i…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The sign language dexterous hand is an integrate interaction system, which realizes the conversion between text, action and voice. The purpose of the study is facilitating the communication…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
It has become well established that the gut and the brain communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner. The objective of this experiment was to determine if altering the gut microbi…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
The purpose of our experiment was to devise an effective yet cost-efficient means of killing microorganisms in drinking water. We created a self-sufficient attachment to Hippo Roller pushabl…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Fourth Award
The native Olympic Oyster, Ostrea lurida, once populated the pays on the Pacific Coast. During the California Gold Rush, these oysters were harvested to the extent that they disappeared from…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Current tissue culture techniques use labor intensive propagation of seedlings which require lab-grade equipment and sterile environments. North American farmers are estimated to lose millio…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Aquaporin1a1 is an integral membrane protein that facilitates the transportation of water molecules across a cell. Previous research showed that morpholino knockdowns showed reduced transfer…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Little is known about the potential effects of “GenX’s” release into the Cape Fear River Basin. As stated by Rachel Carson “If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals - eatin…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
Helicobacter pylori is a persistent bacteria with defense mechanisms against the stomach’s acidic environment, allowing it to predominate the lining of the stomach. It affects approximately…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Plant diseases are a major threat to the environment and global economy. In India alone, 35% of crop production is lost to field pathogens and pests causing losses to farmers. Indiscriminate…