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ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Miniature satellites are revolutionary to the space industry. Most do not function more than a year or even four months, but they are inexpensive, light weight, and quickly produced. This en…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Most cultured glioma cells die under temozolomide (TMZ) treatment. However, a U251 glioma strain that proliferates under 500uM TMZ, termed "UTMZ", has been derived from U251 cells by resista…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
High refractive index (n) thin film coatings are widely used in the field of optics, which touches many aspects of our lives. One application of thin film coatings is in optical biosensors,…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This project proposes new dynamic optimization algorithms that provide significant cache management enhancements over the known three basic algorithms for signature verifications to improve…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Solution mining at the I&W Brine Well Site in Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced a large underground cavity that could result in a catastrophic sinkhole-inducing collapse. A church, feed stor…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive degenerative neuro-disease. About 90% of patients with Parkinson’s disease die within 15 years. Since its symptoms become worse as time passes an…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease destroying humanity. Researches suggest that the aggregation of misfolded beta-amyloid is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. pi-Stacking, the key forc…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
A number of epidemiological studies and animal experiments have shown that individuals with preexisting diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes melli…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Oil slicks, resulting from oil spills, are often sprayed with chemical dispersants. Ideally, the sub-millimeter scale dispersant droplets will gently land on the oil slick and gradually mix…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Acetylation and methylation are garnering increasing attention for their respective roles in metabolic regulation through altering both gene expression and cytoplasmic enzyme activity. Howev…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Although fossil fuels have the capacity to power the Earth for decades, solar energy is an essential, environmentally friendly form of renewable energy that can supplement fossil fuel energy…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
In spite of chemotherapeutic and surgical advances, pancreatic cancer continues to have a dismal prognosis. Metastasis due to tumor cell migration remains the most critical challenge in trea…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
A major problem in today’s society, specifically in developing countries, is accessing sanitary drinking water. Over 780 million people are without safe drinking water. One main cause of thi…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The intent of this experiment was to discover which method of irrigating plants grew the plants in the most efficient manner. I tried a new irrigation system that consisted of injecting the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The authors aim to create an affordable electronic Braille display that can be widely assembled in most of the countries and well-equipped with essential functions. Feedbacks are collected f…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
In recent years, the ketogenic diet, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate and low-protein diet, has been shown to have potential as an effective adjuvant therapy for patients with malignant glioma.…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to reduce the emissions from an engine using activated carbon (AC) as a supplemental filter while a catalytic converter is warming up. This experiment measure…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Substantial challenges of drug delivery to treat various diseases exist in our modern world. The acidic environment of the stomach, combined with an array of intestinal digestive enzymes, po…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Although there are some stove types in our life like gas stove and wood stove, all of these types can be harmful for humans and our environment. For example, the gas stove could burn the are…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
This research is a comparative study between varying pretreatment methods employed in the cellulosic bioethanol production process. The first pretreatment is a process known as biological pr…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Triclosan™ is a widely utilized chemical antimicrobial used to combat a wide range of pathogenic microbes; however, it’s use may cause environmental issues including the creation of dioxins…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
An alternative treatment using natural plant extracts was investigated for the opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Infections with this pathogen are frequently seen in immunocom…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Granular segregation is a counterintuitive phenomenon in nonlinear physics where granular particles in binary granular mixtures sort by size under excitation. Although segregation is a very…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Given a number x, we consider the dynamic system x goes to x(g^x) mod (p^n), also known as the Discrete Lambert. In this equation, all variables are known other than x. The Discrete Lambert…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is estimated to affect over 18,000 people in the United States this year. It occurs when there’s a blockage in differentiation. AML type 3 doesn’t have a chemoth…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
A great deal of time is wasted trying to locate misplaced keys. This can ruin your day, leave you late for work or school, stretch relationships, increase the blood pressure and can result i…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Since the discovery of penicillin, bacteria have developed mechanisms to avoid its effects and, therefore, survive. Furthermore, during the last decades and because of the overuse of antibio…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Tetraplegia is a state of paralysis involving the loss of muscle functions of all four limbs in the human body. There is currently no cure for such severe forms of paralysis, though neural p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Gold nanoparticles have recently come to prominence due to increased demand for nanoscale technologies. Nanoparticles of different shapes have unique capabilities. Current methods for synthe…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
As technology evolves, weapons evolve, and the need for an armor that can protect against modern weapons grows. The purpose of this project is to determine the viability of developing a body…