ISEF · 2016
A Wing of the Future: Part III
Fourth Award
Aircraft are convenient and fast, but not very fuel efficient. Being a significant mode of transportation means large volumes of fuel are consumed and huge emissions result. In 2015, US airl…
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ISEF · 2016
Can We Directly Measure Each Solute Concentration in Mixed Solution? A New Class of Polarimeter
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
In this research, we present for the first time a new method to measure directly the concentration of different solutes present in a mixed solution in conjunction with a polarimeter. The key…
ISEF · 2016
CastMinder: Embedded Smart Sensors and Companion Software to Detect the Onset of Conditions Associated with Cast and Splint Complications and to Promote Patient Healing in Orthopedic Casts and Splints
Fourth Award
The use of orthopedic casts and splints can be associated with harmful complications such as compartment syndrome, skin infection, delayed union, and pain. To combat these issues, I develope…
ISEF · 2016
Chitobiotics: Chitin vs. Chitosan Novel Pharmaceutical Water Filtration and Filter Development
Fourth Award
Antibiotic resistance and pharmaceutical contamination are an emerging threat to drinking water sources, particularly those that stem from an aquifer. These items are difficult to neutralize…
ISEF · 2016
Classification of Subtle Morphological Features for Individual Nuclei in Stained Glioma Tissue Slides
Fourth Award
Gliomas are one of the most complex, deadly types of brain cancers that affect millions of people globally. Pathologists diagnose different types of glioma by analyzing the visual features o…
ISEF · 2016
Conjugative Transfer of Cytotoxic Genes for Targeted Cell Elimination
Fourth Award
With the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, a different approach is needed to combat bacterial infections without continual overuse of antibiotics. This experiment demo…
ISEF · 2016
CONSERVAA
Fourth Award
CONSERVAA is a smart way to combine green technologies in order to provide a longer, healthier food preservation. The main concern is to give nourishment to both the planet and people, by lo…
ISEF · 2016
Deriving an Analytical Algorithm for the Localization of Signal Sources in Orb Webs and Other Net Geometries: A Novel Mathematical Approach to Positioning Systems
Fourth Award
When an orb web is impacted by a small object, it is possible for spiders to locate the point of impact exclusively by measuring the propagation of the resulting transversal waves through th…
ISEF · 2016
Desalination by Pervaporation System
Fourth Award
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. In contrast, water scarcity is one of the biggest grand challenge…
ISEF · 2016
Design and Evaluation of Betulin-Based Anti-Cancer Compounds
Fourth Award
Betulin is a compound found in the bark of birch trees. Betulinic acid, a betulin derivative, exhibits ready availability and selective cytotoxicity as an anti-cancer agent, as designated by…
ISEF · 2016
Developing a Numerical Box Model to Compute Algae Concentration (as Chlorophyll)
Fourth Award
The purpose of my research is to develop a numerical box model that can be used to calculate the concentration of algae (as chlorophyll) in a well-mixed, closed water body system. This metho…
ISEF · 2016
Developing Operating System for High-Performance Computing with a Hardware Approach to the Transactional Memory Support
Fourth Award
As we know from the literature, multi-core processors do not achieve as high performance as one could expect. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward linear relationships between processo…
ISEF · 2016
Development and Systems Integration of a Modular Power Factor Corrected Pre-regulator, LiFePO4 Battery Charger, DC Motor Controller, and Battery Monitoring System
Fourth Award
Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are the state of the art in the automotive industry because they increase efficiency and reduce the negative environmental impacts of burning fossil fue…
ISEF · 2016
Development of a Novel Class of Antidiabetic and Anticancer Agents Targeting PTP1B Enzyme
Fourth Award
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), a predominant member of the Protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family of enzymes, serves as a negative regulator of the insulin signal transduction p…
ISEF · 2016
Development of a Toxic Metal Ion Sensor in Water Using Gold Nanoparticle-Amino Acid Assays
Fourth Award
The need for a facile, fast, and sensitive sensor remains as current methodologies to detect toxic heavy metal ions in drinking water require extensive laboratory equipment. In this project,…
ISEF · 2016
Development of Beta-Galactosidase Reusable Micro-Capsules for Lactose Intolerant People
Fourth Award
Lactose intolerance affects millions of people worldwide. It is caused by the inability to produce a digestive enzyme called lactase or beta-galactosidase, responsible for the breakdown of l…
ISEF · 2016
Direct Connection Technology between Disabled and Prosthetic Robot Hand
Fourth Award
Despite there are lots of prosthetic robot hands are developing, disabled people can't use these technologies in their daily life. I thought these problem exist because of connection technol…
ISEF · 2016
Dynamics of 3D Printing: Reactor3D
Fourth Award
The aim of this engineering project was to design and construct a 3D printer that combats the current expensive price of many consumer grade 3D printers. I accomplished this by reducing the…
ISEF · 2016
Efficient, Hardware Implementations of Computationally-Intensive Operations in Quotient Polynomial Rings for NTRU-Based Digital Signatures
Fourth Award
The security of data is a major issue in today’s society–one way to ensure this security is to use digital signatures. NTRUSign, the signature scheme based on the N-th Degree Truncated Polyn…
ISEF · 2016
Engineering a Modern-Day Enigma Machine
Fourth Award
The Enigma machine was used in WWII by the Germans to communicate with their submarines and within their military to send secure messages. It was considered one of the most secure encryption…
ISEF · 2016
Evaluating the Impact of Soil Management on Weed Pressure in Organic and Transitioning Agricultural Ecosystems
Fourth Award
Organic farming is a method of agriculture that has increased in popularity over the years. Despite its many environmental benefits, organic farmers are heavily dependent on tillage, which d…
ISEF · 2016
Functional Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoY Virulence Factor
Fourth Award
Purpose of the Experiment P. aeruginosa is responsible for the second most common hospital infection. Its ExoY toxin is a promiscuous cyclase similar to other toxins like the B. anthracis Ed…
ISEF · 2016
Geochemical Extraction of Ceratopsian Remains and Opal from Ironstone
Fourth Award
New prehistoric species, ancient hominid bones, potential martian astro-microbiology, and a wealth of soft tissues representing important evolutionary information are among significant speci…
ISEF · 2016
Get Up 'N' Go: Walker Stabilization Device
Fourth Award
To solve the problem statement - of the 6.1 million mobility device users in the United States, those who push or pull on the walker when sitting or standing cause it to become unstable - th…
ISEF · 2016
Gravitational Influence on Planet Formation
Fourth Award
The formation of planets out of gas and dust grains in protoplanetary disks is still a puzzling process. Observations of exoplanets - for example the detection of gas giants nearby their cen…
ISEF · 2016
HeadSentry: An Innovative Real Time System for Preventing Second Impact Syndrome (SIS) from an Overlooked Concussion in Aquatic Sports
Fourth Award
Concussions and other head injuries are very common in a wide variety of contact sports. However, a concussion that goes undetected can be severely life threatening to athletes through what…
ISEF · 2016
Highly Effective Hybrids
Fourth Award
Research and development on new forms of construction are important to the growth of infrastructure and manufacturing. Finding new materials that can not only be more cost effective than com…
ISEF · 2016
Identification of Parkinson’s Disease-Associated SNP-SNP Interaction Using Interaction Analysis by Chi-Square (IAC)
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects an estimated seven to ten million people worldwide. During the past ten years, Genome-Wide Association Studie…
ISEF · 2016
Identifying Greenhouse Gas Hotspots in Megacities
Fourth Award
Global warming due to the release of man-made greenhouse gases in our atmosphere continues to be a major challenge for scientists today. An accurate and efficient measurement strategy to est…
ISEF · 2016
Immobilization of Glycans on Silicon Substrates for Diagnostic Microarrays
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Biochemical methods that enable rapid and early diagnosis are critical to disease and patient management. Of unequivocal importance to addressing these issues is the study of interactions be…