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ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
During my work experience at Astrium, Poynton in Manchester I was introduced to equipment and rack manufacture for use in hostile environments. In particular, much of the equipment was for u…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Providing sustainable energy globally is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Health and climate risks associated with combustion of fossil fuels threaten global stability, de…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Catastrophic cyber infiltrations can devastate a nation's information infrastructure. This project provides a new way to defend modern adaptive computer networks. Computer networks are autom…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Several studies have documented marked alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are two major subphenotypes of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis (UC)…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are vectors for many dangerous diseases such as Malaria, Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile etc. Mosquito transmitted diseases occur mostly in tropical, developing countries and crea…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Phycoerythrin is a light harvesting phycobilin protein extracted from the red seaweed species Chondrus crispus. Phycoerythrin has the potential to be used as the sensitizer in dye sensitized…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
This research establishes Drosophila oogenesis as a new system for the study of in vivo nuclear actin rod biology. The study examines the differences in length and frequency of the nuclear a…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Quantum systems are typically treated as closed systems and hence described by hermitian Hamiltonian matrices. However, the discovery that a non-hermitian Hamiltonian can have real eigenvalu…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered cardiac arrhythmia in the clinical setting, and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Hyperactivity of the ryanodine recep…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose: Millions of intraocular injections are given each year. I developed a novel device (the Intraocular Injection Guide, IIG) to improve patient comfort during intraocular injections by…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Certain materials possess the ability to harness energy from light to facilitate reactions. These photocatalysts present an opportunity for providing a sustainable way to solve energy and en…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Permanent environmental degradation caused by the global climate change, natural and technogenic factors is one of the greatest challenges of the 21 century. A global multiparameter environm…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This engineering project is about investigating and developing an affordable system that is capable of controlling an electric wheelchair using ocular tracking based on electrooculographic (…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer is poorly responsive to available chemotherapy. miR-34a has been suggested as a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, however it needs to be specifically targeted to the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Due to the dynamic and variable nature of the stock market, trading strategies do have strong and weak periods. That requires periodic changes in the strategy, which involves finding the bes…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Nowadays, systems for hand gesture recognition become more and more required due to the replacement of 2D systems and the way of interacting with them by the new 3D and holographic technolog…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Problem: 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, representing a staggering 4% of our population. Currently-available assistive devices for the blind are either somewhat crude…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
H.E.R.O. presents a novel approach towards assisting the visually impaired during navigation through the development of an Arduino platform based, multimodal, haptic feedback device that all…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) have a very poor prognosis. Their tumors are not responsive to chemotherapy. Previous studies have suggested that metastasis in IBC is driven b…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The high frequency resonant transformer, more commonly known as the Tesla coil, is a device that combines different physical phenomena in the field of electromagnetism. The existing literatu…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Phase-locked loop (PLL) control has been widely applied, for example, in hard disk drives, which require extremely precise control of their rotational speed. The present study is the develop…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
In the city of Bangor, six streams are defined as impaired by the Department of Environmental Protection. The intent of this study was to identify the types and sources of pollution causing…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The landing is the most difficult and important stage of the flight. It requires a suitable length of the runway and pilot's skill. The main idea of our project is to decrease the landing sp…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Ras proteins are a family of small GTPases activated by numerous upstream signaling molecules. Mutations in RAS genes (KRAS, NRAS, HRAS) can cause the corresponding Ras protein to be locked…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The highly invasive species of algae, Gracilaria salicornia, has harmful detriments to Hawaii's vulnerable reef life. As a red algae, Gracilaria salicornia has the potential have agar extrac…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the world, yet many deaths can be avoided if malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) are detected at an early stage of develo…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of Leptomycin-B (LMB) on the subcellular distribution of a histone deacetylase protein (HDAC4) in HEK-293 cancer cells and how this response affects kidney…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The smartphone has become our communication device, our wallet, and our personal assistant. It has updated many old technologies, but one that has not benefitted from it is the personal lock…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Radon222 is a chemically inert gas with an atomic number of 86. It forms from the natural decay of Uranium238. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in Ireland. This is due to the em…