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ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project is designed to help people conveniently receive information regardless of any environmental distractions. One major factor contributing to inefficient communication in learning…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The drought has caused several impacts in different continents of the planet. The increase of poverty and hunger has been considered as a direct consequence of droughts for the world populat…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Each year in the United States, at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant infections with 80% of these deaths from gram-positive bacteria. One promising…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Coral reefs and Cnidarians are hosts to symbiotic, nutrient-providing dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium/zooxanthellae). Almost all coral reefs experienced a major decline in the 1980s and climat…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
One of the major difficulties faced by the elders and the differently abled people at present day is climbing up & down a staircase. To overcome this difficulty either they have to get assis…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A one-pot approach has been developed for the preparation of Cu2O nanocubes from cupric nitrate in alkaline aqueous solutions containing fructose and ascorbic acid at 32 degrees clesius. In…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Breast cancer is devastating and the most common life-threatening cancer in Saudi Arabia. Chemotherapy is found to be effective for the treatment of many cancers especially breast cancer. Un…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Cystic fibrosis is a common fatal genetic disorder that affects over 70,000 individuals worldwide. The direct cause of death for 80% of cystic fibrosis patients is Pseudomonas aeruginosa inf…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project successfully developed a Gesture-Based Control System, which could manipulate values in a phantom three-dimensional field. The Gesture-Based Control System is a Control system t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A considerable amount of potential energy is lost as heat while hot beverages cool down. Until now, no effective technique of recovering this energy has been proposed. Simultaneously, there…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of elevated pCO2 on the protein expression on the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas. Recently, the rise in anthropogenic CO2 has co…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Mammalian cell membranes, unique films forming the borders of cells and organelles, are composed of lipid bilayers, proteins and other molecules such as for instance cholesterol. In my work,…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project studies the effect of pollution on the number of tardigrades (water bears) in lichen and moss samples. I asked whether the correlation between pollution and elevation as measure…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Mankind is challenged to ensure sustainability in providing food and water at affordable prices. The problem becomes more complex with the growth in global population, especially in difficul…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Currently an additive in most infant formulas and energy drinks, taurine is an endogenous amino acid and neuromodulator that has been found to have possible effects on the development of the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project investigated how simple behaviors can be implemented into an interconnected decentralized swarm robotics system to generate complex emergent behaviors without using extensive co…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Last year's research determined that improvements needed be made to the past cooling manifold. The purpose of the past manifold was to cool a solar panel effectively in order to produce an i…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
The objective of my project was to inhibit the proteolytic enzymes of adult and microfilariae Brugia pahangi using protease inhibitors to see if these inhibitors could kill these parasites.…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Chronic lymphedema is a progressive, disabling condition characterized by regional bodily accumulation of protein-rich interstitial fluid. It affects over 100 million worldwide, yet no pharm…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Arsenic is an odorless and tasteless chemical that leaches into ground water, and this contamination is found in the major water sources affecting the health of over 200 million people world…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Purpose of the Experiment Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a widespread metabolic disease, caused by lack of Insulin producing beta cells, or body cells Insulin resistance. Transcription factor Pax…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Purpose: The purpose was to find more reliable and wide-ranging methods of cleaning freshwater, using hardy and efficient mixed cultures of proven bio-remediatory bacteria to degrade severe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disorder that involves muscle weakness and occurs in approximately 1 out of every 3,600 male infants. The average life expectancy for indivi…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of the project is to fix damaged, high pressure pipes in either extreme or domestic circumstances. I decided to use NITINOL alloy because of its form remembering effect (After de…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Plant cultivation in Saudi Arabia’s coastal areas is implemented mainly in greenhouses, which are located in humid environments. The ideal humidity for most plants typically ranges between 5…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The fruits of Dendrophthoe pentandra, a parasitic plant, produce sticky sap which can adhere to the trees and attach their seedlings for seed propagation. I noticed that my father had to spe…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to find a way to provide a constant supply of electrical power to a cardiac pacemaker utilizing cardiac and pulmonary motions in conjunction with piezoelect…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread neuropsychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying differences in…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Amaranthus palmeri (Palmer's amaranth) is a highly invasive noxious weed that causes significant problems in agriculture as it is becoming resistant to glycine (Round-up). This glycine-resis…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
It is imperative to develop new options for the development of high yielding and multiple stress and disease resistant cultivars of plants. The intention of this project was to determine if…