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ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disorder resulting in neuronal death and loss of memory and cognition. However, the exact etiology of AD is not completely understood. This n…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Bisphenol A (BPA), an environmental pollutant and ubiquitous endocrine disruptor, is associated with obesity, cancer, and childhood neurological disorders. Because BPA has similar structure…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Second Award
Saltwater intrusion is a major cause of erosion. If a hybrid bald cypress species is superior to the regular bald cypress species at surviving in saline conditions, then planting these hybri…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Second Award
The aim of our study was to investigate a repellent effect of 13 essential oils of plants on ticks of Dermacentor reticulatus (Meadow tick) – transporter of fatal babesiosis of dogs and tula…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Genetic mutations in patients with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cause the NT5C2 enzyme to act as if it has been allosterically activated, allowing purine nucleoside substrat…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Second Award
Recent scientific and journalistic publications have called into question the validity and efficacy of flossing. This project aims to determine whether flossing benefits dental health by ana…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
In 1926, 2600 intricately folded letters from the 17th century were discovered. Opening the letters risks losing the folding patterns, breaking the seals, and destroying the text. Recently,…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
This project studied the effects of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on their host galaxies in relation to their inherent properties. It also shed light on the Shankar et al. (2016) controve…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The objective of this project is to derive the vertical air currents in hurricanes using a physics-based model to describe the dropsonde fall speed in still air. By assuming that the dropson…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Due to toxic industrial waste environmental pollution due has become one of the most significant problems nowadays. Most widely-used method of utilization of carbon monoxide, a poisonous byp…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
To address global fresh water scarcity, a novel hydrogel based seawater desalination technique using a superabsorbent starch based polymer is proposed. Current approaches rely on thermal, me…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Surface plasmons are vibrations from free electrons residing on the surfaces of metals such as gold. Since the frequency (or the wavelength) of these vibrations is very sensitive to surface…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Liver tissue for transplant is unviable for many patients as a result of hepatocellular damage during transport. Standard cold storage, the usual method of transport has been shown in multip…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Antibiotic resistance constitutes one of the world's greatest public health issues. Through natural selection, bacteria have developed mechanisms that confer this resistance - creating a pre…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
More than 700,000 people worldwide die annually from infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria (CDC). One major contributor to antibiotic resistance is the overuse of antibiotics in agric…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The number of wearable and implantable devices (WIDs) used is projected to reach 515 million by 2017. A major limitation with many WIDs is the need for expensive and cumbersome battery repla…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Pollution control is currently viewed as a cost, something to be avoided and ideally passed down to the next generations. This study focuses on converting nutrient pollution into a product o…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The objective of this study is to test electroencephalogram (EEG) segments to determine if a logistic regression classification algorithm can predict epileptic seizures based on the variance…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Viral diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Methods currently used to diagnose viral infection take too long and are lab-based and expensive. An urgent need exists for a tool to d…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
A cat released in mid-air devoid of angular momentum or anything to push off easily maneuvers to land on its feet. Similarly, a diver can leave a diving board with no angular momentum and ye…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Reverse osmosis (RO) has proven an effective method of water purification and has been widely implemented in much of the industrialized world. However, high production and energy costs of th…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Parasitic weed Striga accounts for estimated yearly crop losses over $20 billion in the United States alone. Seeds of parasitic weeds germinate in response to signaling molecules called stri…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular disease causes nearly one-third of all deaths in the world. Unfortunately, atherosclerosis commonly remains asymptomatic for decades, and is pro…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics serves to deliver rapid and robust results in resource poor settings; however, current tests have been hindered by qualitative “yes-or-no” results. The purpos…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Increases in world population have required improved agricultural yields. Cellulose binding domain IV (CBD), the non-catalytic domain of a novel family of carbohydrate-binding hydrolases, ha…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this project was to build muffler that serves two purposes; attenuating exhaust noise and increasing performance. Computational fluid dynamics software was used to create mode…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Biohydrogen generated from algal cultures can be an effective solution as cleaner alternative fuel to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the related research is focused on limited st…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Electrical discharges in liquids have been used for water disinfection and decontamination, nanoparticle production, and many other chemical and biological applications. Gas bubbles are intr…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Activation of aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) by the hormone Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a critical event in the development of atherosclerosis and hypertension. In addition, enha…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) or illnesses like ALS or MS cause disabilities that make people dependent on a wheelchair and in their etiopathology are robbed of any movement at all. Our project…