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ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
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 fuels. The long…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
A novel, user-worn device (iAid) was devised to help visually impaired people navigate using an Arduino microprocessor and an Android platform. Voice commands were utilized to input the dest…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Ice floats on water, and upon freezing, exerts an outward force of over 700 megapascals (Mpa). The deepest spot on the ocean floor yet explored is within the Mariana trench, and only reaches…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
There are many applications for indoor navigation, from navigating hospitals, airports and shopping malls, to mining and disaster response. Despite intensive research, the problem of develop…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
A falling stream of water exhibits a phenomenon known as Plateau Rayleigh Instability (PRI) as it descends: initially taking the form of a fluid column, it eventually breaks up into spherica…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The human genome contains upwards of 20,000 genes that code for functional products, such as proteins. In addition to genes, the genome encodes regulatory elements that respond to specific s…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Conventional chemical assays of water samples typically target certain chemicals and are difficult to apply to a broad range of water contaminants. An economical and robust bioassay method f…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Approximately 34 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, including 2.3 million children. To date, there is no accurate point-of-care HIV test for neonates or acutely infected adults.…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
Space weather affects military and civilian systems operating in or through space in several ways, including large variations in the atmospheric drag on satellites. As the utilization of low…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
The prevalence of tanning and UV-overexposing activities continues to enthrone skin cancers as the most common type of cancer affecting humans. The deadliest and most aggressive form of thes…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
With a 5-year survival rate of only 6%, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Transforming Growth Factor-ß1 (TGF-ß1),…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
In the US alone, 200,000 surgical vascular procedures fail annually, primarily due to restenosis caused by a healing response known as intimal hyperplasia (IH). IH can be attributed to endot…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The goal of this work is a development of efficient approach to the chemical synthesis of low-molecular-weight fragments of alginate-like bacterial polysaccharides. These fragments are promi…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) occurs when aggregated Beta-Amyloid (ABeta) protein causes massive neuronal death, resulting in atrophy of affected brain regions, memory loss, and eventually death.…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
After working in an Indian Hospital, I realized that surgery for eye diseases is costly, unavailable, and inefficient, while the alternative is a drug in the form of eye drops. Current ocula…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Second Award
Protease inhibitors used in clinical practice can be denoted as highly potent weapons against HIV. Unfortunately, the virus easily mutates and becomes more and more resistant. This is the ma…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Much biological research depends upon species diagnoses of sample organisms. The advent of DNA barcoding has made this process fast, inexpensive, and highly accurate. In place of the morphol…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
In this current study, highly crystalline undoped, N- and P-doped tin dioxide (SnO2) nanocrystals were successfully synthesized and gas sensors fabricated achieving exceptional sensor perfor…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Second Award
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is an opportunistic gram-negative bacterium that causes serious infection in immunocompromised patients. PA becomes much more pathogenic when it develops a biofil…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
This project is inspired by a recent breakthrough in the study of the lower central series filtration of unitary associative Lie algebras. We consider the successive quotients of elements (a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Natural gas separation and ammonia purge gas recovery are among the most important industrial processes by accounting for 22% of all in-plant energy use and improving the Haber Bosch process…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
One in eight women will be diagnosed with a form of noninvasive Breast cancer during her lifetime. NEK2 is a highly-expressed gene in Breast cancer. The objective was to determine the role N…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Water availability and quality are universally important issues. The imbalance between fresh water demand and supply is expected to worsen. To date, water technology has been focused on desa…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
The goal of this project, that is named ARTEMIS, was to design and develop a concept of wireless body area network (WBAN) for a particular application of monitoring and processing personal p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
My aim was to create a poker robot, not only for entertainment but also as a sparring partner which can be used to improve tactics. The first step of the project was to design and build a ro…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Second Award
Put a candle in a saucer filled with water, light the candle and then cover it with a beaker. After the candle extinguishes, the water level suddenly increases. The purpose of our experiment…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
We present Semantic Multilayer Support Vector Machine (SMLSVM), a novel prototype for artificial intelligence that uses a multilayer network of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to perform data…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The fabrication of laser grade ceramics must be improved to achieve better reproducibility of high quality yields, requiring a control of the bulk stoichiometry beyond that of current analyt…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
The effort to understand the microscopic mechanism of melting has intrigued scientists for more than 100 years, but many questions about melting mechanisms remain to be answered. The aim of…