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ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Background/Hypothesis: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder with unknown mechanisms and no curative treatment. The rationale for this work came from a clinical…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Discovering children psychological issues has been hindered by the lack of children ability to express their feelings and needs using words, in addition to the shortage of an efficient and s…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Third Award
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts the world's population will increase from 7.3 billion to 9.7 billion people by 2050 – which will require global crop yields to increase b…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Third Award
Due to excessive cultivation and timber extraction, the Monkey River has become polluted from runoff fertilizer and pesticide flowing from nearby farms. The Belize Community is experiencing…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Globally, near shore reefs are being affected by warming oceans, which can cause widespread coral bleaching. The mechanisms of coral bleaching are well understood but less is known about how…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to compare seven coronary rotational atherectomy device head designs (spherical with 3, 4, or 5-holes, conical with 3, 4, or 5-holes, & control with no hol…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Amphibian populations are currently experiencing a global decline, with 43% of all species listed as a threatened species.. Increased habitat fragmentation has been shown to increase the dev…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The increase in the global population, an increase of elderly, combined with new surgical interventions and possibilities lead to an overall increase of surgeries. Every year there over 50 m…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Textiles have become the second most polluting industry in the environment, after petroleum. As a $772 billion field, businesses will need to find green, alternative solutions, due to the 2.…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bulrush aphids, Schizaphis scirpi, colonize on leaves of cattail, Typha latifolia, while another Schizaphis species, S. acori, is usually found on leaves of calamus, Acorus calamus. Since th…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
Since the introduction of dockless shared bikes in 2016, there has been more than 16 million shared bikes in China, and illegal parking has become a serious social issue. However, the common…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Third Award
This experiment attempted to determine whether or not inertial electrostatic confinement based devices or “fusors” were capable of producing a detectable amount of fusion reactions with an i…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
The fundamental paradigm of persistent homology is to vary an unknown parameter while computing algebraic invariants. The stability of the invariants is then analyzed to determine significan…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
The concept of a free object is one that relates to all kinds of algebraic structures, i.e. free groups, free algebras. In this project we investigate one of the most fundamental free object…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, the most common malignant brain tumor amongst adults, and has a mean survival time of 12 months post-diagno…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
This project aims to present a novel method for the asteroid search processes’ automatization, since these procedures still commonly rely on humans and manual spotting. The program, featurin…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a state-of-the-art optical technique to probe the dielectric properties of materials in the nano-scale. Only requiring mini…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Type 2 diabetes (T2D), a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar and insulin resistance (IR), has serious socioeconomic ramifications. While T2D is considered a lifestyle diseas…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
Burkholderia cenocepacia is a multi-drug resistant bacteria, prevalent in fatal pulmonary infections associated with cystic fibrosis. It uses signaling molecules known as Burkholderia Diffus…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Over 90% of cancer-associated mutations are non-coding, driving tumor development by impeding transcription factor binding – the “on and off switches” regulating key cell life and death gene…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
In today’s Aerospace industry, space-giant organizations use ill-suited rovers to map and inspect the expanse of Mars. In general, rovers being used are built with the traditional design of…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
In recent years, congestion in the global airspace has escalated at an exponential rate, increasing the probability of an air collision. Furthermore, many companies plan to deploy autonomous…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Visual impairment is a major global health problem. In 2017, WHO estimated that there were 253 million people worldwide with this ailment. According to the journal of the American Medical As…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems in both developing and developed nations is the lack of clean water, which induces disease and poverty in communities globally. Mobile applications carry immense…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Third Award
The Brachistochrone Problem contemplates the shape of the path between two points, on the same vertical plane, such that a bead can slide down, with no friction and only affected by gravity,…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Stingless bees (SB), Tetragonula fuscobalteata, are the recommended species for bee culturing as they are the most important pollinators of fruit crops during blooming. According to the repr…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Third Award
Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes protecting ends of eukaryotic chromosome from damage. Plant telomeres consist of the typical tandemly repeated motif TTTAGGG(n), but rare changes of tel…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) is considered as the major vector transmitting dengue in Sri Lanka. Objective of this study was to isolate bacterium from the natural environment and identify their…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
The global rate of infertility stands at an all-time high and nutrition has been discussed as an impactful factor in such concerning trends. Stable oogenesis is continually threatened by gen…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
When typing on a keyboard, we typically only see the end result of neatly typed words. However, the process of typing in order to create those final words also takes into account timing (suc…