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ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in PT-symmetric structures in quantum systems, when reversed in parity (P) and time (T), remain invariant. The purpose of this w…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle to successful chemotherapy. The main cause of MDR is the increased drug efflux by ABC transporters. AC220 is a potent and selective inhibitor o…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Although the failure of single-targeted chemotherapy agents is inevitable, recent studies demonstrate that combinatorial dual therapy can effectively treat most cancers. However, two major o…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over 25 million Americans alone live with some form of renal complication, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. Increased development in the kidney research field could r…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
People with severe visual impairment have difficulties navigating their way through buildings. Due to this, we created a renovated cane that combines a Cintech Pin-pointer metal detector, to…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Disposable diapers are one of the top contributors to waste in landfills. In the US alone, nearly 25 billion diapers are deposited into landfills each year. This project aims to reduce the t…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of this project was to design, construct and test a device that could utilize the motion of waves to generate electricity. Subsequently, a system was developed that allowed for t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Every drug that is introduced into an organism has an effect in up or down regulating the genes within that organism. A better understanding of the differentially expressed genes within that…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Despite high responses to current therapeutic methods, about 90% of ovarian cancer patients develop recurrence. The inability to efficiently combat metastasis makes ovarian cancer lethal as…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
As the demand for more efficient and cheaper solar cells increased, the integration of carbon nanotubes and solar cells has become the center of discussion. The purpose of this research was…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
There has been an explosion in the amount of genetic data available to biologists in the past two decades. To analyze this vast information, computer algorithms (e.g. BLAST) have been develo…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Spectrophotometers are optical instruments which analyze substance samples using electromagnetic spectra. Traditional professional spectrophotometers have extensive applicability in physics,…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Cardiac arrhythmias are the leading cause of death in the U.S. and the developed world but remain poorly understood. Mathematical models of the heart have proven essential to their study, bu…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Fluorescence detection has had a broad application in the area of tumor diagnostics for many years. The new approach described in this work involves the intense illumination of tumor tissue…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
This work presents the concept of solar heat driven membrane water desalinator and its experimental validation. In the present research, the desalinator is designed, built, and experimentall…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Tunable UV lasers have the potential to change the world in medicine and atmospherics. An ultra-broadband UV laser would make possible early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease wh…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Due to increasing use of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are expected to exceed 700 ppm by the year 2050. This initiated innovative scientific research into carbon capt…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Carrageenans are linear sulfated polysaccharides derived from red seaweeds that are popularly used in the food industry to gel, thicken and stabilize properties in certain foods, but their u…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
This study examines the classic traffic-flow problem: how should networks be designed in order to minimize commuters’ travel time? Besides transportation, this question also has important im…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 is a commonly used model organism for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is one of the most serious bacterial infections in the world and has become increasingl…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
In 2001, second generation neonicotinoids were introduced into the insecticide market. Thiamethoxam is the most used of these. It has a unique chemical structure that makes it highly water s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
With world-wide rates of obesity increasing, understanding the biochemical changes associated with the progression of obesity has become increasingly important. Osteopontin (OPN) levels have…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
Recent developments concerning indoor mapping and navigation have relied primarily on preexisting or manually developed floor plans, a condition precluding such improvement to locations wher…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Recently, there has been a world-wide supply problem with rare-earths and so, there is a great incentive to develop strong magnets with reduced amount of rare-earths. Superconductors are one…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignancy of the central nervous system in adults. Despite medical advancements, long-term patient survival (>5 years) remains bleak (<15%). GBMs conta…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and currently treatment requires patients to receive chemotherapeutic drugs intravenously, which is both inconvenient and e…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
With over 34 million people living with HIV today, a prophylactic vaccine is urgently needed.Due to a history of vaccine failure, a novel vaccine modality is necessary. Researchers studying…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Monilia (Moniliophtora roreri) is a fungus that causes cocoa plant death. It first appeared in the Southern and Pacific regions of Costa Rica. It is considered as one of the most important l…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
This project was done to test which piezo element most efficiently converted the energy from a vibrational source. It was hypothesized that the V22B piezo element, with its superior design s…