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ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Introduction: One of the reasons for doing this research is to obtain ethanol from sugar remnants that lead to the spread of some harmful insects and how to take advantage of these materials…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today's vast reserves of genetic data necessitates a computational tool which is capable of automatically predicting boundaries of protein-coding regions in the genome. In eukaryotic sequenc…
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
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
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
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
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aspirin is a widely used pain killer to relieve minor aches and pains, and the drug’s main component, acetylsalicylic acid, can be synthesized somewhat easily in a high school or college che…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to synthesize magnetically separable nanosupports which can then be applied to transportation fuels productions. Transportation fuels are necessary for the wor…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to synthesize a compound that will inhibit the dimerization of the Signal Transducer and Activation of Transcription-3 (STAT3) protein, by altering its acti…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Clathrate hydrates, such as methane hydrates, have been known to cause problems in the petroleum industry by forming inside gas transmission lines. This plugs the pipeline, prevents flow, an…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Electrochromism is a reversible change which can be observed through oxidation or degradation by electrochromical method. Electrochromic devices are rechargeable batteries. In this system, t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Drimentines are a novel family of nine alkaloids that exhibit antibiotic, antifungal, anticancer, and anthelmintic activities. Nine forms of drimentines (forms A-H and 3,25-dihydrodrimentine…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often challenging, yet critical to the matter of a patient’s life or death and the quality of remaining life. The purpose of t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The growing popularity of social media has made it possible for computers to easily analyze human communication to identify trends and sentiment; however, limited work has been done to analy…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Scientists looking to familiarize themselves with a new field are often forced to read out-of-date books or spend hours poring over research papers, slowing the research process. The purpose…