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ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Can soldiers and athletes be protected from bacterial and fungal infections on the epidermal level? Using myrrh and licorice extracts in addition to copper and titanium nanoparticles, which…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative bacteria about two microns in length. Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) is characterized by the production of heat-labile (LT) and/or heat-stable (ST) entero…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Resveratrol is a natural plant product that has anti-tumor, anti-cancer, and life-span increasing properties in humans. However, extracting resveratrol from plants such as grapes and peanuts…
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…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The focus of this project was the exploration of bacterial response to high-powered lasers over the course of multiple doses. Treatments by laser therapies are made possible by the unique sp…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project aims at comparing bacterial composition and its effect on the nutrition and flavor of a traditional Chinese food, fermented tofu. Seven kinds of fermented tofu produced in diffe…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hormesis refers to an amount of stress in a threshold between average and bio-negative results that has been shown to increase life span, decrease cancer rates, and boost the immune system o…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The relationship between the frequency at which a liquid solution is vibrated and the wave formations that occurred were tested in this experiment. Originally observed by Michael Faraday, vi…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Can tattoo ink potentially cause cancer? Chemicals in tattoo inks have caused many adverse effects on the human body. The Food and Drug Administration has launched investigations into concer…
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
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Quantum transport is a point of focus for researchers today because it plays a large role in determining the physical and chemical properties of materials. Studies on graphene have the poten…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We consider a class of graphs called intersection graphs, which we can create from certain systems of geometric objects, such as line segments in a plane. Specifically, we are interested in…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to determine the magnitude and the nature of the effects that certain commercial pesticides, namely elemental sulfur and carbaryl (1-naphthyl N-methylcarbamat…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The objective was to measure the spin lifetime of surface states on the topological insulator Bi2Se3 by a direct all-optical method. A pump-probe fs time-resolved optical study was performed…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Aliivibrio Fischeri is a very effective, economical, and quick method to detect toxins in water using bioluminescence. In this experiment, toxicity of water was tested using the bioluminesce…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many experts agree that energy may become the most important issue that society will face in the future. As fossil fuel sources are quickly being depleted and nuclear energy has proven to be…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Hospital-acquired infections are becoming increasingly numerous and difficult to manage. There are strict regulations in most hospitals regarding infection control however these are scarce r…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The weighted Catalan numbers, like the Catalan numbers, enumerate various mathematical objects. For example, the number of Morse links with n critical points is the n-th weighted Catalan num…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Alcanivorax borkumensis has an important biotechnological application: these bacteria are able to degrade hydrocarbon contaminants during oil spills. To effectively use the bacteria, it is i…