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ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (BOLD-fMRI) is a type of MRI scanning technique that makes use of the change in magnetization between oxygen-rich blood and…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Due to the high prevalence of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in medicine and biology, the need of fast and accurate semi-quantitative analysis of such IHC images arises. Nowadays such analysis i…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
There are areas of the world where energy is scarce, and access to clean drinking water is limited. After successfully manufacturing a single parabola concentrated solar system last year, de…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This research study designed and tested an alternative prototype helmet based upon the sliding-layers concepts presented in MIPS technology. Instead of simple sliding layers, this prototype…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small partially double-stranded DNA hepadnavirus, is the causative agent of B-type hepatitis. A replication-competent HBV vector bearing a reporter gene (reporter…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project consists in constructing of finite continued fractions theory in arbitrary unique factorization domains and applying this theory to optimization of the Euclidean…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Continued fractions have a long history behind them - their origin may be placed to the age of Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divisor or even earlier. However, they experience a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could revolutionize patient-specific regenerative medicine, but their premature aging symptoms, currently misunderstood, limit their clinical applicabi…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study proposes a novel algorithm inspired by CCD which varies each pair of backbone dihedral angles in each amino acid simultaneously; essentially performing 2-dimensional CCD. Upon tes…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year. Atherosclerosis (the deposition of fatty plaques in the arteries) is the underlying cause of heart disease, and cop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Castillo de San Marcos Fort in St. Augustine, FL has endured many wars and hurricanes for over 330 years. The fort was constructed from a native rock called coquina, which consists of compac…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
This project presents the development of a system that monitors the position of an employee while the worker is performing sitting activities. The biggest cause of the work abstention in Bra…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Starting from the relation between articular hypermobility and injuries in artistic gymnastics whose occurrences are among the highest indexes within the sports activities, my objective was…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This project presents a cost-effective interactive augmented reality device that relies on a user localization device and a finger tracking device. The user localization method consists of a…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The topic of this project is influenced by a classical combinatorial geometry open problem, which recently sparked new interest - square covering. It is one of the fields, known to have appl…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Since 2002, the total retail price of United States beef has risen to over 25 billion dollars per year. The average feedyard cost to raise beef cattle has also increased to $494 per head. Wi…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Physiologic monitoring is a valuable tool for maintaining and monitoring the health of patients. The purpose of this project was to create a noninvasive, photoplethysmographic device that co…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Looking to create an electric current through the use of hot water and a natural draft, and with the use of compost, this would be a possible source of electricity. By using a hot water heat…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
I studied the relationship between abstract algebra and young tableaux along with representation theory. I found sequences and patterns in tables which represented multiplied permutations an…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Introduction: Bacteria develop resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics by synthesizing a ß-lactamase to counteract this. It is vital to examine the genetic elements within the ß-lactamases that c…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Abstract- A new method of identifying relationships between taxonomic groups by comparing amino acid residues across well-conserved proteins has been discovered, and has potential applicatio…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Energy storage in liquid air. According to statistical research, based on an open data analysis, the average Thermal Power Electrical Station loses up to 40 per cent of generated energy, bec…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project is to determine how the temperature at which frozen Pisum sativum (pea seeds) are reheated after being frozen at subzero temperatures affect their ability to germ…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Organisms synthesize skeletons by growing crystals within specialized tissues to produce structures that are optimized to meet functional needs. An understanding of how macromolecule chemist…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Miniature satellites are revolutionary to the space industry. Most do not function more than a year or even four months, but they are inexpensive, light weight, and quickly produced. This en…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Currently the lack of hygiene in the society , has become one of the main promoters of diseases caused by pathogens such as fungi, viruses and bacteria that produce some crawling insects suc…