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ISEF · 2015
First Award
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has the shortest survival time of any cancer, and affects more than 850,000 people worldwide as the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Understan…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…
ISEF · 2015
World Health Organization reported that antibiotic resistance is a serious worldwide threat to human health. In United States, two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths are attributed to antib…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
This is a continuation project (Year 3). Two types of simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensors were created with functionalized gold nanoparticles (~1.6 nm core diameter) for…
ISEF · 2015
The high frequency of oil spills in the oceans cause nations to focus on cleaning methods. Some of the mechanisms used are expensive, toxic to marine species and take a long time. There are…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine which alternative treatment is the most effective at preventing E. coli O157:H7 cell growth and/or Shiga toxin production. It was hypothesized th…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this study is to identify a statistical relationship between owning a dog and the Big Five Personality Facets. Many prospective parents have decided to practice with a dog bef…
ISEF · 2015
Acinetobacter baylyi, a gram-negative soil bacterium, is highly competent for natural transformation, a process in which DNA is imported across cellular membranes and potentially recombined…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this study was to observe how conflicting classical reward conditionings affect the memory which is a basic concept of learning and memory, though poorly understood. The hypot…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether a home server, or NAS, is a viable competitor to consumer cloud services such as Mediafire or Google Drive. We hypothesized that, beca…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Shingles, herpes zoster virus, affects many middle aged adults around the world, exhibiting symptoms of pain, itching, burning, and postherpetic neuralgia. In an attempt to discover effectiv…
ISEF · 2015
Composing music with sign language pattern recognition provided the concept of being able to communicate with any system through sign language whether it be composing music or translating a…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Chromatin remodeling, modification of nuclear chromatin allowing for the regulation of gene expression, is believed to be an integral part of memory encoding. The enzyme PARP-1 and its produ…
ISEF · 2015
TDP-43, a protein functioning in transcription and pre-mRNA splicing regulation, is known to cause exon skipping on the CFTR and apoA-II genes by binding to TG-repeat motifs 12 bases or long…
ISEF · 2015
My eleven-year-old sister, Kate, was born with a heart condition which causes her to have a heart murmur. Kate’s pediatrician first diagnosed her by carefully listening to her murmur several…
ISEF · 2015
Shade made by buildings changes unpredictably. However, people may want to know quantified values about sunlight for some purposes such as solar generation, urban agriculture or everyday pro…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heart allograft rejection occurs when transplanted cardiac tissue is rejected by the recipient’s immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. The effect of its treatment heavily de…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, oral cancer patients visit a pathologist in order to determine the severity of their oral cancer. The pathologist then takes a biopsy of the oral tissue, which undergoes a chemica…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create a low cost, highly functional, and lightweight computer mouse device that could be used with a large range of physically impaired and disabled perso…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Mapping and orientation in 3-D space is one of the fundamental challenges of robotics. However, it still poses a problem because of its high computational difficulty. In my work I present a…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Solar power technologies, which offer sustainable, clean energy sources, are developing to improve efficiency of energy conversion and storage. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are an e…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The more CO2 produced, the more oceans absorb.…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to utilize mixed plastic regrind in concrete as a practical and environmentally friendly use of waste that would otherwise end up in landfills or worse — the e…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment was preformed to find a possible correlation between the symptoms experienced after a concussion, and the age that a person was at the time the concussion occurred. It was hy…
ISEF · 2015
In our everyday lives, networks play an important role: networks like the internet, the road system of a society, the atoms of a molecule or the neurons of a brain. The mathematical discipli…
ISEF · 2015
This research is a study of dynamic graph labeling on the vertices of a polygon. We start the labeling by using a set of integers and continually perform the following operation: choose the…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Clinical studies that relate different cancers to various carcinogens can be quite costly, and may last anywhere from a couple of years to a few decades. This project is twofold, in that fir…
ISEF · 2015
Triangulation has been a popular choice for mapping 3D positions because of its speed and cost. However, it is constrained by the correspondence problem and limited to almost zero inter-fram…
ISEF · 2015
A fusion protein contains two or more independent proteins joined together. Fusion proteins have many applications as reporters for simultaneous detection by different methods, such as fluor…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
In a process called Atherosclerosis, plaque builds up within the walls of arteries, and they limit blood supply, disturb oxygen flow, and ultimately lead to other cardiovascular diseases. To…