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ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
OB stars are the most luminous and massive stars, living short lives and exerting a disproportionate influence on their environments. They are key to understanding progenitors of gravitation…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Are synthetic fragrances (conventionally manufactured perfumes) more harmful than essential organic oils? Are the widely used body sprays and perfumes unknowingly putting the public at risk?…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
This study was conducted to extend the applications of Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (NDSSCs) to include transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs), like solar windows. In Ph…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The catch size of Anadara tuberculosa is key to establish its condition and state of exploitation at the Chame mangroves. There are many families at El Espave community, in Chame, that depen…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Celiac disease is a serious genetic autoimmune disorder where the ingestion of gluten leads to formation of Immunoglobulin G tissue transglutaminase (IgG anti-TG2) against gluten, damaging s…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNA) are small non-coding RNA molecules, approximately 19-25 nucleotides in length, which function in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by base-pairing with tar…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology First Award
With the growing issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria, anti-virulence therapies have emerged as an attractive and effective treatment regimen against pathogenic proliferation, which do not…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The recent increase in counterfeited documents, banknotes, and medications impacts society, calling for irreproducible security technologies. Nature mimicking materials, which combine multip…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Chronic pain is a common and disabling comorbidity among people living with HIV (PLWH). Minimal research to date on human models have examined the relationship that contributes to the develo…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Palestine is considered one of the states which has high proportion of disabled people relative to its population. This project is based on a concept of which these people can control their…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, from both theoretical and applied points of view. In 2004, Ben Green and Ter…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
The Berkeley Pit was once an open pit mine, but today it is a highly acidic and toxic lake. The Berkeley Pit is home to many different species of extremophilic fungi. These fungi have develo…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Characterization of patient-derived glioblastoma-multiforme (GBM) cell lines uncover information on the disease’s physiology and pathology. This, in extension, helps identify new therapeutic…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of this experimentation was to analyze the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects that are exhibited by alpha-crystalline silicon dioxide. This was accomplished by using a hydr…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Glove boxes filled with inert gases are used to reduce the release of tritium into the atmosphere. A zirconium/iron (Zr-Fe) alloy is used to remove tritium chronically released into the glov…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Amyloids are misfolded proteins that have been correlated with numerous human neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, but the nature of the misfolded structure that leads t…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Chelation of nutritionally important minerals enhances bioavailability compared to simple metal salts. The extent of amino acid chelation dramatically affects the absorption of metal ions in…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Fog is a phenomenon that reflects a lot of danger on transportation. It is most infamous for its effect on visibility as this visibility impairment causes an abundance of car accidents that…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution caused by industries has become a major problem around the world. Heavy toxic metals found in industrial wastewater are listed under the environmental pollutants category due…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
Learning Chemistry is very essential. However, in some countries, the conditions to learn Chemistry (facility to do experiments, real chemical compounds to observe,…) are not fully accessibl…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Most nasopharyngeal infections are caused by strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli. These bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to pharmaceuti…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The project that is being presented is experimenting which child proof container is the most efficient. This project was chosen to determine which household container is the safest. The bott…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not chitosan microspheres are able to successfully deliver drugs into different human cell lines (CEM, HeLa, HEK 293 cells). The indicat…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) plastic, also known as poly(methyl 2-methylpropenoate), has played an important role in the field of polymer science on grounds of its characteristic properti…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The purpose of this scientific inquiry, the Chocolate Garden, was to determine the most effective method of composting waste cocoa shell from a local chocolate company. About 20% of the tota…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
RNAi-based modalities offer sequence-specific knockdown of tumor survival and growth, presenting a novel alternative to ineffective conventional treatments. This study investigated a pH sens…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
This project consisted in developing an accurate and reliable clap detecting system, using a Raspberry Pi, which read an input – the clapping – and transformed it into a visual of LEDs. The…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We wanted to invent a cheaper more efficient way of obtaining purified water in third world countries. We came up with the self-purifying water bucket. It produces sufficiently filtered wate…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
This project seeks to quantify global preferences and tendencies through a democracy-based ranking system. While pictures are used as tokens to represent the things being ranked, and hashtag…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
The future of healthcare lies in endeavors such as precision medicine where treatment options and clinical decisions are tailored to patients based on their exact characteristics, and accura…