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ISEF · 2015
Second Award
As battery cells age, their capacities diverge, which causes problems in large series connected packs such as those found in electric vehicles. Cells that develop larger or smaller capacitie…
ISEF · 2015
With the advent of many new sports in recent times,the possibility of developing water sports related to the use of bicycles in water caught our attention.In furtherance of this idea,we set…
ISEF · 2015
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common type of arrhythmia, where atria beat chaotically, resulting in an inefficient pumping action that causes blood to pool in the atria, increasing…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Biosensors are becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s society with applications in health diagnostics, bio warfare detection, water quality monitoring, and food safety. Currently in heal…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The World Health Organization estimates that over two million deaths worldwide can be attributed to unsanitary water. High levels of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in freshwater environments…
ISEF · 2015
Protein transporters, located in the bacterial cell membranes, are responsible for moving proteins produced inside bacteria to outside of the cell where they operate. The Tat (twin-arginine…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Several studies have documented marked alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are two major subphenotypes of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis (UC)…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to engineer E.coli to design an optimum biosensor for the detection of lead, cadmium, and zinc in heavy-metal contaminated water. This experiment works towards…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a highly promising field of survey science that hasn't been fully explored on mammalian species. The river otter species (Lontra canadensis), is a prime candidate…
ISEF · 2015
Each year in America, an average of 38 children die as a result of heatstroke from being left in a hot car. Often times this is a result of the adult being distracted and forgetting about th…
ISEF · 2015
The growing industrialization in the last decade, has increased, on the one side, the acoustic pollution or noise that considerably affects human beings in their bio-phsyco-social aspect and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
This research project details the development and implementation of a novel biosensor utilizing gold nanorods for the early stage detection of HER2-mediated breast cancer. Aspect ratio depen…
ISEF · 2015
The rapid evolution of viral species complicates the management of chronic infections and the control of emerging infectious agents. Especially for pathogens that are highly fatal upon infec…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment sought to discover whether a certain set of software techniques, including "string comparison", "bag of words", and "fingerprinting", were more effective than one another. Th…
ISEF · 2015
The association of Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer has been scientifically established. IARC classified H. pylori as a Group 1 carcinogen in 1994, and reconfirmed it in 2009 (IARC 201…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis - This name was given to a bacterium first described in Japan in 2004. Five years later scientists in Zurich, Switzerland discovered its human pathogenicit…
ISEF · 2015
The nanometer scale researches turned out beyond satisfactory and became part of our life. Some of the difficulties that the researchers faced in nanotechnology are quantized resistance and…
ISEF · 2015
Inspired by the experiment which allowed Mr Hess, an Austrian physicist to discover the cosmic origin of what he called cosmic radiations, we sent an helium balloon equiped with a Geiger cou…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The present study is intended to investigate how the ethanol extract from the leaves of Heliotropium arborescens L., influences the growth of bacteria that cause respiratory tract infections…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the maximum carpool potential for the upper school student body at Trinity School in Midland. Carpool potential could be defined as the maximum…
ISEF · 2015
Our purpose was to determine if falling numbers had any impact on germination rate in spring wheat and Kamut samples. Falling number is the internationally recognized standard for determinin…
ISEF · 2015
Emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a major concern for human health. Identities of the resistant bacteria as well as mechanisms by which they become resistant to antibiotics are l…
ISEF · 2015
For decades scientists have used an array of organic materials to produce environmentally friendly biofuel. But only recently has algae been introduced as a possible candidate for biofuel pr…
ISEF · 2015
Gramine, hordenine, and tannic acid are secondary metabolites found in animal fodder, such as reed canarygrass and sorghum, that can be toxic or detrimental to animals. However, these plant…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Speech is produced by a set of neurological and motor processes, known as speech motor programming. When regions of the brain controlling speech are damaged, speakers are not able to properl…
ISEF · 2015
Motor neuron degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) currently have no cures and mostly unknown causes. For motor neurons to function properly, axon extension is ne…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of this research project is to analyze and to classify the Electrocardiograms (EKGs) of healthy and unhealthy patients through two novel methods. The first method consists of viewin…
ISEF · 2015
With the advent of Google’s automated cars, newer technology is being incorporated into the actual driving of vehicles. They possess the sensors and processing power necessary to perform the…
ISEF · 2015
Producing the conditions necessary for nuclear fusion in current reactor designs requires using more energy than the process of fusion releases. This is due to the level of energy required t…
ISEF · 2015
Spacecraft are often limited by the efficiency of their engines and the amount of propellant they can carry. Recently, however, a new experimental propulsion technique known as microwave pro…