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ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The popularity of proton beam therapy in treating cancer is increasing, and further development of beam detectors is necessary to monitor the beam profile and perform quality assurance. The…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
One of the most common health problems across the globe is the imbalance of hormones in the human body. However, although many suffer from such imbalances, most often, the affected people ca…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Plastic today has become one of the most used materials in the world. From 1950 to 2018, more than 8 million tons of plastics were produced, of which 79% were discarded after use. Plastic pr…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to develop efficient vision processing algorithm. By using a reference line and borders of color the algorithm was simplified, eliminating complex mathematica…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Recently, the number of patients suffering from food poisoning is increasing. The best way to decrease food poisoning is to eliminate its causes. To do this, we have tried to develop edible…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Future Martian explorers will require construction material to build structures and shelters. The cost and lengthy process of shipping material from Earth to Mars makes it an impractical app…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
There are two main types of HIV viruses, HIV-1 HIV-2. HIV-2 tends to progress slower than HIV-1 and it results in fewer deaths. This project was focused on testing a new category of novel Al…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Thrombi formed under blood flow are complex structures of blood coagulation factors, cellular components, and fibrin fibers. In the case of non-tissue vascular grafts, thrombi invade the gra…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Thermal insulation plays a key role in our everyday lives and it is used in a variety of environments ranging from housing to industrial and scientific work. Commonly used thermal insulation…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Third Award
Novel hybrid wind turbines are proposed in the present project. The turbines utilize coupling permanent magnet disks and additional motor/generator to widen the range of operable wind speed…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The morphology of the active layer in organic solar cells is critical to performance. By studying the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cell’s microstructure, it is possible to increa…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Piezoelectric materials generate an electric current when mechanical stress is applied. PVDF is a thermoplastic fluoropolymer with piezoelectric properties, allowing it to be used in small s…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of the project was to engineer a more efficient and amateur-friendly software package to aid in the designing of optimal converging-diverging nozzles. The software package was de…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Smart fine fiber scaffolds were developed to monitor and aid the healing process. Solutions of ECDA: 5,7 Eicosadiynoic acid (DA) with polyvinyl butyrate (PVB) were spun into fiber membranes…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Emotional facial expression is an aspect largely observed in identifying symptoms relating to depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder when searching for evidence underlying what patients e…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The egg shells has the capacity to adsorb chemicals. The purpose of this study was to apply this property of egg shells to the maintenance of human health. I hypothesized that if egg shells…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
White clover (Trifolium repens) has compound leaves, usually with three leaflets. The plant occasionally produces leaves with four leaflets, the so-called four-leaf clover, which is a symbol…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
According to the CDC, about 1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the CDC describes how the current tools for diagnosing autism require time and…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Timely detection of plants diseases is one of the challenges to protect food security. If we cannot detect the plant diseases on time, there will be a lot of damage to the sustainability of…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy are two of the leading causes of blindness in the United States today. Yet fifty percent of people with glaucoma are unaware that they have the condition an…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly recognized as a public health problem. It takes the sixth place in the causes of deaths in Egypt by 4%. The incidence rates of ESRD (end-stage re…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Approximately 40% of the human genome is comprised of retrotransposons, which are genetic elements capable of amplifying themselves within the genome. Throughout the course of human life, re…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
The problem tackled in the present paper is reducing Gaussian noise that inevitably occurs in radiographic images. We analysed the problem from a mathematical and algorithmic point of view.…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Marketing collateral such as brochures, catalogs, business cards and other printed sale support tools are inconvenient due to the inefficiency in retaining and in looking up any information,…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Perovskites have emerged with great promise for practical applications, such as LEDs, solar cells, photodetectors, and lasers. They are known as tunable materials for use in LEDs. Tuning is…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The challenge of finding the HIV cure lies in latent HIV-infected cells, which are inert to current HIV treatment. Since CD32a has been identified as a potential biomarker of latent HIV-infe…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
In today’s modern world a major concern is the sustainability of our fuel, but would a microbial fuel cell make a better fuel source, and what would make it produce more energy? This project…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Each year in the U.S.A., more than 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. At least 23,000 people die annually as a direct result of these infection…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
We noticed a strange oscillatory color change when observing the acid hydrolysis of potato starch using iodine. This change involved repeating deep and pale blue colors in the reaction sampl…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The world’s unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels prompts the intense search for innovation to enable paradigm shift to renewable energy. A promising solution is to harness abundant solar e…