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ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As non-renewable energy and fresh water resources rapidly deplete, countries are utilizing electrolysis to attain potable water and renewable energy; however, many developing countries warra…
ISEF · 2015
In today's world, energy is obtained from high-energy radiation resources, from nuclear reactors. Besides solar panels, which benefit only from a certain part of the solar spectrum, it has n…
ISEF · 2015
In the experiment "Electromagnetic Rail Launch System", a projectile is launched off two different copper rails that interchange with the spring Armature launch base. The hypothesis, if the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered cardiac arrhythmia in the clinical setting, and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Hyperactivity of the ryanodine recep…
ISEF · 2015
Intestinal Escherichia coli pathogens are leading causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) worldwide and they are top causes of death in children under 5 years of age. Children in Colombia, Sou…
ISEF · 2015
Fungal synthesis of lipids and ethanol using biologically pretreated biomass was investigated. Aspen, confined in modified soil-block microcosms, was treated with Ceriporiopsis subvermispora…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The current design of gene expression studies makes data sets susceptible to bias and hinders cross-platform comparison. To address these issues, an unprecedented global-scale meta-analysis…
ISEF · 2015
I have developed a cryptography program, ENCRYPTA. My theoretical reference was Chaos Theory, particularly Logistic Maps – complex, dynamic systems that are rigorously deterministic and sens…
ISEF · 2015
In this investigation, alpha particles from an Am-241 source (approximately 5 MeV) were used to bombard a 10B target (fine powder on a piece of tape) to produce high energy protons and later…
ISEF · 2015
Energy from Noise (Energetic Noise) is a new strategy to reduce the problem of acoustic pollution in educational institutions starting with the Francisco Restrepo Molina Liceum. The project…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose: Millions of intraocular injections are given each year. I developed a novel device (the Intraocular Injection Guide, IIG) to improve patient comfort during intraocular injections by…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Certain materials possess the ability to harness energy from light to facilitate reactions. These photocatalysts present an opportunity for providing a sustainable way to solve energy and en…
ISEF · 2015
Roughly 3.8 million concussions occur every year because of sports in the United States. Soccer has the third highest rate of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) of any sport in the USA. No head…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, endothelial cells are cultured in vitro on matrigels: expensive and difficult to synthesize protein mixtures derived from Engelbreth-Hoth-Swarm mouse sarcoma cells. Inexpensive vi…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Algae are one of the most promising sources of biomass because of their environmental sustainability, and the direct use of algal byproducts as transportation fuels. Hydrogen is one of the f…
ISEF · 2015
Within the 45 actinomycetes strains isolated from schoolyard soil using agar plate culture, 21 strains showed some antibiotic activity for bacteria (Kokuria rhizophila, Bacillus subtilis) an…
ISEF · 2015
Titanium dioxide is generally considered an efficient metal oxide semiconductor for PEC solar cells. However, it absorbs only 5-7% of the solar spectrum, which is considered poor in terms of…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, the capabilities of optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and photosensors are limited by inefficient light absorption and slow charge transport. Graphene-colloidal quantum d…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
An experiment was performed at a residential high school incorporating the concepts of Mutual Engagement (ME) and classroom inversion along with the three most common teaching methods. Mutua…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
In the shore of the state of Santa Catarina-Brazil it is common the artisanal fishing of sea-bob shrimp using the method of motorized dragnet with rings. This continuous practice may interfe…
ISEF · 2015
Commercial silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have industrial and commercial uses, and are serious environmental threats due to their synthetic coatings. Industrial-use AgNPs were synthesized and…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Permanent environmental degradation caused by the global climate change, natural and technogenic factors is one of the greatest challenges of the 21 century. A global multiparameter environm…
ISEF · 2015
EppaBasic is a web browser based programming language especially designed for educational use. Our work consists of designing the language and writing a compiler, a runtime and an editor for…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
For the past three years, the effectiveness of antioxidants on cell viability and bacterial growth has been tested. It was determined that the addition of antioxidants from black raspberries…
ISEF · 2015
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), antibiotic resistance is one of the largest current threats to human health (Kaplan, 2013). Phytochemicals are currently being researched fo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Discovering an alternative oxygen therapeutic for use in transfusions instead of human based blood products has been an ongoing objective of biomedical research. The giant extracellular hemo…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This investigation evaluates how sodium ascorbate impacts the cytotoxic effect of novel chermotherapeutic TU100 to multiple transformed/non-transformed cell lines via means of ROS production…
ISEF · 2015
Water is a prominent resource used by agricultural farmers. The demand for water, however, has become more than the quantity available, especially in the Texas Southern High Plains. Therefor…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The subterranean brahminy blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops braminus) is an extremely fascinating species. They are among the smallest vertebrate animals on Earth, and they are the most widespread…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Multisensory Integration (MSI) is the basis upon which perception functions, and enables humans to form meaningful interpretations of their surroundings. It is impaired in individuals afflic…