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ISEF · 2016
Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) is an inexpensive and effective method for disinfecting water that uses readily available materials such as Polyethylene Terephthalateplastic (PET plastic) b…
ISEF · 2016
Given the steady increase in CO2 emissions resulting from the combustion of biofuels in the energy plants in power plants in Qatar, it was thought necessary to find a way to reduce the CO2 e…
ISEF · 2016
Currently, over 1.5 million of the world’s population suffer from unsanitized water containing waterborne diseases. One of the most common diseases is enterotoxigenic E.coli. This disease de…
ISEF · 2016
This project investigates potential of transitive RNAi in human genetic modification, a phenomenon currently discovered only in viruses, bacteria, and plants. Transitivity allows gene-speci…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to determine the effects of new forms of smoking apparatuses such as electronic cigarettes (E-Cig) and vaporizers (V-Cig). The project was divided into three…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Diethyl Phthalate (DEP) is a commonly found endocrine disruptor found in the ocean. DEP comes from plastics that have been floating in the ocean and releasing certain pollutants, including b…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
The mosquito, Aedes aegypti, the principal vector of dengue virus has caused an alarming health issue worldwide. Commercial mosquito insecticides are readily available, but the vectors devel…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Previous studies at the Roskamp Institute and in other laboratories have demonstrated that the visual system is particularly vulnerable to the effects of repeated mild traumatic brain injury…
ISEF · 2016
Solar panels use the energy in light to free electrons create potential difference, creating a flow of electrons (current) and electromotive force (EMF, or voltage). Because electromagnetic…
ISEF · 2016
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is an actively researched disease since the underlying cause is still unknown. After a substantial loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain a patient will experienc…
ISEF · 2016
Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a global issue that is alarmingly increasing. Due to this, the development of research for an alternatively new medication is significant. The effect of various C…
ISEF · 2016
The sweet potato whitefly, Bermisa tabaci (Genadius) has become a major pest of economically important crops worldwide. Especially in vegetable crops in the lower Rio Grande Valley. In this…
ISEF · 2016
Energy consumption and refrigerants employed in air conditioning are an environmental concern due to global warming and ozone layer destruction. However, this problem can be minimized by the…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
My project addresses a long-standing problem at the intersection of computer science, cryptography, and game theory. A truly efficient system for secure multiparty computation (sMPC) has bee…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The security of data is a major issue in today’s society–one way to ensure this security is to use digital signatures. NTRUSign, the signature scheme based on the N-th Degree Truncated Polyn…
ISEF · 2016
Heavy metal spills are amongst the most perilous threats to current and future populations. Once an environment is over polluted with heavy metals, there is no natural intercession for its r…
ISEF · 2016
The project is a theoretical and experimental study of electro sensitive elastomers, more specifically polydimethylsiloxane, which is concretized in a comparison of polymers based on polydim…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Electrical discharges in liquids have been used for water disinfection and decontamination, nanoparticle production, and many other chemical and biological applications. Gas bubbles are intr…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
[Research purpose] Skateboarding World Day falls on June 21 every year. The skateboard is divided into two categories: (1) Trick Board; (2) Long board. The latter is more popular. For the sa…
ISEF · 2016
Spaceflight has always been hindered by propellant constraints. The high propellant mass fractions required for chemical systems and the thrust disadvantages of electric systems have slowed…
ISEF · 2016
This research was aimed at creating and testing hollandite, a synthetic polymorph of titanium dioxide (TiO2), for its potential as an alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) in touchscreens. D…
ISEF · 2016
Goal setting: experimental study of the dependence of current distribution and current density along the length of the processed item when electrochemical polishing of wire from geometrical…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
When we did an experiment on electrolysis using mechanical pencil leads as electrodes, one of the electrodes happened to be broken and fell into the electrolytic solution. The experiment was…
ISEF · 2016
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars, that often result in people losing a hand, arm or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…
ISEF · 2016
Doctors will use buttons in the surgery’s room to send messages to a smartphone . giving orders to the bulletin board which will translate it to an information in the TV. The system will aut…
ISEF · 2016
The team sought to create a polymer fiber material that would serve as a viable drug delivery system for the diffusion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Alpha (VEGF) on the human heart a…
ISEF · 2016
BACKGROUND: The human population is increasing at a dramatic rate while agricultural productivity is decreasing due to various environmental stresses such as drought or cold. Engineering pla…
ISEF · 2016
In the 1950s Nash and Kuiper proved the existence of an isometric embedding of a flat torus in 3D Euclidean space; however, they did not provide a visualization of such embedding. In the '70…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose is to study of the influence of the parameters of the air flow on the efficiency of the inertia of the wind turbine. Hypothesis Adjustment parameters of air flow through the impe…
ISEF · 2016
Subsidized feed-in tariffs boosted CO2-friendly regenerative energy production in Europe, but were drastically reduced to limit costs. The reduced profitability caused stagnating regenerativ…