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ISEF · 2015
Green coffee bean pills are often claimed to help facilitate weight loss due to their active ingredient: chlorogenic acid. Chlorogenic acid has been shown to help to reduce the absorption of…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Alopecia areata (AA) is one the most common autoimmune diseases resulting from T cell mediated destruction of hair follicles. Lack of understanding of immune pathways in AA has restricted AA…
ISEF · 2015
This is a Completely Hardware Device which is connected between computer motherboard and external ports. This hardware has no any link with PC Operating System or Bios, so it can not be hack…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of this study was to extract compounds from green algae, and evaluate them to see if they possess anti-oxidant activity for the prevention of cancer cell formation. Two unexplo…
ISEF · 2015
The following research is the study and use of the Lecanicillium lecanii fungus as bio-controller of Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia vastatrix) in coffee plantations affected in the Turrialba are…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This engineering project is about investigating and developing an affordable system that is capable of controlling an electric wheelchair using ocular tracking based on electrooculographic (…
ISEF · 2015
Various technologies are used for focusing light rays in table lamps. The conventional parabolic and cylindrical back reflectors are generally used in ordinary table lamps. Recently the ener…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of our project is to invent an environmentally friendly Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC). DSSCs are photo-electrochemical cells based on principles similar to the processes in na…
ISEF · 2015
Today,the increase in population and rapid depletion of nonrenewable energy sources brings the need for energy.In this case,scientists are forced to develop technologies by using renewable e…
ISEF · 2015
Neuromorphic computing requires the use of electronic circuits which work analogous to the human brain. Teaching machines to recognize patterns as effortlessly as humans do, can potentially…
ISEF · 2015
Harnessing the fashion industry (worth $1.7 trillion) could expand the integration of photovoltaic (PV) energies (worth $80 billion) into daily life. Expansion could increase popularity of P…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Northern diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) do not consume eastern mudsnails (Ilyanassa obsoleta), despite the snail’s abundance and availability throughout the mudflats of New York…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rapid technological progress has contributed to the development of a wide range of telemonitoring systems which make treatment and management of chronic diseases as well as danger prevention…
ISEF · 2015
In modern algebra there exist a lot of abstract notions and problems but very few computational algorithms. My work is devoted to the notion of free group and a problem of commutator length…
ISEF · 2015
Integrated circuits fabricated using nano-scale CMOS technologies are prone to errors because of fluctuations in threshold voltage and supply voltage, electromigration, random dopant fluctua…
ISEF · 2015
Natural gas has the least carbon emissions of all fossil fuels when used as vehicular fuel. However, due to its low volumetric density, natural gas is costly and inefficient when used on-boa…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, cases of blindness have increased in people of all the world's people; because of this, it is necessary to develop tools that help them to adapt and develop within a context, whic…
ISEF · 2015
There is a wealth of available information on sites like Twitter that is not being utilized to its full productive potential. Many barriers exist between users, such as mistranslation or mis…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to investigate whether Painted Lady Butterflies (Vanessa cardui) migrate using an internal compass, if the internal compass can detect strong or unnatural magnet…
ISEF · 2015
Filtering Agricultural effluent with fungal mycelia is a multiyear study focused on developing and deploying biological filters to remove phosphorus and nitrogen from sources of run-off that…
ISEF · 2015
In developing countries there are few clean water sources and the cost to purify water is expensive. This filtration system project was designed to inexpensively filter and purify contaminat…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Disorders of iron metabolism are closely related to human disease. As per the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion worldwide (greater than 30% of the world’s population) suffer fro…
ISEF · 2015
Tornadoes and the straight-line winds that come with them can cause major building damage. I want to know if changing something as simple as the shape of a building could make it safer again…
ISEF · 2015
Find my dog is a simple dog tracker that aims to overcome some of the problems that other dog trackers don’t solve. For example, it gives a live position of your dog and updates this positio…
ISEF · 2015
Objectives: This study was designed to determine whether there is effect of the compounds Flavenoids, Tannins Phenols existing in the Mangrove plant on the bacteria that cause inflammation o…
ISEF · 2015
My project is called " Floating Lab " which includes a complete lab. This lab can measure the ph of the sample of the water and the temperature of the sample and the oxygen desolved in the w…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mycoplasma bovis is a devastating disease in the cattle industry resulting in an estimated loss of $140 million in 2011. This causes mastitis, pneumonia, poly-arthritis, and otitis media in…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Before starting this experiment there was confusion about how long that the food would take long, yet there was never a clarification on how long it would take. This experiment was designed…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Poly(R-3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biopolymer that has been gaining interest throughout recent years for its biocompatibility and biodegradability. PHB has been studied for use as drug-del…