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ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Arsenic contamination of water sources is a global problem, affecting numerous countries across the world. Natural weathering and anthropogenic sources, such as mining and use of coal-fired…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Chemotherapy is frequently the only viable treatment for cancer patients. But tumor cells are capable of adapting and developing resistance to this treatment. Autophagy, the cell’s recycling…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the state of being aware within a dream, is rare and difficult to control. This study investigates whether multiple awakenings in rapid succession can simul…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
Glaucoma is the leading irreversible cause of blindness worldwide. And in its early stages, it's shows no symptoms. So most of the affected patients don't know they have it until it causes m…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In Minas Gerais, Brazil, grows the Macaùba Palm. The fruits of this palm contain a lot of useful components. We made a business plan for the use of these components for the purification of w…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the most fatal subtype of lung cancer, has a five-year survival rate of 2%. Currently, patients must get expensive computerized tomography and positron emissio…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
With the increasing prospect of large-scale climate change due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, propositions for controlling effects remain focused in reducing emissions as o…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
In this project, we conducted three prototype 3D printer models to create a 3D printer that anyone could make using scrap materials available around them. The first model utilized waste reso…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
DNA-sequenced engineering of protein nucleants may reduce limitations associated with protein crystallization and structure determination for structure-based drug development. This project i…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Imbalances between the inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate, result in hyperexcitability disorders, such as anxiety. Many of these disord…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Third Award
From the world wide web to social networks, big data often take the form of graphs. It is important to be able to generate realistic random graphs in order to analyze the properties of real…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project demonstrates the manufacturing and performance testing of one type of biodegradable polymer (polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT)), based on soybean curd residue (SCR), for…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The space industry plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, In order to make this a reality, they will require housing to protect them from the atmospheric conditions of the planet. Due to the a…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
On a large scale, all bodies of water are constantly evaporating. It is very important to understand the negative effects that increased evaporation can have on the environment. Water vapor…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Many algorithms currently exist to identify duplicate files, using techniques such as hashing, fuzzy matching, size comparison, and character by character comparison. The purpose of this pro…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Maltreatment may arise in various forms, and not every case is as simple as violent behavior from parent to child. The purpose of this visual analysis study was to utilize images and videos…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In the past two decades, zebrafish stripes have been immensely studied and their formation continues to lend itself to a better understanding of pigmentation patterns as a whole (Smith, 2015…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Recent advances in the field of quantum biology have revealed that quantum phenomena may play a significant role in several biological processes, including photosynthesis. Recent research su…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
When excavated 1957-1962, the archaeological site at Isimila, Tanzania, was estimated at 60 ka, from its artefacts’ similarity to other sites, such as Magubike and Kalambo Falls, none of whi…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over billions of years, species have evolved, making them better suited for tasks that aid their survival. The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether or not the principles of evo…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Spider silk is a very valuable but elusive material. It is 30 times tougher than steel yet is difficult to obtain. Synthetic production has had limited success because the chemical changes t…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Early detection of bacterial pathogens is increasingly important in health care. Currently, the most common method to detect hemolytic bacteria in blood is culture testing. This method is ti…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
With the increase in technology in our society, social media and "selfies" have become a trend that most teenagers participate in. For this experiment, we surveyed 556 High school students u…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
This project takes a novel approach to breast cancer metabolomics to reveal biomarkers with the potential to be used in a breast cancer diagnostic test. This test, unlike current methods, wi…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Effective object tracking is vital to consumer safety and utility in emerging technologies such as self-driving vehicles and automated video tracking. This study centered around the creation…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) is a priority pollutant, released by the tannery processes to the environment. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of novel materials magnetize…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
It is important to establish preventive measures for recurrent diseases in an urban population in some food purchase and sale sites to reduce the rate of insidience presented. On the other h…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
This research investigates the microclimatic patterns created by the interactions between an abrupt treeline and wind, the effect of microclimates on seedlings, and the creation of feedbacks…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Realizing that the rehabilitation monitoring and correction devices for patients going under orthopedic surgeries of the lower limb are quiet trivial, we decided to tackle the subject and tr…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Over 70 million deaf mute have suffered from many difficulties in various aspects of their lives due to the limitation in their ability to communicate with the others. The deaf mute use the…