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ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the Mayor Antilles located in the Caribbean Sea. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are part of a volcanic island platform (Morelock, 2001). The purpose…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Future spacecraft missions to Mars will require new technology and ideas for the challenges that deep space missions will face. New spacecraft designs will need to incorporate advanced radia…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Desert mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum) is a parasitic plant most frequently infecting plants belonging to the Fabaceae family, and concurrently responsible for extensive diversity in t…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
When database breaches of large companies occur, attackers swarm the leaked files, attempting to crack user passwords contained within to sell or use for identity theft. Companies employing…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Analyzing mitosis proliferation is crucial to physician grading of tumor severity and prognosis. Despite the time and effort poured into automated mitosis detection, no systems have been abl…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment that prevents them from basic access to written or virtual materials. Current braille code standards such as Unified English Braill…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory diseases present a challenge to public health in both industrialized and developing countries due to their frequency, economic impact, severity and projected trends. Additionally…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Allergies are an important health issue. We want to study the allergy signal cascade by characterizing IgE receptors in mast cells. Mast cells are immune cells. Our project focuses on an IgE…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
60,000 domestic cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diagnosed annually, while 7 million individuals have Essential Tremor (ET). My project provides simulation, diagnosis, and therapy to re…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar Water Disinfection(SODIS) is an inexpensive and effective method for disinfecting water using cost-effective materials like PET bottles and sunlight. Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) i…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to population growth, urban areas in Oregon have been expanding, leading to increases in impervious surfaces and net losses in wetlands, riparian vegetation, and forestation in the North…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
Potato late blight caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains problematic. Growers overspray potato…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The kth nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN) is a non-parametric method used for classification, in which a query point is compared to a data set of points with predetermined classes. The neares…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains resistant to most chemotherapy and radiation techniques. Consequently, its five-year survival rate is less than 6%. Most current studies elucidate how cell pat…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Many machines that are used for building prototypes of electronical devices have a similar setup but although every machine must be bought, it is rarely necessary to use all of them at the s…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus, or yellow and purple nutsedge, are widespread throughout many areas of the United States and have been classified as two of the world’s most invasive weed…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Herbicides are chemicals for managing weeds, similar to antibiotics used in human health. The repeated use of herbicides has resulted in the evolution of herbicide resistant weed populations…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science First Award
Nanoporous graphene membranes have the potential to solve the problem of a dwindling supply of fresh water that affects nearly half the world’s population by enabling low cost, efficient des…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The objectives of this project were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth i…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act, governs the legal threshold of contaminants allowable in public water systems. The Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic, the #1 ranked toxin, was re…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to be able to provide a sustainable method of water filtration and to purify water safely and easily. Moringa Oleifera is a highly-valued plant, distributed in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Every day, thousands of people in the underdeveloped world die from lack of a clean drinking source or a water related disease. This led me to my science fair project: can water be easily pu…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The following scientific research seeks to determine through computational analysis and experimental tests; which is the best angle of attack to achieve greater stability of a truck of an in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
Number theory is a field where you study integers and the way they relate to each other. We look at a section of number theory called multiplicative functions. These functions act as machine…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this experiment was to identify molecular mechanisms involved with the regulation of the MAPT gene and the subsequent formation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disea…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Third Award
Wave energy conversion devices absorb the forces associated with surge, roll, heave, pitch, sway and yaw motions of the ocean. Globally there are few devices that are being tested: point abs…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat patients with infectious diseases. As these drugs have been used widely for long time, the organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
Multilayered nanoparticles are promising carriers to deliver therapeutic biomolecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries. Capabl…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
A cloud of space debris is formed when numerous defunct space objects orbit collectively around the Earth. Space debris clouds can have a much greater impact on space vehicles in low earth o…