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ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Mosquito control is crucial to fighting diseases, such as zika, malaria, and dengue. Extensive research has been done on chemical-free control, such as the use of sound as a means of mosquit…
ISEF · 2016
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer decreases the effectiveness of chemotherapy. One primary cause is the overexpression of P-glycoprotein efflux pump (P-gp). Mitotane (MIT) is a very potent P-…
ISEF · 2016
Since the discovery of laser by Maiman in 1960, it has been widely used in many fields, like, medicine, laboratory and military. While causing a great progress for the human society, it also…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cancer therapies have limitations of selectively delivering cancer-killing agents to cancer cells. After studying apoptosis reactions, I unearthed novel enzymes, Caspase-9 and Cytochrome-C,…
ISEF · 2016
Iron oxide based superparamagnetic nanoparticles have the potential for revolutionary breakthroughs in applications such as selective drug delivery or cancer therapy because of the guidance…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a grave threat to global health. This research aimed to inhibit one of the main cellular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), ce…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Invasive macroalgae impacts coasts, ecosystems, and communities on a global scale, but utilizing this wasteful substance can fulfill future demands and need for sustainable resources. The gr…
ISEF · 2016
Wind turbines are currently being used as environmentally friendly source of energy and research continues as to how to make the wind turbines more efficient. However there has been an incre…
ISEF · 2016
Waste Accumulation is a vast problem in our modern world, throwing away everything, from food waste to electronic waste, currently, some of this waste is Radioactive, from europium in CRT mo…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The main purpose of this project is to further improve the models available for calculating the energy output of tidal barrages. This project will build on the previous year's project, which…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Cancer cells metabolize some basic nutrients, such as glucose, differently than normal cells do. Recently, investigation on cancer metabolism has increased due to the discovery of new metabo…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to determine if I could create a nutritionally balanced meal in Midland, Texas using the allotments provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. I…
ISEF · 2016
An intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a stable tertiary structure. A key aspect of such a protein is that it goes against the traditional dogma that protein struc…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of the project is to create an intellectual, socially oriented device, which can aid blind people to move avoiding obstacles. The newness of the device is a usage of casual hat equi…
ISEF · 2016
After observing the devastating effect of natural disasters, such as super storms, flooding, and rising sea levels; an engineered pile driving design was created as a noise control acoustic…
ISEF · 2016
Aquatic fungi especially Saprolegnia sp. often cause infection in ornamental fish. Treating the infection is normally done by dissolving antifungal agent in the water, affecting the whole fi…
ISEF · 2016
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills 4,000 people a day worldwide. The bacteria that causes Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can easily mutate and develop drug resistanc…
ISEF · 2016
The paper deals with a Coding Theory problem known as the inverse football pool problem. It is about finding the minimal cardinality T(n) of a covering of Q_n={ 0,1,2} ^n. A covering is here…
ISEF · 2016
When studying the methods and techniques of cryptography the topic of PKC or public key cryptography is often brought to mind. PKC allows for keys used in encryption and decryption to be pos…
ISEF · 2016
The paper deals with finding unions of lines in n-dimensional vector spaces over finite fields which obey the Wolff axiom and have minimal size. We provide an extension of the constructions…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to engineer a Home Automation system that was completely Open Source and centralized. Design constraints were the cost of the project, and also the method of con…
ISEF · 2016
Metabolic reactions within organisms rely on enzyme pathways, which catalyze fundamental biochemical reactions within cells. Recent publications conclude that interenzyme distance plays a si…
ISEF · 2016
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to the recognition of printed characters by a computer. While there are many different algorithms for OCR, they fall into two main categories: Matr…
ISEF · 2016
The recent increase in counterfeited documents, banknotes, and medications impacts society, calls for new security technologies that are difficult to reproduce. Nature mimicking materials wi…
ISEF · 2016
When a solar cell is illuminated by light, free electrons are generated in the semiconductor. They need to diffuse to an electrode to be collected to form a current. A quantity called electr…
ISEF · 2016
Optical guidance and alignment systems offer commercial applications in smart-home, elderly-aid and prosthetic systems. Conventional solutions that employ digital image processing for guidan…
ISEF · 2016
Smart glasses have become a major research interest in the field of wearable devices because of their vast potential applications. Currently most commercially available smart glasses product…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The United Nations estimates that 2.5 billion people worldwide are living without access to clean water with over 2 million dying each year from waterborne disease. Continual exposure to unc…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A developing cancer treatment is photothermal ablation therapy (PTA), which uses the conversion of light to heat to kill cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles support surface plasmons, or waves o…
ISEF · 2016
The primary objective of this investigation is to improve the efficiency of the UltraScan-III software, which uses supercomputer environments to study soluble molecules in analytical ultrace…