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ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution that gives people opportunity to realize a way of transportation in which cargo platform keeps horizontal position during all time, f…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer accounts for the majority of cancer-related deaths each year. Despite its prevalence, current detection methods can take up to 10 days and cost up to $300 for one screening. The…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this research project is to give a practical, portable and economic solution to “energy-poor” people in remote areas of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, as well as encourage co…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Voice leading in music is a key element of the Western tradition. It is closely associated with homotopy, the exploration of chordal paths in higher dimensional configuration spaces. Musicia…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Nowadays there are 360 million people with speech disturbances worldwide. Despite the existence of sign language and methods of its interpretation the issue of communication with deaf-mute p…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Generations of stable nanobubbles (NBs) in aqueous solutions have been demonstrated to be feasible. Their physical characters and applications, however, remain to be discovered. In this proj…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the most common malignancy in United States women, accounting for more than 40,000 deaths each year. The main cause of death in b…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Graphene oxide (GO) is a 2D insulative material whose conductivity can be partially restored in localized regions via photothermal reduction with a focused laser beam (FLB). While silver mig…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Electronic gadgets used in ICT today, are dedicated to doing a lot of business and providing healthcare services amongst other services in rural and urban areas worldwide. These devices use…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease affects an estimated 5.4 million people, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Seeking to increase therapeutic gains, near infrared light (NIR)…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
It goes without saying that the blind are in serious need of getting information by studying and working independently. Despite a vast array of state-of-the-art devices such as Braille books…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The novel human-computer interaction tool developed in this study replaces the features of keyboard and mouse by using a highly accurate gaze tracker based on a neural network for general us…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although machine learning is becoming increasingly necessary in every industry, its programming is still difficult for most people, even to some experts. Scripting for neural network usually…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular system diseases are leading causes of mortality worldwide and in all age groups. Moreover, specialists believe that in 90% of cases, cardiovascular diseases can be cured if di…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Each year about 50,000 patients die from colon cancer – it is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Colon cancer usually develops from polyps, which are growths on t…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Abstract Produced by traumatic brain injury such as concussions, free radicals cause many problems when released in the brain including memory loss, attention problems, depression, and disor…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
Insertion of a fluorine atom into organic molecules allows to increase their bioactivity. Nowadays 40% of all medicines contain in their structure one or more fluorine atoms. Particularly in…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Detecting rare cell types would allow very early disease diagnosis (e.g., cancer, infection), identification of new cell types, and deepen our understanding of cell differentiation. We devel…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The N-Queens Problem is the problem of placing N chess queens on a NxN chessboard so that no two queens attack each other. Calculation of the number of different solutions is related to the…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid. Most of the people were left without electricity for a long time. It is not cost effective to invest from $500-$2,000 plus $504 mont…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Serum proteins can generally be a rich resource for the illness’ indication. They are invaluable resources to detect illnesses such as inflammation, cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, cardiovas…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: The experiment identified Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) as a novel molecular target in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma determined the potential of SSI-4, an SCD1 inhibitor, as a novel m…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Kinesins are motor proteins that move unidirectionally along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. Although the general features of the kinesin walking mechanism are becoming increasingly clea…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Our team took on this challenge by copying the skills of some animals such as bats and dolphin, which emit sonar calls into their surroundings and receive it again to divert away from them.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Next-generation intracellular delivery solutions are necessary and will provide essential roles in drug therapeutic applications as well as being critical components of genome editing approa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Silent Myocardial Infarctions (SMIs) produce non-specific ambiguous symptoms in patients who are at-risk (ie., diabetic, etc.) because of associated nerve damages. Currently, there's almost…