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ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Cooperative games are systems in which entities, players, can join to form subsets, known as coalitions. While players contribute varying amounts, known as marginal impacts, to different coa…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Everyday, 115 Americans die from opioid overdose. These opioids, such as morphine, are often used as pain-management therapeutics. However, morphine and other synthetic drugs induce adverse…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is a process triggered by the enrichment of the aquatic environment with nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients - both descendent of human effluents and agricultural activities. Du…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Nowadays, electrochemical CO2 reduction that involves the utilization of CO2 to convert into hydrocarbon products has been regarded as a promising way to address the increasing crisis of gre…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gold nanoparticles, gold nanorods (GNRs) more specifically, are being studied for their innovative applications in imaging, targeting, therapeutics, and potential for a revolution in medical…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The anautogenous mosquitoes must consume at least one vertebrate blood meal to initiate oogenesis. Repeated blood meals make Anopheles efficient vectors of malaria, causing 445, 000 deaths g…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Boat outboard engines, being of a high value means that they are often transported home for post-use maintenance (especially saltwater use!) and safe storage. ‘Portable’ engines within the r…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Brachytherapy is a cancer treatment procedure that implants applicators, often catheters and needles, for the delivery of a sealed radiation dose. While brachytherapy enables precise targeti…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
This project investigated the relationship between long-term trends (1980-2017) in tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and the TC wind speed evolution within the Western Tropical Atlantic (WTA)…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
With the growing presence of networks and network structure models, algorithms for optimization, most notably the Dijkstra's algorithm, play a crucial role in the society. However, this algo…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
The goal of the project is to research and develop methods and tools to improve the capability of people with visual impairments to orientate and to increase the safety of their traffic. To…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
When it comes to small, versatile, capable, and durable robots that can be used for search and rescue or exploration, there are few, if any, available. The goal of this project is to design…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
According to WHO, nowadays 466 million people worldwide have difficulties in communication because of speech or hearing disturbances. Most of them use sign language as the main communication…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast, pancreas, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer survival rates decline from 75% in early stages to 5% when detected late. Y…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
PURPOSE: Daily activities like driving a car, charging a phone and many other routine activities leave a carbon footprint by releasing carbon dioxide into our air. Atmospheric levels of carb…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The global food crisis is an issue affecting 1 billion people worldwide – it is critical that more efficient solutions to food production be developed. Both nanoparticles, molecules <100nm u…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in patients cause an attributable mortality of up to 35%. Colonizing bacteria grow by forming a biofilm which protects against antibi…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The decades long trend of transistor size reduction has recently faced a roadblock because of its reliance on already extremely scaled silicon transistors. However, atomically thin semicondu…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides for higher crop yield has adversely affected the biosphere leading to environmental pollution and harm to non-target organisms. Jute (Corchorus cap…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many different kinds of diseases are spreading around the world for example asthma and nose allergies. According to my research, I used 4 samples ( Sponge filter, Palm leaf, Palm fronds, Sac…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
The overuse of substances with antibacterial and antifungal properties cause drugs to lose efficiency because of the resistance that microorganisms started to develop over time. We came up w…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
Heavy metal pollution is one of the main environmental factors affecting rice yield and quality, therefore, development of strategies to reduce the toxicity of heavy metals on rice growth an…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
In the U.S., catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are responsible for 449,334 diagnoses/yearly, 13,000 deaths/yearly, and medical expenses of over $450 million/yearly. The c…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Natural disasters have devastating consequences to huge numbers of people every year, often causing major damages, heavy death tolls and much suffering. Saving people’s lives by alerting the…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
The development of nosocomial infections arising from bacteria cross-transmission in clinical settings has led to an urgent need to promptly disinfect frequently touched surfaces, such as ha…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
With the increasing concern about environmental protection and effective resource usage, Cr-containing wastewater purification and Cr recycling are getting more and more important. Inspired…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Background: Mussels are increasingly being utilized as a natural method to remove and filter harmful algae and other natural debris from our water systems. In the context of concerns for cli…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
I built a navigational white cane whose purpose is to help the visually impaired navigate around objects more easily. Since I found few equivalent devices on the market for the visually impa…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study examined the effects of a treatment protocol for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) consisting of near infrared light (NIR) and C. longa. Mutated D. melanogaster, engineered to express the…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Negative-pressure-wound-therapy (NPWT), a wound-closure technique used following tumor resection has been suggested to promote metastasis. As this claim isn’t well established and the molecu…