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ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to understand the effects sugar has on Caenorhabditis elegans and humans. The hypothesis stated High–Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) would have the greatest effect o…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The purposes of this research to explore the species of weaver bird that live in the locality. To study local environmental factors that affect to living behavior of weaver bird. To study th…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death every year throughout the world, lung cancer and breast cancer are the most prevalent. The purpose of the project Neural Networks and Cancer is t…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Our work is aimed at the synthesis of new lanthanide labels based on derivatives of DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) for NMR screening. The introduction of a spin label into a prote…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
There’s no doubt that in recent years the connection between different subjects is really cruical. For this exact reason I intend to proof mathematical theories with the help of syllogisms.…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Complications associated with robotic surgery are on the rise, in part, due to surgeons not receiving proper training prior to operation. To improve performance and accelerate learning in ro…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis is a challenge, with misdiagnosis rates at 20-30%. Proteomics has become a field of interest in the search for biomarkers for the early diagnosis of AD. Ho…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The SmartSleeve is a non-invasive wearable device that can provide real-time physiological and clinical measurements with wireless embedded sensing technology will improve the rehabilitation…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
A novel method of generating pseudo-random numbers (pRNG) using Hamiltonian-Dynamical systems is presented in this paper. Traditional pRNGs such as the Xorshift and the Mersenne Twister algo…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Over 1.3 billion people in the world were living without electricity. Not only has the insufficiency of electricity been causing problems but the main source, fossil fuel, has also been one…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The mathematical analysis of human growth, from the zygote to the adult, is key to determining long and short term health and longevity. Many studies prior have sought to develop a systemati…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Formed millions of years ago, as islands when Florida was submerged underwater, the Florida Ridges have been undisturbed for the past millennia. The endemic plants living on the ridge have t…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Iron-based superconductors (IBSCs) hold a promising future for exhibiting superconducting behavior at increasingly high critical temperatures (Tc), potentially leading to a wide range of app…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this investigation was building a reactor that combined carbon dioxide and water molecules into artificially synthesized carbohydrates and identifying those carbohydrates that…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Cigarette filters (CF) and plastic straws are the number one pollution source because they are not biodegradable. It could take up to 25 years to degrade CF and straws under UV light, but th…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Convenient and inexpensive colorimetric chemical sensors (like pH paper), which change color when exposed to chemicals with different concentrations, are attractive due to low cost, ease of…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Biofilms play a key role in bacterial resistance against antibiotics. Formation of biofilms enables S. epidermidis to colonize indwelling medical devices and become a major cause of nosocomi…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypoxia (reduced oxygen) is common in many brain tumors, including gliomas. Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 Alpha (Hif-1a) is upregulated and stabilized under hypoxic conditions, leading to tumor…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Electronic designs are currently transitioning towards innovative next-generation form factors such as flexible and foldable architectures. However, these designs are extremely expensive and…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Previous studies have shown that chemotherapy drugs have detrimental side effects of inhibiting immune pathways that healthy human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) regulate. However, current cy…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Available wound dressings in market continue to have defects such as adhesion to the wound, lack of aeration, lack of moisture and penetration of water, which aggravate the wound rather than…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Oil spills and oil-contaminated industrial wastewater have raised major environmental concerns because of their catastrophic damages to marine and freshwater life, plants, animals, and human…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project seeks to analyze the characterization of the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER2) and the Dopamine Receptor D2 (DRD2) that is overexpressed in cancer cells. Th…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an emerging field with numerous applications in a wide variety of fields, such as robotics, supply chain and network optimization, marketing, and more. Our res…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Due to having a cryptic habitat, very little is known about the life history characteristics and stridulatory devices found in runner plant bugs (Hallodapus spp.) and several other members b…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Melon fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillet) (Diptera:Tephritidae)is a serious pest of cucurbitaceous vegetables in Kerala. The study is to find the efficacy of a newly designed suctio…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Solution processable UV-Photodetectors have many essential implementations in industrial, defense, and scientific research fields due to their enabling of photoconductive gain. All-inorganic…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection is utilized to non-invasively detect logistically difficult to identify organisms. Genetic material shed into the environment is concentrated from samples…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment is to determine if teenage females detect motion, shape, text, or color first in their peripheral vision. Three teenage females were tested with a vision protractor to determ…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Future energy sources must be renewable and environmentally neutral to counteract the effects of the immense volume of carbon emissions that are released into the atmosphere by burning fossi…