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ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
In the near future, humans will begin to explore and colonize Mars. As a result, methods of in-situ resource utilization must be developed and tested to increase the likelihood of survival o…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Minecraft is a survival/sandbox game from 2009 where the goal is to survive in a world filled with blocks. You can find monsters in the game that will spawn in dark areas. Observations have…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
This work reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel minimally-invasive mechanical delivery system that can potentially transport therapeutics to Huanglongbing (HLB) affected tr…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Recently, complement component C1q and its corresponding receptors (gC1qR and cC1qR) have generated interest due to their involvement in autoimmunity, inflammation, and infectious disease. D…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Plant field testing proves often a long and costly process crucial to the development of efficient agricultural techniques. We aimed to create a plant topology simulator that presents a sign…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The flood problem affects us globally. Presently due to climate change, this problem occurs more frequently and unexpectedly. Those living in flood prone areas constantly worry when it rains…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Our project is AMSD drone and its aim is to help with rescuing people’s lives. In order to achieve that, we came up with an innovative, half-autonomic method of controlling the device. We ca…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Cancer metastasis is the cause of ninety percent of cancer deaths. The collagenase, Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) has been identified to have a critical role in the proliferation of can…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Fourth Award
Diagnosing diseases automatically has been an immense challenge, owing to their variable properties and symptoms. On the other hand, Neural Networks (NNs) have developed into a powerful tool…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, adverse drug events (ADEs) account for one-third of total hospital adverse side effects every year. The increasing prevalence o…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Each year, 2 million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 die. Unfortunately, the scientific consensus is that no new classes of antibiotics are left to be discovered…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Surveys are a preferred, but flawed, method of predicting election outcomes. 71% of polling during the last months of the 2016 Presidential campaign predicted candidate Clinton winning by an…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Attention deficit is always a confusing disease: the exact causes of this disorder is still unclear. However, the prevalent idea is that genetics is a major factor of ADHD. Based on that ide…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
In this project a simple and yet a relatively cheap and effective method was used in an attempt to break the atmospheric CO2 into its basic constituents.A closed cubical control chamber was…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type One Diabetes (TID) is a very prevalent disease affecting 1.25 million and 40,000 more patients are diagnosed every year. This happens when auto antibodies “confuse” the pancreas as a fo…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
My previous project showed that irregular transparent window coatings can subvert the security implications of laser surveillance. In this work, I have addressed the same goal by using activ…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
This project analyzes the manufacturing and polymerization process in creating a stable polymer based upon the monomer D-Glucose. The purpose was to assess whether changes to the materials a…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Carbon stars are usually cool hydrogen deficient red giants with rich, carbon-abundant spectra. A comparison of C5 and C6 N-type stars was conducted to compare the spectral abundances of CN,…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
The purpose of this investigation is to identify patterns, if any exist, among primitive Pythagorean triples so that a triple, given an initial value, can be found. Specifically, the researc…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by inflammation of the airways that causes prolonged difficulty in breathing (Chardón D., 2015). In 2010, approximately 25.7 million people were rep…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
As antibiotic resistance increases, new antibiotics will be needed to combat the older one that can no longer treat a human with a simple, yet resistant bacteria. This project continuation f…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this research was to analyze the bioremediation potential of microbial communities isolated from termites: Nasutitermes genus and Ruminants: Capra aegagrus hircus, as an alter…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Air pollution is caused by the release of chemical substances or plant residues that are emitted by various sources that release them into the environment. In Chile, the Chilean Air Quality…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Many functions do not have elementary antiderivatives and different analytical methods to evaluate the definite integral fail. These functions appear in fields such as biology, physics and e…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical
As only 11% of current energy consumption within the United States is renewable, this study investigated means by which geothermal energy may be an effective sustainable heat source for buil…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The goal of this study is to identify whether the diameter of constricted pupils could be used in the diagnosis of migraine in adolescents. At present, there seems to be no single simple way…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Plastics, especially high density polyethylene, contribute to the pollutant epidemic that harms the planet's environment. Polylactic acid, a polymer derived from corn and other natural sourc…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
According to the World Resources Institute, by 2050 the human population could reach 9.6 billion, creating potential food security and availability issues throughout the world. Tomatoes are…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
CRISPR is a rising gene editing technique that, although unprecedented in medical applications, has been found to cause unintentional edits that have fatal effects on an organism. In order t…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose of my experiment was to determine the effects of Ipomoea aquatica on pH levels and dissolved oxygen concentration on water quality, particularly the water quality of the Kapakahi…