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ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
This project is intended for helping Parkinson patients have meals more easily by using a feeding robot that applies image processing and voice recognition technology in its control method.…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
In traditional Nigerian medicine, different parts of Ficus exasperata Vahl, are used as analgesic, diuretic, wound healing, anti-parasitic and for treating hemorrhoids. However, much documen…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Potatoes require heavy watering and intensive fertilization in order to grow, which negatively impacts the environment. A system designed to mitigate these environmental impacts and improve…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to use computational methods to dock compounds onto a Zika virus protease and find stable inhibitors, as indicated by a low binding and interaction…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The central focus of this study was to determine the bacterial composition of the oral cavities of Sphyrna tiburo and Negaprion brevirostris populations native to Beaufort County, South Caro…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Rapidly developing industrial processes and manufacturing are releasing an alarming and overwhelming surplus of 29 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, adding to the natural disch…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
An aberrant interaction between wolframin and neuronal calcium sensor 1 (NCS1) explains the clinical implications of Wolfram Syndrome, an orphan disease without a cure. Wolfram Syndrome is a…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Third Award
This project is motivated by studying Chebyshev polynomials such as cos?(mx) is a polynomial of cos?(x). It is interesting to know if there are other non-constant continuous functions f havi…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Up to $18.7 billion is spent on the treatment of chronic wounds per year, which afflict over 6.5 million people per year. To combat this issue, we set out with the goal of analyzing and refi…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
In the place that we live, an extremely rare and beautiful plant is on the verge of extinction. It is being threatened by the fungus known as Rapid Ohia Death (R.O.D). Rapid Ohia Death can b…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Car accidents can result in a spectrum of situations, ranging from a few car dents and passenger bruises to a complete catastrophe involving a trip to the emergency room. And this concept di…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The bacteria Streptomyces antibioticus produces several industrially important antibiotics, but the species is difficult to culture and therefore to effectively discover antibiotics in. To f…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The world is facing a serious food crisis due to increasing population, intensive farming, and environmental stressors such as drought. More effective and environment-friendly farming techno…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Fishiotherapy is a “Virtual Reality Interfacing” unit that harnesses and extends XR technologies to provide low cost, personalised and supplemental physiotherapy services to patients sufferi…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Today, at a global level, we see that the majority of deaths are attributed to the category of diseases which involve abnormal concentrations of cells and proteins. Consequently, the develop…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
As devices increase in needs for alternative energy source other than batteries, supercapacitors have been in development with advanced materials. The objective of the research was to make a…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are now widely applied in the energy landscape. However, safety issues such as short-circuiting, thermal runaway and explosion hazards frequently occur, es…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Collective motion is a phenomenon of ordered motion that attracts much scientific interest because of its presence in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Weathering and erosion of soils causes fine-grained silts and clays to flow with water and clog the navigation channels in the State of Maryland. Dredging these fine-grained soils with lots…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
After analysing the different preservation techniques that exist up to this day, it can be said that a point has been reached in which they cannot totally fulfil the needs of our growing soc…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Horticulturists regularly use asexual propagation techniques to more efficiently multiply specimens, but these methods have not changed dramatically in the last several decades. Native plant…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
As the ISS orbits the Earth, when it passes between an Earth borne observer and the Sun it performs a transit. Previously no model existed for extremely precise forecasting of such Transits.…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Develop an application to encourage native tree species to be planted so native birds will return to San José, Costa Rica. Forest App is based on an application that encourages native tree s…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Aragonite is known to give plastics stronger mechanical property and heat resisting property than calcite when it is used for fillers. If aragonite crystals larger than 1.0 mm are available,…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
FotoFlex Boris Cergic, Valentin Rezsnyak HTL Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria In 1991 Prof. Dr. Michael Grätzel published a solar cell, based on organic dyes (named after it’s Inventor “Grätzel…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
This investigation presents a novel approach of characterizing the alpine treeline as a phase transition from one phase (forest) to another (tundra). Phase transition research in other syste…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Temperature sensitive vaccines such as polio and measles must be maintained at a 2-8 degrees Celsius temperature range to avoid spoilage and insure potency. Vaccine Cold Boxes (VCBs) carry m…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to see whether it is possible to extract water from the juice of watermelon. The first part of this experiment consisted of obtaining juice from a watermelo…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Taking into account the environmental problems associated with plastics, it is increasingly necessary to look for less harmful alternatives, such as bioplastics. However, most existing biopl…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
In most recent years, Egypt has been suffering from some grand challenges that disrupt its march of progress. These challenges include the insufficient production, overconsumption and the de…