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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…
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…