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ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Second Award
Staining of silk threads and clothes is widely conducted chemically in factories and industry. However, chemically produced stainings of silk threads and clothes are not always fine and exce…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Chemically, rubies and sapphires are doped a-Al2O3 crystals, that means in this case that a certain percentage of aluminium cations is replaced by chromium(III) (ruby) or iron(II), iron(III)…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Automotive exhaust emissions are of much environmental concern due to toxic pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Hydrocarbons (HC). One role of the standard catalytic converter in an…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Approximately 60% of concussions in men’s lacrosse are due to high-speed shots to the head from lacrosse balls. These shots may cause traumatic impact to the brain. This project studies the…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Second Award
It has been established that high-, low-, and non-fat dairy may potentially act as driving factors in varying human fertility rates. Given the unprecedented global rate of infertility, this…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In developing areas where professional medical care is scarce, the labor complications that result in the development of obstetric fistulae are common and the effects devastating, with over…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
A photobioreactor is used for cultivating multiple phototrophic microorganisms to generate a biomass that can be utilized for energy or biofuel refinement. The objective of this project was…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Second Award
150 million UTIs occur annually, amounting to over $6 billion in expenditures. Of these, over 80% are associated with the use of urinary catheters. Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria are on…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
The purpose of this project was to determine if an algorithm could be used to quantitatively analyze paintings. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant difference between the p…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal contamination of both soil and water by industrial wastewater is currently an environmental and public health issue of great concern. These metals, unlike multiple others, which…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The negative environmental impacts associated with the reliance on fossil fuels for energy production has led to the growth of nuclear energy; however, nuclear power bears its own risks. Str…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Presently, the global energy sector is in transition; there is a common goal to implement more renewable energy (RE) sources and decrease dependence on non-renewable sources/fossil fuels. Ho…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The project “Repelling What Bugs You” is an extension of a project started in 2015. In that project, an all natural and antiseptic mosquito repellent base was composed by researching and tes…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Second Award
UV light induces damage in DNA, resulting in skin diseases such as cancer for millions of people every year. Alternative DNA repair pathways include base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Negative thermal expansion(NTE) materials is very important for obtaining near zero thermal expansion(NZTE) materials which could ensure the structural stability and safety reliability of pr…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Third Award
I designed a fall detection device called “ResQ” that automatically detects if a Senior Citizen were to fall down and become unconscious. Upon detection of a fall, the device sends an alert…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Zika Virus is a disease that has no cure. To date, approximately 100,000 Zika cases have been reported in Brazil in the current epidemic. The disease has been linked to serious neurologi…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Metastasis accounts for ~90% of deaths from breast cancer (BC). This study aims to address the fundamental question of how cancer cells in the primary breast tumor become metastatic. CHD7 is…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Empirical studies have shown that we spend several times more laundry detergents than is actually required for efficient washing, which inflicts a double blow on the environment due to exces…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Title: Reversing high glucose levels through a novel approach: C.elegans as a model for treating diabetes Purpose: To determine which method will best “treat” or reverse the effects of the h…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Can you imagine a world in which all we need to quickly create complex structures is an LED lamp and a short set of parameters to follow? This study focused on the creation of micro-scale st…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The system of agriculture is inefficient. Agriculture follows the trend of adding artificial fertilizers to increase plant growth. This fertilizer is inadvertently destroying river ecosystem…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Urinary tract infections are one of the most common pediatric infections; however, the national guidelines from the AAP lack indications for treating infants ages 0-60 days. 441 urine cultur…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
If climate change persists, ocean warming and acidification will have catastrophic effects on coral reefs and marine biodiversity in the next 100 years. However, marine and coral biodiversit…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Deaf and hard of hearing children across many parts of the world recount severe problems with their education because of the lack of access to the curriculum via a sign language on the one h…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of people worldwide. PD is characterized by aggregation of alpha-synuclein (a-syn) proteins resulting in tox…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Astrocytes, the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS), have the vital role of keeping homeostasis in the brain. HIV infects the CNS early after primary infection and ca…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) constitute a class of relatively unstudied RNAs whose function is unknown. Recently, studies have shown that circRNAs are more abundant than previously recorded. The…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Lysyl oxidases are a family of enzymes that oxidize lysine residues, regulating many biological processes including extracellular matrix stabilization. In this project we focused on lysyl ox…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in females worldwide and shows a 28% increase amongst Saudi females in current statistics. Despite many treatment options, severe relapse s…