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ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Renewable wind energy shows promise for other uses beyond electricity for homes. This project proposes a method that will utilize the electricity generated by a wind turbine to move a water…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The ability to communicate is almost entirely lost by paralyzed individuals. In patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis alone, 75% will need communication assistance, and in a completely…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cardiovascular and Arterial Diseases are leading causes of death and responsible for more than a fourth of US deaths. Current Detection Methods are only implemented when symptoms appear, by…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to prove that activated carbon can neutralize the harmful effects of Imidacloprid, a pesticide. Using activated carbon can be a way for farmers and landown…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
In a world with rapidly progressing technologies and integration of electrical devices, our need for energy is larger than it ever has been. With limited natural resources, our dependence on…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
This research has created an innovative gas-separation membrane by combining inorganic membranes with polymeric membranes. A highly selective polymer (polybenzimidazole) and a highly permeab…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Second Award
The rapid proliferation and adoption of speech recognition systems in our day-to-day lives result in greater consequences for possible vulnerabilities. Previous research has proven that host…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Propolis, a natural product of high economic value from stingless bees (Tetragonula pegdeni), has been used as an ingredient in pharmaceutical and daily life products. Increasing propolis pr…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
Spin-based devices could enable revolutionary applications such as room temperature quantum computation. Ferromagnetic semiconductors showed promise in literature in creating a spin device a…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Today, sport activities have become very important on human. The most significant measure of sport arising from competitive and rivalling instincts and motivations of human being is the perf…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are highly-energetic charged particles that produce atmospheric air showers of secondary subatomic particles, such as muons, detectable by scintillating ground ar…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic, “king of poisons,” threatens public health on an unprecedented scale with over 140 million people in 50 countries drinking water contaminated with arsenic at levels above the EPA/WH…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Let G=(Z_2)^k. That is, the set of k-dimensional vectors with binary components. We say that a subset of G (call this A) is a 'Sidon Set' if all pairwise sums, a_i+a_j (i<j) in A, are distin…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide–gated (HCN) channels are voltage-gated channels in cell membranes of the heart and brain. The Ih current, also called the pacemaker current, pla…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Currently there are cleaning methods that help eliminate ringworm-causing fungi on surfaces like wrestling mats; however, there is no way to check whether or not the ringworm has been comple…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Solar power is a main source of energy and is expected to play a vital role in fulfilling the future global demand for electricity. A major obstacle hindering useful photovoltaic (PV) utiliz…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing topic in modern medicine, and many scientists are seeking solutions to eliminate the need for antibiotics. Bacteria communicate to each other to f…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from stroke and spinal cord injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the arm and the hand. It may consi…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
This project aims to find the most efficient combination of components in the building of a wireless power transmission unit (WPT) using generated polynomial functions. In experimentation, t…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Migraines are the third most prevalent illness in the world, and migraine symptoms (e.g. severe pain, visual disturbances, nausea, and cognitive impairments) all impede daily life. At the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
This project investigates a new method for the extraction of microplastics (plastic particles less than 5mm in diameter) from water. Currently, no screening or filtering for microplastics ta…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Lipid nanoparticles are gaining increasing attention due to their intracellular drug delivering capabilities, especially with their ability to deliver gene-editing materials such as componen…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Purpose: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a condition of characterized gradual loss of kidney function, lowers the glomerular filtration rate of its patient. As protein in urine is regarded as…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Recent literature suggests that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) may be initiated by a neurovascular mechanism that precedes neurodegenerative observations. Despite the potential great importance of…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
Learning from classified and unclassified data is generally categorized as semi-supervised learning (SSL). Traditional, graph-based SSL (GBSSL) algorithms operate by designing a relatively s…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Many applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that touch a wide variety of technological arenas, from the automotive and aeronautical industries to biomedicine and energy…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Exponentially increasing necessity for stronger and long-lasting turbine blades to power our industrial world calls for major development in the solidification protocol of metallic alloys. A…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to refine and create sensors that are more sensitive and more repeatable than the year before. This was done by combining graphene Nanoflake powder and silicon.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is a major public health problem and is the second most leading cause of death worldwide. Today, treatments available to us include chemotherapy and surgery which are both vastly expe…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Over the last years VoIP is constantly outperforming traditional mobile networks with more than one billion users in 2017. However, the voice quality is often affected by issues like noise,…