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ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
One of today’s most pressing healthcare issues is that disease diagnostics are immensely expensive, invasive, painful, and time-consuming. This study developed a paper-based microbial fuel c…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
For three years I have sought out a stellar parallax. This year I wanted to successfully measure a stars parallax and see if a stellar parallax is linear; meaning if I measure a stellar para…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Gliomas are primary malignant tumors of brain and spinal cord with low survival without effective therapies. Annexin A1 (ANXA1) is a protein, which participates in proliferation, immune resp…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Second Award
In today’s world, nearly everything is based on information technology. Thus, developed systems become more complex as they focus on many duties at a given time and it is more difficult to m…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Biomonitoring programs provide valuable information about trends in ecosystem health. However they rely on manual identification of biological samples, which can be both time consuming and s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates the role of peer group influences on female high school students’ interest in STEM fields. Sixty-nine female 9th-10th graders participated in a survey that asked abou…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Batteries are essential for electronic devices and contain highly toxic metals for health and the environment. When batteries are no longer useful, they are usually thrown away, ending up in…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The overuse of antimicrobials in many aspects of daily life has ushered in a wave of antimicrobial resistance to antibiotics that have been effective for decades. Resistance to antibiotics i…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Gestalt movement was born in Germany under the authorship of researchers Wertheimer, Koffka and Köhler, during the first decades of the twentieth century. These researchers proposed that oth…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
A hybrid rocket engine uses both a solid fuel and a liquid or gaseous oxidizer. Hybrid rocket engines are generally safer, easier to store, and are simpler to manufacture. They have higher e…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Light Emitting Diode (LED) displays recently become to replace conventional CRT and LCD displays and have witnessed enormous growth in the field with the costs of LED displays decreasing by…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
This experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the international protocols set forth by the World Health Organization regarding the protocols to identify pharmaceutical substances. Addit…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Phishing websites are amongst the biggest threats Internet users face today, with an average of over 1.3 million such websites being created every month, according to 2017 Webroot Data. Exis…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Common water treatments are not able to degrade it properly, causing a bioaccumulation in nature, animals and humans. Being a genotoxic contami…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Second Award
Plant growth and productivity is greatly affected by climate change, especially in hot and dry climates. Scientists use various methods to study gene families and find genes that respond to…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
P53 is an important tumor suppressor protein, that when mutated will lead to much higher cancer rate. This project constructed a phylogenetic tree using the mRNA sequences for p53 gene in 20…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) can facilitate the delivery and sustained release of therapeutic agents to target sites of action, but conventional techniques to synthesize IONPs use highly…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
With the growing number of baby boomers retiring daily, and the aging population needing more specialized care, long term care facilities are having a difficult time keeping up to the demand…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
This experiment was done to help protect the environment from plastic waste in the landfills and oceans. Plastic waste is becoming a huge problem for the wildlife in the oceans and even for…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Bisphenol A (BPA), a widely used plastic monomer, is a known estrogen disruptor, which has massive potential implications for public health. Estrogen can cause R-loops, a three-stranded nucl…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The aim of the project is to develop a point of care method of identifying and determining the susceptibility of the causative organism in skin infections without the need of specialised lab…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
“Nighttime snowblindness” results from brightly lit snowflakes moving toward the driver/pilot/operator of cars, trucks or other equipment moving over ~20mph. Humans instinctively focus on br…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
This research aims solving two different problems. The first one is the non-complete recycling of expanded polystyrene (EPS) which, due the delay in its decomposition – around 150 years, lea…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
It is a simple cooling system that works to cool the samples by keeping their temperature low. And it contains a charger to keep it working and this charger has many ways to work, first thro…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Translesion DNA Synthesis (TLS) is of great importance, as it allows cells to complete DNA replication following DNA damage. Polymerase(eta) is a key polymerase involved in TLS across UV ind…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Introduction The oil industry is extremely important in the entire world. Although oil is a very important resource, it can cause devastating environmental problems if an oil spill occurs. T…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The survival rate for metastatic liver cancer, such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is less than 3% over a 5 year span, so the need for a cure has never been more urgent. The use of a non…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Blockchain technology shows significant results and huge potential for serving as an interweaving fabric that goes through every industry and market, allowing decentralized and secure value…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, new satellite data analysis tools we…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects the motor skills of patients, affecting nearly 10 million people worldwide. This neurodegenerative disorder negatively affects the…