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ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Having grown up in rural Australia, we are acutely aware of water’s importance in agriculture. In our rural area it’s common to go weeks or even months without rain. For this reason we are f…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Living in big cities is getting harder every day. Local governments are trying to find new solutions with smart city concepts to make more livable cities. However, smart city concepts are fa…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Read4me is a device that enables blind, illiterate and dyslexic people to read paper books. It uses Optical Character Recognition to detect the text in the pictures taken by a camera attache…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The reception of new biologically active substances on the basis of Curcumin is a research work about the synthesis of unknown for scientific literature, improved property-having biologicall…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of my project was to develop a polymer blend that would allow the consumer waste stream to be used as an additive manufacturing feedstock. I designed my experiment to determine if a…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This engineering project studies ancient art mediums by recreating ancient paints from iron oxide, charcoal, and animal fat. To test the experiment, iron oxide and charcoal were mixed with d…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Nanoparticle-based drug carriers are promising, minimally invasive candidates for cancer treatment. However, the challenge remains in how best to specifically target transformed cells. Upon…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The agriculture industry contributes heavily to land, water and air pollution due to the poor management of agricultural waste products and wastewater. A potential method of addressing these…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common type of open heart surgery performed in the United States, and the surgery most commonly involves harvesting the saphenous vein and…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative ailment is characterized by muscular contractions and involuntary movement (dyskinesia). Its hallmarks include loss of move…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrial pollution has been a major environmental concern globally. A significant type of these industrial pollutants is organic dyes, which have been found to negatively affect human heal…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to find a cost-efficient alternative method to treat Groundwater Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GUDI) wells, an experiment was conducted to implement an alternative wa…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Turfgrass is extremely important to many homeowners, athletes, and other people. It gives homeowners’ lawns a healthy, aesthetic appeal. Athletes use turfgrass to play sports. One fundamenta…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
At first glance, diabetic kidney disease and cancer may seem to have little in common besides sharing high mortality rates. Diabetic kidney disease is a condition in which increased glucose…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Medical professionals have struggled to develop delivery systems for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to mitigate inconsistent dosage and inconvenience from traditional forms of drug…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Microfluidics is a technology that operates with fluids in sets of miniature channels. Using small samples allows for reduced cost, harmful waste, reaction time, and analysis time. Microflui…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Research problem: Diabetic foot: It is a foot of diabetic. In 2014 there was 422,000,000 people diabetic. Diabetic foot is one of the most common complications of diabetes.it is leading to w…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Chromite mining has contributed intensely to pollution of soil and ground water by hexavalent chromium, a potential carcinogen and mutagen for plants and bacteria. In the present study, I re…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Hydroponic, which is a new kind of agriculture that only depends on a fertilizer solution to provide plants with the required nutrients without the need for soil, has been widely used recent…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Worldwide, Pharmaceutical compounds, which pass through the human body, animals and pharmaceutical factories into sewage, are unaffected by wastewater treatment plants. Finally, Accumulated…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The number of reptiles kept as pets in the United States alone currently stands at 9.4 million and all of them are susceptible to lack of proper UVB exposure. UVB light is required for vitam…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Concrete is the most widely used construction material on the planet. The production of Portland cement, concrete’s major component, contributes 8% of the world’s human induced carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
In "Seimikaiso", the first Japanese systematic chemistry book published in 1847, the author wrote that " When we mix diethyl ether with the Au solution (which means Au(III) solution), Au is…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
In this research, mesoporous carbon was synthesized from garlic peel for cathode material in lithium-sulfur battery. Separated two samples were carbonized by normal carbonization (garlic pee…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Electrolytes’ water solutions that are ionic conductors can change their specific electrical conductivity as function of ambient temperature, potential difference and current frequency other…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Nowadays, a dry hydraulic mixture, such as cement is one of the common building materials, thus reducing production cost and minimizing negative environmental impact is a high priority for c…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Conversion of waste straws into high-octane gasoline represents a potential solution to the depletion of fossil fuels and pollution associated with their extraction and combustion. While cur…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Mimicking the human mind is paramount in modern research fields such as autonomous vehicle development. The accepted computational model of vision by Miconi et al. (2016) mimics the way huma…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Restoration efforts of wild oysters are often unsuccessful, in that they do not produce a robust population of oysters that are able to successfully reproduce. Furthermore, the dynamics of w…