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ISEF · 2016
Cosmic rays (CRs) composed of mostly protons have energies typically in the range of 10e8-10e13 eV and can plausibly be produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) such as super massive black h…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
3D printing is the emerging technology for making complex objects directly without assembling parts. Ink-jet printers at home allows one to print delicate 2D structures on paper and the visi…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Abnormal blood vessel growth, termed neovascularization, causes diseases such as wet-age related macular degeneration (wet AMD), leading to blindness. Wet AMD is a chronic eye disease that c…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We decided to investigate about the transgenic crops to inquire how changes made by geneticists can have repercussions on society, leading to debates and divergent stances. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer`s disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects millions of people worldwide. Since this form of dementia has such a large impact on the human population, it is imperat…
ISEF · 2016
This study explored the relationship between a pond's distance from the nearest paved road and the health of the frog populations inside. It was hypothesized that ponds greater than 100 mete…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in rivers can have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. My project investigates the possibility of using an invasive aquatic plant called the water hyac…
ISEF · 2016
The following project will include a series of experiments to find biological consequences that exposure to electromagnetic fields may bring not just to Drosophila Melanogaster and their rep…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to create a device that measures the temperature of diabetic patients’ feet so that it can alert and record when the temperature difference of each foot is…
ISEF · 2016
The project started when I became aware of a company that had an idea about a project that could be carried out by a student. They are a company that develop commercial refrigeration systems…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed male cancer in the western world. In over half of the patients, Ets Related Gene (ERG) has been found to express in prostate…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Increased globalization has led to more diversity in the United States, yet, people are often reluctant to initiate interracial interactions. These interactions may engender identity threate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cisplatin cures cancers but increases mortality due to its nephrotoxicity. My in vitro studies led to the hypothesis that mice treated with acrolein or cisplatin will promote kidney fibrosis…
ISEF · 2016
In Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) and Beam Target (BT) fusion systems secondary electrons are a product of beam-target and beam-beam interactions. these secondary electrons can the…
ISEF · 2016
The rolling lamp, a cultural heritage in China, also represent a kind of structure that is interesting mathematically. We define a math model of the rolling lamp, which is an arrangement of…
ISEF · 2016
A big disaster happened in Kuwait where a huge fire started in the scrap tiers yard which cause emission of a very big amount of poison gases like [so2] and [co] that’s why I decided to look…
ISEF · 2016
Tossing a coin is often used to make a binary decision. For the coins in daily life, there exist protuberant parts, portrait or decorative pattern on the surface. The mass is non-uniform dis…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Development of cancer-specific drugs is critical to improve quality of life and survival of cancer patients. This integrative research demonstrates a novel concept to improve specificity of…
ISEF · 2016
Smart e-speaking stick is a stick-speaking especially to help blind people to alert them to the most prominent and the most important things that blind lacks feeling for keeping them safe. B…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Electronic-cigarettes, or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), represent a major public health issue, but little is known about their toxicological effects when inhaled. This study e…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Two critical necessities for people in developing communities are generating affordable power and accessing clean water. According to a joint WHO and UNICEF 2015 monitoring report, 9% of the…
ISEF · 2016
Injecting any drug into the blood directly offers a big fight between how fast is the healing and how fast will the body reject it , that is what made us think of a way to solve this mystery…
ISEF · 2016
We all know fire can be fought with water, chemicals, and even fire, but could we have ever imagined that sound could fight fire? In my experiment, I set out to create a sonic fire extinguis…
ISEF · 2016
This research focuses on the question whether sparklers can - when tangentially attached to a rotor - turn it only by their exerted force due to the burning process. To study the phenomenon…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Using livestock as an economic and environmentally friendly method of weed control is becoming a common approach within farming communities globally. My family have observed contradictions t…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Mpemba Effect is a rare phenomenon that results in the freezing of hot water faster as opposed to cold water temperatures. The foundation of this finding were the studies done by the Tan…
ISEF · 2016
The anti-tumor and anti-viral properties of curcumin, in addition to its pharmacological safety and negligible cost render curcumin an effective agent against cervical cancer, which continue…
ISEF · 2016
Does loss of taxa affect trophic function? To examine this question I estimated taxonomic diversity and trophic function for aquatic insects across streams exhibiting a gradient of habitat d…
ISEF · 2016
The portion of the solar electromagnetic spectrum incident on the earth's surface, the range extending from 280 to 400 nm, which corresponds to Ultraviolet Radiation, and has been the cause…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
A chaotic water wheel is a special kind of mill wheel where the paddles have holes in the bottom so that they are leaking. If a water support is installed at the top, the top paddles where f…