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ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
More than six million crashes were reported by the police in 2015. Almost thirty percent of the accidents in the U.S. are rear end collisions. Collisions from the rear are not only dangerous…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Infection, inflammation, and other factors that inhibit tissue regeneration pose a major challenge in medicine. However, research on increasing regeneration capabilities, particularly in the…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Western diet has been linked with health issues, such as obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. It is vital to understand the mechanisms in which diet affects the brain in order to identify therap…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Bumble bee (Bombus spp) populations are declining nationally and globally. There are a multitude of factors which are hypothesized to contribute to this decline such as habitat loss, pathoge…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In response to the global environmental crisis, scientists are beginning to narrow investigation upon the extraction of algae oil as a means of producing biofuel, which is commonly combined…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The creation of corn-based ethanol fuels is an expensive process, which in some cases produces twice the emissions of a petroleum alternative -such as gasoline- over the entire life cycle of…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
I focused on trying to find a way to reduce pollution. I had heard a lot about clean environmentally friendly ways to produce power but my main focus was on fossil fuels and the harm that th…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Microbial desalination cells (MDCs) incorporate microbial fuel cell technology and electrodialysis to simultaneously desalinate water and create renewable energy. Bacteria transfer electrons…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In the United States alone, there is an amputee population of over two million people. Despite this, prosthetics are immensely expensive, costing up to seventy thousand dollars for the most…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
On average, 37 children die each year from heatstroke when left unattended in a closed vehicle. Although there are many products available on the market to prevent heatstroke, they are mostl…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
In their study of generalized covering maps in categorical Galois theory, Borceux and Janelidze analyzed topological properties of the coproduct completions of small categories. Up to equiva…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
A growing public health concern around the world is that of antibiotic resistance, which is when microorganisms can endure the effects of antibiotics due to natural evolution. One of the pro…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
We face a big problem nowadays!!! Will we depend on the nonrenewable energy resources until they finish? Or shall we try to use the very big amount of renewable energy available ? Energy is…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
G protein coupled receptors (GPCR’s) are the largest family of membrane bound receptors. They are characterized by seven transmembrane helices. NBA1, a generic gene identifier, will be used…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 5.4 million individuals within the U.S. have been diagnosed with a certain order of paralysis. Although these patients have dysfunctional neuromuscular connections, prohibiting…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Human dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) can differentiate into multiple specialized cell types, showing potential for regenerative medicine. Advances in tissue engineering depend on designing a…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Dams in metropolitan areas provide reliable water sources for high populations of human inhabitants. However, water stored in dams is subject to various threats such as elevated bacterial po…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
In this paper, we focus on the dynamical behaviors of the non-monotone points and the periodic points of the tent mappings under iteration. We first discuss the variation of the number and l…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
This project on its present form is the result of several experimentations on the effect of the peppermint oil on the white fly . The initial idea was to determine the damage of the white fl…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Pseudomonas chlororaphis O6 (PcO6) is a naturally-occurring bacteria that grows on wheat roots in commercial fields in Cache Valley, Utah. PcO6 allows plants to survive longer in droughts by…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine whether there is a link between the Visual Motor abilities of learners at pre-school and school performance later at high school, specifically in…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
In this project, we defined a mid-tangent point with respect to a fixed point X and a tangent at a point P on planar curve C as a point on the tangent that is equidistant from X and P. We st…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Current exoplanet discovery methods are limited by our capacity to observe planet-star interactions. I developed a method of discovering exoplanets using planet-planet interactions by progra…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Diabetes is a prevalent, dangerous, and sometimes even fatal, disease that causes multiple afflictions, including increased hunger, thirst, unexplained weight loss, and fatigue. Diabetics cu…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Decision-making is affected by many factors, including the level of morality in decision making. Recently, a relationship between unethical decisions and time-of-day (TOD) was demonstrated.…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Basically, “The Moral Sentence” is a survey where tests subject compared two people with varying descriptions of their wealth and moral behavior. From that, the test subjects had to decide w…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
My project proved that it is possible to identify peak plantar pressure using wearable pressure sensors built into a custom foot orthotic with the idea that the orthotic could proactively si…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Popularity in climacteric fruits consumption both within the country and as exporting produce has brought our interest in carrying out this research. The objective of this work is to develop…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Harnessing the immune system to attack cancer is a novel treatment called immunotherapy. It uses antibodies to block signaling pathways that deactivate T cells. These inhibitory pathways exi…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Hybrid supercapacitors with nickel hydroxide electrodes are widely used as modern power sources for starting and working of different types of electric motors, especially in electric vehicle…