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ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Light Fidelity (LiFi), a multi-functional tool that provides high-speed secure data transmission through lighting, is currently being developed to substitute WiFi. However, its dependency on…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computing is a theory that is slowly becoming a reality. In specific, entanglement distillation is an essential part to constructing quantum computers, the next frontier for the info…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, is a progressive inflammatory disease with unclear causes. Many people with arthritis feel worsening symptoms when we…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acesulfame, sucralose, and saccharin are artificial sweeteners and used as sugar substitutes in foods and beverages. From last year’s research, it was found that these sweeteners could not b…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Biofilm-based infections pose two major problems: extreme resistance to antibiotics and many other conventional antimicrobial agents and extreme capacity for evading the host defenses. Dispe…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The practice of smoking hookah, a traditional smoking apparatus that uses charcoal to indirectly heat shisha tobacco, as a possible alternative to cigarettes is an emerging trend of global s…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Many allergies can induce anaphylactic shock leaving one disoriented. The current response to anaphylactic shock is the administration of epinephrine via an auto injector followed by a trip…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The proportion of the world’s population aged 65 years and older is expected to double from 8% to 16% within the next 35 years. This is expected to result in a concomitant increase in aging-…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The debris is a waste material that lacks regularization in practically the whole country; the objective of the project is to design a piece of masonry that poses resistance and adhesion, as…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The family Asteraceae Dumort is one of the leading families in the East Kazakhstan flore. It has large species diversity and extensive range of distribution. Methods: stream distillation met…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Enteropathogenic bacteria are a common source of newborn deaths, and Shiga toxin-producing Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is one of the most common bacterial pathogens found in infants. Ba…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) especially from large cities have resulted in the build-up of greenhouse gas concentrations responsible for climate change.…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water vapor is one of the major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere along with carbon dioxide and has a great impact on the greenhouse effect. Therefore, it is very important to know distribu…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The field of clinical neuroimaging has extensive literature devoted to determining Autistic brain functional connectivity differences with resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in North America, and the physical nature of the sport puts players at risk of sustaining head injuries, including concussions. Concussions are…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This research began over four years ago. During the summer of 2012 numerous bare patches were noticed in the hills in the Greybull area that were mined before reclamation was mandatory. The…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
It can be found that lichen are commonly used as bioindicators by scientists in order detect air pollution. This project was targeted at evaluating if lichens can be used as bioindicators ju…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
With an increased link between neurological diseases and microbiota stability, this research elucidates the ability of probiotics to influence the link between the digestive system and neuro…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Man-made polymers create a strain in waste management strategies as decomposition is not practical and combustion of these material creates greenhouse gases. The researched method will decre…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Anthracnose is a disease caused by the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides fungus, which attacks various agricultural crops including avocado; this phytopathogen causes millionaire losses (approx…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The limitations of four prominent exoplanet detection methods-direct imaging, radial velocity, transit, and gravitational microlensing-were analyzed. It was hypothesized that ranges of descr…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Gender Bias and stereotyping in human interaction is not uncommon. Sometimes, it could be intentional and sometimes sub-conscious. For example, consider the following description of a man an…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The inhalable particulate matter (PM10) is one of the major atmospheric pollutants, which is harmful to human health because it can cause several respiratory diseases. In Brazil, the state o…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) results from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic ß cells, leading patients to require lifelong insulin therapy. Transplantation of isolated pancreatic isl…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Express without Stress device (EWS) on treating stuttering disorder. The study methodology contained three phases. First, a survey was design…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in North American men. PCa displays a broad range of clinical behavior from relatively benign to an aggressive metastatic dise…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The overall objective of this research is to define the viral proteins composed in the exosomes and demonstrate that flavivirus proteins are present in the exosomes. The ongoing epidemic cau…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The color of soap-bubble films changes with thickness due to light interference. As a film become thinner with time, it would normally be expected to become blue or violet as the wavelength…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Metastatic cancers are associated with a poor prognosis, as current treatments often prove ineffective at targeting every cancer cell and are rather damaging to normal cells. The research re…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Two-dimensional (2D) graphene with exotic properties was discovered in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, which earned them a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. However, it is point s…