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ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The flytrap is a carnivorous plant. We want to find out if the flytrap can be triggered by a self-generated external action potential. Therefore, we measured the electrical action potentials…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phytoplankton are vital organisms serving as a biological carbon pump, removing approximately ten trillion kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere annually. Nitrogen and phosphorus are two n…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Many elderly and disabled people get around with the help of wheelchairs everyday. Manual wheelchairs are inconvenient when going up-hill and when used by the physical weak. On the other han…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Fourth Award
Creating a crease in a ring-shaped circular piece of paper results in a saddle-shaped structure which when cut creates a frustum with inner and outer edges in contact with a surface. The pur…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Time-distance maps have scales expressed in time units rather than in distance units such that distances between points are proportional to the time-distances. Time-distance maps provide a v…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
Due to political and economic reasons, children all over the world face many problems while obtaining education: shortage of teaching materials, lack of “neighbourhood” schools, gender inequ…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Astronauts lose their tools constantly during extravehicular activities. This is a major problem financially and environmentally as these tools become deadly satellites that can collide with…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
A mobile vaporizer is a device that alleviates the dysfunction of the respiratory system and hard breathing. The device provides the patient with a sufficient quantity of medicine necessary…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are systems that directly connect the human brain to a computer to allow those who are motion-impaired to communicate independently. Among the signals used fo…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
It is said that the Other Race Effect (ORE) might contribute to racial discrimination. Since the Face Inversion Effect (FIE) is related to configurational processing, investigating it helps…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bees encounter numerous stimuli in nature. However, some prompt a stronger response than others as not all stimuli are of equal value. It is not well understood in any animal model how stimu…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) is a common herb, employed in traditional medicine for its healing properties. One of its active compounds, Rosmarinic acid, is a well known natural anti…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Paint coatings are widely used in the modern world, especially for corrosion protection of the metal with simultaneously formation decorative image. But the main disadvantage of pain coating…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coding classes teach that all code has an “If, Then” statement. What if it is possible to create an AI that only requires an “If” statement and it is able to find the solution independent fr…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Omija is a special product of Mungyeong province which is mainly used for production of teas and food supplements. In this study, we have utilized the seeds and shells that are not commonly…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study examined the detrimental impacts of chemotherapy on the neurophysiology and neurocognition of pediatric cancer survivors. Chemobrain is the classification of neurocognitive…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation came to development because patients with diabetes type 2, suffer various side effects due to insulin injection and prescribed drugs by their specialized doctors. The purp…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Energy storage devices that can deliver high powers have many applications, but they bring out time and economic problems. Here we report an alternative approach of a new breakthrough “The P…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hypertension has been considered a pandemic disease affecting different age populations. About 75 million American adults (32%) have hypertension. Having hypertension puts you at a risk for…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ixodes scapularis (black-legged ticks) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is endemic throughout the upper Midwest. Over the most recent years, the numbe…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Cryptosporidiosis is a disease caused by a parasite, Cryptosporidium, often found in neonatal calves. Roughly 57% of scours in young calves is caused by Cryptosporidium. Currently there is n…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Blazhko effect which is a long-period modulation in amplitude and period of light variations associated with RR Lyrae stars, has bothered several generations of astrophysicists since it was…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
When a cardiac injury occurs as a result of hemolysis, the heart suffers from an intramyocardial hemorrhage and left ventricular remodeling. Studies are showing that the result of this damag…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Over a year ago now I asked myself a question: did an affordable, efficient solution for measuring soil condition exist in the marketplace? Acting on my curiousity I performed some research,…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The public perception on meat labeling and their knowledge of USDA meat labels were reviewed through a survey. This project was designed to compare the difference between actual knowledge an…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Over 25 million Americans are affected by stroke or peripheral neuropathy, a disease that degrades motor and sensory nerve control. Affected individuals often find it very difficult to perfo…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
A port-a-cath (port) is used to administer medications. A port includes an access target (port) and an artificial vein (catheter) that allows medical professionals to easily inject medicatio…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
After investigating and selecting the different plastics considering that most plastics are frequently used, we begin to prepare the samples using the following recognition criteria to class…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
HVAC operation constitutes 45-55% of house energy, due to inefficient conventional thermostats. The project's goal is creating a cloud-based collaborative learning thermostat that optimizes…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The laws of thermodynamics and Stokes’ Law with Cunningham Slip Correction Factor are used to support an updated atmospheric climate change model to include the effect of wildfire smoke ash…