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ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The microwave oven is a commonplace appliance used by millions worldwide. Even after half a century from its commercialization, this technology has remained static and no fundamental improve…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of this research project was to assess the effectiveness of virtual psychotherapy treatments and to develop an intuitive self-help software application for treating obsessive-compul…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of three species of prairie plants in inactivating Escherichia coli (E. coli). The species of plants included: Asclepias incarnate-Swa…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
C. elegans is a viable homolog for multitudes of human genetic disorders; research using C. elegans previously has benefited those afflicted with some disorders. The purpose of this study wa…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
I used recycled food from the my school's cafeteria to design a food supplement for dogs housed in a kennel and adoption facility. My veterinarian agreed that my plan would have no negative…
ISEF · 2016
Phthalates esters (PAEs) and bisphenol A (BPA) are harmful man-made chemicals that are used widely in plastic industry and can be found in many consumer products. Generally, research has lin…
ISEF · 2016
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells are a type of electrochemical energy conversion device that can potentially replace conventional energy sources in a wide range of applications because of…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
[18F]-Cyclopropanes are of great interest as potential compounds for diagnostic of tumor, numerous brain and heart diseases, for investigation of pharmacokinetics of drugs or natural compoun…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Wolf Rayet (WR stars), which are poorly studied in the field of astronomy, are massive stars with luminosities a million times bigger than the Sun’s and temperatures about 8 times higher. It…
ISEF · 2016
Bar Visibility Graphs were introduced by Duchet et al. and Schlag et al. to model Very Large Scale Integration (VSLI), the process by which billions of transistors are wired together on a si…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
As humans, we like to believe that we are fully in control of our minds. However, we are discovering that subconscious biases greatly affect our perceptions. Learning more about the roots of…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
In agriculture, soil microbial communities can have a significant impact on plant growth and strongly influence the characteristics and health of the soil itself. Turning the top layer of so…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The Greater Kudu, Tragelaphusstrepsiceros, a large African antelope, which tends to move around its home area at night. In a specific area in South Africa, it had been observed that the patt…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
In this experiment, changes in percent transmission resulting from changes in temperature were studied in reflectin. Reflectin, a protein found in the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, has the ability…
ISEF · 2016
An “uchiwa” fan is excellent both for cooling down and for saving energy. There are various hand fans in the world, while a Japanese “uchiwa” is unique in its bare hand bones structure. The…
ISEF · 2016
Moringa oleifera (Lam.), locally known as Malunggay, is becoming popular as an alternative cure for various diseases. This study was conducted to determine if M. oleifera crude seed extract…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
According to NASA, 2015 is the warmest year since modern record keeping began. The majority of assessment models designed to mitigate global temperature rise above 2 degrees Celsius indicate…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the correct height of a dining room table that would prevent buttered toast from falling buttered-side down and soiling a perfectly good carpet…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Metal cations and especially Mg2+ play a very important role in many biological processes such as RNA folding and catalysis. In order for Mg2+ to interact with RNA, a water molecule must fir…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A concern with violent video game play is that they may increase aggression. I used alternating bilateral sound stimulation (ABSS) to try and decrease ANS arousal, aggression, negative affec…
ISEF · 2016
The Collatz Conjecture is a worldwide math problem that has been unproven for nearly 80 years. The Conjecture starts by taking any positive integer n. If n is even, divide it by 2 to get n /…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
In 2007 Meaghen Ross, a seven year old girl with Down Syndrome, was asked to leave a movie theater because she clapped her hands and started moving around a good deal when her favorite actor…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The marketing field has shifted towards using different technologies that allow for higher levels of customer interaction and satisfaction. The Quick Response Code (QR Code) is a modern mark…
ISEF · 2016
Recently, antibiotics, one of the greatest advancements in modern science, have been losing their effectiveness because of the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Diseases such as Methici…
ISEF · 2016
With the significant advantages in solving NP-complete problems, DNA computing is considered a promising computational method. This project presented a novel DNA universal computing method a…
ISEF · 2016
The human genome comprises millions of nucleotides of DNA packed into chromosomes. Regions of DNA > 1Kbps in size sometimes contain structural variations in the form of insertions/deletions,…
ISEF · 2016
In order to help workers who climb to the top of the poles, such as flag poles, telegraph poles and billboards, to do the detection and maintenance, we create this multi-link gravity based c…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness globally. Current screening for DR is based on manual grading of severity, leading to undiagnosed and untreate…
ISEF · 2016
The separation of waste can be understood as a process resulting from the effects of the technological advances and the deterioration of environmental commitment worldwide; although there ar…
ISEF · 2016
Due to the unavailability of parking spaces for the transport vehicles in many countries in the world which carry a high risk for accidents when the vehicle stop on the periphery of the stre…