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ISEF · 2016
Several hundreds of thousands of lives can be saved, prolonged, or provided better quality of life by organs and implants that are currently unavailable. 3D bioprinting is the process of cre…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fluorescent sensors are important tool in modern chemistry, especially as express-method for monitoring of environmental pollution and distribution of microelements in living cells and organ…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to enhance a plagiarism detection technique known as bag of words from phase I and apply a graphical user interface (GUI), allowing users to employ the pro…
ISEF · 2016
In this project we have investigated conducting polyaniline nanowires based biosensor to detect Salmonella entrica DT104 and Vibrio cholera O139 by converting antigen-antibody binding event…
ISEF · 2016
Antioxidants are necessary for good health. An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation reaction can produce free radicals. Free radicals can start…
ISEF · 2016
The biochemical versatility of direct reprogramming—based upon induced pluripotency—is one that continuously intrigues the scientific community with its applications in regenerative medicine…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, robust networks are crucial for military or civilian activities. The ability to test a network’s resiliency is important, whether it is a commun…
ISEF · 2016
More than 6,500 Americans each year have died waiting for an organ transplant, and of those who receive a transplant only one out of four are biologically correct, however bioengineering org…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Parasitic weed Striga accounts for estimated yearly crop losses over $20 billion in the United States alone. Seeds of parasitic weeds germinate in response to signaling molecules called stri…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Since Jupiter was a catalyst for the development of the Solar System, calculating the frequency of Jupiter like planets, known as Jupiter analogs, is a precursor to determining the occurrenc…
ISEF · 2016
Millions of sharks are killed and traded annually to supply the market for shark fin soup, a luxury dish in Asia. In order to address the damage being done to shark populations by the intern…
ISEF · 2016
At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there exists a supermassive black hole. What is the exact location of this black hole and can its position be discovered based on the locations of the…
ISEF · 2016
Global energy demand is rapidly growing, primarily from developing countries, and conventional fuels continue to dominate our energy infrastructure. Global warming and pollutant emissions ar…
ISEF · 2016
We hypothesized that the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagrams for various star clusters would be different and that we could use them to determine properties of star clusters such as age, comp…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Fusion inhibitors prevent the HIV-1 protein gp41 from binding with the receptors on the host cell. However, scientific understanding of inhibitory potencies among different inhibitors is yet…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often enroll their children in intervention programs and support groups to help treat their symptoms. Very few support groups, howev…
ISEF · 2016
SODIS, the process of solar water disinfection using PET plastic bottles to reduce transmission of waterborne pathogens in areas lacking access to clean drinking water, is a popular water di…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to train a system to predict the presence of cardiovascular disease within a patient using a feed forward neural network that utilized back propagation and…
ISEF · 2016
Game Theory is a branch of mathematics that models situations that involve conflict of interest. It provides realistic simulations of the decisions made by humans in economics. Competing com…
ISEF · 2016
A major issue facing people in developing countries is a lack of resources to pay for trauma care. One of the most expensive components of trauma care lies in prosthetics. In fact, a single…
ISEF · 2016
Developing an iOS App to Enable an Arduino-Controlled 3D Printed Hand Abstract Statement of the Problem: Existing technologies for creating customized computer-assisted prosthetic hands are…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The growth of online commerce has increased freight truck density on city streets, consequently worsening congestion and carbon emissions while limiting logistical efficiency. This investiga…
ISEF · 2016
Polymer-based membranes in gas separation processes have become a prevailing technology in the field of material science, especially in industrial capacities. These membranes can remove wate…
ISEF · 2016
Previous research showed that wings of dragonflies, damselflies, and cicadas possessed nanopillars with antibacterial properties. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relation…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of my research is to develop a numerical box model that can be used to calculate the concentration of algae (as chlorophyll) in a well-mixed, closed water body system. This metho…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of inaccurate testing devices that are not well suited to the marine environment inhibit effective pH monitoring of the…
ISEF · 2016
Cancer is responsible for half a million deaths annually in the US. Tumor growth in breast and prostate cancers can be caused by unregulated CARM1 protein. Chemical inhibition of the CARM1 p…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Less than 0.01% of all of earth’s water is in rivers and lakes, and it is in jeopardy. Excessive concentrations of phosphorous can trigger Harmful Algal Blooms which self-perpetuate and dest…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
As we know from the literature, multi-core processors do not achieve as high performance as one could expect. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward linear relationships between processo…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to the traditional VSEPR theory, the calculation method of the number of central atom’s valence shell electron pair is limited. When studying the geometry of molecule (ion), people…