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ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Platinum-based drugs are irreplaceable in cancer chemotherapy, including three globally approved generations: cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, however, these drugs still have undesira…
ISEF · 2016
Tomato is the mostly produced vegetable both in Turkey and in the World. Almost half of the greenhouse grown tomatoes in Turkey are produced in out of season, therefore, tomatoes can be deli…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The objective of this study was to control and normalize factors linked to death of brain neurons during Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using maximum safe dosages of multi-vitamins and minerals (M…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of different tannin concentrations on potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida in in vitro and in vivo experiments and then determine phytotoxic…
ISEF · 2016
The loss of a hand is severely traumatic both emotionally and physically. Prosthetic's are devices that can help restore some of the functionality to the user. However, current prosthetic's…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Developing countries have always faced poverty as the main national issue, most of their citizens are peasants around the world are living in poverty. Prior studies show two factors which ca…
ISEF · 2016
Fossil power plants, nuclear power plants, fracking - all those processes are ways to produce electricity or natural gas. They are known for being really dangerous for our environment. So th…
ISEF · 2016
High altitude balloon research conducted by universities and government research teams like NOAA and the EPA are expensive projects. The total equipment value for an average flight exceeds $…
ISEF · 2016
Predictable or Chaotic: Orbits vs. Weather investigates the predictability of planetary and weather systems. In order to do this, a computer code was written to model each system. A simple a…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
A non-invasive risk-analysis tool was developed for assessing HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer using oral-rinse samples. The idea for this tool came from work that showed evidence of abno…
ISEF · 2016
Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are cap…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of my project is to predict the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by creating a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system using image features from an MRI. I hypothesized that I…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Synergistic drug combinations for cancer have the potential to save millions of lives each year through lowering toxicity, limiting side effects, and drastically increasing the efficacy of t…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this project was the design, construction, testing and evaluation of a mechanism to harvest pressure energy from automotive traffic and using it to generate electricity. The…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, severe burns kill approximately 265,000 people due to opportunistic infection from normal flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis. This research studies the efficacy of using f…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, an average of 37 children dies from hyperthermia (heat), when left unattended in the car. The objective of this experiment was to find an effective way to detect when the baby is…
ISEF · 2016
Pricey to Priceless Gel Electrophoresis’s purpose was to design a more cheap and effective way for forensic analysists to measure the accuracy of evidence in DNA testing of criminals, along…
ISEF · 2016
The aim of this project is to investigate how differing geometric vessel shapes affect the fractional flow reserve value, given constant percent stenosis. The chosen geometry shapes were a c…
ISEF · 2016
Wearable electronics are finding new applications in everyday life. Future adoption of wearable electronics into applications such as medical diagnostics, identity protection, and asset situ…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is one of leading causes of death in the United States. Electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) are often used to diagnose cardiac conditions. The actual output from an ECG is not easy…
ISEF · 2016
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread, devastating psychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying abnorm…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
To decrease the distance of model rocket drift after deploying a recovery system, the project goal was to develop a low-cost, guided system to bring a model rocket back to the launch area. A…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability; of those, two-thirds have difficulty walking. Wheelchairs can help people who have a hard time walking, but they are diffi…
ISEF · 2016
Prop-plane is an absolutely unique flying vehicle. The idea is to combine advantages of a plane and a helicopter. Prop-plane is much faster, more maneuverable and more economical. Moreover,…
ISEF · 2016
When we were younger, our father taught us how to program. We became involved with programming using Arduino. It became a hobby of ours. We were able to create a color sensor, temperature se…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA that bind targets ranging from large biomolecules to small chemicals, with affinities and specificities emulating antibodies, and provide…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of our experiment was to build a a robot that dispenses medicine to people using and image recognition sensor. To do this we used two programming codes called Windstorm EV3 and P…