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ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The discovery of lipid-burning beige fat may potentially have the ability to serve as a therapeutic option for obese patients. While the therapeutic implication of beige fat have been seen i…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experimentation is to determine 1) if the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, can biodegrade polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) toxins when administered in a highly concent…
ISEF · 2016
Generation of electricity through the Neodymium Wind Turbine In the early days, windmills were set up only in parts of Persia, Iraq and some historical contexts refer to England. These all,…
ISEF · 2016
A common issue with glass is that it fogs quickly, often causing accidents or simply acting as nuisances to our daily lives. If an effective and inexpensive anti-fog glass were invented, it…
ISEF · 2016
Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) is a severe neurologic complication manifested primarily in young Asian children in the form of encephalopathy, seizures, coma, and symmetric brain les…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science First Award
The HIV-1 strand of the human immunodeficiency virus is an evasive retrovirus due to its ability to invade a cell and use the outer membrane to multiply and invade other cells. The p24 capsi…
ISEF · 2016
The project is dedicated to the method of high-energy electrons and positrons registration based on coordinate detection of synchrotron photons born in the Earth magnetosphere. The possibili…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder affects one in sixty-eight children in the United States and awareness and coordination of the two sides of the body, known as mid-line awareness is a common issue.…
ISEF · 2016
Temple is one of Indonesia’s cultural heritage sites inherited from past generations. The routine maintenance of temples is to remove lichen that frequently covers the surface of rocks. The…
ISEF · 2016
It has been estimated that mined coal supplies almost 30% of energy use worldwide, and is responsible for 44% of global CO2 emissions. Renewable and cleaner sources of energy utilizing bioma…
ISEF · 2016
The problem that faces every mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, automobile manufacturer, airplane designer, and anyone working with engines in general is how to obtain more efficiency.…
ISEF · 2016
This work investigated whether Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be used to predict fluid Intelligence, an innate intelligence, when weights or graph theoretical features of functional brain ne…
ISEF · 2016
Vibrio is a large and diverse genus of marine bacteria, some of which are known to cause illness in humans. In particular, Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, common to brackish F…
ISEF · 2016
Cosmic rays (CRs) composed of mostly protons have energies typically in the range of 10e8-10e13 eV and can plausibly be produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) such as super massive black h…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
3D printing is the emerging technology for making complex objects directly without assembling parts. Ink-jet printers at home allows one to print delicate 2D structures on paper and the visi…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Abnormal blood vessel growth, termed neovascularization, causes diseases such as wet-age related macular degeneration (wet AMD), leading to blindness. Wet AMD is a chronic eye disease that c…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We decided to investigate about the transgenic crops to inquire how changes made by geneticists can have repercussions on society, leading to debates and divergent stances. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer`s disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects millions of people worldwide. Since this form of dementia has such a large impact on the human population, it is imperat…
ISEF · 2016
This study explored the relationship between a pond's distance from the nearest paved road and the health of the frog populations inside. It was hypothesized that ponds greater than 100 mete…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in rivers can have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. My project investigates the possibility of using an invasive aquatic plant called the water hyac…
ISEF · 2016
The following project will include a series of experiments to find biological consequences that exposure to electromagnetic fields may bring not just to Drosophila Melanogaster and their rep…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to create a device that measures the temperature of diabetic patients’ feet so that it can alert and record when the temperature difference of each foot is…
ISEF · 2016
The project started when I became aware of a company that had an idea about a project that could be carried out by a student. They are a company that develop commercial refrigeration systems…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed male cancer in the western world. In over half of the patients, Ets Related Gene (ERG) has been found to express in prostate…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Increased globalization has led to more diversity in the United States, yet, people are often reluctant to initiate interracial interactions. These interactions may engender identity threate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cisplatin cures cancers but increases mortality due to its nephrotoxicity. My in vitro studies led to the hypothesis that mice treated with acrolein or cisplatin will promote kidney fibrosis…
ISEF · 2016
In Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) and Beam Target (BT) fusion systems secondary electrons are a product of beam-target and beam-beam interactions. these secondary electrons can the…
ISEF · 2016
The rolling lamp, a cultural heritage in China, also represent a kind of structure that is interesting mathematically. We define a math model of the rolling lamp, which is an arrangement of…
ISEF · 2016
A big disaster happened in Kuwait where a huge fire started in the scrap tiers yard which cause emission of a very big amount of poison gases like [so2] and [co] that’s why I decided to look…
ISEF · 2016
Tossing a coin is often used to make a binary decision. For the coins in daily life, there exist protuberant parts, portrait or decorative pattern on the surface. The mass is non-uniform dis…