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ISEF · 2015
Dating more than fifty years, controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Costa Rica has been a major problem; this mosquito is the vector for the dengue virus and lately the Chikungunya virus…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
More than 60% of yearly deaths are caused by chronic and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Overexpressed free radicals are the precursors and pr…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
An exact algorithm for counting the models of Boolean formulas in CNF (the #SAT problem) was developed. Unlike conventional backtracking-based approaches which measure the effect of incremen…
ISEF · 2015
Genetic mutations, often characterized by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), have been shown to act as the main cause of varying gene expression, leading to the onset of many cancers. In…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
This project fulfills future demands and need for sustainable, cheap resources. We have discovered that macroalgae, an underutilized resource, can be fermented and used for animal feed, fert…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Objective: There are currently not many efficient methods for enrichment of phosphorylated proteins in complex biological samples. However, phosphoproteins play a significant role in several…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
There are over 76 million people with alcohol-related disorders in the world, and the economic cost of alcohol addiction in the U.S. alone is over $224 billion annually. Animal models are cr…
ISEF · 2015
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in mobile device use. In addition to this, there has been a relative stall in the development of battery technology in comparison to the developmen…
ISEF · 2015
Color is an important aspect of human life and one day structural colors, never fading and mimicking nature, could replace toxic pigments. Aqueous suspensions from Cellulose Nanocrystals (CN…
ISEF · 2015
During a presentation for a science competition, a group called the Not Impossible Foundation presented their work in the war torn areas of Africa. They went to this area to fit a child with…
ISEF · 2015
DNA and RNA microarrays are important tools to measure the gene expression levels in cells. However, these technologies have major limitations, such as their inability to detect genetic aber…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite with seropositivity exhibited in 2 billion humans globally. There are three canonical strains of T. gondii which infect the Central Ne…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads to severe metabolic deficits. This project investigates the molecular mechanisms of metabolic dysregulatio…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The accurate representation of voter preference is a question in current U.S. Congressional elections. Shortest split line algorithms were used to test whether or not gerrymandering was the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Because traditional (experimental) methods of drug design involve trial and error, they are expensive and time-consuming. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are structurally flexible p…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
An estimated 25 million people in the United States suffer from diseases for which there is no effective FDA-approved treatment. This issue exists for a variety of reasons; development of dr…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This hybrid elastomeric robot successfully demonstrated that a synthesized high-level robot controller, Linear Temporal Logic MissiOn Planning (LTLMoP), can reduce the unpredictability of so…
ISEF · 2015
The current drinking water system poses a risk to public and environmental safety due to the volatile nature of the gaseous chlorine used to disinfect water. The project is designed to deter…
ISEF · 2015
This project presents a novel approach to the hardware implementation of the Kalman Filter using Faddeev’s Algorithm for improving the processing speed of an innovative human machine interfa…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study was to design a novel, effective, and highly efficient immobilized ionic liquid CYPHOS® IL 104 (IL) approach towards removal of heavy metal(s) from an aq…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
For years, cancer has been thought of as an evolutionary process, responding to varying selective pressures throughout the body in an effort to survive. Due to the fact that reiterative roun…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A defining feature of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the presence of large deposits of amyloid-beta peptide (AB) in the brain. This accumulation of AB is widely regarded as one of the most prom…
ISEF · 2015
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is a gaseous pollutant found in sewage, wastewater, and oil and natural gas fields. However, it is also produced by the human body where it acts as a gasotransmitter t…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Genetically modified crops (GMO) have become the primary source of agricultural yield. Due to interrogation of potential adaptation of insect pests, GMOs’ field vitality have become question…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A limitation held within modern prostheses lies in their prohibiting, high cost and inefficient systems of user control, which results in their inability to be optimized for utilitarian purp…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
This study explored plant architecture and growth using a novel application of mathematical tools. Fractal analysis of plant architectures was performed to quantify and describe functional o…
ISEF · 2015
In recent years, the search for new sources of energy has increased due to the depletion of hydrocarbon fuels and the environmental damages resulting from its usage. Attention has focused on…
ISEF · 2015
One approach to help visually-impaired individuals is to provide a form of visual information through a different sense. Most of the devices use ultrasonic and image-capturing sensors. These…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Flap Endonuclease-1 (FEN1) is a key protein involved in propagation and maintenance of the integrity of DNA. FEN1 mutations or abnormal expression has been linked to diseases in human and an…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Immunotherapy represents one of the more promising approaches to treating melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. This type of therapy involves boosting the immune system's ability to…