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ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Increased anthropogenic influence on the environment caused wide spread contamination of the surface waters with heavy metal ions and therefore development of the rapid and sensitive down to…
ISEF · 2015
High oil prices, growing concerns over climate change and pollution are diving investment and innovation in the biofuels sector.The interest was placed on the biomass sector such as agricult…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts in the cells of the breast. A malignant tumor is a group of cancer cells that can invade surrounding tissues or metastasize to distant areas of…
ISEF · 2015
The aim of my project was to create the program which can help the blind and people with cp use mobile phones by themselves. This program makes possible to manage mobile phones by gestures.…
ISEF · 2015
Currency detectors like vending machines have trouble differentiating between some coins because they find out which coin is which using physical property such as mass and electrical conduct…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
K.O- drops, everyone knows these dangerous drugs from the media. I have heard more and more of instances where these drugs were used to make people helpless. Starting point of my idea was th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this mobile age, smartphones are considered the latest evolution of mobile technologies. Although the mobility of smartphones helps people satisfy basic needs, it also causes problems ass…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Across the world, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. An underlying cause of many cardiovascular diseases is atherosclerosis, which occurs when plaque builds up in the vasc…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
With increasingly-complex concepts being developed in areas such as aerospace engineering, 3D printing is relied upon for prototyping and part manufacturing. However, due to the additive met…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Implanted biomedical devices, such as pacemakers use batteries as power sources. These batteries run out over time and patients must undergo surgery to replace these batteries. Due to the hi…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Large-scale adoption of solar power is limited by high cost compared to fossil fuel-based power generation. Multijunction quantum dot solar cells offer a potential high-efficiency, low-cost…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Urban stormwater runoff adversely impacts the health of marine life. A more holistic approach to assessing water quality in urbanized areas should include indicators of fish health that are…
ISEF · 2015
The detection of toxic chemical vapors is a significant issue in environmental monitoring, disease detection and national security, yet no cheap, user-friendly, multipurpose sensor is curren…
ISEF · 2015
Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary, new field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body’s natural defenses to treat cancer. Through my research, I designed and optimized an effect…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is an emerging technology that treats a variety of cancers without any side effects. In PDT, photosensitizers accumulated near cancer tumors are activated t…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Over 60% of energy generated during electricity production is discarded as low-grade waste heat. Concurrently, modern power plants are reluctant to capture and sequester flue-gas CO2, due to…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Second Award
Tumor-shed cells from an epithelial lining lesion, or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), have been of significant concern with its highly characteristic identification and origin in metastatic…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Current mosquito control methods, including chemical approaches and genetically-engineered solutions are impractical in some cases as a form of vector control. In many emergent global region…
ISEF · 2015
Among several dental problem caries process is deadly serious and chronic too. It is an irreversible microbial disease of calcified tissues of teeth. Bacterial plaque plays the primary role…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia, and the number one cause of death in the United States. This condition is traditionally characterized b…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…
ISEF · 2015
The human cancerous inhibitor of PP2A (CIP2A) is regarded as a novel target for cancer therapy as it’s overexpression in 65% to 90% of tissues in almost all studied human cancers correlates…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in Kentucky and the United States as well as the leading cause of long-term disability in several countries. Despite its vast implications, there is…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
About 20% of novel pharmaceuticals and 40% of novel agrochemicals appearing every year contain at least one fluorine atom in their structure. However, the lack of existing methods for obtain…
ISEF · 2015
Impulse noises can seriously corrupt images. Median based filters are used to remove impulse noises. However, these filters introduce distortions while removing impulse noises. Traditionally…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research was to classify Near Earth Asteroids. The type of asteroid determines how dangerous they are to Earth and the best way to move them if they will hit Earth. The a…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…