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ISEF · 2015
Ballistic products have the life-saving importance that is likely to be useful only once in life of people.However, in some circumstances the weight of steel vests may adversely affect the m…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This project seeks to solve two prevalent issues in our society, inefficient waste management and harmful nonrenewable energy sources, by means of micro-scale anaerobic digestion. The overal…
ISEF · 2015
Mexico faces gradual reduction in main energy source (petroleum), because of their non-renewable natural; however, energy demanded increases at exorbitant steps. This joined with the problem…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease known for significant brain atrophy and pathological lesions that are thought to damage synaptic connections between cells. In particu…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of our design project is for the AI to learn from past successes and failures and to adapt them to future games, utilising past pattern recognition. We began this project by re…
ISEF · 2015
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability. Of those 15.7 million people, two thirds have difficulty walking. People who can…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Hypericine is used traditionally as a wound healing agent; therefore it’s a potential promoter for reprogramming induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) which possesses several problems due t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the US. Acute Ischemic Stroke accounts for 80% of cases in adult stroke victims. In this context, the prese…
ISEF · 2015
An aging population is a powerful and transforming demographic force. It is projected that the number of people above the age of 65 will increase from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 billion by 2…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Iron homeostasis is a vital biological process closely regulated by several signaling systems. One of the most important systems is HJV/BMP6; it regulates the release or sequestration of iro…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Every year, over 2.5 billion people are at risk of dengue virus infection, killing over 25,000 of the people infected. Currently, details of the budding mechanism by which dengue virus infec…
ISEF · 2015
The last two decades have seen 60% annual growth rate (AGR) in the global IP traffic and it is expected that the AGR will keep the exponential growth in the next five years. Recent advances…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Last year, the experimenter tested if there were differences in lip fissure patterns between ethnic groups. This year the purpose of the experiment was to determine if there is similarities…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In response to ultrasonic pest control devices spouting unsupported claims, between 1985 and 1997 the Federal Trade Commission pursued legal action against six companies falsely marketing su…
ISEF · 2015
Polluted water is found all over the world. The developed world has found ways to filter our water for personal use. However, in less developed third world countries, the problem of heavily…
ISEF · 2015
A recycled polyolefin based polymer, low density polyethylene (LDPE) was used to produce a biodegradable polymer in this. Spear grass and pumpkin seed was used as a pro-oxidant. The plastic…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Acanthaster planci, coral-eating starfish, infests several islands of Antique, Philippines. Local government dealt with this problem by manually collecting and burning A. planci but this eff…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bronchiolitis is one of the leading causes of hospitalization during infancy in the US with almost 150,000 admissions per year; it is mainly caused by rhinovirus (RV) and human metapneumovir…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Though accurate, current cancer diagnostic methods are time-consuming, expensive, disease-specific, and qualitative. To improve clinical cancer treatment, a better quantitative system for ea…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum locking is the application of flux pinning to create a stable form of levitation which pins a superconductor within a strong magnetic field allowing movement only along regions of co…
ISEF · 2015
With the amount of agricultural land decreasing, it is essential to maximize the output of crops. Insects impact this output, reducing the amount of edible vegetation by about 20%. This proj…
ISEF · 2015
A quiver is a finite directed multigraph. However, this simple graph theory notion has an important algebraic interpretation. Each finite-dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed fie…
ISEF · 2015
This project tested the entropy and randomness of several sets of data from different sources to determine the best way to generate random numbers. Random numbers are used in applications wh…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose of the experiment ? The overall aim of our project was to find an alternative to a car’s windshield wipers. Our system is powered by high-speed air and is based on the following prin…
ISEF · 2015
A novel green electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) have been succesfully made from carbonized ramie fiber using a single step method with ammonia gas (NH3). Ramie (Boehmerianivea L.) is fi…
ISEF · 2015
3D printers have moved from the research lab into the home and the market for consumer level 3D printers is growing at a rapid rate. The most common type of 3D printing involves the process…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Objective: The practical application and implementation of methods and algorithms that recognize emotions by biometric parameters of human’s face. The practical application and relevance: Th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to investigate if a longer incubation period is necessary to show antibiotic resistance. During the twenty- four hour incubation time, there was a very high gro…
ISEF · 2015
Recycled hair fibers have been used previously for oil spill clean up as an alternative to non-organic sorbents, but the process of assembling these fibers is inefficient. Here, an alternati…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be only dependent on concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles; howe…