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ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the capabilities of certain lactic acid bacteria species to bind aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in milk. AFM1 is a carcinogenic mycotoxin that is often f…
ISEF · 2015
Humans have been using switches for controlling lights, and other power sources, for a long time. When people leave their rooms, they often forget to turn off these switches resulting in the…
ISEF · 2015
Today 5% of the United States’s total energy consumption comes from air conditioner use at a cost of $11 billion and a release of 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annua…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to find out the nitrogen release patterns of organic fertilizer (tankage), in two different soils (Poamoho and Waimanalo) by using four different nitrogen…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
A 12-lead electrocardiograms(ECGs) is widely used. Medical doctors depend on experience for diagnosing arrhythmia. Yet, they may make a wrong arrhythmia diagnosis. Although convenient automa…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this current study, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid was carried out by cyclical voltammetry utilizing novel Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode coated with doped (…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source. In order to allow the safe handling of hydrogen, however, it is important to redu…
ISEF · 2015
Within the research the regeneration of Articular Cartilage using hADSC and Heparin Sulfate was conducted. Different degrees of Methacrylation were tested on hADSCs and in different hydrogel…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
According to U.S. Energy Administration Information, each day more than 100 million of air conditioners use massive amount of energy to cool down the daily stuffiness, in U.S. The problem is…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Our project was born with the aim to give people suffering from Dysmetria a useful and effective way of improving their opportunities for rehabilitation. Dysmetria, a particular case of Atax…
ISEF · 2015
Switchgrass is a perennial, native prairie grass with strong potential as a biofuel stock crop. This project studied the relationship between switchgrass, fertilizer, and arbuscular mycorrhi…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if bone char can successfully remediate water contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc, or a combination thereof. If bone char effectiv…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is designed to test the extent of people's short-term memory, and reveal how age and gender cause people's minds to function differently. The hypothesis was if the age of female…
ISEF · 2015
Storm water from parking lots, driveways, and gas stations is often contaminated with the aromatic compound benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that are a fraction of gasoline…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties of CNI-1493 as a treatment for intracellular amyloid beta toxicity and chronic neuro-inflammati…
ISEF · 2015
This research is about a phenomenon where a half-black-painted glass bottle will make a sound when certain optical pulse reaches it. Firstly, different variables such as paint type, bottle s…
ISEF · 2015
In the course of my project, I wanted to examine if impregnating carbon nanotubes with different metal-oxides in a way so that the metal-oxides take their positive effects on nanotube based…
ISEF · 2015
In order to save energy, reduce emissions and benefit society , I invented the device for recovering the braking energy.The regenerator has the function of assisting in braking the vehicle,t…
ISEF · 2015
In the case of ordinary manual wheelchair cannot climb the kerbs. So it causes danger of accidents and limited occupant's activity. Our research developed a wheelchair which can overcome the…
ISEF · 2015
This study sought to develop a next-generation high efficiency aircraft that uses the structure of traditional bangpaeyeon(kite) of Korea. In terms of the procedure of the study, a wind tunn…
ISEF · 2015
Nowadays, as one of the computer data security problems, the leakage of private data on the personal computer is becoming more and more serious in our life. To find an easier and more reliab…
ISEF · 2015
Bunyaviridae family is a group of RNA single negative strand viruses, including 5 geniuses and more than 350 species known. Pre-researches show that all Bunya viruses have special nucleoprot…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In 2008, people in the United States spent about seventeen billion dollars on health care for acute coughs. This project set out to create a program to diagnose Croup, Pertussis and Asthma f…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Glutathione (GSH) is a naturally found antioxidant in the body that reduces oxidative stress and assists in preserving tissue homeostasis. It has been shown that GSH levels are lower in diab…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
On average, pharmaceutical companies spend $2.6 billion and twelve years to develop a single drug. Most small molecule drugs are discovered by high-throughput robotic screening, an expensive…
ISEF · 2015
The number of citations held in the PubMed database currently numbers more than 22 million. The reverse PubMed search program is a search and retrieval method that returns ideas for further…
ISEF · 2015
Commercial kitchens often involve deep fry or stir fry cooking, especially in many of fast food restaurants around the world. The resulting exhaust fumes and odors produced from kitchens are…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
alter the efficiency and cost which are precondition challenges for sustainability outgrowth.We hypothesized that using kaolin to remove heavy metals and organic compounds, functionalized me…
ISEF · 2015
The problem of stability of biologically active components in the environment of living organisms is one of the most important in the design of new drugs and diagnostic methods using them. W…