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ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Purpose of the Experiment As the demand for oil products increases so does its maritime transportation and thus enhance the risk for an oil spill to occur. Oil Spills can cause major environ…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Running is a sport with high potential for impact-related injuries. On which surface would a runner experience less impact: concrete, asphalt, turf, or earth? It was expected that earth and…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The goal of this project is to obtain optimal network-on-chip topologies by using optimization techniques that consider adaptive routing algorithms. As a particular example we'll be implemen…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences First Award
Water scarcity is a huge problem in our world today. Although essential for life, almost one billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Scientists at Rice University recently discove…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Multiplex automated genome engineering (MAGE) is a versatile tool for efficient genome-wide genetic modification. Serious limitations of MAGE's applicability include high cell death rate and…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Among the universe of stem cells, adult mesenchymal cells have demonstrated a great potential to many disease treatment. Although these cells are disseminated in the human body, and neither…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This project, as a continuation upon the previous year’s project, centers around the ultimate goal to solve the mystery that is Colony Collapse Disorder. Colony Collapse Disorder is a multit…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Bioindicators are a widespread and effective tool for evaluating ecosystem condition. Weight-length models are essential to using fish as bioindicators, providing estimates of expected weigh…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Water use has been growing more than twice the population rate in the last century. Considering the sources of seawater account for as high as 97% of all water on the Earth, seawater desalin…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Background: Refractive error is common among general population, and it can be corrected with special glasses called "pinhole glasses". These glasses are used for specific purposes such as w…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a type of network in which every device acts as a router, capable of both receiving and transmitting data. Due to the unique nature of their design, MANET…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Today, the fossil fuels in the world are being depleted; and the tendency to use alternative sources is rising day by day. A small proportion of the energy comes from the solar power. It is…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
During the past two decades, unique photoelectric properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) have attracted a lot of interest in the research of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). One limitation…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is a powerful tool for detecting chemical properties in nanoscale with extremely high resolutions. For example, TERS may be used in cancer research to…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems First Award
The Western North Pacific Ocean is the most active and hazardous tropical cyclones (TCs) region in the world. Each year, 20-30 TCs (also called typhoons) impose severe threats to a billion p…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. To help treat more…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
There are many applications for indoor navigation, from navigating hospitals, airports and shopping malls, to mining and disaster response. Despite intensive research, the problem of develop…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Animals are currently used in most models for research. Although they have been a significant part of research it often takes many years for them to translate into clinical studies. Models u…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Rap1 is key protein in regulating a cell signaling pathway that controls cell adhesion to its environment. Being able to manipulate and shutdown this pathway would yield immense benefits for…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
A falling stream of water exhibits a phenomenon known as Plateau Rayleigh Instability (PRI) as it descends: initially taking the form of a fluid column, it eventually breaks up into spherica…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
In 1956, the Goodyear Inflatoplane was created to aid troops stuck behind enemy lines. Although it flew, it was not a commercial success, and the project was dropped in 1973. Recently, resea…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Digitalization is changing human behavior. In 2013 Pew Research, conducted a survey of cell phone users found of American cell phone users, 44% slept with their phones and 29% described thei…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
This is a solar module positioning and concentration system that optimizes alignment and photon manipulation. Although commonly dismissed as economically inefficient, green energy's shortcom…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Diabetes is a prevalent disease with serious complications. Current treatment involves repeated daily insulin injections, self monitoring blood tests and dietary management. A novel treatmen…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Used car tires are often stockpiled, due to lack of effective recycling systems, collecting water and providing a prolific breeding site for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a vector for several…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
This research investigated if and why specific proteins in H1N1 are able to inhibit the acidification of endosomes/lysosomes in order to mediate a host cell response favorable to viral repli…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project explores the effectiveness of allicin in Allium sativum (garlic) and Allium cepa (onion) in preventing the growth of Escherichia coli DH5a. The allicin in Allium sativum is one…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As medication in Middle Eastern countries is delivered to consumers in their original factory box, fraud where expired medicine is commercialized has become a typical issue. A novel mechanis…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Historically, production of graphene has been done through the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process, which depends on expensive and large-sized machinery, and on different types of carbon…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this research was to create a new non-invasive test that could detect food based non-IgE mediated food allergies using saliva and antigens. A convenience sample of four indivi…