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ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Purpose: The principle of this study is to identify possible mechanism of apoptotic actions of colloidal silver and bromelain on pheochromocytoma cells (PC12). If colloidal silver and bromel…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
"Chinese Silver Staining Diagnosis" is a traditional Chinese Medicine procedure. Despite its popularity and long history in southern China, its mechanism remains unclear. In this research, a…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy First Award
bZIP transcription factors exist in all eukaryotes. In plants, they are master regulators of many central developmental and physiological processes. In 2012. bZIP16 was reported to promote s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In the past, Ocimum basilicum (Basil) and Azadirachta indica (Neem) have been considered medicinal plants. With the need for new antibiotics and bacteria constantly evolving and resistant, B…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
The prevalence of tanning and UV-overexposing activities continues to enthrone skin cancers as the most common type of cancer affecting humans. The deadliest and most aggressive form of thes…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether it is more accurate to predict an unknown amount of items in a container using the mean, median, or individual guess, and to analyze how…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Recent study showed that peppermint oil is capable to repel rats. The main purpose is to reduce the spread of contagious disease caused by rats. It is eco-friendly because it was made from n…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Scientists are currently pressed with the problems of conjuring up clean energy, clean drinking water, and waste management in a sustainable way so that we do not drink our planets resources…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Ponds and streams are being impacted daily in complex ways. Teems of organisms that inhabit these waters are excreting nitrogenous waste products. Fisherman and farmers may also be adding sm…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We investigated the growth of mould fungus on button mushrooms under different storage conditions. Interestingly, we found that improper storage of button mushrooms lead to increasing rates…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
From the moment we discovered the existence of germs, we have been trying to kill them. And from that moment, they have been adapting. Even now, as we introduce ever increasingly effective a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether the use of a micro-pin-fin heat sink to cool Concentrator Photovoltaics produces a significantly more uniform temperature distribution than…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The multiple mode resonator microwave sintering furnace provides more uniform microwave field for SiC ceramic roller, ensuring the uniform heating for large size SiC ceramic roller. Using th…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
People usually do not recognize the seriousness of indoor air pollution including particulate matter or toxic gases generated by cooking, etc. This study examined that these kinds of situati…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main goal of this project is to answer the question: How mitochondria of Candida albicans adapt and modulate the fungi adaptation to sudden chances in growth conditions associated to the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Rockets, assembly lines, temperature controllers, and inverted pendulums use one thing in common: sophisticated control algorithms to maintain proper balance. The objective of this project w…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that multiple frequency Bluetooth enhanced mobile devices with string-shape based structural-spectra pattern recognition software can provide a cos…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
For this project, I examined present day, three bladed horizontal axis wind turbines and tried to find a way to increase their output efficiency with post production modifications. The conce…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In the agriculture industry and other fields dealing with significant crop management, mathematical functions can be utilized as a tool to aid users and to streamline the growing process. By…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Soliton waves are self-reinforcing waves that maintains their shapes while they move at constant speed. They are caused by cancellation of dispersion effect and distortion effect during the…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
A primary problem of gathering hydrogen from electrolysis of water today is the high overpotential associated with the O2 evolution reaction. Research into anodic catalyst formation and comp…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
The objective of this study was to improve upon the design of a useful class of nanoparticles known as quantum dots (QDs), in order to improve their capacity for biological applications, esp…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
A primary goal of cryptographic research is to develop more secure cryptosystems to ensure secrecy in the information-centric era we live in. Only the one-time pad cryptosystem achieves the…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Wild beet, including Beta macrocarpa and Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima, is a major production constraint on sugar beet throughout the world and especially to the Imperial Valley, California’s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Newborn screening is a vital process that defines the course that a baby’s life could take. Identifying metabolic diseases at early stages gives the opportunity of early treatment, making th…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
According to the biodiversity theory, the decrease in piscivore population will result in direct, shrot-term increase in planktivore biomass, reductions in crustacean herbivore biomass, and…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The purpose of this project was to make a vest that a visually impaired or blind person could use to have an easier time moving around in their environment. The project was chosen due to int…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
For centuries, man has turned to plants to provide not only sustenance but also medicine. The purpose of this project is to isolate and identify the compound(s) responsible for the antibacte…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to prevent the deacetylation of microtubule-associated tubulin protein through the use of the inhibitory mechanisms of histone deacetylase inhibitors, thus…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
With a 5-year survival rate of only 6%, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Transforming Growth Factor-ß1 (TGF-ß1),…