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ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This project was done for the purpose of identifying the best source of sediment for a sediment microbial fuel cell. The initial idea was to determine which source of sediment generated the…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
The idea of the project is the design of advanced systems potentially useful in targeted cancer therapy and neurosurgery. In my project I have focused on composites of modified gold nanopart…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Semiconductor solar cells are used to harness solar energy, a clean renewable energy source for solving global pollution and energy crisis. These photovoltaic-cells are expensive and non-eco…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With the world population increasing by 60 million every year, the search for clean water becomes a growing concern especially in Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs). Waste of anim…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The entire world and UAE is in the search of a new source of renewable energy instead of oil and gas that pollute the air and destroy our beautiful planet . As a part of this , a big effort…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This experiment tested whether the muon count is altered by changing the conditions between counter scintillators, with the purpose of determining if applied fields could cause any deflectio…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Although music is characterized as the world’s most common shared language, it can be quite abstract and complex. It is my mission to revolutionize the way how people learn to play and compr…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Third Award
The treatment of tuberculosis requires a minimum of 6 months of multidrug therapy. Antibiotic efficacy is complicated by a bacterial subpopulation of “persisters”. The persisters are genotyp…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if Mycoplasma bovis could be isolated from milk fluid, blood, lachrymal fluid, and nasopharyngeal cultures. The veterinarian collected milk fl…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that over 285 million people are considered to be visually impaired. Current techniques that attempt to help these people navigate require ei…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Muscular dystrophies are heritable, heterogeneous, neuromuscular disorders characterized by deterioration and severe atrophy of skeletal muscle. This disease is caused by mutations in protei…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Euclidean Algorithm is a method in finding the greatest common divisor of two integers efficiently, I have decided to observe the running time of the algorithm and create a Euclidean Alg…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
A critical issue in the world today is providing clean drinking water for people throughout the world. Nearly 780 million people are unable to access clean drinking water today. Despite the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical First Award
According to Moore’s law, the number of CPU transistors doubles every 18 months. Increased transistor density causes increased heat production. The need for CPU cooling is therefore increasi…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neuroblastoma is an aggressive pediatric cancer, with two thirds of all cases found in children ages five or younger. Current drugs cause adverse side effects which greatly affects the devel…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
In the US alone, 200,000 surgical vascular procedures fail annually, primarily due to restenosis caused by a healing response known as intimal hyperplasia (IH). IH can be attributed to endot…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Oil spilled into land, river or ocean always causes major problems for the environment. Absorbents made from structured fiber are found to be the best material to clean up oil spilled. In th…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The surface of plant leaves plays a major role in the interaction between plants and their environment as it fulfills important functions, such as protection against water loss due to transp…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Pancreatic cancer (PanCA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. An estimated 46,420 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed in the US in 2014, accor…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics First Award
Light-weight metal-air batteries have drawn much attention particularly in the transportation industry. Rechargeable Zn-air batteries, with six times larger energy density compared to Lit-io…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
In the main, basic characteristics of radio components such as resistance R, capacitance C and inductance L are positive. Consequently, the combinations of these components that have time va…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
BACKGROUND: Research examining relative importance of multiple built environment features and their associations with leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) participation is limited in genera…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The aim of presented work: 1. Elaboration of new approach for glucose-6-phosphate preparation 2. Phosphate-ions delivery into cell consisting of glucose The main target of this work is to de…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The goal of this work is a development of efficient approach to the chemical synthesis of low-molecular-weight fragments of alginate-like bacterial polysaccharides. These fragments are promi…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Fibre-reinforced polymeric composites have received widespread attention for the past decades because of their high specific strength and modulus.Pineapple leaf fibre is rich in cellulose,re…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) offer a cost-effective means of transforming solar energy into electricity, providing a vast array of applications and a potential solution to our global en…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
In this project, photovoltaic characteristics of two novel, low-band gap, semi-conducting derivatives of poly(2,7-carbazole) were studied. The first derivative (PCBTDPP) possesses the carbaz…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Despite tremendous progress in oncology, many treatments such as chemotherapy continue to weaken the immune systems of cancer patients, increasing their susceptibility to infections and othe…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The supercapacitors are getting considerable attention in recent years because they have quick charge/discharge capabilities, long cycle lives and are also environmentally friendly. Supercap…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project proposes an alternative approach to proof that a regular n-gon has the maximum area when compare to other irregular n-gons with perimeters of the same length using mathematical…