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ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cellular processes like motility, morphogenesis, and differentiation are heavily governed by the physical properties of the cell. For example, cellular stiffness is a primary indicator of th…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Tidal lock is a phenomenon that gravitationally “locks” the orientation of an orbiting body toward the other body. A good example is the Moon facing the Earth always with the same face. Moon…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) are designed to deliver medication to a patient’s lungs fast and effectively. However, when used alone, MDI’s deliver less than half of the medication to the lun…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Epilepsy is the most common serious brain disorder recognized by the World Health Organization, affecting 60 million people worldwide. People with epilepsy suffer from recurrent unprovoked s…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of the project was to build an Integrated Development Environment that gives blind, visually impaired or people suffering of Repetitive Strain Injuries that have no experience in…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The project enables the speech impaired people, who have defects in the larynx, to speak. For a particular sound or word, there exist a particular tongue and lip movement. Sensing the tongue…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
According to "World Health Organization" in 2013, there are 1,000,000 blinds in Egypt. Blinds need an easy voting system in order to express their political views just like other citizens. T…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The objective of this project is to create a remotely operated rescue robot that can navigate dangerous situations such as a natural disaster or a fire, locate a person in need of rescue, pr…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The project seeks to find a sustainable and permanent cure for halitosis which is the persistent bad breath that comes from human mouth and it is more pronounced in the morning. Conventional…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Current ethanol production methods offer impractical and expensive long-term solutions that would cause dramatic increases in food prices and require extensive areas of land. This research o…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The need for alternative fuel sources is becoming increasingly evident due to the climate changing effects of gasoline. One popular alternative, corn, may not be better due to the energy req…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this theoretical experiment is to present a device that will lessen the frequency of acid rain that occurs fro the amount of sulfur dioxide that is emitted from oil refineries…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Our country "Egypt" is susceptible to droughts and could possibly run out of water by 2025. Providing new source of pure water is challenging. The solution is inspired from our natural, God-…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Wave energy, an up-and-coming, field in the area of sustainable resources, harnesses the movement of waves in order to generate usable energy. one of the main problems, as for most types of…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The lack of drinking water in the near future is one of the key problems that appeared before humanity in 21st century. Therefore, the best way to obtain fresh drinking water is desalination…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Fire vortex is a certain type of fire that curls upward like a tornado. It is also known to cause more damages and harder to extinguish compared to other types of fire, because of its charac…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The weighted Catalan numbers, like the Catalan numbers, enumerate various mathematical objects. For example, the number of Morse links with n critical points is the n-th weighted Catalan num…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Neogobius melanostomus (Round Goby) are a benthic dwelling invasive species of fish in the Great Lakes. The question is: What effect does gender, tones, and sound location have on the respon…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that causes nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down. The aim of this experiment was to see if the viability of Alzheimer’s sick fruit flies…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this senior project was to investigate the effect of canopy cover on Salvinia molesta and Salvinia minima. The hypothesis for this project states: If Salvinia spp. are growing…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Which test piece design is least effected by the instability caused by vortex shedding and how can changing the design make the test pieces more stabile? The purpose is to determine how vort…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This experiment was conducted to determine how the addition of kenaf fiber, granular activated carbon (GAC), and humate affected soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE). Upper Sonoran Lif…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project was done to determine which smoothie had the least amount of sugar depending upon the fruit. The different fruits were peaches, bananas, oranges, blueberries, and strawberries.…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Alcanivorax borkumensis has an important biotechnological application: these bacteria are able to degrade hydrocarbon contaminants during oil spills. To effectively use the bacteria, it is i…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Scientists looking to familiarize themselves with a new field are often forced to read out-of-date books or spend hours poring over research papers, slowing the research process. The purpose…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Purpose Find which wing design produces the greatest lift by adding a dimpled airfoil to the camber. The hypothesis is that if using ‘dimpled airfoil’ principles and theories, if several sca…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Global warming is a real world problem that we each have a responsibility in helping to reduce. My project was to see what type of grass could help reduce global warming. My hypothesis was t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In 1999, over four million fish and an uncountable number of macroinvertebrates died when the Guide Corporation released a large amount of Sodium Dimethyldithocarbamate (HMP-2000), a corrosi…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The project seeks to solve permanently the problem of erratic power supply in our country Nigeria and at the same time minimizes the damage to our environment due to discharge of waste black…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
It is the right season for water strider to mate and spawn in summer. But last summer I did not find any water strider in most ponds in villages of my hometown which had been its habitat. Wh…