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Electronic Application for Hospital Visits

Doctors will use buttons in the surgery’s room to send messages to a smartphone . giving orders to the bulletin board which will translate it to an information in the TV. The system will aut…

Electronic Media vs. Paper: Effect on Teenagers' Reading Comprehension

Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award

Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine if electronic media or paper produced better reading comprehension for current-day eighth graders. Methods/Materials Students we…

Electrospinning Nanodiamond FIber Patches for the Prevention of Secondary Myocardial Infarctions

The team sought to create a polymer fiber material that would serve as a viable drug delivery system for the diffusion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Alpha (VEGF) on the human heart a…

El Nino's Effects on San Lorenzo Valley's Atmospheric Inversions

Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to compare atmospheric inversion events in the San Lorenzo Valley during El Nino and non El Nino years, and to identify the differences in atmo…

Elucidating the Role of Early Light Induced Proteins through a Cryptogam Perspective

BACKGROUND: The human population is increasing at a dramatic rate while agricultural productivity is decreasing due to various environmental stresses such as drought or cold. Engineering pla…

Embedding a Flat Torus in Three Dimensional Euclidean Space

In the 1950s Nash and Kuiper proved the existence of an isometric embedding of a flat torus in 3D Euclidean space; however, they did not provide a visualization of such embedding. In the '70…

Energy Management of the Air Flow in the Air Flow in the Wind Turbine

The purpose is to study of the influence of the parameters of the air flow on the efficiency of the inertia of the wind turbine. Hypothesis Adjustment parameters of air flow through the impe…

Energy Management--Saving Money and the Climate: A Technological Approach and Device Generating Economic Incentives for Regenerative Energy Production

Subsidized feed-in tariffs boosted CO2-friendly regenerative energy production in Europe, but were drastically reduced to limit costs. The reduced profitability caused stagnating regenerativ…

Energy Production from Waste Reduction, Phase III: Experimental Design Optimization of Surfactant Enhanced Waste Paper Hydrolysis

The purpose of this project was to optimize enzyme catalyzed waste paper hydrolysis to make fermentable sugars for biofuel production. During phase I enzyme composition, hydrolysis temperatu…

Engineering a Better Brain Electrode

This project aims to replace existing brain electrodes that are failing in chronic use. Brain electrodes have many important applications including the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and b…

Engineering a Biological Filter System for Freshwater Denitrification for Use in Agricultural Applications, Phase I

Inorganic nitrogen pollution typically caused by farming fertilizer runoff affects the environment in four major ways: increasing the acidity of freshwater ecosystems, stimulating the eutrop…

Engineering a Modern-Day Enigma Machine

Fourth Award

The Enigma machine was used in WWII by the Germans to communicate with their submarines and within their military to send secure messages. It was considered one of the most secure encryption…

Engineering a Novel Oleocanthal-Based Nanocarrier for Drug Delivery

There are currently many drawbacks associated with using nano- drug carriers. In order to remediate some of those drawbacks, research will be conducted on engineering a novel oleocanthal nan…

Engineering Clean Energy: Measuring Energy Production of a Microbial Fuel Cell Using Waste Materials

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to build mediator-less Microbial Fuel Cell (M.F.C.) and test fuel sources to determine which has the best potential for use in large scale…

Engineering of a Conjugated Endolysin as an Efficient Method for Acne Treatment

Third Award

Acne vulgaris is a common inflammatory disorder of the pilosebaceous unit with both physical and psychological ramifications. It is widely accepted that both Propionibacterium acnes and Stap…

Engineering of Polysaccharide-Based Nanoparticles for Theranostic Applications

The current method of treatment of patients in the healthcare system, to first diagnose a condition and then to apply a known therapy, is time-consuming and expensive. These treatments may h…

Enhancement of Beta-lactam Antibiotic Susceptibility by Tannic Acid through Beta-lactamase Inhibition

Third Award

Beta-lactamase hydrolyzes beta-lactam antibiotics, making antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections ineffective. An emerging beta-lactamase, carbapenemase, can even hydrolyze last resort…

Enhancement RSA Security using Polynomials and Rabin Functions

The maturity of the electronic commerce, internet banking facilities, and software protection systems issues stimulate the world's attention to create a safe electronic data exchange environ…

Enhancing Photocatalytics Activity of the ZnO Nanoparticles using Nanocomposites for Removal of Organic Pollutants

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are an increasingly relevant issue in industrialized countries that pose a risk to health and the environment. This project was designed to enhance the p…

Enhancing the Efficiency of Self-Assembled Organic Solar Cells with the Addition of a Second Electron Donor and Graphene

Chemistry Third Award

Objectives/Goals Solar energy, as the largest energy resource on Earth, is a viable source of renewable power because it is free and easily available. Organic solar cells are a promising low…

Enhancing the Feasability of Bioethanol Production Using Agriculturally Produced Waste Products

The growing popularity of bioethanol in the fuel industry emphasizes the importance of creating an efficient but inexpensive system for large-scale ethanol production by yeast. Recently, the…

Enhancing the Rate Capability of the Ni-Co-O System Electrode Using NH3 Treatment

In recent years, the global energy crisis and climate change have become serious issues in need of innovative solutions, so exploring new renewable energy resources is the primary objective…

Enhancing the Rate Capability of the Ni-Co-O System Supercapacitor Electrode via NH3 Treatment

Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award

Objectives/Goals The global energy crisis and climate change have become serious issues in need of innovative solutions. Supercapacitors have attracted extensive attention as promising energ…

Entangling Time Bin Qubits Using an Optical Switch

Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals Quantum mechanics is a very relevant topic of the day as it is being used extensively in technology. These advancements largely involve the process of entangling qubits, whi…

Environmental Impact: The Effects of Some Artificial Sweeteners in Nature

Artificial sweeteners (acesulfame, aspartame, saccharin and sucralose) are used as sugar substitutes in foods and beverage. Can these sweeteners biodegrade in nature? Will they cause problem…

Environmentally Safe Solution to Styrofoam Waste

Commonly available beetle larvae could be the key to diminishing five types of polystyrene waste in our environment: purple compact Styrofoam, expanded white Styrofoam, packing peanuts, bean…

Enzymatic Activity of the K173Q Polymorphism of NPP1: Kinetic Analysis for Assessing Implications in Disease

K173Q is a polymorphism of ecto-nucleotide pyrophosphatase/ phosphodiesterase 1 (NPP1), an enzyme which inhibits bone mineralization and ectopic calcification by hydrolyzing ATP to produce p…

Epigenetic Investigation of Antibiotic-Tolerant Persister Wake-up Chronic Infection Mimicking Conditions

In today’s world uncontrolled and unconscious antibiotics usage cause huge risk to human health due to rapid development of resistant bacterial strains. Infectious bacteria have the ability…

Equivalences between Well-Defined and Undefined Partitions of Infinity

This project explored results from the previous year’s research, in which well-defined quantities of infinity appeared to be equal to undefined quantities of a larger infinite cardinality (e…

Essential Toolkit for Dancing Droplets

Third Award

This study explores several ways to make liquid droplets levitate and oscillate. These physical phenomena are detailed through five different processes: the Leidenfrost effect, vibrations fo…