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ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are highly-energetic charged particles that produce atmospheric air showers of secondary subatomic particles, such as muons, detectable by scintillating ground ar…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic, “king of poisons,” threatens public health on an unprecedented scale with over 140 million people in 50 countries drinking water contaminated with arsenic at levels above the EPA/WH…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Let G=(Z_2)^k. That is, the set of k-dimensional vectors with binary components. We say that a subset of G (call this A) is a 'Sidon Set' if all pairwise sums, a_i+a_j (i<j) in A, are distin…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide–gated (HCN) channels are voltage-gated channels in cell membranes of the heart and brain. The Ih current, also called the pacemaker current, pla…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Currently there are cleaning methods that help eliminate ringworm-causing fungi on surfaces like wrestling mats; however, there is no way to check whether or not the ringworm has been comple…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Solar power is a main source of energy and is expected to play a vital role in fulfilling the future global demand for electricity. A major obstacle hindering useful photovoltaic (PV) utiliz…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing topic in modern medicine, and many scientists are seeking solutions to eliminate the need for antibiotics. Bacteria communicate to each other to f…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from stroke and spinal cord injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the arm and the hand. It may consi…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
This project aims to find the most efficient combination of components in the building of a wireless power transmission unit (WPT) using generated polynomial functions. In experimentation, t…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Migraines are the third most prevalent illness in the world, and migraine symptoms (e.g. severe pain, visual disturbances, nausea, and cognitive impairments) all impede daily life. At the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
This project investigates a new method for the extraction of microplastics (plastic particles less than 5mm in diameter) from water. Currently, no screening or filtering for microplastics ta…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Lipid nanoparticles are gaining increasing attention due to their intracellular drug delivering capabilities, especially with their ability to deliver gene-editing materials such as componen…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Purpose: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a condition of characterized gradual loss of kidney function, lowers the glomerular filtration rate of its patient. As protein in urine is regarded as…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Recent literature suggests that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) may be initiated by a neurovascular mechanism that precedes neurodegenerative observations. Despite the potential great importance of…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
Learning from classified and unclassified data is generally categorized as semi-supervised learning (SSL). Traditional, graph-based SSL (GBSSL) algorithms operate by designing a relatively s…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Many applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that touch a wide variety of technological arenas, from the automotive and aeronautical industries to biomedicine and energy…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Exponentially increasing necessity for stronger and long-lasting turbine blades to power our industrial world calls for major development in the solidification protocol of metallic alloys. A…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to refine and create sensors that are more sensitive and more repeatable than the year before. This was done by combining graphene Nanoflake powder and silicon.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is a major public health problem and is the second most leading cause of death worldwide. Today, treatments available to us include chemotherapy and surgery which are both vastly expe…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Over the last years VoIP is constantly outperforming traditional mobile networks with more than one billion users in 2017. However, the voice quality is often affected by issues like noise,…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Electroencephalography (EEG) headsets, being highly portable, present a convenient, noninvasive method of recording the brain’s electrical activity. This project seeks to develop a method fo…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an infectious disease from the virus family Flavivirdea which is spread from the Aedes mosquitoes. Zika was originally isolated in the Ziika Forest of Uganda where i…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is relatively new non-invasive imaging technique that can be used for a variety of medical diagnosis. OCT is cost-effective and requires fewer resources th…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of cancer treatment that involves administering a photosensitizing drug and irradiating it with an external light source. Upon exposure, the photosensiti…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Second Award
Colony collapse is at an all time high devastating ecosystems and this project discovered a means to help the survival of honey bees through the supplementation of cysteine, which significan…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of my experiment was to determine if seeding Pseudomonas putida (applying a bacterial aerosol treatment to the surface of the sheen) will reduce the area of oil sheen on hydrocar…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty in recognizing and in comprehending emotions from other's facial expressions. This impacts their development of empathy and affects…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Tobacco abuse alone currently accounts for 1 in 5 deaths annually in the US. Despite this, present methods of rehabilitation have proven ineffective with over a 90% likelihood of relapse. To…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent research has determined that genes are regulated by a complex, changing network of DNA spatial interactions. However, current wet-lab technologies for characterizing the 3D genome are…