ISEF · 2017
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Engineering Mechanics
Now a days, population of the world increases high speed with same ratio people requirements are increasing day by day. Everywhere we can see a lot of cars also amount of cars increasing day…
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ISEF · 2017
Transposed Matrices in Archaeological Seriation to Analyze Aging and Distance between Archaeological Features in an Integrated Development Environment
Mathematics
There are numerous mathematical systems that are implemented in the process of archaeological seriation. Archeological seriation is a relative dating process in which assemblages are placed…
ISEF · 2017
Treating Hypertension: Using Natural Compounds to Inhibit Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
Biochemistry Third Award
High blood pressure affects millions of people worldwide. In this illness, activity of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) leads to the narrowing of blood vessels. There are many drugs that…
ISEF · 2017
Tuning Carbon Dioxide Capture Behavior via Ion Exchange in Porous Organic Polymers
Chemistry
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere have increased dramatically in recent decades, and many strategies in carbon capture and sequestration have been investigated to remediate t…
ISEF · 2017
UAV Obstacle Avoidance and Collision Prevention System
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The drone industry is projected to be worth over 127 billion dollars by the year 2020 (Sun, 2016). This means drones will be everywhere: monitoring our food crops, delivering our packages, a…
ISEF · 2017
Ultrastructural Characterization of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells Exposed to Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Using TEM and SEM Analysis
Translational Medical Science
According to World Cancer Research Fund, breast cancer is the second deadliest malignancy in women worldwide. During the last decades, nanoparticles have received much attention due to their…
ISEF · 2017
Ultra-Thin Asymmetric Supercapacitor: Utilizing Nano-Porous Nickel and Graphene-Copper for a High Energy Density
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Supercapacitors are important because of their increasing role in powering many mobile, wearable and medical devices that help and improve peoples’ lives. Supercapacitors can store energy wi…
ISEF · 2017
Unbiased Computational Estimation of Huntington's Disease Mutation Frequency and Repeat Instability
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic neurogenerative disorder caused by expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin (HTT) gene greater than 35 repeats. The expanded CAG…
ISEF · 2017
Understanding the Proteins Involved in Regenerative Angiogenesis
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is key in wound healing, embryonic development, and survival of cancerous tumors. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and its binding…
ISEF · 2017
Unexpected Photochemical Transformations of Dithienylacetylenes
Chemistry
Dithienylethenes (DTE) undergo reversible isomerization to colored isomers upon light irradiation. These compounds are considered as one of the most promising classes of organic photochromic…
ISEF · 2017
Unleading the Way! Remediation of Lead Contaminated Water with Coriandrum sativum (Cilantro) Biochar
Environmental Engineering First Award
Due to the recent Flint Water Crisis, much attention has been directed again towards the presence of heavy metals in water and its health and environmental implications. There also remains a…
ISEF · 2017
Unlocking History: An Algorithm to Virtually Unfold 3D Computed Tomography Scans of Unopened Historical Documents
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
In 1926, 2600 intricately folded letters from the 17th century were discovered. Opening the letters risks losing the folding patterns, breaking the seals, and destroying the text. Recently,…
ISEF · 2017
Unraveling the Role of Novel Type I Interferon in Human Paramyxovirus Infections
Microbiology
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) are paramyxoviruses that represent the leading cause of pediatric hospitalizations worldwide. Type I interferons (IFN) are…
ISEF · 2017
Unsupervised Analysis of Gene Expression in Neurological Animal Models Reveals Spatiotemporal Differences between Developing Mouse and Human Brains
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Mouse models serve as a readily available base for experimentation in neurodegenerative drug development. However, less than 10% of drugs that have shown success in mouse-based preclinical t…
ISEF · 2017
UOK? A Baby Monitoring System for the Visually Impaired Parents
Systems Software
Our application, UOK is a child monitoring application for visually impaired parents, which runs on android smart phone enabling the parents to easily check the child’s activity states. Ther…
ISEF · 2017
Upper Bound on the Burning Number of Graphs
Mathematics
The burning number of a graph was introduced by Bonato-Janssen-Roshanbin [Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8882 (2014)] for measuring the speed of the spread of contagion in a graph. Today,…
ISEF · 2017
Up the Creek
Plant Sciences Third Award
Revegetation and regeneration of native areas are occurring constantly in a variety of places. Corridors of bushland are important refuges and links for native flora and fauna. Along creeks,…
ISEF · 2017
Use of a Novel Arduino System as a Sensor for Detecting and Controlling Mosquito Populations
Embedded Systems
Mosquitoes are known carriers of different viruses such as: Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika, among others (WHO, 2016). The bite of these insects can be dangerous for human health since some can le…
ISEF · 2017
Use of a Polymer Derived from Citrus sinensis Peel to Remove Heavy Metals Dissolved in Water such as Hexavalent Chromium
Chemistry
The purpose of this research is to use the Citrus sinensis peel to develop a polymer capable of adsorbing and retaining heavy metals dissolved in water such as the hexavalent chromium which…
ISEF · 2017
Use of Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacteria with Application in Agriculture
Microbiology Third Award
Maize (Zea mays) is one of the most cultivated cereal in the world, but its growth has been accompanied by intense phosphorus fertilization, generating diverse enviromental problems; this is…
ISEF · 2017
Use of Waste Carbon Dioxide as a Renewable Reagent to Catalytically Synthesize Commercially Useful Cyclic Carbonates
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Petroleum is heavily depended upon for energy production, the production of plastic, and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. Though petroleum is said to have broad areas of ap…
ISEF · 2017
Using 3D Modeling to Save our Reefs: Accuracy of Reef Assessment Techniques Using Structure from Motion
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The rapidly declining health and changing distribution of coral reefs is impacting local ecologies and economies worldwide. Implementing effective conservation methods requires more accurate…
ISEF · 2017
Using 3D Printing for the Fabrication of Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzles
Engineering Mechanics
The Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle (GDVN) is a liquid droplet injector critical for the successful imaging of particles during Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SFX). The nozzle uses helium ga…
ISEF · 2017
Using a Novel Methodology to Constrain the Supermassive Black Hole-Galaxy Coevolution and Analyze the Selection Bias
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
This project studied the effects of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on their host galaxies in relation to their inherent properties. It also shed light on the Shankar et al. (2016) controve…
ISEF · 2017
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Predict Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Candidate Antibiotics against E. coli and X. alfalfae
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial neural networks, models of which were experimentally calibrated by the author, train homeostatic variable sets to examine the relationship between variations in incubation conditi…
ISEF · 2017
Using a Virtual Environment to Indirectly Measure Racial Bias
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to develop a reliable method to indirectly measure racial bias through use of a virtual environment. Administered with a computer, the virtual environment guides participan…
ISEF · 2017
Using Bayesian Networks and Entropy Coding for High Fidelity Video Compression
Systems Software
High Fidelity video increasingly plays an important role in medicine, science, education and many other domains. However, such video streams are extremely large and traditional, lossy compre…
ISEF · 2017
Using Commercial Oxygen MicroSensors to Measure Oxygen Consumption in Cell Cultures
Cellular and Molecular Biology
There is a need for a clinical alternative for the "gold standard" autograft. An autograft involves harvesting tissue from alternate locations in the body and substituting tissue in lacking…
ISEF · 2017
Using Dropsonde Descending Speed to Determine Vertical Air Velocity in a Hurricane
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The objective of this project is to derive the vertical air currents in hurricanes using a physics-based model to describe the dropsonde fall speed in still air. By assuming that the dropson…
ISEF · 2017
Using Fluorescence as a Death Assay for Angiostrongylus cantonensis Nematode
Animal Sciences
Rat lungworm disease (angiostrongyliasis), caused by human infection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is a dilemma that plagues inhabitants of tropical climates globally. The lifecycle of rat…