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Novel Natural Solution to Control Oral Disease

Among several dental problem caries process is deadly serious and chronic too. It is an irreversible microbial disease of calcified tissues of teeth. Bacterial plaque plays the primary role…

Novel Observations on Intracardiac Electrograms Recorded During Ventricular Fibrillation

Biomedical Engineering

Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia, and the number one cause of death in the United States. This condition is traditionally characterized b…

Novel Photocatalytic Pervious Composites for Removing Multiple Classes of Toxins from Water

Second Award

Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…

Novel Potent Inhibitors for CIP2A with Mutational Classification Method

The human cancerous inhibitor of PP2A (CIP2A) is regarded as a novel target for cancer therapy as it’s overexpression in 65% to 90% of tissues in almost all studied human cancers correlates…

Novel Therapeutic Intra-Arterial Pharmacotherapy Administration for Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Biomedical Engineering

Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in Kentucky and the United States as well as the leading cause of long-term disability in several countries. Despite its vast implications, there is…

Novel Treatment Strategy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Malignant B1 Cell Depletion via Siglec-10 Stimulation

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…

Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Arylidene Meldrum's Acid Derivatives

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

About 20% of novel pharmaceuticals and 40% of novel agrochemicals appearing every year contain at least one fluorine atom in their structure. However, the lack of existing methods for obtain…

Objective Assessment Criteria for Median Based Filtering of Impulse Noise Corrupted Images

Impulse noises can seriously corrupt images. Median based filters are used to remove impulse noises. However, these filters introduce distortions while removing impulse noises. Traditionally…

Object Recognition Based UAV Control

Fourth Award

A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…

Observational Determination of Near Earth Asteroid Rotation Rates

The purpose of this research was to classify Near Earth Asteroids. The type of asteroid determines how dangerous they are to Earth and the best way to move them if they will hit Earth. The a…

Observations of Phytosterol: A Novel Method of Anti-Cancer Treatment Using Plant Based Steroid Compounds

Translational Medical Science

The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…

Obtention of Detergent Solution for Organ’s Decellularization Process

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…

Oh! How You Affect My Heart! (Again)

Animal Sciences

Problem: To determine if Turmeric or Motherwort is more successful in lowering the heart rate of a Daphnia. Hypothesis: If we are to expose the Daphnia to the Motherwort it will be a bit mor…

Oil Filter Recycling Plant

The main task was to find a new disposal method for used oil filters. A company in Costa Rica had big problems with contamination of the ground and ground water with oil because of the throw…

Oink-ity Oink

Biochemistry

The purpose of this experiment is to determine if a colostrum-based supplement will decrease the amount of time it will take a piglet to get up and sucking on a sow’s teat immediately after…

Olympics, Year Three: Training for Gold

Systems Software

The purpose of this project is to learn where most medal winning Olympians are training. Using a computer with internet access, search for official Olympic data medal counts by athlete for t…

On a Mission: Rescuing T-Cells to Fight Cancer

Biomedical Engineering

Immunotherapy, the interaction between cancer and immune cells, is one of the most promising treatments for cancer. A prominent research area is the B7-H1/PD-1 pathway. PD-1 (programmed cell…

Once Ignore Now Hero: Novelty Polymer from Palm Oil Waste

Oil Palm Shells(OPS) are produced in large quantity by the oil mills. for the instanceit was estimate that over 4 million tonnes of ops solid waste is produced annually and only a fraction i…

One-Step Synthesis of Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Nanofibers Copper Stearate Film Electrodes via Electrochemical Deposition Method

Superhydrophobicity is a physical property of a material wherein a drop of water beads up into a spherical shape having a static contact angle greater than 150 degrees. Inspired by lotus lea…

On Land or by Sea Oil Eating Bacteria Part V

Oil spills in the environment pose a significant risk to both the environment and the ecosystem. This science fair project has explored the possibilities of finding and characterizing oil-de…

On the Constructibility of n-Division Points of Certain Polar Curves by Area

In this paper, we develop a method for a problem not heavily touched upon by existing mathematical literature: evaluating the constructibility of n-division points by area that can be applie…

On the Growth and Relaxation of Viscous Fingering Structures

The Saffman-Taylor instability, also known as viscous fingering, forms between two fluids of different viscosities in a laminar flow environment. Viscous fingering structures are anisotropic…

On the Minimal Reset Words of Synchronizing Automata

Cerny's conjecture is a 50-year old question which concerns the combinatorial field of synchronizing automata. In particular, it postulates that the maximal length of the minimal reset word…

On the Molecular Basis of Cystic Fibrosis: The Criticality of the Position of Phenylalanine-508 in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator

Translational Medical Science

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes breathing and digestion problems in those who inherit it. The most common type of CF is caused by the deletion of a phe…

On Uniform Non-Repeating Morphisms

My work is devoted to generating series of infinite words without repetitions. At the beginning of XX century the problem on constructing infinite non-repeating words was raised by a mathema…

Optical Characteristics and Applications of Mirror-Like Cylinders Under Laser Beams

Propose of Project: It has been found that, during classes, a wonderful light band is generated on the blackboard when a laser pen irradiates light beams onto a metal pointer. The objective…

Optical Ion Reflector: Investigating the Elastic Collision Relationship between Ions and the Chamber Walls during Nuclear Fusion in order to Enhance Plasma Density by Focusing a Plasma Beam

Fourth Award

Our experiment seeks to prove the existence of elastic collision reactions occurring between ions emitted from a plasma beam and the target chamber wall. In order to prove this phenomenon, w…

Optimization and Understanding of Exciton Diffusion in Organic Solar Cells via Novel Monte Carlo Modeling

Organic photovoltaics are at the forefront of renewable energy because of cheap cost, nontoxicity, scalability, and rising efficiencies. However, PCBM (phenyl- C61-butyric-acid methyl ester)…

Optimization of Communicative and Information Spreading Processes at the School Institucion Educativa Angela Restrepo Moreno through the Development of an App

The problems in communication and broadcasting of information that have sprung in the Educational Institution Ángela Restrepo Moreno are due to the inadecuacy of the space and the deficient…

Optimization of Hybrid Capacitors: Role of Electrode Composition and Surface Area

Supercapacitors store ten to a hundred times more energy than a simple capacitor; however, supercapacitors possess only one tenth of the energy of a standard battery. Therefore, through the…