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ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Molecular rotors are compounds, which molecules include two or more fragments that can rotate to each other. As a result of the energy absorption molecules form excited states, which could t…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if we could engineer a PLA filament 3D printed scaphoid bone that could be used as a bone replacement. We printed five bones at low, medium, a…
ISEF · 2015
Euclidean distance metric based analysis, including regression and clustering, is good at detecting symmetrical relationships between variables, such as “if gene A was high, then gene B was…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The idea behind this project was to first research how the Anterior Cruciate Ligament(ACL) tore. Then discover who is at risk for this injury and why. A Quadricep angle(Q-angle) is the degre…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
For their education, the blind need to use convenient learning methods and strategies. Since they cannot learn as other individuals do, the Braille method was an outstanding and successful s…
ISEF · 2015
Smartphones are gaining popularity with blind people who often use them for taking notes instead of using braille slates or braille keyboards. However, typing on smartphones still has limita…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution for enabling people with physical disabilities to perform motor tasks. In its initial stage, this was substantiated by the use of ele…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is an analytical experiment on the effects of a coupled therapy involving mental exercise and brainwave therapy. Hypothesis: subjects will have improved scores on cognitive test…
ISEF · 2015
Breathe Easy explores the relatively unconsidered subject of CO2 build-up in vehicles, basing its rationale on ventilation studies in buildings and the accepted fact that heightened levels o…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Purpose Using cuticle of plants, we can make a natural brightener which can inhibit the fungus, good and excellent in waterproof and suppress the corrosion of the metal. Result Study 1: Glos…
ISEF · 2015
Engineered wood beams are advertised to be stronger and more durable than standard sawn lumber beams. However, the commercially available engineered wood beams are much more expensive than s…
ISEF · 2015
Building off the past few years of research in robotic search and rescue, this year, we write an algorithm that calculates the visible horizon and peaks of hills from any location and direct…
ISEF · 2015
In the middle of XIX century the concept of homotopy group of topological space was formulated. It became one of the most important concepts in homotopy topology and now it is fundamental ch…
ISEF · 2015
Development of full cycle carbon neutral renewable energy management strategies are important in the light of diminishing resources and strict emission control guidelines. Current research p…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Biogenic Mn(II) oxidation holds great potential to reduce the toxicity of soluble mine waste in the environment at low cost. Abandoned mine waste sites, such as those in Arizona, pose a risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Corneas are among the most frequently transplanted tissues in the United States, with some 46,000 surgeries performed annually. Unfortunately, they can typically be stored for only 7-10 days…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Due to the fact that current conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, lack specificity, the development of new forms of therapy is essential to decreasing…
ISEF · 2015
According to World Health Organization, over 360 million people have disabling hearing loss, and it is expected to get worse with the younger generation due to exposure to loud music. The pu…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bacterial infection of the human blood is a very common cause of illness and death. Rapid and accurate identification of the infectious agents is critical for proper antibiotic selection. Th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to test and to examine how the design of a natural aquifer can be effective in filtering run off from roads in order to make it less harmful to the ecosyst…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Media multitasking is increasingly prevalent in our society, especially among the young. Processing multiple streams of information simultaneously, however, is cognitively challenging, there…
ISEF · 2015
This project was designed to recycle the by-product produced when filtering the carbon output of exhaust of fossil fueled cars to decrease carbon footprint. Filtration occurred when carbon d…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Strain and Left ventricular mass (LVM) determination are essential for the evaluation of the progress and function of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Free of geometric assumpt…
ISEF · 2015
Ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury during heart attack may result in significant heart damage, and new therapies are needed. The goal of this study was to determine if the flavonoid quercetin…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Automobile industry has always been one of the most significant indicators of the current technological development. In recent years regular cars were equipped with electronic and computing…
ISEF · 2015
Motivated by a question proposed in combinatorial geometry, we attempt to categorize finite point sets that do not have a 5-hole (empty pentagon). We look at a finite set of points, P, and c…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
HIV-1 affects the immune system by destroying CD4 cells and thus weakening the immune system. Our main aim was to prepare to prepare pardaxin and it assess its effect on HIV virus? an antimi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
This project in its present form is the result of electrochemical production, analysis with new optical methods and application of aluminumoxide for a new electroluminescent device. The init…
ISEF · 2015
Cholera toxin causes a diarrheal response in patients by inducing chloride efflux from intestinal epithelial cells, but it does not kill the intoxicated epithelial cells. Cholera toxin also…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Cell immortality sounds good but is root cause of most cancers. This happens when certain functional tags attach to DNA periphery, suppressing apoptosis (self-dead), allowing uncontrollable…