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ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Correct function of mitochondria is essential for many cellular processes. In animal cells, imbalance between the amounts of proteins encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA…
ISEF · 2015
Cellulose could be found mostly in Kenaf and Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) in Malaysia. For the purpose of this study, cellulose is used as a source to produce magnetic membrane. This research use…
ISEF · 2015
This paper discusses a new kind of hybrid drones. Mainly, all drones depend -during there movement- on fluctuation, and those fluctuated movements change the angle of attack which mainly con…
ISEF · 2015
The problem of my project was: are there any trends in the data of playing Monopoly? And if so, what is the best strategy to use when playing Monopoly in terms of what properties should I pu…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Rhizomania, a severe disease caused by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), causes significant damage to sugar beet worldwide, not only physically harming the sugar beet root but also re…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Recent changes in the field of oncology have placed an emphasis on targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) in order to effectively treat cancer. Despite the increased attention, an effective mech…
ISEF · 2015
In order to meet the future demands of computation and communication, new approaches are needed to increase data operating speeds to the terahertz (THz) frequency range. To accomplish this g…
ISEF · 2015
Photodetectors and other photovoltaic devices have garnered significant interest in recent years for their applications in high-speed data transmission and data processing. Graphene, a singl…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Recently, Continuous Flow (CF) Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) have emerged as a long term alternative to heart transplant in heart failure patients. However, CF VAD support diminishe…
ISEF · 2015
One of the most famous mathematical problems concerns constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass, specifically constructing regular polygons. Such construction…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solid oxide fuel cells require pure electronic conductors with composite designs and high operating temperatures. In this respect, mixed ionic electronic conductors are desirable due to thei…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Do chemical adjuvants inhibit murine lymphomas (like 2C3) and mammary carcinomas (like 4T1)? Cancer therapy currently involves surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Surgery does not ensure c…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chocolate and caffeine are well-known to affect the quality of sleep. Chocolate, however,contains only minimal traces of caffeine but larger amounts of theobromine, a related alkaloid stimul…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
In America nearly 14 million people abuse alcohol and suffer from alcoholism. Moreover, nearly 6.6 million children under the age of 18 have at least one parent that is an alcoholic. The eff…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…
ISEF · 2015
Detection of an object, such as a line or a circle, is one of the major components of computer vision applications. The Hough Transform utilizes a voting procedure to identify arbitrary obje…
ISEF · 2015
The main problem that brings about this project is environmental combustion due to carbon monoxide produced by all types of internal combustion motors plus the variety of different sectors o…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this research is to indicate the symptoms of a rare duplication located on the chromosome 16 and to propose more efficient way to diagnose the 16p12.3p13.11 duplication syndro…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cellulosic bioethanol, an alternative energy source produced by saccharification and fermentation of plant polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, is a promising renewable energ…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…
ISEF · 2015
Businesses and vehicles act in the environment, producing great quantities of particles of CO2 which is enemy number one of human health and to life on planet earth: starting from this state…
ISEF · 2015
Thermal power plants generate coal-ash, a bi-product of combustion, which is drained in a liquefied form into man-made ponds, called coal-ash ponds. These coal-ash ponds contain dangerous ch…
ISEF · 2015
The title of the experiment is Coating: Effect of Particle Size and Shape. The purpose of the experiment is to determine how pigment size and shape affect the strength of the latex/pigment c…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean Acidification is the reduction in the pH of the ocean due to absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere. When absorbed the carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water to create carbonic acid. The a…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my project was to determine if it is possible to detect heavy metals in coconut water, when the coconut plant grows on contaminated soil. Since coconut plants take a long time…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, most colorization of black-and-white photos is performed manually. However, manual colorization is expensive, as well as being inaccurate because of depending on the intuition of…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Chondroitin sulfate is one branch of glycosaminoglycan that forms proteoglycans within the connective tissue of jellyfish. However, few studies are done on the source jellyfish for extractio…