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ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The problem of heavy metal pollution has escalated to that of a serious social-environmental crisis. Calcium alginate, a natural polymer in brown algae, was investigated regarding its absorp…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Research shows that approximately 10 million Americans have essential tremors. Of these 10 million, 4-5% begin tremors as young as 40 years old. There is also a 50% chance of a child inherit…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Waste plastics are the major cause of environmental pollution due to low-recycling rates. Herein, I demonstrate the first use of waste plastics as a source of carbon nanoparticles catalysis…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Despite the fact that polar regions are classified as a pivotal position in geology and palaeoenvironment research due to the unique natural conditions and location, the extreme environment…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years, many severe and destructive wildfires have plagued the state of California. Extreme fire conditions, such as drought, that occur especially during autumn months in Californi…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Overwatering and underwatering are widespread issues with environmental, financial, and safety consequences. Current approaches to assessing grass water use efficiency (WUE) are inaccessible…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
With the inherent interconnectivity of online communications comes the presence of disinformation. While the utilization of disinformation by individuals is harmful, the tactic is worse when…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
Analogy-making is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another. By making analogies, we find similarities between two subjects, which helps…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and a general cognitive decline, afflicting approximately 45 million people worldwide with the rate…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Using Western tools for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) leads to inaccurate and inadequate diagnoses in the Indian setting due to huge diversity in socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds. C…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Even with all the basketball return chutes on the market, basketball players–including my sister–have no options when it comes to an affordable and reliable basketball return chute. After he…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
In recent decades, there's been an alarming increase in bacterial evasion of antibiotic treatments, necessitating an improved understanding of resistance, tolerance, and persistence. Resista…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Based on prior studies, Avian Paramyxovirus Serotype 4 (APMV-4) has shown a rapid apoptotic cell death response within tumors in complement with the upregulation of stimulated immune signals…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
It is known that each periodic orbit can be assigned to a spatial braid. The goal of the project is to check the hypothesis on the possibility of applying the braid theory to the classificat…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from some level of hearing loss. However, only 17% of those who would benefit greatly from using a hearing aid use one. Hearing aids can cost a…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
Perspective transformation and edge detection are fundamental and important problems in the field of computer vision. This paper proposed a fast and adaptable method, CDD, to perform the det…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Robust neural networks are crucial for image recognition. However, not all images are equally differentiable. It's easier to differentiate a cat from a tree than from a dog. Most image class…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) 9 and its variants are promising vectors for gene therapy to treat neurological diseases. The clinical uses of AAV9 along with its variants are leveraged by the…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A circular thermoelectric generator (CTEG) device will be built to recycle the wasted thermal energy given off by an automobile exhaust pipe. The devices that will be utilized to build the C…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
Dacey established a class of simple, finite graphs, called Dacey graphs, which maps bijectively to the set of finite orthomodular posets, posets where the join of orthogonal elements always…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Climate change is causing precipitation and temperature patterns to change, and in response species are undergoing phenological shifts, changes in reproduction timing. To explore the effects…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
My project aims to identify a therapy to treat COVID-19 infections using gene expression and a computer-assisted approach. My computer program, AMiF (Augmented miRNA Filtration Model) works…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Green hydrogen is a continuously rising way of storing clean energy, wherein electricity from renewable sources is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Unfortunately, current materi…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cancer is Curable, But only when it is detected in its early stages. When focusing on genital skin cancer matters become worse since factors like privacy, comforts, social hurdles and restri…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a cancer-causing, environmental toxin that is found in the bloodstream of 98% of the U.S. population. I wanted to figure out how to remove PFOA from water us…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
This study used deep learning neural networks to investigate the most important clinical variables that could be used to determine escalated care early on in COVID-19 patients. Hospitalized…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
My project aims to create a wearable triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to sustainably power a temperature sensor to prevent heat emergencies. I hypothesized that the triboelectricity produc…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The majority (91%) of the world's population lives in places exceeding World Health Organization's air quality guidelines and 7 million people die every year because of air pollution. Partic…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a child with birth defects is born approximately every 4.5 minutes. The currently accepted method to determine the potential of ne…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to examine the feasibility of using lady beetles for pest control. The exploration showed that there were 2 groups of lady beetles, i.e. pest lady beetles…