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ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, and its early diagnosis is crucial for effective intravenous immunoglobulin treatment within ten days, signi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Paper industry is hugely contaminating, releasing 55 trillion tons of CO2 and cutting down 15 billion trees annually. We aim to solve this problem by using Kombucha as a sustainable alternat…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Real world mathematical models are often built to incorporate dynamical features like Lebesgue measure preservation, but the algebraic, group theoretical properties of dynamical systems have…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder- decoder U-Ne…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for remote health monitoring for chronic diseases. To help patients manage their conditions, a user-friendly smartphone application (with a…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
More than 72 billion pounds of food goes to waste globally while 50 million people struggled with hunger in 2020. To combat this, packinghouses coat produce with a fruit wax that must be hea…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics are a rapidly emerging contaminant in water sources. California is in the process of adopting a standardized testing method to monitor microplastics in drinking water (Bill SB1…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Leidenfrost drops are extremely mobile and thus display unusual properties. To better understand the complex dynamics of Leidenfrost drops confined by a spherical surface and its mechanism a…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder with classical motor impairments in PD patients including akinesia, resting tremor, and muscle rigidity. The pathological hallmark of PD is th…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Image and shape classification have been studied extensively with the growing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CNNs operate on rasterized images rather than geome…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 10 million people worldwide. Current diagnostic measures consist of ambiguous surveys or are extremely invasive, and inc…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Binary supermassive black holes are expected to be common at the centers of galaxies. No observational technique has the resolution to directly image them. One indirect way to confirm their…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
The recent characterization of a new class of prenylated acylphloroglucinol heterodimers (Lindbergins) with leishmanicidal activity by Socolsky et al. presents a promising alternative to tra…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
The decomposition of plant-litter, aided by the metabolic activity of plant-litter microbial communities, is a vital process in nutrient cycling. Taxa such as Curtobacterium are involved in…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In 2020, more than 250,000 Vietnam households were inundated, and over 70% of the population is exposed to risks from flood-related hazards. While Southeast Asia has experienced an unprecede…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Third Award
Every summer, children and pets suffer needless deaths because they are unintentionally left in hot cars. Young children are placed in the back seat and are easily forgotten. My project prov…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Third Award
Protein secondary structure is defined by the local interactions between amino acid residues and it is widely used in protein structure and function analysis. Secondary structure information…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Simulations run on quantum computers are efficient tools to capture the quantum properties of fundamental particles more effectively than classical computers in high energy physics (HEP) sim…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
With the increase in the use of lithium-ion batteries, there is also increase in the waste of dead batteries which causes environmental problems. The recycling of lithium-ion batteries carri…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Paternal exposure to environmental toxicants, malnutrition, and stress is associated with increased disease incidence in their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Recent resear…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Oil spills pose significant threat to all environmental, political, economic aspects in global settings. However, current oil absorbents that are most commonly used are made of polypropylene…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
RoboBall aims to respond to the lack of high quality training facilities and coaching that regional soccer players have access to; the impact of these inequities between regional and metro p…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
I. REASONS TO CHOOSE THE TOPIC + There are many disabled people in the world. + There are a number of technological products for people with disabilities such as robotic arms that use brain…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Intragenomic conflict occurs when selfish genes attempt to increase their own prospects of replication at the expense of the organism. It has clinical and ecological significance–the genes a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics pose an increasing risk to beach ecosystems around the world. The abundance of microplastics negatively impacts natural processes such as evaporation, water flow, and heat tran…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern in both medical and agricultural industries, contributing to 700,000 deaths annually. By 2050, antibiotic-resistant bacteria,…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
NASA’s InSight probe was used to hammer into the surface of Mars in hopes of studying the planet’s internal temperature. Unfortunately the mission ended early, due to the probe penetrating a…