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ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
As humans gain an increasing reliance on environmentally harmful devices such as cars and factories, organisms in the ocean experience life-altering adversity. To decrease the significance o…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Litsea cubeba (Lauraceae) is a woody plant which is widely distributed in Vietnam. Its fruit essential oil (FEO) showed a potent effect on the central nervous system (CNS). However, the neur…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Ultra-cool (<600 K) brown dwarfs are elusive objects between the planetary and stellar regimes. Due to their faint magnitudes in common photometric bands, they are notoriously difficult to d…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Third Award
Honeybees perform 80% of global crop pollination. Over 50% of commercial honeybee hives have died since 1947, with scientific literature identifying pests as a leading cause. Small hive beet…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems Third Award
People with a limb paresis disability cannot freely use a traditional computer keyboard. Such people often have difficulties working on a computer or other electronic devices. I decided to w…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Homeostatic plasticity is necessary for maintaining neuronal activity within a set physiological range in response surrounding activity. While it plays a prominent role in learning and memor…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Biogas is a renewable energy source generated by the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic matter. Of all the gases produced by animal waste, 55-65% is methane, affecting global warming 21 tim…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Third Award
Limited socioeconomic data in developing countries has led to increased reliance on predictive models for socioeconomic estimation, but their proclivity to produce unequal error rates for di…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Under current global circumstances of climate change, developing heat-tolerant crops has become of critical importance. S. lycopersicum, the most commonly cultivated tomato variety, is a val…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The Animated Legends project was created with the aim of recording and disseminating the legends of Igarapé-Miri, a municipality located in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon region. The idea aros…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is characterized by the irreversible decline of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that regulates the nigrostriatal neuromodulatory system, which results in the rise of dysfunc…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The inflexibility of fixed-dosage drugs hinders the way to a safer and personalized approach to mediate withdrawal symptoms, especially with medications having high dependency rates. This re…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Prescription opioid addiction is a national health crisis. Today, patients or physicians don't have a way of diagnosing if a relief painkiller causes addiction. Current approaches for diagno…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Autophagy is a “self-eating” cellular pathway. It is a core molecular mechanism for cellular and organismal homeostasis and is also a pro-longevity mechanism. Autophagy dysfunction links the…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Pipes that have tight structures can often be found in our daily lives but are difficult for human inspection and reparation. Therefore, the solution of using pipe-climbing robots is a more…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
As bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is characterized by manic, mixed, and depressive episodes, polypharmacy—combining 2 or more medications simultaneously—is common for BD-I psychiatric treatment t…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Third Award
Chemical Insecticides have done immense damage to the core of environmental systems. The alternatives present in the market are unaffordable or inaccessible to the marginal farmer, In search…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. While BC has favorable survival rates for localized cases, 26% of BC survivors will experience an incurable can…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are the fundamental tool to diagnose the leading cause of death globally–cardiovascular disease. Cardiac signals inputted into computerized algorithms can exploit E…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The use of UAVs has increased rapidly in the last decade. They are now implemented in various research operations and inspections. The main limitation of drones is their short flight time of…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Developing clinical Nuclear-factor-kappa-B ( NF-?B) inhibitors persists as an unresolved challenge due to the duality of NF-?B. NF-?B activity in T-cells exerts a protective effect by stimul…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The unpredictable behavior of tumors is a problematic barrier to developing personalized therapeutic strategies for individuals with all forms of cancer. A leading cause of cancer’s volatile…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Third Award
Sorghum bicolor and Panicum virgatum are widely grown crops. Lignin, synthesized in the monolignol pathway, prevents easy access to cellulose. Reducing lignin is necessary for these crops to…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Third Award
Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative, highly infectious bacterium. It is the causative agent of the disease tularemia, which suppresses and evades intracellular innate immune responses.…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Hydrogen (H2) is identified as a clean energy source and can be produced from fossil fuels and biomass gasification, and water splitting using electrolysis. However, the current H2 productio…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In the modern era of the technological revolution, most energy needs are fulfilled from burning fossil fuels. They are not only depleting very fast but have adverse impacts on our environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Over 55 million people currently have dementia with an expected rise to 135 million cases by 2050. Despite having over 82% of primary care physicians in the frontlines of dementia care, only…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Third Award
All disorders, particularly progressive and degenerative ones, are more severe in under-resourced areas due to lower access to diagnostic resources. A delayed or inaccurate diagnosis can be…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Third Award
Macrocycles are increasingly studied in supramolecular host-guest chemistry due, in part, to their molecular recognition and binding capabilities. Herein, a computational study which employe…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
With the growing amount of COVID-19 cases, especially in developing countries with limited medical resources, it’s essential to accurately diagnose COVID-19 with high specificity. Due to cha…