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ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Diabetes is one of the main public health problems due to the high number of incidents and mortality in all the world. According to the International Diabetes Federation in 2017 there were 4…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Through our volunteer work in the blind school in our region, we have experienced the suffering and the intensity of their need for help by a device that facilitates their lives and integrat…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One of the most common Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) type is the congenital autism with low intelligence and limited speech (accounting for 68% of all cases). This ASD type has negative eff…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if caffeine or sugar had an effect on a student's ability to focus, and if so, what this effect was. This would help students develop better st…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election, Social Media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have implemented a variety of changes to their respective sites' user interfaces, in an effort…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research consisted in the analysis of information provided by 185 police reports on missing teenagers registered in the Police Districts of Jardim Herculano, Capão Redondo and Parque Sa…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Endoplasmic reticulum calcium dysregulation caused by mutations in the presenilin has been implicated in neuronal death and in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) pathology. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of our experiment was to compare the differences of reaction and decision making times between teenagers ages 14, 16, and 18 years old. Our hypothesis was that the 14 year olds w…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Spatial abilities are thought to be pronounced in some scholastically-classified slow learners. In scholastically-classified slow learners with high spatial abilities, concepts can be taught…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Over the last three years, I have developed a new diagnostic screening test for dyslexia. My test is based on research that suggests dyslexia is an auditory processing disorder rather than s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Discovering children psychological issues has been hindered by the lack of children ability to express their feelings and needs using words, in addition to the shortage of an efficient and s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stress, from chronic mild to acute severe conditions, has extreme negative consequences. The purpose of this study is to explore the psychosomatic and pathological consequences of stress on…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder highly prevalent, characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that are difficult to control despite preser…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Because most government regulation is based on arguments about “externalities” (effects on third parties), understanding how externality arguments affect public opinion and support for regul…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
A novel diagnostic tool was developed that identified and digitized facial changes that differentiate Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with 99.9% accuracy as compa…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety is the most common mental illness, and adolescence is a critical time period for developing various anxiety disorders. Social media platforms allow people to generate content to conn…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Harmony project aims at understanding the effect of applying mathematical rules in the design of everyday objects on their aesthetical perception. In the past, mathematical canons were u…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Visual impairment is a major global health problem. In 2017, WHO estimated that there were 253 million people worldwide with this ailment. According to the journal of the American Medical As…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) results in deterioration of dopaminergic cells in the brain. The Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC), areas associated with facial expresion recognition, suffer…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Voting is a quintessential part of Democratic beliefs: the right to have a say in the government and who runs the country has been an important part of our country since its founding. Equall…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
When typing on a keyboard, we typically only see the end result of neatly typed words. However, the process of typing in order to create those final words also takes into account timing (suc…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Digital learning tools are becoming increasingly relevant in the classroom as a growing number of schools consider their potential to reduce paper usage and spending. In recent years, an are…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Summary of the Project We found that in Palestine the percentage of blind people are 14.6% ,in the world there are about 45 million people and in the Educational institutions there is about…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates the role of peer group influences on female high school students’ interest in STEM fields. Sixty-nine female 9th-10th graders participated in a survey that asked abou…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Gestalt movement was born in Germany under the authorship of researchers Wertheimer, Koffka and Köhler, during the first decades of the twentieth century. These researchers proposed that oth…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This is a research of social support towards the psychological condition and the quality of life of cancer survivors. This study aims to determine: 1) What is the most appropriate form and s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This engineering project studies ancient art mediums by recreating ancient paints from iron oxide, charcoal, and animal fat. To test the experiment, iron oxide and charcoal were mixed with d…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I created the "Family Relationship Questionnaire"(FRQ) to categorize participants as sex perspective (SP) "rigid" or SP "flexible". Rigid participants were those who could not see themselves…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, 38,000 children with severe to profound hearing loss in the United States have received a cochlear implant.…