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ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
In the past decade, the US government and other key interest groups have taken serious steps to address the addiction epidemic; however, despite these efforts, asper the data from the Nation…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- determines the spread and impact of a given epidemic. With over 2.6 million…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Out of the 7.8 billion people on Earth today, over 1.3 billion of them suffer from a neurological condition, out of which over 450 million of them do not get their condition diagnosed or tre…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to traumatic childhood events like emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and other forms of household dysfunction. ACEs are associated with biomark…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Extreme political polarization has surfaced as a major threat to democracy, with recent events highlighting the need to understand both the causes and solutions of political polarization. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People’s feelings are often reflected in the way they write. For this project, texts were used to characterize the emotional state of people both throughout the decades and in different part…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research is about how the Andean Huancavelican popular participation was carried out socially and territorially in the struggle to consolidate the independence of Peru. The analysis of…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to understand how empathy as a stable personality trait relates to adherence to Covid-19 safety guidelines. Empathy was measured along the Interpersonal React…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus has impacted and disrupted families all across the world. The impact of mask mandates on public compliance wearing is…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The number of youths affected with mental health disorders has increased throughout the years. 41% of adolescents with anxiety do not have access to mental health services, so it is importan…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders affect 284 million people worldwide, yet anxiety diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and stigmatized. Thus, there is an urgent need…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
With psychiatric comorbidity rates around 50%. Children with (ADHD) often exhibit comorbid conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). (ADHD) starts in…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
There is some evidence indicating that Ginseng, Ginkgo biloba (G.biloba), Curcuma longa linn. (C.longa linn.) and Vinpocetine have a role in ameliorating memory impairment. These findings ha…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The integration of A.I. into homes, workplaces and transportation has increased with the development of new technology. Voice-activation and interaction is required to use and perceive these…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A randomized controlled trial was run over the course of a 5 week period on 40 high school students to investigate the effects of simulation racing (SR) on attentional control. Prior researc…
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
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the spread of many bad health habits, due to quarantines and lockdowns. People were forced to spend hours indoors, with little ability to engage in labor…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The main purpose of this research project was to determine whether machine learning algorithms creating art in three art genres, Ukiyo-e, Portrait and Landscape, are imaginative enough to fo…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
This paper presents a deep learning model to detect ‘fake news’ through tone and sentiment in text. The primary challenge facing researchers in the ‘fake news’ detection field is a deficit o…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Hydrocephalus is a neurological condition characterized by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain. This CSF accumulation results in the dilation of cerebra…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Depression is a severe, complex and multifactorial neuropsychiatric disorder. Recent research indicates that Musa paradisiaca peel is rich in dopamine and other substances, such as WRKY26. T…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dysphasia is a communication disorder that interferes with the development of language skills in children who do not have an intellectual disability. This problem must be dealt with quickly,…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that lacks objective diagnostics. The current gold standard, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), suffers from problems su…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project is to determine if gender affects how an individual reacts to frustration. To do this I constructed a test that used an electromagnetic grid attached to switches…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Virtual Reality, or VR, is the creation of a simulated 3-dimensional environment in which the user can be immersed. With many people transitioning to an online and at-home atmosphere, and de…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People with Down syndrome face problems in speaking and words pronouncing. This problem makes them depressed and not interact with family, friends, and community. In addition, they have neur…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In a society that is become increasingly dependent on technology, the negative implications of this increasing dependence can often be overshadowed by the benefits technology provides us. "D…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
pedmed is a Mobile app that calculates the developmental age of the child and warns parents if there is a delay between the developmental age and the biological age of the child by asking ab…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many school districts were forced to shift to one of three different E-learning models: asynchronous, synchronous, or hybrid. The present study examined how the…