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ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Targeting DNA is a viable solution to treating cancer. Although many DNA intercalators are effective, they have deleterious effects on DNA structure and negative side effects for the patient…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Melody has always been the quintessential focus of musicological analysis, and its different intervallic structures are related to the listener’s psychological expectancy according to the Im…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With the exponential growth of data on the internet, it has become nearly impossible to identify whether a given piece of information is legitimate or not. This has led to an immense rise in…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
A chladni's figure is a symmetrical nodal line pattern formed by applying vibration to a uniform solid thin plate to form a two-dimensional standing wave by a specific frequency. It is widel…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Kids today spend a lot of time exactly at school. School is one of the most important places of the personality’s socialization. To produce the right strategy of behavior in different confli…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulation of one sense causes a response in another sense. This study focused on chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where affected people visualize…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, we study the question of asymptotic degrees of freedom in a viscous flow. Particularly, we create a bound on the dimension N of the determining node set xi of a fluid with tim…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water sampling is crucial for water quality management and analysis. However, conventional methods of sampling water can be expensive, dangerous, and inefficient. Areas such as pit mines, fl…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Global temperatures are rising at the same rate the society should continue to search for renewable sources of energy to power our cities. Solar collectors are able to transform heat energy…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Pneumatic actuators are compact, fast, powerful, simple, and inexpensive. They are very good for linear on/off applications but have major limitations with their speed and positional control…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
A 3D bioprinter is a 3D printer capable of printing human cells and tissues. Bioprinting tissues and organs using a patient’s own cells could eliminate the organ shortage and the risk of rej…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Triggered largely by the warming and pollution of oceans, corals are experiencing bleaching and a variety of diseases caused by the spread of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Identification of…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The student researcher tested for correlation between protein type and fatality rate in Zaire ebolavirus, hypothesizing that there is a significant difference in the fatality rates due to pr…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Steady airflow is essential for sound aerodynamic flight and stability. Separations in airflow around the wing destabilize the flow continuum and result in turbulent flow. Countering turbule…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
A k-derangement is a special kind of permutation of n objects, such that no subset of size k from the n objects is invariant. A 1-derangement is a permutation that has no fixed points. Count…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Biodigesters are used in a multitude of places as a producer of sustainable energy for buildings and appliances. They use anaerobic digestion to produce methane gas and fuel ammenities. In m…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Can an electromagnetic glove section with an electromagnetic field inhibitor material be created after testing the effects of electromagnetism on planaria? Since astronauts experience bodily…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our project investigates one method of decellularization, and it’s effectiveness on spinach leaves. We aim to strip spinach leaves of their DNA, and leave only the extracellular matrix (EMC)…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Currently, there are some ways cancer is clinically treated but most methods have adverse effects. A way that cancer is commonly treated is by using chemotherapeutic drugs. Chemotherapy work…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Earth’s average surface temperature has increased by 1.62? since the late 19th century. Natural gas was the source of about 32% of U.S. electricity generation in 2017 with coal following at…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging health problem that threatens global health and prosperity. According to the World Health Organization, with limited therapeutic options, AMR cu…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The past few decades have seen an exponential increase in demand for high-rise buildings. However, the constant motion of tall buildings makes them more susceptible to wind loads - reducing…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Overexpression of HER2 is present in about 20-30% of breast cancer tumors. HER2 sends growth signals from the cell membrane to the nucleus and contributes to the accelerated proliferation of…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The use of insecure passwords and growing numbers of security breaches in online services are becoming a bigger threat to both companies as well as people individually. While there are many…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the interaction of inflammatory and structural airway cells with allergic mediators. In 2007, the WHO estimated that 300 million people wor…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Agriculture is a major part of everyday life, which means when there are implications it causes a major impact on normal routines. In the past there has been instances of crops being exposed…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) has a higher mitotic index compared to other types of breast cancer yet Ki-67 values are still being used, despite an unclear mechanism. Here we found th…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this experiment was to find if a power solution could be created that would allow for the adding of power by simply adding motors. The hypothesis states, “If I test a stack of…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Power grids are subject to physical and cybersecurity attacks. A way to help mitigate this threat is to reduce response time by analyzing data reported from the power grid to detect inconsis…