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ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Is it possible to create a supercomputer for under a thousand dollars? Supercomputers are multiple computers (also called nodes) working together over a network to complete the same code. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Currently, more than 800 million are food insecure. While chemical growth promoters are widely used to enhance crop production, they have caused serious environmental pollution and adverse h…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Problem: the creation of a virtual laboratory supplied with machine - program complex for doing chemical, biological, physical experiments theoretically without having any contact with real…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Solar energy is a source of energy that is readily available and is much needed in our world today. Sadly, due to the high land cost and low panel efficiency, it is not more widespread on a…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
While pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is difficult to diagnose at an early stage, early diagnosis yields a much higher survival rate, making it key for treatment. With an increase…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Influenza virus is a single-stranded negative RNA virus, divided into three types, A, B, and C (Shao, Li, Goraya, Wang, & Chen, 2017). This research focused on influenza type A, which mainly…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although automated face recognition has extensive real-life applications, in scenarios such as looking for lost or kidnapped children and recognizing ID photos, the pictures of the same pers…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other Drosophila species and its effect on geotaxis. There are millions of known…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common malignant pediatric tumors, accounting for 10% of all childhood cancer deaths. However, current treatment methods often involve chemotherapeutic agent…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
This research approached the optimization of train curves in a mathematical way by using differential geometry and the calculus of variations. Our objective was to find the travel time-minim…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The revolutionized biomedical industry has a deep connection with the utilization of synthetic biology, to create multi-functional, complex but minimalistic, non-invasive biomedical devices.…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The genome of cells is like an instruction book, telling cells what to do and how to do it. A behavior embedded in the genome of cancer cells known as “tumor self-seeding” (the tendency for…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution with the rise in PPE and single-use plastic consumption amplifying our plastic dependence and adding more plastic to our oversaturated…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Observations of the rotation of pulsars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, have revealed a mysterious type of rotation anomaly: glitches, discontinuous events where the pulsar sudden…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, thousands of transplanted organs are still rejected, endangering the lives of many patients. Traditional approaches to understanding transplant r…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Currently, growing interest has emerged on the beneficial effects of plant-based diets for the prevention of chronic diseases. Studies have shown that polyphenol compounds possess preventive…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
This study used deep learning neural networks to investigate the most important clinical variables that could be used to determine escalated care early on in COVID-19 patients. Hospitalized…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Deer related accidents are a major cause of crashes and deaths in the U.S. Humans are being severely impacted by these accidents, physically and financially. This system aims to decrease the…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plant starch products that are compostable often take six months to decompose but end up in landfills before this process is complete. These artificial environments do not allow for further…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The protection zones or capture zones of springs in a desert environment can be hard to identify, but they are critically important for spring protection. Most springs fed by regional aquife…
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
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine efficacy of lab-engineered pesticide resistant D. pulex as environmental buffers against the effects of malathion on H. littoralis. Pesticide…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dendrochronology is a scientific field that uses the annual growth rings on trees to help scientists date events and map environmental change. Understanding past climate helps us to explain…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis is associated with the deposition of amyloid-beta (AB) protein aggregates in the brain. No treatment has been proposed to degrade pre-oligomeric…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Single atom catalyst (SAC) is an emerging class of catalyst that is able to incorporate the scalability of heterogeneous catalysts and atom economy of homogeneous which exhibit superior cata…
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
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Vestibular schwannomas, also known as acoustic neuromas, result from an overproduction of schwann cells on the eighth cranial nerve. This benign brain tumor affects hearing and balance. Data…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attaches great importance to citizen's health and is concerned with the environment and its preservation. These goals have been outlined in its…