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ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Photometry is an area of astronomy that involves measuring the magnitude of stars and other celestial objects. Traditional photometry observations require thousands of dollars of equipment a…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For seven decades, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been psychiatrists’ diagnostic textbook-of-choice, but do its pages belong in 2023? The DSM’s problems…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Learning disorders (LDs) are neurodevelopmental disabilities with a worldwide prevalence of 5-15%. Lack of awareness paired with heterogeneity in testing methods results in non-identificatio…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Microbial DNA is a novel analyte for early cancer detection. Although recent studies have found distinct communities of bacteria and fungi between tumor types, they have not investigated mic…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
After Corona 19, plastic food packaging materials are emerging as the main culprit leading to the deepening of environmental pollution and climate change. It accounts for about 70% of the to…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to an UN survey on the environment, one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction in the coming years due to the degradation of their natural habitat. In addi…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Eco-Navigator, novel software, designs routes for ships to navigate to favorable wind and minimize fuel consumption. Wind-assisted shipping has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissio…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Factories in Egypt use wood as a packaging material. This has high cost relative to the product (pipes), which break due to their rigidity, and consequently affects the Egyptian industrial e…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The goal of our project is to develop both an automatic and a manually operated device for cleaning small water bodies from domestic waste. It is known that the disposal of household waste s…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays over 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea. The majority of the ships still run on fossil fuels, causing high levels of pollutant exhaust emissions. De…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Student failure and dropout in universities are detrimental in many ways, costing $1700 on average in tuition fees, risking future financial aid, and prompting issues in mental health and mo…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To reduce car accidents due to brain dysfunctions and attention defects, specifically epileptic seizures and drowsy driving. This study proposes a new technology for a car emergency system t…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Idiopathic Pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, fibrotic lung disease with high morbidity and mortality with limited treatments currently available. A key feature of IPF is ai…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer (Rodriguez, 2022). The purpose of this research is to contribute to develop new technologies to limit growth and proliferation of skin melanoma se…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my project is to determine whether there is a significant daily variability regarding sleep efficiency, heart rate variability, and percentage of time in deep non-REM sleep du…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
On the moon, rovers and humans disturb the surrounding lunar dust by moving, creating plumes of dust. When two objects collide, they may become tribocharged and carry a level of voltage due…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Grassland bird species are among the most vulnerable organisms in North America due to the reduction of available grassland habitat. Freshkills Park in Staten Island, NY, is an urban reclaim…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
With the increased necessity for sustainable agriculture comes the need to understand the complex systems plants use for growth. One of these systems is the GS/GOGAT cycle, a mechanism used…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Every day, tons of expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) end up in landfills and waterways all over the world, doing incalculable harm to the environment. Previous studies have found that the Zop…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer's disease is demarcated as a progressive neurodegenerative disorder resulting from the irrational number of people affected worldwide (Ecuadorian Journal of Neurology, s.f.). To st…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Cholesterol crystallization within membrane environments involve a complicated interplay of cholesterol molecules with surrounding phospholipids, cholesterol molecules, and water layers. Usi…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
In a region close to Jupiter and Saturn's poles, massive cyclones reorganize themselves to create a polygonal pattern. We hypothesized that the formation of the polygonal pattern from the cy…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change is a very current and real problem, and the most effective way to combat it would be to switch energy production from unsustainable fossil fuels to sustainable, renewable ener…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Planaria dorotocephala are flatworms that live in freshwater. Planarian have the ability to regenerate when injured or cut in half. Using FeHEDTA, a commercial herbicide, we tested if herbic…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Keap1Nrf2 Pathway, responds to oxidative by signaling to the MHS1 complex to activate CD8 and CD4 T-cells via APCs. CD4 and CD8 T-cells function in conjunction to fight invading pathogen…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In the experiment, four groups of five trees each were tested to determine if Pseudomonas fluorescens or Mycorrhizal fungi would improve the success rate of grafting with trees. The tests we…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
With climate change’s increasing impacts, we must reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, specifically methane, to lower the intensity of cascading disasters. In 2019, landfills contr…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Pollutants have been shown to affect soil characteristics, particularly soil pH. Microplastics, an increasingly widespread pollutant, increase soil pH, according to literature. To understand…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Third Award
Phosphorus is a problematic pollutant; wastewater treatment plants use two methods to remove phosphorus from wastewater: chemical precipitation and biological nutrient removal. In the latter…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a neuro-toxicant that disrupts neural processes and neurogenesis of animals in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at sublethal levels. Recent studies using zebra finc…