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ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Violence in academic institutions has been notably increasing in the United States. School shootings and violence are at an all-time high, and so are suicide rates. The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
There is growing interest in the Cannabacaea family for therapeutic and clinical use. Best known for hemp and marijuana (Cannabis sativa), this family also includes the Humulus lupulus (comm…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Distance-based indices on graphs are of interest to chemical graph theorists for their connections to the chemical properties of molecules. In this paper, I study several extremal properties…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Eye diseases can potentially cause blindness in patients. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness, accounting for over 51% of blindness worldwide. Glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy foll…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Third Award
Glaucoma is a collection of progressive optic neuropathies impacting the optic nerve head. As the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, timely diagnosis of this asymptomatic disea…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Myopia is the most common eyesight problem faced by most students. India has more than 10 million cases yearly, affecting almost 30-40% of the population. It is expected that by 2050 it will…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Metastatic (migratory) cancer accounts for 90% of cancer deaths, yet not much is known about the specific factors driving tumor migration, including interstitial flow. In order to characteri…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Microplastics, plastic particles <5mm, are toxic in waterways due to their role as a transporter for harmful microbes and other substances. In previous works, research was developed by creat…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The pandemic-induced decline in colonoscopies and the continuing rise of colorectal cancer (CRC) rates in younger populations makes the need for early CRC indicators higher than ever. The ro…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing exponentially in global sales and have become one major mode of urban mobility, but still face range anxiety due to insufficient charging infrastructure.…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's society, saving energy is a top priority. Why use harmful greenhouse gases that contaminate our atmosphere when clean energy is right at our fingertips? We just need to find a way…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Homeowners around the world face the challenge of birds attempting to nest on their balconies, despite the availability of many products on the market designed to deter birds. These birds ha…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Despite 80% of India’s population incorporating Ayurveda to maintain their health, Ayurvedic herbs consumed to treat depressive moods, impaired memory, and infertility lack evidence to suppo…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
A recent CDC study showed that 3 in 5 teenage girls are depressed, a rise from last year. What’s also on the rise? Iron Deficiency Anemia. Teenage girls are 2 times more likely to be depress…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Fetal monitoring based on cardiotocography (CTG) is a non-invasive option for assessing fetal health. However, current methodologies of interpreting CTG consist of human eye inspection, resu…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This proposal is made of 4 separate parts, each with their own functions, the first one is “the Headset”, it’s a small squishy box which contains the temperature sensor, and will be tied up…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
The development and spread of antibiotic resistance in wastewater poses a significant threat to both the environment and human health. Biofilm is a key factor that promotes antibiotic resist…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Third Award
Concolic execution is a popular automatic vulnerability detection method that relies on dynamically enumerating all possible paths using an SMT solver. However, the most popular programming…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Have you ever wondered where your fingerprints come from? The purpose of this project was to determine if fingerprints are genetically inherited through biological factors or relations and o…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To ascertain complex relationships between inputs and outputs and achieve high accuracies on specialized tasks, Machine Learning algorithms require vast amounts of high-quality data, compute…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Floods kills 6,000 people annually and is especially dangerous for the region of Southeast Asia, where 1.24 billion people are at risk of flooding. Flood mapping often uses ground measures,…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Second Award
Environmental damage is an ever-present issue for our generation, especially in the supply chain, which has suffered heavily since the beginning of 2020. Large amounts of packaging materials…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: Dementia is highly prevalent neuropsychiatric condition characterized by impairments in memory, reasoning, mood, and behavior; yet it has no effective treatment. This project uti…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aleš Janderka Gymnasium Masaryk Square 8, Šumperk, Czech Republic The thesis focuses on Cretaceous macrofossil, microfossil, and ichnofossil specimens from the Štíty Graben. The research cov…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Growing global demand and utilization of fossil fuels has accelerated growth in wealth, but also higher levels of pollution and the consequent degeneration of public health. Moreover, misman…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
This research proposes to approach forecasting using classes defined by a fractal scheme. In time series analysis, forecasting is understood as generating a prediction based on known previou…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
To help blind individuals navigate independently, I have created a plan for a wearable device which uses RADAR to warn navigators of objects in their path. The concept of this device was pro…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alternative splicing is a process that occurs during gene expression, in which a gene codes for multiple proteins by including or excluding segments (exons) from the mRNA transcript. The spl…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The aim of this work is to create a program capable of simulating the evolution of organisms together with geological processes. For simplicity, I have focused on the evolution of prokaryote…