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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…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The concept of causality allows physicists to study the universe under the lens of cause-and-effect relations, to achieve a deeper understanding of the connections between events. More forma…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Effectively utilizing atmospheric water is a sustainable solution to short-term water shortages. Fog water meets international safety standards and reduces the technical complexity and cost…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Poor aqueous solubility is an increasing problem for achieving effective formulation and pharmacokinetic properties for novel small molecule oral therapies. This problem could be potentially…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Water hardness, caused by calcium and magnesium ions, is a global problem that can have negative effects. In this study, we investigated the use of Jordanian zeolite as a cost-effective and…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Management of waste plastic and the uneven distribution of electrical energy supply around the world are among the greatest challenges before the scientific community. The present work propo…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Based on the last three years of research into alternative energy sources using microbial fuel cells (MFC) that answered which Utah lake mud, which electrode material, and which diameter gen…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy, combined with concerns over climate change, highlights the need for more sustainable energy sources. Piezoelectric energy harvesting is a renewable…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
As the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in 2021, CO2 emissions reached 36.3 gigatons. Therefore, there is a pressing need to find an efficient alternative for fossil fuels such as…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Nowadays, rehabilitation engineering and biomedical engineering are always creating new techniques in order to improve people's quality of life. When talking about foot drop or steppage gait…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
E-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, producing 20-50 million tons annually, and it is expected to reach 120 million tons by 2050. It is dangerous due to its poisonous co…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that interact with various cellular components, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This essential interaction occurs through mitochondria-as…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
My research looks at a self-similar triangular fractal known as the Sierpinski Gasket through the perspective of graph theory, by replacing intersections of line segments in the fractal with…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Drug resistance is one of the greatest obstacles during cancer treatment. It is urgent to solve this clinical issue globally. Previous study indicated that USP24, a deubiquitinase, can promo…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences First Award
The acylated flavonoid glycosides (AFGs) in Pseudognaphalium affine (D. Don) Anderberg, a plant resource that has the concomitant function of both medicine and foodstuff in China, exhibited…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Emergency Service Systems around the world have experienced unprecedented adverse effects during the Coronavirus pandemic, but few more so than Australia. Over thirty preventable deaths occu…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Introducing an innovative solution to a long-standing problem: Aphasia. This debilitating condition, commonly suffered by stroke victims, severely impairs verbal communication abilities by d…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Fourth Award
We investigate a special variant of chip-firing, in which we consider an infinite set of rooms on a number line, some of which are occupied by violinists. In a move, we take two violinists i…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Unreliable electricity and power outages significantly impact the lives of an estimated 3.5 billion people, primarily in developing nations. The Demand Response (DR) concept optimizes electr…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…