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ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Confirmation bias is a subconscious bias in which people selectively search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their pre-existing beliefs. The purpose of my rese…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cord blood (CB) hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are the most promising source for therapy purposes. Such cells are highly proliferative, have low immune reactivity and a lower risk of graft-v…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Enzymes, known informally as the workhorses of the cell, are proteins that quicken chemical reactions. Traditional research on improving enzyme efficiency focuses on the active site or bindi…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Despite their discovery now dating over 50 years ago, and the great deal of observations we have collected in that time, there is still little we understand about the causes of a pulsar’s gr…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Collatz Conjecture was created in the 1930s by Lothar Collatz and has perplexed mathematicians for almost a century. The Collatz problem is an iteration of n/2, when n is even, and 3x+1, whe…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
In the diverse landscape of robotic applications, there has been limited research on robots capable of navigating under stick structures, despite their critical importance in high-risk envir…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Peanuts are an important oil and food crop. The calcium essential to pod growth and peanut productivity is obtained mainly via roots, so root growth is of key importance. Research has shown…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The growing demand for patient organs has revealed 3D bio-printing as a potential solution for the global organ shortage. However, a deeper fundamental understanding of vascularization is re…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Trans Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are objects at least 30 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. The distance and primitivity of TNOs allow them to preserve data from the infant solar syste…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Systems of polynomial equations are of fundamental importance to mathematics, and have been applied to numerous areas, including physical problems, chemical reactions, robotics, communicatio…
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…