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ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desertification (vegetation reduction) is a form of land degradation in drylands, which is a term that encompasses sub-humid areas. According to National Geographic, desertification is a sev…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological disease affecting the central nervous system and significantly impacting patients’ quality of life. The disease involves inflammation,…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Varroa destructor mites have led to a worldwide decline in honeybee populations through the introduction of viruses to bee colonies, including Varroa destructor virus, Lake Sinai Virus, and…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to expose a widespread inaccuracy in the work of academic researchers regarding how music affects human emotion. A centuries-old musical phenomenon known as the “major-mino…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a cognitive disorder in which a child's brain cannot send direct messages to a body's muscles, resulting in impaired motor functions. It is a common childhood disabili…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Missense mutations are a form of genetic variant that result in substitutions of amino acids in protein sequences. These mutations account for approximately half of human inherited diseases…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The phenomenon in which a single drop breaks up into smaller drops after deforming into a ring was first observed about 100 years ago. However, it was just recently that the breakup mechanis…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
MXenes are a 2D nanomaterial typically synthesized using hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching, a process that is time-consuming, unsafe for workers, and environmentally detrimental. A method devel…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative diseases are among the top five causes of death worldwide, with one major cause of these diseases being high levels of oxidative stress. Nano-antioxidants are emerging nano…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aortic aneurysms have increased in the past two decades because of the aging population and the rise in the number of smokers. Aortic aneurysms affect about 2.9 million people and is the 13t…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
One may be surprised to learn that the same ingredient, luteolin, is in a huge scope of supplements. Luteolin is the primary ingredient in therapeutic, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, an…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Termite infestations pose a threat to infrastructure and crops throughout the world. Many current termiticides contain toxic carbamates, organophosphates, pyrethroids, and chlorinated hydroc…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to help people worldwide that are affected by street violence to be able to defend themselves. Women safety is a big issue worldwide and there are self defense…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Dementia-related Cognitive Impairment (CI) is a neurodegenerative disorder, affecting over 55 million people worldwide and growing rapidly at the rate of one new case every three seconds. Th…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks have improved deep learning, but at times, they can be inefficient. Current networks perform extensive computations on all input data to improve accuracy. However, not all in…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The existence of adversarial examples, which are inputs that force neural networks to misclassify them, represents a major risk in safety-critical applications of deep learning, such as malw…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Global adolescent death is not primarily due to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, or other infectious diseases, but from suicide–the 2nd leading cause of death in adolescents. However, no obj…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
In order to develop complex relationships between their inputs and outputs, deep neural networks train, and adjust, a large number of parameters. To make these networks function at high accu…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
GenX, a fluorinated chemical, has been discovered in multiple drinking water supplies around the world. However, studies have found that GenX exhibits high cytotoxicity towards different hum…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neurodegenerative diseases and cancerous brain tumors cause millions of patients worldwide to be fatally ill each year. Current diagnosis and treatment of these neurological conditions take…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Purpose: Project aim: study the effect of salicylic acid-SA (0,1 mM), indole-3-butyric acid-IBA (350mg/plant) on the yield time of Phaseolus vulgaris, determination the activity of the main…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of the Nano Water concept is to use individual SWCNTs (1-2 nm in diameter) to confinement water in nanoscale. In this context, we aim to develop an original tool, the nanomechanical…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
In Western medicine, the search for new antibiotics is becoming increasingly urgent due to developing antibiotic resistance, and few novel antibiotics have been discovered in the last decade…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
My research this year was devoted to creating a non-invasive method to efficiently detect Bronchial Carcinoma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Emphysema unaccompanied by deleterio…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Soil scientists predict that there will not be enough sustainable soil on this planet to keep up with global agriculture demands by 2050. I developed an artificial soil and tested the hypoth…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In this project through machine learning guided directed evolution, a novel Marine plastic degrading enzyme “Eco-Enzyme” was designed to reduce plastic pollution. It is estimated that there…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Accurate Age-At-Death (AAD) estimation is integral in determining biological profiles, specifically of unidentified and skeletonized human remains. To date, AAD estimation relies primarily o…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Over 70 million people globally need sign language for communication. Although we see many advancements in voice-enabled technologies, there is an acute disparity between advances in these g…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Increased human activity within energy reserves, wrong farming practices, and rapid industrialization have contributed to an increase in environmental contamination. Heavy metals, radionucli…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
Emergency responders need devices that send digital information and communicate in weak-signal environments without using existing infrastructure. The researcher created a receiver capable o…