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ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
For the past two decades, the aviation industry has been increasingly placing a heightened focus on maximizing the efficiency of air travel to both maximize profits as well as to minimize en…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive disabling neuromuscular disorder caused by recessive X-linked mutations in the dystrophin protein and affects 1 in every 3,500 live male bi…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Water is indispensable for survival. But, it gets polluted by industrial effluents, domestic effluents etc. Due to water pollution, the world is facing acute scarcity of fresh water. Usage o…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
I raise commercial boer goats, and the last two years I have had to worm my herd twice as much as normal which had become expensive, time consuming, and had an impact on overall herd health.…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Restricted arm force during activity is often required following bone disruption (iatrogenic or traumatic) to facilitate osteogenesis, but measuring patient force is challenging, especially…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Globally, plastic pollution is an increasingly prevalent issue as it finds its way into rivers, waterways, and oceans. Floating plastic pollution aggregates in confined areas close to shore…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The potential for penetrative bodily injury is a daily risk taken by those in the military, law enforcement, and other high-risk occupations. If the injured are unable to call for help or ar…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Access to clean water has been a global challenge since long-term exposure to pollutants such as metalloid, arsenic (As(II) and heavy metal, chromium (Cr(VI)) have detrimental health effects…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Pectin is a polysaccharide that can be used as a bioadsorbent for different water samples that are contaminated with hexavalent chromium (Cr+6). Therefore, it has been considered as a genera…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Light pollution disrupts diurnal light cycles that insect orders such as Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) adapted to over generations as a cue to time important life events like metamorph…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The results of this project could enable real-time targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to become a clinical reality, improving outcomes for patients with depression, schizophren…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment are among the biggest healthcare challenges facing the elderly. Integrity of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and lining of the blood vessels req…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Existing drugs are being researched for novel repurposed usages to supplant the traditional, inefficient process of new drug discovery. Cephalexin is a cephalosporin antibiotic purported to…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Transcribing audio files such as MP3s into digital symbolic formats such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files has always been a complicated task, referred to as Automatic Mus…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting art form with a long history and diverse styles. However, due to pigment technology, preservation conditions and other limitations, most…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Purpose of my research (1) Use a new additive to form semi-clathrate hydrate at lower pressures and higher temperatures for CO2 capture. (Research question) (2) Can Tetra-n-butyl Ammonium Br…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Almost half of the pregnancies around the globe are unplanned. The associated risks related to unexpected pregnancy include both physical and mental stress. A wide range of contraceptive met…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The speed of ribosome movement along an mRNA transcript is a critical determinant of protein synthesis. Ribosome pause sites, or regions along an mRNA transcript where translating ribosomes…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
One of the great challenges for science is to guarantee the availability and potability of water for everyone while looking for sustainable ways to do this. The present research aimed to pro…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
The goal of this project was to assist malaria research by expediting the process of producing transgenic mosquitoes. In this project, I developed and tested a novel automated instrument for…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are antimicrobial agents that are used to eliminate bacteria and are found in products that advertise antimicrobial activity. During the ongoing pandemic,…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEM-143 (Transmembrane protein 143) human gene is located in the Chr19q13.33 chromosomal region, which is known to be associated with the risk of type-2 diabetes and cancer. TMEM-143 gene i…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the global environmental, economic, and energy crisis, an attempt was made to find an eco-friendly and sustainable energy source based on the lignocellulosic biomass of Sargassum flui…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
During the past several years in the Western United States, we have been in a drought, and I have wondered what I can do to help save water in my daily activities. The objective of this proj…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Coronavirus, an RNA virus that causes COVID-19, has spread widely around the globe. However, not only RNA-type viruses, but DNA-type also exist. An accurate and portable diagnostic technique…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero resistance and expel magnetic fields once cooled below a certain critical temperature, allowing for their application in various technologies…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Fourth Award
This Project entails the development of a web tool for the analysis of biological macromolecules, most notably proteins and RNA molecules, and the subsequent visualization of the results. Th…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Telemedicine & remote diagnosis using Computer-Aided Detection hold the key to timely medical treatment for millions of people, in absence of radiologists in remote regions. Unfortunately, t…