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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
The most prevalent vision impairment in young children worldwide, cortical visual impairment (CVI) is caused by damage to the visual cortex or optic nerve. State-of-the-art therapy technique…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this project was to assist food deserts through growing healthy foods easily and affordably with a self-sufficient greenhouse. The solution to this problem had three main part…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Nutrient pollution from farm fields and agricultural operations has contributed to harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Iowa’s lakes. HABs have been on the rise recently and can produce toxins tha…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine which aerodynamic element/s on an F1 car is/are the most important to maximize to achieve the fastest lap possible around the Bahrain Internation…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
The Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) phenomenon has been widely used for biological applications. Herein, FRET mechanism is used for the first time to develop a combination therapy d…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
"From leavened products to proteins through flours" is the title of a research that I lead in the institute IIS Galileo Galilei in Jesi, Italy. I decided to do this research, to deepen the s…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Aerospace is an increasingly important industry. Advances in technology, along with new prospects to explore space, expand scientific knowledge, find new resources, and boost the economy, ha…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Second Award
The non-trivial zeros of L-functions encode important information about primes, which are essential to both number theory and modern cryptography. The zeros near the central point, s = 1/2,…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Torus knots are knots that lie on the surface of a torus. Torus knots have a wide variety of applications in quantum mechanics, molecular chemistry, and topology. In this paper, a comprehens…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
CAR T-cell immunotherapy has proven to be effective in treating relapsed, refractory B-cell malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Nevertheless, limitations have emerged from IL…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Sensory input and subsequent motor reactions are an important part of the behavioral modulation process. Although the exact relationship between these two factors is not entirely known, it c…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Endovascular occlusive diseases are among the leading causes of death around the world. Specifically, thrombosis is responsible for 1 in 4 people dying worldwide. Atherosclerosis is the caus…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
With no biodegradable alternative to plastic cutlery on the market today, we were determined to find a valid, eco-friendly solution with rapid, non-toxic biodegradation in multiple environme…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the US, but it is curable and preventable if diagnosed early. Following the recent emphasis on the human microbiome's imp…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
The prospect of learning through textbooks, worksheets, tests, and flashcards, often dissuades those striving for knowledge and provides no incentive other than receiving a desirable grade.…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Breast cancer has become one of the most common diseases among women worldwide. Using TS/A cells (established metastasizing adenocacinoma cell line from mouse), I studied the effect…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Heard of using lemons, potatoes, or saltwater to create a simple battery? Stomach acid (dilute hydrochloric acid) can be used in the same way and is significantly more powerful. I use an arr…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Given a circle of radius r centered at the origin, the Gauss Circle Problem concerns counting the number of lattice points C(r) within this circle. It is known that as r grows large, the num…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Third Award
Tuberculosis, an infectious respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is estimated to have infected more than a quarter of the world’s population. It was the second leading c…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Purpose: It is crucial to explore eco-friendly, starch-based bioplastics because artificial plastics have greatly polluted the planet. The purpose of this experiment was to discover which ty…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The drastic increase in fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by conventional vehicles calls for a greener and environmentally friendly alternative, most notably electric vehi…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This experiment aims to see the connection between genes downregulated by the Forkhead Box O1 protein (FOXO1) in skeletal myocytes and breast cancer. FOXO1 is observed to be significantly up…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A precipitous decline in brown trout populations in southwestern Montana rivers is threatening Montana’s sportfishing industry, valued at more than $375 million annually. Although the cause…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
To successfully infect host cells, viruses must precisely control the expression of their genes. In temperate bacteriophage, the repressor plays a central role in determining whether the vir…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
There is a lot of valuable information stored in massive data sets that can provide useful information to the user; however, it can be difficult to use this information on a large scale for…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
Radio-Frequency emitters can be actively geolocated within wireless network, when base station and emitter cooperate. When network is destroyed by catastrophic events, rescue and recovery mu…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
3D human motion reconstruction from a monocular video is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to enable 3D broadcasting, advance virtual and augme…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
This experiment used a glow powder to show the way germs spread through direct contact with the help of a black light. This product was placed on the teachers hands and the teacher interacte…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
These glasses will be more innovative and useful than smartphones to the visually impaired. 250 million blind people around the world are facing more difficulties due to COVID-19, and the vi…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Aims: The purpose of this study was to use machine learning algorithms to build an effective, non-invasive and automated pipeline for grading and characterizing gliomas according to WHO 2016…