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ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Every year, millions of individuals are afflicted by mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the US. mTBI causes secondary consequences in the brain and body in the form of reduced cerebral bl…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Current neurophysiological and neuropharmacological evidence suggests that melanotropins are one of the key regulators in a wide variety of physiological processes in the central nervous sys…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Ribosome biogenesis is critical for cell proliferation and survival as ribosomes catalyze the synthesis of proteins, and regulation of protein synthesis is crucial for control of gene expres…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy worldwide and is associated with a high rate of treatment failure. Although Activin-A and its antagonist Follistatin expressions i…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
The identity and behavior of the invisible dark matter, which constitutes most of the mass in the universe, is a central yet unresolved question at both the cosmological and quantum scales.…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this study was to assess the possible role of Synaptopodin, a protein crucial to cellular development, within sensory neurons. This query was investigated within the context o…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The aim is to conduct a simple experiment to investigate the effect of semantic questions on working memory recognition, and to test the relevance of recency effect, last five words, given i…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Low-frequency noise from marine shipping is an underwater acoustic pollutant in oceans. The noise spectrum overlaps with frequencies marine mammals use to communicate and navigate, leading t…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Given the unrestricted nature of real-world image classification tasks, open-set recognition (OSR), which generalizes conventional closed-set classification to include unseen categories duri…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Background: As water is one of the essential elements of life for the public, and since the Palestinian is one of the water poorest in the world, it becomes the backbone of his life. Objecti…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A studying habit, “It is the set of good practices or behaviors that a student constantly practices adding understanding to that field of knowledge allowing success in studies.” The way in w…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
It is said that the triangle is one of architecture’s strongest shapes, but what about in nature? What shape found in plant xylems is the strongest? Each plant xylem has a unique shape. For…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The globular cluster (GC) specific frequency (S_N) is a fundamental property representing the relationship between the globular cluster systems and their host galaxies. It is defined as the…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Sewage testing has been successfully used for the detection of viruses causing human diseases, su…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
There is no general closed-form solution for the long-term dynamics of stars in systems where three or more stars are orbiting each other. When considering only the effects of Newtonian grav…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Vaping runs rampant among adolescents, the so-called" vaping epidemic is a pertinent issue for today's youth. Vaping delivers high levels of nicotine into the body of our children. This can…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Film, a key medium for early childhood development, utilizes musical and technical aspects to convey emotions to a young audience. While past studies have established the importance of music…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are organisms whose lives are closely related to the lives of humans. Therefore, research related to the diseases that mosquitoes spread and their unique physiology is important t…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In today’s world, electric cars have a more prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza predominantly spread through small micron-sized particles that have the ability to stay aloft in indoor air spaces for minutes to hours. O…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
According to the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation, over 70,000 people across the globe suffer from CF, and the life expectancy of patients with CF drops to about the age of 44. CF is an autos…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Heavy metals from wastewater pose a severe threat to human and environmental health. Particularly, within the regional Tri-State Mining District (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma), lead and zi…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
PAWE converts manually controlled wheelchairs into electrically powered wheelchairs. PAWE attaches onto most standard manual wheelchairs by sliding onto rods. The rods are attached to the wh…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Thraustochytrids are common marine protists that live throughout the ocean, but most notably in coral mucus. Because they produce high amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids such as DHA, the…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The demand for Lithium-ion batteries is rapidly increasing due to urgent needs for effective renewable energy storage. Particularly, attention has shifted towards thick electrodes, as they o…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enterococci is a bacteria that is found in animal feces and is used by scientists as a measure of water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) associates high enterococci colony…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
The high power model rocketry field has become very paint-by-numbers. Enthusiasts are encouraged to buy a kit, put it together, buy a motor, launch it and recover it by parachute to earn a c…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Wild Turkeys have predominantly been found in southern Minnesota until recent observations in NE Minnesota. Turkeys rely on having less than one foot of snow on average all winter long (Rusc…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The question of the existence of extraterrestrial life has been a long-standing aspiration of humanity. Studying the physical, geological, and chemical conditions of exoplanets will advance…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
The recent discovery of the natural product Pannokin D (a benzoxanthone-type diprenylated flavonoid with cytotoxic properties and the rare biochemical capability of overcoming tumor necrosis…