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ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
This study reports two new complex compounds, Fe(H2O)4(UA) and Fe(UA)3 (UA=Uric Acid), with Fe as the central metal and uric acid or water as ligands. Both crystals were synthesized by the s…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Much of the exoplanet transit data from the Kepler space telescope remains unanalyzed, especially in the search for habitability. To enable the investigation of Kepler exoplanets without the…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The ability to precisely measure cell permeability will be a necessary asset in the future development of intracellular antibiotics. The efficacy of the antibiotic vancomycin is reliant on c…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
It is often the case that the size of some data is fixed and it might be encrypted all at once. Currently, in such a situation, we use a stream cipher or a block cipher with some mode of ope…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Humans have fallen in love with plastics, from toys, to food containers, to bags, and straws. Scientists have been researching and warning about plastic pollution in the ocean for decades. T…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
More than a hundred thousand patients do tracheotomy every year for throat cancer or mouth cancer, and they need to wear tracheal tubes after surgeries. But the current tracheal tube has led…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer is a leading cause of human death worldwide, yet quick and accurate identification of the primary cancer site is still lacking. Owing to its ability to differentiate similar tumors an…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The number of youths affected with mental health disorders has increased throughout the years. 41% of adolescents with anxiety do not have access to mental health services, so it is importan…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Innate immune response is the protective response of the human body to defend against harmful invaders. However, excessive or dysregulated inflammation may harm human body. Steroids are ofte…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
As industrial cities all around the globe are expanding, air quality has been deteriorating. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), which are carbon-based molecules, are anthropogenically releas…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Current upper limb prostheses lack effective and intuitive control systems and are often exorbitantly expensive. As a result, while prosthesis use can significantly increase quality of life,…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders affect 284 million people worldwide, yet anxiety diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and stigmatized. Thus, there is an urgent need…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
The photo-responsive fluorescence behaviors (Photomechanofluorochromism and the Photomechanical effect) of a pentiptycene-anthracene hybrid system substituted with a semifluorinated alkoxy c…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Due to a decrease in traditional energy sources, the demand for solar energy has started to rise through the use of silicon solar cells. However, its high production costs prevent its mass u…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Shown to ameliorate the symptoms or even target the root pathology of conditions ranging from cancer to chronic pain, cannabis and its derivatives have the potential to improve the quality o…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
The main purpose of the research project was to identify if there were any prevalent nucleotide patterns associated with excess expression pro-apoptotic genes (orthologous or paralogous) in…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The effects of wide binary star systems on the formation and evolution of exoplanets are relatively unknown. A large portion of exoplanets reside in wide binary systems, so fully understandi…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
With psychiatric comorbidity rates around 50%. Children with (ADHD) often exhibit comorbid conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). (ADHD) starts in…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Methods of regenerative medicine have the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional medicine in treating complex bone defects. In this project, to address these limitations, the…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Third Award
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy is commonly used in metabolomics studies involving the quantitation of complex bio-fluids and mixtures to correlate metabolic changes…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Current techniques of target identification in drug development are costly, lengthy, and function with high degrees of uncertainty that a drug can succeed in modulating a target. To address…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Seizures, sudden bursts of electrical activity in cortical neurons, occur frequently in neonates (1-28 days old) and are a common emergency in the NICU. Timely and proper treatment is crucia…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Wolbachia, a species of endosymbiotic intracellular bacteria found in a diverse set of species, is most notable for its role in vector control strategies to reduce the spread of diseases tha…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
There is a growing need for a cost-effective arsenic treatment. Historical and current industrial use of arsenic have resulted in soil and groundwater contamination, leading to polluted well…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
I strongly believe that a cost-effective, highly sensitive, and easy-to-use Point of Care (POC) multi-biomarker diagnostic device has the potential to increase health equity, this is especia…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The problem of heavy metal pollution has escalated to that of a serious social-environmental crisis. Calcium alginate, a natural polymer in brown algae, was investigated regarding its absorp…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Today, when we drive cars there is no indication of dangerous road conditions that could cause issues such as hydroplaning. Rain is substantially more dangerous than the other conditions bec…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead and cadmium have many adverse effects on the environment and human body, ranging from developmental hindrance to affecting vital organs within the human body. Lead and cadmium poisoning…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the effect of nitrate concentrations on the anuran species abundance in aquatic habitats across Long Island was investigated. Anurans are frogs and toads. With recent declines…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
There is some evidence indicating that Ginseng, Ginkgo biloba (G.biloba), Curcuma longa linn. (C.longa linn.) and Vinpocetine have a role in ameliorating memory impairment. These findings ha…