ISEF · 2021
Beat the Heat
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Do spices affect you in a way you don’t want to be affected? Perhaps you want to be relieved from the pain you suffer. Well my experiment might have what you are looking for! The results I f…
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ISEF · 2021
Be Better
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the spread of many bad health habits, due to quarantines and lockdowns. People were forced to spend hours indoors, with little ability to engage in labor…
ISEF · 2021
Behavior Study and Development of Artificial Nest for Nurturing Assassin Bugs (Sycanus indagator Stal.) Beneficial in Biological Pest Control
Animal Sciences
The present work focuses on behavior study of assassin bugs (Sycanus indagator St?l.) and development of artificial nest prototypes for nurturing the bugs for the benefit of biological pest…
ISEF · 2021
Beneficiation of Clayey Soils Using Aggregate Blending and Cement Stabilization
Engineering Mechanics
Roads are expensive to build and maintain. To make roads last longer, transportation agencies can specify cement treatment of the underlying soil layer to improve its strength and durability…
ISEF · 2021
Biodegradable Film Based on Banana Peel, Cornstarch and Glycerin
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to ONU environment data, the Caribbean is the second most polluted sea by the use of plastics, as well as the countries: China, the United States and the United Kingdom that presen…
ISEF · 2021
Biodegradable Plastics Made from Waste Biomethane
Chemistry
Petroleum based non-biodegradable plastics have caused serious environmental and ecological problems globally. It is vital to develop sustainable ways to produce environmentally-friendly bio…
ISEF · 2021
Biomaterial Fabrication Technique: Using Decellularized Plants as Perfusable Engineering Scaffolds
Biomedical Engineering
Decellularization is a promising technique for creating biomaterial scaffolds that uniquely possess properties that cannot be 3D printed and are used for artificial organ and tissue regenera…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering: Coronary Artery Disease and the Design Process of Medical Implants and Devices
Biomedical Engineering
Let’s say your loved one has been getting nauseous every day, and they’ve been experiencing heavy pain in their chest and arms for months now. Of course, you go to the doctor, hopefully it’s…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Imaging with DVD OPU
Engineering Mechanics
State-of-the-art microscopes cost thousands of dollars, posing challenges to third world hospitals and interested students. Additionally, there is a growing problem of "e-Waste", where consu…
ISEF · 2021
Bio-Power
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant, energy can be transformed from one form to another but can neither be created nor destroyed.…
ISEF · 2021
Bioprospects Capable of Inhibiting the Proliferation of Pathogens (fungi) Affecting Musa acuminata x Musa balbissiana
Microbiology
Musa acuminata x Musa balbissiana, also known as plantain, is one of the main nutritional sources in the world. They are grown in more than 130 countries, with a yearly production of 30 mill…
ISEF · 2021
Blood Glucose Monitoring Using a Biosensor Based on Porous Silicon (pSi).
Physics and Astronomy
Existing methods of blood glucose monitoring have a large number of serious drawbacks that do not allow to use them effectively. We consider their major drawbacks are: - Price: an ordinary p…
ISEF · 2021
Braid Theory and Classification of Periodic Orbits of the Three-Body Problem
Mathematics Fourth Award
It is known that each periodic orbit can be assigned to a spatial braid. The goal of the project is to check the hypothesis on the possibility of applying the braid theory to the classificat…
ISEF · 2021
BrCaVision: Predicting Breast Cancer Prognosis by Detecting Mitosis, Identifying Histological Tumor Subtypes, and Scoring HER2 in Whole Slide Tissue Images Using Deep Learning
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, but early detection and diagnosis can significantly improve a patient’s prognosis. Conventionally, biopsy breast ti…
ISEF · 2021
Breakdown of Gluten Proteins Using a Newly Identified Combination of Fruit Derived Enzymes to Alleviate Symptoms of Gluten Intolerance
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND- Three million people in the U.S alone suffer from gluten intolerance/celiac disease. My aim is to identify which of the natural fruits, and herbs have the ability to breakdown gl…
ISEF · 2021
Breaking the Substitution Cipher: Coding an Automatic Cipher Solver
Systems Software
Despite the advancements in cryptography, breaking ciphers by hand remains a tedious and demanding work. The goal of this research was to write a computer program which would facilitate brea…
ISEF · 2021
Breakthroughs in Honey Bee Health: Continuous-Release Mist Diffusion of Thymol-Based Essential Oils
Animal Sciences
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollination is responsible for approximately 80% of all cultivated crops. Unfortunately, the latest reports suggest losses of 30-50% of all bee colonies in the US.…
ISEF · 2021
Building a Low Cost Hearing Device with User Customized Frequency Response for the Hearing Impaired
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from some level of hearing loss. However, only 17% of those who would benefit greatly from using a hearing aid use one. Hearing aids can cost a…
ISEF · 2021
Butyrate: Bridging Bench to Bedside -- Bringing Hope for Better Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options for Peanut Allergies
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Background: Distinctive roles for T-lymphocyte:Bacteroides fragilis cross-talk occurs in dampening peanut allergic responses. Butyrate is key to B.fragilis regulation of immune homeostasis.…
ISEF · 2021
Calculating Evapotranspiration on Tutuila Island with Python
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Evapotranspiration is a fundamental, but not widely understood, contributor to natural water cycles. This project incorporates a rigorous mathematical equation to help understand evapotransp…
ISEF · 2021
Can a Glove Prevent a Heart Attack?
Biomedical Engineering
Every year in the U.S alone 100+ people die and thousands experience heart attacks while shoveling the snow. Studies show that the combination of cold air, which constricts arteries, and str…
ISEF · 2021
CanceRNA: A Computational Method for Colorectal Cancer Diagnostic Biomarker Detection and Treatment Prediction
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer is vital to prevent metastasis, but past models lack a cohesive pipeline from diagnosis to treatment to determine biomarkers and suggest tr…
ISEF · 2021
Can Juneau Sustain a Complete Transition to Green Technology?
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Though acquiring about 99% of its yearly electrical energy from hydropower plants, Juneau is nearing its consuming capacity. As global warming advances, more and more people are switching to…
ISEF · 2021
Can We Differentiate Between Computer Generated and Human Art? Spot the Fake!
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The main purpose of this research project was to determine whether machine learning algorithms creating art in three art genres, Ukiyo-e, Portrait and Landscape, are imaginative enough to fo…
ISEF · 2021
Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Hydrocarbon Fuel Utilizing Metal Catalyst
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide is one of the most discussed atmospheric gases due to its greenhouse effect on global climate. It is well known to trap the sun's thermal radiation and raise the temperature o…
ISEF · 2021
CarC SPY: Non-Invasive Early Stage Multi-Cancer Detection Using AI-based Electrochemical Biosensor to Detect Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs)
Biochemistry Second Award
Current Cancer Diagnostic methods are inaccurate and time-consuming with invasive procedures, mostly resulting in late-stage detection. In contrast, we have strong evidence that treating can…
ISEF · 2021
CASH-LOCK: A Way to Find Out What You Are Wearing
Chemistry
Today the industrial reality is stimulated to be more respectful of our planet by a public opinion that is increasingly attentive to environmental issues. In the world of textiles, to enhanc…
ISEF · 2021
CDD Model: A Cylinder Detector and Dewarper
Systems Software Fourth Award
Perspective transformation and edge detection are fundamental and important problems in the field of computer vision. This paper proposed a fast and adaptable method, CDD, to perform the det…
ISEF · 2021
CEC, pH, Electric Conductivity and ESP Study in Sodic Loam Clay Soils
Environmental Engineering
Agriculture is one of the main sources of economy in Peru, the secondary effects that can cause the use of different fertilizers in agriculture gave rise to this research. The research seeks…
ISEF · 2021
CET-CNN: Modular Hierarchical Image Classification Using Conditional-Execution Tree CNNs
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Robust neural networks are crucial for image recognition. However, not all images are equally differentiable. It's easier to differentiate a cat from a tree than from a dog. Most image class…