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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water is the most important natural resource. There are many ways to prevent water evaporation, including the recently used “Shade Balls”. They are four inch polyethylene balls that cover re…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of four different flavonoids, Apigenin, Curcumin, Daidzein, and Quercetin, on the biofilm formation of S. marcescens. It was hypoth…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
My purpose was to see how effective homemade hand sanitizers are compared to commercial hand sanitizers approved by the CDC. The CDC recommends that hand sanitizer contains 60% alcohol. Hypo…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As of April 9th, 2021, there have been over 31 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States alone. Simultaneously, an estimated 15% of U.S. adults suffer from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over 1.2 billion people suffer from constipation each year and in the US alone $725 million are spent on laxatives per year. The most commonly used treatments are stool softeners, osmotic, a…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium responsible for multiple gastrointestinal diseases, including gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma and lymphoma. About 2/3 of the world…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Second Award
Commercial quality assurance plans require ranches to maintain flock health programs that include periodic monitoring to evaluate vaccination response or disease exposure in egg laying chick…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Compartments in development are defined as separate cell populations that organize cell destiny and differentiation. Of particular interest is the anterior-posterior compartment. First analy…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project introduces ComposeGAN as a generative adversarial network that learns and transfers the style elements of tonal music genres. Early attempts at symbolic music style transfer hav…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Paper is arguably one of the most important items that human society had ever invented. In the process of papermaking Trees are the most critical raw materials furthermore it contributes to…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
One of the most notable environmental issues faced today is the growing number of single-use plastics that continually fill landfills. A major source of this plastic is those from medical us…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The use of machine learning (ML) and image recognition holds tremendous potential in the treatment of cancers like Lymphoma. Histopathologic images derived from biopsies are used to diagnose…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The cost of forestry increases each year. Although there are currently many deep learning studies addressing the issue of tree species classification in the various forestry tasks, the chall…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a ubiquitous, gram-negative bacterium associated with a wide variety of infections in the human body. As an opportunistic pathogen, P. aeruginosa mo…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
My project aims to identify a therapy to treat COVID-19 infections using gene expression and a computer-assisted approach. My computer program, AMiF (Augmented miRNA Filtration Model) works…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
The goal of this engineering paper was to design a functional multi-modal 2-bit photonic adder. The basis of the design of the 2-bit photonic adder circuit was the use of integrated optical…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The atmosphere of a planet is a main requirement for the development of life. However, this atmosphere can be slowly stripped away by stellar winds, streams of charged particles released fro…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
By 2050, the world’s population is projected to reach 9 billion people, requiring the growth of twice as many crops. These projections demand more innovative and efficient agricultural pract…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Patients with delirium suffer severe confusion, paranoia, hallucinations, and struggle to understand or pay attention to what is happening. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already sev…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Dark orange filtering pigments found in Monarch butterflies' eyes are critical in discriminating long wavelength colors such as oranges and yellows. It is suspected these filtering pigments…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
As various electronic devices become miniaturized, their power density skyrocketed, thereby easily resulting in overheating which is potentially detrimental to electronics as it reduces both…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
A key component of regenerative medicine is providing novel biopolymers and hydrogels which more suitably mimic the nanostructural features and responsiveness of ECM and other components of…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Collectively, around 4.1 million tons of pesticides are applied to crops annually, but less than 0.1% is absorbed by target plants, with residue transmitted well out of intended areas into d…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With major outbreaks in over 150 countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on public health, daily life, and the global economy. Absent a vaccine or therapeutic treatment…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and insulin resistance have been known for years to be correlated statistically. However, no one has been able to confirm which one causes the other. In an a…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A big question in the neuroscience community pertaining to our sense of smell is how the olfactory cortex is able to distinguish between millions of odors. I hypothesized that chemical compo…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Green hydrogen is a continuously rising way of storing clean energy, wherein electricity from renewable sources is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Unfortunately, current materi…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
COVID-19 has caused world-wide disturbances and the deep learning community has been finding ways to combat the disease. Applications of neural networks in image processing tasks allow COVID…