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ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Even a simple ring’s motion, it is still difficult to get an analytical solution as the number of degrees of freedom is larger than four. In this project, I studied the interesting chaos-lik…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
RUSLE can measure soil erosion in the United States, China and India (erosion causes soil loss 10-40x faster). Can the RUSLE equation measure soil erosion in Indonesia? because in Indonesia,…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Legumes form root nodules in which nitrogen-fixing bacteria are housed and flavonoids are necessary to activate nodulation genes in rhizobia. Isoflavonoids are known to protect legumes from…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Title: What is the effect sound waves have on plant root physiology and photosynthesis? Purpose: To test the effects of sound pollution on photosynthesis, and plant root physiology. Methods:…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Fourth Award
Determining what you see in the distance as you look out over a landscape can be challenging. In this research project, we have created a program to calculate the view from any vantage point…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The watersheds in the western United States experience many anthropogenic impacts, this project focuses on the Jordan River watershed (sourcing north of Utah Lake, running through Salt Lake…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Most Chinese characters are phonograms, consisting of a semantic radical and a phonetic radical. Some phonetic radicals create many phonograms to form a large neighborhood, while others don'…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project measured implicit bias in high school students. I collected data by administering 903 surveys. Minority candidates scored overall approval ratings that were ~.3 points higher th…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Garment classification is a typical first step for carrying out cloth manipulation tasks. This is a challenging feat for neural networks due to clothing’s easily deformable state, which caus…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Fluid dynamics is a complex topic involving many phenomena that can be observed in everyday life. The research presents the phenomenon of milk diffusion in coffee and other substances, consi…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Analogs constitute a powerful tool in physics: not only do they simplify complex phenomena but also allow the possibility of transferring experimental data from one field to another. First c…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. This experiment focused on designing, engineering, and prod…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The Mississippi River is a huge untapped kinetic energy source that flows at a rate of 1.6 million gallons of water per second. Meanwhile, burning fossil fuels produces 35 billion gigatons o…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Nations across the world cannot produce their own crops due to their non-arable land. The research conducted in this experiment put simple and efficient systems of hydroponics to the test. T…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
According to WHO 12.6 million people die every year owing to unhealthy environment. Therefore, the sustainable use of our ecosystem and preservation of next generation rights became an urgen…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
According on extrapolation of the data in 2022, there are around 190,000 cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the United States each year and the main reason of ARDS is hyp…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Approximately 40% of all agricultural production is lost due to pests. HR4 (HOMOLOG OF RPW8 4) confers resistance to Myzus persicae, more commonly known as the green peach aphid (GPA), which…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and its precursor Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) are easily accessible, Class C drugs, commonly used in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases. Existing technologies fo…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Microplastics are plastic particles that are less than 5mm long that come from the breakdown of larger plastics and the use of synthetic polymers in manufacturing, and have been shown to hav…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
With the lowest 5-year survival rate (9%) among all types of cancer, pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most lethal diseases in the world. Current conventional treatments often fail…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is a viral disease that has caused a major global pandemic. There are many developing treatments for SARS-CoV2 including vaccines…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Embryonic development is a universal process that is elucidated amongst healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of obstetrics. During particular stages of development, families…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With thousands of Mendelian-inherited diseases, new bioinformatics technology such as WES has been implemented to identify causal genes and variants within patients. Even with modern technol…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Despite the immense promise of cancer immunotherapies, there are significant challenges to overcoming treatment resistance and improving efficacy. Strategies such as the combination immunoth…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Nearly seven million individuals in the U.S. have Essential Tremor (ET), making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Current ET research aligns it with a Purkinje cell disorder…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Almost 10 million cancer-related deaths occur every year, with costs totaling $208.9 billion. Chemotherapy, the currently accepted treatment for cancer, causes significant economic losses, a…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Immunotherapy activates the body’s immune response against cancers by inhibiting interactions between cancer cells and T-cells (cells that fight against foreign substances or in this case, c…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Bacterial biofilms are complex and structured surface-attached bacterial communities held by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Biofilms pose a significant threat to healthcare…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oil spills have become a major problem in waterways around the world, more specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. With increasing risks and effects, the necessity of oil containment has become a…