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ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Leidenfrost drops are extremely mobile and thus display unusual properties. To better understand the complex dynamics of Leidenfrost drops confined by a spherical surface and its mechanism a…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
According to the International Energy Agency, the oil demand in 2019 was approximately 4,474 million tonnes. Current enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods include gas, thermal, and chemical. H…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Artificial neural networks are biologically inspired computational structures that are capable of learning how to perform tasks heuristically. They derive this ability by imitating the struc…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
With computers and smartphones rapidly upgrading their capacity and processing speed, cooling using heat pipes has become increasingly important to protect fragile electrical components from…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The current methods for drug development against a target disease are not cost-effective. The process is not efficient and has a high failure rate. It can take up to 12 years to design, crea…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Safe and precise robot-assisted intervention using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance requires motors that are fully MRI-compatible using no metallic or magnetic materials to ensure n…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder with classical motor impairments in PD patients including akinesia, resting tremor, and muscle rigidity. The pathological hallmark of PD is th…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning can assist radiologists in detecting breast cancer by increasing efficiency and accuracy, which is vital to its treatment. This project introduces a novel, Java-based implem…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Carcass bruising from horns costs the cattle industry $10 million a year (Anderson, 2012). It is vital to develop safe and cost effective advancements in dehorning procedures. Removal of hor…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Image and shape classification have been studied extensively with the growing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CNNs operate on rasterized images rather than geome…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This paper proposes a novel Open Time to Event (OTTE) model to derive open population estimates of a target marine species, in a chosen sampling region with RUV cameras present in it. It use…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors that integrate energy harvesting and energy storage technologies have attracted so much attention over the last decade due to their importance in applications that require ra…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) represent a significant threat to public health, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths annually in the U.S., but accurate predictions of ADRs caused by drug-drug…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause for blindness in the U.S. Current research on artificial intelligence based DR diagnosis shows promise but still has room for improvement befor…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Second Award
In the past decade, photocatalysts have been used to create important biomolecules by facilitating electron transfers between different compounds in the presence of visible light like sunlig…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry First Award
Aerogels are the least-dense class of solid material available today, with an enormous surface area relative to their weight and volume due to their porous nature. This makes aerogels attrac…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) annually infects 2-3% of the world’s population. The infection causes numerous liver complications, but there is currently no vaccine against HCV. Even the antiviral…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The leukocyte human interferon alpha-2b is widely used for curing viral infection diseases and some types of cancer. Nowadays, the recombinant interferon is commonly produced in bacterial an…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coal is a fuel widely used in cauldrons, which are fundamental for production of food and textile in the industries located in the Aburrá Valley (Medellín, Colombia). This fuel impacts envir…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Problem Statement: Cataract is the leading cause of blindness according to the latest assessment by the World Health Organization (WHO). Majority of cases are from third-world countries wher…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
Fencing is an Olympic sport that is heavily reliant on both referee calls and machine scoring to determine if the blade makes contact and if points need to be awarded. There are three fencin…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Simulation of G-Force is most prevalently used in flight simulators. Flight simulators are profitable and allow pilots to train against extreme conditions. Due to Covid-19, the demand for fl…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Magnetic nanoparticles are of great interest for targeted delivery and controlled release of drugs because of their action-at-a-distance behavior with an applied magnetic field. In our resea…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
In this work I give a complete description of the language of geodesic words for the central extension of the Klein Bottle group with respect to the standard two-element generating set. I cr…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Worldwide, from 1980 to 2018, the amount of damage caused by natural disasters amounted to about 40 trillion. Such climate-related disasters can be minimized if they are known in advance, bu…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
In quantum metrology, we wish to study how quantum mechanics can be used to improve the measurement accuracy of physical quantities such as electric or magnetic fields. These fields, which a…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
During the pandemic, many schools, workplaces, and public spaces went back into use, and people have established various guidelines and procedures to limit the spread of the virus by adherin…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Current phased-array (PA) antenna systems utilize beamforming techniques that are optimized for 2D surfaces. Therefore, the implementation of these systems is limited to flat surfaces. To so…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Existing moisture-resistant pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape products rely on water-impermeable backings to block moisture. However, such mechanisms are contingent on the moisture aris…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Liquid transport in porous materials is used in many industries: in everyday life, medicine, liquid filtration. These processes are of great practical importance: for example, they help to e…