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ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Commercial lithium-ion battery (LIB) is currently the dominating power source for the portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. However, the further application of LIB has been hamp…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
While we often take the Internet for granted, millions of citizens in the US - and billions worldwide - still do not have access to high-speed broadband internet. In order to try to remediat…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Over the next 30 years, the United Nations is expecting the world’s population to increase by 2 billion people, from the current 7.7 billion, to 9.7 billion by the year 2050. Consequently, m…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This work is the second phase of an alternate vehicular traffic direction system using solar energy. The projections identified during the first phase of the project were incorporated in the…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Electronic noses, or e-noses, are still a very new concept in modern research; and while few working prototypes exist, the implications of such devices are huge. Harnessing odor-tracking tec…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in fifty-nine Americans suffers from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, as a result, has trouble with everyday social interaction. Without the ability to accurately read the emotions of…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study will help determine whether certain socio-economic factors emerge as common threads between patients dropping out of substance abuse treatment, which would help healthcare provide…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in games of incomplete information has increased over the past few years, primarily due to the valuable challenge it provides to new solving techniques…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
News reports of car injuries and sports concussions have shed light on a new "silent pandemic" for the current era: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI induces a cascade pathway within neural…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The American Cancer Society projects that over 135,000 Americans will die from lung cancer in 2020. It is recognized that the earlier lung cancer is detected, the higher the survival rate an…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this project we set out to prove that in isosceles triangles The medians, heights and bisectors are equal. The two line segments – formed from connecting the bases of medians, heights and…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Over 466 million people suffer from disabling hearing loss. However, learning and practicing sign language is not commonplace in society; hence, this study developed a sign language recognit…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Conflicts often arise between two people when they work or stay together, due to perceived incompatibility and interference from each other. Conflicts are complicated. There are no clear, si…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Self-localization is a critical component of autonomous systems, including mobile robots. As a popular approach, mobile robot visual self-localization methods have been widely employed in ta…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Functional ambulation is essential to good life quality and active social participation. Research studies have indicated that the use of visual cues is effective in gait training and that pr…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Eastern Saudi Arabia is home to Jafurah, the largest domestic unconventional non-associated gas field. The air surrounding this facility must be monitored effectively to prevent life-threate…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a cardiac disease affecting over three million Americans with a prevalence of 1% (above 6% in the elderly). AF is an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood cl…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
This study aims to find a solution to non-perfect square roots. The new Algorithm gives an approximate result by which we can identify the error percentage using the following equation: Erro…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Robin’s criterion states that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to sigma(n) < exp(gamma) n log log n for all integers n > 5040, where sigma(n) is the sum of divisors of n and gamma is the…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study seeks to answer the question of the significance of Diabetes Mellitus and categorical obese BMI as risk factors for the development of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The potential for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) to improve plant growth under drought conditions would help lower the watering requirements, while maintaining a healthy yield,…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer. Starting as polyps of abnormal growth in the epithelium, cancerous tissue can rapidly grow, invade surrounding tissue, reach the cardiovasc…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
We examined the iteration of the mapping that is given by Vieta's Theorem. Under its application different behaviours like convergence and divergence emerge. We could prove that the converge…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
My research project focused on the potential spread and influence of Gambel’s oak within Gunnison’s Sage-grouse habitat near their nesting and lekking areas within the Poncha Pass satellite…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, bioplastics have emerged as a viable alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics (PE, PBT, etc.). Three of the most common bioplastic polymers are Polyhydroxybutyrat…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
In an attempt to improve gut flora, many individuals purchase and self-administer various brands of probiotics. The manufacturers of these goods claim that the bacteria in these probiotics a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Drosophila suzukii is a type of fruit fly that caused severe economic damage to soft fruit crops in North America. It has a mutualistic relationship with the microbial communities in the ber…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Quality control mechanisms exist throughout the gene expression pathway to ensure the accurate transmission of genetic information. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-depend…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
The Collatz Conjecture can be written as a single-part function using indicator functions, and extending it to the complex plane allows for it to be graphed as a fractal. The indicator funct…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Pika (Ochotona princeps) are lagomorphs found on boulder taluses in alpine environments across the Mountain West. Pika have a notably high resting body temperature, making them highly suscep…