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ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty recognizing and comprehending emotions from others’ facial expressions. This inhibits their development of empathy and affects thei…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Bacteriophages are gaining traction in medical treatments targeting bacteria, food additives, surface cleaners, and water disinfectants in lieu of antibacterials due to their efficiency, rel…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The scientist set out to develop a novel approach that improves on the commercially available ultrasonic circulatory therapy technology. The device was purchased and analyzed. It was found t…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this experiment, the effects of metallic bonding to the organic compound carbon monoxide were observed and analyzed. Basing our idea off the way in which carbon monoxide reacts with and b…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Traditional spring-tendon-driven self-adaptive prosthesis hand, such as the Stark Hand, uses multiple springs to realize self-adaptive grasping, and uses tendon to drive finger extension. It…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Children with cleft palate often suffer from speech disorders. Children need guidance from professional speech therapists to teach them to pronounce correctly. Speech therapists and similar…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is often used as treatment for mid to late stage breast cancer prior to surgery. However, it is currently not possible to determine accurately or r…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project integrates three individual studies: microcystin detection, bloom prediction, and septic distribution analysis. With the data from a four month longitudinal collection period, a…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Arthritis is a common ailment that affects gait and pressure distribution across patients’ feet. While current treatments include physical therapy, medication, and surgery, these solutions a…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer biomarkers are measurable variables indicative of disease presence or progression. However, inadequate methods of biomarker identification combined with the underlying complexity of c…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
This project’s purpose was to efficiently and cost-effectively develop an obstructive sleep apnea monitoring and detection device (SMD-1) through the use of sensors and a novel machine learn…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by persistent deficits in hyperactivity/attention that impede daily function. Since the discovery of its existence, there remains a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The research presented represents the second-year effort on developing novel whole-pore bipolar membranes for H2/O2 fuel cells. During Year 1, bipolarity was created within the pores of Nafi…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A new frontier in anti-aging research is the development of senolytics, drugs that selectively kill senescent cells an ameliorate age-associated disorders. A hallmark of senescence is the SA…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Magnified by the effects of global warming, the coastal storms have the potential to threaten the large percentage of the world’s population which resides along coastlines. Despite the promi…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and lack of new drug development has resulted in widespread emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, posing a substantial threat to p…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Extraterrestrial solar cell efficiency has only begun to be researched over the past few years, even though this topic is very important for the future exploration of our solar system. This…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The A Novel Suture Additive: Use of Beet Extract to Assess for Surgical Wound Infection experiment, has developed a suture that can change color when it comes into contact with an infected w…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Abiotic stresses induce oxidative stress in crops. Oxidative stress is when a plant produces more reactive oxygen species (ROS) than the antioxidant defense system can counteract, which lead…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Enhanced crop production on a sustainable basis is necessary for solving the global food crisis. However, many agricultural practices to enhance crop growth are detrimental to the environmen…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With a dismal five-year survival rate of 8%, pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal epithelial cancers. A growing body of evidence suggests that deformities in cell-cell junctions…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The world's waters are fighting with numerous issues but spreading below the surface is a serious issue - our waters are running out of oxygen. Areas of water that contain low or zero levels…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The purpose is to eliminate Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi in wastewater so that its reuse does not contaminate, using medicinal plants such as Moringa oleifera and Xenophyllum poposu…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mealworms (Tenebrio monitor) digest polystyrene with conversion into CO2 + biomass. Antibiotics were given to mealworms to modify gut microbiome + measure changes in styrofoam digestion. Adv…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The development of antibiotics has meant a new era for microbial treatment and control. However, because of some natural and social problems, have emerged the "Antibiotics Crises" which, acc…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
To discover whether an ant's pheromones can determine the route taken by another ant to a destination, an experiment was designed using different combinations of pavement, fire, and carpente…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that eventually deprives an individual of normal movement, affecting over ten million people worldwide. As it progresses, the person with…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have successfully demonstrated superior overall performance in many image classification and recognition tasks on H&E histology images. Reported studies typically…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Heart diseases are the number one cause of deaths globally, with three-quarters occurring in developing countries (WHO). In India, heart-related mortality rates in rural areas have surpassed…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project identifies previously unknown vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer cells that can be used to target cancer treatment. This research manipulates a step in the central do…