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ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
This project’s purpose was to determine if a malnourishing diet negatively affects development and cognition in D. melanogaster, if consuming eggs reduces those effects, and whether childhoo…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The ability of communication is extremely important among animals, and the way of communication is different across species. Although the communication of higher organisms has been extensive…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
When diagnosing the presence of pathogenic microbes, direct imaging of live microbes in situ even in a drop of liquid is very challenging as they move and spread out in the entire volume. Di…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Poor ventilation and sub-par construction methods cause the proliferation of indoor air pollution, especially in lower-income nations. Specifically, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pose a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research is to carry out a comparative study of two biofuels prepared based on Nostoc Commune (Cushuro) Andean seaweed found in the lagoons of the district of San Mateo a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Sucralose is a non-nutritive sweetener heavily marketed in commercial foods and beverages which is mixed with maltodextrin and widely distributed a well know sugar substitute. Sucralose is m…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Natural products such as palm leaves and sumac extracts were used to eliminate two types of bacteria (E.coli and staphylococcus bacteria,) can be used instead of antibiotic and anti-inflamma…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigated the relative importance and sources of marine plastic pollutants to reduce plastic pollution. Stratified pollution surveys investigated the relative quantities and…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study compares the effectiveness of two types of equine-assisted therapy on reducing anxiety in teenagers. Equine-assisted therapy is a therapy method that involves working with horses…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to compare a K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) algorithm with an Artificial-Neural-Network (ANN) in terms of their accuracy when detecting humans by use of thermal imag…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Does inducing auxin inhibit the plant to grow and bend towards the light? Understanding how phytohormones affect plants is vital as they are widely used in agriculture. Auxin is a class of p…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Today, one of the major public health problems in the world, Europe and Slovenia represent hospital-acquired infections. We are struggling against them with increased hand-hygiene and with t…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
There are several diseases that can be passed on from ticks to humans. Three of these diseases are tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme borreliosis and tularemia. Lyme borreliosis occurs in many pa…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In the abelian sandpile model, recurrent chip configurations are of interest as they are a natural choice of coset representatives under the quotient of the reduced Laplacian. We investigate…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Thermochromic dyes find applications in fields like material processing and studying of thermal phenomena. I hypothesized that materials based on alkylammonium salts of transition metals, wh…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Natural products from marine organisms and endophytic fungi have been proposed as groundbreaking because of their potential for supplying novel compounds unknown to the biological system. 10…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The tumor suppressor protein p53, also known as the “guardian of the genome,” is known for its various protective functions in the cell ranging from cell cycle regulation to apoptosis. The p…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Targeting DNA is a viable solution to treating cancer. Although many DNA intercalators are effective, they have deleterious effects on DNA structure and negative side effects for the patient…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Melody has always been the quintessential focus of musicological analysis, and its different intervallic structures are related to the listener’s psychological expectancy according to the Im…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With the exponential growth of data on the internet, it has become nearly impossible to identify whether a given piece of information is legitimate or not. This has led to an immense rise in…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
A chladni's figure is a symmetrical nodal line pattern formed by applying vibration to a uniform solid thin plate to form a two-dimensional standing wave by a specific frequency. It is widel…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Kids today spend a lot of time exactly at school. School is one of the most important places of the personality’s socialization. To produce the right strategy of behavior in different confli…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulation of one sense causes a response in another sense. This study focused on chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where affected people visualize…
ISEF · 2020
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 · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, we study the question of asymptotic degrees of freedom in a viscous flow. Particularly, we create a bound on the dimension N of the determining node set xi of a fluid with tim…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water sampling is crucial for water quality management and analysis. However, conventional methods of sampling water can be expensive, dangerous, and inefficient. Areas such as pit mines, fl…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Global temperatures are rising at the same rate the society should continue to search for renewable sources of energy to power our cities. Solar collectors are able to transform heat energy…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Pneumatic actuators are compact, fast, powerful, simple, and inexpensive. They are very good for linear on/off applications but have major limitations with their speed and positional control…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
A 3D bioprinter is a 3D printer capable of printing human cells and tissues. Bioprinting tissues and organs using a patient’s own cells could eliminate the organ shortage and the risk of rej…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Triggered largely by the warming and pollution of oceans, corals are experiencing bleaching and a variety of diseases caused by the spread of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Identification of…