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ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
There are thousands of people who have movement disabilities and have difficulty with simple tasks such as carrying a grocery bag or pushing a door open. The muscle controlled exoskeleton is…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Marasmiellus mesosporus Singer hosted by herbs thrive on the beaches throughout Japan. Considering their survival strategies, I observed them in 105 places from childhood. I noticed that man…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Harmony and dissonance are two general classifications of sound heard when listening to musical chords. Except for electronically generated pure tones, every note has overtones which are fai…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
The production, recycling and pollution indexes generated by industries are constantly discussed around the world, in search of alternatives that solve environmental problems. In this sense,…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Due to the pandemic, this year has seen high levels of unemployment and job loss. This project seeks to use natural language processing techniques to analyze first person tweets disclosing j…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In 2020, our world entered a new normal that includes virtual school, mask wearing and voluntary quarantines. The reason? SARS-Cov-2: COVID-19. To go back to ‘in-person’ safely, precautions…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
Dengue fever is a widespread mosquito-borne disease, prevalent in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, that affects approximately 400 million people each year. The prevention of dengue fever is t…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics are a rapidly emerging contaminant in water sources. California is in the process of adopting a standardized testing method to monitor microplastics in drinking water (Bill SB1…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Targeted therapies for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have low success rates in clinical trials and fail to target specific disease-causing mutations, partially due to the exclusive use of ge…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Abstract reasoning and logic inference are difficult problems for neural networks, yet essential to their applicability in highly structured domains. In this work, the Neural Abstract Reason…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The biological brain can do complex visual processing, object recognition, fine motor tasks, and more, all using very little energy. A traditional computer programmed to do these things woul…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
My research aims to study the finite separability of finitely generated commutative rings. It is of interest because of its connection with the so-called algorithmic problem of entering a su…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The delivery table is a mechanism focused on the comfort of the doctor’s time of delivery naturally. Our approach “New Design of a Biomechanic Prototype of an Obstetric Delivery Table” is to…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For millennia, humanity has wondered if there might be other life present in the universe. Today, we have the technological capabilities to begin to understand what conditions allow for life…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
To maintain various technological processes, it is necessary to know the viscosity index of the fluids involved in these processes. Also, viscosity is an informative indicator of the quality…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Quantifying the nonexponential relaxation of supercooled liquids in terms of thermodynamics is a major open question in physical chemistry. The Adam-Gibbs model expresses the relaxation time…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with over 10 million people suffering from it. Currently, diagnosis of PD is often late and inaccurate ~ 25% of the time,…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Rainerum Robotics is a group composed by students and teachers from the Rainerum High School. For over nineteen years our team has been developing advanced robotics projects and has had oppo…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Problem: Infant mortality and early disability. Objective: To assess the informativeness of NIRS in the early diagnosis of neonatal seizures. Methods. The study involved 60 newborns with hyp…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
A large intake of nitrates can cause different health problems but, so can too little. The main source of digested nitrates come from green vegetables. One main factor that contributes to th…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
One deadly aspect of COVID-19 is that those infected can often be contagious before they exhibit overt symptoms. Current detection methods are either not reliable or require significant huma…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cardiovascular monitoring at home is highly desirable for managing diseases such as heart failure. Existing technologies are inconvenient, too costly, and/or incapable of acquiring clinicall…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Muons are elementary particles produced by cosmic radiation that have a very consistent flux, making them useful for experimentation. Muons have been used in experiments to detect magma flow…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Anemia is a common disease that affects 24% of the world population. The standard practice for diagnosis of anemia requires blood analysis, which is invasive and time-consuming. Physicians o…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: To mitigate the drawbacks of the invasive glucometer test, a non-invasive device that could accurately measure glucose levels was sought after. Procedures: A near infrared-based pro…
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…