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ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Polystyrene takes up to 30% of landfill space by volume, and takes over 500 years to decompose. This makes finding a solution to disposing of plastics and Styrofoam imperative. Mealworms, Te…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
I did research last year for my school science class testing out how well different cleaners you bought from the store, actually killed E.coli bacteria as advertised. I found the one that wo…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Channel State Information (CSI) describes the properties of a channel (i.e., the instantaneous amplitude and phase of a signal) in a wireless communications link. Transmitted Wi-Fi signals c…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, becoming a preventable leading cause of death worldwide. A multitude of approaches and animal models have been employed to investigate the pathophys…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Surgical fires pose a major threat in the operating room (OR) to patients, personal, and to facility. Surgical Drapes served fuel for 85% of fires and 81% of fires involve electrocautery, wi…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents a triboelectric (TENG) and electromagnetic (EMG) hybrid floor-tile nanogenerator to harvest the already expended energy of human footsteps for electrical energy conversio…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Water is a vital source for humanity, such important compound should not be wasted but finding a way to purify used water within our homes could helped preventing water shortage a much more…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Alcohol consumption, which leads to complex disorders involving neurological deficits, is one of the main contributors in chronic diseases around the world with overall global death reaching…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to attempt to combine the hyperloop with other techniques to make it cost-effective while being just as efficient. With the idea of Elon Musk’s hyperloop, comb…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this qualitative research work we perform an iconographic interpretation of the rock manifestations of the Quilcay de Singa complex, based on the iconographic characteristics represented…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is of m…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the nervous system, affecting millions worldwide. However, the early diagnosis of ALS is difficult since symp…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a growing field of therapeutics with lower risks of antimicrobial resistance compared to conventional antibiotics. However, experimentally testing peptides…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
2 statistically likely, novel drug candidates for solute transporter protein member 5, SLC5, were identified in this study. Dysfunction of a roundworm orthologue of SLC5, sulp-5, was linked…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
A significant number of cases of Salmonellosis have been linked to the handling of the more than 50 million day old chicks sold annually from mail order hatcheries, suggesting the need for i…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, called superbugs, require new strategies to improve infection treatment. In my previous years’ research, I discovered that the Native American herb…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lupus Nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that leads to chronic inflammation of the kidney and excessive proteinuria. Current methods of treatment involve management of symptoms and slow…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Currently over a million cases of cancer are diagnosed each year, around fifty percent result in death. Cancer only accounts for 2.5% of the 4,000 identified genetic diseases. Genetic diseas…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
The world today faces an increasing shortage of food production due to the exponential growth in the human population, hence the deficiencies in resources, especially water. According to the…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
According to the FDA, approximately 1.3 million people are injured due to medicine errors annually in the United States. A large percentage of these people are the elderly and people with mu…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment is to recreate the standard degradable sanitary pad with organic biodegradable ingredients to incorporate a more environmentally friendly alternative while uph…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
All living organisms are spontaneously emitting ultra-weak photons in basic metabolism and cellular respiration. This photon emission which occurs in living organisms is known as biophoton e…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lateral ground displacement is a very dangerous soil phenomenon that occurs in small slopes. Lateral ground displacement can cause excessive damage to buildings and infrastructure but the ex…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects about 1.7 million individuals annually. It is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S. The Klotho gene, which plays an important rol…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Markowitz Mean-Variance model provides a computational framework for developing optimized portfolios but fails to account for the risk associated with human behavior. This study proposes…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a disorder that inhibits the dopaminergic neurons in the brain. Currently, there is no accurate non-clinical way to diagnose PD, forcing medical professionals to…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Train crossings are commonplace through US roads; they are a vital part of our transportation systems. Train crossings, however, introduce precarious conditions to our daily commutes. Two cr…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks and genetic algorithms (GAs) are two techniques for optimization and machine learning, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. This project demonstrated the efficiency an…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The majority of approaches to forecast stock market behavior are plagued with scalability, profitability, and applicability issues. The present work comprehensively developed and evaluated 5…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Bioplastic, or plastic made from sustainable and natural materials, is one of the ways of tackling the world’s plastics problem. The acid-based bioplastic production process developed last y…