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ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
The global amphibian extinction crisis necessitates the diligence of conservation practices. This project was designed to improve husbandry conditions for captive Dendrobates auratus, common…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In electric vehicles, about 72% of the power that the battery provides to the wheels is dissipated. Of this, 25% is lost from rolling resistance and 39% is lost from wind resistance. Piezoel…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
New species of bacteria are being discovered on a daily basis. Fast detection and risk characterization are vital for taking proper action. Current techniques and methods used for microbial…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in women, contributing to roughly 40,000 deaths annually. While breast cancer can pose a threat to any woman, those with dense b…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
#include is a project that aims to research and prototype a method in which a paraplegic or quadriplegic individual would be able to slowly regain the ability to produce movement through a s…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acid rain is any form of precipitation, including rain, snow, or fog, with high levels of sulfur dioxides or nitrogen oxides. And micro dust is a transboundary problem consisting of both nat…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
As the world’s population grows, efficient food production with minimum environmental impact becomes more urgent. Our goal was to develop a method for proposing the correct composition of fe…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
How can we assess customer satisfactions with online shopping? In this research, I conducted multiple analyses, including regression analyses, network analysis, frequency analysis, and struc…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Although aviation technology is highly advanced, planes must follow the fundamental laws of physics. It is possible for any type of airplane to stall if its angle of attack is too large, whi…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The current plastics we use take around 500 years to degrade and release harmful chemicals into our environment. Therefore, a solution to this epidemic must be found. Drawing from a variety…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In 2019, solar energy accounted for less than 2% of U.S. electricity production, as opposed to 62.7% from fossil fuels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). In recent years…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Hemodialysis is a treatment used to clean the blood of patients with kidney failure. The problem with this treatment is that it uses a machine which contains a cellulose-based membrane that…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
According to the sharp decrease of mixed forest and Afzelia in arid areas in northeast of Thailand, one solution was planting trees. However, only 30% of the young plants survive. This proje…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Every day, ~5000 children die due to lack of clean water. Clean and potable water access is a human right and a pillar of the United Nations’ Sustainability Goals. Photocatalytic technologie…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
The development of machines for solving highly complex application specific problems is currently a difficult and expensive task, inaccessible to ordinary engineers and amateurs. The introdu…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Antibiotics are powerful medicines that fight certain infections and can save lives when used properly. However, with bacteria becoming more resistant to antibiotics, new methods to treat ba…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Insulin is the life-essential treatment for patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, and it can be for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Yet, a reported 33% of families with children with…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of this experiment was to determine if integrating the Magnus Effect onto an airfoil would result in a higher lift to drag (L/D) ratios than a normal airfoil. This was done by creat…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Parking spaces for disabled people are being prepared and made ready for physically disabled and wheelchair bound road users. However, the facility is commonly misused and abused by the comm…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a worldwide public health crisis with the potential of mass casualties due to the overuse of antibiotics. This experiment was conducted to investigate what…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Damage from insects is a major problem in agriculture. Using insecticide is harmful and expensive. We tried to introduce predator as the bio- control for the pest in a cultivation area. We o…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodegeneration afflicts ~9 million, costs $800 billion/year in the US, and is one of the greatest unmet medical needs of the 21st century. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devasta…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Experimentation was conducted to determine the presence of metabolic deviations as a result of nucleosome-remodeling factor (NURF) knockdown in combination with chemotherapies. Due to large…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most prevalent dominantly inherited diseases. It occurs in approximately 1 in 3000 people. NF1 encodes a tumor suppressor whose functional loss r…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Traditional views of embryonic development hold that germ layer differentiation begins and ends with gastrulation. However, recent evidence suggests mesoderm and ectoderm induction occurs po…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Rice is a crop of global importance that provides approximately 20% of the calories humanity consumes. Abiotic stress events such as flooding and droughts present a clear danger to global fo…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since Taiwan Education Bureau passed the “Three Types of Experimental Education Act”, many Indigenous Experimental schools have sprung up. Seeing the advocacy of "Culturally Responsive Curri…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the United States, affecting some 40 million adults each year. During anxiety attacks, neurons release excessive amounts of adrenaline, causing…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Cancer has remained as one of the world's leading causes of death and although medical treatments exist, many of the current methods have cytotoxic effects to not only the cancer cells, but…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
In the advent of the digital age, the severity of posture related health issues is increasing significantly. To solve this issue, this research aims to create a simple posture detection and…