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ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer's Disease, have become more common in recent years, with the number of deaths due to neurological disorders increasing by ab…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering First Award
1.1 billion individuals worldwide, particularly low-income workers in remote settings, are unknowingly exposed to dangerous gaseous concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), accor…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Brain tumors are a significant and growing health concern in the United States, with an estimated 700,000 people living with a primary brain tumor. Misdiagnosis is a major issue with brain t…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Object recognition is an important task in image processing and a fuzzy neural network (FNN) is a popular tool for object recognition. However, when applied to datasets that present complex…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
The goal of this study was to determine if the annealing process of 3D printed polymers could be further enhanced with the addition of constant pressure during the procedure. The purpose is…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers experience high levels of occupational stress due to long hours, short staffing, and patient deaths, among other factors. Little is known about the…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Purpose The purpose of the OctoGrasp project is to design and build a highly dexterous bio-mimetic prosthetic arm inspired by the biology of cephalopods. Typical prosthetics rely on force at…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The goal is to determine if the scientist could create an easily accessible database of sea turtle blood images and an open-sourced machine learning algorithm that partners with a developing…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
For centuries, prime factorization has been a fundamental theoretical problem in the mathematical world. Conventionally, the algorithms for prime number factorization demand a computational…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits-all approach in which patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the s…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Computing the Frobenius number for numerical semigroups with more than three generators is a famous unsolved problem in number theory and computational complexity. Given a numerical semigrou…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Fractals and knots are intriguing mathematical objects with similar applications and visual appeal, yet there have been very few reports on combining the two. In this project, an algorithmic…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Third Award
This study was motivated by a trance in my bathroom, looking at puddles on the ground, and imagining a curved mirror in mid-air. Then, emit a light beam to the curved mirror, in what circums…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
It is known that there are countably many non-integers a > 1 which possess the property that ?a^n? is not a prime for all integers n = 1. There are however very few known explicit examples o…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Considering the increasing amounts of planetary data available, this investigation aimed to automate the process of identifying likely habitable exoplanet candidates within big datasets-base…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The diversity and complexity of snowflakes make it difficult to predict their fall and interactions in weather and climate models. Nevertheless, snowflake aerodynamics affect both precipitat…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
This project explores the application of complex analysis techniques for solving combinatorial problems, particularly in the context of an enumeration problem in the theory of regular langua…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
“Ophidia Vision: Inside the Terrarium Lab” is an experiment that used machine learning to detect a reptile’s identity (a ball python). The scientific question is: Can a facial recognition ma…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used to model tissue microstructure non-invasively. One such model called Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI), has…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences First Award
Mealybugs are a global pest problem that threatens plants in various settings. Using insecticides to eliminate mealybugs has been associated with harmful environmental and human health probl…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Through decades of endless carbon emissions and multiple energy crises, current renewable energy sources remain environmentally harmful, inconsistent, and energetically inefficient. A partic…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry Third Award
Nile Red is a fluorescent, lipophilic organic dye used in fluorescence microscopy for the selective identification of microplastics and in biological research for the localization and quanti…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Traditional model rockets lack technology because their construction relies on simple physics and handcrafted components. When human mistake occurs, it can have a cascading effect that has a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
While type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects millions worldwide, some individuals may experience rapid fluctuations in their blood sugar levels. These fluctuations can negatively impact an individual…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Brain strokes are a prominent, life-threatening condition that significantly afflicts the world population, with 15 million people suffering from a stroke annually. A large percentage of str…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Third Award
Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field that applies quantum mechanics to computer science and its algorithms, and it has many applications, including optimization problems, where the g…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Fourth Award
Linear Delta robots (LDRs) are a relatively new subset of parallel robots, used in some 3D printing and manufacturing applications due to their rigidity and speed. However, there are just tw…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the efficiency of traffic flow can be improved by leveraging the strengths of Artificial Intelligence (Al), the best Machine Learning (ML) m…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Plastic waste is found in all countries of the world, and when it is neglected in nature, it causes a lot of damage to our environment. Thus, they pollute our soil, air and underwater areas.…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Vascular endothelial cells line blood vessels and are important in vascular health, growth, and repair, and pulsatile blood flow generated with each heartbeat sends mechanical signals to the…