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ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Solar power is an important green energy, but it is almost impossible to generate electricity using a solar PV panel at night. We thus developed a Bio-photovoltaic “Boxed Micro-Biosphere” (B…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aspirin is an important drug in the medical field. It is used to relieve pain, reduce fever but also to prevent blood clots, lowering the risk of heart attack or stroke in people who had sur…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of image-based CAPTCHAs against Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and machine learning algorithms. The design constraints were for…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The goal is to make recommendations on how to choose the utensils for people who want to adjust their weight. It is planned to conduct an experiment, which will practically establish the con…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Almost one million people in the world will be diagnosed with a genetic kidney disease occurring in the collagen IV within the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). I wanted a less-complex viv…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Conventional methods of warning emergency heavily rely on auditory signals and are inaccessible to 300 million people worldwide with hearing impairment. This study aimed to produce a softwar…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most debilitating neurological diseases leading to impairments in cognitive, sensory, and motor functions. Amyloid Aß plaques and neurofibr…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A speech emotion recognition algorithm based on multi-feature and multi-lingual fusion is proposed in order to resolve low recognition accuracy caused by lack of large speech dataset and low…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Plastics have always been a part of our lives since its early discovery in the 1930's, making it one of the most ubiquitous problems in today's society. However, everything has its own downs…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the research was to determine if the vegetation removal from a lentic habitat would affect the water quality or biodiversity. A ten-meter section of a pond had the terrestrial…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading international cause of morbidity and mortality. The neurologic outcome of TBI is significantly influenced by the cellular, molecular and…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Learning to play a violin is hard, and tuning the instrument can be a significant barrier for violin students. Having an instrument in tune during practices is crucial for correctly developi…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) represents a significant and rapidly growing burden to the healthcare ecosystem. In the USA alone, about 5 million people suffer from the disease that costs the mana…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer’s evasion of traditional therapies due to the constantly changing phenotype of cancer cells is becoming a major clinical problem and is responsible for 90% of cancer deaths worldwide.…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students attending high school today have an increased average stress level compared to those in the past. Heightened stress levels in high school students can cause health problems if stres…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Is it possible to build a bridge to connect Saipan and Tinian? I have always wondered, therefore, chose to create a model to connect the two islands. Saipan and Tinian are two islands of the…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
To apply the method of inversive generation in order to conclude and prove new properties of a strophoid. And also to find connection of a strophoid with other remarkable curves. Hypothesis:…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
This study investigates the properties of the speed of sound (SOS) in low-pressure air through dynamic observations of the Doppler Effect. A sound recorder is mounted on a rotor, which rotat…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminal messages are messages passed to the human mind without the mind being consciously aware of it, as, for example, in advertising. To test the efficiency of these messages, teenagers…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Most myoelectric prosthetic hands have high dexterity but are heavy in weight due to the large number of built-in electric motors which also have limited battery lifetime. In addition they a…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Current cancer therapies face significant challenges, such as inducing adverse patient side effects, having limited access to solid tissue tumours, or failing to target metastatic tumours. A…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
In 2018, Super Typhoon Mangkhut left a trail of tree destructions in many Asian cities. Branches of stricken trees were later chopped, resulting in many untreated trees’ cross sections being…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning is the ability for a computer to learn and adapt from experience rather than from code that is already in its program. More specifically, supervised machine learning takes d…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Planaria are well known for their phenomenal regeneration abilities. Because of the presence of totipotent stem cells (also known as neoblasts) throughout their body, they are commonly used…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Of the over 100 types of cancers that together claim 2,000 lives in the United States daily, neuroblastoma is the most common in children under the age of two. This project seeks to identify…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Major solar flares (X&M-class) and their resulting Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and Solar Proton Events (SPE) severely threaten modern human society. A major solar event hitting Earth would…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Neurodegenerative disorders affect more than 6 million people in the United States alone. Heavy metal exposure has been implicated in the progression of disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive form of lung cancer. Despite available chemotherapeutics, resistance develops rapidly, accounting for a 6%, 5-year survival rate. Strateg…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
This study developed and characterized a novel proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) incorporating a beta hairpin sequence motif. PROTACs facilitate the proteasomal degradation of ‘undrugga…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The aim of this work was to develop a more effective biligand inhibitor for protein kinase CK2, an effective synthesis for it and characterize its binding ability to CK2. This was accomplish…