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ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Positively identifying endangered species has been a global challenge in wildlife conservation efforts. Traditional methods such as morphological means of identification require expert knowl…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Biofouling is a biological attachment on structures submerged in sea water that causing severe economic lost. The use of antifoulant paint containing TBT (Tributyltin) has been banned becaus…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Many people in the world, especially in rural locations, are under high water scarcity; however, many of these areas grow banana plants, which require a large amount of water. The hypothesis…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
To diagnose a concussion or other traumatic brain injury, a physician will have to conduct a MRI, CT scan, or an EEG, all of which are lengthy processes. Many careers have come to a halt due…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Hypodiploid B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a high-risk form of acute leukemia with a dismal prognosis. Because standard chemotherapy is largely ineffective for this subtype,…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Concussions are dangerous injuries that can have immediate as well as long term effects. They have been shown to cause dizziness, confusion, and loss of consciousness in the short term and s…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The toll of earthquake aftershocks, which are potentially even more dangerous than mainshock earthquakes, presents a problem well-suited to machine learning. The occurrence of aftershocks ov…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), defined as a physical or psychological reliance on opioids, is quickly becoming a public health epidemic. This project develops a supervised machine learning appro…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Stock price change in the short term is highly unpredictable and often does not relate to underlying economic or company performance. Stock technical analysis indicators are commonly used to…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Secondary cancers, which develop as a result of initial radiation or chemotherapy treatments, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer survivors. Early prediction of the develo…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Inadequate hospitalization projections increase the cost of health care and reflect the ineffectiveness of the healthcare services in the primary care setting (Mkanta, 2016). Studies have co…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The project investigated nanoscale silicon structures obtained by electrochemical and metal-assisted chemical etching methods. Silicon nanostructures were chosen as objects of study because…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
A) Stopping carbon emissions now is a start, but it’s not enough. We’ve already passed the point of no return. Even if every single coal fired power plants was shut down, every car converted…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Recently, drought conditions in South Asia have resulted in the starvation and suicides of over 500,000 individuals due to crop yield drastically decreasing. Plants are severely affected by…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
In the United States, a large percentage of accidents directly result from “blind” left turns made by drivers who have their view of oncoming traffic blocked by larger vehicles. An engineeri…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
Curcumin is known for its multifarious effects like its antioxidative, cancer chemo-preventative, and anti-inflammatory properties. This research aimed to explore curcumin’s effect on planar…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Nanoparticle research is an emerging field of medicine meant to tackle cancer using diverse constructs; however, nanoparticles suffer from improper and insufficient delivery, which has led t…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
In modern cryptosystems, even if the adversaries can access the communication medium and initially have the same knowledge as the communicators, sent messages are still safe, since they are…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
White dwarfs, remnants of Sun-like stars which have completed their evolution, are one of the most common types of stars in space. Despite this, a full, surviving exoplanet has never been fo…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Do healthy and cancer cells differ in temperature? Can this be explained by different metabolisms? These questions arose during the search for a non-invasive diagnostic method for breast can…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates if people procrastinate more on assignments that are worth a large percentage of grade or a small percentage of grade (Hypothesis I) and on extra credit or regular cr…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The development of human activity and industry has led to various environmental pollution. One of the biggest problem is chicken feather waste created during food processing. Another problem…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease of the nervous system that affects 10 million people each year. It is often characterized by resting tremor and stiffness. With difficulty in fin…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The goal of Project Simon is to develop the world's most advanced telepresence robot. Telepresence is the use of virtual reality technology, especially for remote control of machinery or for…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Temple of Literature was founded in 1070 and was the site of Vietnam’s first university – a symbol of the Vietnamese traditional fondness of learning. Although many projects have been la…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Welsh’s Milkweed (Asclepias welshii) is a threatened species found in Southern Utah. Almost no research has been conducted on how this species reproduces itself. Genetic testing of the speci…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
African American (AA) men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer (PCa), with almost twice the incidence and mortality as compared to non-Hispanic Whites. AA have been left out of…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Over the past decade, honey bee populations have been declining due to the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Nosema ceranae is a microsporidian parasite that has recently b…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The creation of deep neural networks (DNNs) in the field of artificial intelligence, containing tens to hundreds of layers to learn any complex function, give computers the ability to outper…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Understanding gene function is important for many reasons; in particular, one could examine the gene of a pathogen to find a weakness, or discover a gene in a human related to cancer. Annota…