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ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Purpose of my research (1) Use a new additive to form semi-clathrate hydrate at lower pressures and higher temperatures for CO2 capture. (Research question) (2) Can Tetra-n-butyl Ammonium Br…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Almost half of the pregnancies around the globe are unplanned. The associated risks related to unexpected pregnancy include both physical and mental stress. A wide range of contraceptive met…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The speed of ribosome movement along an mRNA transcript is a critical determinant of protein synthesis. Ribosome pause sites, or regions along an mRNA transcript where translating ribosomes…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
One of the great challenges for science is to guarantee the availability and potability of water for everyone while looking for sustainable ways to do this. The present research aimed to pro…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
The goal of this project was to assist malaria research by expediting the process of producing transgenic mosquitoes. In this project, I developed and tested a novel automated instrument for…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are antimicrobial agents that are used to eliminate bacteria and are found in products that advertise antimicrobial activity. During the ongoing pandemic,…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEM-143 (Transmembrane protein 143) human gene is located in the Chr19q13.33 chromosomal region, which is known to be associated with the risk of type-2 diabetes and cancer. TMEM-143 gene i…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the global environmental, economic, and energy crisis, an attempt was made to find an eco-friendly and sustainable energy source based on the lignocellulosic biomass of Sargassum flui…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
During the past several years in the Western United States, we have been in a drought, and I have wondered what I can do to help save water in my daily activities. The objective of this proj…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Coronavirus, an RNA virus that causes COVID-19, has spread widely around the globe. However, not only RNA-type viruses, but DNA-type also exist. An accurate and portable diagnostic technique…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero resistance and expel magnetic fields once cooled below a certain critical temperature, allowing for their application in various technologies…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Fourth Award
This Project entails the development of a web tool for the analysis of biological macromolecules, most notably proteins and RNA molecules, and the subsequent visualization of the results. Th…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Telemedicine & remote diagnosis using Computer-Aided Detection hold the key to timely medical treatment for millions of people, in absence of radiologists in remote regions. Unfortunately, t…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition generally characterized by social and communication impairments. The early diagnosis of ASD is highly desirable, and there is a need fo…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
In recent years, insurgences of red tide, harmful algal blooms (HAB), caused by concentrates of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, have yielded millions of marine wildlife deaths, respirator…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
When a building collapses, survivors are trapped in unknown locations. Locating survivors is crucial in a rescue operation and can be extremely difficult due to the terrain and inaccessibili…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
Honey bees are an essential part of global food production and revenue. However, pollinators around the world are declining at a rate faster than ever recorded due to pesticides, diseases an…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Nowadays, 1% of the total garbage in cities worldwide comes from non-rechargeable batteries and piles. These sources of energy are used primarily in wristwatches. Thus, the research focused…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The shape and size of a plant’s seed impact how well it is able to scatter and move over time, notably in changing environmental circumstances. As the environment changes, the survival of th…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry First Award
Hydrogen is a promising renewable energy carrier. However, it has the lowest density of all other substances, so it needs to be compressed to run a car. Formic acid (FA) is an attractive liq…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Introduction: It is known that mechanosensory halteres, the reduced hindwings of flies, send information to the brain about wing-steering, head movement, and take-off stabilization. Most fli…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which emerged globally in early 2020. The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 spi…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Malaria can be transmitted by Anopheles. Anopheles similarly ingest a variety of bioactive factors during host feeding. Theoretically, therapeutic proteins in ingested blood, such as antibod…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Long-term trends for leukemia (blood cancer) have consistently shown that men have significantly higher incidence and mortality rates than women, but the reason why this occurs isn’t clear.…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Composite dental fillings (CDF) are used to repair teeth. Initially, in the form of a paste, CDFs are polymerized using curing lights. Curing lights use different wavelengths that interact w…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my experiment was to program and build new scanning technology to determine if different things move in a room while someone is away. I cloned the repository on GitHub (a clou…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Following surgery, dogs generally experience irritation on the skin around the surgical site due to pain, histamines, and the protein IL-31 (Blue Cross, 2020)(Xu, et al., 2020)(Zimlich, 2021…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The importance of soils for the environment and for humans is often underestimated. Soils are an integral component of nutrient and water cycles and ultimately constitute our basis of life.…