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ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than 6 million patients globally. Though previous studies have proposed several disease-related…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Prosthetic arms are expensive. Without insurance, for a prosthetic arm one can be expected to pay anywhere from $2,000-$10,000 for a cosmetic and between $20,000-$100,000 for a functional ar…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells are efficient electrochemical energy conversion devices that use hydrogen and oxygen as fuel and produce water as exhaust. As a result, they are one of th…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Consumption of non-renewable sources of energy for powering electronic devices is a common practice, causing the depletion of fossil fuels. The current project aims at the development of a p…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
Alzheimer's disease is a destructive neurodegenerative disease that affects cognitive function as well as visuospatial and executive function. The chances of injury are heightened, and the p…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Blind children have great difficulty in learning Braille. I conducted research and found out that for successful mastering of Braille it is necessary to use tactile and sound aids. But these…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical issue that threatens maintaining healthy living conditions. Clean drinking water is the base for the improvement of public health. In addition to the conservati…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
I worked on building the project based on my primary goal, which is to work on solving greater problems facing human life and facing the earth in general, such as the problems that the agric…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We have technology in almost everything. People have seen what it could be used for in several areas and implemented technological systems in whatever they did to make the task easier and op…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Second Award
In the United States alone, there are one million people who have Parkinson's disease. There is no known cure for Parkinson's and very few treatments out there that target the disease's symp…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
COVID-19 has been a global health crisis for the past year. One way of testing COVID-19 is with the use of chest X-rays. Radiologists read an X-ray and provide results within 24 hours. Howev…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
There are about 466 million dumb around the world faced continues problems such as the inability of the dumb category to integrate and communicate with society easily, and their inability to…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
This project represents a prosthetic device that can be an external wearable mobile, machine that covers the hand or part of it. The movement is generated by pneumatic and electric motors. A…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ) and humidity is a critical aspect of improving overall health. Low IAQ leads to respiratory illnesses, while low humidity causes dehydration and…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People with special needs are part of society and represent a big portion. Those people need help in all life’s aspects, and despite the numerous applications founded to facilitate their lif…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern in both medical and agricultural industries, contributing to 700,000 deaths annually. By 2050, antibiotic-resistant bacteria,…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
The project presents a software package and some necessary algorithms developed for the processing and analysis of spectra obtained with a low-field NMR spectrometer. Unlike the widely used…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The world's soils are losing their ability to naturally support crops, and many are approaching exhaustion. Erosion, soil structure degradation, nutrient loss, and soil microorganism populat…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The future of our planet is balancing on a thread: combating climate change. Natural substances and fossil fuels are not replenished at the speed at which they are consumed, yet there are ev…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
It is known that attempts to solve some equations and systems of equations by standard methods often cause great difficulties. However, it is more convenient to solve these equations and sys…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a worldwide problem. It is recognized that at least 140 million people in 50 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current devices geared towards the deaf and hard of hearing, such as hearing aids, struggle to localize and transmit sounds to those with severe hearing impairments. Advanced devices, like c…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Space junk, or orbital debris, poses an increasing threat to spacecraft and satellite-based infrastructure due to extremely high impact velocities, and any collision may result in thousands…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
This investigation had the goal of identifying clusters of exoplanets and potentially habitable exoplanets that are within a 100-light-year distance from Earth, to see if there is any relati…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The rapid growth in urbanization over the past few years has caused the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon- an occurrence where the temperature of an urban area is significantly greater than…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
There are upwards of 7.5 million people suffering from speech impairment caused by conditions such as stroke, ALS, and cerebral palsy. These paralyzed patients can’t speak, as they can’t use…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
Okamoto-Uchiyama encryption scheme is one of the Paillier cryptosystem’s foundations. Unfortunately, its “twin” signature scheme, properties and specialized kinds of digital signatures are n…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia, with nearly 60% living in low and middle income countries. Every year, there are nearly 10 million new cases. Our project aimed to develop…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
The advent of affordable fused-filament-fabrication (FFF) 3D printers in the consumer space in recent years has given a remarkable extent of manufacturing ability to hobbyists. While one of…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
I studied and tested the speed of photosynthesis relative to a plant’s surface area. What was found was that plants with a higher surface area can undergo photosynthesis faster than plants w…