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ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Petroleum based non-biodegradable plastics have caused serious environmental and ecological problems globally. It is vital to develop sustainable ways to produce environmentally-friendly bio…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Decellularization is a promising technique for creating biomaterial scaffolds that uniquely possess properties that cannot be 3D printed and are used for artificial organ and tissue regenera…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Let’s say your loved one has been getting nauseous every day, and they’ve been experiencing heavy pain in their chest and arms for months now. Of course, you go to the doctor, hopefully it’s…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
State-of-the-art microscopes cost thousands of dollars, posing challenges to third world hospitals and interested students. Additionally, there is a growing problem of "e-Waste", where consu…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant, energy can be transformed from one form to another but can neither be created nor destroyed.…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Musa acuminata x Musa balbissiana, also known as plantain, is one of the main nutritional sources in the world. They are grown in more than 130 countries, with a yearly production of 30 mill…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Existing methods of blood glucose monitoring have a large number of serious drawbacks that do not allow to use them effectively. We consider their major drawbacks are: - Price: an ordinary p…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
It is known that each periodic orbit can be assigned to a spatial braid. The goal of the project is to check the hypothesis on the possibility of applying the braid theory to the classificat…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, but early detection and diagnosis can significantly improve a patient’s prognosis. Conventionally, biopsy breast ti…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND- Three million people in the U.S alone suffer from gluten intolerance/celiac disease. My aim is to identify which of the natural fruits, and herbs have the ability to breakdown gl…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Despite the advancements in cryptography, breaking ciphers by hand remains a tedious and demanding work. The goal of this research was to write a computer program which would facilitate brea…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollination is responsible for approximately 80% of all cultivated crops. Unfortunately, the latest reports suggest losses of 30-50% of all bee colonies in the US.…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from some level of hearing loss. However, only 17% of those who would benefit greatly from using a hearing aid use one. Hearing aids can cost a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Background: Distinctive roles for T-lymphocyte:Bacteroides fragilis cross-talk occurs in dampening peanut allergic responses. Butyrate is key to B.fragilis regulation of immune homeostasis.…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Evapotranspiration is a fundamental, but not widely understood, contributor to natural water cycles. This project incorporates a rigorous mathematical equation to help understand evapotransp…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Every year in the U.S alone 100+ people die and thousands experience heart attacks while shoveling the snow. Studies show that the combination of cold air, which constricts arteries, and str…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer is vital to prevent metastasis, but past models lack a cohesive pipeline from diagnosis to treatment to determine biomarkers and suggest tr…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Though acquiring about 99% of its yearly electrical energy from hydropower plants, Juneau is nearing its consuming capacity. As global warming advances, more and more people are switching to…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The main purpose of this research project was to determine whether machine learning algorithms creating art in three art genres, Ukiyo-e, Portrait and Landscape, are imaginative enough to fo…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Carbon dioxide is one of the most discussed atmospheric gases due to its greenhouse effect on global climate. It is well known to trap the sun's thermal radiation and raise the temperature o…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
Current Cancer Diagnostic methods are inaccurate and time-consuming with invasive procedures, mostly resulting in late-stage detection. In contrast, we have strong evidence that treating can…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Today the industrial reality is stimulated to be more respectful of our planet by a public opinion that is increasingly attentive to environmental issues. In the world of textiles, to enhanc…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
Perspective transformation and edge detection are fundamental and important problems in the field of computer vision. This paper proposed a fast and adaptable method, CDD, to perform the det…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Agriculture is one of the main sources of economy in Peru, the secondary effects that can cause the use of different fertilizers in agriculture gave rise to this research. The research seeks…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Robust neural networks are crucial for image recognition. However, not all images are equally differentiable. It's easier to differentiate a cat from a tree than from a dog. Most image class…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
For years, track coaches have insisted that runners put their hands on their head because this was the recognized best recovery position. Recent studies done by Western Washington University…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) 9 and its variants are promising vectors for gene therapy to treat neurological diseases. The clinical uses of AAV9 along with its variants are leveraged by the…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this study, we investigated the biological activities of brown pine needles of pine tree for the chronic inflammatory skin disorder such as acne and atopic dermatitis. The Minimum Inhibit…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Amyloid-beta (Aß) and insulin, two substrates of insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE), are critically important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), respectiv…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A circular thermoelectric generator (CTEG) device will be built to recycle the wasted thermal energy given off by an automobile exhaust pipe. The devices that will be utilized to build the C…