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ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness, responsible for 15% percent of the total world blindness. It is a chronic eye disease that damages the optic nerve and causes irreversible…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The microscopic structure of bone contributes to its resistance to crack propagation and high damage tolerance under mechanical loading. In everyday life, bone accumulates tiny fractures, ca…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Lithium-ion batteries are a crucial component in many applications. Failure to understand the battery lifetime can lead to rapid degradation, emission of harmful gases, and fatal explosions.…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- determines the spread and impact of a given epidemic. With over 2.6 million…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution is a global issue affecting both the environment and human health. Although industrial PCB manufacturing has been banned, PCBs remain in water, soil,…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in the environment are a source of emerging pollution with proposed negative impacts across all ecosystems. Plastic preproduction pellets called nurdles are a form of microplas…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Both the process of infrastructure development of settlements in suburban areas will have various impacts on changes in natural resources. Physically, the changes that occur are the reductio…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Covid-19 or the novel Coronavirus is a highly contagious disease, which has swept across the world as a pandemic. It has a high impact on the public's psychology. In this work, we primarily…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Immunotherapy has revolutionized some cancer treatments. Yet, the same treatments showed disappointing outcomes for most prostate cancer patients, with five-year survival rates of 99% for ea…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
The SIR model is one of the simplest examples of a class of mathematical models, called 'compartmental models', that are used to predict the spread of an epidemic. A number of efficient nume…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
The Collatz Conjecture and another of similar structure revolving around congruence modulus 3, can be represented as fractals when they are written as holomorphic functions. However, the met…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Out of the 7.8 billion people on Earth today, over 1.3 billion of them suffer from a neurological condition, out of which over 450 million of them do not get their condition diagnosed or tre…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to traumatic childhood events like emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and other forms of household dysfunction. ACEs are associated with biomark…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) accelerates heavy ions through electromagnetic fields to relativistic speeds in order to observe the conditions at the beginning of the Universe. T…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Florida’s waters have recently been plagued by Harmful algal blooms. Although a variety of factors may act as contributors, nutrient loading is often cited as a major factor. Previous resear…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the highest causes of death within the world. The WHO reported in 2016 that Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia were the 5th highest cause of death interna…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Extreme political polarization has surfaced as a major threat to democracy, with recent events highlighting the need to understand both the causes and solutions of political polarization. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People’s feelings are often reflected in the way they write. For this project, texts were used to characterize the emotional state of people both throughout the decades and in different part…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
Covid-19 reports have a substantial impact on the decisions that are made in making sure people are able to continue living their lives. Yet there have been multiple controversies on the acc…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In North America, the spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) has killed more spruce trees than any other natural cause (Colorado State Forest Service, 2020). The purpose of this research pr…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Fourth Award
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus behind the Coronavirus pandemic, contributing to over one million deaths and forty million infections. Forms of COVID-19 prevention are of immediate concern. This stu…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal drafting formations for reducing the aerodynamic drag experienced by a group of cross country skiers. Previous studies on cycling and r…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Studying star clusters within the Milky Way is crucial to gaining a deeper understanding of the universe. Star clusters need to constantly be analyzed and cataloged, so changes regarding ste…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Remote sensing of water quality parameters and contaminants is a cheap and efficient alternative to traditional in-situ water sampling methods. Sensors on satellites detect the reflectance o…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Double Parallelogram Lifting Mechanism (DPLM) is a compact and stable lifting mechanism with a large extension range widely adopted in robot designs. Rubber bands and springs are often insta…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The Red River Valley has seen large quantities of rainfall in recent years, which has caused many farmers to tile their fields. I constructed and tested a simulated tiled environment to see…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This research studied the gene expression profiles of small nuclear RNA (snRNA) and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) in Preeclampsia (PE), compared to term and idiopathic (iPTB) patients. The pu…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Indeed, PD cases are rapidly rising, especially in underdeveloped areas that don’t have ready access to therapeutic car…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic skin disorder most prevalent in children around the world. It causes red and scaly skin with constant itching symptoms. Genetically, the condition…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…