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ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The A Novel Suture Additive: Use of Beet Extract to Assess for Surgical Wound Infection experiment, has developed a suture that can change color when it comes into contact with an infected w…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Abiotic stresses induce oxidative stress in crops. Oxidative stress is when a plant produces more reactive oxygen species (ROS) than the antioxidant defense system can counteract, which lead…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Enhanced crop production on a sustainable basis is necessary for solving the global food crisis. However, many agricultural practices to enhance crop growth are detrimental to the environmen…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With a dismal five-year survival rate of 8%, pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal epithelial cancers. A growing body of evidence suggests that deformities in cell-cell junctions…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The world's waters are fighting with numerous issues but spreading below the surface is a serious issue - our waters are running out of oxygen. Areas of water that contain low or zero levels…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The purpose is to eliminate Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi in wastewater so that its reuse does not contaminate, using medicinal plants such as Moringa oleifera and Xenophyllum poposu…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mealworms (Tenebrio monitor) digest polystyrene with conversion into CO2 + biomass. Antibiotics were given to mealworms to modify gut microbiome + measure changes in styrofoam digestion. Adv…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The development of antibiotics has meant a new era for microbial treatment and control. However, because of some natural and social problems, have emerged the "Antibiotics Crises" which, acc…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
To discover whether an ant's pheromones can determine the route taken by another ant to a destination, an experiment was designed using different combinations of pavement, fire, and carpente…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that eventually deprives an individual of normal movement, affecting over ten million people worldwide. As it progresses, the person with…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have successfully demonstrated superior overall performance in many image classification and recognition tasks on H&E histology images. Reported studies typically…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Heart diseases are the number one cause of deaths globally, with three-quarters occurring in developing countries (WHO). In India, heart-related mortality rates in rural areas have surpassed…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project identifies previously unknown vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer cells that can be used to target cancer treatment. This research manipulates a step in the central do…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Mathematical modeling is a powerful way to comprehend emerging properties/behaviors in social problems involving many parameters acting simultaneously and non-linearly. Current epidemiologic…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Drug delivery devices specifically transport drugs to help reduce drug toxicity to healthy cells and repetitive drug administrations. This study analyzes the use of pH-responsive nanogels, p…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
This thesis’ purpose was developing applications relevant to engineering & biomedical science through theoretical and experimental study pertaining to micro-&nanowires, propitious materials…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The purpose of this experiment was to simulate an automatic vehicle’s delivery route and examine how it recalculates if a road is blocked or slowed. To do this, Dijkstra’s algorithm, which c…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
40% of oil cannot be extracted from an oil well due to its strong physical interactions with the rock walls. This project aims to explain the interactions using molecular dynamic simulations…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gut epithelium turns over rapidly due to damage from digestion and toxins produced by the enteric microbiota. The rapid turnover process of gut epithelium is tightly regulated. Dysfunction o…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Strict environmental regulations and increasing awareness towards a safe future are the key driving forces towards the development of sustainable technologies. Today, more than 17% of the to…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Beta-secretase (BACE), an enzyme responsible for the endoproteolysis of amyloid precursor protein to produce the hallmark amyloid-beta plaques of Alzheimer's pathology, has been of considera…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Currently, there is no fully reliable or accurate way to determine whether an individual has Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, 90% of clinically-confirmed Parkinson’s disease cases are idiopath…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
While at least eight Forkhead/Fox transcription factors are required for proper cardiac development in mammals and mutations in four Fox genes have been linked to human congenital heart dise…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Injuries can be treated using medical devices that produce a pulsating magnetic field aimed at promoting metabolism and substance exchange. I questioned whether this system, a coil attached…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface, yet water shortages are impending worldwide. While this can be baffling, it's simple: out of the 71% of water only 3% is fresh water and 1% is…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
This project focusses on optimising signal timing plans at signalised intersections which are the major hotspots of congestion in any transportation network. Traditionally, signal controller…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial intelligence has been used to identify cancer types with high accuracy, but despite this, we see increased death rates in cancer. Even though cancer is a complex and extremely het…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Arsenic is a known carcinogen, which can be ingested through contaminated drinking water. Most studies in the high-level arsenic range have found a significant correlation between arsenic in…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is the pest that has spread out in Thailand since August 2018. The outbreak of fall armyworm causes severe damage of corn plants and other field crops.…