Every American Junior Academy of Science project Fairfolio holds: 1,041 entries across 8 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's AJAS projects.
1041 projects · showing 721–750
AJAS · 2019
The goal of this study was to see if the Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling pathway (IIS pathway) is involved in the epigenetic memory of thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). The IIS…
AJAS · 2019
Anthrax is a vicious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. While anthrax is a very rare disease within the United States, it is fairly common in agricultural regions. One of th…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
One in eleven people will have a form of diabetes during their lifetime (WHO, 2014). In 2012, diabetes and its life-threatening side effects costed 245 billion dollars in the United States (…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
The goal of this research was to improve the energy produced by a flexible solar cell. A focus was placed on using the ability of the flexible solar cell to conform to surfaces to see if the…
AJAS · 2019
Every year, 500,000 people seek medical attention for burns in the United States. Of these, roughly 17% of deaths are caused by infections. The purpose of this experiment was to use hyaluron…
AJAS · 2019
The majority of Western nations are living on unhealthy diets with high amounts of sugar and few nutrients. This diet, coupled with a lack of exercise, is associated with higher incidences o…
AJAS · 2019
Batteries are a critical component of our everyday lives and provide compact energy anywhere. However, they have many key limitations that restrict their full potential (life, eco-friendline…
AJAS · 2019
Herbal remedies have been used to treat parasitic worm infections. Lady’s-slipper roots (LSR) as well as black walnut hull extract (juglone) are herbal remedies for roundworm infection. This…
AJAS · 2019
There are growing concerns about the health and environmental effects of chemical pesticides used to control mosquito populations and the increasing resistance of mosquitoes to pesticides. E…
AJAS · 2019
Neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by an extremely low quality of life and the deterioration of normal bodily and muscular functions including movement, memory, balance, breathing…
AJAS · 2019
Freeze casting, the controlled unidirectional solidification of water-based solutions and slurries, is a new technique for the fabrication of tissue scaffolds with highly aligned porosity an…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
There is an increasing amount of evidence showing that the microbiome is a contributor to both immune and stress responses in a variety of organisms. One of these organisms is the nematode C…
AJAS · 2019
The prescription drug epidemic is skyrocketing due to their addictive qualities. Using the Flesch Reading Ease Number and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Number of a specific prescription drug, o…
AJAS · 2019
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures…
AJAS · 2019
The neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin play important roles in animal nervous system function. Abnormal dopamine and serotonin signaling results in a variety of diseases and disorders,…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract oil or gas. When water is shot into these f…
AJAS · 2019
Sensory gating, the process in which the brain filters out irrelevant stimuli, was assessed for N100 and P50, two evoked auditory potential waves appearing approximately 100 and 50 milliseco…
AJAS · 2019
Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death in the developed world. The two different types of stroke, ischemic and hemorrhagic, are functionally different…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Optical monitoring of muscle hemodynamics in humans after exercise Shubhecchha Dhaurali Medford High School 12thGrade Goal: Use Near-infrared spectroscopy to study calf muscle hemodynamics d…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Microalgal photobioreactors are among the most effective systems for capturing atmospheric CO2. Their capacity to generate massive amounts of hydrocarbon in biomass could be exploited not on…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among American women, in large part due to failure to diagnose the disease before it has spread to other organs. Recently, a change…
AJAS · 2019
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Drought adversely affects society with environmental, economic, and social impacts. By improving soil water deficiency, these harmful effects can be reduced. Pectin is a soluble gelatinous p…
AJAS · 2019
The overuse of antibiotics in many aspects of daily life - from household cleaners to hand soaps - has ushered in a wave of resistance to antibiotics that have been successful for decades. R…
AJAS · 2019
The overall goal of our research is to understand processes of molecular adaptation in diverse populations that experience exposure to varied abiotic stressors. Specifically we are intereste…
AJAS · 2019
Organ transplantation is facing a number of increasingly worrisome problems. Organ shortage threatens an increase in waitlisted patient’s mortality. Incompatibility and immunosuppressive com…
AJAS · 2019
We present analysis of a novel tool for protein secondary structure prediction using the recently-investigated Neural Machine Translation frame-work. The tool provides a fast and accurate fo…
AJAS · 2019
Over three million concussions occur in sports in the United States annually. Research shows that anticipatory neck muscle activation and the active response of neck muscles reduces concussi…
AJAS · 2019
Every Fall, families buy pumpkins and carve them. A problem that every family faces is that their carved pumpkins rot in a short amount of time. This is what gave me the idea to find a treat…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
atRAL, a cytotoxic byproduct of the visual cycle, is removed from the eyes’ photoreceptors by ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCA4), which transports atRAL from the disc lumen to the cyto…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
The symbiotic relationship between copepods belonging to the family Porcellidiidae and their hermit crab hosts in the eastern Pacific remains poorly known. The present study marks a two-year…