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 781–810
AJAS · 2019
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to attempt to find a correlation between stress hormone levels and detected symptoms of stress in different personality types. We predicted that although peop…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Microplastics are defined as plastics under 5mm in diameter, and can be divided into five groups: fragments, fibers, beads, foams, and films. It has been documented that microplastics can em…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Ecological light pollution implicates physiological disruption to individual organisms and the ecosystem structure as a whole particularly with the involvement of keystone species. The major…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
This project was conducted in Merrick County, Nebraska, to compare differences in prevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) in areas in close proximity to human dwellings and…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is thought to be responsible for mood in humans and other multicellular organisms. Many people take prescription drugs that are thought to increase level…
AJAS · 2019
Mathematics (inferred)
Saito (1988) establishes a relationship between two invariants associated with a smooth projective curve, the conductor and discriminant. Saito defined the conductor of an arbitrary scheme o…
AJAS · 2019
Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease every year Parkinson’s disease is caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Previous work has identif…
AJAS · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology (inferred)
The synaptic hub protein Munc13 plays a pivotal role in almost all known forms of fast chemical synaptic transmission. This essential protein has also been shown to mediate several forms of…
AJAS · 2019
Engineering (inferred)
Physical winglets offer widespread lift to drag force improvement for commercial and cargo aircraft; unfortunately, their improvements cannot be applied to fighter or short take-off and land…
AJAS · 2019
Plant Sciences (inferred)
There has been recent photographic evidence that, as average temperatures increase, areas of Alaskan treeline, the northernmost latitude where trees are able to survive, have advanced northw…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
This project will help individuals who suffer from chronic thyroid disease such as hypothyroidism by making it easy to check one’s thyroid hormone levels in the comforts of home. Thyroid dis…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Student name: Deepti Nandakumar School: IB World School Sponsor: Ms Julie Baker Research Category: Engineering Research Project Title: Transolar Tower – A novel method of generating and tran…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The endemic Dendroctonus ponderosae, or Mountain Pine Beetle, has long been present in the coniferous forests of the western United States. However, this species has begun to reproduce at ex…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Rockfish support one of the largest fisheries in California. Due to overharvesting, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife began closing the fishery from January to February in 2002…
AJAS · 2019
Regarded as one of the most painful conditions for human beings, Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) is a rare chronic pain disorder that affects the trigeminal nerve and induces excruciating facial p…
AJAS · 2019
Since 2002, the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids has increased by 410%, and currently, more than 115 people in the United States die every day from an opioid overdose. Suicide rates…
AJAS · 2018
To efficiently remove aluminum from coal fly ash, a two-step acid leaching method was used. The first leaching residue was acquired through a direct leaching of coal ash with 10 molar sulfur…
AJAS · 2018
Animal Sciences (inferred)
One of the most well recognized methods of conditioning in planarian flatworms is light-shock therapy, a form of Pavlovian conditioning where the worm is trained to exhibit a negative respon…
AJAS · 2018
Engineering (inferred)
All Choked Up: The Effect of the Convergent Section Half-Angle on the Thrust of a Cold Gas Rocket continues my investigation of cold gas rocket nozzles. Rockets and Nozzles and Thrusts, OH M…
AJAS · 2018
Chemistry (inferred)
Abstract The overall objective of this project was to find if microwaves would be a suitable and sustainable catalytic replacement for the synthesis of Aspirin. This was done by creating thr…
AJAS · 2018
Mathematics (inferred)
This project innovates the Ulam Spiral and Klauber Triangle figures through the use of their integer orientation in pentagons. These four figures will be analyzed for geometric alignments ba…
AJAS · 2018
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
I use existing Very Large Array observations of high redshift radio galaxies (HRRGs) to create a simulated spectral energy distribution (SED) of early radio sources (z~6). I diagnose the pre…
AJAS · 2018
Microbiology (inferred)
Amoeba are single celled protozoa that are comprised of a nucleus, surrounded by a mass of cytoplasm. The free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of primary amoebic menin…
AJAS · 2018
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
The radial velocity (RV) method, otherwise known as Doppler spectroscopy, is an effective exoplanet detection technique that has been increasingly used in recent years, used to discover arou…
AJAS · 2018
With the rapidly increasing population, a stable yet clean energy source is needed. The Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC), a device that converts organic material into renewable energy using bacteri…
AJAS · 2018
The formation of a hairpin core structure by the HIV-1 virus transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 is the critical event that triggers viral fusion to the host cell. Fusion inhibitors such as T20,…
AJAS · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently remains the sixth leading cause of death in the US. Despite decades of research devoted to understanding AD, a cure does not exist. Many researchers have f…
AJAS · 2018
Microbiology (inferred)
Antibiotics are a diverse group of chemicals that successfully inhibit bacterial growth by interrupting one in a series of biochemical steps necessary for successful cellular proliferation.…
AJAS · 2018
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
As the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids has increased by 200% since the year 2000, the United States is currently faced with an alarming crisis. Despite knowledge of this growing pr…
AJAS · 2018
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Consumption of Sodium Nitrite (NaNO₂) can cause elevated blood nitrite levels in humans, induce oxidative stress and disturb metabolic pathways, particularly in infant populations. NaNO₂ is…