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 901–930
AJAS · 2018
Our research indicates that the herbicide Roundup Super Concentrate and its active ingredient, glyphosate, are possibly more harmful than currently recognized. In 2007, more than 200 million…
AJAS · 2018
An intriguing aspect of the cell membrane that provokes study is lipid-anchor enrichment of lipidated proteins on the cell membrane . Specifically, recent in vitro studies involving the enri…
AJAS · 2018
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Nearly 20% of the population of the United States suffers from some form of anxiety, and nearly a third of the United States Mental healthcare budget is devoted to treating anxiety. Anti-anx…
AJAS · 2018
The goal of this investigation was to explore the association between antihistamines and dementia. To study this, antihistamine use and resulting behavior change or memory dysfunction was re…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Recent studies suggest that Glyphosate based herbicides (GBHs) are more harmful to animals than suggested by the EPA and industry funded studies. Glyphosate (GLY) is the most commonly used h…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
If the data of fallopian tube cancer patients’ history of child delivery, hormonal contraceptive use, body mass indices, diets, physical activity, and breastfeeding as well as their geograph…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
It is predicted that by the year 2050, drug resistant bacteria will cause the deaths of 10 million lives a year, and the loss of over 100 trillion dollars in the worlds GDP. With this statis…
AJAS · 2018
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Waste heat, a byproduct of energy conversions, is an overlooked catalyst of excessive energy consumption, global warming, and pollution. It constitutes 60% of potential energy in fuel, yet r…
AJAS · 2018
Microbiology (inferred)
Pulmonary infections involving Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) are a complication faced by cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Acidified nitrite (NaNO2) has been shown to be an antibacterial agent ag…
AJAS · 2018
Hair cells in the inner ear detect sounds through deflection of their stereocilia, which activate transduction channels in vertebrates, including zebrafish. It is hypothesized, from protein…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in many dietary foods, including diet soft drinks. Although Aspartame is FDA approved and considered safe for consumption, studies on health-relate…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on the health of Dugesia tigrina. Due to the various novel application…
AJAS · 2018
The global rate of infertility stands at an all-time high and nutrition has been discussed as an impactful factor in such skewed trends. Stable oogenesis is continually threatened by genotox…
AJAS · 2018
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that leads to motor neuron degradation, and in many cases, paralysis and eventual death. Fused in sarcoma (FUS) mutations h…
AJAS · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
Mouse models serve as a readily available base for experimentation in neurodegenerative drug development. However, less than 10% of drugs that have shown success in mouse-based preclinical t…
AJAS · 2018
Petroleum is heavily depended upon for energy production, the production of plastic, and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. Though petroleum is said to have broad areas of ap…
AJAS · 2018
Energy and Transport (inferred)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if a modeled, quantum dot photovoltaic cell (QDPC) designed to be optimized for varied light conditions was significantly more efficient (Watt…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
With the rising cost of healthcare and the ubiquity of the internet, telemedicine is becoming a necessary and viable option. Physicians need to be able to remotely monitor a patient’s well-b…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
In the world today only .007% of the water is potable leaving 780 million people around the world without clean water. Therefore, the purpose of the project was to develop a water filtration…
AJAS · 2018
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
This research investigates self-folding pre-strained polystyrene (PS) sheets into 3D geometric and nature-inspired shapes. Folding frequently occurs in nature and has been successfully utili…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Impoverished countries are being negatively affected by the harmful contents of exported waste, specifically electronic waste, from wealthy countries. Printed circuit boards are a major cont…
AJAS · 2017
Almost every year a disastrous oil spill occurs detrimentally affecting both the environment and consumers who purchase oil for many years, even decades afterward. So far, the estimated reco…
AJAS · 2017
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAMs) is a promising, emergent non-volatile technology that has been gaining increasing commercial applications [1]-[3]. Unlike in traditional Random Access…
AJAS · 2017
Mathematics (inferred)
The purpose of this study was to develop an origami spider web pattern. Spider webs have a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This study focused on developing a design for a simplified spider…
AJAS · 2017
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be dependent only on the concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles.…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
RNA-based viruses and bacteria have been sources of large-scale epidemics and pandemics, most notably Ebola, SARS, influenza, hepatitis C, HIV, and the Zika Virus. Normal detection of these…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Droughts in the U.S alone have cost the economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. To conserve water, stringent water restrictions are put in place, but these restrictions prevent pl…
AJAS · 2017
Although the algal biofuel industry is growing, it is inhibited by the high cost of harvesting lipids and the energy used to harvest this energy exceeds the energy that is created. In additi…
AJAS · 2017
Brain tumor segmentation is an essential step in medical image analysis for surgical planning, cancer treatment, or monitoring of therapy. The task is to classify each voxel in a magnetic re…
AJAS · 2017
Embedded Systems (inferred)
This research involved the development of an ultrasonic detection device for obstacle avoidance for the visually impaired. An Arduino Mega digital control unit was programmed with an Annikke…