243 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
243 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Transfemoral amputation causes the loss of two important joints to reproduce the gait: the knee and the ankle joints. Passive transfemoral prostheses available for sale are not efficient in…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
This research reports the stimulation provided by hippotherapy from the quantitative conceptions of human gait and its resemblance to horseback riding. The aim of this study is to compare th…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Bacterial resistance refers to the ability of bacteria to multiply even in the presence of antibiotics, making infections caused by these microorganisms difficult to combat. Albeit a natural…
ISEF · 2016
This project focuses on problems caused by forest fires. After thorough researches on internet or other current programs, it is possible to observe a high number of forest fires occurrence.…
ISEF · 2016
Allergy can cause itching, hives and even anaphylactic shock that can lead to death. The difficulty of identifying foods that present the antigen to which the person is allergic causes the n…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Lactose intolerance affects millions of people worldwide. It is caused by the inability to produce a digestive enzyme called lactase or beta-galactosidase, responsible for the breakdown of l…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The Amazon region faces challenges in providing its population with drinking and treated water. In Brazil as a whole, piped water only supplies 36.1% of households. The Amazon is the region…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The present project searched to verify if it was possible to utilize virtual reality technology to benefit students and teachers of elementary school, on behalf of learning and new education…
ISEF · 2016
In recent years, many researchers studied and highlighted the insecticide effect of plants. A series of plants of different botanical families proved to have insecticidal activity. Among suc…
ISEF · 2016
Approximately 12 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year, with 2/3 of the victims living in developing countries, and 8 million of them do not survive. The search for a…
ISEF · 2016
Aedes aegypti is one of the main vectors that cause public health problems since it is the transmitter of dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya fever. The first deserves attention for the wa…
ISEF · 2016
The project arose from the assumption that the reuse of waste cooking oil is insufficient; oils have low solubility in aqueous medium, causing pollution and suffocation of aquatic life. I al…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) institutionalized the disappearance of individuals as a form of repression of social and political resistance. This resulted in the Clan…
ISEF · 2016
The portion of the solar electromagnetic spectrum incident on the earth's surface, the range extending from 280 to 400 nm, which corresponds to Ultraviolet Radiation, and has been the cause…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This paper consists in an irrigation control system that aims to rationalize the use of water in crops, reaching the area of biggest water demand in the world, the agriculture. To this end,…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Nowadays it is possible to observe certain shortcomings in commercial transradial myoelectric prostheses regarding skill and haptic capabilities of natural human limb mimicry. This is due to…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Peripheral intravenous access is an essential procedure to health treatment problems ranging from dehydration to infections and cancer. Errors in venipuncture may cause patient injury, psych…
ISEF · 2016
This project comes from the development of an innovative tool for the branch of automotive maintenance. It was found that both manufacturers worldwide, and specialized automotive maintenance…
ISEF · 2016
The residential security is leaving of be only an accessory and becoming a technological tool increasingly needed. This can be visualized comparing the first semester of 2010 with the 2015 i…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Jucara Palm is one of native species of Atlantic Forest. It produces a fruit, Jucara acai, and a palm that when extracted kills the plant. The processing of this fruit generates 81% of resid…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Technologies have been transforming society in many areas. However, in most Brazilian schools, there is a limited utilization of these technologies inside classrooms. Also most children, in…
ISEF · 2015
Technological solutions have been incorporated into the productivity of rural companies in an ever increasing speed since the 90s, highlighted by economic globalization and the opening of la…
ISEF · 2015
Human civilization needs environmentally friendly, low cost energy alternatives. Hydrogen was discovered as a great source of energy because it generates electricity by reacting with Oxygen…
ISEF · 2015
Forensic analysis of traffic accidents in Brazil occurs only in 3% of the cases. This fact is due to the cost required to perform the analysis, involving the expert and materials, in additio…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by the ingestion of gluten, a protein present in wheat, rye, oat, barley and its derivatives. If not correctly treated, the disease…
ISEF · 2015
The thermocycler is an apparatus widely used in molecular biology laboratories for the amplification of DNA using the PCR technique (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The main applications of the…
ISEF · 2015
I have developed a cryptography program, ENCRYPTA. My theoretical reference was Chaos Theory, particularly Logistic Maps – complex, dynamic systems that are rigorously deterministic and sens…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
In the shore of the state of Santa Catarina-Brazil it is common the artisanal fishing of sea-bob shrimp using the method of motorized dragnet with rings. This continuous practice may interfe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric disorder, which can become incapacitating. Although family and twin studies suggest a complex genetic etiology, specific risk vari…