295 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
295 projects · showing 211–240
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Today, increased tectonic plate activity in the Cascadia Megathrust Subduction Zone, located on the Pacific American Coast, has the potential to cause a high magnitude earthquake and resulti…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desalination and purification of seawater could prevent droughts and give all humanity access to clean water. However, current desalination techniques like reverse osmosis (RO) are difficult…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since the last implementation of sociometrics in 1970, the dynamics of a school room, public opinion, and social classes has changed greatly. Our study was contrasted on comparing past class…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
Commercial sutures have shortcomings such as foreign particles harming the body and being unadaptable to surgery of sensitive tissue. A novel suture material that may eliminate these shortco…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Characterization of patient-derived glioblastoma-multiforme (GBM) cell lines uncover information on the disease’s physiology and pathology. This, in extension, helps identify new therapeutic…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Current patient disease diagnosis relies on observed symptoms rather than specific genetic information, resulting in low objective response rates as well as expensive and ineffective treatme…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Many birds die each year due to broken wings. The current method of repairing broken wing bones is called “pinning”. It involves inserting a pin through the hollow center of the bird bone an…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are an essential part of agriculture, pollinating 90 commercially grown crops accounting for $15 billion of the US economy in 2014. Honey bee populations are decl…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Modern high bypass turbofan jet engines pollute the air and their optimal speed and altitude is fixed because of engine physics and economy. We propose using an electric motor paired with a…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Faked company payments and fraudulent schemes such as Ponzi schemes steal over $3.7 trillion from innocent consumers every year, with auditing methods significantly lagging behind the increa…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Desert mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum) is a parasitic plant most frequently infecting plants belonging to the Fabaceae family, and concurrently responsible for extensive diversity in t…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The kth nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN) is a non-parametric method used for classification, in which a query point is compared to a data set of points with predetermined classes. The neares…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Does the temperature of water when mixed with cement affect the strength of the concrete? If cement is mixed with hot water, warm water, or cold water, then the concrete mixed with warm wate…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Silica gels greatly impact D. magna populations, increasing the neonate and juvenile mortality rates by up to 6 and 1.5 times. Six trials were conducted, and all six were found to be statist…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Second Award
The purpose of the project was to determine a growth method of Chlorella vulgaris that is economically feasible and sustainable for large-scale production. The fungal strain, Aspergillus nig…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In the last half decade alone, 30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished. One factor contributing to this decline is…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
After the ban of hydrofluorocarbons by the Kigali Accord, humans turned to perfluoroamines as potential substitutes. However, little information is known about these compounds. This work ana…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle (GDVN) is a liquid droplet injector critical for the successful imaging of particles during Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SFX). The nozzle uses helium ga…
ISEF · 2016
Earthquakes are devastating natural disasters which affect regions all around the world. One of the many problems is that first-response teams struggle to recover victims buried under piles…
ISEF · 2016
Lead contamination is a huge issue in our global society. The first two Phases of this project involved designing, fabricating, and optimizing a Wet Algae Mechanical Filter (WAMF). Phase 3 f…
ISEF · 2016
While malaria has been eradicated in the United States since 1951, it affects almost 200 million worldwide, killing half a million a year in developing regions of the world. The disease occu…
ISEF · 2016
A progressively neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s disease presents a serious emotional and physical cost to patients and their families today. It is thus imperative that a cure is devel…
ISEF · 2016
This study identified the species of the El Golfo equid specimens and investigated the correlation between body size and climate by comparing El Golfo and Rancho La Brea horse second phalang…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Introduction: As the aging ASD cohort becomes larger, there continues to be a paucity of research to assess their needs. This study is the beginning of one of the first longitudinal cognitiv…
ISEF · 2016
Ten percent of the world's population does not have access to clean drinking water. The purpose of this experiment was to find and build a non-electric, easily constructed heat source which…
ISEF · 2016
An analysis is presented on the effectiveness of four new signal regions in the search for vector-like quarks (VLQs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These new signal regions attempt to u…
ISEF · 2016
This project aggregates Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) and Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms and intensitygrams for solar cycles 23 and 24 in a…
ISEF · 2016
Huanglongbing (HLB), more commonly known as Citrus Greening Disease, prevails in Brazil, China, and Southern areas of the United States. The Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) transmits Candidatus L…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Bacteriophages have been known to be capable of eliminating deadly bacterial infections, but their use on biofilms in medical settings has been very limited. In this proof-of-principle inves…
ISEF · 2016
An intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a stable tertiary structure. A key aspect of such a protein is that it goes against the traditional dogma that protein struc…