767 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
767 projects · showing 391–420
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Microplastic pollution is becoming an increasing threat to the viability of marine organisms and ecosystems. The concentration of these particles actively parallels humanity's increasing nee…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project demonstrates that a new paradigm in energy storage should be considered. Materials science engineers have historically focused on creating ever more energy dense materials to ge…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Heating, cooling, and ventilation consume $122 billion/year in the US. Improving the systems’ efficiency, even just slightly, will lead to significant cost savings. The goal is to develop hi…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Perchlorate, an oxidizer found in rocket fuel and fireworks, has leaked into groundwater near military sites and factories. It’s consumption can have major adverse effects on health by disru…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The leading upstream cause of cancer deaths is the inability to accurately classify cancer types and subtypes. The existing method of MRI scanning for cancer diagnosis cannot effectively dif…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Purpose: There is a disparity in the estimated age of the Coma Ber Cluster. A recent study used the turnoff point method to determine an age estimate of 800 Myr (Tang et al. 2018), significa…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This project was outlined to identify important socio-economic variables and their influence in COVID-19 spread. This information can be beneficial to minimizing virus spread as it’ll allow…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Twenty million Americans who suffer from cardiovascular events use anticoagulation therapy. With two million new annual users of Warfarin, accessibility to INR monitoring machines has become…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Asteroid collisions pose a significant danger to Earth. For instance, the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013 led to ~1500 injuries. NASA’s goal was to find 90% of city-annihilating asteroids larger…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Experimentation in physical sciences is susceptible to human and technical errors. However, recent advancements in computational fields have provided applicable mechanisms to the areas of ph…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
Motivated by the characterization of symmetric monoidal functors between Deligne categories, the additive monoid R_+(x) is defined as the set of all nonnegative integer linear combinations o…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Malware developers actively seek vulnerabilities in computer systems and malware detectors to exploit for personal gain. Most modern malware detectors are learning-based (converting malware…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
P38 alpha (MAPK 14) is a protein kinase implicated in the pathological mechanisms of myofibrillar myopathy, cancers, and inflammatory diseases like Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis. Alth…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cadmium pollution is a very serious problem in waterways located near farmland due to the presence of cadmium in fertilizers. The purpose of this project is to identify cadmium levels in the…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Second Award
Objectives Grocery shopping is a regular routine in our daily lives. However, the experience can be exceptionally challenging for individuals confronting vision impairment or blindness. The…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Introduced plant species bypass gradual speciation and directly compete with the native species, threatening human health and disrupting the balance of ecosystems. This project aims to syste…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Individuals with developmental disabilities such as Autism and Down Syndrome experience difficulties in social environments. This is due to deficits in social-emotional skills which results…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Human blood plasma contains biomarkers associated with many diseases. Separation of plasma from blood cells is crucial for many disease diagnostics. The current centrifugation separation tec…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in fifty-nine Americans suffers from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, as a result, has trouble with everyday social interaction. Without the ability to accurately read the emotions of…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The American Cancer Society projects that over 135,000 Americans will die from lung cancer in 2020. It is recognized that the earlier lung cancer is detected, the higher the survival rate an…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Bacteriophages are gaining traction in medical treatments targeting bacteria, food additives, surface cleaners, and water disinfectants in lieu of antibacterials due to their efficiency, rel…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is often used as treatment for mid to late stage breast cancer prior to surgery. However, it is currently not possible to determine accurately or r…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Arthritis is a common ailment that affects gait and pressure distribution across patients’ feet. While current treatments include physical therapy, medication, and surgery, these solutions a…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Light pollution affects organisms throughout the entire ecosystem via disruption and interference of reproductive fitness. Drosophila melanogaster were chosen for this study because of the i…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Objective: Glaciers have been moving in the Sierra for thousands of years. Recently these glaciers have been melting. I wanted to see if Sierra glaciers are still moving. Methods: I measured…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Current programs for teen vaping cessation focus primarily on educating teens about negative health impacts; however, the U.S. Surgeon General reported that such programs have not proven to…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Although Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the fastest-growing leading cause of disability, 25% of patients are either misdiagnosed or diagnosed after severe neurodegeneration has already occurred…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microfibers are tiny threads of plastic and a large contributor to plastic pollution. Millions enter the environment through washing machine effluent. Fiber shedding can be reduced by alteri…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, we study the question of asymptotic degrees of freedom in a viscous flow. Particularly, we create a bound on the dimension N of the determining node set xi of a fluid with tim…