767 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
767 projects · showing 511–540
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Galactosemia is a life-threatening genetic disease in which patients cannot metabolize galactose, a sugar found abundantly in milk, fruits, and vegetables. As a result, galactose builds up t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
This project targets Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease second to Malaria in economic effect in developing countries. Doctors diagnose Schistosomiasis by using microscopes to count the num…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) are currently the state-of-the-art model for image classification; however, training them is computationally expensive. In addition, there are no gen…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
No effective vaccine against Zika, a positive, single-stranded RNA virus, has been developed. A major obstacle in the design of an antiviral peptide vaccine is the cross-reactivity between t…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Hypodiploid B-ALL is a high-risk form of acute leukemia with a dismal prognosis and an 8-year survival rate of only 37%. Because standard chemotherapy is largely ineffective, there is an urg…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
In this project, we aim to prove certain properties about a particular function c(n) = b_nr(n). This is where b_n is a Boolean function with b_n being 1 if n = x^2 + y^2 for some integers x…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The discovery of complex organic molecules in space is critical to the understanding of the reaction pathways leading to biomolecules and the origins of life. Existing techniques for the ana…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Meteors are small bits of material that enter the atmosphere at high speed and leave a trail of ionized gas. The objective of this work is to observe sporadic meteors from a platform in the…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I wanted to understand the factors that influence how effectively a group works together. The main question in this study was about how the gender composition of a group affects how well a g…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Recently, microspheres have been receiving a lot of attention for their significance in the local release of drugs. This experiment sought to create a multilayered, biocompatible hydrogel mi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election, Social Media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have implemented a variety of changes to their respective sites' user interfaces, in an effort…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The objective of our BerriVest device is to accurately do object detection by alerting the user of frontal obstacles and uneven surfaces and image processing, by specifically naming the obst…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Estimating the future course of cancer is invaluable to physicians; however, current clinical methods fail to effectively use the vast amount of multimodal data available. To tackle this pro…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The study’s first objective is to analyze and improve movement range of a new hip prosthesis design using a gimbal or universal joint. A second objective is to determine load-carrying capaci…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Available wound dressing materials in the market are not optimal because they trap moisture and do not prevent penetration of water. The excess moisture promotes bacterial growth leading to…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The objective of the research was to generate the orbital elements of the asteroid 1999 LO28 in order to better study its orbit and assess its potential threat for planetary collision. To ac…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Despite its significance, there is currently no cure for the disease. The early diagnosis of AD is essentia…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
This interdisciplinary study develops a novel diagnostic and monitoring tool for early stage schizophrenia (SCZ) by modeling diffusion MRI tractography abnormalities and discovering regions…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Emotion recognition from human voice by machine is a challenging task, but it has great potential to make empathic human-machine communications possible. In conventional approaches, extensiv…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
MIT researchers stimulated gamma waves in genetically modified mice brains with flashing lights to trigger microglia to clean up beta amyloid plaques (the cause of Alzheimer’s Disease). The…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
A novel flexible MoS2-based biosensor with patterned 10 nm single antibody size periodic line channel has been fabricated for the first time. In order to confine singular biomolecule movemen…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Heart disease is a prevalent issue in the modern world, with 84 million people in the US alone that require regular checkups with clinicians. iCordisX aims to provide a personalized and data…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Over 90% of cancer-associated mutations are non-coding, driving tumor development by impeding transcription factor binding – the “on and off switches” regulating key cell life and death gene…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project evaluates multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms to determine optimal accuracy in detecting breast cancer. It also analyzes the effect of applying Principal Component Analysi…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Second Award
Preclinical animal studies are crucial for evaluating the effects of novel therapeutics on rodent models before testing on humans. Unfortunately, it is difficult to confirm and replicate the…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
This study examined the impact of human and domestic dog presence on the distribution and movement of mammals in habitat fragments within a suburban matrix and possible human-wildlife confli…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Better understanding fruit growth and development could result in an increase in the world’s food and feed supply. This project employed classical molecular approaches together with a new ge…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The Collatz function is defined as follows: start with a positive integer x. If x is odd, multiply it by three and add one, and if x is even, divide it by two. A recursion of this function c…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Synthetic biology seeks to imbue living cells with complex genetic circuits that execute localized logical computations. These genetic circuits are usually composed of multiple genes express…