767 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
767 projects · showing 571–600
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Flexible and ultrasensitive nanoelectronic biosensors have many potential applications in biomedical engineering, including saliva-based in-vivo sensors and real-time sweat sensors on bare s…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
On-Campus crime is a leading issue in US Colleges. US Department of Education captures data related to various types of crimes in US colleges. In my project, I wanted to leverage that datase…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Environmental stress factors are increasingly experienced in agricultural systems worldwide, leading to dramatic losses of yield for many farmers. In rice, these suboptimal growth conditions…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Third Award
The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, current solar conce…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the name for a group of developmental disorders. ASD includes a range of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability. According to the Centers for Disease Co…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a locomotor disease characterized by toxic aggregation of the protein a-syn in neurons. In recent research, mice with a PD-causing mutation failed to exhibit dise…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Oceans make up seventy percent of our world, containing the most diverse ecosystems. The ocean also serves as a gigantic carbon ‘sponge’, absorbing humanities excess carbon dioxide. At the c…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Honeybees apis mellifera are an essential part of global crop production and are responsible for $200 B annually, but honeybee colonies are suffering major losses. Varroa mites (varroa destr…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Third Award
Purpose: Given a prime p and polynomial f, how many pairs (x,y) are there such that y^a-x^b*f(x) is a multiple of p? Equivalently, how many rational points lie on a superelliptic curve? Answ…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern. In this study, sustainable nanofiber coagulants were synthesized to remove heavy metals lead, cadmi…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Gender Bias and stereotyping in human interaction is not uncommon. Sometimes, it could be intentional and sometimes sub-conscious. For example, consider the following description of a man an…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Through the fusion of nucleons to produce elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, stellar nucleosynthesis produces many of the elements in the universe. However, nearly all elements heavi…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Substance (tobacco, alcohol) use and various inflammatory diseases (periodontitis, oral lichen planus, leukoplakia) induce chronic inflammation, which is a mechanism for head and neck squamo…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Given the current demand from the $100 billion hydrogen industry and the potential of hydrogen based fuels for a clean energy future, there is a critical need for more efficient and sustaina…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Third Award
This experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility of utilizing a phased array that is able to focus its signal strength on a specific location. In the 21st century, where robust i…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In the United States, athletes suffer roughly 3.8 million concussions per year. Unfortunately, many current concussion diagnostics are subjective, placing athletes in potentially dangerous s…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the disparity between the abundance of Tamalia spp. galls on non-native Arbutus unedo and native Arctostaphylos spp. It was hypothesized that t…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Hunger, one of the most prominent problems in the world today, is primarily caused by a shortage of fresh water. Significant optimization of water use can be achieved by knowing the time and…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
Glaucoma is the leading irreversible cause of blindness worldwide. And in its early stages, it's shows no symptoms. So most of the affected patients don't know they have it until it causes m…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the most fatal subtype of lung cancer, has a five-year survival rate of 2%. Currently, patients must get expensive computerized tomography and positron emissio…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
This project takes a novel approach to breast cancer metabolomics to reveal biomarkers with the potential to be used in a breast cancer diagnostic test. This test, unlike current methods, wi…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Analyzing mitosis proliferation is crucial to physician grading of tumor severity and prognosis. Despite the time and effort poured into automated mitosis detection, no systems have been abl…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
To detect biomarkers, diagnostic devices must obtain small enough feature sizes to manipulate biomolecules that are just a few nanometers in size. Electrodes separated by a nanometric gap ha…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
The objective of this experiment is to provide mechanical mechanisms by which one can augment plant pollination. This was done by creating mechanical systems that mimic specific bee behavior…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Oral and intravenous methods of drug delivery distribute drugs systemically, resulting in low drug efficacy and side effects. Thus, polymeric nanocarriers that can target drug release in res…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nitrate pollution is a major issue around the world, and has contributed to much environmental damage. This experiment aimed to investigate the effects nitrate pollution has on algae’s motil…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Mixing is an interesting but still not well understood process by the scientific community with significant applications in pharmaceutical, food processing, ceramics, fertilizer, and petroch…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Second Award
Although we know how to prevent numerous diseases, existing literature on determining who is at risk of developing a given medical condition continues to use simple logistic regressions rath…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria has rendered many antibiotics useless; thus, the objective of the project was to develop a novel antimicrobial compound of pyrimidine derivatives…