767 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
767 projects · showing 721–750
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Second Award
The goal of the project was to develop an RNA interference (RNAi)-based, highly specific, bio-pesticide for the control of the psyllid vector of citrus greening disease. Citrus greening dise…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
In order to overcome the limitations of standard digital cameras, high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is used by fusing a “stack” of multiple pictures with different exposure times. This projec…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The question to be answered is what water quality parameters contribute to the greatest amount of fertile Cephaloscyllium ventriosum eggs being laid. The main objective was to record how man…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Overzealous MDM2-mediated ubiquitination of p53 characterizes and sustains over 50% of all human cancers. Targeted cancer therapy hinges on a thorough understanding of the ubiquitination pro…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this project is to design an energy harvesting piezo electric solution to power an internal retinal prosthesis system using the natural eye movement. The best and most recent…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes’ theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that the conditional p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Cancer recurrence affects a large percentage of patients who have finished initial treatment. Unfortunately, with current detection methods, the chance of tumor regrowth can be high. Therefo…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years fluorine has become increasingly important to the pharmaceutical industry. Coupled with already-potent drugs, fluorine has allowed common therapies to become even more effect…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
One of the most famous mathematical problems is that of constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass. A subset of this field concerns the regular polygons that c…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Due to the several notable similarities in symptoms between bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ), it can be difficult to effectively distinguish and diagnose between these two illnes…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
High refractive index (n) thin film coatings are widely used in the field of optics, which touches many aspects of our lives. One application of thin film coatings is in optical biosensors,…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Visual perception is an essential skill, especially for school-aged children, as it is needed to understand and decipher things, learn reading skills, copy text accurately, develop visual me…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
The effect of concussions on brain wave patterns was studied with a novel prototype device, incorporating a simple electroencephalography (EEG) headset, to assess its potential for concussio…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
My project was to determine the effects of resistance on the trajectories of marbles and the difference between motions ideally and with resistance. I constructed a ramp that could be adjust…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The main objective of my project is to develop the simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensor (electronic tongue) that can simultaneously and accurately detect cadmium (Cd), mer…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Substantial challenges of drug delivery to treat various diseases exist in our modern world. The acidic environment of the stomach, combined with an array of intestinal digestive enzymes, po…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Immunoassays, involving the precipitate reaction between antibodies and antigens, have wide applications for the detection of disease-related molecules in patients or contaminants in food or…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The way the project is now focuses on which puzzle solving approaches different ages use primarily. The project started out with the intention to measure the effectiveness of each approach,…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Researchers and medical professionals are inundated with tremendous amounts of genomic ‘big data’. However, there is a lack of tools that are capable of offering insightful interpretations o…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
End stage liver diseases can only be cured by whole liver transplantation. Because of limited supply of donor livers the supply will never meet the demand. Stem cells have shown to provide a…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The objective of this project was to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where the face is angled away from the camera or partially obscured. Current state-of-the-art face r…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. To help treat more…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Current cancer treatment methods remain flawed, oftentimes lacking tumor specificity and causing undesirable side effects. Consequently, elucidating the mechanisms behind tumorigenesis is an…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Mutations in the human gene, FOXP2, cause severe speech and language disorders in humans. This study examines the functional relationship between the transcription factor FoxP2, its impact o…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical First Award
Nanoscale materials have proven useful as building blocks for systems which utilize constructive interference in the visible spectrum to create brilliant optical effects. In order for these…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Scientists are currently pressed with the problems of conjuring up clean energy, clean drinking water, and waste management in a sustainable way so that we do not drink our planets resources…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Wild beet, including Beta macrocarpa and Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima, is a major production constraint on sugar beet throughout the world and especially to the Imperial Valley, California’s…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
After working in an Indian Hospital, I realized that surgery for eye diseases is costly, unavailable, and inefficient, while the alternative is a drug in the form of eye drops. Current ocula…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…