1125 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
1125 projects · showing 691–720
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and women. In addition, many patients with progressive lung cancer develop latent radiation-induced respiratory damage. The p…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Petroleum-based chemistry is responsible for the raw materials needed to produce everyday items, ranging from personal care and pharmaceutical items to industrial solvents. A more environmen…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Canine Gaucher’s disease is an inherited Lysosomal Storage Disorder characterized by a near complete deficiency in the catabolic activity of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. As a result, the m…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Honey bees are extremely important, performing about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. Their population has been rapidly declining at an alarming rate. Multiple studies have shown lac…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Sound technologies are developing at an exponential rate. Headphones have become integrated into everyday use which leads to the problem of listener separation from ambient auditory environm…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics First Award
This paper presents the solution to the open problem of the fine classification of second minimal odd periodic orbits of continuous endomorphisms on the real line. It is rigorously proven th…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Organ transplantation and efficient ways to allocate organs to recipients with the greatest need has been highly debated. Optimizing the system of organ allocation could mean shorter wait-ti…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
There are a wide variety of Beta-globin related disorders including sickle cell disease and Beta-thalassemia. There are five main genes in the Beta-globin locus: epsilon, gamma two, gamma on…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Due to much controversy in the past, there is currently much uncertainty as to whether or not current herbicides are safe. The purpose of this project is to study the effects of herbicides a…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Cryptographic hash code algorithms are vital to the security of information and data -- hash codes are like unique fingerprints for one's data (can be files, passwords, etc.). The validity o…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is crucial indicator of inflammatory diseases due to its extensive role in the inflammation process. However, despite its importance as a diagnostic indicator, there…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Soil depletion and loss of water due to evaporation, is greatly affecting agriculture efficiency across the globe. This project aims to solve this global crisis by doing a comparative study…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Water contamination due to cracks in wells, allow both bacteria and viruses to get in. After Hurricane Irma, this became a dilemma for many. The purpose of this project is to (using natural…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
This study investigates the content of dark matter in 150 spiral and 60 dwarf galaxies located at different cosmological distances from us. The goal was to test if nearby galaxies have more…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to see if superworms would consume more polystyrene than mealworms over a time span of 168 hours. Comparing the lifestyles of superworms and mealworms,it is l…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Huntington’s disease(HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder which affects around 1 in every 10,000 people. This autosomal dominant genetic disorder is caused by an expansion of the polygl…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Efficient carbon dioxide (CO2) separation from mixed gas streams is necessary in industrial flue gas remediation, fuel gas refining, and chemical production such as sulfur, ammonia, and hydr…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The current limitations of our efforts toward exoplanet discovery can be attributed largely to the immense cost of the observational tools needed to look for signs of exoplanetary transits o…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The inspiration for this 3-year study comes from a desire to find a better way to prevent barnacle growth on marine vessels and to determine if the type of hull material used in the manufact…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The aim of this investigation is to determine the inhibitory effects of sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate on Aspergillus flavus and its hepatocarcinogenic metabolite Aflatoxin B1…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Endoplasmic reticulum calcium dysregulation caused by mutations in the presenilin has been implicated in neuronal death and in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) pathology. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
In 2015 alone the United States released 6,587 Million metric tons of CO2 gas into the atmosphere(EPA) accounting for 14.3% of global CO2 emissions and giving the nation one of the highest e…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black Rubber, commonly found in tires and crumb rubber, is known to have carcinogenic materials and compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Crumb rubber is recyc…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and accounts for 1 in 4 cancer deaths. Sulindac is an FDA approved anti-inflammatory drug. Metformin is an anti-diabetes drug which is also FDA a…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
This project demonstrated the problem of deconstructing graphical models is polynomial time solvable, with an O(mn^r+3 + nr) algorithm. The execution was split into two parts: one involving…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Arsenic is a carcinogenic contaminant that pollutes the groundwater, a consequence of poor arsenic disposal. Various techniques are used to remove arsenic, such as oxidation, coagulation-flo…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of my project was to determine if I can detect the epicenter of an earthquake using lissajous patterns created by a two dimensional pendulum. By doing so, scientists would be able t…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Harmful Algae Blooms (HAB) have caused over 1 billion dollars in ecological damages coupled with the dangerous environmental problem of perpetuating non-natural mitigation methods that destr…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
More than 2 of every 100 Americans will require a joint replacement, as the population is surviving longer new strains on the human body are discovered. Knee replacements are required when t…