1125 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
1125 projects · showing 871–900
ISEF · 2016
Lacking reliable access to electricity is a major issue that impacts the lives of nearly 1.3 billion people around the globe. Without electricity, many individuals and communities cannot use…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose for this project was to discover whether golf courses or nearby preserves had greater arthropod diversities within their leaf litter. I hypothesized the leaf litter from the pres…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
In this experiment, changes in percent transmission resulting from changes in temperature were studied in reflectin. Reflectin, a protein found in the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, has the ability…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to create a solar power apparatus with improved efficiency by pairing black silicon solar submerged in circulating water with an inflatable solar concentra…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
A Single Electron Transistor (SET) is a device which conducts electrical current through a specified pathway and into a particle in order to study its quantum properties. Initial fabrication…
ISEF · 2016
This research was intended to mitigate the energy poverty crisis through the development of a novel, economically feasible, and easily transportable current energy probe prototype. BEACON co…
ISEF · 2016
Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici are plant pathogens that causes blight/fruit rot in important economically essential plants, such as eggplant, watermelon, and p…
ISEF · 2016
Previous research indicates CMC/FeCl2 treated Brazilian pepper wood fibers are effective at phosphate adsorption in a laboratory setting and for treating natural waters. Nitrate is recognize…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to evaluate whether the FS-T1 and FS-T2 MRI sequences can consistently detect and differentiate Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species in human blo…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
We explore the possibility of detecting exoplanets that orbit black holes with current technological limits. We used Python to create mathematical models of two common detection methods, the…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
97.4 % of the water on Earth is salty, making fresh water resource management the ultimate challenge for humanity. As such, the impact of a low-cost desalination technology would dwarf that…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Tissue engineered heart valves (TEHV) have a strong potential to outperform existing heart valve replacements. As part of an ongoing research to determine the optimal conditions to generate…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Studies have shown that, if started early enough, drugs and therapies can significantly slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. However, there are currently no easy ways to identify the…
ISEF · 2016
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 · 2016
More than 6,500 Americans each year have died waiting for an organ transplant, and of those who receive a transplant only one out of four are biologically correct, however bioengineering org…
ISEF · 2016
Gold nanorods were synthesized via the seed growth method and characterized with Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) to create an algorithm to determine the distribution of their lengths. DLS mea…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The aim of this engineering project was to design and construct a 3D printer that combats the current expensive price of many consumer grade 3D printers. I accomplished this by reducing the…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to see if convolutional neural networks can accurately predict whether a macroscopic image has skin cancer in it or not. Steps taken for the completion of…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Diethyl Phthalate (DEP) is a commonly found endocrine disruptor found in the ocean. DEP comes from plastics that have been floating in the ocean and releasing certain pollutants, including b…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Previous studies at the Roskamp Institute and in other laboratories have demonstrated that the visual system is particularly vulnerable to the effects of repeated mild traumatic brain injury…
ISEF · 2016
I tested microalgae as an inoculant for indoor farming. I prepared three controlled environment growth boxes; for each of the three test groups: Spirulina / Blue-green algae / water; germina…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
It is essential for beef cattle ranchers to identify and utilize only the most effective medications. Trichostrongyle organisms threaten the nutritional efficiency of cattle, and thus are ta…
ISEF · 2016
The Red Lionfish (Pterosis Volitons) has overwhelmed South Florida's coastal waters and needs to be eradicated before consuming unsustainable amounts of the native fish, which are utilized f…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Both biochar and layered double hydroxides (LDH) have received substantial attention for their abilities to adsorb chemical contaminants, yet little research has been reported on LDH/biochar…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Besides anthropogenic influences, the effects of temperature and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycles on Chelonoidea are a secondary effect towards the decline of the population of the…
ISEF · 2016
My experiment was designed to determine if increasing the diameter of the exhaust ports in a Tesla Turbine correlates with the torque of that turbine, in order to optimize Tesla Turbines. I…
ISEF · 2016
Four hundred tons of sulfamethazine are fed to livestock annually in North America to prevent disease and promote growth, but most of the drug is excreted unmetabolized into the environment.…
ISEF · 2016
This research aims to synthesize and validate gold-based nanosensors that will be able to measure the concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and thus differentiate renal cancer cells from…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stress in our society is a problem that affects almost everyone. This investigation sought to discover whether high perceived stress levels and the subsequent decrease in prefrontal function…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Autosomal-dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa (adRP) is caused by diverse gain-of-function mutations in rhodopsin (RHO). The purpose of this study is to aid in the development of a mutation-indepe…