1125 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
1125 projects · showing 931–960
ISEF · 2016
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease and highly difficult to repair. It is the degeneration of articular cartilage and the underlying bone over time, most commonly affecting j…
ISEF · 2016
This project was aimed to determine the relationship between e-cigarette vapor and Drosophila melanogaster’s genome and resulting phenotypic expression and behavior. The creation of the e-ci…
ISEF · 2016
Globally we burn through 11 billion tons of fossil fuels a year, but crude oil reserves are depleting at a rate of 4 billion tons a year. Over the last 150 years, burning fossil fuels has re…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
One major issue facing the Florida Everglades is that of water quality. Poor water quality, including heightened concentrations of potassium chloride (KCl) in freshwater from fertilizers and…
ISEF · 2016
Vibrio is a large and diverse genus of marine bacteria, some of which are known to cause illness in humans. In particular, Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, common to brackish F…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
3D printing is the emerging technology for making complex objects directly without assembling parts. Ink-jet printers at home allows one to print delicate 2D structures on paper and the visi…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in rivers can have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. My project investigates the possibility of using an invasive aquatic plant called the water hyac…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to create a device that measures the temperature of diabetic patients’ feet so that it can alert and record when the temperature difference of each foot is…
ISEF · 2016
Martian dust has an electrostatic charge which causes it to easily attract to moving objects, has the ability to invade machinery, and is hazardous to humans. With space exploration heading…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Researchers have investigated the Cross Race Effect – own race bias- before; however, not to the specificity of eyewitness testimony as this experiment does. Based on our research, we believ…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The limitation of the speed of a computer is the access speed of its Random Access Memory (RAM). The growing disparity between CPU speed and RAM access times in computation is known as the m…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of the experiment was to synthesize an alum from recycled aluminum materials and investigate its use in purifying phosphate-enriched Chlorella cultures. A protocol was followed t…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Over 70 million people worldwide and 5 million in the U.S. have epilepsy and millions of people fall each year with hundreds of thousands hospitalized. Despite the high number of fatal falls…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Renal Cell Carcinoma is a deadly form of cancer that is asymptomatic almost always until it is metastatic and terminal for the patient, explaining why the 5 year survival rate is less than 8…
ISEF · 2016
Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) is a non-pathogenic virus that has become a popular vector in gene therapy. To date, hundreds of AAV variants have been researched, however their passage into th…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Amaranthus palmeri is a highly invasive noxious weed that causes significant problems in agriculture because of its resistance to glycine (Round-up). This glycine resistant strain of A.palme…
ISEF · 2016
Mosquitoes on Florida’s east coast, including Aedes taeniorhynchus and Aedes sollicitans, are nuisance pests and competent disease vectors. Within the previous century, efforts have been mad…
ISEF · 2016
E.coli costs the U.S. economy $405 dollars and 100,000 illnesses. As technology advances, there is an increasing exposure to low frequency magnetic fields. So what is the antibiotic effect o…
ISEF · 2015
In this study, I examine whether I can modify Beer Lambert’s Law to determine the average path-length of a photon that has not interacted with ordinary matter. We know that the absorption of…
ISEF · 2015
3-D printing allows for the creation of items in computer design programs and proceed to print them immediately. A new concept of 4-D printing has emerged that allows people to create object…
ISEF · 2015
Which harvest/extraction method will be most efficient for extracting lipids from Chlorella vulgaris grown heterotrophically? Will Chlorella vulgaris biodegrade atrazine that is used as a nu…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Macular degeneration (AMD) causes central vision loss. With no known cure, AMD patients are forced to use their peripheral vision. Peripheral reading is slow and frustrating. Last year’s res…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The only extant member of it’s genus, the broadnose sevengill shark, Notorynchus cepedianus, is morphologically distinguishable from other elasmobranchs, possessing seven gills, one dorsal f…
ISEF · 2015
During a presentation for a science competition, a group called the Not Impossible Foundation presented their work in the war torn areas of Africa. They went to this area to fit a child with…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A limitation held within modern prostheses lies in their prohibiting, high cost and inefficient systems of user control, which results in their inability to be optimized for utilitarian purp…
ISEF · 2015
The citrus industry is in danger of being completely wiped out by a disease called HLB (Huong Long Bing) or citrus greening disease, which is which is a bacterial infection spread by the inf…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Yearly, more than 15,000 people die from aneurysms, making it the 13th leading cause of death in the United States. Today, many risk factors have been identified however no single cause has…
ISEF · 2015
In an attempt to control the growing pollution of nature’s precious water resources, an experiment was conducted to study the effectiveness of algal species in addressing the problem. Certai…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this research was to determine if prior browning (cooking) of pork and beef meat cuts increased palatability as compared to browning post sous vide cooking methods. Trained pa…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bacterial infection of the human blood is a very common cause of illness and death. Rapid and accurate identification of the infectious agents is critical for proper antibiotic selection. Th…