156 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
156 projects · showing 121–150
ISEF · 2016
Hybridization between C. levisecta and C. hispida may pose a threat to endangered C. levisecta. This study seeks to determine whether flower color can accurately predict genetic history and…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a fatal neurological disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Spermidine, a soybean extract and a polyamine compound found in ribosomes and many natural…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose is to observe the effects of BPS on the behavior patterns of Drosophila melanogaster with FMR1 gene insertions to determine if exposure to the chemical intensifies Fragile X Synd…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experimentation is to determine 1) if the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, can biodegrade polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) toxins when administered in a highly concent…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine whether controlled amounts of Escherichia coli, K-12 could be killed by a makeshift water filtration system and UV irradiation. Twenty four nutr…
ISEF · 2015
Understanding and quantifying stream flows are crucial for preserving scarce water resources. The purpose of this study was to determine if the presence of adjacent swamp areas affects water…
ISEF · 2015
A method for the modeling and visualization of complex systems of objects was developed. The method developed implements a custom document object model to represent arbitrary data structures…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to engineer E.coli to design an optimum biosensor for the detection of lead, cadmium, and zinc in heavy-metal contaminated water. This experiment works towards…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Disorders of iron metabolism are closely related to human disease. As per the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion worldwide (greater than 30% of the world’s population) suffer fro…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose - To investigate how the ratio for methanol and potassium hydroxide affects the amount of biodiesel, amount of glycerin, and quality of biodiesel when converted from vegetable oil. P…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Aptamers are short single stranded pieces of DNA with the remarkable ability to bind to cell surface proteins via shape specific recognition. The proper orientation for this shape specific r…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: Cancer has become a common disease in today’s society and although chemotherapy is a prevailing treatment, chemotherapy relies on the use of cytotoxic anti-neoplastic drugs which of…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to see which amount of resistance will have the greatest affect on the efficiency of the electrochemical cell. Procedure: Six wires were cut to size w…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of our design project is for the AI to learn from past successes and failures and to adapt them to future games, utilising past pattern recognition. We began this project by re…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leader in cancer related deaths. Actively researching genes that are not well understood such as miR-143 helps to…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to determine how contaminants such as soot, affect Lung surfactant. This experiment was conducted using model lipid lung surfactants; 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-gl…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Technology plays a key role in today’s society, but with all the buzz about its benefits, the effects it has on our memory and mental well-being are often overlooked. Heavy technology use ha…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Purpose: The purpose was to find more reliable and wide-ranging methods of cleaning freshwater, using hardy and efficient mixed cultures of proven bio-remediatory bacteria to degrade severe…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: As the demand for fossil fuels grows, finding alternative energy sources for biofuel production that are sustainable, renewable, and efficient is becoming increasingly more importan…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
With techniques allowing the simultaneous acquisition of electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, active brain regions during different stages of the…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A method of identifying and utilizing relationships within data was created. This system was implemented using a collection of agents that have individualized goals and are capable of self-d…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to determine if chlorophyll (avocado, lemon, white pine, and yew) solar cells can produce lower resistance. Specifically, the resistance (ohms) produ…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In this project, the relationship between vitamin D receptor (VDR) and Claudin 5 with regards to colorectal cancer is investigated. I will compare the expression levels of the Claudin 5 prot…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and zinc are toxic industrial byproducts that often leach into local water supplies. Current methods of heavy metal detection vary in sensitivity…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This design investigation in its present form was to engineer a quantum gomoku game in C# that could successfully simulate the concepts of quantum mechanics with an Artificial Intelligence p…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Purpose: The principle of this study is to identify possible mechanism of apoptotic actions of colloidal silver and bromelain on pheochromocytoma cells (PC12). If colloidal silver and bromel…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether the use of a micro-pin-fin heat sink to cool Concentrator Photovoltaics produces a significantly more uniform temperature distribution than…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Muscular dystrophies are heritable, heterogeneous, neuromuscular disorders characterized by deterioration and severe atrophy of skeletal muscle. This disease is caused by mutations in protei…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the first part of this research is to determine the fastest algorithm to sort a random list of numbers into sequential order. I predicted that bubble sort would be the fastest…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Phthalates are used as plasticizers in many consumer products found throughout the household. Little research has been conducted on the effects of these phthalates as potential endocrine dis…