205 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
205 projects · showing 121–150
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Glaciers have exhibited increased melting rates due to rising global temperatures resulting from climate change. To track the effects of climate change on glacial mass balance, the equilibri…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
This project strives to create a cost effective fuel injection conversion for small engines and a water injection system that can be scaled up to a full size car. The experiment first lead t…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
RNA editing acts as a critical component of plant biology because of its ability to generate RNA and protein diversity in eukaryotes, resulting in specific amino acid substitutions, insertio…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is relatively new non-invasive imaging technique that can be used for a variety of medical diagnosis. OCT is cost-effective and requires fewer resources th…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Turbidity is an underestimated issue when analyzing water quality. Turbidity, the amount of sedimentation in water, is calculated in the the units of NTU(Nephelometric Turbidity Units) . Tur…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, the classical computer vision problem of super-resolution has been approached with deep learning technologies, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These new techniqu…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Influenza virus remains a heavy economic burden and poses pandemic threats to public health worldwide, causing 250,000-300,000 deaths annually and 3-5 million cases of severe illness. In the…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Programmed Death Ligand 1, or PD-L1, is a transmembrane protein upregulated in numerous tumors. By binding to the PD-1 receptors on CD8+ T-cells, these tumors can evade T-cells’ cytotoxic ef…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very deadly form of brain cancer. The effects of hybrid compounds of heterocyclic rhodanine and arylidene (boronic acid) were tested on GBM cancer cells. T…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
Burkholderia cenocepacia is a multi-drug resistant bacteria, prevalent in fatal pulmonary infections associated with cystic fibrosis. It uses signaling molecules known as Burkholderia Diffus…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Basil is well known for its various medicinal properties. For the last 5 years, I have been working on the antimicrobial effect of basil against various strains of bacteria such as E.coli, S…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Third Award
The Brachistochrone Problem contemplates the shape of the path between two points, on the same vertical plane, such that a bead can slide down, with no friction and only affected by gravity,…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Background Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women results in 40,000 deaths annually. Different breast cancer subsets are defined based on the expression of specific receptors: estrog…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Improvements in energy storage devices can help facilitate the implementation of renewable energy resources in collecting energy, energy storage, and using the energy efficiently. Most energ…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Light Emitting Diode (LED) displays recently become to replace conventional CRT and LCD displays and have witnessed enormous growth in the field with the costs of LED displays decreasing by…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Medical professionals have struggled to develop delivery systems for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to mitigate inconsistent dosage and inconvenience from traditional forms of drug…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern self-driving can cost upwards of $80,000 and has multiple environmental concerns due to the pollution from lithium batteries and the greenhouse gases released by the production of the…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this research is to create a new non-intrusive allergy test, that is less expensive, more time efficient, and can provide an alternative for not only the general majority of p…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The World Health Organization states that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Fourteen million people die annually from cardiovascular disease and stroke. Antipla…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Third Award
This project investigates a novel synthesis of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and effective applications thereof. SPIONs are a type of nanoparticle, typically ranging fr…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Third Award
In this project I investigated whether variations in current caused by difference in the angle and intensity of a light incident upon solar cells can be utilized to design an “intelligent” s…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
The future of healthcare lies in endeavors such as precision medicine where treatment options and clinical decisions are tailored to patients based on their exact characteristics, and accura…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this research was to determine if a new non-intrusive allergy test can detect dust and dander allergens in IgE sensitized individuals using a capillary tube precipitation test…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Escherichia coli O104:H4 is an enteroaggregative/shiga-toxin (Stx) producing strain and the cause of many fatal diseases. Recent literature identified a direct correlation between expression…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
While cancer starts as a single cell, termed cancer stem cell (CSC), the progeny CSCs are not created equal, but exhibit a spectrum of phenotypes of varying renewal capacities, metastatic po…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Particulate Matter (PM) is a liquid or solid suspended in air that can be directly emitted into the atmosphere. High concentrations of PM smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter (aka PM2.5) are know…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The prevention of concussion and sub concussive injury in helmeted activities are of great military, commercial, legal, and medical interest. A Summation of Tests for the Analysis of concuss…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project includes the utilization of electro pulsing to optimize the production of ceramic filters, specifically Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Polycrystalline Zirconia (3Y-TZP). Due to th…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The goal of this study was to determine the variation in total phosphorus content and the fraction of each inorganic phosphorus species in riverbed sediments obtained from seven locations in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project looked at the effects of amino acid supplementation on cancer growth. I grew cancer cells with varying percentages of amino acids Tryptophan and Methionine and observed cell gro…