216 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
216 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using photoelectron imaging, O–, O2–, O(CO2)–, O(CO2)2–, 63Cu–, and 65Cu– were probed to gain information about their internal electronic structures. This information may become useful in an…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Optical imaging plays an integral role in pre-operative tumor detection. In molecular imaging with fluorescent contrast agents, non-flat surfaces scatter excitation light across the region o…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The principle of the flow cytometry method relies on the fact that X-bearing (female) sperm contains 3.8 percent more DNA than Y-bearing (male) sperm. Flow cytometry was the only method acce…
ISEF · 2015
The Internet is a centralized communication network. In rural areas, it can be expensive or slow. Another concern is attackers can see when data on the Internet are being transferred. Using…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Transcriptional promoters play an important role in bacterial gene regulation. Many promoters have a conserved DNA sequences called the -35 element and the -10 element. This study was to int…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes breathing and digestion problems in those who inherit it. The most common type of CF is caused by the deletion of a phe…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Benzene is a volatile organic compound and a recognized carcinogen linked to leukemia. The Environmental Protection Agency released a statement that claimed exposure to benzene levels above…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, is commonly used in research due to their similarities to humans, ability to rapidly reproduce, and the simplicity of their genetic code. Phospha…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
n 2001, thiamethoxam, a second-generation neonicotinoid, was brought onto the insecticide market. Very few studies have been conducted on thiamethoxam for the purpose of integrated pest mana…
ISEF · 2015
Amaranthus palmeri is a type of weed known for being a threat to the genetically modified crops cotton and soybeans because of its resistance to the chemical herbicide, glyphosate. Glyphosat…
ISEF · 2015
Economic production of algal biofuel requires maximum lipid productivity. Optimizing production is more complex than choosing the best algal strain, since Algal oil content varies with envir…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
The purpose was to study the effect of formulation of moxidectin when administered orally on barber pole worm levels in goats. Barber pole worms are a major threat to a goat’s health. These…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Gentoo penguins, Pygoscelis papua, depend on specific vocalizations for courtship and chick-rearing; therefore, examining the correlation between gentoo vocalizations and geographical locati…
ISEF · 2015
Cancer is a medical phenomenon that takes the lives of more than 1,600 people per day, in the United States alone (American Cancer Society, 2014). More than 14 million new cancer cases are d…
ISEF · 2015
Conventional water analysis typically makes it difficult to efficiently determine a broad range of water contaminants. To improve health worldwide, an economical method for determining water…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide epidemic that continues to spread out of control. With the emergence of superbugs such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Carbapenem-r…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, isolated from the roots of sugarcanes, is a bacterium that carries the nitrogen fixing capabilities for sugarcanes, and has shown some promise…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The problem to be solved is current parallel parking assist systems are too expensive and not accessible for all cars to use. The purpose of the experiment is to create a low cost and, event…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The method proposed here solves for the pose of an object and is most applicable in robotics. The calculation of camera pose estimation has been solved in many ways. The general solution inv…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
In spite of chemotherapeutic and surgical advances, pancreatic cancer continues to have a dismal prognosis. Metastasis due to tumor cell migration remains the most critical challenge in trea…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
The association between media distractions and learning is a popular topic in modern behavioral psychology. Understanding these complex relationships is critical as educators navigate how to…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Regenerative medicine is seen as the future for cardiovascular health. Adult human cardiomyocytes have very little proliferative capacity. However, neonatal mice have shown very high levels…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project was inspired by recent studies expressing a substantial need to increase food supplies. To accommodate the expected human population growth, developing more efficient protein so…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Septic systems and other small-scale waste-water processing systems do little to remove NH4+, NO3- and inorganic phosphorus from waste-water. Emission of the effluent from these systems can…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
During the past two decades, unique photoelectric properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) have attracted a lot of interest in the research of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). One limitation…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In eukaryotes, the export of mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm via the nuclear pore complex is an essential step in the gene expression pathway. Although the role of nucleoporins in nuc…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Due to diminishing natural resources, the threat of global warming, and rising fuel costs, modern society requires inexpensive, renewable forms of energy. The present study constructed a res…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which antibiotic was the most effective at killing and inhibiting both gram positive and gram negative bacteria. This is an interesting questi…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
My goal in this project was to determine the effect on caffeine and the development and nervous system of drosophila melanogaster. To do this, I cultured flies with food that contained 0, 0.…