952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 361–390
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Second Award
The non-trivial zeros of L-functions encode important information about primes, which are essential to both number theory and modern cryptography. The zeros near the central point, s = 1/2,…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Garment classification is a typical first step for carrying out cloth manipulation tasks. This is a challenging feat for neural networks due to clothing’s easily deformable state, which caus…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and its precursor Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) are easily accessible, Class C drugs, commonly used in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases. Existing technologies fo…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading mosquito-borne disease in the United States but is not currently preventable through vaccination or treatable by any medications. It has caused over 2,50…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Large biomedical datasets routinely consist of more data points than can be displayed faithfully on a computer monitor. Computer screens are incapable of representing high-volume datasets wi…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Harmful algae blooms (HABs) containing cyanobacteria significantly lower oxygen levels in natural bodies of water, killing organisms in marine or freshwaters. They also produce microcystins,…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Fourth Award
As of April 2022, there have been 500 million cases and 6.18 million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. Current treatments are limited, thus necessitating the development of an effective therap…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an autoimmune disease that develops in humans resulting from inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. This is due to an overabundance of myeloid cells…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Visual tracking is an important skill to have to be successful in any sport. However, in baseball, the eyes play a vital role in the success of players. A fastball thrown by a pitcher will r…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
In the formation of the solar system, frequent collisions on terrestrial bodies left behind populations of impact craters scattered on planetary and satellite surfaces. This study focuses on…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial cancer diagnosed in children, accounting for 6% of all pediatric cancer cases and 15% of childhood cancer deaths. The disproportionate NB m…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
In this study the N-Methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor was perturbed, and the resulting phenotypic effects were studied. It was hypothesized that the role of the NMDAR in neurodevelopmental…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics are a major source of pollution in our oceans and waterways. One source of microplastics is microfibers released from washing synthetic clothing. Wastewater treatment plants ar…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover) is a wild legume species found rarely in Northern European seaside areas and is genetically close to domesticated clover species. Seven micro-populat…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to expose a widespread inaccuracy in the work of academic researchers regarding how music affects human emotion. A centuries-old musical phenomenon known as the “major-mino…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
One may be surprised to learn that the same ingredient, luteolin, is in a huge scope of supplements. Luteolin is the primary ingredient in therapeutic, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, an…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Global adolescent death is not primarily due to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, or other infectious diseases, but from suicide–the 2nd leading cause of death in adolescents. However, no obj…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
The Rubik's Cube is the most popular puzzle in the world. Two of its studied aspects are God's Number, the minimum number of turns necessary to solve any state, and the First Law of Cubology…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
We strengthen a result of Jones by showing that for any integer P 1, the Lucas sequence {Un} defined by U0 = 0, U1 = 1, Un = P · Un1 + Un2 can be translated by a positive integer K(P) such t…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Exosomes secreted by pediatric bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (pBMSC-Exos) demonstrate optimal characteristics for bone tissue engineering. MSC-Exos of alternate origin have expedited bo…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry First Award
Traditional Carbon Capture and Storage uses a combination of technologies to capture, transport, and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources such as coal or natural gas-fired pow…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Despite testing negative for SARS-CoV-2, numerous patients began reporting a broad spectrum of acute post-recovery medical symptoms (Post Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)), which they wer…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Protein-protein interactions guide essential life processes, including DNA repair. Nucleolin has many roles, but few efforts have been made to fully characterize its role in DNA repair. In t…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems First Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are around 1.3 billion visually impaired people, 36 million of which are blind. A predicted 79 million more will be blind in the next…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Linguistic polarization is a change in frequency of policy references in a representative’s lexicon. When incumbent representatives face challengers, they may change their speech patterns to…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Dye effluent from the fast fashion and textile industry contributes to 17-20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dyes, the largest class of textile dyes, possess great threats to the enviro…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
As the Basin and Range province is one of the most biodiverse regions, advancements in reconstruction modeling of geologic-climate changes are necessary to investigate potential associations…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel replication error subset, recurrent repeat contractions (rRCs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex amp…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Existing drugs are being researched for novel repurposed usages to supplant the traditional, inefficient process of new drug discovery. Cephalexin is a cephalosporin antibiotic purported to…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The speed of ribosome movement along an mRNA transcript is a critical determinant of protein synthesis. Ribosome pause sites, or regions along an mRNA transcript where translating ribosomes…