952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 541–570
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Urban areas will experience benefits ranging from increased local food supply to remediation of heat island effects once urban green roof drainage water is used to irrigate urban agriculture…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a rapid, non-invasive tumor ablation procedure that heats tissues to 50-90 degree (C) in seconds. In this context, real-time control of the ultras…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Liquid three-dimensional printing using non-traditional materials has a vast range of applications. However, current technology has failed to create a low-cost and efficient system. Research…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
The recent surge in children's apps reflects the proliferation of new avenues for education and entertainment globally. However, more than half of all children's apps on the Android platform…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Lung cancer is an incredibly dangerous and deadly form of cancer without a consistent and inexpensive cure. Most lung cancer detection methods are expensive, complex, and detect the cancer a…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Robotic tactile sensing systems have been of interest in electrical engineering due to their application to prosthetics, manufacturing, and medicine in imitating human touch. However, there…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Acute cardiac arrhythmias are the No. 1 killer in industrialized countries; the mechanisms behind the onset and electrical dynamics are poorly understood, and mathematical modeling is limite…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
With the advent of atomic resolution imaging techniques comes the challenge of disentangling the intrinsic electronic properties of materials from their stochastic atomic-scale disorder. In…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Therapeutic targets for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) pathology are non-specific, and the cellular mechanisms that drive tissue proliferation in AS are poorly understood. This study investigat…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The enzyme Fidgetin-like 2 (FL2) suppresses cell migration by severing intracellular filaments called microtubules (MTs). Mouse studies showed that depleting FL2 using small interfering RNA…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Wind energy has reduced our environmental impact, but it has also destabilized the power grid, which is an obstacle to green energy integration. If we can predict short-term (2-5 minutes) wi…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Angiogenesis is requisite for the growth and metastatic spread of solid tumors. Identifying pathological angiogenesis regulators will provide therapeutic targets against solid tumor growth.…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Severe weather events such as tornadoes and high-wind thunderstorms pose a significant threat to human life and well-being. According to the NOAA, severe storms have caused over $200 billion…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Concussions are a brain injury caused by an outside blow to the head or rapid movement of the brain inside of the skull. Over 3.8 million high school athletes are affected by these injuries…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Measurement of gain in light-emitting quantum wells using etched facet semiconductors is time-consuming and may damage the quantum well material. Photoluminescence measurements of cleaved fa…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease that currently has no cure. Most neurodegeneration occurs in the striatum, which is comprised of 95% mediu…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to see whether it is possible to extract water from the juice of watermelon. The first part of this experiment consisted of obtaining juice from a watermelo…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Explicating the larger rules that dictate biological evolution requires the study of a subject that exemplifies not only the immense variety that occurs from the diversification of species,…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major health concern in western countries as the most common contributor to chronic liver disease. Left untreated, NAFLD can develop into chroni…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
Photosynthesis is vital to the survival of life on Earth, providing organisms with the ability to harness energy from sunlight and evolve oxygen. Although of the utmost importance, photosynt…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Over 70% of breast cancer patients’ cells express the estrogen receptor (ER), which promotes the proliferation of cancer cells, by activating the expression of tumor-promoting genes. In the…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Zea mays is a staple crop worldwide known for extensive genetic diversity, making it a worthy plant model to study. Alternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism i…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The demand for sustainable housing is a universal problem. Nearly 1.6 billion people worldwide lack some form of adequate housing. 3D cement printing (3DCP) is a promising source of affordab…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
In the United States we are currently facing a serious opioid drug abuse epidemic. According to research, 5,455 people (ages 15-24) died of drugs in 2017. Although these opioids are strictly…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn) is an opportunistic oral commensal bacterium that has been implicated in various GI disorders ranging from inflammatory bowel disease and appendicitis, to colore…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a life-threatening condition caused by infection of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Compromising the immune system, HIV reduces the body'…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Schizophrenia is a debilitating neurological disorder characterized by hallucinations, paranoia, and delusions. Identifying how schizophrenia specifically causes changes in the structure and…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Craniosynostosis, a congenital disease that affects 1 in 2000-2500 people, shares genetic mutations implicated in cancer progression, yet has not been studied as a potential predictive marke…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Diabetes is a metabolic disease impacting more than 400 million adults worldwide. Most of the major complications associated with diabetes are caused by hyperglycemia. Under hyperglycemic co…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Cooperative games are systems in which entities, players, can join to form subsets, known as coalitions. While players contribute varying amounts, known as marginal impacts, to different coa…