952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 601–630
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Noctiluca scintillans, a dinoflagellate species, has a unique capability as a mixotroph to both photosynthesize and feed on organic nutrients. This behavior has allowed it to persist in the…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my research was to build an accurate solo musical instrument classifier that assigns a probability distribution of instrument class labels to a given audio signal. Last year,…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Small scale farms are responsible for producing 70% of food worldwide. Of this food produced a large amount is stored in structures called silos. Silos are agricultural containment vessels o…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Military and rescue teams work in dangerous environments during disasters. My goal is to develop an intelligent search and rescue system based on multi-spectral sensing to operate in dangero…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mood and anxiety disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), affect one out of every six people in their lifetime and over 350 million people per year. Postmortem human brain studies…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to expand the usefulness of construction 3D printing through exploring and testing alternative materials. By expanding upon construction 3D printing, this projec…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Periodontitis, also referred to as periodontal disease, affects 42.7% (64 million) of the population in the United States. Periodontitis is a gingival infection resulting in damage to the so…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Second Award
The rapid proliferation and adoption of speech recognition systems in our day-to-day lives result in greater consequences for possible vulnerabilities. Previous research has proven that host…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Lipid nanoparticles are gaining increasing attention due to their intracellular drug delivering capabilities, especially with their ability to deliver gene-editing materials such as componen…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Obtaining accurate, real-time position information is essential to realizing autonomous vehicle technology in everyday life. GPS currently does not meet the accuracy needs of autonomous vehi…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Tumor metastasis by migration through basement membranes, in a process known as cell invasion, contributes to the lethality of cancers. Cell invasion, a conserved behavior found in many deve…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Dyslexia is the world’s most common neurological learning disability - it affects 1 in every 10 people worldwide. And though it has been proven that an early diagnosis can significantly redu…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Current chemotherapy fails in approximately 50% of patients; consequently, understanding DLBCL pathog…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Every year, many birds across the world undergo incredible migrations, by means that scientists still do not completely understand. A better understanding of how birds migrate would lead to…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Mastitis (inflammation of the mammary gland) is an economically important health issue in dairy herds. Previous studies found correlations between high somatic cell count (indication of infl…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The objective of my project was to test the differences in types of bottled and tap water and develop conclusions on what type of water is best. My hypothesis was that there is not distinct…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Cancer remains a pervasive and ominous threat as the second leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in four fatalities. The survival and proliferation of tumors in ca…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Autism spectrum disorder is a heritable, developmental disorder affecting 1 in 68 children in the United States. Development of a more definitive diagnostic method is especially critical for…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
There is an acute shortage of accessible freshwater. Desalination can create freshwater from seawater, but current techniques are expensive and require energy and maintenance. This research,…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Current methods of retrieving DNA from killer whales in the wild include the use of biopsy darts, which are invasive and potentially deleterious to the animal. Developing technology could al…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Curcumin has gained prominence for its pharmacological and medicinal applications, including antioxidant and anticarcinogenic properties. However, its low oral-bioavailability and stability…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Tissue engineering (TE) aims to repair and regenerate damaged tissue by optimal combination of the patient’s own cells with an appropriate biomaterial. In this work, a novel biomaterial for…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Lead pollution caused by industrial runoff can have a severe impact on the environment as well as on human health. This study evaluated the use of algal biomass as an ecologically friendly a…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Amphibian populations are currently experiencing a global decline, with 43% of all species listed as a threatened species.. Increased habitat fragmentation has been shown to increase the dev…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The stethoscope has been one of the most important tools in medical practice for centuries but has a limit on how small of a sound it can detect. An atomic force microscope (AFM) can be used…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Topotecan (TPT) is a chemotherapeutic drug frequently used to treat lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the US. However, the development of drug resistance in…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Moon is cratered with thousands of well-preserved impact basins. Shared geologic history with Earth makes lunar basins a good proxy for the processes affecting early Earth. Porosity, the…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Though cell cycle regulation plays a key role in numerous developmental processes, including morphogenesis and differentiation, the regulatory systems that control the cell cycle remain poor…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
New discoveries are constantly being made about the origin, components, and future of our universe. To discover traces of undetected stellar and sub-stellar companions around more than 1,100…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) are a group of macromolecules that regulate lipid activity in cells and function as lipid transporters. Notably, the inhibition of certain FABPs, namely F…