952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 661–690
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic misuse has caused bacteria to evolve resistance, raising the potential for widespread, devastating health crises. Novel therapeutic alternatives to antibiotics seek to target viru…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
First, the number of pairs of consecutive quadratic residues modulo an odd prime p are counted, using sums of the Legendre symbol. We then extend this to triples of consecutive quadratic res…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment aims to discover how the omnipresence of media in today’s society influences a person’s perception during social situations. Given that the processes of emotion and social pe…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Facial expressions, particularly smiles, have implications for debilitating psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, which make them a critical area for study. As…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a quickly progressing cancer of the hematopoietic system that is caused by the malignant transformation of T-cell progenitors. Researchers have…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Macroautophagy is an essential process in eukaryotic cells, involving the degradation and recycling of cytosolic components during stress conditions such as nutrient deprivation. Obtaining a…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) precursors have properties that are beneficial in creating mixed-metal electronic thin-film materials such as ferroelectric SrBi2Ta2O9 and sup…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, approximately 39% of Americans live in coastal areas. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Maria, attention has been drawn to…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
As a result of the many challenges blind people face in regards to touchscreen technology, proper assistive technology is essential for making touchscreens accessible to them. Screen readers…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Lupine flour is a novel food ingredient derived from the endosperm of lupine beans and is increasing in popularity, primarily in Europe and Australia. Peanut allergy is the leading cause of…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Surface-free digitization of hand-drawn shapes, words, and images can be accomplished through the addition of inertial sensors to a pen-like device. In order to create such a device, a MPU60…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
The chromatic number of the n-dimensional Euclidean space is the minimum number of colors with which the entire space can be colored so that every two points one unit apart have different co…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ice cores extracted from ice sheets contain valuable information about the past atmospheric makeup inside air bubbles within the ice, which are measured by releasing the contents of trapped…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is very important for environmental health since it adds to genetic variability, preventing soil erosion, and discovering new resources. Endemic plants add to the biodiversity o…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Conducting polymers (CPs) combine the electronic properties of semiconductors with the biocompatibility and mechanical properties of polymers. However, the capabilities of CPs are limited by…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are one of the three blood cells of the human body that play a major role in the physiological process of hemostasis. Platelets, unlike erythrocytes, h…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The multiparameter CMOS optical sensor developed in this research utilizes visual parameters to determine the existence of microbial forms in water samples. Though current PCR and bacterial…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Present-day blood glucose monitoring test kits are antiquated, requiring a finger prick to draw blood. This study’s purpose was to develop a paper-based microbial fuel cell (pMFC) for glucos…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Approximately nine out of ten patients will have some level of paralysis due to a stroke and need physical therapy to rehabilitate the paralyzed region of the body. Physical therapy often ca…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The fast adaptation of auditory hair cells is a well preserved process in mammals that rapidly adjusts the sensitivity of the auditory receptors to stimulus. Although diversely implicated in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Hurricanes pose a threat to property and human life. Hurricane Sandy (2012) was unusual in that it recurved to the west as it traveled north, rather than recurving to the east, resulting in…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
It is estimated that 1 in 6 children in the United States are affected by a developmental disability. These afflictions include Autism, Intellectual disability, and developmental delay, all…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Alzheimer’s Paired Helical Filament (PHF) Tau is a hydrophilic, cationic, highly surface-active intrinsically disordered protein that localizes to the distal portion of axons in neurons, whe…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Lambda phages have made important contributions to current understanding of phage gene expression, viral DNA assembly, and lysogeny. The N protein of lambda phage is an anti-termination prot…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNA) are small non-coding RNA molecules, approximately 19-25 nucleotides in length, which function in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by base-pairing with tar…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Glove boxes filled with inert gases are used to reduce the release of tritium into the atmosphere. A zirconium/iron (Zr-Fe) alloy is used to remove tritium chronically released into the glov…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
RNAi-based modalities offer sequence-specific knockdown of tumor survival and growth, presenting a novel alternative to ineffective conventional treatments. This study investigated a pH sens…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alternative splicing is an inherent gene regulatory mechanism, allowing for a single gene to code for a multitude of proteins. Intron retention (IR) is a class of alternative splicing variat…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Current understanding of schizophrenia concerns mainly molecular, single cell, or gross-system levels of brain function; however, the disruption of patterned dynamics in neuronal clusters ye…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Dyslexia is a neurological condition that affects approximately 15% of the world's population and is defined as a difficulty in learning to read. English is more difficult to read for people…