952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 811–840
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Flexible polyurethane foams have wide and prominent applications across US and global markets. This, along with the dangers and costs of vehicle and household fires, makes the incorporation…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The discovery of lipid-burning beige fat may potentially have the ability to serve as a therapeutic option for obese patients. While the therapeutic implication of beige fat have been seen i…
ISEF · 2016
Cosmic rays (CRs) composed of mostly protons have energies typically in the range of 10e8-10e13 eV and can plausibly be produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) such as super massive black h…
ISEF · 2016
The anti-tumor and anti-viral properties of curcumin, in addition to its pharmacological safety and negligible cost render curcumin an effective agent against cervical cancer, which continue…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Potato late blight, spread by Phytopthora infestans, caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes about $7 billion of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains proble…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Single-atom thick crystals have the potential to be used in smaller, faster electronics, replacing the silicon-based semiconductors found in current computers. In particular, graphene, a sin…
ISEF · 2015
Preventable and treatable diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old in the world, killing approximately 760,000 children each year. Diarrheal di…
ISEF · 2015
Electrical durable medical equipment (DME), such as dialysis machines, patient monitoring devices, and ventilators, are life-sustaining machines that are used extensively by patients at home…
ISEF · 2015
In the realm of materials science, novel graphene fibers exhibit a higher thermal conductivity than many other common metals such as copper or aluminum. Graphene fibers can therefore effecti…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Current methods of navigating and interacting with 3D visualizations utilize intrusive physical devices (e.g. keyboards, mice). The purpose of this project is to design and program a 3D inte…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this project is to create an inexpensive, simple, and effective airplane wing gust suppression system that has the capability to reduce the accelerations associated with unsta…
ISEF · 2015
Genetic mutations, often characterized by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), have been shown to act as the main cause of varying gene expression, leading to the onset of many cancers. In…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The accurate representation of voter preference is a question in current U.S. Congressional elections. Shortest split line algorithms were used to test whether or not gerrymandering was the…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
An estimated 25 million people in the United States suffer from diseases for which there is no effective FDA-approved treatment. This issue exists for a variety of reasons; development of dr…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This hybrid elastomeric robot successfully demonstrated that a synthesized high-level robot controller, Linear Temporal Logic MissiOn Planning (LTLMoP), can reduce the unpredictability of so…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
For years, cancer has been thought of as an evolutionary process, responding to varying selective pressures throughout the body in an effort to survive. Due to the fact that reiterative roun…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A defining feature of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the presence of large deposits of amyloid-beta peptide (AB) in the brain. This accumulation of AB is widely regarded as one of the most prom…
ISEF · 2015
Flame retardants (FRs) are widely used in industrial and household products. Unfortunately, toxic additive flame retardants can be released into the environment and persist in wildlife and h…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Emerging ultra-low power, postage stamp-sized electronics attached to the curvilinear surfaces of the human body promise to revolutionize disease monitoring, prevention,and treatment. This s…
ISEF · 2015
Whether a simple eye-wash or an anti-glaucoma solution, ophthalmic medications have employed benzalkonium chloride (BAK) as a preservative since the 1950’s. Currently, BAK remains the most c…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Polystyrene was first commercially used in 1938 and is better known by the trademarked name ‘Styrofoam.’ Polystyrene is used in a wide range of products ranging from food beverage containers…
ISEF · 2015
Motivated by a question proposed in combinatorial geometry, we attempt to categorize finite point sets that do not have a 5-hole (empty pentagon). We look at a finite set of points, P, and c…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Recent changes in the field of oncology have placed an emphasis on targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) in order to effectively treat cancer. Despite the increased attention, an effective mech…
ISEF · 2015
Photodetectors and other photovoltaic devices have garnered significant interest in recent years for their applications in high-speed data transmission and data processing. Graphene, a singl…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Chromatin remodeling, modification of nuclear chromatin allowing for the regulation of gene expression, is believed to be an integral part of memory encoding. The enzyme PARP-1 and its produ…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The neurotrophin BDNF has been shown to engage in retrograde signaling and interneuronal transport, causing increased synaptic transmission and neurogenesis, respectively. It was hypothesize…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research is to test the effectiveness of mycoremediation on urban soils. Mycoremediation is the process where fungal organisms such as mushrooms are used to degrade delet…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Several studies have documented marked alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are two major subphenotypes of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis (UC)…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Parasitic nematodes infect over one billion individuals globally and cause over $120 billion of crop damage annually. The first objective in this project is to investigate the diversity of s…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this paper is to determine the relative impact of credit union and large bank investment in business on the state level. This is accomplished by studying the relationship betw…