258 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
258 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The space industry plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, In order to make this a reality, they will require housing to protect them from the atmospheric conditions of the planet. Due to the a…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Many algorithms currently exist to identify duplicate files, using techniques such as hashing, fuzzy matching, size comparison, and character by character comparison. The purpose of this pro…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Despite major advances in detection methods, bioseparation limits molecular discoveries. Countercurrent chromatography (CCC) is a liquid-liquid partition chromatography that uses the Archime…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria parasite is transmitted between people by the female Anopheles mosquito, which feeds on an infected human’s blood, taking up the sexual gametocyte stag…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Approximately 60% of concussions in men’s lacrosse are due to high-speed shots to the head from lacrosse balls. These shots may cause traumatic impact to the brain. This project studies the…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Since 1998, on average, every ten days a child dies from hyperthermia after parents leave them behind in a car. The goal of this project is to create an infant car carrier that alerts both t…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Molecular chirality refers to the asymmetrical qualities in which a molecule is non-superimposable on its mirror image. In liquid crystals, chirality causes the director, or imaginary common…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
The objective of this experiment was to study and compare oregano oil as a method of treating Ostertagia ostertagi, a type of roundworm parasite. The hypothesis was that the essential oil or…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
What are the effects of pineapple juice on blood clots? When I first started this project I had an idea to test the effects of certain blood thinners on blood clots. I was going to soak the…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The creation of corn-based ethanol fuels is an expensive process, which in some cases produces twice the emissions of a petroleum alternative -such as gasoline- over the entire life cycle of…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Glioblastoma is the primary cause of cancer related fatalities in pediatric and adult populations. The current standards for treatment have been unsuccessful in preventing tumor relapse due…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Surface plasmons are vibrations from free electrons residing on the surfaces of metals such as gold. Since the frequency (or the wavelength) of these vibrations is very sensitive to surface…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The purpose of this study is to determine if, how, and how much women’s representation has changed in health care as shown through American television (1965-Present) to help understand how p…
ISEF · 2016
In thrombo-occlusive vascular pathologies like myocardial infarction and stroke, rapid thrombolysis is necessary for restoring blood flow. To accomplish this, site-targeted delivery and acti…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The ability to predict protein structure is a major challenge in computational biology, with wide-ranging applications from understanding disease mechanisms to designing targeted therapies f…
ISEF · 2016
The human genome comprises millions of nucleotides of DNA packed into chromosomes. Regions of DNA > 1Kbps in size sometimes contain structural variations in the form of insertions/deletions,…
ISEF · 2016
This project develops a new machine learning algorithm based on computational geometry. The algorithm is able to sort and classify multi-valued inputs, and return a determination of whether…
ISEF · 2016
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is a commensal, gram-negative bacterium that colonizes the human nasopharynx. Additionally, NTHI has the capacity to become pathogenic and is a know…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized pathologically by amyloid-beta plaques. Variants in the Trem2 gene confer increased risk for developing AD. Myeloid cel…
ISEF · 2016
This project investigates potential of transitive RNAi in human genetic modification, a phenomenon currently discovered only in viruses, bacteria, and plants. Transitivity allows gene-speci…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Organic farming is a method of agriculture that has increased in popularity over the years. Despite its many environmental benefits, organic farmers are heavily dependent on tillage, which d…
ISEF · 2016
This experiment examined the level of Vitamin C in evergreen trees exposed to petroleum fumes. The scientific literature state petroleum fumes and by-products have been associated with oxida…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer (BC) remains to be a prevalent malignancy, as an estimated 231,840 women were diagnosed in the US in 2015. Furthermore, cancer cells now display chemoresistance towards primary…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), the most common type of acute leukemia among adults, consists of premature leukocytes that do not fully differentiate from stem cells or immature hematopoie…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
A primary neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the overabundant extracellular aggregation of the amyloid-beta (aß) peptide 1-42 as amyloid plaques. Prior research sugges…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The main purpose of this project is to further improve the models available for calculating the energy output of tidal barrages. This project will build on the previous year's project, which…
ISEF · 2016
Password security has become an increasingly high priority nowadays as more and more information is becoming stored online. This project seeks to develop a password algorithm that can quickl…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The solar to electrical conversion efficiency of photovoltaic panels suffers when they operate at elevated temperatures. It was hypothesized that a passive phase change material (PCM) based…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this research was to clone both the lacc2 gene and the cbhI gene from Pleurotus ostreatus into the common yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The Lacc2 coding sequence is 1.57 kbp l…