104 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
104 projects · showing 31–60
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the American legal system. Jury instructions have been identified as an effective judicial safeguard in an effort to prevent…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The aim is to conduct a simple experiment to investigate the effect of semantic questions on working memory recognition, and to test the relevance of recency effect, last five words, given i…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-contaminated water for reasons such as drinking tube well groundwater. In 2019, the author created a novel and inexpensive…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Cortisol is a hormone released in response to acute stress that regulates blood pressure, controls the circadian rhythm, increases blood sugar, and controls many other processes at basal lev…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
As school shootings have almost doubled in the past decade, student safety is essential. While many schools have adopted expensive camera based security systems, this project seeks to provid…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if hydrocodone affected a daphnia's heart rate and/or heart rhythm, and if these effects were amplified with ethanol. The independent variable…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cognitive Bias, often referred to as “subjective reality”, is the unconscious tendency to have a preference for something based on previous experiences or knowledge. Since all people have pa…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As people continue to streamline everyday life with technology, the use of speech recognition has been made available in smartphones, speakers, cars, and more. The process of converting audi…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
The purpose of this project was to analyze and screen culturable bacteria associated with corals of the Florida Keys for antimicrobial properties and determine the phylogenetic characterizat…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Chemical disinfectants are added during the production of drinking water to prevent bacterial growth in the water as it distributed to consumers. Historically, in all 50 states, liquid chlor…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra, negatively affecting motor control and causing symptoms…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Constructed wetlands have been used to remediate contaminated water. In addition to the aesthetic qualities these wetlands provide, they have been used to treat water contaminated with metal…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which comestibles, increased a daphnid’s heart rate the most. The independent variables were chosen to have equal numbers of stimulants and de…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Accreted marine ice is present under Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf (AIS). This study provides a new estimate of accreted marine ice thickness under the outer AIS using ice penetrating radar (…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Globally, over 200 million people are affected by arsenic contaminated water. Moreover, groundwater from tube wells has often been found to be contaminated with arsenic, which if ingested, m…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Bisphenol A, a synthetic organic compound used in the production of polycarbonate plastics, has been determined to be harmful to humans. Due to controversy, most food companies discontinued…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences of RNA (about 22 nucleotides) that are involved in the regulation of gene expression. My previous study has identified the serum miR-134 as a new bioma…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The central focus of this study was to determine the bacterial composition of the oral cavities of Sphyrna tiburo and Negaprion brevirostris populations native to Beaufort County, South Caro…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Denaturing proteins is a process vital to many fields of biology such as pharmaceuticals, biosensing, and synthetic biology. In order to denature proteins, however, the proteins must be expo…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
In this study, the effectiveness of various antibiotics for inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis is tested. This topic of study is significant as staph infections are very dan…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A recent rise in the use of opioids during pregnancy in the United States has resulted in an increase in neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The effects of opioid use during pregnancy on new…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
In this project a prototype was designed by the student researcher to test basic hydration levels. The engineering goal was to design a compact, easy to use device to allow for real time mon…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Food and beverages stored in polycarbonate plastic containers can be unsafe for human consumption because industrial chemicals used in their production can leach into them. Bisphenol A (BPA)…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Sharks are one of the ocean’s most charismatic apex predators. According to statistics provided by Shark Attack Data (www.sharkattackdata.com), there were a total of 116 reported shark attac…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Sepsis affects microcirculation and tissue perfusion leading to tissue hypoxia and multiple organ dysfunction. Red blood cells (RBCs) play the critical role of tissue oxygenation, thus funct…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Traditional ballet pointe shoes are made out of materials including leather, paper, fabric, burlap, and cardboard bound with adhesive. Unfortunately, all of these materials break down over a…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
HER2 is a membrane bound protein receptor for cell proliferation. When present in excess, the cell divides uncontrollable and leads to cancer. This type of cancer is very prone to recurrence…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
The start date for the current project is August of 2017 and the end date is May 2018. The hypothesis for this project is if a Multi-Layer MFC or a MFC with other various amendments can be s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I investigated the use of lyrical music to enhance test performance. In this experiment, 25 people took a four-section test with three minutes to complete each section. I found that lyrical…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease results in learning and memory deficits due to toxic changes in the brain caused by amyloid-ß plaques and oxidative stress (Alzheimer’s, 2011). Oxidative stress is caused…