102 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
102 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In the past decade, Cookeville’s population has grown by 11%. This rate of urbanization will prove to be harmful to local infrastructure and watersheds. Thus, I wanted to investigate its imp…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Runaway ramps have been used for years to help save runaway trucks; however, they are not always effective and can be costly. Can a parachute design be constructed to slow large transport ve…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science First Award
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide (WHO), and experts estimate that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as ‘at risk'. There is…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
In recent years major advances have been made in propulsion and space exploration technology enabling the possibility for manned missions to mars. At the same time UAV technology has catapul…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Domestic violence is a serious social problem that affects millions each year. Because victims are often afraid to seek help, prevention and early detection of domestic violence is difficult…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
This project seeks to implement efficient routines for computing fractals based off of escaping sets, covering aspects such as algorithmic complexity and speed, network-based data transfer,…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nearly 60% of anticancer treatments are derived from naturally existing molecules. If total protein from the sponge Spirastrella cunctatrix is purified, kept in native conformation, and adde…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
The expectation of global computer access is the norm. This has created a societal need for computer interface designs that provide digital access to demographics of individuals with limited…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, automated analysis of facial affect (emotion) in images and videos has rapidly gained attention. Most existing research focuses on the task of facial emotion recognition. As…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Diesel fuel is used for a variety of things that make our daily life possible; however, it has issues. One solution for them is Biodiesel, an eco-friendly fuel... that also has issues. Issue…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a medical device that doctors use to determine great deals of information about a patient’s heart health. However, doctors are only able to use ECG devices in h…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Volatile organic compounds exist as a gaseous form and serve important functions for an organism. In the past, extensive efforts have been placed on the volatiles produced by plants. Interes…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
There is a growing problem of critical failure in many commercially manufactured Li-ion batteries today due to gas evolution. To determine a safer composition of Li-ion batteries for public…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Vitamin C has many health benefits and can reduce the risk of various diseases, but nutritionists say cooking, especially boiling, decreases vitamin C content because it is water soluble. Si…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Library books are handled by many different people and are often left in sometimes warm or damp environments. This experiment investigates how the rate of checkout (circulation rate) affects…
ISEF · 2016
Cardiovascular disease (CV disease) is one of the leading causes of death in the World. This disease affects individuals from different backgrounds including various ages, ethnicities, or ec…
ISEF · 2016
Algae, as primary producers, are important in every aspect of our daily lives. Ecologically and economically, they have been used to produce food and medicines for a long time. Various speci…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to indicate which enzymes and blends of enzymes extracted the most glucose from switch grass in ethanol production. Results were recorded on a spreadsheet…
ISEF · 2016
The study of extremal problems in triangle areas, since A. Oppenheim in 1967, has been going on for almost five decades. In the project, a new general case in lattice grid is proposed: Given…
ISEF · 2016
Analysis of protein chains has shifted into a computational biology realm in recent years because of insufficient experimental imaging. Proteins are modeled using molecular dynamics (MD) and…
ISEF · 2016
Coral reefs and many marine cnidarians are hosts to symbiotic, nutrient-providing dinoflagellates (unicellular protozoa) in the genus Symbiodinium. Corals rely on this symbiont for growth an…
ISEF · 2016
High morbidity and mortality rates of prostate cancer are associated with unexpected metastatic dissemination. Numerous tests exist to help with diagnosis; however, there is a lack of clinic…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Nematodes cause significant economic losses in crop production throughout the world and can cause illness in humans and other mammals. The purpose of this study was to determine potential ef…
ISEF · 2015
This research and experiment will prove which enzyme will bring out the optimal production in switch grass ethanol production. Information will be calculated from an experiment where ethanol…
ISEF · 2015
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS) images are powerful tools that allow scientists to quantify the local atomic properties of surfaces, supporting the characterization and development of…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
This study was conducted to establish if pharmaceuticals can be successfully transferred into edible plants to provide an alternative delivery method for medication, which could improve pati…
ISEF · 2015
What would happen if the computers today did not use binary (Base Two) but instead used ternary (Base Three)? Theoretically a bigger base computer could store more information in the same am…
ISEF · 2015
This study examines water quality and biota in Birds Creek to determine if levels decrease as the stream flows past a solid waste transfer station. Data collection Site #1 was 1600 meters up…
ISEF · 2015
BETA-glucosidase, an enzyme found mainly in fungal species, is essential in the breakdown of plant material and participates in a lysis reaction that cleaves cellobiose into glucose, which i…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Coral reefs and Cnidarians are hosts to symbiotic, nutrient-providing dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium/zooxanthellae). Almost all coral reefs experienced a major decline in the 1980s and climat…