365 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
365 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Over 1.5 million people live in refugee camps around the world. Wind storms of over 80 miles per hour rip current refugee tents apart, destroying what little refugees have left. Regarding ou…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The 2.4-fold increase in thyroid cancer over recent decades and variation across regions indicate that environmental factors may be influencers, including I-131 released during nuclear testi…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
This project was conducted to investigate effects of simulated gravitational force applied to germinating plants through circular acceleration. It was hypothesized that increased acceleratio…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dengue Fever is a debilitating viral disease of the tropics, transmitted by female Aedes mosquitoes, causing sudden fever, acute pains in the joints and hemorrhaging. The World Health Organi…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Diesel Exhaust Particles (DEPs) are a form of air pollution which cause increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in lung cancer cells, which leads to oxidative stress and eventu…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Eighty percent of people who are afflicted with Parkinson's experience tremors that affect their basic hand motions. These tremors limit daily activities. With this in mind the goal of this…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Despite sex discrimination laws, this serious problem persists. Last year, I created a new construct called Sex Perspective (SP) Taking. This is the ability to see oneself as being the oppos…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks are utilized for machine learning. This project attempted to recreate the sound of stringed instruments similar to the violin using neural networks. Current computer generati…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Educational success is a major factor in predicting earning potential and more educational institutions are leaning towards content mastery as opposed to seat time in a content course. With…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of the project was to engineer a more efficient and amateur-friendly software package to aid in the designing of optimal converging-diverging nozzles. The software package was de…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
A Doppler Radar System is presented which is suitable for reporting sudden changes of streamflow. The system includes a Doppler radar transceiver and uses Digital Signal Processing to detect…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The ability to control the growth of zinc oxide nanowires is important for such applications as field emission electron sources, chemical sensors, and optoelectronic devices. In field emissi…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
This study was designed to assess the effects of the fit of a mountain biker's aerodynamics. 1 participant rode a standard entry-level cross-country mountain bike down a one-kilometer segmen…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The world is facing a serious food crisis due to increasing population, intensive farming, and environmental stressors such as drought. More effective and environment-friendly farming techno…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy is an effective, yet destructive way to treat most cancers. Mucositis, characterized by the ulceration of mucosal membranes, is a common negative side-effect of gastrointestinal…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The goal of this research project is to demonstrate how evolutionary path dependencies and population-level epistasis affect the adaptive plasticity of populations of artificial organisms. I…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypoxia (reduced oxygen) is common in many brain tumors, including gliomas. Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 Alpha (Hif-1a) is upregulated and stabilized under hypoxic conditions, leading to tumor…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With an ~70% fatality rate, ovarian cancer is classified as the deadliest gynecological malignancy. Recent gene therapy using p53 failed. An alternative approach to wild type (wt) p53 is mit…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Welsh’s Milkweed (Asclepias welshii) is a threatened species found in Southern Utah. Almost no research has been conducted on how this species reproduces itself. Genetic testing of the speci…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Proper care of ram fertility is critical during the breeding season to avoid reduction in breeding success. Deworming is a common practice among ranchers in order to eliminate health complic…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
By the year 2050, the world population is expected to increase substantially. To meet the needs of the world’s growing population, farms need to become more sustainable. The purpose of this…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
If rabbit waste is not cleaned adequately, it builds up in the cage and release toxic air particles into its surroundings. One of these toxic particles is ammonia. Ammonia can cause health p…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
As technology increases in function and ability, threats against security and privacy also grow. The results of this project could better refine the ability of sending undecryptable messages…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Natural fertilizers, such as chicken manure, are very important for good crop yield. Current research uses non laying type birds at a fixed time point in their lifespan to determine nitrogen…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The p53 protein, known for its role in preventing cancer, can also become the cause of cancer when mutated. Finding a way to understand the protein and develop a way to reactivate it has bee…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Melanoma, a tumor arising from melanocytes, is responsible for most skin cancer deaths. Familial melanoma is linked to germline mutations in the CDKN2A (p16) tumor suppressor gene, which reg…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Bacterial infections in Cystic Fibrosis patients lead to decreased lifespan. In particular, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa infections are linked to higher mortality. This study examined the use of b…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Recently released data (2017-present) from the Herschel space telescope for both the PACS and SPIRE instruments provides far-infrared (FIR) data to better analyze and identify young stellar…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of childhood blindness. Recent developments have discovered that ROP can be characterized by intravitreal neovascularization (IVNV), which…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Graph connectivity is a critical concept for a variety of applications in both pure and applied math. Identifying the connectivity of the graphs underlying neural networks, for example, woul…