504 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
504 projects · showing 211–240
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Current upper limb prostheses lack effective and intuitive control systems and are often exorbitantly expensive. As a result, while prosthesis use can significantly increase quality of life,…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Current techniques of target identification in drug development are costly, lengthy, and function with high degrees of uncertainty that a drug can succeed in modulating a target. To address…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics First Award
The self-replicating machine will revolutionize human industry. Not only will self-replicating factories raise the standard of living across the globe, but it is also a vital step toward a s…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and a general cognitive decline, afflicting approximately 45 million people worldwide with the rate…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Melanoma is one of the most fatal forms of skin cancer and is often very difficult to differentiate from other benign skin lesions. However, if detected at its early stages, it can almost al…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are carcinogenic chemicals found in heat, stain, and water-resistant consumer products, including Teflon. Like pharmaceuticals (PPCPs), these “forever…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Microorganisms that live in sea ice are essential to the Arctic ecosystem. The presence of Arctic ice is rapidly declining, so time is running out to study the unique environment. There have…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Second Award
Every year, 4000 human errors occur in the operating room. Surgical workflow recognition is a burgeoning field of study that aims to combat this problem by analyzing medical video and identi…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Due to increased urbanization and climate change, there has been an increase in bank erosion and destruction of riparian zones. Riparian zones are vegetative areas of land bordering streams…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
This study tested the effects of three medicinal herbs: turmeric (Curcuma longa), sprout barley (Hordeum vulgare), and ginseng (Panax ginseng). A variety of medicinal herbs have been used to…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
One of the leading problems plaguing optical asteroid research is the presence of albedo variegations: areas on the surface of the asteroid that reflect light incongruously due to differing…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Atrophic macular degeneration (AMD) affects 200 million people worldwide. There is no FDA-approved therapy for this disease, the leading cause of irreversible blindness among people over 50.…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Jumping spiders, the largest family of spiders, perform body saccades -- or turning toward stimuli in a series of brief, rapid turns rather than a continuous motion -- when tracking moving o…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Over 3 million people suffer from hyperlipidemia every year in the United States. On the contrary, there is a decreased risk of metabolic diseases in East Asia, where seaweeds are traditiona…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
A better understanding of space weather phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the solar wind, requires greater knowledge of the coronal magnetic structure. Faraday rotation (F…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Second Award
The analysis of human coronaviruses and the confirmed cases of COVID-19 reinfection are indicative of waning immunity present to some degree in patients recovering from COVID-19. Therefore,…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has threatened billions of lives across the globe and demands immediate attention. Although vaccines have recently started deployment, there…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Quantifying the nonexponential relaxation of supercooled liquids in terms of thermodynamics is a major open question in physical chemistry. The Adam-Gibbs model expresses the relaxation time…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Second Award
PANDwriting is a novel system for diagnostic assessment of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) using handwriting kinematic analysis, particularly targeted to increase Alzheimer's Disease (AD) a…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Third Award
Protein secondary structure is defined by the local interactions between amino acid residues and it is widely used in protein structure and function analysis. Secondary structure information…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There is a growing concern within the meteorological community regarding how the world should be handling the forecasting of tropical cyclones. Rapid intensification is happening more and mo…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than 6 million patients globally. Though previous studies have proposed several disease-related…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current devices geared towards the deaf and hard of hearing, such as hearing aids, struggle to localize and transmit sounds to those with severe hearing impairments. Advanced devices, like c…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
During the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment (PPE) has become crucial to protect humans from the transmission of the virus. The face shield is a simple and effective PPE to pr…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this research was to discover if added polyamines affected the growth rates and root-to-shoot ratios of droughted and nondroughted soybean plants. Soybean plants were given ex…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV are three human coronaviruses (HCoVs). They each cause pathogenic and infectious diseases that have damaged society. The spike (S) protein resides on the H…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
In the field of neuroscience, rat brain models are crucial for research and experimental testing. One of the leading solutions for animal and human experimentation is using phantoms: functio…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Medicine should be available to all. But it isn’t. This is because many communities lack the resources for a medicinal cold chain, a distribution network that keeps medicine cold until it is…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Sanskrit/Devanagari, what may be known as a dead language in modern times, at one point was a rich and advanced language that was spoken by many people who lived as far back as 1700 BCE. Anc…