504 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
504 projects · showing 241–270
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using piezoelectricity to create a self-powered calculator. A solar-powered scientific calculator was disassembled for this stud…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading international cause of morbidity and mortality and can significantly disrupt brain physiology resulting in substance abuse and sleep disorders. Dros…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Mangiferin, a xanthone glycoside, is extracted primarily from mango trees (Mangifera indica) and is mentioned in Ayurvedic texts to contain several biomedical properties. According to Ayurve…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer biomarkers are measurable variables indicative of disease presence or progression. However, inadequate methods of biomarker identification combined with the underlying complexity of c…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and lack of new drug development has resulted in widespread emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, posing a substantial threat to p…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Mathematical modeling is a powerful way to comprehend emerging properties/behaviors in social problems involving many parameters acting simultaneously and non-linearly. Current epidemiologic…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
On average, thirteen thousand Americans fall victim to gun violence each year. Gun violence is the second-leading cause of death for teens in the United States, 58% are homicides - approxima…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Slosh is unwanted movement of fuel in a tank, and has caused many failed space missions. Slosh occurs during spacecraft launch and in microgravity during maneuvers. NASA and spacecraft devel…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Chagas is a South American disease induced by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. With 8 million patients every year, Chagas presents with mild symptoms in the acute stage, followed by heart fai…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
When touring an Amazon Warehouse I came up with the idea for this project as a way to use wireless charging to alleviate battery-related issues in their logistics robots. I created a mock wa…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Poly(vinyl alcohol)-sodium borate hydrogels are promising candidates for controlled drug delivery because they are pH-responsive and biocompatible. However, they have weak single network str…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The aerospace and launch vehicle industry has seen a resurgence in growth and commercialization in recent years. Companies have always strived to improve their rocket propulsion systems to b…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastics are of increasing concern in the marine environment. When plastics break down into microplastics (<5mm), they release additives. A specific microplastic of interest is polyurethane…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
There is a growing crisis of opioid abuse in the U.S.The CDC reported over 65,000 drug overdoses in 2019.This project aimed to reduce the severity of this crisis by guaranteeing prescription…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Diagnostic methods including CT-scans are expensive and time-consuming. miRNAs participate in gene-silencing, and can be dysregula…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Tissue engineering is a research field for regenerating damaged biological tissue by substituting human cells on an appropriate scaffolds, one of them collagen as a biodegradable polymer has…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ear canal shape on the ability of sound transmission by providing data at a wide range of sound frequencies. The broad data generated…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Forest Fires are an ever-persistent problem around the world. In just the United States, wildfires cause 16.5 billion dollars in damage and kill nearly 100 people annually. In the state of C…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Experimentation was conducted to determine the presence of metabolic deviations as a result of nucleosome-remodeling factor (NURF) knockdown in combination with chemotherapies. Due to large…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Research shows that mammograms can be 80-90 percent accurate in detecting breast cancer in women without dense tissue, however the accuracy of this metric drops drastically down to nearly 50…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As the most dangerous type of skin cancer, melanomas are often misdiagnosed by dermatologists for nevi. Early detection of melanomas is crucial for improving the five-year survival rate. Nin…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of materials with an insulating interior and conducting surface states. I discovered new two-dimensional TIs based on GeI, that can be applied to…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The unsustainability and environmental pollution caused by primary energy sources along with issues on the purification of wastewater act as a major impetus for research into alternative bio…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
There are over 289 million people with visual disabilities worldwide and that number is expected to grow to 579 million in only 3 decades due to a large aging population. Current techniques…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water security is becoming a new challenge for many countries as industrial waste containing heavy metals is being disposed in bodies of water. Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic yet common con…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading international cause of morbidity and mortality. The neurologic outcome of TBI is significantly influenced by the cellular, molecular and…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
When one sees an airplane take off, one wonders how an object so heavy, weighing tons, can lift off with ease. Thanks to complex aeronautics and aerodynamics airplanes are able to perform a…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
How cells regulate and maintain their size is fundamentally unknown. Failure to maintain a consistent cell size has been associated with cardiac disease, brain disease, musculoskeletal disea…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The Earth’s geological, evolutionary and biological history has been shaped by the collisions with celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets. Their contributions can also cause destructi…