223 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
223 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
GABAA receptor (GABAAR), a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel, is activated by GABA, a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human brain. GABAAR dysfunction is implicated in several CNS…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Tesla or bladeless turbine, developed by Nikola Tesla in 1913, has a cost-efficient and simple design. The tangential flow of a fluid and its viscosity interacting with the turbine’s dis…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was designed to identify a correlation between mycorrhizae fungal inoculation, hugelkultur systems, and agricultural productivity. The alternative hypothesis, that a correlat…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Severe coral bleaching can have bacterial causes, including the highly pathogenic Vibrio coralliilyticus. Unfortunately, there are currently no viable methods of treatment or prevention of i…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of non-invasive glucose monitoring using spectroscopy and machine learning. The spectral measurements were performed on a pa…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition, characterized by amyloid-beta plaque deposition in the brain. Focused ultrasound (FU) may have a therapeutic modulatin…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
By designing and building an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of autonomous dynamic soaring, I demonstrated that UAVs have the ability to harvest wind energy to soar nearly indefinitely…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Since its detection in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the Higgs boson has remained a key element in confirming the standard model (SM) of particle physics. Current research to find…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
An alternate movement strategy, called Move in the Tube (MINT), has been implemented in many hospitals for patients recovering from thoracic surgery but little objective data is available to…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Understanding the formation and evolution of ring galaxies, galaxies with an atypical ring-like structure, will dramatically improve understanding of black holes and galaxy dynamics as a who…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Nature has already perfected flight in the form of birds. One especially critical yet often overlooked aspect of avian flight is the highly nimble and drag-reducing aerodynamics of the avian…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A camera within a Megascops kennicottii nest box recorded the activities of a breeding pair of adult owls and their young. Over 1000 hours of video footage was recorded and 450 hours was man…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Over 55 million people currently have dementia with an expected rise to 135 million cases by 2050. Despite having over 82% of primary care physicians in the frontlines of dementia care, only…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The intestinal microbiome influences host health through a communication network that exists between the CNS and the brain via vagus nerve stimulation. This relationship is key for understan…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As a common side-effect of aminoglycoside antibiotics and cancer-related medications, drug-induced hearing loss (ototoxicity) can severely deplete inner ear hair cells and cause long-term se…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Current plant-starch plastic products take 3-6 months to decompose, making them a great alternative for traditional plastics. With increased usage of these plastic alternatives comes increas…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Title: What is the effect sound waves have on plant root physiology and photosynthesis? Purpose: To test the effects of sound pollution on photosynthesis, and plant root physiology. Methods:…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of merging neutron star-black hole (NSBH) systems probe astrophysical neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) mass distributions, especially at the transitio…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Third Award
The need for developing and delivering interactive web applications has grown rapidly. Thus, Million.js was created to allow for the creation of compiler-augmented JavaScript UI libraries th…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project focused on the development of a model that maximizes accessibility by accurately and efficiently recognizing American Sign Language in real-time, converting it to text without a…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Restricted arm force during activity is often required following bone disruption (iatrogenic or traumatic) to facilitate osteogenesis, but measuring patient force is challenging, especially…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero resistance and expel magnetic fields once cooled below a certain critical temperature, allowing for their application in various technologies…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
To provide a sustainable solution for marine vehicle efficiency, a biomimetic propulsion mechanism can offer an energy-efficient and high-speed locomotion system. Such marine vehicles can be…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- determines the spread and impact of a given epidemic. With over 2.6 million…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Due to a decrease in traditional energy sources, the demand for solar energy has started to rise through the use of silicon solar cells. However, its high production costs prevent its mass u…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
The main purpose of the research project was to identify if there were any prevalent nucleotide patterns associated with excess expression pro-apoptotic genes (orthologous or paralogous) in…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
I strongly believe that a cost-effective, highly sensitive, and easy-to-use Point of Care (POC) multi-biomarker diagnostic device has the potential to increase health equity, this is especia…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project introduces ComposeGAN as a generative adversarial network that learns and transfers the style elements of tonal music genres. Early attempts at symbolic music style transfer hav…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The revolutionized biomedical industry has a deep connection with the utilization of synthetic biology, to create multi-functional, complex but minimalistic, non-invasive biomedical devices.…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Observations of the rotation of pulsars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, have revealed a mysterious type of rotation anomaly: glitches, discontinuous events where the pulsar sudden…