223 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
223 projects · showing 91–120
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plant starch products that are compostable often take six months to decompose but end up in landfills before this process is complete. These artificial environments do not allow for further…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer is responsible for the highest number of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and lung adenocarcinoma is its most common subtype. This study used statistical analysis to determine th…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Patients often need use of their arms to assist with functional activities, but after bone disruption, pushing is often limited to <10 lb (4.5 kg). Currently, no method exists to measure upp…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a premalignant condition at risk of progressing to multiple myeloma, a type of incurable blood cancer, and other type of plasma c…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Dementia cases are rapidly increasing with a projection of over 150 million people globally by the year 2050, a 300% increase from the current 50 million cases. Despite the prevalence of Dem…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Depression is a leading cause of death and disability with more than 264 million people of all ages suffering from the disorder worldwide. Understanding how brain function is altered in depr…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Second Award
The necessity of developing and deploying interactive web applications quickly has become more prevalent over the last decade, resulting in developers creating libraries and frameworks to si…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Last year’s research focused on synthesizing novel bipolar membranes (BPM) for fuel cells. The results showed that Pyrrole/Nafion™ BPM performance was at par or exceeded that of traditional…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease causing deterioration of neurons in the brain, leading to dementia and eventual death. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s conventionally consists of a comb…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For millennia, humanity has wondered if there might be other life present in the universe. Today, we have the technological capabilities to begin to understand what conditions allow for life…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an ocean circulation system that plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate and its response to anthropogenic forcing. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Plankton are the world’s largest oxygen producers and first level of all marine food chains, making quantification a measurement for Earth’s health. Currently, manual microscopic plankton an…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are subpopulations of cancerous cells that are theorized to be the cause of tumor initiation and relapse. CSCs are especially dangerous because they are resistant to…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The amount of land burned every year in Washington has increased about ten times over the last half century making the need for improved detection and identification of trends linked to wild…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of the global pandemic known as coronavirus disease-2019 or COVID-19 for short. SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotonic disease,…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this research was to develop a snow probe that determines the dangers of snow-slab conditions. The probes were developed in order to equate similar, if not more accurate, data…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Sugar in processed foods has contributed to increasing obesity and health issues in the American population over the last few decades. The main research into this issue focuses on more compl…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to test the ability of magnifiers such as SiO2, lenses and mirrors to increase the energy produced by fluorescent proteins GFP and EBFP2-BFP, a UV protein.…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Teen pregnancies account for roughly 11% of all pregnancies in the United States, which among other developed countries is one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies. This can be reduced b…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Electronic noses, or e-noses, are still a very new concept in modern research; and while few working prototypes exist, the implications of such devices are huge. Harnessing odor-tracking tec…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Over 466 million people suffer from disabling hearing loss. However, learning and practicing sign language is not commonplace in society; hence, this study developed a sign language recognit…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study seeks to answer the question of the significance of Diabetes Mellitus and categorical obese BMI as risk factors for the development of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The potential for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) to improve plant growth under drought conditions would help lower the watering requirements, while maintaining a healthy yield,…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
In the United States, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has become one of the most common mental disorders, affecting ~7.1% of American adults (under the DSM-5 definition). Thus, researching a…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The research presented represents the second-year effort on developing novel whole-pore bipolar membranes for H2/O2 fuel cells. During Year 1, bipolarity was created within the pores of Nafi…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The annual number of search and rescue operations in the United States alone is over 100,000, and the use of drones could significantly improve the survival rates of these operations. The su…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and the surrounding seawater. This submerged emulsion can persist for many years and i…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gram-negative bacteria are associated with hospital-acquired infections. The infection control literature has identified that hospital sink drains can be a potential source of these hospital…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
In a collapsed building, a system to find cell phone signals elicited from a cell site simulator could be used to detect and help locate the cell phones of trapped people if the signal canno…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
With a goal of reducing sand usage and providing a use for waste plastic, the research conducted studied the impact of adding varying percentages of HDPE plastic by mass into concrete blocks…