104 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
104 projects · showing 91–104
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Purpose: Breast density on mammograms has become a topic of increasing public awareness. A dense mammogram can obscure a cancer, and raises uncertainty about the effectiveness of mammograms…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current management of MI does not replace lost cardiomyocytes (CMs) with new CMs. Induced…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a disease that affects 250 million people worldwide, and is one of the fastest growing diseases. Once acquired, the patient is faced with lifelong medication, treatment, and risk…
ISEF · 2015
As blood flows inside stents/hemodialysis catheters, there is a tendency for elements of blood, such as fibrinogen, to adhere to stents/catheters, leading to clot formation and requiring fur…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Second Award
Indolethylamine N-Methyl Transferase (INMT), an enzyme known for its production of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) via endogenous substrates tryptamine and S-Adenosyl L-Methionine (SAM), coloca…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Aircraft fuel consumption and carbon emissions can be reduced by improving aircraft wing efficiency. Drag inducing vortices form at the tips of aircraft wings and can be reduced by wingtip d…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems which consist of changing patterns of symbols on a grid. The changes are specified in such a way that the symbol in a given position is deter…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Purpose: A literature search showed that though abnormal lymph nodes were well described, there was not good data on the range of appearances of normal lymph nodes. If normal lymph nodes wer…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell neoplasm characterized by destructive bone lesions and currently has no cure. Successful treatment of multiple myeloma will require a multi-faceted approach…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Animals are currently used in most models for research. Although they have been a significant part of research it often takes many years for them to translate into clinical studies. Models u…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Asteroid orbits are subject to chaos theory, that is, extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Because of this, it is critical to obtain both accuracy and high precision when generating th…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Bacterial antibiotic resistance has become a concern following this class of drugs’ widespread adoption and subsequent misuse. New methods to eradicate bacteria must be discovered and perfec…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
The adoption of distributed computing systems has grown massively in the past few years. In particular, Apache Hadoop, which allows developers to create applications that run on a cluster of…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The current study investigated the effectiveness of UV protection strategies – avobenzone based sunscreen (A), zinc oxide based sunscreen (Z), untreated cloth, SunGuard™ treated cloth UV pro…