Biochemistry
Fourth Award
Standard treatments for gliomas, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, are often ineffective. Research has shown that the enzyme SUV39H1, which is involved in DNA methylation and…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
My research aims to develop a novel, noninvasive, and adaptive diagnostic platform based on analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in patient’s breath, which reflect the health conditio…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Swallowing difficulties impact 30-40% of older adults impairing their treatment adherence and negatively affecting the therapeutic benefits of drugs. This study seeks to use 3D-printing tech…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Worldwide, Climate change is increasing both the intensity of rainfall and the resultant flooding risk. Developed countries are addressing the problem by using forecast rainfall by combining…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Pollination services provided by managed honey bees are essential to a variety of agricultural crops. In February and March, more than 80% of the nation’s beehives are rented by almond growe…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Global climate change has severely affected the underwater ecosystem, in particular coral reefs. The risk of coral reef bleaching is increasing by a rate of 3.9% per year and severe bleachin…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Every day, tons of expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) end up in landfills and waterways all over the world, doing incalculable harm to the environment. Previous studies have found that the Zop…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
We investigate a special variant of chip-firing, in which we consider an infinite set of rooms on a number line, some of which are occupied by violinists. In a move, we take two violinists i…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Centralized power grids in developed areas are currently the main benefactor of renewable energy advancements and are predicted to be completely renewable by 2032. However, with methods of e…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
What is the most cost-efficient design of a completely biodegradable water treatment system that uses aquatic plants to reduce the amount of eutrophication in leachate canals feeding the Ind…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
In the recent decades, oil spill pollution has become a prevalent issue due to its adverse environmental effects. Current cleanup procedures while effective, aren’t environmentally sustainab…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
The unnecessary use of wood is a problem everywhere in the world. It’s caused by the carelessness of people or bad inventory in warehouses. Because of that, we think that a thorough registry…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Despite their discovery now dating over 50 years ago, and the great deal of observations we have collected in that time, there is still little we understand about the causes of a pulsar’s gr…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The pandemic-induced decline in colonoscopies and the continuing rise of colorectal cancer (CRC) rates in younger populations makes the need for early CRC indicators higher than ever. The ro…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Carbon dioxide has been linked to devastating anthropocene changes; rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and increases in natural disasters are all effects of global warming. MOFs are porous…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Drug discovery, a complex and time-consuming process, heavily relies on determining affinities between drugs and targets. With the introduction of computational methods, researchers can now…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Hemiplegia is a type of paralysis where one side of the body experiences a loss of motor function. Hemiplegics may be confined to a wheelchair, which presents health issues such as low bone…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the greatest challenges for forecasters. Improving the skill for RI forecasts has been a top priority of the National Hurr…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, resulting in over 800,000 deaths each year. About 90% of all primary liver cancers are characterized as hepatocellular car…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Lithium, the first-line treatment for bipolar disorder (BD), reportedly causes chronic kidney disease (CKD) in at least 20% of patients. To manage BD, physicians prescribe lithium carbonate…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impacts memory by destroying the neurons of the brain cells. AD is characterized by the presence of two types of prot…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most severe tumors in young children with nearly 500 new cases reported each year. Currently, the only treatments available for this cancer are chemotherapy and r…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopamine-producing neurons. Due to a decrease in dopamine, patients suffer from both motor and n…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
West Nile virus (WNV) is the most impactful mosquito-borne disease in the United States. Since 1999, it has caused over 2,500 deaths and has seriously harmed quality of life for thousands of…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Specialty metabolites used in food, medicine, pesticides, and fragrances are valuable in virtue of their unique properties, but they face challenges in production due to high costs associate…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, is the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide before COVID-19. To prevent TB from spreading within the body, which…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Increasing demand for housing and the production of sustainable energy causes the construction of unstable structures, such as tall buildings and wind turbines. To ensure that oscillations c…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Herein, doped carbon materials are synthesized from biomass utilizing facile microwave irradiation for supercapacitor application. Lignosol is used as a carbon precursor while ammonium polyp…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Discovering new antibiotics or identifying alternative therapies to address antibiotic resistance is pivotal. One option is bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which can be used to treat bacteria…