Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are astrophysical explosions that release more energy in a few seconds than the sun releases in its entire 10 billion year lifetime. This project studies short-durati…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Health and environmental problems result from both the release of dyes into ecosystems and greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation via fossil fuel combustion. To create a cost-effect…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Desertification, which is increasing at an alarming rate, imposes food insecurities for nations with huge desert areas and weakens ecosystems. Many methods, like sand fences, have been devel…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Among the industry sectors that need to be decarbonized is transportation, which is mainly powered by internal combustion engines. Reducing the problems of heat transfer losses and nitrogen…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Environmental degradation is an imminent and ever-growing problem, and everyone must do their part to help solve this issue. However, a major problem people face when trying to lead a green…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
This project investigates a novel, low-cost method of greywater recycling that promotes hydroponic subsistence agriculture for water-scarce communities. Currently, the world faces both natur…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Organophosphorus compounds have been used as drugs for decades, many of them have achieved commercial success. Among them is an anticancer drug - fotemustine, a cytotoxic alkylating and carb…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different forage resources on the interest of selected insect representatives belonging to the group of pollinators. Insects were anal…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
China’s bike-sharing industry has experienced three stages of development: rapid expansion, rapid contraction and a period of stability. The competitive behavior of bike-sharing companies ha…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
This project seeks to develop an effective antibiotic treatment to reduce Staphylococcus epidermidis growth on arthroplasties due to periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Antibacterial subst…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the bacteria Bacillus cereus had any effect on the central nervous system of planaria (Dugesia tigrina). This study was conducted at a loca…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
As a member of the Nanticoke Tribe, I am acutely aware that my tribe, along with many other tribes throughout the continent, face a continuous problem due to contamination of their natural w…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Upon experiencing a stress induced injury, organisms like humans and drosophila produce heat shock proteins, which protect cells from injury. When heat shock proteins are detected in tumors,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in the reliance on video-conferencing technology, However, video-conferencing technology has a hidden effect on body and self-esteem issues…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
To better understand the manner of phytoplankton decline due to climate change, this study explored changes in phytoplankton community composition during the spring phytoplankton bloom in th…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
In 2019, Microcystis aeruginosa, a cyanobacterium found in eutrophic environments, bloomed along the Mississippi Gulf Coast due to a sudden deluge of freshwater from the opening of the Bonne…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
The Pantheon is well regarded for its stability, having survived multiple earthquakes in its long history. Its stability is due to five characteristics, in which it was hypothesized the lowe…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Current neurophysiological and neuropharmacological evidence suggests that melanotropins are one of the key regulators in a wide variety of physiological processes in the central nervous sys…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Ribosome biogenesis is critical for cell proliferation and survival as ribosomes catalyze the synthesis of proteins, and regulation of protein synthesis is crucial for control of gene expres…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Given the unrestricted nature of real-world image classification tasks, open-set recognition (OSR), which generalizes conventional closed-set classification to include unseen categories duri…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Background: As water is one of the essential elements of life for the public, and since the Palestinian is one of the water poorest in the world, it becomes the backbone of his life. Objecti…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are organisms whose lives are closely related to the lives of humans. Therefore, research related to the diseases that mosquitoes spread and their unique physiology is important t…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Heavy metals from wastewater pose a severe threat to human and environmental health. Particularly, within the regional Tri-State Mining District (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma), lead and zi…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Loading a trailer improperly may cause dangerous sway, resulting in accidents and possible death. I researched and tested how to most safely haul a trailer to reduce sway. I focused on two m…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Cancer is one of the deadliest illnesses in the world, and to find a cure for cancer, information must be obtained on the human body’s response to tumors. The purpose of this study was to id…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Aim To develop a novel Natural Language Processing tool to detect depression early based on users’ social media activity. Methods and materials A corpus of 50,000 text data samples from post…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
In observance of the fast and continuous growth of global CO2 atmospheric level, the recent development of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction features as an attractive approach that can convert…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Harmful algal blooms on lakes across the globe have become more common as a result of climate change. Cyanobacteria in the blooms produce harmful toxins which have significant consequences t…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
A reputable study (Heijnsdijk et al., 2002) found that only 62% of grasping actions using laparoscopic graspers were a success. One reason for this low success rate could be the way the grip…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Estimating the quickest path from A to B is the aim of mapping software such as Google Maps which calculate route times using parameters such as road size, real-time traffic density and hist…