Mathematics
Fourth Award
The theory of Lie groups and algebras is an important and developing part of mathematics. Lie groups and algebras occur in different areas of science such as quantum physics, mathematical ge…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Problem of Apollonius is a famous geometric problem. Apollonius of Perga posed it in the 3d century BC. The statement of the problem: construct (by straightedge and compass) a circle that is…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
The increasing prevalence of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in our freshwater sources is a growing concern for the global community. The aim of this project is determining a faster, more cost ef…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Senecio madagascariensis (fireweed) is of global significance, due to its rapid spreading ability, productive and economic impacts and toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) content. PAs accumula…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
This project investigates the general water quality and major/minor ion chemistry in Arkansas aquifers given the ongoing depletion of the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer and the re…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
While cancer starts as a single cell, termed cancer stem cell (CSC), the progeny CSCs are not created equal, but exhibit a spectrum of phenotypes of varying renewal capacities, metastatic po…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether the distance from a body of water affects the number of mosquitoes that could be counted at a site or location. Methods/M…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The T-box transcription factor TBX3 is highly expressed within the lung endothelium, yet the effect of its expression is unknown. This study aimed to overcome present limitations by determin…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Using of addictive substances is one of humankind's oldest problems. They are considered an important disease of the brain. Substance abuse is not only the problem of health sciences, but al…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Prescription of chemotherapeutic anti-folate drugs is the frontline treatment for breast cancer patients to induce folate-deficit cancer cytotoxicity. Alongside, folate supplements are used…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Particulate Matter (PM) is a liquid or solid suspended in air that can be directly emitted into the atmosphere. High concentrations of PM smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter (aka PM2.5) are know…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Drylands make up 41% of the biosphere and support 38% of the world’s population. The intensity and frequency of rainfall events controls processes that drive dryland soil nutrient cycling. C…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are highly selective in substrate oxidation and have the promising potential as biocatalysts for industrial processes. A unique P450 enzyme known as TxtE catal…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
Memory devices are developing at a slow rate, hindering the computational industry’s growth. The hysteresis shown in perovskites has been utilized to create the two resistive states necessar…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The objective of this project is to determine how effective changing the shape of a spherical shade ball to a tessellational dodecahedron is at decreasing evaporation and algal growth. Shade…
Energy: Physical
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine if pumping is a useful method of increasing tidal barrage energy output and how to implement pumping most effectively. Pumping is the process of u…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
According to WHO’s Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition nearly one third of children under 5 suffer irreversible damage to their physical and cognitive development due to severe…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Sundowners syndrome is a clinical diagnosis given to dementia patients. People who suffer from this experience heightened neuropsychiatric symptoms (depression, anxiety, agitation, confusion…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I have noticed the difference in the water quality of the San Elijo Lagoon effluent which feeds into the ocean. I hypothesized that nutrients such as phosphates, and nitrate…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Early diagnosis is of unequivocal importance to survive debilitating multiple organ failure (MOF), the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, current lab-based met…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is an invasive type of skin cancer that lacks expression of lecithin-retinol acyl transferase (LRAT), a protein implicated in wound healing and cancer progressi…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
This project takes a different approach to meteorological forecasting by investigating underlying patterns in local weather fluctuations and attempting to find a connection between these phe…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Arsenic contamination of water sources is a global problem, affecting numerous countries across the world. Natural weathering and anthropogenic sources, such as mining and use of coal-fired…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Glaucoma is the leading irreversible cause of blindness worldwide. And in its early stages, it's shows no symptoms. So most of the affected patients don't know they have it until it causes m…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the most fatal subtype of lung cancer, has a five-year survival rate of 2%. Currently, patients must get expensive computerized tomography and positron emissio…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The space industry plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, In order to make this a reality, they will require housing to protect them from the atmospheric conditions of the planet. Due to the a…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) is a priority pollutant, released by the tannery processes to the environment. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of novel materials magnetize…
Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Award
Realizing that the rehabilitation monitoring and correction devices for patients going under orthopedic surgeries of the lower limb are quiet trivial, we decided to tackle the subject and tr…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment that prevents them from basic access to written or virtual materials. Current braille code standards such as Unified English Braill…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus, or yellow and purple nutsedge, are widespread throughout many areas of the United States and have been classified as two of the world’s most invasive weed…