Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, over 1.3 million people are killed each year in road traffic crashes worldwide. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to solve these issues and a…
Chemistry
Third Award
PLA, largely derived from bio-renewable resources, is one of the most widely used bioplastics. With its biodegradability, low price and superior mechanical properties, PLA has been widely ap…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
This paper presents the mechanical design and control of a three degree of freedom (DoF) ball joint module suitable for use in COVID swabbing robots and surgical robots. A prototype iteratio…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Pollutant removal efficiency and electricity production from kitchen wastewater are investigated with the design of an up-flow plant-microbial fuel cell (P-MFC) by coupling Canna indica L. a…
Systems Software
Third Award
Immersive technologies have been evolving and influencing the means of human interaction. In this scenario, developing High Immersion Environments (HIE) can contribute to education, providin…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Advancements in high-throughput technologies have expanded omics repositories, which has created the need to develop novel computational methods. Currently, data integration methods are limi…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Rare concentrations of neutral atomic carbon (C I) in interstellar clouds of high redshift galaxies are excellent tracers of cold molecular clouds, providing a window to understand the condi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Electronic waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, and a source of contamination as the heavy metals used in electronics leach into the environment. Because of its electrical and…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Plant viruses cause considerable economic losses of crops. However, it is difficult to develop effective crop virucides due to the intracellular infectivity of viruses. Plants usually trigge…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is caused by the blockage or narrowing of arteries supplying the lower extremities regions which affects approximately 10% of the U.S population and is one…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
As the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, cellulose represents a promising and sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels and value-added chemicals. Due to its recalcitrant nature,…
Microbiology
Third Award
The anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases and nutrient loading has contributed to the proliferation of harmful algal blooms. The overgrowth of diatoms and dinoflagellates creates hypoxic…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Despite being one of the most common diseases in the world, Alzheimer’s disease is misdiagnosed at a high rate of 12% to 23% [1]. Current state-of-the-art machine learning models for Alzheim…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
The quality and taste of a watermelon mainly depend on its ripeness degree. As the watermelon ripens, the redness of its inner flesh increases, while the thickness of the outer rind shrinks.…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine which aerodynamic element/s on an F1 car is/are the most important to maximize to achieve the fastest lap possible around the Bahrain Internation…
Microbiology
Third Award
Tuberculosis, an infectious respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is estimated to have infected more than a quarter of the world’s population. It was the second leading c…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Aims: The purpose of this study was to use machine learning algorithms to build an effective, non-invasive and automated pipeline for grading and characterizing gliomas according to WHO 2016…
Chemistry
Third Award
Aedes aegypti management is a global concern due to the absence of medication and effective vaccines. The pesticide-mediated health hazards and rising insecticide resistance in mosquitoes ha…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Evidence shows that researchers excavating Ancient Egyptian tombs face problems, such as narrow entrances, increase of toxic gasses, decrease of oxygen, and increase in temperature. The proj…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Adapting the evidence-based medical practice of giving oral sucrose to human infants before painful procedures, during the 2020-21 foreign animal disease outbreak of RHDV2 (Rabbit Hemorrhagi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
The purpose is to determine the potential to reduce linear acceleration and tangential velocity during front and rear oblique impacts of a football helmet facemask. Independent Variables: No…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Surplus nitrogen's runoff causes numerous environmental hazards, such as algae blooms, which endangers marine wildlife. Currently, farmers use 60-cent single-use test strips (returns qualita…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Does quantum mechanics embed the possibility to be a true theory that corresponds to the principle of nature? If locality and reality, common assumptions of physics, are valid, quantum mecha…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Globally, 250 million people have visual impairment, and many are unable to move around safely without human assistance due to the complexity of finding pathways, avoiding obstacles, risk of…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial cancer diagnosed in children, accounting for 6% of all pediatric cancer cases and 15% of childhood cancer deaths. The disproportionate NB m…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
In this study the N-Methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor was perturbed, and the resulting phenotypic effects were studied. It was hypothesized that the role of the NMDAR in neurodevelopmental…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Due to its toxic effects, such as heart, neurological, and skin diseases, elevated arsenic in water/soil is the 6th leading cause of nonaccidental death globally. While arsenic filtration te…
Systems Software
Third Award
The need for developing and delivering interactive web applications has grown rapidly. Thus, Million.js was created to allow for the creation of compiler-augmented JavaScript UI libraries th…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The abundance of M-dwarfs, combined with the relative ease of detecting Earth-sized planets around them, has made them prime targets for finding and characterizing planets in their ‘habitabl…