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AJAS · 2025
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
We examine the distribution of architectural and artifactual patterns across the Postclassic city of Mayapan (A.D. 1150-1450), located in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. We analyze 356,722…
AJAS · 2025
Nearly 2 million cases of cancer are diagnosed annually in the US resulting in approximately 600,000 deaths. Most of these deaths are the result of the metastasis of tumors, a complex proces…
AJAS · 2025
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
UNESCO published at the UN 2023 Water Conference that 46% of the world lacks access to safely managed water sanitation, emphasizing a global need for clean water. Pesticide usage and imprope…
AJAS · 2025
Wildfires are a worldwide threat and climate change is increasing their intensity and frequency. They burn the soil, its nutrients, and surrounding vegetation. The Pine Barrens are protected…
AJAS · 2025
Microbiology (inferred)
Infections caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) often require medical treatment, and S. epidermidis is resistant to many antibiotics. This study explored the impact of zinge…
AJAS · 2024
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, with breast cancer being the most common type of non-skin malignancy in women. The tumor microenvironment (TME) and extracel…
AJAS · 2024
Litter decomposition is a key ecological process that plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle. In the present study, the relationship between endophyte abundance and litter mass loss w…
AJAS · 2024
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
From uses in optics to architecture, stained glass has existed for several millennia. Metal-ion dopants are standardly introduced to conventionally made glasses via salt doping or by adding…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Conventional fingertip pulse oximeters have limited accuracy for people with poor circulation. More accurate fingertip pulse oximeter models are very costly, making them an unrealistic expen…
AJAS · 2024
The aim of this project is to develop a mobile app that can detect drug/alcohol intoxication levels in individuals using eye-pupil analysis. The app will utilize computer vision algorithms t…
AJAS · 2024
Each year, the world generates about 300 million tonnes of plastic waste. Sixty percent of the waste culminates in our natural environment or landfills. The plastics never fully decompose, a…
AJAS · 2024
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
Centicubes have been a common manipulative in elementary and middle school classrooms to teach counting, addition, subtraction, fractions, ratios, and proportions. Since each cube has a leng…
AJAS · 2024
Engineering (inferred)
Orbital debris in the 0.1–10 cm size range are known to be a mission-ending risk for space assets. While larger debris are consistently tracked, ground-based radar systems offer only limited…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant adult brain tumor. With minimal clinical innovation, the prognosis for GBM patients remains grim. However, a commonality exists between 83% of…
AJAS · 2024
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
An increase in the prevalence of waterborne bacterial diseases has remained evident with examples such as Legionella contamination of Houston Ben Taub Hospital’s water supply and Burkholderi…
AJAS · 2024
Microbiology (inferred)
Hot Springs, Arkansas is a tourist town known for its geothermal hot springs, which contain microbial thermophiles that thrive at high temperatures. These springs have several sources of wat…
AJAS · 2024
Wastewater-Based Genomic Surveillance (WBGS) is an emerging technology that has demonstrated tremendous potential in combating pandemics by enabling rapid detection of infections through tes…
AJAS · 2024
As meningioma accounts for 40% of adult brain tumors worldwide, timely tumor assessment is required to ensure patient health. Currently, manual tumor segmentation imposes a high burden on th…
AJAS · 2024
Engineering (inferred)
In future interplanetary missions, rockets must land on smooth terrain to avoid damaging their boosters or tipping over. Currently, scientists can narrow down Mars mission landing spots with…
AJAS · 2024
Microbiology (inferred)
I chose this project because when I am older I want to work in the healthcare field. Specifically an OB nurse. So I thought about doing something related to what I want to do when I am older…
AJAS · 2024
Systems Software and Computer Science (inferred)
Imagine you are surfing the web, going about your daily business, and suddenly your computer freezes up! Tick... tock... the seconds go by as you wait in anticipation. It is only then that y…
AJAS · 2024
Embedded Systems (inferred)
More than 250 million individuals have severe visual impairments or complete blindness. These individuals have difficulty independently navigating new and unfamiliar places for work, study,…
AJAS · 2024
From helping solve murder cases to low level crimes, fingerprints are an invaluable forensic tool. Traditional fingerprinting methods using fluorescent dye staining are valuable to enhance f…
AJAS · 2024
Microbiology (inferred)
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health concerns of our time. Currently, antibiotic resistance causes nearly 3 million infections and over 35,000 deaths in the U.S an…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The industrialization of our society has caused a number of problems for the natural environment. One of these problems is light pollution, which comes from excess and unwanted light from ar…
AJAS · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease inflicting nearly 6 million people in the United States, is characterized by molecular and cellular changes in the brain that result in…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Osteosarcoma (OS) and rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) are the most common malignant bone and soft-tissue sarcomas in children and adolescent young adults (AYA). Although the standard of care, which i…
AJAS · 2024
Autonomous vehicles are predicted to be an enormous disrupter to our economy, creating a massive and unpredictable impact, much like the smartphone on telecommunications. Automation can resh…
AJAS · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
This research project explores the sophisticated integration of omics and computational analysis techniques with a focus on exome sequences. Leveraging the Arcus computational framework, our…
AJAS · 2024
According to the United Nations, a third of the food globally (1.3 billion tons) is wasted every year. One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to, by 2030, reduce per capita global fo…