Every AJAS 2017 project in the archive: 121 entries with abstracts, awards and links to the originals.
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Impoverished countries are being negatively affected by the harmful contents of exported waste, specifically electronic waste, from wealthy countries. Printed circuit boards are a major cont…
AJAS · 2017
Almost every year a disastrous oil spill occurs detrimentally affecting both the environment and consumers who purchase oil for many years, even decades afterward. So far, the estimated reco…
AJAS · 2017
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAMs) is a promising, emergent non-volatile technology that has been gaining increasing commercial applications [1]-[3]. Unlike in traditional Random Access…
AJAS · 2017
Mathematics (inferred)
The purpose of this study was to develop an origami spider web pattern. Spider webs have a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This study focused on developing a design for a simplified spider…
AJAS · 2017
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be dependent only on the concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles.…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
RNA-based viruses and bacteria have been sources of large-scale epidemics and pandemics, most notably Ebola, SARS, influenza, hepatitis C, HIV, and the Zika Virus. Normal detection of these…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Droughts in the U.S alone have cost the economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. To conserve water, stringent water restrictions are put in place, but these restrictions prevent pl…
AJAS · 2017
Although the algal biofuel industry is growing, it is inhibited by the high cost of harvesting lipids and the energy used to harvest this energy exceeds the energy that is created. In additi…
AJAS · 2017
Brain tumor segmentation is an essential step in medical image analysis for surgical planning, cancer treatment, or monitoring of therapy. The task is to classify each voxel in a magnetic re…
AJAS · 2017
Embedded Systems (inferred)
This research involved the development of an ultrasonic detection device for obstacle avoidance for the visually impaired. An Arduino Mega digital control unit was programmed with an Annikke…
AJAS · 2017
Background: Viral upper respiratory tract infections are responsible for complications of substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide costing over $100 billion each year. Available treatme…
AJAS · 2017
Solid carbon dioxide, or dry ice, is plentiful on the surface of Mars, accumulating in vast deposits near the poles and undergoing a cycle comparable to water’s on Earth. Because such quanti…
AJAS · 2017
The purpose of this study was to assess the level of sulfur dioxide pollution in Central Park using lichens as index organisms. It was hypothesized that there would be differences in the typ…
AJAS · 2017
Microbiology (inferred)
Antibiotics have been heralded as some of the greatest scientific discoveries of all times. Despite their success in preventing and treating bacterial infectious diseases in recent years the…
AJAS · 2017
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia is currently a worldwide threat to the health and financial sectors. Dementia is an overarching category of diseases which i…
AJAS · 2017
AbstractPlastic is a material that is used to great extent. Most plastics that are commercially used today are petroleum based, meaning that they can take more than a century to degrade. Not…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Asthma – a chronic lung disease that temporarily inflames and narrows the oxygen-carrying airways – is a common illness that affects 235 million people worldwide. Pressurized metered-dose in…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The objective of this project was to create a phenology model by analyzing known vegetation pixels, to extract key transition dates from each year’s phenological data, and to compare them to…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
The FERM domain protein, merlin, encoded by the NF2 tumor suppressor gene, regulates cell proliferation and plays a critical role in cell adhesion and motility while its loss can result in c…
AJAS · 2017
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Binge eating (BE) is a difficult-to-treat behavior with high relapse rates, thus complicating several disorders including obesity. Studies trying to better understand eating disorders includ…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma tumors are the most common type in the brain and have shown to be difficult to treat. The current chemotherapeutic treatment is the drug temozolomide (TMZ); however, research ha…
AJAS · 2017
Embedded Systems (inferred)
There are many methods to send electronic signals, including by wire, radio, light, infra-red light, and audible sound waves. Ultrasound consists of sound waves that are of frequencies above…
AJAS · 2017
Studies have shown that high-, low-, and non-fat dairy may potentially act as driving factors in varying fertility rates. Given the escalating difficulty of American women to conceive health…
AJAS · 2017
Betulin is a natural compound present in the bark of birch trees, which are abundant in North America. Betulin has been shown and recognized by the National Cancer Institute as having promis…
AJAS · 2017
In recent years, non-genetically modified or organic products derived from common grains have been adulterated or contaminated with similar but cheaper genetically modified (GMO) or lower qu…
AJAS · 2017
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
The presence of extrasolar planets (“exoplanets”) is commonly deduced via the stellar magnitude method of observation in which a time-series of images records the temporary reduction in magn…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of titanium dioxide (TiO2) on the overall health of aquatic organisms, and to compare the ecotoxicity of various particle sizes. TiO…
AJAS · 2017
The world needs an energy source that can replace nonrenewable fossil fuels, which release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We explored the production of ethanol from switchgrass, a Nor…
AJAS · 2017
Engineering (inferred)
The problem of excessive exposure to aircraft noise has persisted since the dawn of aviation. The Federal Aviation Administration’s regulations thus require airplanes to make detours in orde…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of my research is to develop a numerical box model that can be used to calculate the concentration of algae (as chlorophyll) in a well-mixed, closed water body system. This metho…