Every AJAS 2019 project in the archive: 140 entries with abstracts, awards and links to the originals.
AJAS · 2019
Due to massive labor shortages caused by a lack of immigrants coming to the US to harvest crops, farm owners are reporting rapidly increasing food production prices. Food insecure low-income…
AJAS · 2019
BACKGROUND: The Zika virus (ZIKV) is a rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral illness that is causing global concern due to severe complications such as congenital malformations (microcephal…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
When a bicycle is connected to the back of a car with a bike rack, the bicycle’s wheels spin while the car is in motion due to the wind coming over and around the car. This accessible mechan…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
More than 20 million Americans suffer from peripheral neuropathy, a disease that degrades both motor and sensory nerve control. This makes it almost impossible to perform vital daily tasks s…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Human blood plasma has shed light on better diagnostics and treatment towards hundreds of diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and Alzheimer’s. However, separation of plasma fr…
AJAS · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
“Thought-Code”/” Blink-Code” Part II: Analyzing EEGs through dimensionality reduction for EEG classification Sarvesh R. Babu duPont Manual High School Abstract The focus of the project is to…
AJAS · 2019
Modern society requires an energy source that is renewable, non-pollutant, efficient and compatible with most machinery. Algal biofuel, a liquid fuel synthesized from the lipid produced by m…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The practice of prematurely extinguishing wildfires obstructs the natural wildfire cycle, resulting in greater devastation and putting neighborhoods in the vicinity at risk. As the need for…
AJAS · 2019
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) are of growing concern in the healthcare market because they lead to a 6% mortality rate, increase the average length of stay for a patient from five to tw…
AJAS · 2019
Previous research was conducted with a focus on if there was a inexpensive material that would improve evacuated tubes internally. From the findings it was determined that fiberglass insulat…
AJAS · 2019
In response to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico deadzone crisis, the following study attempts to model the root cause of the crisis by utilizing differential equations through the visual programmi…
AJAS · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology (inferred)
Optogenetics is a new field of study which uses a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control and monitor the activities of individual neurons in living tissue. It had been…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Neurodegenerative disorders affect millions of people across the globe, with approximately 50 million people worldwide diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, this figure is likely…
AJAS · 2019
The purpose of this project is to design and test synthetic guide RNA (sgRNA) used in CRISPR/Cas9 techniques to cut Wnt10B target regions for inserting an enhancer. The Wnt10B gene is part o…
AJAS · 2019
A distinguishing feature of complex systems is the non-linear dynamics relating microstates within a system’s phase space. At thermodynamic equilibrium, the probability of a system occupying…
AJAS · 2019
Embedded Systems (inferred)
Those who are visually impaired currently have few affordable options to enhance mobility. Therefore a device was built that uses echolocation, which is what many blind animals use to find t…
AJAS · 2019
This presentation will describe a multi-discipline approach to creating a physical either remote or automated chess player. The goal was to provide a physical "user interface" that was indis…
AJAS · 2019
Water is an essential part of our lives. It is something we all need to survive. But sometimes, people are left struggling for this basic need. There are thousands of people without access t…
AJAS · 2019
Poor outdoor and indoor air quality causes disease and shortens life expectancy. Air pollution accounts for about 6.4 million deaths worldwide, according to reports published in the journal…
AJAS · 2019
Microbiology (inferred)
Recently, it has been apparent that certain bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics, which is leading to many fatalities. This is due to the fact that antibiotics may be prescribed mo…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Transplanting blood vessels frequently fails because the recipient rejects the donor arteries due to their genetic properties. In addition, many available synthetic products on the market ha…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting conventionally involves additive manufacturing of carbohydrate-based materials such as hydrogel and cellulose. These materials, often referred to as bio-in…
AJAS · 2019
Microbiology (inferred)
The increasing global threat of antibiotic resistance and the exhaustion of terrestrial sources of microorganisms with antimicrobial properties necessitates efforts to augment the current ar…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Severe weather, especially frequent and heavy precipitation exacerbated by climate change, adds uncertainty to the health of urban environments. A critical concern is the combined sewage ove…
AJAS · 2019
Animal Sciences (inferred)
I focused on how vegetation type, structure, and landscape modification affected the presence and location of California Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma californica) and Eastern Fox Squirrels (Sciuru…
AJAS · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, demyelinating autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) initiated and perpetuated by T cells responding to a number of myelin anti…
AJAS · 2019
Microbiology (inferred)
In many households, chopping boards are a staple item in their kitchen. Many of us are concerned about cleaning these items, especially after using them with meat products. The fact stands t…
AJAS · 2019
Misfolded fibril forms of the protein TDP-43 have been identified as a likely cause of, or contributor to, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Motor Neuron Di…
AJAS · 2019
Several important animal behaviors are stable and persist for long durations, ranging on the scale of minutes to hours. Food exploration and exploitation are discrete long-lasting behavioral…
AJAS · 2019
Affinity-mediated drug delivery utilizes electrostatic, hydrophobic, or other non-covalent interactions between pharmaceuticals and a delivery system to extend medication release and improve…