Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every week, at least 2 rangers lose their lives globally due to patrolling in forests. This forces them to face deadly threats from every direction, including traps, wildfires, and fighting…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The heavy metals lead (Pb), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) cause an alarming combination of environmental and health problems (Zheng ,2023). Using the Eichhornia crassipes plant, a hyperaccumula…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Every 2 seconds, cardiovascular disease (CVD) steals a life. 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is the gold standard for CVD diagnosis, which is specialist-reliant and mainly available in urb…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Currently, the average global efficiency of oil extraction is around 35%, leaving almost two thirds of the initial reserve unexploited. Using a theoretical modeling of a magnetostrictive act…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With needs for electrical power increasing around the globe, this work will present a novel solution to meet energy demands by using the alternative energy generation of microbial fuel cells…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
Gastroparesis, characterized by slowed or absent gastric contractions, affects 1.8% of the population, presents with severe nausea, abdominal pain, a high mortality rate, and incurs high tre…
Chemistry
PURPOSE The project's purpose is to determine the number of particles in a mole, which is Avogadro's number. My hypothesis is that a mole of any substance contains a definite number of parti…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Prion proteins are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, causing normal cellular proteins to fold abnormally in a rapidly progressive manner. Studying the genes required for yeast prio…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
A high incidence of hepatorenal impairment in cancer patients treated with cisplatin has been reported. Berberine, a plant alkaloid possesses wide range of medicinal properties. Mitochondria…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) poses significant health risks, especially to infants under six months and adults over 65. The objective of this study is to deepen the understanding of str…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common “single-gene” cause of intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) worldwide, often manifesting understudied seizure comorbidi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, has become a global issue; One without a cure. Recent research…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The Safe Sense Helmet project addresses the critical need for enhanced safety and independence among blind individuals through the development of a cutting-edge wearable device. The research…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Despite the improvements made to the Emergency Call Service by the original EmSafe Project, numerous issues have been found that impact the safety and security of people around the world. Em…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Gastrointestinal cancers affect 1.1 million people and are responsible for >875K deaths annually, making them the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Late detection of recurrence…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) and autophagy are both essential physiological mechanisms within cells. However, limited research explores the relationship between endocannabinoids, specifi…
Physics and Astronomy
The discovery of graphenes and fullerenes sparked a surge of interest in the understanding of their structures and properties. One approach, proposed by Friedrich, Seitz and Stefanelli stems…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Access to energy remains a demanding issue for island and coastal inhabitants due to their remoteness, with an estimated 70% of Pacific islander households and 57% of sub-Saharan African res…
Materials Science
Since the discovery of synthetic petroleum-based plastics, humanity has increased its production exponentially at the cost of our planet's health. This traditional plastic takes millions of…
Systems Software
This project creates a POSIX-style shell that runs WebAssembly, allowing programs to be shared between developers without safety issues, platform incompatibilities, determinism problems, or…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Marine vertebrates have declined in abundance in the last four decades by an average of 22%. To observe marine organisms effectively, a waterborne propulsion system with minimal environmenta…
Microbiology
8.2 million patients in the U.S. suffer from non-healing wounds infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Blue light and Sangre de Drago (SD) (Croton lechleri) have potent mechanisms of a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research addresses the pivotal role of the agricultural sector in the Philippine economy, constituting 9.43 percent of the GDP and engaging 30 percent of the labor force. Corn, the seco…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The project explored biomimicry to optimize bobsleigh design. This was motivated by the sustainable development culture under SDG 13 for taking urgent action to combat climate change and its…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biofuels are critical in combating the global climate crisis while providing increasing energy security. However, the current application of biofuels solely emphasizes the utilization of Bio…
Mathematics
Third Award
The cryptocurrency Ethereum utilizes zero-knowledge rollups (ZKR) to improve its scalability. ZKRs processes thousands of Ethereum transactions in a batch and uses zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge…
Mathematics
Federated learning is a new and exciting field of topic that has arisen in the world of machine learning. This field is new and exciting because it offers innovative solutions that address m…
Plant Sciences
Decomposition plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy soil ecosystems. The breakdown of organic matter (field and harvest litter) by decomposers (microorganisms) releases essential nutri…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My project focused on refining the Sukhoi-Su 30MKI fighter jet's airfoil geometry to enhance its efficiency and maneuverability and over 25 iterations of airfoil designs, putting each throug…
Materials Science
The use of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and Waste Engine Oil (WEO) as a rejuvenator has gained popularity in sustainable pavement construction due to potential…