Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, and its early diagnosis is crucial for effective intravenous immunoglobulin treatment within ten days, signi…
Chemistry
Huge amount of fat, oil and grease (FOG) in the food waste enters the sewer system on daily basis and finally form “fatbergs” which can lead to significant economic loss and are costly to re…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Paper industry is hugely contaminating, releasing 55 trillion tons of CO2 and cutting down 15 billion trees annually. We aim to solve this problem by using Kombucha as a sustainable alternat…
Animal Sciences
Lac is one of the important export products of Thailand as it can be used in many industries such as medicine, paper, printing , etc. Lac is a resinous substance secreted from lac insects (T…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my project is to show the feasibility of useful machine learning applications on a small scale and with low performance requirements, allowing it to run on common devices and…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Mosquitoes, particularly the Aedes genus, are responsible for the transmission of Zika, Dengue, West Nile, and Malaria, which have no vaccines/treatments available. These result in 700millio…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
To prevent the leaching of contaminated water (leachate) into the surrounding environment, current landfills utilize a system of liners that often contain Bentonite powder, a material intend…
Mathematics
Third Award
Real world mathematical models are often built to incorporate dynamical features like Lebesgue measure preservation, but the algebraic, group theoretical properties of dynamical systems have…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this research was to determine how Lemna minor could supplant commercial fertilizers and result in lower nitrate and phosphate levels in runoff. A null hypothesis states that…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our group studied the anti-cancer properties of white grape on inhibiting cell proliferation of human leukemia HL-60 cells, and if any synergy, with green tea. Results showed that white grap…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The objective of this work is to know the level of depression, anxiety and stress that students of the Victor Manuel Maurtua High School have as an effect of the COVID 19 pandemic that condi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Lie detection has been a subject of interest due to the severe repercussions that false statements can have on society, particularly in high-stakes situations such as courtroom hearings and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Despite the success of machine learning models in an expansive range of tasks, they are still surprisingly brittle to seemingly inconspicuous input manipulations, called adversarial examples…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
E-cigarette usage is growing in popularity, however the correlation between frequent e-cigarette use and ensuing respiratory disease remains unexplored. To that end, a correlation between ex…
Plant Sciences
To combat pathogens, plants have evolved a battery of defense mechanisms that first require recognition of Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs). These macromolecules are conserved e…
Translational Medical Science
According to the journal of Hepatology Liver disease accounts for approximately 2 million deaths per year worldwide in 2018, numbers are continuing to rise by around 5 % each year, almost al…
Chemistry
Strontium ranelate (SrRan) is a highly effective drug of choice for osteoporosis treatment, however, the excessively high daily dosage (2g per day for 3 years at least) could cause various s…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In densely populated mountain valleys like Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, air pollution is a constant concern. Cold inversions trap PM2.5 in winter, creating smog-like haze, and hot summer months…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In Korea, students are suffering from academic stress in a society that demands fierce competition for university admission. So, students have high academic stress. So we thought about ASMR…
Systems Software
Second Award
The necessity of developing and deploying interactive web applications quickly has become more prevalent over the last decade, resulting in developers creating libraries and frameworks to si…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder- decoder U-Ne…
Embedded Systems
Recent advancements in Cloud Computing have given more flexibility to services on the Internet, remaining online as long as the network itself is still operational. However, many types of na…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is an inhibitory receptor that provides a checkpoint against autoimmunity. The PD-1:PD-L1 signalling pathway inhibits T cell function, which allows cancer cell…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
There are several open-source software VIO algorithms that can be deployed on an end-user’s system to solve a specific problem. In the literature, the majority of those pipelines are tested…
Systems Software
Peking opera, named after the capital of China, Beijing, is the most influential form of musical theatre in China. Peking Opera is an important part of UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Microswimmers are microscopic-scale machines that are designed to perform and undergo specific movement in response to external stimuli. In this project, a magnetically-powered multi-segment…
Materials Science
Magnetic control can be used as a method of remote manipulation. However, despite being precise, far-reaching, and instantaneous, it is inconvenient and limited as only ferromagnetic materia…
Materials Science
Our project aims to use of magnetic nanoparticles coated with oleic acid as adsorbents for Lead removal out of contaminated water which provides a candidate technique for separating and remo…
Biomedical Engineering
The project is aimed at solving the problem of the high cost of modern hand prostheses. In this project, the concept of an inexpensive bionic hand prosthesis is being developed using additiv…
Engineering Mechanics
My aim was to build a remote-controlled Mars rover based on Opportunity with similar basic functions: a special suspension, a manipulator arm that can be moved in all directions, a camera th…