Biomedical Engineering
Breast cancer is the most prominent cancer found in women. In the US, one in every eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. The current annual rate of women dying f…
Engineering Mechanics
The emergence of tropical cyclone flooding has been more frequent and destructive than ever, with an annual death toll reaching more than 10,000. In response to the high casualty rate, coupl…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
When the conscious mind declares a movement in the body, the central nervous system carries a signal to the muscles by way of neurons. This signal causes the muscles to contract in the form…
Embedded Systems
Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among older adults with over 12 million falls in the United States annually. For elderly people living alone, quick assistance after a fall is cri…
Biomedical Engineering
There are over 289 million people with visual disabilities worldwide and that number is expected to grow to 579 million in only 3 decades due to a large aging population. Current techniques…
Biomedical Engineering
Epilepsy threatens the lives and freedom of around 50 million individuals worldwide annually. Predicting epileptic episodes (seizures) would increase the quality of life of epileptics. Howev…
Plant Sciences
Due to heavy metal pollution in soil around the world, many countries are not able to maximize their farmland usage. While removing the toxic metals is possible, current methods are not viab…
Biochemistry
I aim to modify a preexisting centrifuge force microscopy (CFM) to explore protein crystallization under hypergravity. Proteins are involved in every aspect of cellular life, performing a va…
Biomedical Engineering
This project represents a prosthetic device that can be an external wearable mobile machine that covers the hand or part of it. The movement is generated by pneumatic and electric motors. It…
Embedded Systems
The project aim was to reinvent the wheel. The intention was to develop a system to allow increased move-ability of mobility devices in confined spaces. It was desired that the system took a…
Animal Sciences
In 2019, over 3.2 million adolescents aged 12-17 experienced symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and 73% of adolescents who experienced MDD did not get enough sleep per night. Depre…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If water pollution, including macro and micro plastics is detrimental to marine life, then developing an efficient cleaning system is essential because marine life needs to be protected and…
Environmental Engineering
Water security is becoming a new challenge for many countries as industrial waste containing heavy metals is being disposed in bodies of water. Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic yet common con…
Chemistry
Microbeads are widely used plastics which offer valuable properties that aid cosmetic products for exfoliation and scrubbing. Despite their size, they are currently having serious detrimenta…
Microbiology
The need to develop antimicrobial therapies is on the rise as antibiotic resistance increases. Drug repurposing is a cost-effective measure and much more efficient than drug development. Nic…
Plant Sciences
Viola mirabilis is one of the species of violets that distributed throughout Europe. Its feature is the ability to blossom twice a year: in the spring appear infertile flowers and in the sum…
Mathematics
In this paper, we investigate the generalized tent maps, whose vertex, left endpoint and right endpoint are (a, b), (0, s) and (1,c) respectively, where 0<a<1, 0<b<=1,0<=<1 and 0<=s<1. Accor…
Physics and Astronomy
Synchronization is a basic physical phenomenon in the dynamics of coupled nonlinear systems. This project mainly studies the coupling phenomenon in several metronomes, which means that the m…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness and is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults. DR will affect most type-1 diabetic (T1D) pati…
Materials Science
Organic pollutants cause detrimental effects to aquatic communities living in them; thus, becoming a threat to the Philippines' river water system. To address this, graphene oxide was magnet…
Physics and Astronomy
As quantum computers advance, a way to diagnose quantum circuit failures becomes necessary for diagnostic purposes and to resolve data corruption due to faulty gates and eavesdropping. This…
Translational Medical Science
The drawback of chemotherapy for treating cancer is that the cancerous cells acquire drug resistance after constant exposure to the drug, making them impervious to further dose escalation. M…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Modern diagnosis of glioma tumors requires several MRI sequences of the brain, which can be costly, burdensome to the patient, and provide toxic risks due to the presence of metallic, often…
Plant Sciences
In agriculture around the world, we are diminishing beneficial soil microorganism populations, causing higher crop susceptibility to plant-parasitic nematodes, increased fertilizer need, and…
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to create a program that would encode a robust watermark into a three-dimensional file type. Working with ASCII STL files, the program encoded the information by…
Plant Sciences
Pollen germination and tube growth are critical for successful double fertilization, which is important for sexually propagated seed production in higher plants. Upon landing on stigma surfa…
Microbiology
Affecting over 2.4 billion people, dental caries is the most prevalent, global disease. Caries is caused by Streptococcus mutans, a bacteria that produces lactic acid, creating lesions in th…
Plant Sciences
Drought and salinization of the land are serious environmental problems facing our world, which will inhibit the normal growth of crops. Therefore, using purple corn as the research material…
Engineering Mechanics
Nowadays the aviation industry is developing quickly. Constructors need better technologies to make their planes better and safer. As a pilot I have noticed that sharp transitions between an…
Engineering Mechanics
A significant problem faced on the International Space Station is the efficiency of growing plants as an edible food source. Growing plants in space is challenging because of the effects of…