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Rice Straw Power

First Award

Water is life and Egypt's main source of water is Nile River. Unfortunately it's not clean enough and unfit for drinking, in addition it will never last forever. Today, the treatment of diff…

Riding the Wave: Energy in Motion II

Fourth Award

Although most alternative energy advocates focus upon wind and solar, wave energy is also a viable option, since oceans cover over seventy percent of the Earth’s surface and even small swell…

Rigorous Constraints on Exchange for the 3-Body Problem

Exchange in the three body problem occurs when one body displaces a previously bound member of a binary system. Exact conditions for when such an exchange can occur are established through a…

River Tsunami and Safety of Population and Facilities Along the River Course

The risk of anthropogenic disasters due to the dam failures caused by natural or artificial reasons grows with the increasing number and scale of hydraulic facilities. The appearing wave tra…

Roads Accidents Alert System

The use of automobiles is in the rise worldwide. Data for the past 10 years show an average increase of about 70% worldwide [1] of new car sales. The number is even higher in some developing…

Robo F-Pads

Third Award

With the common occurrence of concussions in the sports world, there should be a way through technological means to stop or reduce the risk of receiving a concussion. The Robo F-Pads shoulde…

Robotic Autonomous Experimental Design

Currently available robotic systems lack the ability to act and react without human intervention. As we expand to more diverse fields, we will require increasingly autonomous instruments tha…

Robotic System for Diagnosing Limp in Human Legs

Introduction: Diagnosing limp involves a lot of medical errors and there is a lot of reports that support this problem : 1-In china 24,000,000 people suffer from limb because medical errors.…

Role of miR-143 in Intestinal Tumorigenesis in the Apc Mutant Min Mouse

Biochemistry

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leader in cancer related deaths. Actively researching genes that are not well understood such as miR-143 helps to…

Role of Taste Receptor Gene TAS2R38 and Fat Sensor Protein CD36 in Supertasting Ability and Childhood Obesity

Biomedical Engineering

The objective of this study was to elucidate the genetic basis of super tasting ability and establish associations with childhood obesity. Obesity, which is associated with an increased risk…

Roles of Tribbles in Tumor Formation in Drosophila melanogaster

Biochemistry

The model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, is commonly used in research due to their similarities to humans, ability to rapidly reproduce, and the simplicity of their genetic code. Phospha…

Safe and Sound Housing: A 2nd Year Study Using Rice Byproducts as a Substitute for Adobe in Seismically-Active Regions in Developing Nations

My project is a second year study using paper and pozzolanic reactions to design a safe, affordable, and environmentally sound building material for seismically active regions in the develop…

Safe Mountain Path Service Implementation based on Public Data and Heart Rate Algorithm

In this paper, we propose a mountain trail recommendation application for mobile devices based on individual user health conditions. The application can be divided into three modules: user d…

Safety Bracelet

Safety bracelet is a device used to prevent people loss and reduce facing danger. Any person can use it including children, special needs. and elderly. It consists of two parts, the bracelet…

Satya: Steganography Utilizing Individual Pixels

In a technological age where increased GPU performance is able to crack cryptographic functions faster, stronger and more subtle protection methods are necessary to prevent data loss. The ob…

SCC: Reversible Multi-Translation of High-Level Programming Languages and a Platform for Performance-Controlled Execution in Multi-Agent Systems

Fourth Award

Nowadays there are many different programming languages. They are used in product development, programming contests and research, so the problem of translation from one high-level language t…

Schwann Cell Differentiation from Stem Cells of Neurofibromatosis 1 Patients and Normal Controls

Biomedical Engineering

One in every 4,000 newborns is diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a common genetic disorder. Many NF1 patients develop painful tumors along their peripheral nervous system. NF1 patien…

Science4All

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Illiteracy, elder abandonment, elder abuse, poor scientific awareness, misunderstanding of what science really is... These are just some of the problems our societies face nowadays and makes…

Screening of Bacillus Strains Isolated from the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Shrimp to Develop Novel Probiotics for Improving Shrimp Quality and Yield

Fourth Award

Shrimp aquaculture is increasing worldwide, and probiotics are extensively used as feed supplements to improve the gut health and yield of shrimp. However, most of the commercial probiotics…

Search for Eccentric Accretions in Kepler Binary Systems

A study is being presented on observations of Kepler eclipsing binaries to study eccentric accretions. This study was done on binary systems KIC: 04848423, 010480952, 04157488, 4908495, 6620…

Search for New Ways to Improve Immune Response against Cancer: Modulation of FASL (CD95L) by Lipid Mediators on Lymphocytes

Translational Medical Science

Searching mechanisms to improve the immune system against cancer can be an alternative for treatments used nowadays. In that way, my project studies the relation of lipid mediators (such as…

Searching for an Ally: Investigating the Effects of Thiamethoxam on Podisus maculiventris for Possible Integrated Pest Management, Year Three

Fourth Award

n 2001, thiamethoxam, a second-generation neonicotinoid, was brought onto the insecticide market. Very few studies have been conducted on thiamethoxam for the purpose of integrated pest mana…

Secrets of San Lorenzo Valley's Atmosphere, Part Three: The Dangers of Particulate Matter 2.5 and SLV Inversion Analysis

For the past three years, we have been studying atmospheric inversions in the San Lorenzo Valley (SLV). In our first year, we established that strong inversions occurred frequently—as we had…

Selective Adhesion to Protein-Coated Surfaces for Bacterial Cell Enrichment and Separation

Fourth Award

Detection of foodborne and environmental pathogens is becoming increasingly imperative for the maintenance of public health. Rapid detection of these detrimental bacteria may be greatly faci…

Self-assembly and Characterization of Macroscopic Monolayer Films Composed of Ligand Gold Coated Nanospheres

This project’s objective was to build materials with unique optical properties, such as a custom tailored refractive index, with applications in solar cells and fiber-optics. Using self-asse…

Self-Driving Car Intersection

Traffic lights are one of the most dreaded aspects of daily life. They are slow and often inefficient. One possible fix is a self-driving car intersection. Since self-driving cars can drive…

Self-healing Polymers: What Factors Affect the Speed at Which Polymers Self-heal?

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The purpose of my experiment was to understand self-healing polymers and their interaction with catalysts. I studied the speed of rebonding with and without external catalysts on self-healin…

Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Buildings

Currently, between single-family residences, multi-family residences, and commercial buildings, buildings consume a significant share of the total energy in the United States, contributing t…

Self-sanitizing Door Handle

Door handles of public conveniences in hospitals, malls and schools show high incidence of contamination by various strains of bacteria and viruses. Our research has led us to create an effe…

Settlement of Tropical Moth into Korean Peninsula due to Global Warming

Biochemistry

This study has been designed to publicize the possibility that foreign species introduced to the Korean Peninsula by port entires and disoriented ones thrown by typhoons from Southeast Asia…