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Safe Road with Losing Consciousness

Each year nearly 1.2 million people die as a result of road crashes. Driving while fatigued, falling asleep and losing of consciousness cause many car accidents. Approximately 3-10% of patie…

Sand Free Device

The problem recognized was the huge amounts of dust that accumulate on solar panels and glass fronts of shops, stores and hotels etc, during sandstorms in particular, as well as the daily bu…

Sasanil Plant for Biodegradable Glue

In the current research a natural glue obtained from the mucilage of Sasanil (Cordia dentata) fruits, is presented. Its characteristics are biodegradable, non-toxic and with a low production…

Schedule Advisory: Investigating Genetic Algorithms to Solve Class Scheduling

A genetic algorithm is a heuristic that attempts to mimic natural selection and biological evolution. A genetic algorithm continuously modifies a population of individual solutions to a prob…

Science Overcomes Drug Addiction: A New Approach on Monitoring the Receptors Overexpress on Brain Cells

We want to put the light on substance abuse and create awareness towards these problems especially amongst students. In the area of substance addiction, studies about destroying the neurolog…

Sea Level Rise and March of the Molokai Mangrove: The Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Sea Level Rise and Introduced Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) on Molokai, Hawaiian Islands

First Award

Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), introduced to Moloka?i from Florida in 1902, has invaded the southern coastline, threatening the long-term sustainability of nearshore ocean resources utili…

Seasonal Variation of the Lower Atmosphere

Climate change has been altering the atmosphere. Signs of climate change can be seen in the temperature lapse rate, radiation, ultraviolet light, and barometric pressure levels of the lower…

Sea Sponges and Silicon

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

As climate change and pollution are on the rise, any way to eliminate greenhouse gases and harmful chemicals from our atmosphere would be beneficial. Large contributors to these emissions ar…

Security at the Speed of Light: Countering Cyberattacks via Novel On-Chip Photonic Protocols

Last year, over 556 million people were victims of cyberattacks, equating to a socioeconomic impact topping $1 trillion. Malicious data breaches pose peril to national security, medical devi…

Seismic Alerter (Spanish: Alertador sismico)

There is still not the technology to predict seismic movement, but we can anticipate to this kind of events. Our project aims was to alert several seconds in advance, and as a consequence he…

Self Driving Pharma: A Novel Cognitive Knowledge Harvesting Approach to Train a Self-Learning System For Drug Predictive Models through Multi-Dimensional Bio-Entity Feature-Vector Based Topological Data Analyses

82m researchers are updating public curated databases with information about bio-molecular interactions and the role they play in drug behavior. This has led to an era of dynamic big data pr…

Self-Sustaining Streetlight Post

The objective of this research is to design and construct a street self-sustainable light post, using a Savonius Wind Turbine, which will allow the transformation of mechanical energy into e…

Self-Watering (SW)

Self-Watering is a sytem that automatically waters a Plant depending on the humidity level in the surrounding soil. SW is basically composed of both an electronic and a Mechanical part. Afte…

Semilattices of Groups in a Given Variety and Rectangular Bands

In a recent scientific paper, Monzo characterized semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent 2 as the semigroups that satisfy the following conditions: x = x^3 and xyx \in {xy^…

Sencha Power

There is currently an interest in developing supercapacitor along with the booming of mobile electronic devices. Despite offering key performance advantages, many capacitors pose significant…

Sensational Slime Aquatic Allies against Microbial Foes

Biochemistry

In this study, stingray mucus and extracts of the mucus were assayed for antibacterial activity via disc diffusion method. Extracts and pure mucus exhibited considerable inhibitory activity…

Separating Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere to Help Minimize Global Warming, Year One

Global warming is one of the world’s greatest challenges and it is clear that reducing emissions will not stop the global warming process. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a necessity. Th…

Shape-Shifting Origami Robotics

Second Award

This project addresses the design of shape-shifting robots, which can transform into any desired shape. A deformable robot was assembled, consisting of triangular 3D-printed flaps. The flaps…

Shear Heating of Black Hole Accretion Disks

This project is the result of a study into black hole thermodynamics, more specifically accretion thermodynamics. The purpose was to study the environment brought about by the close proximit…

Shielding Space Radiation

A shield for space radiation is necessary in long-term space travel to ensure the safety of astronauts. Mars astronauts are projected to receive over 13 times the amount of radiation as a nu…

Shining a Light on the Blind: Evolutionary Regression and Adaptive Progression in the Micro-vertebrate Ramphotyphlops braminus, a Model for Understanding Brain Organization and Complex Neurological Disorders

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Efforts like the Human Brain Initiative aim to understand the incredible complexity of our intricate nervous system to solve challenging neurological problems including epilepsy and autism.…

Shocking Scum: The Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Chlorella vulgaris

Fossil fuels play an important role in transportation and production; however, with a limited supply and detrimental effects to the environment, safer, renewable, and more efficient energy s…

ShopMap

Nowadays almost everyone has a smartphone and/or a tablet. People use it in very different parts of their lives. They can use it even to speed up their shopping. ShopMap is an Android app wh…

Silk-Gland-Derived Sericin as a Growth Promoter in Animal Cell Culture

Translational Medical Science Second Award

Sericin is a protein found in silk produced by the silkworm (Bombyx mori) that may be useful as a growth promoter in cultured animal cells. Existing extraction methods require thermal denatu…

Simulating the Radioactive Decay Chain Utilizing a Mathematics Programming Language

This investigation intends to deduce efficient ways to be able to simulate a biological process, specifically the radioactive decay chain, with the use of computers and programming languages…

Simulation of an Ecosystem on a Toroidal Lattice with Three Species

The Wa-Tor problem (from water torus) is a well-known dynamic cell process, aiming to mimic the predator-prey interaction in Biology. It is introduced by Alexander Dewdney in the 80s for two…

SIRO Elektra, the Robotic Chair

This investigation was done in order to meet the special needs of people with mobility impediments. The hypothesis is that it is possible to create a robotic chair capable to mimic horizonta…

SIRT3: A Unique Potential Therapeutic Target for Sepsis-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

Translational Medical Science

Sepsis is an overwhelming immune response to an infection that accounts for 20-30 million hospital cases per year. One of the major issues surrounding this syndrome is the muscle atrophy of…

Skewing the Clues: Investigating the Accuracy of Forensic Science Assays through Peroxidases and Antioxidants

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Through the use of Forensics Science, I developed a procedure that would allow me to test the hemoglobin in beef blood for possible false positives and false negatives. Using peroxidases and…

Slaying the Destructor, Part II: Dosage Optimization and Effects of Oxalic Acid on Honeybee Hives

Biochemistry

The Varroa destructor mite is a honeybee parasite that has plagued beekeepers for decades by causing health decline of honeybee populations, and inevitable colony collapse (if left untreated…