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Floating Lab

My project is called " Floating Lab " which includes a complete lab. This lab can measure the ph of the sample of the water and the temperature of the sample and the oxygen desolved in the w…

Florfenicol as a Treatment for Mycoplasma bovis in Dairy Calves- A Two Year Study

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Mycoplasma bovis is a devastating disease in the cattle industry resulting in an estimated loss of $140 million in 2011. This causes mastitis, pneumonia, poly-arthritis, and otitis media in…

Food Digestion: Candies in the Stomach

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Before starting this experiment there was confusion about how long that the food would take long, yet there was never a clarification on how long it would take. This experiment was designed…

Formation of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Inclusion Compounds with Urea and Thiourea

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

Poly(R-3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biopolymer that has been gaining interest throughout recent years for its biocompatibility and biodegradability. PHB has been studied for use as drug-del…

Forms of Energy for the Levitation of a Magnetic Vehicle

It’s important to offer alternatives to solve of environmental contamination caused by CO2 and other car emissions. The problem is: What is the effect of using different forms of energy in t…

Fracking a Safer Way: A Novel Analysis of Potential Innocuous Alternatives for Chemical Compounds Currently Utilized in the Composition of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids

Hydraulic fracturing is one of the most emergent oil and natural gas extraction processes in the United States. This controversial process has been the center of a large environmental debate…

Fractal Dimension Applied to radiographic Study of Nodules in the Breast

This research is based on the study of the fractal dimension of nodular lesions in radiographic images. The purpose is to calculate the irregularity of the outline of breast nodules. In addi…

Freestanding Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes Derived from Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile/ZIF-8 Composite for Supercapacitors

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that have very long lifecycles and high power densities; however, current commercial supercapacitors, which use activated carbon electrodes, have l…

From EEG to Image: The Graphic Representation of Neural Activity

The aim of this work is to represent brain activity and, in particular, epileptic seizures by using computer technology. The model provides a visual representation of brain activity, which i…

From Greenhouse Gas to an Energy Source of the Future: New Findings on Emission and Formation of Methane

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Methane is a gas with two faces. On one hand it contributes to climate change if it is released uncontrolled into the atmosphere and on the other hand it is an important source of energy if…

From Organic Wastes to Biochar: A High School Student’s Practice

Using microwave heating to produce biochar from organic solid wastes not only recycles wastes but also promotes plant growth and carbon sequestration, and thus has positive implications in l…

Frustration Responses: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The focus of this experiment was to study frustration and how it affected dispositional learning for 80 middle/high school students. Each student was given a questionnaire form and their hea…

Fuel Ethanol Potential of Barley

Today, gasoline made from petroleum products is primarily used to power vehicles. These products cause pollution and one day these resources may run out. Our nation has been researching alte…

Fueling the World One Layer at a Time: Improving the Efficiency of the Gratzel Cell with Nanotechnology

Third Award

A Grätzel solar cell (nano-crystalline dye sensitized or “DSSC”) is a photo electrochemical cell that use photons to excite electrons in organic fruit dyes to create electricity. The Grätzel…

Fuel-less Power Vehicle and Tractor

Virtually in every home in Nigeria and several other developing countries, there is one or more power generators. If our vehicles can be fuel-less and at the same time the owner can use them…

Functional Neural Networks Evaluated by Weierstrass Polynomials

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) proposed by McCulloch and Pitts are machine learning algorithms that are able to approximate any mapping or function when given a dataset. ANNs model the hu…

Fungicide Effect of Chitosan on Rhizopus stolonifer Fungus

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of chitosan as a fungicidal. Will chitosan be effective as a fungicidal for Rhizopus stolonifer fungus? The proposed hypothesis was if c…

Fuzzy Structures with Application to Differential Topology, Manifold Learning, and Specialized Concepts in Mathematics

The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory is just a general…

Game Theoretic Model of Genetic Discrimination

Systems Software

The objectives of this project were (1) to utilize game theory to analyze the prevalence and effects of genetic discrimination and its implications for the future of genetic testing and tech…

Gamma-glutamyl Transpeptidase Inhibition: Combating Multi-Drug Resistance

Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is a condition enabling disease causing microorganisms to resist distinct antibiotics. At present, the only way to fight against this problem is to develop a new…

Gas Analysis Using Ultrasonic

First Award

There is no simple sensor for the direct real-time measuring of the concentration of gas mixtures to date. While there are a variety of different probes for gas measuring, these are usually…

Gas versus Diesel? You Do the Math...

Abstract: The United States automotive market is evolving to more fuel efficient fleets and alternative power-trains. This project analyzes the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a diesel and…

Gelatin and Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticle Based Delivery of miR-34a for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Systems Software Fourth Award

Pancreatic cancer is poorly responsive to available chemotherapy. miR-34a has been suggested as a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, however it needs to be specifically targeted to the…

General Indecisiveness versus Specific Indecision and Their Relationship to Self-Esteem

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Often times, there are instances where making certain decisions are harder than others. One may think that a person who has trouble deciding in one area should also be indecisive across a br…

Generating Electricity from Mud

The purpose of this project was to build a basic fuel cell using loamy mud and use it to generate electricity. A variety of types of mud were initially used to find out which would generate…

Generation of Energy through Pellet Combustion: Organic Recyclables as a Novel Fuel Source

Pellet Stoves have been around for many generations. They have generally been using wood as a fuel source. Although wood is a good fuel, this is a negative impact on the environment, and red…

Generation via Embedding of Quasi-Optimal Networks for Application in High Performance Computing

Second Award

Supercomputers have become critical to the advancement of many fields including medical research, big data analysis, and high-energy physics. Given the recent plateau in processor speeds, ho…

Genetic Algorithms for Foreign Exchange Trading

Fourth Award

Due to the dynamic and variable nature of the stock market, trading strategies do have strong and weak periods. That requires periodic changes in the strategy, which involves finding the bes…

Genetic Characterization of Pulmonary Fibrosis in Patients Who Suffer from Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome: An Autosomal Recessive Inherited Disease

Biomedical Engineering

Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease: a type of albinism correlated to the mutation of an HPS gene and the pulmonary function of patients. Puerto Rico has the highest…

Genetic Determination of in vitro Stem Cell Characteristics

Stem cell research is opening doors to solving medical complications in amazing and novel ways. Regenerative medicine, one of its principal applications, is responsible for having already sa…