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Using Aliivibrio fischeri to Detect Water Toxins

Conventional water analysis typically makes it difficult to efficiently determine a broad range of water contaminants. To improve health worldwide, an economical method for determining water…

Using Carminatives to Wipe Out Gas Bubbles Disease

Gas bubble disease, a disease that causes pop eyes or even deaths in fish has aroused much concern these days. This disease which is caused by supersaturation of different kinds of dissolved…

Using Comparative Genomic Hybridization to Identify Unique Mutation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients in Saudi Arabia

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disorder that involves muscle weakness and occurs in approximately 1 out of every 3,600 male infants. The average life expectancy for indivi…

Using Drosophila melanogaster to Study Alzheimer's-Related Amyloid Proteins

Amyloid proteins are the key proteins in Alzheimer’s disease. In humans, elevated levels of Amyloid Precursor Proteins (APP) can lead to a buildup of Amyloid-B plaques, which ultimately redu…

Using Electromyographic Technology and Voice Control to Create a Cost-Effective Prosthetic Arm

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

We don’t think about it, but many of our daily actions require our hands. But the truth is not everyone is fortunate to have their hands by their side. Prosthetics are available but they eit…

Using Fake Dictionaries in Cryptology to Develop a More Secure Cipher (Fake Synonyms Encryption Cipher)

Due to daily development, actual ciphers became insecure, for instance AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard) which is the most used Symmetric Block cipher (version of AES that inputs a 256…

Using Geochemical Mapping of Marsh Foraminifera Tests to Analyze Cytoplasmic Deposition of Trace Elements

Over the course of several geologic timescales, the geochemical compositions of agglutinated foraminifera change with the addition or subtraction of various trace elements into the marsh eco…

Using Hydrophobic Microporous Layers and Enhanced Air Flow to Reduce Methanol Crossover in a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

Due to the finite supply of fossil fuels and the ecological dangers associated with their use, there has been a push in recent years to find new ways of efficiently producing energy. The dir…

Using Light Emitting Diodes as Light Sensors for the Detection of NO2

This project aimed to develop and test an inexpensive and effective detector of NO2 using LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). I hypothesized that an LED that was configured as a light sensor would…

Using Methods of Phytoremediation to Decrease Levels of Radon-222 in Soil Samples

The main objective of this experiment was to determine whether methods of phytoremediation could decrease the levels of radon found in different soil samples. Phytoremediation techniques use…

Using Nickel Titanium Alloy for Fixing Damaged High Pressure Pipes in Emergency Situations

Fourth Award

The purpose of the project is to fix damaged, high pressure pipes in either extreme or domestic circumstances. I decided to use NITINOL alloy because of its form remembering effect (After de…

Using Novel Nano-Porous Triple-Bore Hollow Fiber Membranes for Air Dehumidification in Greenhouses

Fourth Award

Plant cultivation in Saudi Arabia’s coastal areas is implemented mainly in greenhouses, which are located in humid environments. The ideal humidity for most plants typically ranges between 5…

Using Parasitic Fruit Sap to Produce Orchid Adhesion Glue

Fourth Award

The fruits of Dendrophthoe pentandra, a parasitic plant, produce sticky sap which can adhere to the trees and attach their seedlings for seed propagation. I noticed that my father had to spe…

Using Pico-Nano Technology to Enhance the Effectiveness of Visible-Excited Charge Separation and Photo-catalytic Activity

Worldwide interests aroused in the field of solar water splitting and photodegradation of organic pollutants using semiconductor photocatalysts. Fabrication of nano photocatalyst can improve…

Using Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting in Near Field EEPROMs to Assist the Blind in Urban Environments

This project was done in order to design a system that could assist the blind by providing information of their location. It was hypothesized that it could be possible to design a system cap…

Using Self-Cleaning Materials to Extend the Life of Stents and Catheters

As blood flows inside stents/hemodialysis catheters, there is a tendency for elements of blood, such as fibrinogen, to adhere to stents/catheters, leading to clot formation and requiring fur…

Using Sine Waves to Cancel out Tinnitus Frequencies

The purpose of this project is to help people with tinnitus. The experimenter created a computer program that uses generated sine waves and phase to cancel out tinnitus frequencies. First th…

Using Spices to Inhibit the Formation of Carcinogenic Heterocyclic Amines in Grilled Chicken

Biomedical Engineering

Recently, fast food chains and local restaurants around the nation have been changing their menus from fried and breaded meat products to grilled meats. This change, while meant to be positi…

Using Statistical Analysis and Probability to Examine a Counterintuitive Problem

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the mathematical principles of the Monty Hall problem. The Monty Hall problem is a three door probability puzzle loosely based on the television…

Using the Ketone Body Beta-hydroxybutyrate as a Radiosensitizer for Malignant Glioma Cells

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumor. Despite aggressive treatment, including maximum surgical resection followed by both chemotherapy and radiot…

Using Video to Judge Criminal Intent: Effects of Slow Motion and Jury Instructions

Systems Software

Several high-profile deaths recently focused societal attention on the use of video footage as evidence. This experiment investigated how slow motion and jury instructions affect the judgmen…

Using Virtual Screening Methods to Identify a Novel and Noninvasive Method of Heart Disease Treatment and Prevention

Biomedical Engineering

Heart Disease is the top killer in the United States, causing 600,000 deaths annually. Current methods of prevention for this disease cause discomfort to 30% of the population and may be inv…

Utilization of crude plant extract of Imperata cylindrica as effective bio-insecticide to eradicate brown plant hoppers Nilaparvata lugens Stal in rice fields

Third Award

Nilaparvata lugens Stal or brown planthopper is the dominant damaging pest found in rice field together with Cyrtorhinus lividipennis which is its egg predator. Using chemical insecticides e…

Utilization of Open Sourced Technology and Software to Improve the Safety of Outdoor and Indoor Navigation: Applying Methods to Assist the Visually Impaired

Computer technology has made large impacts on society however, there are still areas in which new technologies can be implemented in order to improve lives such as in the lives of the visual…

Utilizing a Piezoelectric Crystal Tree to Harvest Electrical Energy from Rain Water

Third Award

This multiphase study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing a piezoelectric crystal tree to harvest electrical energy from rain water to use as a clean, renewable energy sou…

Utilizing Cardiac and Pulmonary Function with Piezoelectricity to Power a Cardiac Pacemaker

Fourth Award

The purpose of this experiment is to find a way to provide a constant supply of electrical power to a cardiac pacemaker utilizing cardiac and pulmonary motions in conjunction with piezoelect…

UV Schutz, Orange Peel Extract Used to Absorb UV

The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere which surrounds the Earth. The layer shields the entire Earth from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation that comes from the Sun. However…

Vaccine Design Using in silico Tools: Novel Influenza Vaccines with Genetic Adjuvant

Worldwide, Influenza kills more than 250,000 yearly. Despite this, the approach to flu vaccination has not changed in several decades. One novel technique in vaccine development is the use o…

Vaccines and the Thermophilic Gene

To help vaccinate the rural population of Africa, who do not have easy access to electricity and refrigeration, the thermophilic gene could be added to common vaccines to help them remain po…

Vector Parking Functions and Tree Inversions

We find a depth-first search version of Dhar's burning algorithm that gives a bijection between the parking functions of a multigraph and its spanning trees. Thus we extend a result by Perki…