Physics and Astronomy
With the constant advancement of science and technology, particularly in astronomy, more effective resources have been developed for understanding the Universe. In 2015, the first observatio…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Forecasting the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is very important because it is directly associated with the potential damage from the storm. In order for forecasts to be accurate, ther…
Environmental Engineering
I was inspired to commence this experiment after reading an alarming statistic; due to hydrocarbon pollution, Australia declared 80,000 soil sites contaminated, Europe 3 million sites, and t…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can aid lifeguards as 82% of ocean-related deaths in California occur at unprotected beaches, and 90% of drownings occur at low- and mid-income cou…
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's patients often encounter challenges like irregular finger tremors and stiffness. Recent research has underscored the potential benefits of rehabilitation training, crucial for re…
Environmental Engineering
Kenya faces substantial challenges regarding water scarcity, sanitation, and hygiene, significantly impacting public health, economic growth and social equity. With a significant portion of…
Mathematics
Second Award
The rise of modern cryptosystems introduced the problem of modular exponentiation. Modular exponentiation is the problem of computing a perfect power a^n modulo some modulus, say m. This pro…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The number of annual lead-poisoning fatalities exceeds the combined annual fatalities from car accidents and malaria. Cadmium causes DNA damage. A leading heavy metal exposure source is surf…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Methylation marks are a type of epigenetic mark established during cellular differentiation that change with time and are often associated with aging and degenerative diseases. Thus, manipul…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Color image sensors typically rely on absorbing filters arranged in the Bayer pattern (red, 2×green, and blue). Dye-and pigment-based filter arrays have several disadvantages such as photo-…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning is a rapidly growing field, making incredible advances especially in the subfields of computer vision and image classification. These advances are in part what allow for inn…
Embedded Systems
In our daily learning life, there are many words that require memorization and recitation. How can we effectively use fragmented time to strengthen memory and improve learning efficiency? Th…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Disease pathogenesis is closely associated with genetically influenced metabolites. The identification of individualized metabolite-disease associations is crucial in advancing personalized…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Surges in Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) due to fallouts of anthropogenic activities and climate change are recurrently impairing water quality. Biodiverse ecosystems like the Indian River Lago…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Roughly 296 million individuals suffer from substance addiction, while another broad spectrum contends with behavioral addiction. The addict encounters myriad challenges throughout the thera…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) feature suboptimal graphite anodes with low cost efficiencies and poor energy densities compared to modern high-capacity anodes (HCAs). However, desp…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
Flow control offers an appealing method to improve efficiency, stability, and performance of aerodynamic bodies. Jet Assisted Surface Mounted Actuators (JASMAs), a form of hybrid (active and…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
My study examines three new brown dwarf spectral binary candidates, CWISE J072708.09-360729.2, CWISE J103604.84-514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62-732053.9, which were discovered by citizen scie…
Translational Medical Science
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of Metformin, the effect of Y15, and the combinational effect of Y15 and Metformin for the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian c…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the advent of stretchable electronics, including implantable medical devices and portable electronics, there is a strong desire to develop thin, flexible batteries for these application…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is one of the largest contributors to the greenhouse effect (265x more greenhouse forcing than CO2) and is the largest contributor to ozone depletion in the 21st century.…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Bionic soft robot is an important branch in the field of robotics, allowing robots to use effective mechanical structure to maneuver in complex conditions. Among them, water surface robots w…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sequence alignment tools have traditionally been used to study the evolution of genome sequences by aligning sequences of varying lengths. However, these tools are memory-intensive, time-con…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The existing Go AI System assumes players operate at the highest level, presenting analyses often inaccessible to most enthusiasts. This study addresses this gap by proposing novel estimatio…
Biomedical Engineering
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurological illness defined by the death of brain nerve cells, frequently leads to dementia as well as impairments in judgment, memory, and communica…
Systems Software
The purpose of this study is to investigate the susceptibility of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to quantum computing-based attacks. Quantum computers possess the potential…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms mimic evolution of a species in nature, where each generation is made up of a population of chromosomes, which, through crossover and mutation, evolve increasingly fit off…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Over the period from 2008 to 2022, the United States experienced 263 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin. The ability to accurately predict the track of tropical cyclones is essential fo…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Monitoring the global distribution and long-term series changes of the various oceanic carbonate parameters (e.g. pH, total alkalinity (TA), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), fugacity of CO2…
Biochemistry
First Award
A hallmark of cancer is the rewiring of cellular metabolism to meet proliferative needs. Citrin protein (transcribed from the human SLC25A13 gene) is a mitochondrial carrier involved in the…