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JSHS · 2023
Monitoring cognitive engagement and comprehension may prevent accidents and save lives, especially with drivers of autonomous vehicles, air traffic controllers, and in other attention-critic…
JSHS · 2023
Gene therapy has immense potential for treating conditions such as cancer, hemophilia, kidney disease, and inherited blindness by correcting defective genes directly. Adeno-associated viruse…
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An increase of natural polymer-based film materials in the food industry has occurred in recent years to reduce petroleum-based plastic accumulation. Previous research developed starch-based…
JSHS · 2023
Previous research has suggested that abiotic factors, such as UV irradiation, facilitate the degradation of artificial polymers, such as polyethylene, into microplastics. However, current re…
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Coffee has become one of the most popular beverages world-wide. But how is coffee made? Coffee beans can be studied to generate new, more effective methods to crush the beans. I studied and…
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Breast cancer affects hundreds of thousands of people each year. Cancer, defined as uncontrolled growth of cells, may occur due to changes in a cell which prevent normal cellular processes t…
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an incurable small intestine and colon disorder. While exerting anti- inflammatory effects, bioactives in broccoli sprouts cannot treat IBD well probably…
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Polytechnic Institute Principal Investigator: Jill Moore, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute Over 2 million people suffer from multiple sclero…
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Plastic accumulating in landfills poses a major environmental threat to wildlife ecosystems and contributes to the production of harmful greenhouse gasses. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) accounts…
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Managing water and wetlands is critical to the environment and economy. Wetlands, marshes, and bogs in Delaware, for example, support ecosystems and provide significant economic value rangin…
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SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause widespread dysfunction across multiple organs, including the heart. Myocardial dysfunctions have been observed in many patients with COVID-19. T o understand w…
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Despite vigorous recycling efforts, nearly 350 million tons of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—plastic commonly used to package foods and beverages—accumulate annually, posing a serious thr…
JSHS · 2023
Medical School, Boston, MA Purpose: Though behavioral effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are well-documented, a gap exists in current literature on its effects on glym…
JSHS · 2023
Liver transplantation is the most effective therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease. The process of liver transplantation involves the removal of the liver from a brain-dead donor…
JSHS · 2023
Candidiasis refers to various infections attributable to the opportunistic yeast fungus Candida. These infections possess the ability to manifest in various forms specific to the location of…
JSHS · 2023
75% of newly emerging infectious diseases, including Ebola and Rabies, are zoonotic. Originating from animals, zoonotic diseases comprise over 2 billion cases of illness and 2.7 million deat…
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Object recognition is an important task in image processing and fuzzy neural network (FNN) is a popular tool for object recognition. However, when applied to datasets that present complex an…
JSHS · 2023
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits- all approach, where patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the sa…
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“Ophidia Vision: Inside the Terrarium Lab” is an experiment that used machine learning to detect a reptile’s identity. The scientific question is: Can a facial recognition machine learning m…
JSHS · 2023
Kartik Srinivasan, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Integration of photonics components onto chips has revolutionize…
JSHS · 2023
Survey robots are vital to exploring extreme environments; however, limitations arise from the unpredictable nature of granular media. Currently, there is no model to characterize granular m…
JSHS · 2023
Successful cancer treatment relies on understanding its etiology and the early detection of symptomatic patients. The identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) shared between…
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A palindrome is a word or phrase that can be read the same forward and backward. Similarly, palindromic sequences in DNA can be read the same from the 5’ to 3’ end on one strand as on the re…
JSHS · 2023
Multiple sclerosis is a disorder in which the immune system attacks the protective covering of the nerve cells in the central nervous system (CNS). Bcells may contribute to disease progressi…
JSHS · 2023
Plastics are inexpensive, lightweight, and corrosion-resistant, but microplastics (MPs) that break down from plastics pollute the environment and pose risks to humans. Obesity has nearly tri…
JSHS · 2023
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) affects millions worldwide but has an exceptionally high prevalence in Hawaii, with a rate of 9% for all residents aged 18 or older. Of that 9%, 13.1% are Native Hawaii…
JSHS · 2023
Have you ever wondered how the flowing of water can be turned into electricity? Normally, water and electricity cannot go together, so you would think it is not possible. However, with the h…
JSHS · 2023
Lung transplantation is the standard treatment for end-stage lung diseases. A crucial factor affecting its success is size matching between donor’s lungs and recipient’s thoracic space. Comp…
JSHS · 2023
Surgical resection remains the optimal treatment for early-stage lung cancer. However, the recurrence rate after surgery is unacceptably high (30%-50%). Despite the significant efforts, it r…
JSHS · 2023
America cycles 9 million people through jails and 600,000 through prison annually. Within three years of release, 66% of released individuals are re-arrested. Judges and officers use statist…