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JSHS · 2022
Epilepsy is generally diagnosed using electroencephalograms, or EEGs, which are tests that detect electrical activity in a person’s brain and consist of measurements of a set of potential di…
JSHS · 2022
Chronic stress and anxiety often cause mental and physical dysfunctions. Inevitable cardiac responses usually accompany as a part of the autonomic nervous system’s reaction to combat stress.…
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Human enteric pathogenic viruses present in wastewater, even at low concentrations, are responsible for many fatal waterborne diseases. The MS2 bacteriophage was used as a model pollutant du…
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The purpose is to determine the potential to reduce linear acceleration and tangential velocity during front and rear oblique impacts of a football helmet facemask. Independent Variables: No…
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Micro- and nanoplastics are an air- and waterborne pollutant. They are carried globally; high levels have been found in dust in Tehran, snow samples in the Pyrenees, and in ice samples from…
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Our global cargo ships transport 90% of goods and release 4% of climate change emissions and particulate, causing 7.6 million childhood asthma cases and 150,000 premature deaths annually. A…
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The human protein APOBEC3G (A3G) deaminates single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) by mutating deoxycytidine (DC) to deoxyuridine (DU). A3G dysregulation induces DNA damage resulting in cancer evolutio…
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Oil Eating Microbes (OEMs) are a type of bacteria that consume oil for energy. They are currently being investigated for use in bioremediation as a way to clean up oil spills, which are detr…
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This experiment was conducted to better understand coherent systems by analyzing the relationship between the “quantumness” of a simple pendulum and its revival time. The researcher hypothes…
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for Medical Sciences A growing area of research is focused on identifying drugs that have differential cytotoxic effects on normal and cancer cells. Pomegranate polyphenols are potent antiox…
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In the status quo, traffic signal control systems operate on predetermined patterns and instructions devised from past data. While this method functions effectively for traffic under normal…
JSHS · 2022
Leukoencephalopathy with Brainstem and Spinal Cord Involvement and Lactate Elevation (LBSL) affects the white matter of the central nervous system, and there are about 100 documented cases i…
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Over 12 million Americans live with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), a debilitating autoimmune disease marked by insulitis of the pancreas and the destruction of beta-islet cells by effector Tcells (T…
JSHS · 2022
Extracurricular activities are a large part of the American high school experience, helping shape youth development and relationships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives…
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Obtaining clean drinking water is challenging in rural areas of the least developing countries. While low-cost water filtering setups exist, there still lacks a simple but effective water qu…
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Physical isolation during the Covid-19 prompted a 45% increase in digital use leading to an increase in cyber incidents. This project seeks to understand the risk impact of prolonged interne…
JSHS · 2022
We can study natural materials and the properties of these materials to obtain inspiration for new man-made material with outstanding properties. I studied the claws of a crayfish using a te…
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Electric vehicles are vehicles that run using batteries and electricity rather than gas. Due to the production of electric vehicles showing an increase for years to come I wanted to create a…
JSHS · 2022
Microplastics, an emerging pollutant shorter than 5mm, pose a significant threat as their concentrations increase. With coral reef health in decline, particularly due to rising temperatures,…
JSHS · 2022
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving motor neurons in the cerebral cortex severely impairing patient’s lives. P300 speller-based brain computer…
JSHS · 2022
The researcher will be programming a robot so that it can solve a maze autonomously. The researcher will learn Lego Minestorm NXT (this program uses C++) to program the robot. To solve a maz…
JSHS · 2022
In many applications of clinical machine learning, available datasets may not be sufficiently large enough to train generalizable supervised machine learning models. To improve the generaliz…
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As mobility and multicultural exposure become increasingly prevalent in the globalized world, it becomes more important to understand their effect on how people view themselves and their pla…
JSHS · 2022
The evolution of a planet’s atmosphere depends strongly on the properties of its host star. When their host stars are younger, planets can experience stronger winds and XUV emission. This is…
JSHS · 2022
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) affect ~1.7 billion people worldwide. As most MSD cases are associated with abnormal motion of joints, motion assessment of joints provides a powerful tool f…
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In 1885 a scientist named Albert Bernhard Frank discovered a fungus that would enhance plants and the amount of offspring they would produce, he coined this fungus mycorrhizae. In this exper…
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Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a new therapeutic cancer treatment strategy that offers advantages to traditional cancer treatments, such as minimal invasiveness, higher specificity, and preci…
JSHS · 2022
Drug repositioning is an emerging approach for drug discovery involving the reassignment of existing drugs for novel purposes. An alternative to the traditional de novo process of drug devel…
JSHS · 2022
Radiography is a non-destructive technique used to visualize the interior of objects using various types of radiation. Radiography is used in fields such as biology, chemistry, engineering,…
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The intent of this study was to determine the characteristics and impacts green crabs have on Maine rocky intertidal communities. Since the 1960s, the Maine Department of Resources has track…