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JSHS · 2025
This project evaluated the significance of mental health conversations during pregnancy. According to Ahrens et. al (2023), women who have prenatal depression become more likely to develop p…
JSHS · 2025
Fatal accidents involving right -turning vehicles on red lights with pedestrians crossing at intersections emphasizes the need for an accurate and reliable way of alerting drivers and pedest…
JSHS · 2025
Recently, medical professionals have been in significant decline due to lack of interest, yet the rising population is increasing this disparity of medical treatment ratio to patients. Espec…
JSHS · 2025
The cerebrovasculature plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia disease. Aging exacerbates susceptibility to these conditions due to structural…
JSHS · 2025
The Hilbert transform is a critical tool in signal processing, used to extract instantaneous amplitude, frequency, and phase from signals. Its wide -ranging applications include ECG signal a…
JSHS · 2025
Microplastics, degraded from plastic products, have become a pervasive pollutant that severely impacts marine ecosystems and public health. This issue is especially critical in Hawaii, where…
JSHS · 2025
Gliomas affect 90,000 people annually in the United States and have 5-year survival rates as low as 7%, largely due to 5 -year recurrence rates of 52 -62%. Current MRI relies on contrast enh…
JSHS · 2025
Since 1966, the organophosphate chemical Chlorpyrifos has occupied a controversial role in US agricultural production as a pesticide. With mounting pressure for the chemical’s ban, however,…
JSHS · 2025
Turbulence is a natural phenomenon that serves as an underlying principle for many other fields, ranging from astrophysical studies of star formation to climate change modeling. Due to its c…
JSHS · 2025
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal cancer with a five-year survival rate of only 13% and no effective treatment options. RIOK3, a kinase implicated in immune modulation and…
JSHS · 2025
Science of Autonomy: Optimal path planning optimizes maritime navigation by analyzing environmental factors such as ocean currents to determine time -optimal routes in the ocean. I hypothesi…
JSHS · 2025
Scrapie is a neurological disease that is fatal to sheep. Since I raise and show sheep in 4-H, I wanted to make sure that my flock was resistant to scrapie and that when I am seeking potenti…
JSHS · 2025
Eighty percent of all infections are transmitted through touch, but we can avoid most of them by simply washing our hands the proper way. Antimicrobial resistance is a widespread issue growi…
JSHS · 2025
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting ~10,000,000 people worldwide. 86% of PD patients suffer from kyphosis, or curvature of the thoracic s…
JSHS · 2025
Anthraquinones are naturally occurring organic compounds with antibacterial, anticancer, and immunomodulatory properties, yet their current pharmaceutical use remains limited. This research…
JSHS · 2025
Purpose: The accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their interaction with the receptor for AGEs (RAGE) have been implicated in the progression of prostate cancer (PCa),…
JSHS · 2025
Robles, B.S. In 2022, 2.3 million cases of breast cancer were diagnosed worldwide; approximately 17% were classified as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC is difficult to mitigate du…
JSHS · 2025
This research investigated the relationship between insomnia, anxiety, and hearing loss, with a focus on determining whether hearing loss exacerbates anxiety and insomnia in individuals. Mot…
JSHS · 2025
Current sports concussion exams are largely founded on either expert consensus (e.g., SCAT6) or the examiner's discretion. A mTBI results in subtle damage to a diffuse network of neuronal co…
JSHS · 2025
Microplastic concentrations have been exponentially increasing since plastic’s introduction in 1907 and its high utilization during World War I (1914 -1918). With limited means of disposal,…
JSHS · 2025
Cancer is a devastating and major problem that is difficult to treat. A new and promising idea of trained immunity suggests that following stimulation with an antigen/pathogen, innate immune…
JSHS · 2025
Extensive research has explored cancer cell growth and potential treatments. However, the effects of different concentrations of indole-3-carbinol (I3C) on cancer cell growth remain unclear.…
JSHS · 2025
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of a unique alphabet called Phonic Faces® assists students with reading delays improve their decoding ability. The hypothesis was t…
JSHS · 2025
Doctors use doxorubicin as a chemotherapy treatment for multiple cancer types. Doxorubicin shows strong cancer treatment results, but its side effect of heart damage remains its most signifi…
JSHS · 2025
This study investigates whether the active nerve reflex that causes finger wrinkling upon water exposure enhances the ability to manipulate wet objects. Finger wrinkling, caused by vasoconst…
JSHS · 2025
Arkansas for Medical Sciences Despite the improved and updated treatments available currently, breast cancer is the most prominent type of cancer among women worldwide. The common systemic c…
JSHS · 2025
Breast cancer occurs from contingency of malignant cells spreading through the bloodstream, affecting 2.3 million individuals globally, with HER2+ being an invasive subtype due to HER2 prote…
JSHS · 2025
Topology optimization (TO) and Parametric Optimization (PO) are two fundamental structural optimization (SO) techniques. The aim of this study is to understand how these two techniques (TO a…
JSHS · 2025
Amphetamine is a psychostimulant that is widely prescribed for neuropsychiatric disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), due to its ability in enhancing striatal…
JSHS · 2025
This project assessed whether slash pine tree ( Pinus elliottii) ring growth could be used to track rates of saltwater intrusion. If ring growth of non -halophytic pine trees is impacted by…