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Calculated distance to a pulsar using DM

In my first year I analyzed the difference between radio frequency interference and pulsar detection. My research for the American Astronomical Society Conference centered on tracking pulsar…

Calculating Evapotranspiration on Tutuila Island

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Evapotranspiration is a fundamental, but not widely understood, contributor to natural water cycles. This project incorporates a rigorous mathematical equation to help understand evapotransp…

Calculation of Dark Matter in S0 g Galaxy NGC3115 - Galaxy Mass Discrepancy and Escape Velocity Analysis

Physics and Astronomy

The existence of non-luminous mass, known as ‘dark matter’ (DM) poses one of the greatest problems in astrophysics. The proceeding correlational study investigates the existence of DM in S0…

Calpains 8/9 Areexpressed in Murine Intestines;Regulated by wnt3a in Coloncancercells

Calpain 8 and calpain 9 are calcium dependent proteases, predominantly expressed in the stomach. They are reported to be implicated in processes such as cancer development and progression. U…

Can Artificial Intelligence Create Original and Convincing Art?

Systems Software

My goal is to determine if artificial intelligence can create art that is both original and comparable to human-created analogues. To determine this, I decided to use music as the artform, a…

Cancer Survival Rate Analysis: Cytoskeletal Protein Stop and Frame Shift (fs) Codons vs. Missense Codons

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Cancer is something we hear in our everyday lives, it takes friends and loved ones and there seems like there is no help for them, especially when the treatment does not work. Through this p…

Can Hydroponics Save the Native Hawaiian 'Ohi'a lehua?

Plant Sciences

In this experiment, I wanted to test if hydroponics would be able to speed up the normal growth rate of the 'ohi'a lehua comparing it to 'ohi'a plants grown in soil (control). Recently, ther…

Can You Hear the Empty Spaces? - Improving Spacecraft Efficiency and Capability Through a Novel Microgravity Slosh Mitigation Technique

Physics and Astronomy

Slosh is unwanted movement of fuel in a tank, and has caused many failed space missions. Slosh occurs during spacecraft launch and in microgravity during maneuvers. NASA and spacecraft devel…

Carbon Capture Using Solid Sorbents. CO2 Adsorption Using Amine-Tethered Polystyrene and Polyacrylic Polymers in Humid Conditions

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gas streams is vital for industrial flue gas remediation, fuel gas refining, and chemical production. Existing liquid amine technology is hampered by…

Carbon (IV) Oxide Electro-Reduction Process to Curb Effects of Global Warming

Chemistry

In our society today the adverse effects of climate change brought about by the release of green house gases such as carbon (IV) oxide are already being felt. Carbon (IV) oxide electro-reduc…

Cardiomyopathic Chagas Disease: An Exploration of Diagnostic Ability via Nanoparticle Biomarker Capture GluOx Pathway, Mass Spectrometry, and Perseus-Based Machine Learning

Biochemistry

Chagas is a South American disease induced by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. With 8 million patients every year, Chagas presents with mild symptoms in the acute stage, followed by heart fai…

Catch the Wave

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Seventy-one percent of our world is made up of water, with five oceans, 117 million lakes, millions of miles of rivers, and so much more. Capturing all of this nonstop water movement happeni…

causing cell death, but no clinically relevant effect was found in HCT colorectal cancer cells.

Liberty High School To begin with, forensic ink fingerprinting when used in law and criminal cases is very expensive. We are workin g on finding a cheaper option to use fingerprinting for fo…

CCDC11 Acts as a Scaffold to Assemble the ESCRT Membrane-Scission Machinery at Viral Budding Sites for HIV-1 Release: Identifying a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Antiviral Therapy

Microbiology

We previously reported that Coiled-Coil Domain Containing 11 (CCDC11) is critical for the production of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) 293T cells, likel…

CELLnet: Automated White Blood Cell Differential Counting as a Diagnostic Method for Leukemia Using Artificial Intelligence

Translational Medical Science

Approximately every 3 minutes one person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Leukemia is the most common cancer in children and teens, accounting for more than 3,500 cases…

Cellular Mechanisms for TIM Protein-Assisted Viral Adhesion and Entry

Lehigh University Virus infections pose significant global health, economic and social challenges, especially with the emergence of new resistant viral strains like Ebola and Corona. Mechani…

Centrifugally Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detector (CTMFD) vs. Ludlum Neutron Detector Performance Comparisons for Neutron Monitoring with a Plutonium-Beryllium Source

Physics and Astronomy

Neutrons constitute highly penetrating, neutral radiation particles with immense impact on a multitude of nuclear related disciplines. Monitoring for neutrons is of fundamental importance. T…

Cepha: An End-to-End Self-Diagnostic Platform for Parkinson's Disease Utilizing Smartphone Sensor Data and Ensemble Machine Learning Methods

Translational Medical Science

Although Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the fastest-growing leading cause of disability, 25% of patients are either misdiagnosed or diagnosed after severe neurodegeneration has already occurred…

Changing the Wettability of Titanium Using the Method of Laser Surface Modification in Liquid

Physics and Astronomy

Titanium and titanium alloys are used in modern medicine for making implants. For integration into bone and soft tissues, the surface of the implant has to be the most hydrophilic. If the im…

Characteristics of Iron Oxide Rust Prepared by Peracetic Acid and Its Removal of Heavy Metals in Water

Chemistry

Iron oxide is especially promising as they show high heavy metal adsorption capacity. However, the high cost of iron oxide makes it difficult to be widely used in developing countries. There…

Characterization of Astrocyte Polarity with Regards to the Primary Cilium

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Cell polarity is the intrinsic asymmetry present in almost all eukaryotic cells shown in the organization of various subcellular components. Proper polarity is critical to cell division, mig…

Characterization of Learning and Memory Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Genetic and Acquired Epilepsy

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Epilepsy is a terrible disease characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures that negatively impact the day to day lives of affected patients. In addition to seizures, epilepsy patients al…

Characterization of Novel Reconfigurable Mid-IR Metalenses Enabled by Phase Change Materials

Chemistry

The mid-infrared (mid-IR) range on the electromagnetic spectrum is a crucial band for numerous industrial applications of cameras ranging from biomedical sensing to free-space communication.…

Characterizing and Reducing Cytotoxicity of 3D-Printed Polymers

Materials Science

Three dimensional (3D) printing technology has been generating over 14 billion USD in 2019 and is projected to grow to 35.6 billion USD by 2024. Leveraging high-resolution additive 3D manufa…

Characterizing Bacteriophage with Restriction Enzymes and Observing the Effects of Exposing Bacteriophage to Ultraviolet Irradiation

Microbiology

The question asked was “how does ultraviolet irradiation and restriction enzymes characterize bacteriophage infecting Mycobacterium smegmatis?”. The purpose was to determine if an isolated b…

Civil Engineering III: A Study of Concrete Mix Designs

Engineering Mechanics

The purpose was to determine how a concrete mix design of personal development (RG3) will perform against a certified mix of 3,600 PSI (Pounds per Square Inch) and how this new mix (RG3) wil…

Classification of the Milky Way's Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxy Candidates through Machine Learning

Physics and Astronomy

Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) around the Milky Way are the best approaches to dark matter(DM) search and study. They can ultimately provide insight into the merit of the Cold D…

Classifying Magic Squares and Their Associated Symmetries Using a Chord Diagram Approach

Dr. Vassilev University of New Mexico Magic squares are defined as matrices whose rows, columns, and main diagonals all add to the same number. They have existed and have been a topic of gre…

Clean Clothes, Contaminated Conditions: Fabric as a Source of Plastic Microfiber Pollution

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Microfibers are tiny threads of plastic and a large contributor to plastic pollution. Millions enter the environment through washing machine effluent. Fiber shedding can be reduced by alteri…

Clean Machining: A Comparative Analysis of Cooling Systems in Subtractive Manufacturing Using Biphasic CO2 as a Safe and Environmentally Sustainable Alternative

Engineering Mechanics

The goal of this research was to demonstrate that Biphasic CO2 is a viable alternative to liquid coolants used in subtractive manufacturing, in all ways: health, environmentally, and functio…