Behavioral and Social Sciences
A key component of autism is its effect on one's ability to communicate, for their brain is able to process information better visually than they are verbally. The purpose of this study is t…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Agriculture is one of the main sources of food in American Samoa and one such common crop I will be using for my research is Okra. The food we have on the island is either imported or grown…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) are an essential group of enzymes that regulate gene expression. In an attempt to track rising cancer cases, scientists discovered a detrimental mutation of…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zooxanthellae expulsion (Coral bleaching) is a significant concern for biodiversity and economic prosperity, considering mass bleaching has now occurred in every region worldwide. This study…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Melanoma cancer is a deadly disease that hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with each year and has little treatment success using current methods. One potential method is the tran…
Systems Software
Existing reading practices, sourced from the Internet, books or teachers, rarely meet all three aspects of quality, quantity, and personalization. Language models for question generation (QG…
In this paper, we propose an adaptable solution that encompasses the protection for the most common ransomware types. In each type of attack, several mechanisms that carried out a successful…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Natural catastrophe modeling allows for the evaluation of economic loss, property loss, and environmental damage during and after such an event. However, two central problems have arisen in…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) is a globally prevalent virus that attacks CD4 cells in the human immune system, decreasing the quality and length of life for those affected. The mo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study aimed to investigate the role of microRNA (miRNA) variants in Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and sugar craving…
Materials Science
SO2 is a notorious air pollutant, posing significant risks to health and the environment. Traditional flue gas desulfurization methods, such as limestone scrubbing, are characterized by ener…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last 150 years, the average global temperature on Earth has rapidly increased. This detrimental impact has created–among others–widespread famine, the melting of ice caps, larger, m…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Microorganisms are essential to our environment because of their importance to many ecosystems. As a result of improper disposal, a wide variety of substances pollute the environment, includ…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Structural Supercapacitors (SCs) are electrochemical energy storage devices that utilize the abundance of cement as an electrolyte by employing its high porosity as ion transport channels to…
The oceans absorb nearly a third of airborne CO2 emissions, while concurrently, 1.3 million gallons of crude oil are spilled into oceans every year. Both issues continue to detrimentally aff…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The oceans absorb nearly a third of airborne CO2 emissions, while 1.3 million gallons of crude oil are spilled into oceans every year. Both issues continue to detrimentally affect marine bio…
Physics and Astronomy
This project aims to study the adhesivity of condensed fluids, and a cantilever driven by a 3D-printed damped harmonic mechanism is thus designed. This vibro-impact viscometer allows an adju…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that caused over 619,000 deaths in 2022, Plasmodium falciparum being the most lethal species which affects humans. Although the disease has affected human…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the work environment, employees with functional disabilities have the right to request tools and accommodations in order to be more productive and perform their tasks efficiently. In the…
The evolutionarily conserved DOT1 family of proteins is essential for development in higher mammals. However, overactive DOT1L acts as an oncoprotein, most notably in childhood leukemia. Alt…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The evolutionarily conserved DOT1 family of proteins is essential for development in higher mammals. However, overactive DOT1L acts as an oncoprotein, most notably in childhood leukemia. Alt…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Addiction is a disease in which the structures and function of the brain’s dopamine pathways are altered, resulting in compulsive indulgence in a substance or activity. Although much progres…
86% of civil legal problems reported by low-income Americans received inadequate or no legal help according to the Legal Services Corporation’s 2017 Justice Gap report. Artificial Intelligen…
Chemistry
Finding new methods of oxygenation is an important pursuit in the modern age of respiratory diseases, climate change, and the COVID pandemic. Individuals who struggle to achieve sufficient l…
Physics and Astronomy
The recent emergence of research surrounding the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has led to greater understanding of the theory underpinning the mechanism. Previous works have found that…
Physics and Astronomy
Molecular-level devices are a promising candidate that can lead to the next generation of novel electronics with high sensitivity and better performance. Magnetic molecules with transition m…
The opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus kills over 330,000 people every year and is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, most recently vancomycin. In this study, bacteria…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Autonomous vehicles are predicted to be an enormous disrupter to our economy, creating a massive and unpredictable impact, much like the smartphone on telecommunications. Automation can resh…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Recent advances in CO2 capture and fixation allowed the transformation of atmospheric CO2 into useful organic molecules, but they are limited by extreme reaction conditions or the use of dan…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The problem confronted is the emission of hydrocarbons from combustion engines. The Engineering goal was to convert a weed wacker engine (WWE) to utilize compressed air as fuel. A WWE was ch…