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Carbon Capturing

Chemistry

Calcium Carbonate [CaCO3] is a commonly found chemical compound that has the ability to be transformed into a substance that will readily absorb Carbon Dioxide [CO2] from ambient air and fre…

Car Seat Safety

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Car seats and boosters provide protection for infants and children in a crash, yet car crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 13. Correctly used child safety seats can…

Cassava Peel Powder: A Novel, Cost-Effective and Eco-Friendly Pharmaceutical Biosorbent

Chemistry Fourth Award

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a staple crop with a total worldwide production of 298.8 million tons in 2020. However, its peel waste creates detrimental sanitation and environmental problem…

Caste Plasticity in the H. saltator Ant - Social Context Influences Dominance and Reproduction Related Gene Expression

Animal Sciences

The effects of social conditions on gene expression in Harpegnathos Saltator were analyzed to provide a better understanding of caste plasticity and reproductive potential in these ants. As…

CD160 in Cytotoxic T Cell Exhaustion and Its Effect on PD-1 Blockade Cancer Immunotherapy

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) are lymphocytes capable of recognizing and attacking cancer cells. During continuous attacks, CTLs undergo an exhaustion process, gradually losing their abilities un…

AJAS · 2022

C. elegans ingest microplastics. This study found the plastics had no impact on their development.

Environmental Science

Microplastics are the most prevalent type of artificial debris in most waterways. There is little knowledge about the effect microplastics have on organisms. This project evaluated the effec…

AJAS · 2022

C. elegans nematodes are shown to have a long-lasting microbiome composition

Microbiology

C. elegans is a common model organism, as their translucent anatomy, ease of culture, and short life cycle make them an easily observable, low-maintenance subject for experimentation. With t…

AJAS · 2022

C. elegans show the significant impact fasting has on a future generation's amount of body fat

Animal Science

Epigenetics is the study of how organisms are affected by alterations in gene expression rather than base changes in the genetic code. An established epigenetic factor is diet. Food insecuri…

AJAS · 2022

Cells from Patients with Ulcerative Colitis are Abnormally Inefficient

Medicine

Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a disease hallmarked by continuous inflammation along the gastrointestinal tract, which is largely the consequence of autoimmunity. Its prevalence continues to spr…

Ceres: A Novel Device Utilizing Raspberry Pi and Neural Networks To Detect Crop Diseases Using Imaging

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Globally food demand is increasing; at the same time, about 10-20% crop is damaged/wasted during production/harvest due to pathogens. This could be reduced with early detection of crop disea…

Ceres: A Novel Device Utilizing Raspberry Pi & Neural Networks to Detect Crop Diseases Using Imaging

Globally, food demand is increasing; at the same time, about 10-20% crop is damaged/wasted during production/harvest due to pathogens. This could be reduced with early detection of crop dise…

ChaCO-Ban: The Revolutionary Eco-Charcoal

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Applications of charcoal have become an interest in daily life such as fuel for combustion. However, the commercial charcoal is normally produced by cutting the mangrove trees which are not…

Change in Stress Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination in Middle and High School Students in Central Arkansas; A Community Survey

COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in psychological stress in the population including children between 12-18 years of age. The COVID-19 vaccine was approved for that age group on May 10, 2021.…

Changing the Martian Atmosphere: Examining Lichen's Effect on Oxygen Percentage in a Simulated Martian Atmosphere

Microbiology Fourth Award

The European Space Agency established that fruticose lichen species were capable of surviving in the vacuum of space due to their resilient upper cortex protecting them from UV radiation and…

Chaos in Cancer: Analyzing Network Morphology To Predict Tumor Angiogenesis Using Chaos Theory

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

The unpredictable behavior of tumors is a problematic barrier to developing personalized therapeutic strategies for individuals with all forms of cancer. A leading cause of cancer’s volatile…

Characterization of Enzymes, Chalcone Synthase, Chalcone Isomerase, and Dihydroflavonol 4-Reductase, by X-Ray Crystallography To Improve the Efficacy of Crops Panicum virgatum and Sorghum bicolor as Potential USDA Biofuel Sources

Chemistry Third Award

Sorghum bicolor and Panicum virgatum are widely grown crops. Lignin, synthesized in the monolignol pathway, prevents easy access to cellulose. Reducing lignin is necessary for these crops to…

Characterization of Lung Cancer Mechanosensation

Cellular and Molecular Biology

This study is a proof-of-concept to validate if CRISPR a/i (activation/interference) system can modulate LMNA gene expression in lung cancer cells. To establish the CRISPRa/i system, I used…

Characterizing HBV Viral Particles Propagated by 5 Different Host Methods

Microbiology

Chronic infection with the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) often results in the development of cirrhosis and liver cancer, serving as one of the leading indications for liver transplantation. To dat…

Characterizing the Altitude and Variability of the Martian Mesopause Over the MAVEN Mission

Physics and Astronomy

The mesopause in the Martian atmosphere is the point at which the temperature is the coldest. It also divides the upper and lower atmospheres. In order for scientists to land spacecraft on M…

Characterizing the Feeding Behavior of Western Screech Owls

Animal Sciences

A camera within a Megascops kennicottii nest box recorded the activities of a breeding pair of adult owls and their young. Over 1000 hours of video footage was recorded and 450 hours was man…

Characterizing the Secretion of the Francisella tularensis Protein FTL_1123

Microbiology Third Award

Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative, highly infectious bacterium. It is the causative agent of the disease tularemia, which suppresses and evades intracellular innate immune responses.…

AJAS · 2022

Charcoal created from high-density wood burns longer, hotter, and releases more total energy.

Chemistry

What wood makes the best charcoal? Charcoal is wood burned in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. In a previous experiment, entitled “What Wood Makes the Best Charcoal,” the s…

Chemistry 101: A Chemistry Guide and Simulation Mobile App

Systems Software

After noticing the repetition of several complains from the students regarding certain topics in the curriculum, and the often incompetence of searching for information regarding what they l…

CIRCA - CircularRNA for Cancer Active Immunotherapy: A Machine Learning Model To Predict Liver Cancer and Top Genes for Cancer Vaccine

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are closed long non-coding RNAs with excellent prognostic and diagnostic biomarker properties for many diseases including cancer. By using liver tissues of Hepatocel…

Clamor Electric Reckon

Embedded Systems

Some of the sustainable development goals that are also included in Egypt’s grand challenges are overpopulation, consequently increasing the national consumption of resources of energy (for…

Clay Bricks: An Ultimate Solution to Zimbabwe's Clean Water Crisis

Environmental Engineering

In Zimbabwe, access to clean water is one of the greatest challenges that has resulted in about 100 000 people getting infected and about 4000 people dying annually to waterborne diseases be…

Clay Polymer Nanocomposite for Efficient and Rapid Removal of Organic Matter From Water

Materials Science

The global water crisis has gotten worse while freshwater sources around the world are being reduced and the quality of the water is in a constant decline. Surface water pollution is caused…

Clean Hydrogen Production From Photocatalytic Degradation of Plastic Wastes

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Hydrogen (H2) is identified as a clean energy source and can be produced from fossil fuels and biomass gasification, and water splitting using electrolysis. However, the current H2 productio…

Cloud Identification in Mars Daily Global Maps with Deep Learning

Cloud identification on Mars is an important tool for climatology studies, making it possible to analyze the distribution, patterns and variability of clouds both spatially and temporally. T…

Coding a Goniometer Robot To Replicate Human Eye Movements as Tool for Improved Disease Research

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The eye makes movements when attempting to see a target: the most common movements are saccades and fixational movements are microsaccades and tremor. These three types of movements have cor…