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Controlling Robotic Swarms Using LLMs

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

This paper presents an approach to utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for the control and coordination of robotic swarms. It explores how LLMs can improve the efficiency of swarm robotic…

Copyright Protection Through AI Art Detection

Technology Enhances the Arts

Humanity has made great strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development since the 1960s. Today, because such technology has been made available to the public, there has been a rise in AI…

Cost-effective Ultrasound Utilization on Cement-Based Composites for Scalable Fabrication of Bifunctional All-solid-State Ultracapacitors

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

In response to immense international energy demands, the industrial sector must witness a historic alteration for bulk energy storage with a wide range of up-scaling spectra for commercial u…

Cost-Efficient and Precise Manometer for Thoracentesis

Biomedical Engineering

Thoracentesis is a surgical procedure where a needle is inserted into the pleural cavity around the lungs to extract pleural fluid. Measuring the pleural pressure during thoracentesis is a g…

Counting Visible Points on Square Lattice by Arithmetic Functions With Asymptotic Behavior

Mathematics

For a fixed positive integer b?N, let the b-sight lines be defined by f(x)=ax^b, for a?Q, with the origin O as the observing point (the position of the eyes). A point in the square lattice V…

Coupling High-Efficient Redox Flow Desalination and Rejected Brine Towards Mineralization of CO2

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Both the disposal of rejected brine and CO2 emission are the most significant challenges associated with the desalination process. Herein, we present an integrated approach that utilizes a r…

Creating an Artificial Intelligence Neural Network to Critique Expressive Piano Performance

Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award

Classical music education is a complex field requiring the teacher to evaluate a student based on audio and visual information. However, this approach can be error prone and biased. This pro…

Creating More Intuitive Prostheses Using an Objective Detection Response Task to Measure Cognitive Load

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Controlling a prosthetic hand is cognitively demanding and up to 44% of upper-limb amputees abandon their prosthesis. There is a need for prosthetic control strategies that are more intuitiv…

Creation of a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Myoblast Cell Culture Model by Knocking Out the Dystrophin Gene Using CRISPR/Cas-9 for High Throughput Drug Screening

Translational Medical Science

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited X-linked disease with an incidence of 1:3,600. Patients become weak at 2-3 years old with progression to a wheelchair in their early teens,…

CRISPR Gene Edited Glioblastoma Multiforme Cell Line as a Model for Testing Antigen Specificity of CAR T-Cell Therapy

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive and fast-growing form of brain cancer with a high rate of mortality. It is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults, accounting for 47.7…

Cross-Section Transformer: An Innovative Foldable Wheeled Robot With Flexible Configuration

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Pipeline is a typical complex environment, and pipeline robots greatly improve work efficiency. However, the existing robots have limited forms, and lack of passibility and flexibility. So t…

Crowd Avoider: A Study on Development of Crowd Density Assessment Program Using Particle-Based Fluid Simulation and Time Series Data Prediction

Systems Software

Crowd crushes are a widespread global issue often resulting in significant loss of life. Proactively addressing this challenge involves avoiding locations predicted to attract large crowds.…

Cryptography Using Dates and Prime Numbers

Mathematics

Over the course of history, different ways of hiding messages have been created, and this investigation was done to achieve that using RSA and dates. The way that this encryption system work…

Crystallization and Morphology Tailoring via Functionalized Ligands for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Perovskite solar cells have been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to conventional polycrystalline silicon solar cells due to their excellent photovoltaic properties, flexib…

Data-Driven Predictive Mathematical Model of Fish Population Dynamics

Mathematics

Studying population dynamics is key to protecting vital aquatic ecosystems and the economic activities they support, such as those of the Chesapeake Bay. Mathematics is a powerful tool that…

Data Set Filtering for Microlensing-Effect Identification

Physics and Astronomy

The effects of spacetime curvature, described in General Relativity, are made visible to us through gravitational lensing phenomena. Microlensing events (ML events) represent a type of gravi…

Debunked: Steroid Risk in Systemic Sclerosis

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease with multiple organ involvement, including lung, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys. A subset of SSc patients develops a critical ren…

Deciphering DUX4 (Year II): Is Transient Expression of the DUX4 Gene Sufficient to Cause Muscular Dystrophy?

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a genetic, progressive myopathy and the second most common muscular dystrophy. Progression of the disease primarily begins in the facial, sho…

Decoding ASXL3: A Novel Biomarker for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award

In a recent study, 33% of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) carried mutations in ASXL3, whose function is unknown. To understand ASXL3’s role in NDDs, we used CRISPR techn…

Decoding Climate Resilience: Functional Profiling of Protein Phosphatase 2C Family Genes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice

Plant Sciences

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food, providing 20% of the caloric needs for half of the global population. Rice production is adversely affected by abiotic stresses such as drought, sali…

Deep Generative Modelling for Robust fMRI Denoising

Biomedical Engineering

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is pivotal in understanding brain activity, but its efficacy is often hampered by slice-timing correction artifacts known as 'zebra-artifacts'. T…

Deep Learning Based Automated Platform for Sarcopenia Assessment and Outcomes Analysis in Head and Neck Cancer

Women’s Hospital The body composition status, which characterizes the levels of muscle and adipose tissue in a person’s body, is closely linked to cancer treatment risks and survival. Sarcop…

Deep Learning Based Brain-Computer Interface for Motor Actions

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Brain-computer interface (BCI) enables direct communication between the brain and external devices, with applications ranging from the rehabilitation of motor disabilities to enhance human-c…

Deep Learning-Based Microscope Image Analysis for Cell Viability Estimation in MTT Assays

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Cell viability analysis (MTT assay) can detect subtle changes in cellular metabolic activity at low concentrations, providing a sensitive assessment of cytotoxicity and survival capability.…

Deep Learning Multi Modal Melanoma Detection

Translational Medical Science

The visual similarity of melanoma and seborrheic keratosis has made it difficult for elderly patients with disabilities to know when to seek medical attention, contributing to the metastasis…

Deep Learning on a Novel Ising Model To Study Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

The centennial Ising model, which was initially proposed to explain ferromagnetism and phase transitions, has become a central pillar of statistical physics and a powerful tool in diverse ap…

DeepRet: Novel Multi-Stage Deep Learning-Based Low-Cost Retinal Imaging System to Enable Accessible Glaucoma Screening in Low-Resource Environments

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

The world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, glaucoma is an aggressive collection of progressive optic neuropathies degrading the retina-brain connection. The primary challenge of gl…

Deep-Sea Octocoral Biogeography: Exploring Genetic and Oceanographic Patterns through MutS Phylogenetic Analysis

Animal Sciences Fourth Award

Despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs sustain an estimated one-third of all known marine species, with most coral species inhabiting deep or cold waters acro…

Degradation of Residual Dyes from the Hydrolysis of PETE Plastic

Plastic pollution remains a problem, with over 170 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans. A process that can efficiently degrade PETE plastic is hydrolysis, where the PETE is brok…

DEList: Identifying Cancer Genes Associated With Circadian Regulator ARNTL2 Using a Novel RNA-Seq Multi-Dataset Strategy

Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award

Circadian disruptions have been implicated in the oncogenesis of multiple cancers. However, the underlying mechanisms linking circadian rhythms and cell cycles remain unclear, posing a signi…