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Cellulose Magnetic Membrane

Cellulose could be found mostly in Kenaf and Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) in Malaysia. For the purpose of this study, cellulose is used as a source to produce magnetic membrane. This research use…

C.F.F.15 (Controlled Flying Forces) 2015

This paper discusses a new kind of hybrid drones. Mainly, all drones depend -during there movement- on fluctuation, and those fluctuated movements change the angle of attack which mainly con…

Chance?

The problem of my project was: are there any trends in the data of playing Monopoly? And if so, what is the best strategy to use when playing Monopoly in terms of what properties should I pu…

Characterization and Utility of Resistance Sources against Resistance-Breaking Rhizomania in Sugar Beet

Plant Biology First Award

Objectives/Goals Rhizomania poses a major problem to sugar beet worldwide, as it not only causes physical harm to the roots but also reduces the quality of sugar yield by up to 95%. Rhizoman…

Characterization and Utility of Resistance Sources Against Resistance-Breaking Rhizomania in Sugar Beet

Third Award

Rhizomania, a severe disease caused by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), causes significant damage to sugar beet worldwide, not only physically harming the sugar beet root but also re…

Characterization of A Novel Groundbreaking Radioresistance Pathway in the Endometrial Cancer Stem Cell Niche: The Interplay of WNT, Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a (HIF-1a)

Biomedical Engineering

Recent changes in the field of oncology have placed an emphasis on targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) in order to effectively treat cancer. Despite the increased attention, an effective mech…

Characterization of a Terahertz Metamaterial Waveguide Plus the Development of Composite Right/Left-Handed Devices

In order to meet the future demands of computation and communication, new approaches are needed to increase data operating speeds to the terahertz (THz) frequency range. To accomplish this g…

Characterization of Light-Matter Interactions in Graphene/MoS2 Photodetectors

Photodetectors and other photovoltaic devices have garnered significant interest in recent years for their applications in high-speed data transmission and data processing. Graphene, a singl…

Characterization of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Next-Generation Energy-Efficient Memory Technologies

Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals Magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) combines fast read/write time, high endurance, and nonvolatile storage. Magnetoelectric RAM (MeRAM), a new class of MRAM, uses v…

Characterization of Vascular Responses to Mechanically Induced Continuous Flow Patterns in Bovine Models

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Recently, Continuous Flow (CF) Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) have emerged as a long term alternative to heart transplant in heart failure patients. However, CF VAD support diminishe…

Characterizing the Constructible N-Division Points of the Rational C-Hypocycloids through Straightedge and Compass Constructions

One of the most famous mathematical problems concerns constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass, specifically constructing regular polygons. Such construction…

Charging a Smartphone Using Its Own Heat Source

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals My objective of my project was to try see if you could charge a smartphone using its own heat that it emits. My hypothesis was: If I can capture enough heat from a smartphon…

CheckMate: The Effect of Playing Chess on Spatial Cognition

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if spatial cognition is affected by playing chess, gender, and grade level. Methods/Materials In my experiment, I used an o…

Chemical Detection Applied to Formaldehyde as a Marker for Wider Chemical Contamination

Toxicology

Objectives/Goals Formaldehyde is a known hazardous compound and a human carcinogen. Over the last few years, it has been found in household goods such as furniture and textiles. The harmful…

Chemical Sensing and Peculiar Redox Properties of Calcium Barium Cobalt Oxide Thin Films as a Viable Cathode Material for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Solid oxide fuel cells require pure electronic conductors with composite designs and high operating temperatures. In this respect, mixed ionic electronic conductors are desirable due to thei…

Chemo-immunotherapy of Cancer with Adjuvants

Translational Medical Science

Do chemical adjuvants inhibit murine lymphomas (like 2C3) and mammary carcinomas (like 4T1)? Cancer therapy currently involves surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Surgery does not ensure c…

Chickens + Carotenoids = Quality Eggs?

Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if adding fruits and vegetables rich in carotenoids to a chicken's normal, daily diet of egg layer feed it will improve the…

Chocolate's Theobromine, and Not Caffeine, Significantly Reduces Sleep in Drosophila

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Chocolate and caffeine are well-known to affect the quality of sleep. Chocolate, however,contains only minimal traces of caffeine but larger amounts of theobromine, a related alkaloid stimul…

Chronic Alcohol Treatment Results in Physiological Tolerance, Decreased Fertility, and Liver Injury in Drosophila

Biomedical Engineering

In America nearly 14 million people abuse alcohol and suffer from alcoholism. Moreover, nearly 6.6 million children under the age of 18 have at least one parent that is an alcoholic. The eff…

Chytrid Treatments and Their Compatibility with Amphibian Tissue

Third Award

The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…

Cigarette Butt Accumulation and Mitigation in the City of Santa Monica

Environmental Science

Objectives/Goals The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the accumulation rate of cigarette butt pollution at different location and time frames and to assess the effectiveness of ci…

Circle Fitting Algorithm Optimization through the Iterative Hough Transform

Detection of an object, such as a line or a circle, is one of the major components of computer vision applications. The Hough Transform utilizes a voting procedure to identify arbitrary obje…

Cleaner Combustion

The main problem that brings about this project is environmental combustion due to carbon monoxide produced by all types of internal combustion motors plus the variety of different sectors o…

Clean Hands?

Microbiology (General)

Objectives/Goals Handshakes, fist bumps, and high-fives are ways of greeting someone. They have become rituals and they seem pretty normal to us. But, have you not ever wondered how many ger…

Cleaning the Scene: Using Forensics to Test for the Presence of Blood

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…

Cleaning Up Oil Spills Using Nanotechnology

Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine if the efficiency of removing oil from water using ferrofluid, a magnetic liquid, would change by varying the amount and temp…

Clinical Accuracy of Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring for Ex-Vivo Artificial Pancreas

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…

Clinical Impact of Chromosome 16 Short Arm Duplication in the Region 16p12.3p13.11

Systems Software

The purpose of this research is to indicate the symptoms of a rare duplication located on the chromosome 16 and to propose more efficient way to diagnose the 16p12.3p13.11 duplication syndro…

Cloning and Sequencing of the Lacc2 Laccase Gene from the Ligninolytic Basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Cellulosic bioethanol, an alternative energy source produced by saccharification and fermentation of plant polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, is a promising renewable energ…

Cloning the Flying Gene: Molecular Genetic Analysis of the Hold Up (hup) Gene in Drosophila

Biomedical Engineering

Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…