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Constructing Soil Moisture Spatial Variability Maps of Golf Course Fairways

Environmental Engineering

Excessive soil salinity can decrease plant available water resulting in poor turfgrass growth conditions. The purpose of this project is to determine if time domain reflectometry (TDR) instr…

Construction of Oxygen Permeable Veins From Biogel

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Oxygen is critical to sustain aerobic life. Scientists are developing methods to deliver oxygen to stagnant water and human bodies when perfusion, or the movement of gasses across a membrane…

Consumer-Grade Virtual Reality as a Tool and Methodology for Mars and Other Off-World 3D Immersive Experiential and Scientific Exploratory Research

Physics and Astronomy

In this off-world research environment construction “proof of concept” demonstration, lower-cost consumer-grade Oculus Quest virtual reality (VR) hardware employing affordable Spatial metave…

Contemporary and Projected Climate Change Across the Southwestern United States Relative to the Last 24,000 Years

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Since 24,000 BC climate change has affected localized areas across the Southwestern United States; however, these effects today are seen at an unparalleled rate. Climatic projections suggest…

Continuous Oral-fluid Monitoring of Glucose (O.M.G.) Device with Near Field Communication Capability

Around 34 million Americans have Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), while 88 million American adults have prediabetes. Different from the traditional invasive needle method, my proposed salivatory gluco…

Controlling Combustion Conditions of Ammonia for Eco-Friendly Energy

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The combustion of fossil fuels is inflating atmospheric CO2 concentrations to an unprecedented peak. This has reached 412 ppm, a staggering 112 ppm higher than the greatest concentration to…

Coordination of Myosin Va Motors Within a Team During Cargo Transport

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Actin-based molecular motor myosin Va (myoVa) is a biological machine involved in intracellular cargo transport, which is essential for normal cellular function. Although a single myoVa is s…

COPD Detection Algorithm for Use with Stethoscopes

COPD is the #3 global killer largely because of misdiagnosis rates in frontline medicine. The current gold- standard frontline diagnostic test is a questionnaire with a misdiagnosis rate of…

Cosmic Radiation Protection Simulation

Physics and Astronomy

The aim of my research was to evaluate effective building materials for the future exploration of Mars. The greatest threat posed to humans on Mars is the high levels of ionizing radiation o…

COVID-19 Detection on Chest X-Ray Using an Enhanced Neural Network Model: Impact of Network Architecture Complexity, Data Augmentation, and Transfer Learning on Model

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Background: Machine learning (ML) algorithms have potential to rapidly screen COVID-19 from chest x-ray (CXR). Current deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models for COVID-19 detection…

COVID-19 Mortality Drivers in Brazil: Prioritizing Patients With COVID Symptoms To Reduce Mortality

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic put hospitals into a state of frenzy attempting to handle the sheer quantity of patients. This project aims to predict mortality likelihood of patients that te…

COVID-19's Effect on States' Economies

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Due to COVID-19, the economy has suffered from health protocols. The U.S. needs to know which states were most affected by COVID-19 to distribute aid effectively in case another pandemic occ…

COVID-19: The Effect on the CNMI's Visitors

Mathematics

The CNMI heavily relies on tourism. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this poses a concern for the tourism industry. In this project, the stats and data regarding the amount of worldwide COVID-19…

COVID Prevention: More Precise Contact Tracing

Embedded Systems

A research article “Measuring the scientific effectiveness of contact tracing: Evidence from a natural experiment,” stated, “...a total of 15,841 COVID-19 cases (around 20% of all cases) fai…

COVision: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for the Differentiation of COVID-19 From Common Pulmonary Conditions

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

With the growing amount of COVID-19 cases, especially in developing countries with limited medical resources, it’s essential to accurately diagnose COVID-19 with high specificity. Due to cha…

Creating a Low Cost Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring and Automatic Insulin Injection System with an Artificial Neural Network and Raspberry Pi

Diabetes mellitus is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, affecting millions worldwide and likely more due to inefficient testing, and is growing worse every year. The system presente…

Creating a Low-Cost Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring and Automatic Insulin Injection System With an Artificial Neural Network and Raspberry Pi

Biomedical Engineering

Diabetes mellitus is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, affecting millions worldwide and likely more due to inefficient testing, and is growing worse every year. The system presente…

Creating an Autonomous Path Navigator To Generate Interest in Machine Learning Among Children

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The development of visual models using machine learning is fundamental in furthering interest in artificial intelligence. An autonomous path navigator model utilizing methods that could be u…

Creating a Unique Floating Concrete

Materials Science

Concrete is the most used material in the world second only to water. This project was to create a concrete material that can be used to build business, residential, and infrastructural site…

Creating Naturally Enhanced Concrete for Seismic Resistance

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

This research report is an investigation into which natural materials in combination with concrete will strengthen a structure's stability against lateral movement. The main purpose of this…

Creating Novel Bacteriophage Solutions as a Preventative Measure for Escherichia coli Biofilm Formation on Elastomer Biomaterials in Medically Relevant Settings in vitro

Microbiology

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in every 25 hospitalized patients in America has a Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI), affecting around 650,000 patients annually (Magill e…

Creating the New ANKH

Environmental Engineering

The scarcity of food and water is one of the challenges that pose a serious threat to the life and continuity of future generations, as well as its great impact on current generations. The s…

Creation of a 3D Design for Hermit Crab Shells

Animal Sciences

The rapid decline of hermit crabs can compromise a marine ecosystem that relies on crabs to fertilize soil, disperse seeds and eat detritus (Lavers, 2019). These scavengers have a vital role…

Creation of an Artificial Atmosphere at Orbital Altitudes To Combat Space Debris

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

There are over one hundred million pieces of space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) at least one millimeter in diameter. Absent a mechanism to remove this debris, a phenomenon known as Kessle…

Creation of a Novel Machine Learning Model To Predict MGMT Promoter Methylation Status Using Multimodal MRI Images

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

While treating Glioblastoma multiforme, a rapidly-progressive brain cancer with an average survival of less than a year, doctors traditionally conduct biopsies of the patient’s tumor to asse…

Creation of a Portable Device for Environmental Measurements Using a 3D Printing Design

Embedded Systems

Irrefutable environmental changes have been recorded in recent years evidenced by increased cyclonic activity and changes in ocean temperatures. This causes the need for improved and efficie…

Creation of a Predictive MOF Performance Indication System Utilizing Synthesis Criteria and Machine Learning

Chemistry

Infinitely many metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be made by combining nodes and organic linkers. As of now, 90,000 MOFs have been successfully synthesized and over 500,000 predicted.The p…

Critical Solar Parameters for Prediction of Geomagnetic Storm

Physics and Astronomy

A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic fields caused by solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Even a moderate storm can lead to satellite loss, such as…

Cross-Species Transmission of Drosophila melanogaster Nora Virus in Other Species of Insect and the Prevalence of Nora Virus in Insect Populations in Central Nebraska

Microbiology

This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of the Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other species of insects and the prevalence of Nora virus in native insect p…

CROTON: An Automated and Variant-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Predicting CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Outcomes

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

CRISPR/Cas9 is a revolutionary gene-editing technology that has been widely utilized in biology, biotechnology, and medicine. CRISPR/Cas9 editing outcomes depend on local DNA sequences at th…