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CO2 Processing Machine

Businesses and vehicles act in the environment, producing great quantities of particles of CO2 which is enemy number one of human health and to life on planet earth: starting from this state…

Coal-Ash Pond Management: Studying Groundwater Flow Using Darcy's Law

Thermal power plants generate coal-ash, a bi-product of combustion, which is drained in a liquefied form into man-made ponds, called coal-ash ponds. These coal-ash ponds contain dangerous ch…

Coating: Effect of Particle Size and Shape

The title of the experiment is Coating: Effect of Particle Size and Shape. The purpose of the experiment is to determine how pigment size and shape affect the strength of the latex/pigment c…

Coccolithophores in a Changing World

Ocean Acidification is the reduction in the pH of the ocean due to absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere. When absorbed the carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water to create carbonic acid. The a…

"Coco Loco": The Impact of Soil Contaminants in Coconut Water in the Florida Keys (Virginia Key and Key Biscayne,FL)

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The purpose of my project was to determine if it is possible to detect heavy metals in coconut water, when the coconut plant grows on contaminated soil. Since coconut plants take a long time…

Coil Conundrum

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals This project aims to investigate the relationship between projectile mass and projectile kinetic energy after firing in small-scale coil guns. Methods/Materials A single-sta…

Color Change of Copper Foil by Oxide Thin Layer Formation

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…

Colorization of Monochrome Photography without Coloring Samples

Currently, most colorization of black-and-white photos is performed manually. However, manual colorization is expensive, as well as being inaccurate because of depending on the intuition of…

Color Thoughts: Word Color Association, Part 2

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if there were trends in how people, based on race and ethnicity, associated certain colors with positive and/or negative words. Me…

Column Chromatography: The Type of Stationary Phase Makes a Difference

Chemistry

Objectives/Goals Our project was to determine if using different materials like silica gel and space sand as a stationary phase in column chromatography affect the way sodas' dyes separate.…

Combating Jellyfish Blight: A Novel Usage of Chondroitin Sulfate within Trashed Jellyfish to Adsorb Heavy Metal Pollutants

Second Award

Chondroitin sulfate is one branch of glycosaminoglycan that forms proteoglycans within the connective tissue of jellyfish. However, few studies are done on the source jellyfish for extractio…

Combating Liver Cancer with DeepMine, a Novel Deep Learning Algorithm

First Award

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has the shortest survival time of any cancer, and affects more than 850,000 people worldwide as the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Understan…

Combining Programming Languages to Improve Performance

Mathematics & Software

Objectives/Goals The goal is to generally improve the performance of any device through combining multiple programming languages. Methods/Materials The important Materials are: Computer Ecli…

Comparative Analysis between Carboxymethyl Cellulose and Activated Carbon through Sedimentation and Ultrafiltration for the Removal of Metallic Ions from Industrial Wastewater

Third Award

Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…

Comparative Analysis of Bacteriophages, Natural Antibacterials and Pharmaceutical Antibiotics Against Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus and Enterobacter aerogenes

World Health Organization reported that antibiotic resistance is a serious worldwide threat to human health. In United States, two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths are attributed to antib…

Comparative Studies of Gold Nanoparticles as Chemical Sensing Materials: Electronic Tongue vs. Electronic Nose

Chemistry First Award

Objectives/Goals The main goals of my project are (1) to develop simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensor arrays (electronic tongue and electronic nose) that can simultaneousl…

Comparative Studies of Gold Nanoparticles as Chemical Sensing Materials: Electronic Tongue vs. Electronic Nose, Year Three

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

This is a continuation project (Year 3). Two types of simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensors were created with functionalized gold nanoparticles (~1.6 nm core diameter) for…

Comparative Study of the Biodegrading Activity of Pseudomona sp. and Penicillium sp. in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Contaminated with Hydrocarbons: Scale Simulator

The high frequency of oil spills in the oceans cause nations to focus on cleaning methods. Some of the mechanisms used are expensive, toxic to marine species and take a long time. There are…

Comparing Crime Rates in Various Communities Using K-Means

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to compare the extent to which various factors affected the crime rates in communities throughout the country, using the K-Means clusterin…

Comparing Quantum and Classical Explanations for the Non-Interference of Orthogonally Polarized Beams

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals Determine whether the patterns produced by orthogonally polarized waves sent through a double-slit apparatus are examples of quantum or classical phenomena. Methods/Material…

Comparing the Amount of Bacteria in Raw and Pasteurized Milk

Microbiology (General)

Objectives/Goals My project was to compare the amount of bacteria in raw and pasteurized milk samples using methylene blue dye to estimate bacterial content. Methods/Materials Over four days…

Comparing the Effects of Cobalamin and alpha-Tocopherol on the Reproduction Rate and Longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology

Objectives/Goals This project was conducted to determine if specific vitamins fed to C. elegans would effect their reproduction rate and longevity. Methods/Materials Melted Nematode Growth A…

Comparing the Efficacy of Alternative Treatments in Inactivating Escherichia coli O157:H7

The purpose of this project was to determine which alternative treatment is the most effective at preventing E. coli O157:H7 cell growth and/or Shiga toxin production. It was hypothesized th…

Comparing the Personality Traits of Dog Owners and Parents

Systems Software

The purpose of this study is to identify a statistical relationship between owning a dog and the Big Five Personality Facets. Many prospective parents have decided to practice with a dog bef…

Comparing the Versatility of an Aftermarket Controller from Its Standard Counterpart

Applied Mechanics & Structures

Objectives/Goals The goal of the experiment was to create a controller that was better fitted for single armed people than the normal controller designed to be operated with two hands. A sec…

Comparison between Female and Male Exposure to Four Shades of a Hue

Mammalian Biology

Objectives/Goals The basis of this research project is to determine whether the female eye can more efficiently distinguish the darker shade of a hue then a male. Methods/Materials The compu…

Compass Belt: Utilizing Neuroplasticity and Digital Signal Processing to Improve Self-Navigation

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals When people lose their ability to competently navigate their environments, quality of life can quickly erode. In severe cases, such as Alzheimer#s disease or blindness, loss…

Competence Dependent Chemotaxis and Genomic Repair in Acinetobacter baylyi

Acinetobacter baylyi, a gram-negative soil bacterium, is highly competent for natural transformation, a process in which DNA is imported across cellular membranes and potentially recombined…

Competing Memories in Drosophila Based on Classical Conditioning

Systems Software

The purpose of this study was to observe how conflicting classical reward conditionings affect the memory which is a basic concept of learning and memory, though poorly understood. The hypot…

Competing with the Cloud

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether a home server, or NAS, is a viable competitor to consumer cloud services such as Mediafire or Google Drive. We hypothesized that, beca…