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Designing a Highly Efficient Process for Sequential Removal of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Treatment

Environmental Engineering

The presence of heavy metals in wastewater poses significant threats to human health and the environment, necessitating the development of effective treatment methods. This study focuses on…

Designing an AI-Guided Hybrid Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft for Wartime Humanitarian Aid

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

With recent wars increasingly unfolding in urban regions, escalating urban warfare leaves civilians trapped and deprived of essential supplies in their own home. UAVs have proven effective i…

Designing and Integrating TelePort HyperDi Multimeter Into an AI-Telehealth System for Cost-Effective Digital Testing, High-Throughput Screening and Real-Time Medical Care Assistance for Diabetes and Hypertension

Biomedical Engineering

Hypertension and diabetes often co-occur, causing over a third of Vietnamese's annual deaths. However, only 43% of people with hypertension and 31% with diabetes have been diagnosed, which r…

Designing and Testing a Complementary 3D Exoskeleton Monitoring System for Patients With Mobility Challenges

Biomedical Engineering

The conventional method for treating fractures with plaster or fiberglass casts often faces issues, such as discomfort, and skin problems (Lin et al., 2016). These conventional casts have lo…

Designing a Novel Vertically-Stacked Nanowire-Based Complementary Field-Effect Transistor for Low-Power Applications

Embedded Systems

Physical limitations behind conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have prevented device miniaturization by increasing leakage current and consequently, po…

Designing Drugs by Artificial Intelligence: Novel Curcuminoids for the Treatment of Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma Type II (PRCC2)

Chemistry

Papillary type 2 renal cell carcinoma (CCRp2) is an aggressive type of kidney cancer that has been growing more rapidly in cells and can spread to other organs of the body. Curcumin, a compo…

Design of Active Magnetic Field Stabilization for Quantum Gas Experiments

Materials Science

Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) are a novel state of matter that exhibit unique characteristics where atoms behave as waves. BECs are highly sensitive to magnetic fields, and precision expe…

Design of a Low-Cost, Low-Inertia, Backdrivable Humanoid Upper-body

General purpose humanoid robots have long been envisioned for a plethora of applications such as disaster relief, industrial automation, agriculture, or elderly assistance. A humanoid form f…

Design of a Low-Cost, Low Inertia, Backdrivable Upper-Body Humanoid

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award

General purpose humanoid robots have long been envisioned for a plethora of applications such as disaster relief, industrial automation, agriculture, or elderly assistance. A humanoid form f…

Design of a Multi-Legged Robot With Extraterrestrial Terrain Exploration, Sample Retrieval, and Transportation Functions

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Exploration of formerly uncharted terrain has sparked demand for robotic systems capable of locomotion across rough geometries of terrain. To construct such robots, researchers and engineers…

Design of Generic Epinephrine Auto-Injector Minimizes Administration Error and Fingerstick Injury

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Epinephrine Auto-Injectors (EAI) are life-saving medical devices used to treat anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction. However, they have low successful administration rates. The EpiPen is…

Design of Jellyfish-Inspired Robot for Corals Ecosystem Protection and Restoration

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Coral reefs, hosting over 25% of all marine species on less than 1% of the ocean floor, are bleaching and dying due to the increased thermal variations caused by climate change. Among the su…

Design of Traction Inverter With SiC Semiconductors

Embedded Systems Fourth Award

In recent years, the purchase price of fossil fuels has risen significantly, bringing alternative energy sources to the fore. The problem has affected not only fossil fuels but also electric…

Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a Hybrid Boronic Acid-Quinolinone Derivative as a Novel Acid Ceramidase Inhibitor To Target Breast Cancer

Biochemistry

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers accounting for 12.5% of all annual new cancer cases worldwide. Overall survival of the patients is limited for aggressive breast cancer phenot…

Design, Synthesis, and Testing of Novel Small Molecule Interleukin-6 Inhibitors for the Amelioration of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Translational Medical Science Second Award

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a prevalent autoimmune condition that affects 2.39 million Americans and is characterized by an excess of inflammatory cytokines. Interleukins, a class of…

Detect Early Melanoma Cancer Using Machine Learning

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that originates in melanocytes, the pigment-producing cells, and is known for its potential to metastasize and become life-threatening if not detected and t…

Detecting and Degrading Formaldehyde Using Synthetic Biology and Engineering Techniques

Microbiology

Formaldehyde, an aldehyde, is a carcinogenic pollutant found in air and water due to its wide usage by several industries in addition to several other aldehydes. The NIH states: most aldehyd…

Detecting and Quantifying Emotional Loneliness Risk in the Digital Age: An Innovative Lexicon-Based Text Analysis Method Combining Deep Learning and Rule-Based Classification

Systems Software

The research addresses the escalating issue of loneliness and its potential progression to suicide, a concern magnified by the advent of social media and heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Detecting Causality in 2+1 Dimension Spacetimes Using Symplectic Quandles

Mathematics

Spacetime is a mathematical model of our universe based on the general relativity theory. Our observable world in this spacetime is represented by causally related points, defined as points…

Detecting Forest Fires and Park Visitors in Distress Using Radio Systems

Embedded Systems

The purpose of this project was to develop a minimally intrusive system to monitor forests and visitors well being. The process I went about to create this system involved research, designin…

Detecting Myofascial Tightness in Order to Reduce Undiagnosed Pain, Year 2

Biomedical Engineering

The fascia is a layer of connective tissue that connects the lower layers of an individual's skin to the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. When tight, the fascia can restric…

Detection of Brain Structural Alterations Due to Chronic Nicotine Abuse Using in vivo Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Biomedical Engineering

Long-term cigarette smoking can cause brain atrophy and cognitive impairment. Similar results were observed with chronic use of e-cigarettes. Therefore, it is essential to understand the bra…

Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy With a Deep Learning Algorithm

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Approximately 537 million adults (of 20-79 years) around the world are living with diabetes. It is estimated that 30% of diabetes patients end up developing some type of diabetic retinopathy…

Detection of MRI Imaged Brain Tumors Using EfficientNet-Based Convolutional Neural Networks

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

There are approximately 40 million imaging diagnostic errors annually worldwide (Itri, et al, 2018). Roughly 795,000 people in the U.S. alone die or are permanently disabled due to misdiagno…

Detention Basin Systems: Mitigating Stormwater in Hampden Heights and Its Implications on Cherry Creek Water Quality

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Sustainable urban planning is essential to the future of cities and the harmony of humans and the environment. Increased urban infrastructure creates more area of impermeable surfaces, leadi…

Determination of Antimicrobial Activity of Nigella sativa Against Bacterial Isolates

Microbiology

As pathogens are becoming resistant to most of the drugs, Nigella sativa can be used as an alternative compound to be used in modern medicines due to its antimicrobial, antioxidant and antit…

Determination of Primary Retinoblastoma Extracellular Vesicle Uptake Pathway via Surface Protein Inhibitors

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a form of rapidly developing retinal cancer, and like many cancers, metastasizes via the release of lipid-encased extracellular vesicles (EVs) which create desirable c…

Determination of the Hubble Constant by 1a Supernovae

Physics and Astronomy

The expansion of the universe can be quantified by the Hubble Constant. This constant can be determined through different methods, such as by the cosmic microwave background, the Tully-Fishe…

Determining the Distribution of Arginine in Gracilaria salicornia and Codium edule and Fibropapillomatosis Rates in Chelonia mydas in Kane?ohe Bay

Animal Sciences First Award

Populations of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Hawaii have become a source of concern over the past decade due to the tumor-causing disease fibropapillomatosis (FP), the number one cau…

Determining the Effects of Implicit Bias on an Individual's Global Perspective

Technology Enhances the Arts

The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of provided statistical data of a country's performance versus the disclosure of a given country's name on the perception of that c…