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Development of a Comprehensive Monitoring System for Bee Health and Behavior Analysis Using Intelligent Sound Device

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Once Einstein said that "If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live." Even though beekeepers are facing problems with preserving the colony…

Development of a Multi-Sensor System to Prevent Child Vehicular Heatstroke

Embedded Systems

Purpose: Children mistakenly left and trapped in cars can be victims of heatstroke, sometimes resulting in hospitalization, injury, and death. From 1990-2023, the average child vehicular hea…

Development of an Advanced Life-Jacket to Enhanced the Sea Survival

Embedded Systems

This project aims to develop an advanced smart life jacket with cutting-edge technologies to enhance the chances of survival of individuals lost at sea that count for 320,000 worldwide death…

Development of an Inexpensive, High-Performance, Easily-Assembled, Low-Dispersion Astronomical Spectrograph

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

Two years ago, the astronomy club of the National Institute of Technology Yonago College devised a method for monitoring Earth’s ozone layer through spectroscopic observations during total l…

Development of a Non-Synthetic Filter to Protect Against Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Erythema: Dugesia tigrina as an in vivo Experimental Model on the Effects of Botanical Extracts as Radioprotective Substances

Materials Science

Globally, 2-3 million skin cancer cases arise annually. This project proposes that Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can be reduced by the creation of a non-synthetic UVR filter, and epidermal aff…

Development of Anti-Dust Nanostructured Silicon Dioxide Coating for Solar Cells

Materials Science

Driven by the effects of global warming and environmental pollution from fossil fuel use, the transition towards renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, is gaining momentum.…

Development of a Photocaged Cathepsin B Inhibitor With Increased Lysosome Uptake and Light-activated Biological Functions

Chemistry Second Award

Cathepsin B in lysosome is a cysteine protease that plays an important role in various pathological processes including many cancers. Therefore, it is a cancer protein biomarker. A method to…

Development of a Photogrammetry-Enabled Quadcopter With LiDAR Collision Avoidance and Real-time Detection for Optimized Hurricane Disaster Response and Mapping

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The 113 billion dollars of damages from Hurricane Ian prompted two needs: rapid first response and efficient reconstruction. However, first-response efforts were prolonged by the lack of eff…

Development of a Solar Powered Buoy to Measure and Report the Pollution Level of Wetlands

Environmental Engineering Second Award

Environmental pollution, which is one of the main causes of global warming, may have variations within itself; however, water, which is at the point of all cycles in nature, a blanket coveri…

Development of Efficient Underwater Robot Based on Quadruped Structure of Sea Turtles and Fish Fin Hydrodynamics

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award

Marine debris pollution and pipeline leaks pose significant threats to our fragile marine ecosystems, presenting hazards that are neither safe nor effective to address through manual labor.…

Development of Electrolyte Additive for Self-Corrosion Control of Aluminum Air Battery Electrodes

Materials Science

The growing demand for energy sparked the transition from fossil fuels, which contribute to climate change, to sustainable solutions, by storing renewable energy in batteries. Lithium-ion ba…

Development of Emotion Recognition Device for Visually Impaired

Embedded Systems

Globally, more than 2.2 billion people suffer from visual impairment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Communication is an essential aspect of everyday life, and for visuall…

Development of Multiparametric Microfluidic Chip Focusing on Water Quality Monitoring

Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award

This research addresses the widespread issue of drinking water contamination in resource-constrained areas. We propose using cost-effective multiparameter microfluidic chips to assess water…

Development of New Beam Configurations for OMEGA To Achieve Highly Uniform Indirect Drive Implosions With Cubic Symmetry

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

In light of the recent demonstration of breakeven on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using indirect drive, interest in future indirect drive facilities has increased. A promising approa…

Development of Novel Bi-functional Catalyst for LOHCs as Sustainable Hydrogen Storage and Transportation Applications

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal. Hydrogen is a potential renewable energy source; however, cost-effective storage and transportation of hydrogen pose challenges. In th…

Development of Novel Biodegradable Bioplastics Using Mango Peels Intended for Packaging Film

Chemistry

Implementation of biodegradable, eco-friendly, sustainable bioplastic films derived from fruit peels not only solves the issue of greenhouse gases emitted by disposed fruit waste in landfill…

Development of Oil Collecting Submarine Using AI and Hydro-Filter Solution

Environmental Engineering

Catastrophic oil spills inflict severe harm on marine ecosystems. Conventional cleanup approaches are often inefficient, some resulting in further pollution. In response, I devised a highly…

Development of Persistent DNA Vectors for Safe and Lasting Non-viral Gene Therapies

Scaffold/MatrixAttachment Regions (S/MARs) are specific regions of DNA that help to stabilize chromatin structure and regulate gene expression by facilitating interactions between DNA and th…

Development of Pre-Clinical Assays for Quality Control of Cancer Imaging Agents

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor, with an average survival of 14.6 months even with treatment. Prior research has shown that a protein, PTPµ, is cleaved in tumor tissu…

Development of Smart Self-Healing Polyurethane Microcapsules Utilizing an Enhanced ZnO/TiO2 UV-Shielding Shell for Spacecraft Applications

Materials Science

Spacecrafts endure harsh environmental factors, such as space debris, thermal cycling, and intense UV radiation that induce the formation of microcracks in spacecraft coatings during long-te…

Development of Water-Retaining Pavement Concrete Using Bamboo Fiber to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects

Materials Science

Abandoned bamboo forests pose a significant challenge in Japan, which requires the exploration of innovative applications for this eco-friendly resource. My recent research revealed that tre…

Diagnosing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy(PSP) Through Image-Recognition of the Hummingbird Sign Using Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN)

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy(PSP) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects many individuals over the age of 60. Unfortunately, more than 30% of patients with PSP are misdiagnosed as hav…

Differential Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, and the Limitations of Social Science Research

Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award

Previous research suggests people exhibit an "empathy gap": they feel more empathy for members of their group than for outsiders. I explored whether the empathy gap exists in racial and part…

Differential Mechanisms of LPA1 and LPA4 Receptors in Regulating Cell Migration

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a bioactive lipid which can bind to six LPA receptors (LPA1-6) on the cell membrane and regulate various cell activities. Previous studies have shown that LPA1…

Diffusion-Based Conditional Mesh Synthesis for Rapid 3D Visual Design

Technology Enhances the Arts First Award

As digital design has become ubiquitous over the last few decades, 3D creations have become much more advanced through Computer-Aided Design (CAD). However, this approach can be tedious, tim…

Discovering the Oncogenic Addiction of CD47 in Breast Cancer

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a molecular subset of breast cancer defined by a lack of estrogen, progesterone, and the human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) receptors. Currently,…

Discovery of a Polymorphic Biomarker More Accurately Associated with Reduced Chemotherapeutic Metabolism in a Diverse Cohort

UGT1A1 is an enzyme involved in metabolizing Irinotecan, a DNA topoisomerase class I inhibitor chemotherapeutic drug. Polymorphisms within the UGT1A1 gene promoter reduce UGT1A1 mRNA express…

Discovery of New Extragalactic Planet Candidates: A Novel End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline for Efficient Transit Detection in the X-ray Spectrum

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

The discovery of M51-ULS-1b, the only extragalactic planet orbiting an X-ray Source (XRS), unveiled a gap in our current understanding of planetary formation and evolution. How this planet f…

Discovery of Rs887829 as the Genetic Polymorphism Responsible for Reduced UGT1A1 mRNA Expression in a Diverse Cohort

Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award

UGT1A1 is an enzyme involved in metabolizing Irinotecan, a DNA topoisomerase class I inhibitor chemotherapeutic drug. Polymorphisms within the UGT1A1 promoter reduce UGT1A1 mRNA expression,…

Discovery of Two Potentially Habitable Super-Earths! StealthPlanetFinder: Innovative & Computationally Efficient Algorithms to Detect Exoplanets Overcoming Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Since 2010, astronomers have utilized automated algorithms to detect numerous exoplanets that primarily exhibit Medium to High Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) transits. About 60% of potential ha…