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EiPCA - A Portable Self-Screening Electrocardiographic System for Rapid Screening of Cardiovascular Diseases Using EiPCA Formula and Lead Augmentation Algorithm to Convert 1-Lead to 12-Lead ECGs

Translational Medical Science Third Award

Every 2 seconds, cardiovascular disease (CVD) steals a life. 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is the gold standard for CVD diagnosis, which is specialist-reliant and mainly available in urb…

Elastic Waves: Applications of Elastic Wave Propagation in the Recovery of Depleted Oil Patches

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Currently, the average global efficiency of oil extraction is around 35%, leaving almost two thirds of the initial reserve unexploited. Using a theoretical modeling of a magnetostrictive act…

Electrifying Lake Mud - More Power

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

With needs for electrical power increasing around the globe, this work will present a novel solution to meet energy demands by using the alternative energy generation of microbial fuel cells…

Electrogastrography and Personalized Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Noninvasive, Lost-Cost Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroparesis

Gastroparesis, characterized by slowed or absent gastric contractions, affects 1.8% of the population, presents with severe nausea, abdominal pain, a high mortality rate, and incurs high tre…

Electrogastrography and Personalized Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Noninvasive, Low-Cost Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroparesis

Biomedical Engineering First Award

Gastroparesis, characterized by slowed or absent gastric contractions, affects 1.8% of the population, presents with severe nausea, abdominal pain, a high mortality rate, and incurs high tre…

Electrolysis Experiment to Calculate Avogadro's Number

Chemistry

PURPOSE The project's purpose is to determine the number of particles in a mole, which is Avogadro's number. My hypothesis is that a mole of any substance contains a definite number of parti…

Elucidating a Novel Pathway Underlying Yeast Prion Replication: Atg17 and the Essentiality of Specific Genes in Yeast Prion Propagation

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Prion proteins are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, causing normal cellular proteins to fold abnormally in a rapidly progressive manner. Studying the genes required for yeast prio…

Elucidating Novel Mechanisms: Berberine Mitigates Cisplatin-Induced Hepatorenal Mitochondrial Dysfunction through Preservation of Electron Transport Chain Integrity

Arkansas for Medical Sciences A high incidence of hepatorenal impairment in cancer patients treated with cisplatin has been reported. Berberine, a plant alkaloid possesses wide range of medi…

Elucidating Novel Mechanisms: Berberine Mitigates Cisplatin-Induced Hepatorenal Mitochondrial Dysfunction Through Preservation of Electron Transport Chain Integrity

Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award

A high incidence of hepatorenal impairment in cancer patients treated with cisplatin has been reported. Berberine, a plant alkaloid possesses wide range of medicinal properties. Mitochondria…

Elucidating RSV-Host Protein-Protein Interactions: Novel implementation of Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Structural Visualization

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) poses significant health risks, especially to infants under six months and adults over 65. The objective of this study is to deepen the understanding of str…

Elucidating the Behavioral, Pathogenetic, and Therapeutic Implications of Selectively Inhibited Monogenic Variants in Fragile X Syndrome Associated Genetic Epilepsy in Drosophila melanogaster

Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common “single-gene” cause of intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) worldwide, often manifesting understudied seizure comorbidi…

Elucidating the Impact of Lactobacillus casei ATCC 393 on Amyloid Plaque Generation in Alzheimer's Model Caenorhabditis elegans GRU102

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Alzheimer's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, has become a global issue; One without a cure. Recent research…

Empathy and Trust as Key Drivers of Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare

This study examines the effects of trust in the patient -doctor relationship and the physician's empathetic approach on patient satisfaction. It proposes two hypotheses: first, there is a di…

Employing Woodpecker Cranial Adaptations in a Novel Helmet Design for Increased Impact Protection

Helmets are designed to protect against severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI can be prevented through impact force dissipation over a larger surface area, cranial deceleration over a len…

Empowering Blind Navigation Through Innovative Sensor Technology

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The Safe Sense Helmet project addresses the critical need for enhanced safety and independence among blind individuals through the development of a cutting-edge wearable device. The research…

EmSafe: Further Improving the Emergency Call Service and the Development of Digital Emergency Management Infrastructure for Industrial, Event, and Public Use

Systems Software Fourth Award

Despite the improvements made to the Emergency Call Service by the original EmSafe Project, numerous issues have been found that impact the safety and security of people around the world. Em…

Enabling Scalable Precision Medicine With STAD: A Novel Computational Platform for Early Recurrence-Free Survival Prediction and Biomarker Discovery in Digital Pathology for Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients

Translational Medical Science Fourth Award

Gastrointestinal cancers affect 1.1 million people and are responsible for >875K deaths annually, making them the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Late detection of recurrence…

Endocannabinoids: From Drosophila Physiology and Autophagy Regulation to Therapeutic Insights

Animal Sciences Fourth Award

The endocannabinoid system (ECS) and autophagy are both essential physiological mechanisms within cells. However, limited research explores the relationship between endocannabinoids, specifi…

Energies on Deformed Planar Lattices: Geometric Consideration

Physics and Astronomy

The discovery of graphenes and fullerenes sparked a surge of interest in the understanding of their structures and properties. One approach, proposed by Friedrich, Seitz and Stefanelli stems…

Energy-Generating and Power-Storing Seashell

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Access to energy remains a demanding issue for island and coastal inhabitants due to their remoteness, with an estimated 70% of Pacific islander households and 57% of sub-Saharan African res…

Engineering a Greener Future: A Novel, Biodegradable, Self-Powered, Chitosan-Based Food Packaging Material

Materials Science

Since the discovery of synthetic petroleum-based plastics, humanity has increased its production exponentially at the cost of our planet's health. This traditional plastic takes millions of…

Engineering a WebAssembly-Based Shell

Systems Software

This project creates a POSIX-style shell that runs WebAssembly, allowing programs to be shared between developers without safety issues, platform incompatibilities, determinism problems, or…

Engineering of a Bio-Inspired Tiltable Oscillating Fin Submersible Thruster

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award

Marine vertebrates have declined in abundance in the last four decades by an average of 22%. To observe marine organisms effectively, a waterborne propulsion system with minimal environmenta…

Enhanced Antibacterial Effect of Blue Light in Combination With an Amazonian Tree Sap (Croton lechleri)

Microbiology

8.2 million patients in the U.S. suffer from non-healing wounds infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Blue light and Sangre de Drago (SD) (Croton lechleri) have potent mechanisms of a…

Enhanced Crop Disease Symptom Detection in Corn (Zea mays) Using Drone Aerial Imagery and AI for Symptom Mapping

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

This research addresses the pivotal role of the agricultural sector in the Philippine economy, constituting 9.43 percent of the GDP and engaging 30 percent of the labor force. Corn, the seco…

Enhancing Bobsleigh Performance Through Biomimetic Design Inspired by the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The project explored biomimicry to optimize bobsleigh design. This was motivated by the sustainable development culture under SDG 13 for taking urgent action to combat climate change and its…

Enhancing Carbon Sequestration of Sedum Acre by Integrating Silica-Composited Biochar: A Novel and Sustainable Bioremediation Approach to Mitigate Climate Change

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Biofuels are critical in combating the global climate crisis while providing increasing energy security. However, the current application of biofuels solely emphasizes the utilization of Bio…

Enhancing Dry Cooling in Power Plants through High-Conductivity Thermal Ground Planes

As global electricity demand increases, the majority of power is produced by thermoelectric plants using fossil and nuclear fuels, despite the rising role of renewables like solar and wind.…

Enhancing Ethereum's Security with LUMEN, Novel Zero -Knowledge Algorithms Generating Transparent and Efficient SNARKs Based on Hidden Order Groups

Zero-knowledge rollups (ZKR), the best scalability solution for the cryptocurrency Ethereum, processes thousands of Ethereum transactions in a batch and uses zk -SNARKs (zero -knowledge succ…

Enhancing Ethereum's Security With LUMEN, Novel Zero-Knowledge Algorithms Generating Transparent and Efficient SNARKs Based on Hidden Order Groups

Mathematics Third Award

The cryptocurrency Ethereum utilizes zero-knowledge rollups (ZKR) to improve its scalability. ZKRs processes thousands of Ethereum transactions in a batch and uses zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge…