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Phytochemical Examination and Antiproliferation Effect of Acacia senegal and Boswellia sacra Extract on Colon Cancer Cell (Caco-2)

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Chronic autoimmune diseases threatening human health have widely spread, yet modern-day pharmaceuticals remain of animal origin and cause the body to develop drug resistance or experience ad…

Phytoremediation and Harvester Ants: A Method for Identification of Plant Species Suitable for Heavy Metal Remediation

Earth and Environmental Sciences

A novel method is proposed to assist biologists in selecting the most suitable plant species for phytoremediation of site-specific heavy metal contamination. Only a few plants with the capac…

Phytoremediation Potential of Yucca elata, Carya illinoinensis, and Opuntia ficus-indica for Arsenic and Pollutant Removal in Drinking Water: A Sustainable and Affordable Approach

Environmental Engineering

In Dona Ana County, pollutants such as arsenic and chlorine, are often found in concentrations higher than what is considered safe in drinking water and bring upon long-term health consequen…

Pick Me! Pick Me! Pick Me! Exploring Color Psychology in Marketing

Technology Enhances the Arts

My project was about how brands/companies can use color psychology to market their products to consumers. I have always been in the many different ways that color psychology can be used in t…

Piezocatalysis with Optimized Turbulent Flow in Hydro Turbine for Eutrophication Remediation

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…

Plant Warfare: Investigating the Mechanisms of Plant Allelopathy on Agriculture Crops

Plant Sciences

The purpose of our investigation was to test allelopathic dilutions from Kentucky BlueGrass and Brohm seed on germination of common crops: wheat, barley, and oats. We hypothesized that oats…

PoDE - A Platform Leveraging Characteristic Time Series Patterns of Oculomotor Control Attributable to Cholinergic Neuron Destruction in the Parietal Lobe, Indicating Early Alzheimer's Disease Utilizing the PoDE Neural Network

Biomedical Engineering

Late-stage diagnosis in over 90% Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients worldwide often occurs at the 5th stage, significantly reducing life expectancy to an average of 5-6 years. Current screeni…

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Production in Bacteria: A Sustainable Approach to Eco-Friendly Plastics

Chemistry

Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat, resulting in over 29 million tons of plastic waste generated every year. With the demand for plastic increasing, it becomes impera…

Potential Microrna Biomarker Panel for Predicting Evolution of Pancreatitis to Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

PDAC (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma) is the 3rd most common cause of cancer deaths and is projected to be the 2nd most common cause by 2030 even as it comprises only 3.2% of all cancer ca…

Precession, Nutation and Dynamic Trajectory of a Magnetic Rod in an Axisymmetric Magnetic Field

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

Precession and nutation in dynamical systems have been of long-standing research interest. Manifesting in systems as diverse as spinning tops to celestial bodies like planets, understanding…

PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Spinal treatment modalities such as spinal fusion and trauma surgery, radiofrequency ablation, and cancer biopsies require the utmost precision to avoid damaging critical structures such as…

Preclinical Investigation to Develop Anti-Platelet and Cholesterol-Lowering Agent for Prevention and Treatment of Stroke

Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award

Purpose of this investigation is to develop a new safe and effective therapy for stroke. Nearly a quarter of global deaths each year are caused by blood clotting. High cholesterol and platel…

Predicting Burn Injury Readmissions using Machine Learning Methods

certain readmissions are unavoidable, many can be prevented, potentially easing the financial burden on families and government healthcare syste ms. Despite the unique risks and costs associ…

Predicting Future Internal Migration Patterns Within the United States Resulting From Shifts in Temperature and Precipitation

Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award

The annual migration of millions of people within or between countries can create resource strain, tighten job markets, and fuel political realignment. One factor that can play a role in sha…

Predicting Next-Day Wildfire Spread with Environmental Data and Machine Learning

Wildfires present a growing challenge, increasingly threatening communities and ecosystems worldwide. The rising wildfire incidents amplify environmental and social risks, emphasizing the ne…

Predicting Optimal Combinations of Regulatory Transcription Factor Perturbations to Simulate Complex Cell-State Conversion Paths Using Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award

Cellular reprogramming holds immense promise for novel therapeutics in fields like disease reversion and cellular regeneration. This field aims to control or perturb gene expression to induc…

Predicting Patient Response to CAR-T Cell Therapy Using Computational Methods for Biomarker Identification

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the most common pediatric cancer, is characterized by the proliferation of immature, leukemic B-lymphocytes in the bone marrow. CAR-T cell therap…

Predicting P-Glycoprotein Inhibition Using a Message-Passing Graph Neural Network

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is found in various tissues throughout the body, acting as an efflux pump that actively transports substances out of cells. As a result, P-gp plays an important role in…

Predicting the Unpredictable: A Novel Mathematical Model to Analyze and Accurately Predict Multiple Sclerosis Patient Outcomes

Mathematics Third Award

Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting millions worldwide, is characterized by its unpredictable course. Mathematics as a tool for predicting MS outcomes and identifying fa…

Predictive Model for the Development and Spread of Bacterial Resistance in Relation to Antibiotic Consumption in Hospital Settings

Translational Medical Science

Antibiotic resistance poses a global threat, leading to millions of infections annually and thousands of deaths and the chance of the world entering a post-antibiotic era where common infect…

Predictive Modeling of Brain Tumor Evolution and Anatomical Invasion: A Novel 3D Time Series Forecasting Approach for Enhanced Treatment Planning

Translational Medical Science

Each year, nearly 2 million individuals in the United States alone receive a cancer diagnosis. Traditional methods for tracking tumor growth are inaccurate and invasive as MRI scans and biop…

Preliminary Pancreatic Cancer Screening: A Cheap and Efficient Approach Employing Convolutional Neural Networks on CT Scans

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

With over 18 million new cancer diagnoses and nearly 10 million associated deaths per year, cancer remains a significant global health challenge. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest fo…

Preparation of Environmentally Friendly Adsorbents for the Treatment of Water and Development of an Innovative Treatment Method ‘Stick Sieve'

Chemistry

In this era of water scarcity, water purification has become an important issue. Our aim is to contribute to both the ecosystem and the economy by preparing a novel treatment method and gree…

Pressure Loss and Thrust Optimization for Electroaerodynamic Propulsion Electrode Geometry in Drone Applications

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The operation of aircraft has numerous impacts on the world; it negatively impacts climate change, and it creates noise/air pollution. Electroaerodynamic (EAD) propulsion provides us with a…

Prevention of Gun Violence Through the Buffering Effects of Intellectual Humility in Traumatized Psychopaths

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Gun violence has become a threatening phenomenon that has been affecting the lives of Americans nationwide. Two main traits that show a predisposition towards gun violence are psychopathy an…

Principles of Jet Propulsion: A Non-Standard Analysis of the Basic Formulas for Rocket Propulsion Leads to Surprising Results

Physics and Astronomy

We have found a law that connects the speed variation of a body to the throw of part of his mass, using the principle of conservation of momentum. Our results can be used to prove that accel…

Prioritization of Pneumothorax Diagnosis in Management: Automating a Severity-Based Urgency List System with Deep Learning

Pneumothorax, known as the presence of air within the pleural space, has a reputation of demanding timely intervention. But when this abnormality is classified as a tension pneumothorax, the…

Prochlorococcus-Mediated Restoration of Hypoxic Ecosystems Across Varying Levels of Turbidity in Aquatic Environments

The current approaches to manage hypoxia caused by high turbidity levels only prevent or lessen the quantity of sediment discharge; little research is done on the areas that are already hypo…

Producing Sustainable, Cost-Effective Aluminum-Sulfur Batteries Through a Triple-Function Cathode Design and Anion Charge Carriers

Rechargeable batteries are powering the rise in plug-in electric vehicles and intermittent renewable energy storage/transport/utilization in the electricity grid. With a goal of increasing e…

Pro-Inflammatory Macrophages Induce Pyroptotic Death of ß-Cells: Modeling Macrophage-Mediated Pancreatic Endocrine ß-Cell Damage Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Vascularized Macrophage-Islet Organoids

Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award

Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Loss of functional pancreatic ß-cell mass is key to both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes. Islet macrophages have importa…