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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…

Enhancing Federated Learning Using Mathematical Theorems and Coding Technologies

Mathematics

Federated learning is a new and exciting field of topic that has arisen in the world of machine learning. This field is new and exciting because it offers innovative solutions that address m…

Enhancing Field Litter Decomposition: The Impact of Soil Amendments

Plant Sciences

Decomposition plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy soil ecosystems. The breakdown of organic matter (field and harvest litter) by decomposers (microorganisms) releases essential nutri…

Enhancing Flight Efficiency: Redesigning the Sukhoi-Su 30MKI Airfoil Geometry for Improved Speed and Maneuverability in Sustained Flight

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

My project focused on refining the Sukhoi-Su 30MKI fighter jet's airfoil geometry to enhance its efficiency and maneuverability and over 25 iterations of airfoil designs, putting each throug…

Enhancing Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Matrices With Basalt-Limestone Combinations and Evaluating the Impact of Waste Engine Oil Rejuvenation in High-Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Mixtures

Materials Science

The use of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) with Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and Waste Engine Oil (WEO) as a rejuvenator has gained popularity in sustainable pavement construction due to potential…

Enhancing Mobility Assistance: A Point Cloud and IMU-Based Terrain-Adaptive Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Design

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Patients with mobility issues or lower limb injuries often require caregiver assistance. Lower extremity exoskeletons can ease this burden. However, the current models lack terrain adjusting…

Enhancing Sodium-Ion Batteries by Synthesizing a Novel Cathode Using Covalent Organic Frameworks Doped With Carbon Nanotubes

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

Given the anticipated scarcity of lithium, there is a potential risk of inadequate supply for future lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising alternatives to L…

Enhancing Strength of 3D Printed Objects Through Composite Mesh Reinforcement

Materials Science

This research article addresses the common issue of anisotropic strength inherent in standard 3D printing by investigating a method to enhance the mechanical strength of 3D printed objects u…

Enhancing Tea-Waste Based Biopolymer Nanocomposite Performance Through a Biomimetic Cuticular Hydrocarbon Coating: A Sustainable Packaging Alternative

Materials Science

Detrimental environmental effects of packaging waste have given rise to a shift towards eco-friendly packaging materials. A recent alternative employed are biopolymer nanocomposites, due to…

EnViD: A Novel Predictive Vision Framework With Temporal Contrast for Resource-Efficient Single Object Tracking in Dynamic Visual Fields

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award

Autonomous unmanned vehicles (drones, etc.) require fast and resource-efficient perception and control to perform in dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments. Comprehending visual real…

Environmental Learning and Research Technology

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

As robotics and computer software advance, robotics have the potential to replace hazardous tasks. Utilizing computer hardware and software, we designed and engineered a tracked robot platfo…

Equivariant Graph Attention Networks with Structural Motifs for Predicting Cell Line -Specific Synergistic Drug Combinations

Cancer is the second leading cause of death, behind heart disease, with chemotherapy as one of the primary forms of treatment. As a result, researchers are turning to drug combination therap…

Ergonomic Wheelchair for Paraplegic Dogs With Resting Mechanism

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

After the development of specific wheelchairs for dogs, the life quality of these animals with locomotor disabilities has improved considerably. However, even with the many benefits provided…

ERPD: A Novel Protein Design Approach to Engineering and Optimizing Smaller Fluorescent Proteins

Biochemistry Second Award

Green fluorescent proteins (GFP) are used as markers to image ß-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's diagnosis, visualize cancer progression, and measure drug toxicity. However, the large size of…

Establishing Disease Modeling of CADASIL Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Pericytes

Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award

Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an extremely rare neurological small vessel disease, affecting about 2-5 people every…

Estimating f-electron Shielding Constants Using Subsequent Ionization Energies

Chemistry

Reed and Slater's rules do not accurately calculate effective nuclear charge in f-filling elements, and subsequent ionization energy values of these elements are difficult to find experiment…

Euler-phi Partitions, p-Euler-phi Partitions, Inverse-p-Euler-phi Partitions and Their Generating Functions

Mathematics

Partitions of integers n are different representations of n as a sum of positive integers. They have applications in a variety of maths and physics topics including distribution problems and…