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Medical Car

Biomedical Engineering

GOALS 1-Children break the fear barrier during diagnosis 2-Diagnosis during play PROCEDURE 1- Installing weight sensors under the car seat 2- Installing a temperature sensor on the seat belt…

Memory-augmented Neural Agents for Deep Model-free Reinforcement Learning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

While deep reinforcement learning has achieved some impressive results in the past years, it suffers from poor sample efficiency and an inablily to generalize, since they learn to manipulate…

Metal-doped Zinc Oxide Nanochip for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Sensing of Opioid in Water

Environmental Engineering

Opioid abuse is a significant public health problem. Despite over 130 overdose deaths a day and two million Americans with some form of opioid addiction, there are still very few predictive…

Metformin and Mannose Inhibit Human Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation and Proliferation: Implications for Anti-Fibrotic Therapies in Patients with MPI Deficiency and Chronic Liver Disease

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Introduction: Children with mutations in mannose phosphate isomerase (MPI) develop early liver fibrosis that can progress to require liver transplantation. We have previously shown that MPI…

Methane on Wheels

Environmental Engineering

Global warming has had a worldwide impact with methane gas being a significant contributor. According to calculations by the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) based on a 2018 Intergovernmenta…

Methanotrophic Bioremediation for the Degradation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons

Environmental Engineering

The main objective of this applied science project is to demonstrate the viability of a novel, low-cost methanotrophic biotrickling filter with the ability to co-metabolise methane as well a…

Methyl Formate as a Reducing Agent for Reductive Amination: New Approach for C-N bond formation

Chemistry

Reductive amination plays a key role in organic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry owing to its synthetic merits and ubiquitous presence of amines among biologically active compounds. Va…

Micelle Templating of Calcium Precipitation: A Route to Artificial Bone

Materials Science

Micelle-templating was investigated as a means to obtain macroporous calcium carbonate (CaCO3) structures, with pores >50nm, suitable for applications such as bone grafting. Solutions of tet…

Microalgae as an Environmentally-friendly Bio-feedstock: Microbial Characterization to Augment Photosynthesis

Plant Sciences

Mass microalgae cultures, desirable for a number of environmentally-friendly applications, remain constrained by cost. A new paradigm posits the construction of artificial consortia to confe…

Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation by Bacillus subtilis 168 for Underground Gas Stagnation, Soil Compaction, and Ion Sequestration

Biochemistry

Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) is a biochemical reaction that certain urease positive bacteria can perform. Through MICP, said bacteria can precipitate microscopic limeston…

Microfossils and Monsoons: What Is Their Relationship across the Deglaciation?

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Indian Monsoon phenomenon affects upwards of a billion people and through its influence on upwelling, ocean currents, and changes in salinity, plays a critical role in supporting marine…

Microgreen Biofortification for Human Health

Plant Sciences

Iron and zinc are critical for human health. Iron anemia is the most common worldwide nutrient deficiency. Iron and zinc deficiency, particularly early in life, can cause permanent developme…

Micro-morphological Analysis Towards an Enhanced Diagnosis of Osteomyelitic Bone

Materials Science

Osteomyelitis is a bacterial infection that has the potential to affect bone microstructure. During the excision procedure for osteomyelitic bone, the surgeons categorize the affected region…

MICROPA: A Novel Approach and a Device for the Detection, Quantification, and Filtration of Microplastics in Drinking Water

Chemistry

Microplastics are very small particles mostly ranging from 0.1 µm to 0.2µm size and are found frequently in drinking water samples. These are difficult to identify or removed by existing tec…

Microplastic: A Possible Rising Tide of Plastic Affecting an Oyster's Filtration

Animal Sciences

Oysters are niche creatures within the marine ecosystem that filter phytoplankton to ensure clarity of water. As global plastic production reaches 4.8 - 12.7 million tonnes annually, their e…

MindTalk

Embedded Systems

A report from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation reveals that 1.9 percent of the global population suffers from diseases that may render people para lyzed. These diseases range from par…

Miniature Telemetry Transmitter for Long Duration Super Pressure Balloon Flight

Embedded Systems

A low cost miniature transmitter was constructed and flown on a .91 m diameter mylar balloon in order to determine the relationship between the free lift and the float altitude. The single b…

Mining Common Structural Features of Aggregating Proteins in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

I set out to find the similarities between different aggregating proteins’ amino acid sequences and 3D conformations in neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) using computational methods. Using t…

Mission-Critical Communications Planning Over Contested RF Spectrum with Deep Reinforcement Learning Aided Artificial Intelligence

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Mission-critical communications (MCC) refer to those that support operations involving high risk to human life and property. As RF spectrum becomes highly contested, ensuring mission success…

MobiPark, the Mobility Parking Management System

Engineering Mechanics

According to US and Australian regulations, between 2 and 4% of all parking spaces in retail establishments must be allocated for accessible parking. In Australia, the Mobility Parking Schem…

Modeling Childhood Brain Tumor Mutations in Fruit Flies: Testing Therapeutics for H3.3 K27M Mutant Glioblastoma in Drosophila melanogaster

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The K27M mutation in histone H3.3 drives incurable glioblastomas in children called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG). Research in human cells shows that a deficiency in H3.3 protein…

Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Models of metastasis-free survival based on microarray gene expression can be powerful tools for clinicians and have broad applications in risk quantification, genetic research, and palliati…

Modeling in vitro Environmental Impacts on Nutrient Remediation in Immobilized Chlorella vulgaris (A Novel Second Year Study)

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Florida’s waters have been plagued by HAB’s (Harmful algal blooms). In the Caloosahatchee, Cyanobacteria are a concern because of their quick proliferation and release of cyanotoxins. One ma…

Modeling Uranium Uptake in Fossilized Teeth and Bones: Potential for Long-Term Uranium Waste Storage

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Oxidized uranium (U) is soluble in groundwater and can be incorporated in or adsorbed to porous materials it encounters in the environment. In the early stages of fossilization, mammal teeth…

Modelling Space Weather: A New Deep Learning-Based Approach

Physics and Astronomy

Space weather phenomena, especially magnetic storms that originate in the Sun such as flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), have the potential to cripple satellite operations and space-r…

Molecular Mechanisms of Interaction of Bacteriocins with Bacterial Cells Based on an Example of Acidocin M

Microbiology

Bacteriocins are antimicrobial proteins or polypeptides produced by bacterial cells. Currently, they are being intensively analysed due to their potential as alternatives to chemical food pr…

Molecular Stress Response to Motor Oil and Salt Exposure in Sporobolus Alterniflora

Plant Sciences (inferred)

Plant life in salt marshes is crucial to ecosystem regulation. Plants play key roles in ecological services, like carbon sequestration, soil enrichment, and flood protection, which have beco…

Monitoring Chicken Embryological Development with Machine Learning

Teratogens are agents that cause malformations in embryos during development. With 3% of live births having a malformation and the cause of 65-75% of malformations in human newborns being mu…

Monitoring of the Ice Cover Changes in Polar Regions Based on Acoustic Detection of Cracks in It

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Currently, the number of perennial glaciers is decreasing. However, there are no objective ways to monitor this process. I propose a monitoring scheme based on acoustic methods. There is a d…

Morphology of Ovarian Cancer Cells Treated with Growth Factors

Bridget Meyers Marian High School Mishawaka, IN Morphology of Ovarian Cancer Cells Treated with Growth Factors This research observed the effects of seven growth factors on the morphology of…