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Impact of Breast Milk in Escherichia coli Inhibition: Variation of the Antibacterial Efficacy According to the Stage of Breastfeeding

Microbiology

Breastfeeding is the process of nourishing an infant through the production of breast milk. Human breast milk has complex components crucial for the health of both mother and child, encompas…

Impact of P. gingivalis Derived RagA and RagB on Osteoclastogenesis

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The goal of this experiment was to find out whether P. gingivalis derived RagA can bind OC- stamp and promote the RANKL induced osteoclastogenesis. I did this by using RAW 264.5 murine cells…

Impact of Strontium Aluminate Nanoparticles on Xylem Occlusion

Plant Sciences

Light-emitting plants (LEPs) offer the opportunity for cheap, carbon negative lighting. SrAl2O4:Eu2+,Dy3+ (strontium aluminate), is the longest lasting, brightest phosphor of its kind. Recen…

Impact of Toroidal Propeller Design on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Acoustic Signature and Aerodynamic Performance

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for many applications across a range of industries. Increased UAV usage poses a public health and environmental threat due to the annoyi…

Impact of Treading on Rice Growth: A Comparative Analysis Across Representative Varieties

Plant Sciences

This study aimed to compare and scientifically verify the growth changes resulting from tread pressure in seven rice varieties: Koshihikari (japonica rice), IR8, Basmati-370 (indica rice), S…

Impact-Resistant Ambulance Platform With the Properties of a Robotic Manipulator but With the Price of a Regular Gurney

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

Vehicle evacuation of injured army man in off-road conditions is associated with added risk of injury and subsequent morbidity. I invented a method of constructing a platform for an ambulanc…

Impacts of a Hidden Layer Design on CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition

Systems Software

As society becomes more advanced with technology, an increasingly popular subject matter is autonomous vehicles. Specifically, the ability for autonomous vehicles to detect and recognize dif…

Impacts of Sucralose on Hedonic Feeding Behaviors in C. elegans for Implications in Human Obesity and Eating Disorders

Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award

Globally, over 2.1 billion people, close to 30% of the world population, are overweight or obese. The consumption of calorically-dense, palatable foods for pleasure, a phenomenon known as he…

Implementation of an Integrated Machine Learning Pipeline for LIGO Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches

Physics and Astronomy First Award

Continuous gravitational waves (CW) are long-lasting, monochromatic gravitational waves (GW), produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of dense matter resulting from rapidly spinning as…

Implementation of Gracilaria as a Biofilter for Nutrient Pollution

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The research conducted on Gracilaria tikvahiae seaweed as a biofilter for nutrient pollution in brackish water environments revealed promising results. Through a controlled simulation of nut…

Implementing a Novel Multimodal Neural Network Approach Using Dynamic Hyperparameter Selection Within an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Early Detection of Crop Diseases

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

As global food demand continues to increase, food supply continues to be consistently damaged by crop disease. At least 20% of crops worldwide are lost in the harvest and post-harvest stages…

Implications for Diabetes-Related Developmental and Phenotypic Variation via Sugar Modulation on Zebrafish Embryogenesis

Animal Sciences

The first hours post-fertilization represent critical time points in teleost development and may be an overlooked source of adult phenotypic variation. There are underlying mechanisms involv…

Implications of the Impact of Dietary Supplements on Cardiovascular Health Through Gut Microbiome Production of Trimethylamine-N-Oxide

Microbiology

Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease that causes plaque buildup within the arterial inner lining, and 42.1% of adults with no other known heart disorder suffer from the illness. Ather…

Improvement and Empirical Testing of a Novel Autonomous Microplastics-Collecting Semisubmersible

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Since the beginning of modern plastic's invention nearly a century ago, the human species as a whole has continually increased its rate of plastic consumption and waste. Until recently, this…

Improving Aerodynamic Characteristics of Helical Wind Turbines With Modified Blades

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

Amidst rising energy prices, electricity use is being reduced in Germany. This necessitates shutting down streetlights, their operation being cost-inefficient for communities. The efficiency…

Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection: Using Artificial Intelligence Driven Synthetic Image Generation and Cascading Convolutional Neural Networks to Diagnose Cancer in Lesions of Varying Skin Tones

Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award

Massive underrepresentation of non-White skin in dermatology research contributes to significant disparities in skin cancer outcomes. Since artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are largel…

Improving Retail Security Using Metallic Barcoding System

Embedded Systems

Typically, retailers lose about 1.5% to 2% of their sales from the loss of inventory due to theft or errors. Employee and customer theft are the major causes of retail shrinkage. The aim of…

Improving Sign Language Translation to Text Using Machine Learning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)

Over 430 million people worldwide struggle with disabling hearing loss, and among those that are deaf, 80% of individuals resort to using a form of sign language to communicate. Today, we re…

Improving the Fairness of Artificially Intelligent Skin Disease Detectors Using Stable Diffusion

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

This study addresses the ethical implications of using artificially intelligent neural networks for medical diagnosis, with a focus on skin diseases. While such networks have demonstrated hi…

Improving the Palatability and Marketability of Noni Juice, a Medicinal Fruit Juice, Using Rotary Evaporation

Chemistry

Noni (Morinda citrifolia) is a traditional Southeast Asian medicinal plant with research indicating antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activity, as well as benefits for cardiovas…

Improving the Ransomware Detection/Mitigation Proof-of-Concept With Machine Learning

Systems Software Fourth Award

Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks cost billions of dollars every year at the individual, industrial, and national…

Increasing Green Hydrogen Production Accessibility: Novel Synthesis of Maghemite Nanosphere Electrode for Bifunctional Alkaline Water Splitting

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…

Increasing Machine Learning Training Data to Reduce Selection Bias in AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing expeditiously in today’s world and being used for many different real - world applications like healthcare, law enforcement and CCTV, recruiting for c…

Increasing the Efficiency of the Transformer Architecture of ChatGPT During Inference Using Nanophotonics

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

ChatGPT is a widely utilized resource with billions of users projected worldwide, simultaneously handling numerous tasks. However, its cost and efficiency have become a matter of concern due…

Inducing an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) With Electroencephalography as a Novel Intervention to Improve Mental Function

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation in the scalp, neck, and back caused by sensory stimuli triggering the parasympathetic response. With a wide genre of p…

Inexpensive Glasses for the Blind and Visually Impaired Using Ai and OpenCV

Being blind can have a significant impact on a person's quality of life since it impairs their ability to navigate the world and participate in activities many once loved. Many people experi…

Influence of Phage Transduction on Antimicrobial Resistance Properties of ESKAPEE Bacteria

Microbiology

The weakening pipeline of the discovery of novel antibiotics and the excessive use of antibiotics have contributed to the recent emergence of antimicrobial resistance. In response to this em…

Injective Chromatic Index of Packet Radio Networks: Improved Upper Bounds

Mathematics

This project focuses on Packet Radio Networks (PRN), represented as a graph G = (V,E) with V and E as its vertex and edge sets respectively. The vertices represent the set of stations, and t…

Injective Chromatic Index of Packet Radio Networks: Improved Upper Bounds

This project focuses on Packet Radio Networks (PRN), represented as a graph G = (V,E) with Vand Eas its vertex and edge sets respectively. The vertices represent the set of stations, and two…

Innovated Faucet Socket for Water Taps

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

This is an innovated version of Tap Faucet. We use taps to fulfill our water requirements. In schools, garments, offices, homes, etc. In those places, few taps are connected to a single gate…