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Land-based Aquaculture - Sustainable!

Animal Sciences

The project “Land-based Aquaculture - Sustainable!” has the goal to study an aquaculture system on land that provides marine biomass with unpolluted water. The system's development is a solu…

Landfills and Methane: A One Year Study Into Actual and Controlled Bioreactor Production of Methane Using G.E.M.

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Searching for alternative energy sources has taken on new meaning in light of concerns regarding climate change. Vast landfills across America do produce a usable alternative fuel in the for…

Landfills and Methane as Alternative Energy: What a One Year Methane Analysis Tells Us About Methane Production Using a G.E.M. and Self Made Bioreactor?

Earth & Environmental Sciences (Senior Division)

Today, there are 1,250 landfills in America, with 300 of those landfills in California. Out of the 300, only 56 are operating. Although only 56 of 300 landfills are operating, methane produc…

Land Use Effects on Soil Quality in Philippi, Western Cape, South Africa

Microbiology

Purpose: The purpose was to identify the extent of the major problem regarding soil contamination which causes food outbreaks in South Africa and was furthermore driven by the great demand f…

Laser-Induced One-Step Green Synthesis of Graphene Nanoparticles for Fabrication of All-Solid-State Ultracapacitor

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award

Drastic increases in energy demand have led to the quest for developing efficient energy-storage devices. The main research pursuit is in fulfilling global requirements for storing renewable…

Laser Tuned Micro-Fluorescence in Fish Scales for Steganography and Chemical Sensing

Materials Science

Environmental pollution is a major global concern, exacerbated by several issues; namely, the accumulation of fish bio-waste due to the growing population’s increased consumption of fish, an…

LCNN: Deep Convolutional Network (CNN) for Early Detection of Stage of Liver Disease

Translational Medical Science

With just 5% survival rates, Liver cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Due to its low survival rates, early diagnosis of liver disease is extremely crucial. The aim of the p…

Lend me your ear! - Real-time Speech Separation and Enhancement using Deep Neural Networks

Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award

Hearing impairment is a serious problem affecting millions of people, making it difficult for them in crowded and noisy environments. Our grandmother, who suffered hearing loss at a young ag…

Let's Twist Again: The Physics of a Rotational Pendulum

Physics and Astronomy

Rubber bands have many uses in everyday life, but if you hang two metal balls on a twisted rubber band, a surprising physical effect is observed: The balls rotate alternately in both directi…

Leveraging AI to Assist Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis

Translational Medical Science

One of the most important metrics of cardiac health is ejection fraction. EF is the percentage of blood pumped out of the left ventricle each time the heart contracts and is most commonly an…

Leveraging Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision in a Novel Approach to Rapid Banana Disease Detection

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

During the 1950s, the Gros Michel species of bananas were nearly wiped out by the incurable Fusarium Wilt, also known as Panama Disease. Originating from Southeast Asia, Panama disease is a…

Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement

Computational Systems & Analysis First Award

Each year, wildfires destroy billions of dollars of infrastructure, cost billions of dollars to suppress, emit billions of tonnes of carbon, and claim many lives. These negative effects are…

Levitating Magnetic Insoles: A Novel Approach to Alleviating Plantar Fasciitis Through the Reduction and Redistribution of Plantar Pressures

Biomedical Engineering

According to American Podiatric Medical Association, four out of five Americans experience foot pain. Inflammation, mostly common caused by daily overuse, leads to the majority of foot pain.…

Lignin Assisted Water Electrolysis for Sustainable Hydrogen Production and Lignin Valorization

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

Hydrogen is a promising green fuel that is being rapidly adapted for use as a secondary energy carrier- particularly due to its high calorific value of 142.3 MJ/kg, more than three times hig…

Lipid Bilayer Bending Due to Membrane-Protein Interactions: A Computational Investigation

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Every single cell in an organism has a membrane that, in addition to being a compartmental barrier, plays a role in maintaining cell shape and function. For example, sickle cell anemia is a…

Little Health Guard in the Kitchen: Preliminary Application of Perilla Extract in Kitchen Supplies

Microbiology Fourth Award

The development of kitchen supplies containing natural antibacterial agents conforms to the concept of green and healthy life. Inspired by the fact that the perilla leaf salad is not easy to…

Little Mermaid: Improving Social Communication Level for Mildly Autistic Children Using Video Call-Based Mobile Application Game

Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award

Mildly autistic children lack effective social communication skills, making it crucial to utilize modern technology to elevate their social communication and help them blend in with their co…

Lost in Time

Systems Software

Gaming has become a huge part of teenagers’ time consumption, and in many cases, it has started to affect their lives. In addition, learning is considered to be an obstacle, boring process f…

Low-Cost Ecological Filter for Water Treatment, Made on the Basis of Activated Carbon From the Biomass of the Black Jurema (Mimosa hostilis)

Environmental Engineering

Bearing in mind the scarcity of water in the Northeast region of Brazil and throughout the whole country, scientific initiatives are needed in order to seek ways to provide clean water to th…

Low-Cost Real-Time Silent Communicator for Complete Quadriplegia (Paralyzed) Patients

Systems Software Third Award

There are millions of fully paralyzed patients around the world and their life is difficult, as they are fully dependent on others for even their basic needs. They struggle to communicate wi…

Low-Cost Replicable Open-Source Mangrove Monitoring System

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

Although mangroves occupy less than 1% of the global coastal area, they are one of the strongest natural ecosystems to fight climate change as they sequester up to 22.8 tons of carbon annual…

Low-Cost Solar Powered Water Quality Monitoring Device With 24/7 Uploading to Public Access Website

Embedded Systems

I designed and programmed a surface water quality monitoring device that continuously samples for three key water health parameters and sends the monitoring data in real time to an open acce…

Lower pH Levels Negatively Affect Tripneustes gratilla Fertilization and Development

As human carbon dioxide emissions dissolve in the ocean, the pH of the ocean drops in the natural phenomenon known as ocean acidification (Brewer 2013). In 2100, the oceanʻs pH is predicted…

Low-Field MRI Super-Resolution With Densely Engineered U-Net++ Network: Improving Resolution and Contrast of Portable MRI With Nested U-Net Architecture, Enabling Low-Cost Bedside Neurological Imaging on a Global Scale

Biomedical Engineering Second Award

Low-field (LF) MRI scanners have the power to revolutionize medical imaging by providing a portable and cheaper alternative to high-field MRI scanners. However, such scanners are usually sig…

L-Tromino Tilings for Portions of Square Lattice

Mathematics

Domino tiling problem for (m, n)-grid was solved by Kasteleyn, Temperley and Fisher in 1961. L-tromino is a 2x2 rectangle without one cell. We consider the L-tromino tilings problem for (m,n…

Lure Comparison for Capturing Male Culex Mosquitoes

Animal Sciences

Avian malaria, which is mainly transmitted by Culex mosquitoes, threatens to wipe out native forest birds in Hawai’i. To prevent this, researchers want to release male mosquitoes that are la…

LURING: Periodic Precipitations for the Controlled Release of Drugs

Chemistry

Drug Delivery Systems, DDS are systems that allow the controlled release of a given active ingredient with the aim of improving the effectiveness of drug treatment and reducing the toxicity…

Machine Learning Augmented Histopathological Diagnosis of an Aggressive Variant of Liver Cancer

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award

Purpose: Liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma) is one of the most common and fatal cancers. Subtypes associated with poor outcomes need proper characterisation. “Macrotrabecular-massive He…

Machine-Learning-Based Identification of Cognitive Engagement States In EEG Data Driven By Visual Stimulation

Monitoring cognitive engagement and comprehension may prevent accidents and save lives, especially with drivers of autonomous vehicles, air traffic controllers, and in other attention-critic…

Machine Learning-Guided Design of Novel Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors for Human Gene Therapy

Gene therapy has immense potential for treating conditions such as cancer, hemophilia, kidney disease, and inherited blindness by correcting defective genes directly. Adeno-associated viruse…