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Novel Chemical Doping Strategy to Enhance N-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Materials Science

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are among the most powerful transistors to date by combining both ionic and electronic conduction. This unique mechanism makes these devices desir…

Novel Complementary and Alternative Medicines to Mollify Long COVID and Post-COVID Conditions Studied Using Controlled Environment Agriculture

Biochemistry Third Award

Despite a surge in sales and consumption of natural supplements in the last 3 years, the science supporting the safety and bioavailability of simultaneous intake of natural supplements again…

Novel Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Accuracy in User-Accessible Brain Tumor Detection and Classification

Effective treatment for brain cancer is aided significantly by the rapid detection of tumors. Traditional detection methods involving the manual inspection of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI…

Novel Drug Discovery Methodology Using Machine Learning for Gene Expression-Based Virtual Screening Predicts Novel Compounds To Reverse Alzheimer's Disease With Applications to Cancer and Longevity by Inhibiting CtBP2 Expression

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has neither satisfactory nor equitably accessible treatments. Current research emphasizes inflammation, notably age-related elevation of microglial TNF-a, in driving…

Novel Elastomeric Polystyrene via Photopolymerization and Post-Functionalization of Durable Ultra-High Molecular Weight Perfluorostyrene Copolymer

Chemistry Second Award

The development of durable and sustainable plastics is essential for the advancement of our society. Ultra-high Molecular Weight (UHMW) polymers are highly attractive due to the extreme dura…

Novel Electronic Gloves: Converting Sign Language to Natural Language for People With Hearing and Speech Impairment

Technology Enhances the Arts

Electronic gloves utilizing flex sensors and micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) inertia measurement units (IMU) have been developed to aid individuals with hearing and speech impairments…

Novel Integrated System for Segmentation and Analysis of Intracranial Arteries and Aneurysms Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Brain Aneurysms are a significant challenge for neurosurgeons due to the often -fatal consequences of their rupture. Therefore, it is crucial to develop methods that enable doctors to detect…

Novel Passive Radiative Cooler Which Combined Magnesium Oxide and Aluminum Foil

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

In recent years, the demand for cooling has surged, prompting growing interest in passive radiative cooling (PRC) technology has attracted considerable attention because it does not require…

Novel Quantum Materials for Low Power Electronics

Materials Science

Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of electronic devices, causing sustainability concerns, thereby requiring the use of new semiconductor materials. The…

Novel Quantum Materials for Low Power Electronics

Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of electronic devices, causing sustainability concerns, thereby requiring the use of new semiconductor materials. The…

Novel Solar-Assisted Method for Mitigation of Methane Emissions via a New Highly Efficient Catalyst

Environmental Engineering Third Award

Global warming poses a pressing challenge marked by rising temperatures and environmental impacts. Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are the main drivers of this phenomenon due to their…

Novel Spinel Oxide Coatings on Stainless-Steel Mesh for Efficient Oil-Water Separation

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

The depletion of water resources and environmental hazards associated with aging oil wells, including the release of oil-contaminated water, present grave threats to marine ecosystems and hu…

Novel TMOS-Dependent Synthesis of Water-Stable CsPbBr3-SiO2 Nanoparticles for Bioimaging Applications

Chemistry

Perovskite nanocrystals carry significant promise in the field of intracellular sensing. When in proximity with radiolabeled analytes, fluorescent nanoparticles emit photoluminescent signatu…

Novel Treatment as Reduction of Oxidative Stress Using Mixed Antioxidants for Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms

The purpose of this research was to investigate if the combination of the antioxidants ferulic acid (FA), curcumin, and caffeine decreased oxidative stress (OS) in order to ascertain if mixe…

Novel Utilization of Blood Work Monitoring (NavDx) for Early Detection of Cervical and Anal Cancers

Translational Medical Science

HPV driven oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) linked cancers kill upwards of 40,000 people each year. In order for early detection and treatment to be administered, the NavDx bloo…

Numbing Factor: Natural vs. Synthetically Produced Anti-Inflammatories on the Behavior, Mortality, and Metabolism of Lumbricus terrestris

Behavioral and Social Sciences

It’s a reasonable and known human response to want pain reactions to end as fast as possible. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP; 1979) defines pain as “an unpleasant…

Nutritional Values in Insects: A Spectrophonic Analysis

Chemistry

Many people all over the world are switching to the consumption of insects. In places like Africa, Southeast Asia, and northern parts of Latin America insects are considered a popular delica…

Obesity and Fresh Food Access: New Evidence and Solutions From Geospatial Data

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Background Obesity is generally modeled as a problem associated with socioeconomic (income, education, etc.) and genetic (age, race, etc.) factors. This study shows that, after controlling f…

Observing Effects of Nicotine on Drosophila melanogaster Possessing the Mutated RAS-Gene as Model for Cancer Progression in Humans Using GAL4-UAS System

Biomedical and Health Sciences

As Nicotine products are considered less risky than tobacco products, many disregard the negative effects of Nicotine and satisfy themselves with the thought that it won’t harm them. However…

Obtaining a Polyadsorbent From the Natural Diatomite to Purify Wastewater From the Ions of Heavy Metals

Chemistry

Highly toxic heavy metals find their way to living organisms through water and air. Emission of wastewater to water resources only proliferate the harm and health implications of exposure to…

OmniBeat: A Non-invasive Visualization Platform of Cardiomyocyte Beating for Drug Screening

Biomedical Engineering

Heart pumping is driven by cardiomyocyte (CM)contraction. However, there has been no direct approach to measuring CM beat. Fluorescent probes and electrical physiological techniques require…

Omni Wheel: An Innovative Wheel Design for a Walker With Pressure Tracking, Lidar Sensing and Braking Capability

Embedded Systems Third Award

About 38 million falls are reported among older adults each year in the US alone with more than 50,000 fall injuries associated with walkers, leading to more than 30,000 hospitalizations. On…

On an Approximation of Divisor Sum Functions With Bernoulli Polynomials and the Hardy Littlewood Function

Mathematics

Is a Bessel representation of exponential sums corresponding to divisors obtainable, and if so, viable? In an original expression I derived relating the divisor functions at individual point…

One-step Synthesis of Amorphous ZnP2 Composite Anode Promoting the Fast-Charging Performance in Li-Ion Batteries

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…

On the Construction and Applications of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebra Weight Systems in the Theory of Vassiliev Invariants

Mathematics Fourth Award

We explore knots. If we allow self-intersections, we get Singular knots. To distinguish different knots, invariant functions are used. A function from the set of knots to a ring is called a…

On the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles From Eggshells via the Sol-Gel Method

Biochemistry

Around one in five people worldwide are diagnosed with Osteoporosis, a disease that causes gradual loss of bone mass leading to increased risk of fractures, drastically reducing life expecta…

Open FC

Embedded Systems

This project addresses the problem of expensive sports cameras for small teams unable to cover the over 3k per season subscriptions. The hardware required for this project includes a Raspber…

Optimal Sound Frequencies for Targeted E. coli Biofilm Eradication on Indwelling Medical Devices

Microbiology

Bacterial biofilms, which contribute 80% of microbial infections in humans, are difficult and expensive to treat due to their antibiotic resistance. This experiment investigated the potentia…

Optimal Sparsification and Low-Rank Decomposition of Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies for Surgical Robot Task Automation

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Deep reinforcement learning(DRL) has shown significant promise in a wide range of applications including computer games and robotics. Yet, DRL policies require very long training times resul…

Optimization of Group Division Method for Rock-Paper-Scissors Game Considering Efficiency and Fairness

Mathematics

When many participants are involved, rock-paper-scissors tournaments can take numerous matches to complete. Prior studies attempted to reduce the number of matches by appropriately distribut…