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A Natural Solution to Sinkholes

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Sinkholes are a persistent problem throughout the world. Biomineralization is a large step forward in science and has been applied to restore cement structures, statues, etc. but has never b…

An Autonomous Drone for Water Conservation and Irrigation Location Optimization

Environmental Engineering

Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater, and only a third of this is accessible for agricultural use. This poses a difficult problem for the agricultural industry because the technology…

An Economic Approach to Ionic Liquid Pretreatment and Kudzu (Pueraria montana) Feedstock for Lignocellulosic Biofuel Production

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Current biofuel practices largely rely on primary food crops (presenting a sustainability dilemma). Alternatively, lignocellulosic ethanol has the potential to be sustainable and cost-compet…

An Efficient Approach to Minor Planet Recovery, Detection, and Characterization Using N-body Integration and the Probabilistic Hough Line Transform

Physics and Astronomy

Advances in the field of planetary science, particularly concerning our own solar system, have been dramatic over the last few decades. However, with these copious amounts of new data comes…

An Energy Scavenging Thermoelectric Microprocessor Implementation for the Conversion of Waste Heat into Electrical Power

Physics and Astronomy

Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are devices that use temperature differentials to generate electricity through the Seebeck effect. Low compatibility and efficiency make implementations of T…

An Enhanced Early Detection Model of Dengue Fever Outbreaks Using SEIR Infectious Disease Epidemiological Compartments, Generalized Linear Regression, and Statistical Computing

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Dengue Fever is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne disease, with more than 25,000 deaths annually. To date, no vaccine has been developed for Dengue Fever due to the existence of four…

An Enhanced Early Detection Model of Dengue Fever Outbreaks Using SEIR Infectious Disease Epidemiological Compartments, Generalized Linear Regression Relationships, and Statistical Computing

Dengue Fever is a debilitating viral disease, with more than 25,000 deaths annually. To date, no vaccine has been developed for Dengue Fever due to the existence of four virus serotypes. Thi…

A New Faster Bike

Engineering Mechanics

This research aims to study the extent of increasing the speed of the bicycle with minimal effort by controlling the height of the bike seat, where the experimental method was used to prove…

An Exploration into the Effects of Incorporating Biomimicry into Position Specific Helmet Technology and the Potential to Reduce, or Possibly Eliminate, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

Biomedical Engineering

The purpose of this research was to determine the possibility of reducing g-Force and acceleration of frontal impacts in a football player’s position-specific helmet design in an attempt to…

An Exploration of the Effects of Magnets and Electromagnetic Radiation on European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Navigation

Animal Sciences

In 2017, the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences journal linked ferromagnetic material in bees’ (Apis mellifera) abdomens to magneto-reception and bees’ ability to naviga…

An In-Depth Look into Identifying the Differentiation Pathway and Cell Type of Dual-Receptor Expressing Lymphocytes in Type 1 Diabetes

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an auto immune disease driven by auto antibodies that target insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Currently there are no prevention methods for T1D. However…

An Innovative Method of Assessment the Degree of Transformation of Land Ecosystems

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The anthropogenic impact on the biosphere is constantly increasing affecting ecosystems, reducing species diversity and lowering the rate of biomass formation. Normally determining the impac…

An Integrated Microfluidic Device for Blood Plasma Separation and Biomarker Detection Stanley C. Liu Arcadia High School

University of Southern California Human blood plasma contains biomarkers associated with many diseases. Separation of plasma from blood cells is crucial for many disease diagnostics. The cur…

An Integration-Free Accelerometer Based Approach for Estimating Peak Knee Angle

Knee angle tracking has important applications in rehabilitation and sports training. In this project, a wearable sensor system is developed for using inertial measurement units (IMUs) to tr…

An Investigation of the Effect of Various Yeasts and Water Sources on Aedes albopictus Oviposition and Egg Hatching

Mosquitoes represent a significant proportion of insect biodiversity, and yeasts fill important roles in food webs, decomposition of organic matter, and nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystem…

An in vitro evaluation of the relationship between stress and mineralization through the use of a piezoelectric barium titanate composite

Temple University In the United States, 55% of people over the age of 50 have either osteoporosis or low bone mass, both of which result from the human body’s failure to produce bone-strengt…

A Non-invasive Phenol Based Estrus Detection Kit for Dairy Animals

Animal Sciences

Determination of estrus is very crucial for increasing fertility and milk production of dairy herds. Methods and techniques presently used are cumbersome and painful. A non-invasive phenol-b…

An Optimized Molecular Docking Protocol Targeting Musashi RNA-Binding Proteins for Cancer Drug Design

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a deadly blood cancer in which abnormal blast cells crowd out healthy blood cells in bone marrow. Although AML is the most common adult leukemia, its survival…

A Novel Approach for Heavy Metal Removal from Aqueous Solutions using Ferrofluids

Chemistry

Heavy metal contamination has been and continues to be a world-wide problem. This project aims to remove heavy metals from contaminated water using ferrofluid. Metal nitrate contaminants, wh…

A Novel Approach of Slope Failure Analysis via Noise Injected Data for Representation Learning K-means Clustering and Convolutional Neural Networks

Embedded Systems

The analysis of slope failures in a treacherous environment is an important aspect of surveying plots of land. As a result, tools such as drones are used to take images and create 3D models…

A Novel Approach to Early Directional Diagnosis of Prescription Opioid Addiction

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Prescription opioid addiction is a national health crisis. Today, patients or physicians do not have a way of diagnosing if a painkiller given for relief is causing addiction. Current approa…

A Novel Approach to Facial Emotion Recognition Using a CNN and Frame-by-Frame Analysis with Pipe Framework to Aid Students with Autism

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty recognizing and comprehending emotions from others’ facial expressions. This inhibits their development of empathy and affects thei…

A Novel Approach to Improve Bacteriophage Phi X174 Lysis of E. coli K-12 Through Addition of Methylcellulose

Microbiology

Bacteriophages are gaining traction in medical treatments targeting bacteria, food additives, surface cleaners, and water disinfectants in lieu of antibacterials due to their efficiency, rel…

A Novel Approach to Improving Blood Circulation Using Complex Ultrasonic Wave-forms

Biomedical Engineering

The scientist set out to develop a novel approach that improves on the commercially available ultrasonic circulatory therapy technology. The device was purchased and analyzed. It was found t…

A Novel Approach to Improving Crop Yields via Waste Application: Analyzing Effects of Soybean Curd Residue on Soil Productivity Ella Wang

BASIS Chandler This project explores the potential of utilizing soybean curd residue (SCR) to improve soil productivity and drought resistance by analyzing its effects on the nitrogen and po…

A Novel Approach to Maximizing the Efficiency of Carbon Capture

Earth and Environmental Sciences

In this experiment, the effects of metallic bonding to the organic compound carbon monoxide were observed and analyzed. Basing our idea off the way in which carbon monoxide reacts with and b…

A Novel Coupled and Self-adaptive Anthropomorphic Robot Finger with a Dual-oblique-Belt Mechanism

Engineering Mechanics

Traditional spring-tendon-driven self-adaptive prosthesis hand, such as the Stark Hand, uses multiple springs to realize self-adaptive grasping, and uses tendon to drive finger extension. It…

A Novel Function for Osteoclast Differentiation and Bone Resorption

Medical University of South Carolina Osteoclasts (OCL) are bone-resorbing cells that differentiate from macrophage precursors in response to receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β (NF-…

A Novel Lip-Reading Method Based on Transfer Learning from MobileNet and LSTM Architecture

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Children with cleft palate often suffer from speech disorders. Children need guidance from professional speech therapists to teach them to pronounce correctly. Speech therapists and similar…

A Novel, Low Cost Treatment for PNS Neurodegenerative Diseases: Ascorbic Acid

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies and neuronal degeneration. Demyelination, a degenerative process that erodes away the myelin sheath which p…