Biomedical and Health Sciences
Surgical fires pose a major threat in the operating room (OR) to patients, personal, and to facility. Surgical Drapes served fuel for 85% of fires and 81% of fires involve electrocautery, wi…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents a triboelectric (TENG) and electromagnetic (EMG) hybrid floor-tile nanogenerator to harvest the already expended energy of human footsteps for electrical energy conversio…
Engineering Mechanics
Water is a vital source for humanity, such important compound should not be wasted but finding a way to purify used water within our homes could helped preventing water shortage a much more…
Animal Sciences
Alcohol consumption, which leads to complex disorders involving neurological deficits, is one of the main contributors in chronic diseases around the world with overall global death reaching…
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to attempt to combine the hyperloop with other techniques to make it cost-effective while being just as efficient. With the idea of Elon Musk’s hyperloop, comb…
Less than 10% of the 1.3 million people who are blind in the United States are literate in Braille. Approximately 50,000 of these people are part of the deaf-blind community. More than 70% o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this qualitative research work we perform an iconographic interpretation of the rock manifestations of the Quilcay de Singa complex, based on the iconographic characteristics represented…
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is of m…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the nervous system, affecting millions worldwide. However, the early diagnosis of ALS is difficult since symp…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a growing field of therapeutics with lower risks of antimicrobial resistance compared to conventional antibiotics. However, experimentally testing peptides…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
2 statistically likely, novel drug candidates for solute transporter protein member 5, SLC5, were identified in this study. Dysfunction of a roundworm orthologue of SLC5, sulp-5, was linked…
Hemophilia A (FVIII deficiency) is characterized by spontaneous bleeding in weight-bearing joints, resulting in hemophilic arthropathy (HA). Bleeding causes inflammation and hypoxia, inducin…
Translational Medical Science
A significant number of cases of Salmonellosis have been linked to the handling of the more than 50 million day old chicks sold annually from mail order hatcheries, suggesting the need for i…
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, called superbugs, require new strategies to improve infection treatment. In my previous years’ research, I discovered that the Native American herb…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lupus Nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that leads to chronic inflammation of the kidney and excessive proteinuria. Current methods of treatment involve management of symptoms and slow…
Microbiology
Currently over a million cases of cancer are diagnosed each year, around fifty percent result in death. Cancer only accounts for 2.5% of the 4,000 identified genetic diseases. Genetic diseas…
Sudalagunta Moffitt Cancer Center The Ex Vivo Mathematical Malignancy Advisor Model (EMMA) is a support tool for treating Multiple Myeloma. A biopsy is taken, and patient plasma cells are cu…
Plant Sciences
The world today faces an increasing shortage of food production due to the exponential growth in the human population, hence the deficiencies in resources, especially water. According to the…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
According to the FDA, approximately 1.3 million people are injured due to medicine errors annually in the United States. A large percentage of these people are the elderly and people with mu…
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment is to recreate the standard degradable sanitary pad with organic biodegradable ingredients to incorporate a more environmentally friendly alternative while uph…
Mr. Kenneth W. Roedl Racial representation on television has been changing ever since television was invented. This study aims to do three things: 1.) Track the trends television has been se…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
All living organisms are spontaneously emitting ultra-weak photons in basic metabolism and cellular respiration. This photon emission which occurs in living organisms is known as biophoton e…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lateral ground displacement is a very dangerous soil phenomenon that occurs in small slopes. Lateral ground displacement can cause excessive damage to buildings and infrastructure but the ex…
Animal movement requires the input of sensory information. In particular, flies use sensors known as halteres, a type of mechanosensory organ located on the metathorax, to aid in flight. How…
University of Pennsylvania Chemical by-products from the hydraulic fracturing industry are known to contaminate bodies of water, often putting human health at risk. To prevent this issue, th…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects about 1.7 million individuals annually. It is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S. The Klotho gene, which plays an important rol…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Markowitz Mean-Variance model provides a computational framework for developing optimized portfolios but fails to account for the risk associated with human behavior. This study proposes…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a disorder that inhibits the dopaminergic neurons in the brain. Currently, there is no accurate non-clinical way to diagnose PD, forcing medical professionals to…
Embedded Systems
Train crossings are commonplace through US roads; they are a vital part of our transportation systems. Train crossings, however, introduce precarious conditions to our daily commutes. Two cr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks and genetic algorithms (GAs) are two techniques for optimization and machine learning, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. This project demonstrated the efficiency an…