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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 Electrolysis Voltage for the Hydrogen Generation Rate from Seawater

Large-scale electrolysis for hydrogen production can potentially provide a clean alternative to environmentally hazardous energy sources that are used today. Besides creating clean energy, s…

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…

Optimization of Irrigation by Novel Method of Sap Flow-Based Drip Irrigation

Environmental Engineering

Water is a valuable natural resource that is used in virtually every part of our daily life. However, the problem of water shortage is getting worse by year, and it is projected that almost…

Optimization of Oceanic Lithium Mining: A Quantification of Extraction Methods

Chemistry

The shift towards a fossil-free society has exponentially increased the demand for Li-- the most critical material used in electric vehicles and Li+ batteries. However, mineral demand for Li…

Optimized Routing Model for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Transportation System Leveraging Real-Time Data

Environmental Engineering

The escalating population and urbanization have led to a surge in municipal solid waste (MSW), posing numerous challenges in MSW collection and transportation. Garbage trucks, pivotal in thi…

Optimizing a High Throughput Screen for Testing Therapeutics in a Novel Mouse Model of Ataxia Telangiectasia

Translational Medical Science

Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare (one in ~100,000) autosomal recessive neurogenetic disorder, primarily characterized by cerebellar atrophy and progressive severe motor coordination los…

Optimizing Angle of Attack to Maximize Lift in a High-Endurance UAV

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

This project was undertaken to discover the optimal angle of attack (AoA) to maximize pounds of lift produced from airfoils at low speeds. An initial selection of 20 airfoils was obtained by…

Optimizing Bioremediation of Lead (II) in Wastewater with Lactobacillus acidophilus and Chitosan Across Variable pH Levels

The presence of lead ions in wastewater is a growing concern worldwide, but especially in impoverished communities, where approximately one-third of children have elevated lead levels in the…

Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency Through Pre-Extraction Light Intensity Acclimation of Organic Dyes

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) offer solutions to the drawbacks of traditional silicon solar cells. However, research is needed to identify and harness factors that may increase their ef…

Optimizing Graphitic Carbon Nitride to Create a Safe, Effective, and Economic Form of Hydrogen Storage

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

In recent years, more renewable and clean forms of energy have emerged, among them is hydrogen energy. While it is an advantageous option, its downside, which prevents it from being more com…

Optimizing hypoxia and reoxygenation protocol to study the molecular mechanism of oxygen- glucose deprivation resistance phenomenon in Arctic Ground Squirrel Neuron Progenitor Cells

Department This paper measures neurons’ viabilities after hypoxia and reoxygenation to optimize the protocol for Arctic Ground Squirrel Neuron Progenitor Cells (AGS NPCs), which can survive…

Optimizing Lip Reading Using Convoluted Neural Networks

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and lip reading presents a promising avenue in communication technology, particularly for enhancing accessibility and human-computer interact…