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Using Motor Function and Caspase-3 Activation in Drosophila melanogaster to Determine the Effectiveness of Warfarin, Aspirin, and Methylene Blue in Preventing Induced Ischemic Stroke

Translational Medical Science

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, and this prevalent danger to the global population urges researchers to explore potential preventative measures. The three dr…

Using Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Insights to Combat Cyberbullying and Toxicity in Social Media

Behavioral and Social Sciences

With the proliferation of social media, hateful or toxic content and cyberbullying in online forums have only grown. AI-driven algorithms deployed to moderate and reduce hateful content ofte…

Using Novel Soil Microbes as a Neonicotinoid Alternative on Popillia japonica Newman Infestations as a Method of Pollinator Protection

Plant Sciences

Neonicotinoids are a family of insecticides that have gained worldwide popularity. By 2009, the global Neonicotinoid market was worth $2.63 billion. Recently, their usage has come under ques…

Using Oil Drops as a Model for Quantum Mechanics

Physics and Astronomy

It was previously thought that the bizarre phenomena (e.g. quantum superposition and entanglement) observed at the quantum level were specific to only a scale of about 10-9meters or less(1).…

Using Phytoaccumulation to End Mineral Deficiencies: Increasing the Iron Content in Brassica juncea

Plant Sciences

Iron is extremely important when it comes to how our bodies function. Although it is considered a trace mineral, a lack of iron can lead to severe cases of anemia, which is the most common b…

Using Protease-activated Receptors (PARs) in Caenorhabditis elegans as a Potential Therapeutic Agent for Inflammatory Diseases

Animal Sciences

Chronic Inflammatory diseases affect approximately 45 million people just in the United States. Specifically, inflammatory bowel disease ( Crohn's disease) affects over 15 million people eve…

Using Pyrolysis to Recycle Polymers into Synthetic Fuels

Environmental Engineering

Polymer waste processing is a pressing issue because disposal requires much energy and the garbage must first be sorted –adding labor costs. Scientific and engineering literature showed that…

Using R to Analyze Election Results and Accurately Predict the Results in Correlation with Social Media Use and Presence

Mathematics

In recent years social media has evolved from something that helps you keep in touch with relatives or friends to a driving influencer of all parts of life, politics included. Since its firs…

Using the Double Slit Quantum Phenomena to Prove the Accuracy of Schrodinger's Equation

Physics and Astronomy

The basic facts and equations of physics are impossible to prove using a direct method; they can only be proven by showing that in a wide range of scenarios they are correct. One such equati…

Utilization of a Novel Method of RNA Interference in Caenorhabditis elegans to Conduct a Phenotypic Analysis of the daf-2 and daf-16 Longevity Genes

Cellular and Molecular Biology

The daf-2 and daf-16 genes have been highlighted for their reciprocal activity in altering longevity in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Both daf-2 and daf-16 present orthologs in…

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence Assisted Brain-Computer Interface to Allow Patients with Motor Impairments or Paralysis to Regain a Range of Mobility

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

The purpose of the project was to create a brain-computer interface headset prototype capable of allowing patients with motor impairments and paralysis to regain a range of mobility utilizin…

Utilization of Mechanically Simulated Kangaroo Care as a Novel Homeostatic Method to Promote Healthy Development in Mus musculus as a Model for Human Preterm Neonates

Animal Sciences

Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death for newborns; approximately one million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. This project develops a novel method…

Utilizing a Systemic Design of an Artificial Cell to Evaluate the Efficacy of Multiple Factors that Influence Catalase Activity

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Acatalasemia, better known as the lack of the necessary amount of active catalase enzymes in the body, has been linked to diseases such as type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer. This disease…

Utilizing C. elegans to Study Effects of Natural and Pharmaceutical Anti-Obesity Medications

Biomedical and Health Sciences

The purpose is to understand mechanisms associated with obesity and utilize natural or pharmaceutical anti-obesity medications on growth of nematodes. The hypothesis is anti-obesity medicati…

Utilizing Desktop Fabricated Sensors to Measure Transpiration Rates in Glycine max

Environmental Engineering

By the year 2050, the global population is projected to reach nine billion people. This means that the global food supply will need to double to keep up with the demand. Unfortunately, even…

Utilizing Protein Crystallography and X-Ray Diffraction to Determine the Structure of TrmD (Crystallized with S-adenosylhomocysteine) from Mycobacterium abscessus

Biochemistry

Protein crystallography is a scientific process that typically involves solving the structure of the protein as a 3D model. The goal is to determine the structure of the tRNA (guanine-N(1)-)…

Utilizing Real-Time qPCR and Scanning Electron Microscopy to Gauge Proliferation of Citrus Greening Disease in Persian Lime Trees in South Florida

Plant Sciences

Citrus greening disease (HLB), first identified in 2005 in Miami-Dade, is caused by a fastidious, phloem-specific bacteria known as Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), occurring in mos…

Utilizing Tuberculosis-Recognizing Antibody Serum in order to Identify Specific Tuberculosis Antigens to Fabricate a Novel Vaccine

Translational Medical Science

The primary focus of this research was to identify tuberculosis proteins recognized by guinea pig antibodies and their origin within the tuberculosis bacterium. Tuberculosis is one of the to…

Variance in Segmentation of Lung Tumors: Creating Robust Radiomics Models in Lung Cancer

Biomedical Engineering

Radiomics is a method for mining quantitative features from medical images. These texture features can be used to identify disease characteristics with better accuracy and efficiency than tr…

Vascular Normalizing Agents Differentially Modulate Tumor Cells, T Cells and Dendritic Cells in vitro

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) are lymph node-like structures that form at sites of inflammation, and their presence in cancer patients is predictive of a better clinical outcome. One si…

"Vinnie": A Solar-powered Talking Clothing Donation Bank

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The site of overflowing charity clothing bins has been a daily concern to me. As well as being an eye sore. These once-loved donated items are being left to be damaged by the elements. Throu…

Visualization of Instructional Object-based on Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Human Interactions includes EEG, Voice and Hand Action

Systems Software

Due to Descartes’s coordinate system, the human could have shared the exact positioning information with each other. But in Personal communication or in the classroom it’s not easy to share…

Visualization of Three-Dimensional Rocket Motor Flow Using Schlieren Photography

Engineering Mechanics

Currently, rocket nozzles are designed in a bell shape and the key to the performance of the nozzle is its width. Under expanded nozzles prove optimal performance at low pressure (high altit…

Vitamin Enhanced Agglutination

Biochemistry

Vitamins have long been said to aid the body in fighting the worst of infections; by measuring agglutination patterns, the efficacy of vitamins can be observed and quantified. Using Salmonel…

Wastewater Purification: Fabrication of a Low-Cost Water Filtration System to Remove Heavy Metal Ions in Wastewater Using Waste Tea and Coffee

Water contamination has been one of the world's leading issues for the past few decades, with the problem only growing worse through industrialization. Over 6 billion pounds of tea (Tea Fact…

Watching Our Water: Predicting Water Quality from Satellite Images

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Water is one of our earth’s greatest and most abundant resources. Since the 1800s scientists have been taking water samples and analyzing them to learn about the health of the water. More re…

Weakly Supervised LSTM RNNs for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction via Unstructured Clinical Narratives

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women globally, causing an estimated 626,700 deaths in 2018. As the late detection of breast cancer recurrence leads to a 1-1.5% curability rate, m…

What Factors Increase the Risk of Contracting the Common Cold?: An Epidemiologic Study Identifying Risk and Protective Factors for the Common Cold

Biomedical and Health Sciences

In this study, the question, “What lifestyle, demographic, and genetic factors increase the risk of contracting the common cold?” was researched. Studies suggest that susceptibility to the c…

What Is the Best Auditory Atmosphere for Taking a Math Test?

Behavioral and Social Sciences

"Multi-tasking ruins productivity, causes mistakes, and impedes creative thought," says Earl Miller, neuroscientist at MIT. Auditory distractions are one form of multi-tasking that may hinde…

Which Monopoly Space Is Most Profitable Based on Probability?

Mathematics

The purpose of this project was to calculate how often each "space” is landed on while playing Monopoly. This would allow me to better my chances of winning each game. The project had three…