Materials Science
Perovskites have emerged with great promise for practical applications, such as LEDs, solar cells, photodetectors, and lasers. They are known as tunable materials for use in LEDs. Tuning is…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
The challenge of finding the HIV cure lies in latent HIV-infected cells, which are inert to current HIV treatment. Since CD32a has been identified as a potential biomarker of latent HIV-infe…
Microbiology
In today’s modern world a major concern is the sustainability of our fuel, but would a microbial fuel cell make a better fuel source, and what would make it produce more energy? This project…
Microbiology
Each year in the U.S.A., more than 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. At least 23,000 people die annually as a direct result of these infection…
Biochemistry
We noticed a strange oscillatory color change when observing the acid hydrolysis of potato starch using iodine. This change involved repeating deep and pale blue colors in the reaction sampl…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
The world’s unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels prompts the intense search for innovation to enable paradigm shift to renewable energy. A promising solution is to harness abundant solar e…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Transcriptional pausing, the inhibition of RNA polymerase (RNAP) elongation during transcription, is a vital regulator of DNA transcription that offers increased control over gene expression…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this research is to investigate which genetic mutations are responsible for Uveal Melanoma (UM), a rare subtype of melanoma but the most frequent primary cancer of the eye. Ge…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Acute cardiac arrhythmias are the No. 1 killer in industrialized countries; the mechanisms behind the onset and electrical dynamics are poorly understood, and mathematical modeling is limite…
Physics and Astronomy
With the advent of atomic resolution imaging techniques comes the challenge of disentangling the intrinsic electronic properties of materials from their stochastic atomic-scale disorder. In…
Chemistry
When an oil well is drilled, water must be injected to provide easy access to the crude oil in the shale. After, when the oil is pumped, wastewater is produced. This wastewater must be treat…
Systems Software
Creating efficient deep neural networks involves repetitive manual optimization of the topology and the hyperparameters. This human intervention significantly inhibits the process. Recent pu…
Animal Sciences
The objective of this work was to evaluate the environmental quality of a forested area of Parque Natural San Francisco, throughout the measurement of the ecological attributes of diurnal bu…
Microbiology
Purpose: Weeds in agriculture compete for energy resources, decreasing yields and increasing labor costs. Herbicides to kill weeds are toxic to human health, environment and most importantly…
Biochemistry
Individuals who suffer from lactose intolerance are deficient in the digestive enzyme lactase, which breaks down lactose (sugar in dairy milk). So, they take the lactase enzyme supplement La…
Biomedical Engineering
The random use of antibiotics by people, especially taking them at the slightest pain in throat, or tonsils affects the immunity in the body. As the pain could be caused by a bacteria or a v…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Cancer research is a priority for medicine and modern society. Melanoma is considered one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, since this tumor has aggressive behavior and it is metastati…
Engineering Mechanics
This experiment is meant to understand the relationship between the plane of rotation of a sound/light emitting body in circular motion and the resultant shift in its frequency as per Dopple…
Embedded Systems
A Doppler Radar System is presented which is suitable for reporting sudden changes of streamflow. The system includes a Doppler radar transceiver and uses Digital Signal Processing to detect…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In light of the increasing growth of depression, anxiety and behavioral disorders among children between (6-11) years old, which demonstrate the importance of understanding children psycholo…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Lygodium Microphyllum is an invasive species relatively new to Central Florida. It out-competes and destroys varieties of plants in multiple ecosystems. Currently, detection in Central Flori…
Engineering Mechanics
The increasing use of drones by commercial enterprises is creating a growing demand for professional pilots. This demand is not being met due to the initial intimidation and expense of purch…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Diabetes affects 30 million Americans, and costs $300 billion a year. The first regimen prescribed to new patients is usually metformin: it is very effective at reducing the level of sugar i…
Energy: Physical
Now-a-days water scarcity is a crucial global issue, it is also known that accident rates on highways in many countries are at an all-time high due to improper lighting at night. First one i…
Microbiology
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a prevalent herpesvirus which is strongly implicated in the development of numerous cancers. Central to tumor progression, hypoxia has also been demonstrated to p…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
I developed a new method to analyze expanding maps with indifferent fixed points. I applied this method to specifically analyze the iterations of the tangent map, proving both measure-theore…
Environmental Engineering
In India, small shops and houses are constructed from cement bricks with metal sheets as roofs due to which temperature is high inside particularly in summer. Biodegradable thermal insulator…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Brazil is the biggest orange producer in the world and the state of Paraná is the third biggest producer in Brazil. Because this fruit has low shelf life, agrochemicals are widely used to co…
Systems Software
Education is very essential part of our life. If we take care of it, this will lead to great impacts on many other aspects. Recently, the role of modern technology has been shown clearly in…
Materials Science
Measurements of the effectiveness of detergents are important for both producers and consumers of detergents in the multi-billion global detergent market. Current methods of measuring deterg…