Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics, plastics under 5 millimeters in diameter, are becoming an increasingly problematic aspect of water pollution for both humans and the environment. There is an estimated micropl…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Introduction The purpose of this experiment is to bring awareness to air pollution. In recent years news reportings on severe wildfires, such as the California and Texas wildfires, has focus…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Severe weather events such as tornadoes and high-wind thunderstorms pose a significant threat to human life and well-being. According to the NOAA, severe storms have caused over $200 billion…
Chemistry
Fruits are a vital source of essential nutrients and vitamins in our diet and they attain full maturity during ripening. Currently, the application of artificial ripening agents has become w…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to better understand the impact of coal ash pollution in the environment through studying its impact on the model organism C. elegans. Coal ash, a pollutan…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Concussions are a brain injury caused by an outside blow to the head or rapid movement of the brain inside of the skull. Over 3.8 million high school athletes are affected by these injuries…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Currently, mutations in the BRCA1 and 2 genes are estimated to explain approximately 15 percent of hereditary breast cancer cases. However, studies have established that 50 percent of women…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Muntingia calabura Linn (Tingiaceae), locally known as Aratiles or Jamaican cherry in its native neotropics, is widely distributed in the Philippines. Despite the various claims about its ph…
Plant Sciences
Synthetic and natural turfgrass have been commonly used on athletic fields for a long time. One of the biggest concerns with synthetic turfgrass is the potential effect on players’ health. I…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this research is to Evaluate the Biodegradable Effect of Tenebrio molitor in Polystyrene to reduce Environmental Pollution and Generate Conscience. The procedures have an expe…
Mathematics
This paper shows a thorough examination of fully homomorphic encryption schemes and their performance in programs. We do an analysis of one specific, widely-used scheme – the Gentry-Sahai-Wa…
Materials Science
Measurement of gain in light-emitting quantum wells using etched facet semiconductors is time-consuming and may damage the quantum well material. Photoluminescence measurements of cleaved fa…
Microbiology
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients experience inhibited clearance of airways leading to a higher rate of colonization by opportunistic microbes. Approximately 60% of CF patients are infected by A…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
When conducting a study using fMRI, it is often beneficial to be able to track the eyes of participants, especially for experiments that require visual fixation. One method of achieving this…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Current methods of bacterial disinfection are unsuitable due to high cost and inability to kill microbes without altering the product composition. Pulsed magnetic field technology offers pot…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease that currently has no cure. Most neurodegeneration occurs in the striatum, which is comprised of 95% mediu…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We researched the correlation between varying levels of carbon dioxide on the freshwater Malaysian Trumpet snails. This research was inspired by a well-known ocean acidification shell experi…
Engineering Mechanics
A crucial part of an aircraft’s flight is the landing. The most common mechanisms used to assist with landings are flaps, spoilers, and airbrakes. These mechanisms work together during landi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Important biotechnological challenge is prolonged expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), without losses in their functional activity and high levels of proliferation. Cord blood is rec…
Chemistry
Arsenic is a carcinogenic contaminant that pollutes the groundwater, a consequence of poor arsenic disposal. Current arsenic separating agents have a limited adsorption capacity. To address…
Energy: Chemical
Indonesia has huge potential on energy resources from biomass. One of them is marine microalgae plant such as Spirulina maxima. It has phycocyanin and carotenoid pigments that commonly used…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
For bloggers, video editors and composers, choice of music to video and video to music, which harmoniously combines and successfully share author's idea, is a complex and lengthy process. Be…
Systems Software
Rendering virtual environments for simulated reality applications often proves to be a challenge due to the high demands of simulations capable of imparting enough detail to appease the huma…
Biochemistry
Third Award
During circulation, red blood cells (RBCs) experience shear stress. While RBCs are mechanically robust, extreme flows may compromise the spectrin network and lipid bilayer, leading to hydrop…
Energy: Physical
Purpose: To determine if vortex generators improve efficiency of 3D printed vertical axis wind turbines housed in a venturi. Vortex generators were positioned at the entrance of a venturi to…
Systems Software
With issues of school safety rapidly becoming more prevalent, a need for a solution to this problem has equally risen. As it stands, no systems track both student location and the location o…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences of RNA (about 22 nucleotides) that are involved in the regulation of gene expression. My previous study has identified the serum miR-134 as a new bioma…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
One day my family suddenly faced on “cancer” when my grandfather had serious lung cancer. I wished so much to save him if it was possible. I expect there would be better way to detect the ea…
Chemistry
This experiment was designed to combat the problem of plastics staying in the environment for years and harming plant life. In order to make a biodegradable and edible plastic, an ingredient…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. Due to the necessity of expensive ophthalmoscopic equipment and a trained professional, the screening pr…