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Safety Wristband: Detecting Falls and Ensuring Safety in Emergencies

Biomedical Engineering

Falls significantly impact public health, particularly among the elderly and those with certain health conditions, leading to roughly 68,400 deaths and numerous emergency interventions each…

SAKSHI - Smartphone Augmented Cervical Selfie: An Innovative Tool for Low-Resource Settings for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer

Biomedical Engineering

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death among women due to cancer in the developing world. India contributes to 25% of these cancers. In low-resource settings, visual inspection with t…

Save 12 Billion Dollars: Embedding Artificial Intelligence in Banking To Prevent Credit Card Fraud

Systems Software

Credit card fraud is a major issue today. Approximately 12 billion dollars are attempted to be stolen every year, which impacts millions of people in the US alone. The research tried to iden…

Scan-Drop: Aerial Integrated Flood Search and Rescue (SAR) With Specialized Flood Victim Detection System to Assist Rescuers

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

This research proposes Scan-Drop as an aerial integrated response during the flood search and rescue missions. This integrated response provides emergency support through proactive observati…

Scents and Sensibility: Investigating the Influence of Visual Cues on Olfactory Perception of Humans and Building an AI-based Electronic Nose to Compare the Two

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

This study investigated the hypothesis that visual stimuli can significantly influence olfactory perception, potentially altering or enhancing the actual scent experience. By building an AI…

SCOMAE: Diagnosing Tuberculosis From Cough Acoustics Using Supervised COntrastive Masked AutoEncoders

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide, disproportionately affects lower-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). When diagnosed early, TB is very curable, but…

Seals of Ancient Chinese Paintings: Recognition and Association Analysis Based on Deep Neural Networks

Technology Enhances the Arts

Vermilion seals, as intricate symbols of identification in ancient Chinese paintings, offer a window into the lives of historical figures. To unveil these stories, this project leverages DNN…

Searching for "Magic Pill": A Novel Adenosine Modulator in the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Stress-Related Disorders

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Schizophrenia and stress-related disorders impose significant health challenges on patients and societal resources. To address these pressing needs, a novel compound, the Novel Adenosine Mod…

Sea Sponge: Production of a Sponge Through the Use of Endocarp of Coconut (Cocos nucifera) and Shrimp Gel (Farfantepenaeus Paulensis and F. brasiliensis) for the Retention of Pollutants in the Water

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Oil exploration involves activities with a high polluting index that can harm the quality of water, soil, air, and, consequently, the quality of life of living beings. The world energy depen…

Secretion of the Francisella tularensis Protein FTL_1123 by Escherichia coli Containing the ?HlyBD Operon

Microbiology Second Award

Francisella tularensis, a gram-negative bacterium, is the causative agent of tularemia, a severe zoonotic disease which is highly lethal even with minimal exposure. Francisella is recognized…

Securing Global Food: Biopolymers, Cryptography, and Visual Transformers for Affordable Anti-Counterfeit Seed Protection

Systems Software

According to the World Bank, ~50% of the seeds sold in Africa are counterfeit. Exhibiting lower germination rates, fake seeds cost farmers up to two-thirds of their crops, and, exacerbated b…

Selection and Preclinical Testing of DNA Aptamers as Targeted Tau Therapies: A Novel Approach to Slow the Progression of Tauopathies

Translational Medical Science Third Award

Tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the deposition of abnormal tau in the brain. There are over 20 tauopathies that collectively affect millions of people around the…

Selection of Specific Fluorescent Dyes for the Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer using Volatile Organic Compounds

Translational Medical Science

Pancreatic cancer shows the highest mortality rate and, to date, no early detection devices are available. However, early detection could improve the survival rate. This study is conducted t…

Selenoprotein O Protects Against Oxidative Stress and Incorporates Various Nucleotides in AMPylation

Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award

Selenoprotein O (SelO) is a mitochondrial pseudokinase enzyme that AMPylates, or transfers an AMP molecule to, cellular proteins. However, SelO’s role as an AMPylator in oxidative stress res…

Self-Assembling Chimeric Polypeptides as Drug-Carrying Nanoparticles for Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy

Biomedical Engineering

Chemotherapy is often limited by unfavorable pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics that result in dose-limiting cytotoxicity. Therefore, self-assembling nanoparticles have been of particular…

Sensor-Assisted, Noninvasive Monitoring for Operational, Investigative and Predictive Hive Health Management for Honeybee Colonies – Sustainable Bee Keeping

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

Motivated to create an early warning system to predict Colony Collapse Disorder, our research focuses on developing a technological solution to constantly monitor beehive health. We present…

Sex Differentiation in the Bile Acid Pathway

Bile acid (BA) sequestering drugs, usually prescribed to lower cholesterol, have been shown to reduce liver triglycerides in mouse models highlighting a possible pharmaceutical treatment for…

Sharks in the Bayou: How Fast Is Salt Water Entering our Freshwater Bayou Ecosystem?

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Louisiana's lavish bayous need to be protected and ensured for the safety of not only the ecosystem, but the public's own lives as well. Therefore, in my project, I have decided to test the…

Should Trees Melow-Tone-In for Citrus Greening?

Plant Sciences

Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB), commonly known as citrus greening, is the most devastating disease in the world and has devastated Florida citrus industry. HLB is caused by the phloem-colonizing…

SignalGrab: A Machine Learning Approach to Helping Color Blind Drivers

Systems Software Fourth Award

There are nearly fourteen million individuals with color blindness in the United States. Many individuals with color blindness struggle with differentiating between red and green traffic sig…

SignalGrab: A Machine Learning Approach to Helping Color Blind Drivers

There are nearly fourteen million individuals with color vision deficiency (color blindness) in the United States. Many individuals with color blindness struggle with differentiating between…

Sign Language Recognition-Enabled Robotic Companion for Enhanced Communication With the Deaf-Mute

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

In this enhanced exploration, we delve into the intricate design and integration of a pair of robotic arms, meticulously crafted through laser-cutting and 3D printing techniques, into our ad…

Silent Forests: Disentangling the Impacts of Climate Change and Deforestation on the Population of the Cerulean Warbler–A Public Data Analysis

Migratory birds visit our hometowns annually greeting us with sweet songs and reminding us of the passing seasons; migratory birds, however, are especially vulnerable to climate change. Amon…

Silhouettes of Sound (Visualizing Animal Vocalizations for Species Identification)

Animal Sciences Fourth Award

Marine mammals, such as cetaceans, rely significantly on sounds as their primary means of communication and perception of their environment. Acoustic signals are crucial for various social i…

Silver Armor Against Bacteria: A Battle of Antimicrobial Effectiveness

Plant Sciences

For many farmers, finding efficient ways to fight infection strengthens their business and saves their crops. Florida's climate makes agriculture especially susceptible to disease or the ele…

Simply Stir: A Novel Approach of Harvesting Low-Grade Thermal Energy Using the Seebeck Effect to Power an Automatic Stirrer

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

This work highlights the use of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) to harvest thermal energy inherently available in cooking, to power an automatic stirrer. The tedious task of manual continuo…

Simulated Thermal Dataset for Training Wildlife Monitoring Models with Optical to Thermal Domain Transfer - A Case Study on the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project

COCOTherm addresses the challenges of monitoring wildlife overpasses as part of the I -90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project. The wildlife monitoring program for this project involves 15 networked…

Simulating Efficiency of Tokamak Fusion Reactor Wall Materials in Neutron Moderation for Lithium Breeding

Physics and Astronomy

Currently, fusion reactors run on deuterium, which is very abundant, and tritium, which is almost nonexistent on earth. Tritium’s scarcity poses one of the greatest barriers to efficient fus…

Simulation-aided Learning from Demonstration for Robotic LEGO Construction

Recent advancements in manufacturing have a growing demand for fast, automatic prototyping (i.e. assembly and disassembly) capabilities to meet users’ needs. This paper studies automatic rap…

Simulation of a Contact Virus in Rectangular Rooms With Different Shapes and Constant Area

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

This study presents a computer simulation of a contact virus being spread by carriers in rectangular rooms with different width-to-length shapes. The simulated scenario is one where a predet…