Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Due to having a cryptic habitat, very little is known about the life history characteristics and stridulatory devices found in runner plant bugs (Hallodapus spp.) and several other members b…
Plant Sciences
Melon fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillet) (Diptera:Tephritidae)is a serious pest of cucurbitaceous vegetables in Kerala. The study is to find the efficacy of a newly designed suctio…
Materials Science
Solution processable UV-Photodetectors have many essential implementations in industrial, defense, and scientific research fields due to their enabling of photoconductive gain. All-inorganic…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection is utilized to non-invasively detect logistically difficult to identify organisms. Genetic material shed into the environment is concentrated from samples…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment is to determine if teenage females detect motion, shape, text, or color first in their peripheral vision. Three teenage females were tested with a vision protractor to determ…
Energy: Chemical
Future energy sources must be renewable and environmentally neutral to counteract the effects of the immense volume of carbon emissions that are released into the atmosphere by burning fossi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This project investigates the impact of Diethyl phthalate on cells of Allium cepa L, by measuring alterations in mitotic index, of the organism’s roots. The main factor that justifies this i…
Materials Science
Purpose: Shell waste contains useful compounds: chitin, calcium carbonate, and protein. Yet unlike plastics, they can naturally degrade in the environment. Inspired by the concept of marine…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to provide those in need of visual aid with another option for safe navigation. I programmed and soldered an Arduino (small computer) to trigger speakers (base…
Physics and Astronomy
Cherenkov radiation has multiple application in the most prominent areas of modern research. It is the main contributor in the search for cosmic particles, as can be seen in the detector "Su…
Mathematics
In low-dimensional topology, one of the most beautiful and complex topics is braid theory. There are deep connections between braids, knots, mappings on surfaces, and even algebraic geometry…
Mathematics
Third Award
Dimensionality reduction techniques are becoming widely used in academia, business, and machine learning to reduce the time required to process a higher dimensional dataset. In this context,…
Mathematics
Third Award
Given S, a set of n points contained in the unit square Q = [0, 1]^2, let f(S) denote the area of the largest axes-parallel rectangle that does not contain any of the points of S in its inte…
Environmental Engineering
An interesting dilemma in today’s society is that even in the most underdeveloped nations, there is an unprecedented, widespread access to smartphones. Adapting the increasing technological…
Physics and Astronomy
Because of strong absorption of middle infrared (mid-IR) light by organic molecules in human tissue, mid-IR lasers have applications including laser surgery, tissue ablation, non-invasive me…
Materials Science
As particle accelerators enter the high-luminosity era and begin operating at unprecedented beam energies, the resulting increase in radiation dosage is causing critical damage to these acce…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cells are composed of membraneless organelles that form through self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). These IDPs are thought to self-associate to form mesoscale protein…
Mathematics
In this paper, we present the best possible parameters \alpha_i, \beta_i\ (i=1,2,3) and \alpha_4,\beta_4\in(1/2,1) such that the double inequalities \begin{align*} \alpha_1Q(a,b)+(1-\alpha_1…
Physics and Astronomy
Caves are found on Earth and some extraterrestrial planets (e.g., Mars) where mineral precipitation and microbial growth allows for the formation and preservation of microbial biosignatures…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
The recent global energy crisis has resulted in a push for the development and commercialization of renewable energy sources, most notably solar cells. In 2009, Kojima et. al. revolutionized…
Environmental Engineering
Globally, 844 million people lack access to clean water and having potable water is fundamental for a civilization to survive. During the crisis of Hurricane Maria at Puerto Rico, made neces…
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SC) are energy devices that have higher power densities and quicker charge times than lithium-ion batteries (LIB). The main issue with SC is their lower energy densities com…
Energy: Chemical
The need for clean, renewable energy sources is critically important as fossil fuels are consumed and environmental damage increases globally. Ethanol is a useful and versatile energy source…
Biochemistry
Advances in the mobility of bone marrow transplants have benefited many different types of people from all aspects of the socioeconomic ladder. This project demonstrates the process of cryop…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern research laboratories place a strong emphasis on image-processing, which commands a great deal of human resources and time on a daily basis. Fluorescence Confocal Microscopes, a tool…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In our modern world, autonomous vehicles are becoming a more and more integrated part of society and day-to-day events. Due to this, it has become more essential to ensure that the autonomy…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Free radical damage to skin caused by particulate matter and ultraviolet (UV) radiation takes over nine million lives per year. Current creams can be remedial barriers; however, particles, (…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases on Earth. The most commonly used pharmaceutical to treat diabetes is metformin HCl. Attention and alarm over the environmental effects of this…
Energy: Chemical
The world is dependent on energy coming from fossil fuels, a source that is not only unsustainable but harmful as well. Consequently, many sustainable sources have been uncovered as candidat…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Approximately 7 x 10^8 kilograms of dye are produced annually and 15% are released into aquatic bodies, causing global human and environmental health problems. Many conventional purification…