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The Chemical Profiling and Antibacterial Evaluation of Extracts from Garcinia xanthochymus

Chemistry

Garcinia xanthochymus is a species of mangosteen that has exhibited medicinal properties. There are many beneficial phytochemicals found in the bark, leaves, seeds, and fruit of the plant. M…

The Cloud

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The purpose of this project was to create a device that is able to extract and collect water particles from the air and be able to turn it into drinkable water. After creating a device the e…

The Combined Effects of Varying Gravity Levels and Light Exposures on Garden Cress Development Using a Low-Cost 3D Printed Clinostat

Plant Sciences

Advancing manned space exploration and habitation may require rethinking the fundamental expectations of plant growth. Plants orient themselves through gravitropism and phototropism; or usin…

The Correlation Between Peroxisome Levels and Short-Term Memory Loss in a PINK1-/- Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease

Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award

Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive brain degenerative disease, affects over 10 million people globally leading to neurological deficits associated with tremors, rigidity, imbalance, and…

The Correlation Between Physical Activity and Balance in the Elderly

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Poor balance in the elderly has caused many falls, serious injuries, and deaths over the years. To reduce the incidence of falls, a systematic assessment was done on the elderly population i…

The COVID Cardiac Connection: A Novel Pre-Participation Screening Tool to Identify Subclinical Cardiomyopathy After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Young Athletes

Translational Medical Science

Emerging evidence demonstrates that COVID-19 can lead to myocarditis and may induce malignant arrhythmias associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) during high intensity exercise. The objec…

The Creation of a Dog Treat Dispenser That Activates With Water

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

The objective of this investigation is to create a functional prototype that activates when it rains and dispense dog treats. This will eventually help the dog owners protect their dogs whil…

The Creation of Longer Lasting Concrete: An Analysis on the Infusion of Bacteria and Aggregates Into Cement Concrete to Increase Durability at Varying Temperatures by Examining the Substances Following Water Absorption

Materials Science

Inducing bacteria into cement concrete can increase concrete durability and therefore its lifespan by preventing microcrack formation from the absorption of water. Bacteria have cell walls w…

The Cross-Application of Oxidative Stress Conceptualizations to Inflammatory Microglia's Role in Neurological Diseases for Candidate Drug Discovery

Translational Medical Science

According to the United Nations, about 1 in 6 of the world’s population suffers from neurological conditions. Microglia within the brain, aggravated by amyloidosis, serve as reactive oxidati…

The Cytotoxic Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Human Lung Cells

The recent influx of innovation in the nanotechnology industry has drastically increased the concentration of airborne nanoparticles in the air, with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) making up a…

The Deletion of a Disulfide Bridge Through Site-Directed Mutagenesis to Adapt Cutinase to the Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate

Microbiology Second Award

Plastic pollution is an environmental emergency. Since 1950, over 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste has been generated (Asad, 2018). It is estimated that between 75 and 199 million to…

The Development of a Mobile, Arduino-Based Water Quality Testing Apparatus

Environmental Engineering

Water quality describes the condition of water based on its chemical, physical, and biological state. Poor water quality poses health risks to humans and the environment, causing disease, an…

The Development of an Alternative Exhalation Valve for Mechanical Ventilation by Additive Manufacturing

Biomedical Engineering

The current Covid-19 pandemic has developed not only a global public health crisis, but also a very serious impact on production chains. Leveraged by the urgency of the scarcity of resources…

The Development of a Second-Order Autocorrelator for Measuring the Duration of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Physics and Astronomy

High-power laser technology is based on ultrashort pulses, which enables research into particle acceleration, non-linear vacuum properties, or electron-positron pair production. Power=Energy…

The Development of a Stream Generator Prototype Capable of Obtaining Tidal Energy From Diverse Bodies of Water

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The cost of the electrical energy from the grid of Puerto Rico is 30% more expensive than the average cost of energy in the United States. The high cost of energy has caused an economic burd…

The Development of the C2F Seawater to Freshwater Converting Bioplant

Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award

Recent changes in climate, increased energy production, overpopulation, and inadequate water use and infrastructure led to freshwater shortage globally. There is an urgent need to develop ne…

The Difference in Correlation Between Attendance and Grade Point Average Throughout Secondary Education

This project was designed to determine if there is a difference in the relationship between attendance and grade point average (GPA) from middle school to high school. T o test this, the per…

The Disruption of Nicotine Vapor With Medium Chain Triglycerides

Translational Medical Science

MCT oil was used to ease the created addiction.The experimental setup involved three groups, a control, nicotine, and MCT + nicotine. Over a week, both nicotine groups were treated once a da…

The Dual Roles of Activated Carbon as an Adsorbent and Photocatalyst for Azo Dye Removal

Environmental Engineering Fourth Award

The rise of the fast fashion and textile industries has proliferated the release of toxic azo dye effluent into the environment, contributing to ~20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dye…

The Earthworm Squirm: Multiple Sclerosis Hypnosis Investigating the Potentiality of an Alternative, Realistic Cure of Encephalomyelitis disseminata (Multiple Sclerosis) Using the Neoblasts from Dugesia tigrina (Planaria) on Lumbricus terrestris (Earthworms)

Translational Medical Science First Award

One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…

The Easiest Hard Problem: A Heuristic Solution to the Two-Way Partitioning Problem Using Probabilistic Algorithms

Mathematics First Award

The Two-Way Partitioning Problem is an NP-Complete problem that seeks to find a partition of a set of integers: given an input multiset S of n positive integers, separate the integers of S i…

The Effectiveness of a Standardized Mixture of Antioxidants as a Preventative Treatment for PTSD and its Symptoms in C. elegans

Antioxidants can be used to help prevent neurodegeneration and reduce reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a C.elegans model. 1/11 people ar…

The Effectiveness of a Standardized Mixture of Antioxidants as a Preventative Treatment for PTSD and Its Symptoms in C. elegans

Translational Medical Science

Antioxidants can be used to help prevent neurodegeneration and reduce reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a C.elegans model. The ROS can tr…

The Effectiveness of Auditory Sub-Threshold Stimuli on Improving the Academic Performance and Mental Propensity of Students With Learning Disabilities

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Subliminals are stimuli that fall short of the average threshold of the brain’s auditory and visual cortex which have been speculated to establish correlations in the mind that affect one’s…

The Effect of 3D Peptide Hydrogel Scaffold Stiffness on Osteoblast Proliferation and Differentiation for Bioengineering Applications

Biomedical Engineering

While bone diseases may not receive as much attention as heart disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses, they account for more than half a million hospitalizations and the annual placeme…

The Effect of a Diet on the Life Span of the Danaus plexippus portoricensis Butterfly

Animal Sciences

The problem established in this research was: Is it possible to extend the lifespan of the Danaus plexippus portoricensis butterfly by changing its diet? If the diet of the Danaus plexippus…

The Effect of a Luteolin Supplement on Blue Light-Induced Cellular Senescence in White-Eyed Drosophila melanogaster Models of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

The leading cause of visual impairment is age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an irreversible eye disorder that causes permanent blindness and has a 40% increased mortality risk. AMD is…

The Effect of a Novel Biomedical Technique on the Reprocessing of Biofilm-Contaminated Duodenoscopes Using Copper Sulfate and Methylene Blue Irradiated with Red Light

Endoscopy-related infections are becoming increasingly prevalent and harder to prevent in the era of increasing multidrug-resistant bacteria. Bacteria are developing resistance to bactericid…

The Effect of Anthropogenic Noise on Bumblebee Foraging Patterns: Further Investigated

Animal Sciences

Ecosystems depend on essential native bumblebee pollination to maintain biodiversity. Concerningly, bumblebee populations in the United States and around the world have been dwindling. Noise…

The Effect of Anthropogenic Noise Pollution on the Photosynthetic Yield of Aiptasia

Animal Sciences

Background: Human activity has added a surplus of noise to the ocean. The effects of anthropogenic noise are well-studied in larger vertebrate organisms, but although coral is a keystone spe…