With the betterment of healthcare and life expectancy, global food demand will increase, and fertile land will be adapted to accommodate a growing population. As a result, agriculture will b…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Access to clean water has been a global challenge since long-term exposure to pollutants such as metalloid, arsenic (As(II) and heavy metal, chromium (Cr(VI)) have detrimental health effects…
Environmental Engineering
Pectin is a polysaccharide that can be used as a bioadsorbent for different water samples that are contaminated with hexavalent chromium (Cr+6). Therefore, it has been considered as a genera…
Approximately 3 billion people have never used the internet due to its costs and inaccessibility, particularly in developing countries. To provide these areas with affordable internet, reduc…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Light pollution disrupts diurnal light cycles that insect orders such as Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) adapted to over generations as a cue to time important life events like metamorph…
Translational Medical Science
The results of this project could enable real-time targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to become a clinical reality, improving outcomes for patients with depression, schizophren…
Photocatalytic water splitting is a promising renewable energy source as an alternative for limited fossil fuels. The effectiveness of the conversion from solar energy to hydrogen fuel relie…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment are among the biggest healthcare challenges facing the elderly. Integrity of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and lining of the blood vessels req…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Existing drugs are being researched for novel repurposed usages to supplant the traditional, inefficient process of new drug discovery. Cephalexin is a cephalosporin antibiotic purported to…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
The atrophic form of age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD) affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. There is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapy for this disease,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Transcribing audio files such as MP3s into digital symbolic formats such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files has always been a complicated task, referred to as Automatic Mus…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting art form with a long history and diverse styles. However, due to pigment technology, preservation conditions and other limitations, most…
Chemistry
Purpose of my research (1) Use a new additive to form semi-clathrate hydrate at lower pressures and higher temperatures for CO2 capture. (Research question) (2) Can Tetra-n-butyl Ammonium Br…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
Biochemistry
Almost half of the pregnancies around the globe are unplanned. The associated risks related to unexpected pregnancy include both physical and mental stress. A wide range of contraceptive met…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
The speed of ribosome movement along an mRNA transcript is a critical determinant of protein synthesis. Ribosome pause sites, or regions along an mRNA transcript where translating ribosomes…
Environmental Engineering
One of the great challenges for science is to guarantee the availability and potability of water for everyone while looking for sustainable ways to do this. The present research aimed to pro…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
The goal of this project was to assist malaria research by expediting the process of producing transgenic mosquitoes. In this project, I developed and tested a novel automated instrument for…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are antimicrobial agents that are used to eliminate bacteria and are found in products that advertise antimicrobial activity. During the ongoing pandemic,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEM-143 (Transmembrane protein 143) human gene is located in the Chr19q13.33 chromosomal region, which is known to be associated with the risk of type-2 diabetes and cancer. TMEM-143 gene i…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the global environmental, economic, and energy crisis, an attempt was made to find an eco-friendly and sustainable energy source based on the lignocellulosic biomass of Sargassum flui…
AJAS · 2022
Biochemistry
Since its appearance in 2019, multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies variants based on their levels of potential harm. Variants of Conce…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the lack of preparedness of many advanced countries and their methodologies to bring it under control. Understanding the trajectory and s…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
The Cypripedium (Cyp.) genus of terrestrial orchids is limited to a narrow range of climates and habitats throughout the world. Climate change related habitat loss has profound implications…
Environmental Engineering
During the past several years in the Western United States, we have been in a drought, and I have wondered what I can do to help save water in my daily activities. The objective of this proj…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Coronavirus, an RNA virus that causes COVID-19, has spread widely around the globe. However, not only RNA-type viruses, but DNA-type also exist. An accurate and portable diagnostic technique…
Polyurethane foam, a material valued across countless industries for its high performance and versatility, is composed of hazardous, nonrenewable petrochemicals that continuously off-gas int…
Materials Science
Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero resistance and expel magnetic fields once cooled below a certain critical temperature, allowing for their application in various technologies…
Mathematics
Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) degenerative diseases are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies and neurodegeneration. Demyelination, a degenerative process that erodes away th…