Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to increase in transport workload in the water area, cases when oily substances get into the sea have become more frequent. Since the problem of spills is actual these days and it is of…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Empirical evidence demonstrates that an organism’s phenotypes are often based on multiple interdependent genes, rather than a single gene. When the expression of a phenotype is predicated on…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to discover how well storm drains keep out plastic of varying sizes and then design a more effective storm drain without causing an overflow. Methods/Materi…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The overall goal is to identify a non-destructive real-time PCR-based method allowing for rapid genotypic selection in Lactuca sativa (lettuce) seedlings at an early stage of development. Th…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to identify changepoints in gene expression in the aging human brain and determine their role in the late onset of neurodegenerative dis…
Chemistry
Third Award
Biosensors are of quintessential importance in optimizing industrial production of biomolecules such as antibiotics. Optical biosensors have therefore received considerable attention due to…
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The objectives of this study were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth in…
Embedded Systems
Remote monitoring of the environmental status of a mesocosm would allow for immediate real-time data collection with customisation using a variety of sensors depending on the experiment or m…
Mathematics
The most important geometric invariant of a degree-n complex rational function f(X) is its monodromy group, which is a set of permutations of n objects. This monodromy group determines sever…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals In America, one out of every three people over the age of 65 have hearing loss. Sixty percent of those people worked in a noisy environment. People with hearing loss are mor…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
When cancer spreads from one organ to another, it becomes significantly harder to treat. This process, known as metastasis, is involved in 90% of cancer deaths. Because metastasis presents a…
Physics & Astronomy
First Award
Objectives/Goals Infrared observations are some of the most important observations, allowing rare AGNs, deeply embedded stars, globular clusters, low luminosity stars, and much more to be di…
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to engineer a device that could be placed into a real wildlife environment with the ability to deter wildlife from crossing roads to avoid wildlife vehicle…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to measure motivation and actual energy to see which drives young children and young athletes to succeed during performance. Methods/Material…
Translational Medical Science
Bacterial vaginosis is a very prevalent women's health issue that affects millions of women worldwide every year, and many current treatments are messy, inconvenient, and ineffective. Theref…
Embedded Systems
Nowadays drones are becoming a main topic in research and development as their use is increasing day by day in all domains. Today a drone infinite flight has become a prerequisite but unfort…
Energy: Chemical
When purchasing a car, consumers must select what type of fuel they want to use in the car. The ability to use one engine that could run on multiple fuel types would allow consumers to choos…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
The objective of the project was to create new nanostructural catalytic systems capable of effective electroreduction of oxygen, which can be used in the construction of low-temperature fuel…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
The ability of microRNAs to regulate oncogenes through RNA interference makes them a promising target in cancer therapy. Specifically, miR-200c has gained attention in triple negative breast…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEV, a murine single-stranded positive sense RNA virus, is a model for both multiple sclerosis (MS) and epilepsy, as it results in a demyelinating encephalomyelitis in the CNS, resembling M…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution that gives people opportunity to realize a way of transportation in which cargo platform keeps horizontal position during all time, f…
Engineering (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to see if using a frontward pulling propellor gives the multirotor a higher velocity than the multirotor altering its pitch or yaw to achieve movement in a gi…
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer accounts for the majority of cancer-related deaths each year. Despite its prevalence, current detection methods can take up to 10 days and cost up to $300 for one screening. The…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this research project is to give a practical, portable and economic solution to “energy-poor” people in remote areas of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, as well as encourage co…
Mathematics
Voice leading in music is a key element of the Western tradition. It is closely associated with homotopy, the exploration of chordal paths in higher dimensional configuration spaces. Musicia…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to find the accuracy and reliability of the Music Measure Theory. Methods/Materials Upright Piano, Computer w/ internet access, Sheet music (…
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Commercially available compost is not always accessible and cannot always be trusted to be environmentally safe. The most basic problem with commercially available compost is that one doesn’…
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Responses to oil spills include; leaving spills undisturbed, removing with skimmers/ sorbents, breaking-up spills with dispersants or introducing biological agents to enhance oil degradation…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Nowadays there are 360 million people with speech disturbances worldwide. Despite the existence of sign language and methods of its interpretation the issue of communication with deaf-mute p…