Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose for this project is to see which test subjects, Watered Oyster Mushrooms, or Unwatered Oyster Mushrooms, will kill or fend Varroa mites the most, without killing…
Plant Sciences
Commercial fertilizer usage has caused drastic environmental impacts. Its use has lead to the overgrowth of bacteria, causing death to aquatic ecosystems, carcinogenic effects in humans, and…
Systems Software
My ePass is a platform-independent infrastructure which enables individuals and businesses to establish secure and seamless digital communication. Worldwide, there is a big diversity of stan…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most commonly seen neurodegenerative diseases. It has no cure and becomes worse over time. Parkinson’s symptoms often go unnoticed in early stages, leading…
Translational Medical Science
Up to date, one of the key features of nanotechnology is its wide range of applicability across multiple biological scenarios ranging from gene therapy to immune system modulation due to the…
Materials Science
Second Award
To detect biomarkers, diagnostic devices must obtain small enough feature sizes to manipulate biomolecules that are just a few nanometers in size. Electrodes separated by a nanometric gap ha…
Biomedical Engineering
The current methods used to kill and inhibit microbes though rapid and accurate, these methods involve the use of chemicals and antimicrobial drugs which are harmful and can lead to the deve…
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SCs) are promising energy storage devices due to their fast charge-discharge speed, long-term cycling stability, high power/energy density and high safety. In this study, pe…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nanosilver particles can cause potential threats to animals, the enviroment, and even humans if taken or exposed to by a large quanity. So, do nanosilver particles commonly found in househol…
Environmental Engineering
We spend billions of dollars to clean up our environment from oil disasters all over the planet. The current methods never fully remove all of the oil that is spilled. The winds and ocean cu…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Although conventional antibiotics have become a staple of modern medicine, resistance is becoming a daunting threat. Essentially, misuse and overuse has allowed bacterial strains to evolve a…
Biomedical Engineering
Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) hold tremendous potential in regard to tissue and bone regeneration. This study evaluated the effects of nanoscale surface topography and cell-plating density…
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals 795 million people, or one out of nine people suffer from chronic undernourishment. Food, such as meat can spoil as quickly as a couple hours at room temperature. The object…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which natural and nano-antioxidant are the most efficacious in Saccharomyces cerevisiae against oxidative stress. The natural antioxidants stud…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Most Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NP) are removed from wastewater at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), but some leave the WWTP in the effluent and enter downstream aquatic systems…
Energy: Chemical
Solar cell is a device that can convert visible light into electricity through photovoltaic effect. Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is a type of solar cells. DSSC works based on photo-elect…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find out which natural material is best insulator(best at resisting heat). Methods/Materials Cooler, natrual materials, microcontroler, contro…
Mathematics
This paper provides a generalization of the Calkin-Wilf tree. The Calkin-Wilf tree is an infinite binary tree in which all nodes are labeled by reduced positive rationals and each reduced po…
Translational Medical Science
Current cancer treatments involve chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation, among others. However, these are non-specific, resulting in serious side effects. SAS1B, a recently discovered m…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
This is research on public attitudes toward children with HIV AIDS (ADHA). This study aims to determine: 1). What is the societies’ attitudes towards ADHA in Surakarta; 2). What are factors…
Engineering Mechanics
Civil and structural engineers are always trying to build a better mousetrap, in this case multi-story buildings that could endure the extreme forces of Nature. Borrowing a simple yet clever…
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this research is to design and build an in-shoe fall detection system, as well as test the market for demand. The first phase of the project involved learning the Arduino lang…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals To determine if two neural networks, a Provider and a Receiver, can successfully encrypt and decrypt an image while preventing an intercepting neural network from decipherin…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teaching a computer to learn to classify handwritten letters requires a complex computing model capable of learning the structure of letters rather than simply following a s…
Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this work is the creation of brain - computer interface for studies of human biorhythms. In the work conducted a unique experiment to determine frequency ranges of biorhythms in v…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see if males or females, whom are both more inclined and not as inclined to posthypnotic amnesia, will be affected by neurolingistic prog…
Translational Medical Science
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a multi-faceted injury and is considered one of the leading causes of death and disability in soldiers and civilians. During injury, a surge in reactive oxyge…
Biochemistry
The discovery and development of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) are continuous worldwide demands. Virgin Coconut oil, derived from the coconut frui…
Animal Sciences
To understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases aiding the discovery of new therapeutical targets, it is crucial to perform in vivo…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Every minute, a woman somewhere in the world will die of breast cancer. Despite significant advances in the field, breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in women globally.…