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The Future of Colors – the Unique Mechanism Underlying the Creation of Colors and Their Change in the Body of the Blue-Tailed Damselfly (Ischnura elegans)

Materials Science

Damselflies exhibit a variety of distinctive colors and patterns. Among the limited number of animal species changing body coloration, the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, stands out…

The Glucose Metabolism of ADHD: MicroRNA SNPs Impact Glucose Transporter 3 Expression

ADHD affects millions globally, with symptoms like inattention and hyperactivity significantly impacting quality of life. Despite this, current treatment medications can have substantial sid…

The Growth of Spinach in Vertical and Horizontal Hydroponics

Plant Sciences

The escalating costs of traditional farming has spurred interest in investigating alternative cultivation methods, such as hydroponics. My project aims to compare the efficiency of horizonta…

The Guided Inquiry Neural Network (GINN): Developing A Novel Machine Learning Architecture for Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care Settings Utilizing Data Masking, Bayesian Inference, & Feature Importance

Systems Software

Primary care physicians must determine which questions to ask and which tests to run to arrive at their diagnosis. Current AI architectures are not suited for such diagnoses because they (1)…

The Handheld Plant Spectroscope

Plants make up over 80% of the Earth's biomass. Monitoring their health status is important to understand environmental changes as well as an extremely useful tool in the world of agricultur…

The Homemade Integration of Biodegradable Materials Into Hydroponics: Using Sawdust and Tannins to Detoxify Greywater

Environmental Engineering

No practical method of treating greywater has been integrated into agriculture. The purpose of this research was to develop a hydroponic filter that increases the ecological sustainability o…

The “Ideal Battery”: Testing Electrolytic Cells Under Various Conditions

This project is designed to test various electrolytic cells under different environmental conditions to test their efficiencies. An electrolytic cell proposes an alternative to nonrenewable…

The Identification of ACVR1 Phosphorylation Sites Critical to Activation of the ACVR1 Signaling Pathway in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)

Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva(FOP) is an extremely rare and debilitating bone disorder that affects 0.00005% of the population. The defining characteristic of FOP is severe heterotop…

The Identification of a Potential Novel Breast Cancer Biomarker Through Hypomethylation Analysis at Transcription Ending Site (TES)

Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award

Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed disease among women, with 2.3 million new cases and 669,000 deaths identified in 2022 alone. Most studies on epigenetic diagnosis biomarke…

The Impact of Adenylate Cyclase 3 Loss in SF1 Neurons on Obesity

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Obesity is a detrimental disease that causes individuals to suffer higher risks for developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Recently, a population study found that a loss o…

The Impact of Fertilizer on pH and Dissolved Oxygen in Freshwater Ecosystems

Chemistry

This project investigated the extent to which fertilizer alters the pH and dissolved oxygen levels of freshwater. For pH testing, I used a Wide Range pH Indicator solution with 10mL of sampl…

The Impact of Nicotine, Vaporizer, CBD Oils on Planarian Regeneration and Cell Memory

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Humanity is always looking for the next fix, and because of this we have created and used many different substances. In this study nicotine, vaporizer liquids, and CBD oils were tested to se…

The Impact of Ozone Pollution on the Growth, Health, and Physiological Development of Food Crops

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of ozone pollution on the health and physiological development of food crops. Ozone pollution will have an effect on the health and…

The Impact of Paclitaxel and Doxorubicin on APC Knockout Cells in Breast Cancer

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Around the world, men and women suffer from several types of breast cancer, among them being triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC lacks targeted therapy; therefore, it's commonly treat…

The Impact of Short-Form Videos on the Learning Habits and Social Interactions of High School Students

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The growing popularity of short-form videos has put forth the need to understand the impacts of these types of media on different groups of audiences. Within the existing literature, most st…

The Impact of Social Vulnerability Index Changes on Overall and Race -Specific Prostate Cancer One-Year Survival Over a 20 Year Period (2000-2020)

The CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) measures an individual's health vulnerability based on their geographic location and environment. Previous studies have linked SVI at the time of d…

The Influence of Gender on Relapse in Adults Addicted to Social Media

Behavioral and Social Sciences

In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular ways for people to connect virtually. However, this rapid surge in its use has brought to light its capability to become an a…

The Influence of Ginger Root Extract on Female Reproductivity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Biomedical and Health Sciences

In recent decades, infertility rates have risen globally, with 11% of women and 9% of men experiencing decreased fertility. Studies pertaining to male fertility are abundant, yet studies of…

The Influence of Visible Light on the Consumption Rate of Expanded Polystyrene by Zophobas morio Larvae

Environmental Engineering

The process of disposing of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is by burning it in municipal incinerators. This process gives off EPS microplastics, which can find their way into water, food, blood,…

The Integration of Edge Impulse Platform and Orthopedic Medicine: A Knee Joint Disease Monitoring System Based on Artificial Intelligence

Biomedical Engineering

Approximately 350 million people worldwide suffer from osteoarthritis, with 80% of the population aged 65 and above suffering from joint diseases, particularly knee osteoarthritis, which bri…

The Key Factors Boosting Star Formation Rates of Galaxies

Physics and Astronomy

The star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass (M*) relation of galaxies has long been a subject of research interest in astronomy. Why do galaxies with similar stellar masses have different sta…

The Microbiological Assessment of Air Quality and Surface Contamination in Agricultural Workspaces

Microbiology

I conducted this experiment to observe the air quality in agricultural settings once learning how unsafe the air pollution has become in these environments. I tested the air quality by placi…

The Modulation of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factors as a Treatment for Locomotion Impairment in the SOD1 Mutant Caenorhabditis elegans Model

Translational Medical Science

The neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is characterized by progressive motor neuron (MN) degeneration leading to muscular atrophy (Scaricamazza et al., 2021). Th…

The Parthenogenetic Predicament: The Effects of Varying Environmental Sizes on Lepidodactylus lugubris

This experiment was conducted to see if a shift in enclosure size can have a substantial effect on mourning gecko reproductive rates. Six mourning geckoes were split evenly into two groups.…

The Perforation of p-adics: Closing a Gap in Hensel's Lemma Through the Convergence Inequality

Mathematics Fourth Award

Hensel’s Lemma is the foundation of p-adic number theory and, as discovered in this study, a possible way to revolutionize the math behind elliptic curve cryptography. It works by lifting a…

The Power of Suggestion: A Study of the Placebo Effects of Caffeine on Short-Term Memory

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The purpose of this project was to test if caffeine had any effects on people's short-term memory, also testing to see if you could simulate the effects of caffeine using a placebo. If caffe…

The Production of an Anti-PCHD1 Monoclonal Antibody for the Purpose of Combating Hantavirus

Hantaviruses, a group of RNA viruses, pose a significant threat to humans all around the world. Infection can cause severe consequences, including the fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HP…

The Recursive Relationship Between Personalized Music Choice and Adolescent Mental Wellness: An Empirical Study

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Music streaming has enabled music choice to transition from a collective social listening experience to a personalized one. This research, for the first time, relates the two facets of music…

The Relationship Between Elongator Protein 3 (ELP3) and Neurodegenerative Disease: Investigating the Neuromuscular Junction in an Elongator Mouse Model of ALS

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is an extremely damaging neurodegenerative disorder that attacks the motor system, which gradually weakens and wastes m…

The Relationship Between Tumor-Induced Osteoclastogenesis and Osteoprotegerin

Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award

Osteosarcoma (OS), a primary bone tumor, arises from an imbalance in the bone remodeling pathway which fosters metastasis. In healthy bones, the microenvironment supports balanced remodeling…