Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Aim To develop a novel Natural Language Processing tool to detect depression early based on users’ social media activity. Methods and materials A corpus of 50,000 text data samples from post…
Human Echolocation is a technique used by gifted blind individuals whereby they use sound waves echoing off of obstacles to inform themselves of their surroundings. This technique works simi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Sound resources that we use in our daily life like speakers transmit the sound waves to all directions. Here is the difference my Ultrasonic Soundbar transmit the sound waves to a one direct…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
Bioluminescence is present in a diverse range of organisms. One of the most studied luminous organisms is the firefly, a member of the Lampyridae family. Firefly bioluminescence is produced…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cryptocurrencies were first created in 2009, however were not deemed as a good investment by many until 2020. With the increase in market capitalization for numerous cryptocurrencies, it gav…
Translational Medical Science
Neuroblastoma is one of the most severe tumors in young children with nearly 500 new cases reported each year. Although medications for this disease exist, current treatments are often ineff…
Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to function efficiently—often caused by the development of an infarct, or an area of dead heart tissue. The extremity of infarct formation corre…
We live in a world where the average human lifespan is increasing. With this increase comes age-associated functional decline of vital organs. Liver aging studies have begun focusing on hyal…
Physics and Astronomy
Within the centers of about 3% of galaxies, there is luminous emission at 22 GHz originating in Microwaves Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (masers) from water molecules. Some o…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The element of surprise in the world of military aviation is stealth which determines an aircraft's survivability. Exploring advanced aviation technology influenced the investigation into th…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Global warming and the increasing amount of pollutants in our oceans, rivers, and land have been slowly increasing throughout the years. Many of these environmental problems our earth is fac…
More than 3.5 billion people use social media globally, and food and beverage companies have capitalized on this by implementing celebrity endorsement strategies to promote food and beverage…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
In observance of the fast and continuous growth of global CO2 atmospheric level, the recent development of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction features as an attractive approach that can convert…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Font design and generation in both western and eastern calligraphy has always been a skilled artwork. In this research, Artificial Intelligence was used to generation new writing fonts acros…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
In the troposphere, ozone is a harmful secondary pollutant formed by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In 2020, COVID-19 lockdowns broug…
Translational Medical Science
Osteoporosis is difficult to diagnose since it does not show any signs or symptoms. Current commercially available options are expensive and must be conducted in a laboratory or clinical set…
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to reduce environmental pollution and consolidate a proposal that generates short-term income, justified by the current health situation and the ease of obtaining the raw m…
Microbiology
Many plant diseases produced by microorganisms affect agricultural crops seasonally, resulting in a severe scarcity of production and a large loss of economic returns for farmers. The soil i…
Biomedical Engineering
Due to the rapidity of leukemia progression, some patients are not able to obtain a fast diagnosis before safe treatment options become ineffective. In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelocyt…
Mathematics
This research presents the systematization of patterns in the Gregorian calendar relating the dates and days of the week. After this observation, the Ammer quotient was deduced, in which the…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As burgeoning crises have exposed failures of the drug discovery cycle - an inability to quickly and effectively develop new drugs - artificial intelligence-based drug repositioning models a…
Systems Software
Right now, most game engines only use a form of simulating physics called rigidbody physics. Rigidbody physics engines work well but are very limited as they only support simulating solid an…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In our world, there is concern about environmental quality, including the impact of air pollution, and to a lesser extent, ionizing radiation. The Purple Heart Spiderwort (Tradescantia palli…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Harmful algal blooms on lakes across the globe have become more common as a result of climate change. Cyanobacteria in the blooms produce harmful toxins which have significant consequences t…
Plant Sciences
Purpose - The purpose of this design project is to find a more efficient way of planting corn crops in order to increase a farm’s output. This information can be used to help farmers, especi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, significant advances in the fields of assistive robotics and AI have been made to help those with disabilities experience the world with more autonomy than ever before. Howe…
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic poses a severe threat to global health, as evidenced by the ongoing global pandemic. Presently nasopharyngeal testin…
Translational Medical Science
Doctors utilize tests such as fluorescent imaging to detect cancer. However, given the high costs of up to $250 per target fluorescent probe, testing for different types of cancers can be un…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Access to remote technology has become increasingly important due to the growing need for innovative telecommunication between human to machine operations in everyday life. However, there is…
Systems Software
Third Award
Cybersecurity is a major problem in today’s world, and malware detection is critical defensive approach. Although numerous antivirus programs exist, the majority of them detect only exact or…