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Shear Heating of Black Hole Accretion Disks

This project is the result of a study into black hole thermodynamics, more specifically accretion thermodynamics. The purpose was to study the environment brought about by the close proximit…

Shielding Space Radiation

A shield for space radiation is necessary in long-term space travel to ensure the safety of astronauts. Mars astronauts are projected to receive over 13 times the amount of radiation as a nu…

Shining a Light on the Blind: Evolutionary Regression and Adaptive Progression in the Micro-vertebrate Ramphotyphlops braminus, a Model for Understanding Brain Organization and Complex Neurological Disorders

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Efforts like the Human Brain Initiative aim to understand the incredible complexity of our intricate nervous system to solve challenging neurological problems including epilepsy and autism.…

Shocking Scum: The Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Chlorella vulgaris

Fossil fuels play an important role in transportation and production; however, with a limited supply and detrimental effects to the environment, safer, renewable, and more efficient energy s…

ShopMap

Nowadays almost everyone has a smartphone and/or a tablet. People use it in very different parts of their lives. They can use it even to speed up their shopping. ShopMap is an Android app wh…

Silk-Gland-Derived Sericin as a Growth Promoter in Animal Cell Culture

Translational Medical Science Second Award

Sericin is a protein found in silk produced by the silkworm (Bombyx mori) that may be useful as a growth promoter in cultured animal cells. Existing extraction methods require thermal denatu…

Simulating the Radioactive Decay Chain Utilizing a Mathematics Programming Language

This investigation intends to deduce efficient ways to be able to simulate a biological process, specifically the radioactive decay chain, with the use of computers and programming languages…

Simulation of an Ecosystem on a Toroidal Lattice with Three Species

The Wa-Tor problem (from water torus) is a well-known dynamic cell process, aiming to mimic the predator-prey interaction in Biology. It is introduced by Alexander Dewdney in the 80s for two…

SIRO Elektra, the Robotic Chair

This investigation was done in order to meet the special needs of people with mobility impediments. The hypothesis is that it is possible to create a robotic chair capable to mimic horizonta…

SIRT3: A Unique Potential Therapeutic Target for Sepsis-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

Translational Medical Science

Sepsis is an overwhelming immune response to an infection that accounts for 20-30 million hospital cases per year. One of the major issues surrounding this syndrome is the muscle atrophy of…

Skewing the Clues: Investigating the Accuracy of Forensic Science Assays through Peroxidases and Antioxidants

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Through the use of Forensics Science, I developed a procedure that would allow me to test the hemoglobin in beef blood for possible false positives and false negatives. Using peroxidases and…

Slaying the Destructor, Part II: Dosage Optimization and Effects of Oxalic Acid on Honeybee Hives

Biochemistry

The Varroa destructor mite is a honeybee parasite that has plagued beekeepers for decades by causing health decline of honeybee populations, and inevitable colony collapse (if left untreated…

Sleep Tight

Nocturnal hypoglycemia has claimed thousands of type 1 diabetics lives over the years. In a population of 100,000 people with diabetes 20-60 people (6%) die from nocturnal hyper- or hypoglyc…

SMAnimator: A Keyframe-Based 2D Animation Creator

SMAnimator is an easy-to-use animation creation program, implementing a keyframe-based vector graphics animation. With SMAnimator, users will be able to make short vector animations easily a…

Smart Asphalt

Throughout our research project, we will be analyzing the properties of asphalt. We will be examining the road material in UAE and some effective methods that would help in battling certain…

Smart Biodegradable Plastic Capable of Delivering Diverse Antimicrobial Agents

Plastic that is not degradable makes up a great percentage of waste produced each year. The purpose of this project is to design a bioplastic, with no harmful additives, that will degrade ov…

Smart Flood Management

The rapid growth in population in many parts of the world and climatic change has resulted in flooding and its attendant challenges. The project seeks to minimize loss of lives and propertie…

Smart Safety Warning and Notification System for Treadmills

Fourth Award

Nearly 460,000 people were sent to the hospital in 2012 for injuries related to exercise equipment, according to USA Today. Treadmills are the number one cause of exercise equipment injuries…

Smart Sponge Bob Container

This research is aiming to change the unfavorable trick of trash and and carry it to the best solution (recycling), especially paper because it is the most commonly used at our schools. Afte…

Smart Wearable System for Diabetes High Risk Group: Screening Tool by Subject's Electrochemical Skin Conductance and Heart Rate

The prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 is very high in Latin Americans; it is one of the diseases that triggers a major number of deaths annually. This population has a 25% higher risk o…

Soil Amendment Optimization, Phase III: Nutrient Analysis of Biochar and Hydrophilic Polymer Enriched Soils in a Simulated Large-Scale Agriculture Environment

Biochar and hydrophilic polymers: although very different from each other, these soil amendments together have the potential to drastically improve the standards of agriculture, as well as i…

Soil Profiles

We tested if natural disasters had an effect on the micronutrient count in the soil. If we test the following scenarios: forest fire, grassland fire, and blizzards to see how they affect the…

Soil Remediation through the Use of Nutrient-Based Nanocomposite Hydrogels

The growth in land development has resulted to a loss of arable land for crop production. The remaining unused marginal lands are low in productivity and can’t be utilized to produce food to…

Solar and Wind Integrated Electric System

Egypt faces a lot of challenges concerning energy. The aspects we worked on are limiting electricity problems and pollution’s ones as there are a lot of places in Egypt that don’t have acces…

Solar Cell Pyramids

Introduction: Surface texturing is a beneficial and essential step in the fabrication process of monocrystalline silicon (c-Si) and multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells It leads to a…

Solar Heat Storage with Salt Hydrates Using Phase Change Effects: Materials, Analysis and Application

Currently, thermal energy gained from sun can be used for heating purposes. However, at the moment this huge amount of energy cannot be stored and used adequately. During this project I rese…

Solar Powered Hydrogen Vehicle with Current Inducing Shock Absorbers

21st century has come up with certain challenges that humanity has to confront with. Amongst these, fast depleting non-renewable energy resources, global warming and air pollution are foremo…

Solar Powered UV-c Treatment for Fecal Coliform and Enterococcus Bacteria in Storm Water Overflow

Second Award

After a heavy rainfall, beaches are closed and swimming is prohibited. Sewers fill to capacity and are unable to handle the combined sanitary and storm water; thereby causing water to overfl…

Solar Tracker Design and Analysis

If we could capture all the energy the sun beams to the Earth in a single hour, we would have enough to fuel the world's needs for a year. Currently, solar power produces less than one-tenth…

Some Algebraic Combinatorics on Prime Constrained Languages

The purpose of this research is to create the languages that can be defined by alphabet {0,1,2,...,n-1}, where n is a natural number. From Bacher(2010), we decided to create a new equivalenc…