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LagToilet Mobile App

The city of Lagos has few public toilet scattered around the city, both privately owned and government owned. Same situation if not worse replicates itself in several Nigerian and developing…

Landfill to Car Fuel: Using Surfactants to Increase Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Waste Paper

The purpose of my project was to optimize enzymatic hydrolysis of waste paper to make fermentable sugars for biofuel production. I focused on adding surfactants to the paper to improve cellu…

Landslide Forecasting: Contour Shape as a Major Factor in Slope Failure

Third Award

The Great East Japan Earthquake caused serious damage due to many mountain slope failures, indicating the necessity of predicting the locations and extents of such failures in advance. In th…

Laparoscopic Post-Operative Pain: A Basic Scientific Approach Investigating the Removal of Carbon Dioxide Gas from the Abdominal Cavity

Biomedical Engineering

Problem: Post-operative pain exists following laparoscopic surgery due to trapped carbon dioxide gas. Purpose: Design a system to simulate the abdomen and test multiple methods that have the…

Large Scale Output Predictions for Small Emplacement Renewable Energy

Electrical utilities must be able to accurately predict the power inputs into their grid so that these inputs can be balanced against the electrical demands on the grid. A common objections…

Laser Chat: A Secure Short-range Messenger

The Internet is a centralized communication network. In rural areas, it can be expensive or slow. Another concern is attackers can see when data on the Internet are being transferred. Using…

Leftovers to Livestock: Turning Leftover Human Food Waste into Feed for Livestock with Consistent Nutrient Values

A staggering percentage of our time and resources are spent on food production in the U.S. each year, and just under half of the food made goes to waste. This project investigates the possib…

Lepto-my-Cells: Effect of Leptomycin-B on Human Embryonic Kidney Cancer Cell (HEK-293) Proliferation

Systems Software Fourth Award

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of Leptomycin-B (LMB) on the subcellular distribution of a histone deacetylase protein (HDAC4) in HEK-293 cancer cells and how this response affects kidney…

Let Go of Binary

What would happen if the computers today did not use binary (Base Two) but instead used ternary (Base Three)? Theoretically a bigger base computer could store more information in the same am…

Life Supporting System on Mars

Deferent expeditions to Mars have proven the existence of frozen water in the crust and rocks. The physical and the chemical analysis have mention that this frozen water contains a huge amou…

Life Without Mosquitoes Using Organic Garlic Spray

Systems Software

Today Mosquitoes are causing thousands of diseases like malaria, yellow fever, dengue, elephantiasis etc .These diseases can further cause sudden death. No one has yet succeeded to eradicate…

Light Speed: A Measure of Ocular Phototransduction Using a High Peak Power Pulsed Laser

During the late 1980s to early 1990s, while working on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles laser, researchers noticed they could see what they described as the…

Limelight Energy (Application of Nanoparticles to the Optic Energy Cell)

In the last decades it became obvious that unique solar power is the most constant, effective and friendly source of energy. However, despite swift breakthrough in this field, the highest ef…

Little Insect Project (Inspired by DARPA LittleDog Project)

The LittleDog project was part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion program, which involved using a quadruped robot, LittleDog (constructed by Boston Dynamics), to walk through different terrain…

Local Interaction of Agents Leading to Global Cooperation in Multi-Robot Manipulation

This paper presents a cooperation strategy in multi-agent system. The decision-making of each agent is solely based on its analysis of the local environment. The behavior of each agent affec…

Lockino: A Novel Solution for Public Lockers using Bluetooth LE and the Estimote iBeacon Platform

Fourth Award

The smartphone has become our communication device, our wallet, and our personal assistant. It has updated many old technologies, but one that has not benefitted from it is the personal lock…

Locomotor Analysis of Drosophila Mutants Affecting Neurotransmitter Release

Translational Medical Science

Neurotransmitter-release is regulated by several pre synaptic proteins where Syntaxin and Complexin are crucial. The locomotor activity of Drosophila Melanogaster adult animals was evaluated…

Low-Cost Disposable Device for Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Testing of HIV: Sample-to-Answer in 60 Minutes for Less than $5.00

Systems Software First Award

A rapid, electricity-free cartridge for nucleic acid testing (NAT) from finger-prick blood is proposed to combat the high rate of undiagnosed HIV infection in low-resource settings. The low…

Low-Cost Field-Based Sensor for the Detection of Atherosclerotic Biomarkers of Coronary Heart Disease

Atherosclerotic Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) remains the world’s preeminent cause of mortality. Blood cholesterol, carried by low-density lipoproteins (LDL), is closely associated with CHD’s…

Low-Cost, Fun and Colorful Glove for 3D Hand Posture Estimation System

Traditionally, human-computer interaction has been relegated to the keyboard and mouse. Today’s technologies, for example, 3D cameras and depth sensors, allows human to interact with compute…

Low-cost Heteronanostructure Semiconductor Uses Visible Light Energy to Efficiently Degrade Toxins Threatening Aquatic Life

First Award

Daily human activities produce TCDD, one of 12 most concerning toxins, which enters rivers, lakes, and eventually drinking water. Research shows that TCDD accumulates for over 15 years in hu…

Luminol and Silver Nanoparticles: A Brilliant Pair

The aim of this project was to synthesize silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and to investigate their effect on the luminol–hydrogen peroxide chemiluminescent system. It is known that AgNPs could…

Magnetic Field Affect on Streaming Current Measurements Flowing through the Pores of Rock Core Samples

When liquid flowing through the pores of sedimentary rocks it will generate what it called streaming current. The measurements of streaming current can provide a crucial information on the f…

Magnetic Positioning Sphere: A Single-Source 3D Positioning System using Rotating Magnetic Fields

First Award

This study presents a 3D magnetic positioning system using a single-source Magnetic Positioning Sphere (MPS). The proposed MPS system is composed of three mutually orthogonal coils and an Ar…

Magneto-Aerotaxis in Bacterial Microbots

First Award

Hypoxia and heterogeneity in tumor microenvironment is widely recognized as a difficult challenge in conventional cancer therapeutics. Our NanoLab group has verified the use of flagellated m…

Magnetotactic Bacteria with a Faraday Application

Second Award

The purpose of this research was to determine whether magnetised Magnetotactic Bacteria can be used to generate electricity. Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) biomineralize intracellular nanopart…

Make-ROV, an Advanced System-Based Educational Outreach ROV

Make-ROV is an easy-to-make educational outreach ROV (Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle) which provides an ROV kit-set for people to use it as a basic observation use ROV or customize it…

Mammographic Breast Density: Association with Gail Risk Model and Genetics Referral in a Recently Screened Clinical Sample, and Association with Sonographic Lymph Node Type on Breast Ultrasound

Systems Software

Purpose: Breast density on mammograms has become a topic of increasing public awareness. A dense mammogram can obscure a cancer, and raises uncertainty about the effectiveness of mammograms…

March of the Molokai Mangrove: The Socio-Economic and Ecological Impacts of Introduced Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) on Molokai, Hawaiian Islands

First Award

Proceeding introduction to Hawai‘i in 1902, Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) has established itself along the south shore of Molokai colonizing tidal mud flats, shallow bodies of water, coas…

Mathematical Fire Fighting: Combating Fire with Delaunay Triangulation and Longitudinal-Reversible Cellular Automata

The purpose of this second-year project furthered the previous findings of mathematical modeling of wildfires. The first goal was to optimize the Cellular Automata model created last year in…