Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Because we have used fossil fuels as our primary fuel source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising and pose serious environmental challenges. Helium-3 may serve as a clean energy resource…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Progress within many modern scientific fields has increasingly relied on the continued advancement of computational power. However, thermodynamic and physical limits associated with electron…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
As the prevalence of obesity and other chronic diseases continue to increase, so do the cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite the development of new treatments, HCC remains diffic…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
The myoprosthesis developed in this research is a novel prototype to enable complete biomimetic performance in a bionic hand, accurately implementing gesture extraction and a soft polyarticu…
Forward error correction (FEC) is a vital part of digital communication systems, and it is especially important in aerospace communications, where transmit power resources may be scarce. Pre…
AJAS · 2022
Engineering
Hearing Loss is a widespread problem, with approximately 48 million Americans experiencing some degree of hearing loss, and a common solution to hearing loss are hearing aids. Of those who n…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
America is the second leading producer of beer in the world, producing more than 211.17 million hectoliters per year (Conway 2021). Breweries are gaining notoriety as ecologically friendly d…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Chemical Insecticides have done immense damage to the core of environmental systems. The alternatives present in the market are unaffordable or inaccessible to the marginal farmer, In search…
Materials Science
Currently, materials of piezoelectric devices mainly used have several disadvantages that they are partially toxic, inappropriate for the human body, difficult to manufacture, or expensive.…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
With the rapid growth of digital scientific datasets, data visualization is becoming increasingly important, and even the most popular tools require additional features. The goal of this stu…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Solar panels are outside in any weather that may face them. The goal of my project is to keep solar panels clean in most conditions and to improve the energy output of the system. A summary…
Mangroves are important forests that provide numerous ecosystem and economic services. Storms place pressure on mangroves, and when compounded with disturbances such as drought, potentially…
Microbiology
Purpose: To see how effective different types of soaps are against bacteria and to compare Commercial, Natural, and Environmentally Friendly soaps to determine which category of soaps are mo…
Microbiology
Periodontitis is an infection that affects the tissues that surround the teeth, causing gingival inflammation and can lead to bone loss, being caused mainly by the bacteria Prevotella nigres…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
A rise in the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections has prompted a search for alternative methods to combat bacteria in the human body. Bacteriophages are a type of virus that can ki…
Microbiology
Experiment using petri dish science to offer an intelligence for selection of antibiotics creating the least amount of resistance. Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria develops the ability…
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a large problem across the United States. 2.8 million people are affected by antibiotic resistance each year and 35,000 patients affected die. This project…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Deaths from heart diseases and strokes are up nationwide in Iraq according to WHO 40 above, 97% of people die from heart disease and among those disease are Heart Attack, Our goal is to decr…
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a problem, especially in COVID-19 -- but for centuries especially in the ancient Indian form of medicine Ayurveda, plant-based forms of medicine have been u…
AJAS · 2022
Microbiology
Surgical site infection (SSI) from sutures has become a major global health emergency as a result of the rise in antibiotic resistance. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus and other pathogenic s…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Our research seeks to apply the concepts from Hofstede's Cultural Matrix to better understand vaccine skepticism and Anti-Vax behavior. So far, the research has focused on identifying cultur…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
More infectious variants of viruses can arise from rapid mutations in their protein sequences, creating new infection waves. These variants can evade one’s immune system and even infect vacc…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects over ten million people in the U.S. yet less than 4% of people diagnosed were prescribed a medication approved by the FDA. In fact, the few medications app…
There are over 285 million blind people in the world, with approximately 87% of them living in developing countries. However, in third world countries, there is currently very little technol…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project used scientific principles to collect statistically relevant data and develop a feasible manufacturing process for piezoelectric transducers with minimal environmental impact. T…
Translational Medical Science
In China, those with hand disabilities or injured muscles need an auxiliary system to help rehabilitate. However, most hospitals' mechanical structures are stiff, leading the fingers to impr…
Chemistry
Bombyx mori silkworm cocoons can be used to make both silk fabrics and silk protein materials. However, there is only one classification standard for silkworm cocoons so far. This classifica…
Biochemistry
Synthesis and efficient implementation mRNA strands has been shown to have wide utility, especially recently in the development of COVID vaccines. However, the intrinsic chemical stability o…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
Aedes aegypti is the vector of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and zika, which are some of the world’s biggest problems. The only effective way to combat them is to eradicate their transmi…
Plant Sciences
This study was conducted to test the efficacy of indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) sourced in Maharashtra, India, when applied to the mid-Atlantic/north-eastern region(s)of the United Sta…