Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes impacts the patient's quality of life, society and the health system. It is estimated that by 2030, the numbers of people diagnosed are expected to exceed 552 million. Inhibi…
Physics and Astronomy
While binary systems are discovered often in the search for exoplanets, trinary systems are much less researched. Adding more samples to this underreported category has significant implicati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Text to image generation, that is about understanding the text descriptions and generating images from them, has been one of the most important machine learning research fields due to its hi…
Materials Science
Football is one of the most popular American sports, and some of the most exciting beginnings of this sport are in high school. Concussions are unfortunately a prominent consequence of the s…
Environmental Engineering
Chemical dyes, biological pollutants and microplastics are some of the most harmful pollutants that hinder the usability of water. Since it is very difficult and expensive to treat these pol…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Liquefaction-induced lateral spread is a dangerous soil phenomenon that can cause immense amounts of damage to communities worldwide. This phenomenon is not well studied and has led to the d…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Motivating people to take science-backed public health measures is critical. I studied whether messages encouraging people to protect others are more effective than messages encouraging peop…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The Indian River Lagoon consumes forty-percent of Florida’s east coast, and is the most biodiverse estuary in North America. Recently the lagoon has gone through devastation, due to the abun…
Systems Software
The previous image search method was searched based on objective similarity. From here, we felt the need for an image search algorithm that can compare subjective similarities. For example,…
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a serious health concern that affects millions of patients globally. Over the last few years, Multidrug Resistant Genes (MDRs), have worsened the disease load that a…
Animal Sciences
The project's purpose was to demonstrate that Galleria mellonella larvae could feed on polyethylene. The project was conducted at school, where the larvae were kept in 2 plastic boxes (34.6…
Biochemistry
Second Award
The number of masks in the USA is about 7.4 billion, which leads to 84 million kilograms of waste. This waste seeps into the environment and takes over 400 years to degrade. There are a few…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As a result of the war initiated by Armenia in 1988 to implement its territorial claims against Azerbaijan, 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands were occupied. For decades, the enemy has managed…
Biomedical Engineering
Type-1 Diabetes (T1D) affects around 1.6 million (CDC). Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) accounts for almost 56-74% of T1D-induced mortality. During the past decade, DKA-admission rates have incr…
Plant Sciences
Reducing apple tree crop load through thinning is a critical step in the cultivation of a healthy apple crop. Thinning ensures that an apple tree will bear fruit yearly, instead of in a cycl…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Ammonia has been considered an encouraging substitute for fossil fuels in hopes of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Although ammonia is promising, it still has the issue of low reactivit…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
In this study, we propose a general solution to the Broken Pick-up Sticks Problem which is a variation of the well-known Broken Sticks Problem. Since its solution is unknown to the mathemati…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose We examined the marine macro-life at two rocky shore sites at Africa’s southern tip. Kreeftebaai, on the western side, is affected by the Benguela Current, and Suiderstrand, on the s…
Physics and Astronomy
Since its detection in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the Higgs boson has remained a key element in confirming the standard model (SM) of particle physics. Current research to find…
Chemistry
Plasmonic photocatalysts attract interest because they can efficiently absorb and convert solar energy through the local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect. Numerous silver-based plasmo…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
There is a variety of ventilation ducts in our lives, of which the fluid flow will produce noise that is unfavorable to people's physical and mental health. This project is aiming to develop…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Data from the ILO reports that 337 million work accidents occur annually, with 2.3 million of such events resulting in fatalities. Though regulations exist to uphold worker safety, these sta…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Speed is a great factor to take into account at the time of an accident, since with only a 1% increase in speed the probability of fatal accidents increases by 4% and that of accidents with…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project presents a novel adaptive learning approach that not only enables a system to learn and evolve on its own but also explains its predictions, even for expansive problem domains t…
Biomedical Engineering
Adaptive Multi Sigmoid Contrast Enhancement (AMSCE) is a novel algorithm that may improve the analysis of computed tomography (CT) scans. Contrast enhancement compensates for human or machin…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The effectiveness of classroom instruction is often compromised by a misunderstanding of student perception of instruction between students and educators. The purpose of this research was to…
Embedded Systems
Studies have shown that there are challenges with medication adherence among the elderly and that these challenges are further aggravated by having to take multiple medications. Problems are…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The presence of metastatic tissue in lymph nodes is critical for oncologists and cancer treatment, as it is a central part of the TNM cancer staging process and other cancer-related diagnost…
Physics and Astronomy
With this project we try to broaden the accessibility of quantum computing hardware. In order to achieve that, we designed a quantum computer that is relatively affordable when compared to t…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
An alternate movement strategy, called Move in the Tube (MINT), has been implemented in many hospitals for patients recovering from thoracic surgery but little objective data is available to…