JSHS · 2023
Predictive Analysis of Invasive Plants
Invasion by non-native plants costs the US over $21 billion annually and can cause devastating effects on whole ecosystems. The best strategy of solving this problem efficiently and cost-eff…
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932 projects across 5 years, 2020–2025.
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JSHS · 2023
Prefilled Syringe Testing of In-Use Hospital Drugs
A prefilled syringe is a delivery device that ensures a safe, reliable, effortless, and dependable way to deliver a drug/medication to a patient in any setting necessary. Whether it be in an…
JSHS · 2023
Preposterous Proteoglycan! Defining the Role of CSPG4 in Pancreatic Cell Invasion and Spheroid Formation to Achieve Effective Immunotherapy Treatments
Pancreatic cancer’s extremely high mortality rate can be attributed to its high invasive and metastatic potential and resistance to traditional therapies. Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan 4…
JSHS · 2023
Punicalagin Attenuates Chemotherapy-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Normal Cells
Current research is focused on identifying drugs that can mitigate chemotherapy-induced side effects to normal 15 tissues, while being cytotoxic to cancer cells. This study was designed to e…
JSHS · 2023
Pura Aerem: A Five-Stage Extension to Catalytic Converters Designed to Purify Gasses and Pollutants Exiting Gas-Powered Vehicles
Ambient air pollution contributes to a 7-million annual mortality rate, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology being used within gas-powered vehicle…
JSHS · 2023
Quantitative Environmental DNA Metabarcoding for the Enumeration of Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.)
Understanding species abundance is critical to managing and conserving planetary biodiversity. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are keystone species of cultural, economic, and ecological i…
JSHS · 2023
Quorum Quenching Potential of Phytochemicals on Chromobacterium violaceum Quorum Sensing
Research Advisor: Dr. Juliana Carvalho De Arruda Caulkins The purpose of this project was to evaluate the antibacterial potential of phytochemicals rutin, syringic acid, and Ziziphus mucrona…
JSHS · 2023
Reach Into the Mind: A Study of the Human Brain and its Application to Brain-Computer Interface
In our project, we wanted to test if we could control modern-day technology using an EEG headset. The purpose of our project is to see if we can improve and revolutionize mind-controlled tec…
JSHS · 2023
Real-Time Sign Language Detector Using TensorFlow SSD Model and Python
Communication is a means of passing on information to other people through verbal, written, or visual means. It constructs our social world and allows us to create bonds with others. People…
JSHS · 2023
Removing Lead(II) and Chromium(VI) Ions From Water Using UV-C Light and An Immobilized TiO2 Photocatalyst
The United Nations deems clean water a human right. Even so, the World Health Organization reports that over 2 billion people worldwide still do not have access to clean running water. Low-i…
JSHS · 2023
Resilience of Advanced Polymer - Glass Fiber Composites
Physical properties of thermoplastic polymers can be improved with the incorporation of glass fibers into polymeric products, which significantly improves physical properties such as tensile…
JSHS · 2023
RevealED: Uncovering Pro-Eating Disorder Content on Twitter Using Deep Learning
The Covid-19 pandemic induced a vast increase in adolescents diagnosed with eating disorders and hospitalized due to eating disorders. This immense growth stemmed partially from the stress o…
JSHS · 2023
SAFE: A Sensor-Fusion Based Assessment and Prediction of Falling-Risk for the Elderly
Every nineteen minutes an older adult dies from a fall, making falls the leading cause of injury death to that group. Cumulatively older adult falls cost upwards of $50 billion in medical co…
JSHS · 2023
Selectively Breeding Zophobas Morios for Polystyrene Degradation
Over the past decade, scientists have discovered species of plastic-eating worms, a key to unlocking how to degrade recalcitrant plastic. Plastic-eating worms have the ability to degrade pla…
JSHS · 2023
Simulating Embryonic Development in Vitro Using Embryoid Bodies
During the developmental stages of mammalian embryos, the inner cell mass (ICM) gives rise to all embryonic tissues. The ICM, when adapted to in vitro culture, becomes embryonic stem cells (…
JSHS · 2023
SOUTHWEST An Integrated Approach for Immediate and Long-Term Air Quality Regulation and Monitoring in Mexico
Air pollution is among the leading causes of premature deaths across the world and disproportionately impacts the Global South due to lesser air quality regulation and research on regional a…
JSHS · 2023
Space-Time Conflict Spheres for Constrained Multi-Agent Motion Planning
1.3 million people are killed in road accidents each year, and 94% of these accidents are caused by human error. This has motivated advancements in autonomous vehicle technology, and more re…
JSHS · 2023
Spectrophotometry
As a result of Cu-based agrochemicals and industrialization, the concentration of Cu2+ in aquatic circulation is predicted to increase by more than 50% by 2100, leading to detrimental impact…
JSHS · 2023
SPOTCPC: A Novel Approach to COVID-19 Prediction Utilizing Human Mobility Data and Contrastive Predictive Coding
During the COVID-19 pandemic, time series prediction models have been essential in informing policymaking and response efforts by forecasting cases and deaths from the country to county leve…
JSHS · 2023
Spotify + the Machine (Learning): Tracking Song Audio Features
As the global music streaming industry grows at an increasing rate, with Spotify dominating the market, personalized playlists and recommended artists and songs curated for each user are oft…
JSHS · 2023
Sprayable, Biodegradable, Thermoresponsive, Antimicrobial Hydrogel Wound Dressing
Wound dressings are critically important to wound treatment and healing. Conventional wound dressings are prefabricated, non-degradable, non-conformal, and contain silver particles. Not only…
JSHS · 2023
StrokeSight: An Intelligent EEG-Based Approach to Rapid Stroke Diagnosis Using Spectral Biomarkers towards Precision Medicine Approaches
A stroke is defined as a neurologic deficit arising from an interruption in blood supply to the brain. According to the World Health Organization, over 15 million people suffer from strokes…
JSHS · 2023
Studies on Gracilaria salicornia: Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Sunscreen Exposure and Use as Agricultural Fertilizer
Limu (seaweed) is critical to Native Hawaiian ecosystems and culture. With limited prior research, the first part of this study examined the effects of ZnO mineral sunscreens on endemic Hawa…
JSHS · 2023
Studying the Impact of Microplastics on Quinoa Growth
This experiment’s purpose was to determine if the presence of common microplastics (polyethylene (PE), polyamide (PA), and polyethersulfone (PES)) would impact the growth of Chenopodium quin…
JSHS · 2023
Supervised Binary Convolutional Neural Networks with Model Stacking for Diagnosis of Fundus & Eyelid Diseases
Retinal health is often overlooked and seen as a privilege, not a necessity. Although there are a variety of machine learning-based solutions and retinal specialists to diagnose these ailmen…
JSHS · 2023
Surface Engineering of Bioplastics
Bioplastics have long been an area of interest, since they are more environmentally friendly than petrochemical- based plastics. Bioplastics can be more widely adopted if they can meet the p…
JSHS · 2023
Sustainable Aviation: Fuel Use Reduction Through Algorithmic Routing in Airspace
Globally, commercial aviation generates one billion tons of CO2 emissions annually. Fuel consumption is >30% of the airline budget. While current practices automate the complex handoffs from…
JSHS · 2023
Synthesis of 4d- and 5d-Element Based Transition Metal Oxides
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) have long been the topic of research due to their wide range of potential technological applications (e.g., high-density magnetic data storage and spintronics)…
JSHS · 2023
Synthesis of Disulfide-Containing Polymeric Nanomedicine Carriers Suitable for Cysteamine and R848
Current polymer-based nanomedicine carriers have several shortcomings regarding their efficacy: low drug loading capacity, premature drug release, poor in vivo monitoring capability, and lim…
JSHS · 2023
TaxHorn: A Novel, Taxonomy-Aware, Beta-Diversity Metric for Comparison of Microbiome Populations
While there are numerous metrics currently available for measuring beta diversity, none of these are 108 particularly optimized for work within the human microbiome. I set out to create a ne…