Translational Medical Science
Bacteria are extremely adaptable organisms and genetic mutations developing resistance against antibiotics. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the inappropriate or excessive u…
Biomedical Engineering
Nowadays, rehabilitation engineering and biomedical engineering are always creating new techniques in order to improve people's quality of life. When talking about foot drop or steppage gait…
Biochemistry
Metallomic imbalance impacts tumor malignancy. Previous work developed by Stelling, and collaborators demonstrated that manganese is accumulated in tumors in vivo and that tumor cells in vit…
Environmental Engineering
Bearing in mind the scarcity of water in the Northeast region of Brazil and throughout the whole country, scientific initiatives are needed in order to seek ways to provide clean water to th…
Embedded Systems
The project aims to develop a portable micro-controlled device that uses the Gauss method to calculate irregular areas. The main purpose is being able to help in civil projects with support…
Chemistry
Food production heavily relies on pesticides, which can be harmful to both the environment and human health. Sustainable alternatives such as nanoemulsions made from essential oils have been…
Biomedical Engineering
In today's world, humanity has found a way to increase life expectancy. This form is segmented in the hospital medical area, which uses various procedures and research to increasingly increa…
Animal Sciences
Second Award
In Brazil's Amazon region, the local population uses the extract from the pulp and the oil of the Tucum Mirim, commonly called Astrocaryum Acaule, as a home-made oil to prevent and treat art…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
According to a UNICEF study in 2022, Brazil has around 2 million teenagers who have dropped High School before graduating. Shocked by these numbers, I started to think about what I could do…
Biomedical Engineering
The current Covid-19 pandemic has developed not only a global public health crisis, but also a very serious impact on production chains. Leveraged by the urgency of the scarcity of resources…
Animal Sciences
This research presents a machine learning computational model capable of identifying potential inhibitors of the glycoprotein B (gB) of feline herpesvirus 1 (HVF-1), the cause of feline vira…
Environmental Engineering
Among the worst domestic and industrial pollutants that affect water resources, we have oils, since one liter of this substance can contaminate up to twenty-five thousand liters of water. Al…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
The Animated Legends project was created with the aim of recording and disseminating the legends of Igarapé-Miri, a municipality located in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon region. The idea aros…
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…
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…
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…
Materials Science
The state of Rio Grande do Sul is responsible for 90% of juices and wine production in Brazil and its processing generates up to 30% of waste. Therefore, the goal of this research was to opt…
Biomedical Engineering
Our research deals with the development of a biped mechanical device, capable of reproducing an artificial movement of human gait with pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), for locomotion of…
Biochemistry
This project aims to study the biotechnological potential of four oilseed species from the Brazilian Cerrado, regarding the biometric parameters of the fruits, as well as their oil, pulp and…
Systems Software
Third Award
Immersive technologies have been evolving and influencing the means of human interaction. In this scenario, developing High Immersion Environments (HIE) can contribute to education, providin…
Biomedical Engineering
Post-Covid syndrome is a set of physical and respiratory symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath (dyspnea) and weakness of the respiratory muscles, which can affect up to 56% of people…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The most used economic flow in the world is based on production, consumption, and disposal, which caused an increase in consumption of 1.7 times greater than the real needs of the population…
Systems Software
To avoid suspending school activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, online video classes were used. Those classes required significant electronic equipment data storage space and internet pa…
Systems Software
Gender inequality is still something recurrent in contemporary society. For this reason, female participation is low in technological and scientific areas compared to boys. Based on this, it…
Materials Science
Cancer is one of the main causes of death in the world, and its conventional treatments (surgical removal, radiotherapy and chemotherapy) are invasive techniques and has many undesired effec…
Environmental Engineering
One of the great challenges for science is to guarantee the availability and potability of water for everyone while looking for sustainable ways to do this. The present research aimed to pro…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Nowadays, 1% of the total garbage in cities worldwide comes from non-rechargeable batteries and piles. These sources of energy are used primarily in wristwatches. Thus, the research focused…
Chemistry
Exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is directly related to skin cancer. In order to avoid the consequences of continuous exposure to solar radiation, products such as protective clo…
Biochemistry
Diseases caused by insects are a public health problem, especially in tropical regions. From this perspective, there is tucum mirim (Astrocaryum acaule Mart.), a typical fruit from the cerra…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The environmental and health hazards associated with the application of synthetic chemical inputs in agriculture increased the demand for technologies that not only allow higher crop product…