Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic central nervous system degenerative disease associated with resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons…
Second Award
This study provides a low-cost and high-yield method for fabricating nanosized gas bubbles. By purging pure nitrogen gas into de-ionized (DI) water together with a sonication treatment, I su…
Brianchon’s and Pascal’s theorems are two famous theorems in geometry that are known to be dual to each other. Despite their fundamental status, they are of much academic interest and have b…
Direct methanol fuel cells have been considered as an ideal choice for a clean and high efficiency energy source. However, the most commonly used anodic catalyst, platinum, has problems such…
Fourth Award
In this study, I demonstrate the tuned liquid dampers (TLD) consist of paraboloidal tanks equipped with flow-guiding vanes, which can effectively mitigate the vibration of structure induced…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
In this report, two ultraviolet (UV)-light absorption molecules (D2, A2) were synthesized. Organic solar cell (OSC) based on these two molecules were fabricated and studied. The electron-don…
This research is a study of dynamic graph labeling on the vertices of a polygon. We start the labeling by using a set of integers and continually perform the following operation: choose the…
We revisit the previously hypothesized time-evolution of galaxies’ color in the redshift ranges from 0 to 0.3, using the spectroscopic data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our samples…
The information of FORMOSAT-3 comes from GPS occultation, and the information including temperature, humidity, and the electron concentration, etc., and I use the information of temperature.…
Biomedical Engineering
Mikania micrantha is one of the worst invasive alien species in the world. This exotic noxious weed is a perennial creeping climber grows vigorously in East Asia and US (especially Florida),…
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…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of the cell. Their main function is ATP production, and they are normally thumb-shaped with lamellar cristae. Mitochondrial morphology regulates apopt…
With the growing concern over environmental issues and the rapid development of nano materials, an efficient adsorbent for heavy metal removal is crucial. In our research, we used Nanodiamon…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
A one-pot approach has been developed for the preparation of Cu2O nanocubes from cupric nitrate in alkaline aqueous solutions containing fructose and ascorbic acid at 32 degrees clesius. In…
Given n straight lines in the plane, Roberts in 1889 gave a formula to count the number of regions formed by an arbitrary arrangement of the n lines. While the minimum and the maximum number…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
In this work, we observe that the right triangle with integral side lengths possess an interesting feature that the slope of the bisector of each respective interior angle is a rational numb…
Energy: Chemical
Due to the global warming, worldwide regions have suffered very serious climate changes. It causes a huge damage! We try to provide a solution to tackle this problem. We created the world’s…
Embedded Systems
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a special type of integrated circuit that has contributed to the broaden application of electronics, from aerospace to defense, and from medical ima…
Chemistry
Gastric cancer causes the second most death each year. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) secretes GroES, one of the critical carcinogens, which infects gastric epithelial cells and causes infl…
Embedded Systems
First Award
The Western North Pacific Ocean is the most active and hazardous tropical cyclones (TCs) region in the world. Each year, 20-30 TCs (also called typhoons) impose severe threats to a billion p…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
bZIP transcription factors exist in all eukaryotes. In plants, they are master regulators of many central developmental and physiological processes. In 2012. bZIP16 was reported to promote s…
Systems Software
An electric point contact is used to identify the physical deformation of an object initiated by a nondestructive impact. The detection of electric signal allows a spatial sensitivity that i…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Environmental protection, food availability and energy production are the most important issues in the 21st century. In comparison with traditional liquid base catalysts, solid acid catalyst…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a common model organism of aging. The lifespan of S. cerevisiae is termed replicative lifespan (RLS), which is the total number of daughters being p…