Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Amblyopia is the most frequent vision disorder in children leading to permanent visual impairment. Prevalence of amblyopia varies from 1.1%-5% in various studies. Early detection through a c…
Mathematics
*Introduction Mersenne Primes:- A number of the form 2^n – 1 where n is a natural number is a Mersenne number. If its value is prime then it is known as a Mersenne Prime. Mersenne primes are…
Plant Sciences
Indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides for higher crop yield has adversely affected the biosphere leading to environmental pollution and harm to non-target organisms. Jute (Corchorus cap…
Plant Sciences
Melon fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillet) (Diptera:Tephritidae)is a serious pest of cucurbitaceous vegetables in Kerala. The study is to find the efficacy of a newly designed suctio…
Systems Software
Pathfinding is the process of using a computer application to find a route between two points which best meets certain criteria (shortest, fastest, etc.) in a large network. It is a crucial…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Positively identifying endangered species has been a global challenge in wildlife conservation efforts. Traditional methods such as morphological means of identification require expert knowl…
Biochemistry
Third Award
Smoking, the leading cause of oral cancer in India, kills over 5 people every hour. As high mortality is due to late diagnosis, early detection is vital. Free radical induced lipid peroxidat…
Systems Software
A look into the past: More than often, artifacts recovered in archaeological excavations are damaged or broken.This might be due to continued exposure to harsh and unforgiving environments,…
Environmental Engineering
I propose an international collaborative infrastructure (ICI) along with an ICT based public participatory business model (SWARN) for waste management. ICI will assign countries yearly Ecolo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is a major public health problem and is the second most leading cause of death worldwide. Today, treatments available to us include chemotherapy and surgery which are both vastly expe…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease comprising different subtypes. Its occurrence alters clinical parameters in human body. The exact cause being unknown, various internal factors, demographic…
Systems Software
To dynamically track environmental changes, we need an automated method that identifies land features like forest health etc. from satellite images. Existing softwares (S/W) rely on professi…
Systems Software
Wide use of internet by kids increase the risk of getting exposed to obscenity and darknet. The project innovates a childsafe webbrowser which will automatically block the inappropriate webs…
Plant Sciences
A medical condition due to excess accumulation of fats in human body leading to a BMI =30 kg/m2 is termed as Obesity. According to WHO, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 worldwide. While…
Systems Software
A hivemind for healthcare: Medical Error is the third leading cause of death after Heart Disease and Cancer. Delayed discovery of these misdiagnoses and preventive overdiagnosis only make th…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Spatial abilities are thought to be pronounced in some scholastically-classified slow learners. In scholastically-classified slow learners with high spatial abilities, concepts can be taught…
Physics and Astronomy
On 10th February 2009, a satellite, Iridium-33, and a space debris, Cosmos-2251, unprecedentedly collided, producing more than 2000 cataloged space debris. Collisions like this and the ones…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
WHO estimates that around 12 million children (2-5% children worldwide) suffer from amblyopia - the most common visual impairment among children. Neurocognitive development is dependent on p…
Microbiology
The electrochemical Geno-sensor is one of the most promising methods for the rapid and reliable detection of bacteria. In the present work, the Geno-sensor was used to detect Escherichia col…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Water bodies are life lines of cities. However, water quality has become a global issue. Bangalore has become one of its victims. Bangalore was once called the “city of lakes”. “Records show…
Microbiology
The plant kingdom is an implicit gold mine which continues to play an important role in the discovery of new treatment and preventive therapies. Ethnobotanical plants have been used for cent…
Biomedical Engineering
Silent Myocardial Infarctions (SMIs) produce non-specific ambiguous symptoms in patients who are at-risk (ie., diabetic, etc.) because of associated nerve damages. Currently, there's almost…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Phishing websites are amongst the biggest threats Internet users face today, with an average of over 1.3 million such websites being created every month, according to 2017 Webroot Data. Exis…
Environmental Engineering
Chromite mining has contributed intensely to pollution of soil and ground water by hexavalent chromium, a potential carcinogen and mutagen for plants and bacteria. In the present study, I re…
Physics and Astronomy
In the last few years, many exoplanetary systems have been discovered, especially by NASA’s Kepler mission. Much recent work has focused on finding other Earth-like planets, within potential…
Mathematics
In 1948, Paul Erdos and Ernst G Straus formulated the Erdos-Straus Conjecture, which states that for any natural number n, the equation 4/n=1/x + 1/y + 1/z is solvable in positive integers x…
Mathematics
Szemerédi's theorem asserts that all subset of the natural numbers with positive upper density contains arbitrary large infinitely many arithmetic progressions. This is the generalization of…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Plant diseases are a major threat to the environment and global economy. In India alone, 35% of crop production is lost to field pathogens and pests causing losses to farmers. Indiscriminate…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) according to World Health Organization (WHO) is an imbalance between supply and demand of protein and energy to ensure optimal growth, functioning of the bo…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Freshwater pollution is a major environmental threat across the globe, exacerbated by the lack of ongoing scientific data about health of freshwater bodies. One way to address this problem i…