Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
Among the industry sectors that need to be decarbonized is transportation, which is mainly powered by internal combustion engines. Reducing the problems of heat transfer losses and nitrogen…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Striga species, particularly S. hermonthica, is a serious parasite and one of the major threats to food security, especially in third-world countries. They are causing significant loss to ce…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Carbon capture and conversion is one of the essential factors to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and strengthening the economy. Current CO2 reducing catalysts face poor adsorption pr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy worldwide and is associated with a high rate of treatment failure. Although Activin-A and its antagonist Follistatin expressions i…
Translational Medical Science
By March 4th 2022, the WHO confirmed about 440 million cases and approximately 6 million deaths due to COVID-19. Recently, many studies relied on only expensive swab testing, which cannot pr…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
The synthesis of a self-charging through light supercapacitor has been executed with exceptional energy storage properties. Conventional photo capacitors face a major disadvantage of relativ…
Physics and Astronomy
A new model has been developed to prove that elementary particles are not point-like, but inner-structured. In particle accelerators, it was found that elementary particles like quarks are d…
Environmental Engineering
Rapid industrial development has led to severe environmental damage and negative impact on human health due to the release of unwanted massive microplastics (diameter < 5 mm), water-soluble…
Materials Science
Modern-day supercapacitors have problems including lack of good dynamic performance, low power rates and insufficient energy storage. Features such as voltage malfunction can occur when the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
The number of youths affected with mental health disorders has increased throughout the years. 41% of adolescents with anxiety do not have access to mental health services, so it is importan…
Microbiology
As industrial cities all around the globe are expanding, air quality has been deteriorating. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), which are carbon-based molecules, are anthropogenically releas…
Plant Sciences
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aspires to achieve food security despite obstacles including and abundance of desert ranges and the spread of plant diseases. Since ancient times, medicinal plant…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Green hydrogen is a continuously rising way of storing clean energy, wherein electricity from renewable sources is used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Unfortunately, current materi…
Environmental Engineering
The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attaches great importance to citizen's health and is concerned with the environment and its preservation. These goals have been outlined in its…
Translational Medical Science
Statistical reports have shown that 627,000 women worldwide died from breast cancer in 2018. There are many useful drugs available today. However, the obstacles in cancer chemotherapy are th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 100 million individuals all over the world and caused more than 2.3 million deaths. There have been increasing efforts on developin…
Plant Sciences
The world's food chain is under pressure due to the increasing demand for food: arable land shrinkage and the threat of adverse climate change. Recently, greenhouses have been increasingly u…
Environmental Engineering
In 2050, it is estimated that approximately 5.7 billion people will suffer due to the lack of clean water. Many studies have been developed to treat the water from various contaminants. This…
Biomedical Engineering
According to the 2010 statistic by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, there are 720,000 hearing impaired persons in Saudi Arabia. Currently, efficient devices that enhance their experienc…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar energy conversion systems are crucial in life due to our dependency on electricity. They are green and renewable energy sources, thus, allows people to design multiple systems involvin…
Materials Science
In recent years, significant developments in science and technology have occurred, thereby placing a strain on energy demands and supply units. Therefore, there is a need to adopt renewable…
Chemistry
Saudi Arabia is the is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world. Internal corrosion in pipelines is one of significant challenges in oil and gas industry. The effect of severe…
Environmental Engineering
The Earth’s population is growing at an exponential pace and with it synthetic pollutants. For instance, plastics or synthetic polymeric materials, are well-known ocean and land pollutants w…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
BETA-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) has medical significance for forming a drug target to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD). The activity of BACE1 toward amyloid precu…
Translational Medical Science
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has profound advantages in diagnosis and detection in the medical field. MRI is considered non-invasive diagnostic technique and does not use ionized radiati…
Embedded Systems
Internet of Things (IoT) applications are increasingly being adopted in many sectors. Such applications rely on networks of limited-power interconnected IoT devices to deliver useful service…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), has caused the global infectious disease COVID-19. Cases of COVID-19 infections increased rapidly along with high mortality rates and therefor…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stuffed toys have always been an integral part of most childhoods. The resulting global market for them is currently ~8 billion USD per year. Hard parts are included in stuffed toys to serve…
Materials Science
According to the International Energy Agency, the oil demand in 2019 was approximately 4,474 million tonnes. Current enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods include gas, thermal, and chemical. H…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors that integrate energy harvesting and energy storage technologies have attracted so much attention over the last decade due to their importance in applications that require ra…