Physics and Astronomy
Refractive index of a liquid specifies its temperature. Here, I turn a real laser spot into a line light-source to probe the temperature variations along the incident line in a liquid comple…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Innate immune response is the protective response of the human body to defend against harmful invaders. However, excessive or dysregulated inflammation may harm human body. Steroids are ofte…
Chemistry
Third Award
The photo-responsive fluorescence behaviors (Photomechanofluorochromism and the Photomechanical effect) of a pentiptycene-anthracene hybrid system substituted with a semifluorinated alkoxy c…
Mathematics
Second Award
The purpose of this research is to enumerate the number of ways of dissecting a convex polygon with arbitrary prescribed conditions on the allowable polygon pieces. It is well known that the…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The mushroom body (MB) is an intelligence center of the Drosophila brain. It plays essential roles in many aspects of behavior, including learning and memory, motivation, courtship, and slee…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It is well known that the perceived color of a neutral stimulus can be altered by the presence of a surround. Here, we aimed to identify the neural mechanism underlying the phenomenon of col…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Anemia is a common disease that affects 24% of the world population. The standard practice for diagnosis of anemia requires blood analysis, which is invasive and time-consuming. Physicians o…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Well-designed small wind turbine generators demonstrate high potential to capture turbulent wind power. We can break up the load of a large generator to many smaller ones to power local resi…
Mathematics
This research aims to find strategies to solve the following problem: the minimum number of ant-sucking machines which are needed to guarantee the capture of all ants on an m by n grid graph…