Materials Science
Disposing of waste incense ash poses environmental challenges due to its hazardous nature. Qualitative analysis has shown that it contains 47.74% CaO, an alkaline substance. This study explo…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
This study investigates plant-specific GAGA-binding factors, BASIC PENTACYSTEINEs (BPCs), which are known to exhibit overlapping and antagonistic effects on various developmental phenotypes,…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Global warming poses a significant threat to plants by weakening their defense, exacerbating disease outbreaks and threatening global food security. However, limited attention is given to th…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Schizophrenia and stress-related disorders impose significant health challenges on patients and societal resources. To address these pressing needs, a novel compound, the Novel Adenosine Mod…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Southern Ocean plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle due to its extensive stores of deep carbon and its capacity to absorb atmospheric CO2 through vigorous vertical circulation b…
Physics and Astronomy
The star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass (M*) relation of galaxies has long been a subject of research interest in astronomy. Why do galaxies with similar stellar masses have different sta…
Physics and Astronomy
This project aims to study the adhesivity of condensed fluids, and a cantilever driven by a 3D-printed damped harmonic mechanism is thus designed. This vibro-impact viscometer allows an adju…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Drug resistance is one of the greatest obstacles during cancer treatment. It is urgent to solve this clinical issue globally. Previous study indicated that USP24, a deubiquitinase, can promo…
Environmental Engineering
The significant increase in carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution has disrupted the natural carbon cycle, and establishing a new carbon cycle pathway is crucial to address this pr…
Plant Sciences
Drought is one of the prime environmental constraints for plant growth and productivity in the world. While plant stress is usually controlled by multiple factors, conventional investigation…
Chemistry
In this research, we present the multi-nanomedicinal functions of a hybrid nanocomposite integrating metal oxide (CuxFe3-xO4, CFO) nanoparticles (NPs), biological bovine serum albumin (BSA)…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
In this study, young participants (n=29) were instructed to perform the functional reaching task with their right upper limb in motor execution (ME), motor imagery (MI), motor observation (M…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Paxillin is a known regulator of focal adhesions and actin cytoskeleton dynamics, crucial for cell migration. However, our study discovered a novel function of paxillin in neurons. We found…
Mathematics
Third Award
This study was motivated by a trance in my bathroom, looking at puddles on the ground, and imagining a curved mirror in mid-air. Then, emit a light beam to the curved mirror, in what circums…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Submarine canyons are geomorphic features that incise into continental margins. They are characterized by complex hydrodynamic processes, heterogeneous spatial variations, and steep topograp…
Mathematics
A zigzag chord is a broken line with vertices on the circle and connecting in a zigzag way, and any two adjacent segments form a fixed certain angle. The initial observation of this project…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
The ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) indicators emphasize reducing product-induced pollution. Nitrogen fertilizers harm the environment and human health. This study used tardigrade M…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Second Award
A layer of glaze is attached to the surface of ceramics. This study uses the glaze as a medium and integrates the machine learning theme of information engineering to predict the results of…
Systems Software
CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are often used on websites to prevent users’ bots from gaining access to website resources automatically…
Physics and Astronomy
A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic fields caused by solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Even a moderate storm can lead to satellite loss, such as…
Chemistry
Third Award
PLA, largely derived from bio-renewable resources, is one of the most widely used bioplastics. With its biodegradability, low price and superior mechanical properties, PLA has been widely ap…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Plant viruses cause considerable economic losses of crops. However, it is difficult to develop effective crop virucides due to the intracellular infectivity of viruses. Plants usually trigge…
Mathematics
Farey sequence F_n of order n is the sequence of all irreducible fractions between 0 and 1 with denominators no greater than n arranged in increasing order. Farey sequence has a geometric in…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Most Chinese characters are phonograms, consisting of a semantic radical and a phonetic radical. Some phonetic radicals create many phonograms to form a large neighborhood, while others don'…
Environmental Engineering
Aquaculture wastewater with high nitrite concentration due to low denitrification activity in winter is lethal to hydrobionts such as fish and shrimp. Therefore, bioremediation using bacteri…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Salts are important for nerve conduction. However, excessive salt causes defects in learning and memory in mice. To investigate the mechanisms of salt-induced learning impairment, I used Dro…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Third Award
There are three propulsion systems in chemical rockets, and they are solid rocket, hybrid rocket, and liquid rocket. Compared to a solid rocket, we can verify the thrust of a hybrid rocket,…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Despite the global climate is clearly warming, many regions experienced extremely cold weather in recent years. The cold events were often attributed to the negative Arctic Oscillation (AO)…
Materials Science
Orthokeratology is a long-term, costly treatment for myopia correction. The lenses are worn overnight to reshape the cornea. The orthokeratology lens is in contact with the tear film so once…
Translational Medical Science
The tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) Lapatinib and Tucatinib are FDA-approved for the treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. However, intestinal side effects, especially sever…