Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study assesses the impact of Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) therapies on reading speed and accuracy in students with dyslexia, with a nuanced examination of how RAN deficits interact wi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glyphosate, the active ingredient used in many herbicides, has seen extensive use, surpassing over 1.6 billion kilograms since 1974. With this widespread use, humans have begun to experience…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The proliferation of reusable rockets has driven expenses down and launch frequencies up completely reshaping the space exploration industry. A critical component of this sustainable technol…
Physics and Astronomy
Currently, fusion reactors run on deuterium, which is very abundant, and tritium, which is almost nonexistent on earth. Tritium’s scarcity poses one of the greatest barriers to efficient fus…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Excessive placental secretion of neurokinin B (NKB) is implicated in pre-eclampsia, a disorder associated with maternal health complications. Hormone antagonists are substances that regulate…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A total of 20 hemp and CBD commercial products (4 vape oils, 7 oils, 4 edibles and 5 topicals) were collected from dispensaries and CBD shops. These products were extracted by solvent extrac…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Severe distances between grocery stores and a lack of transportation restrict residents from making trips for nutritious food, discriminating against poverty-ridden areas. Often trade-offs b…
Microbiology
According to the World Health Organization, there are 600 million cases of food borne diseases and 420,000 deaths each year. This disparity can be especially harmful and prevalent in develop…
Materials Science
Water is essential for human life. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), even in the twenty first century, safe drinking water without toxic metal and waterborne pathogens is lacking f…
Microbiology
One promising solution to combat the rise of deadly anti-biotic resistant bacteria is nanoparticle medications. However, new studies have found that bacteria can develop resistance to silver…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Type two Diabetes is an epidemic. Because there is no cure for diabetes and the current treatments can be expensive and inaccessible, exploration for more affordable management tools for the…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is an extremely variant and personalized disease that is characterized by the disruption of regular cell functions. These disruptions can be analyzed by examining regulatory network c…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The frequency of rocket launches has greatly intensified in the recent decade. Reusability is sought after in an effort to reduce the cost of launches and give rise to a new era of space exp…
Translational Medical Science
Neuroendoscopy paired with external ventricular drainage consistently produces a higher positive patient prognosis in children with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (T2N1M1) who developed an…
Animal Sciences
Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), an aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbon, is an environmental contaminant and carcinogen that causes neurological and developmental effects to children when exposed in pregna…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This work presents the first study that examines the runoff of the herbicide, paraquat, and how it flows through the environment. Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide that is widely used and…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminals are stimuli that fall short of the average threshold of the brain’s auditory and visual cortex which have been speculated to establish correlations in the mind that affect one’s…
Plant Sciences
In the next 25-30 years, the human population is expected to grow by over 2 billion people. To combat the increase in food consumption that accompanies this population growth, food productio…
Microbiology
The 2019 Microcystis aeruginosa bloom instilled economic and environmental disaster along the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coasts due to the creation of eutrophic freshwater zones in natur…
Plant Sciences
Purpose: Over the last century, the global population has quadrupled. To combat future food demand, farmers worldwide will need to increase crop production, either by increasing the amount o…
Microbiology
The vast majority of eukaryotic diversity is made up of protists, diverse groups of unicellular microorganisms found throughout terrestrial and aquatic environments. Amoeboid protists are re…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Currently, the world suffers from a serious epidemic: one of nicotine products. Using the Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism, a correlation between nicotine exposure and decreased l…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mississippi is considered to be one of the unhealthiest states in the nation. This health burden and disparity has been found to be associated with food insecurity, the disruption of food in…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This paper reveals numerous psychological mechanisms and correlations that are relevant in the sphere of race and wellbeing, and thus relevant to all people because of the inevitable effects…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Population mobility is correlated with Covid-19 transmission, making it an ideal indicator for forecasting future outbreaks. Additionally, given the proliferation of vaccines throughout the…
Plant Sciences
Diabetes is an epidemic in the United States. Mississippi is ranked third highest in diabetes. Bitter melon (Momordica charantia) is a popular plant used for treating diabetes- related condi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this project is to identify the role of glycolytic inhibitors as repurposed drugs for the cure of Covid-19 through virtual screening and test their efficacy against the inhibi…
Animal Sciences
The increased usage of food preservatives in the American diet over the past decades has led to a greater need to examine their health effects. Of particular concern was the preservative sod…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Nearly seven million individuals in the U.S. have Essential Tremor (ET), making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Current ET research aligns it with a Purkinje cell disorder…
Chemistry
Milled rice is deficient in almost all major classes of nutrients except carbohydrates. Poor nutrition of rice has resulted in severe malnutrition problems in developing countries where the…