Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The inefficient treatment of thousands of diseases contributes to the need for a quick and cost-efficient alternative to current drug discovery methods. Drug development is extremely time-co…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To ascertain complex relationships between inputs and outputs and achieve high accuracies on specialized tasks, Machine Learning algorithms require vast amounts of high-quality data, compute…
Biomedical Engineering
Heat exhaustion is not just the leading cause of death in student-athletes it is quickly becoming the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S. One of the keyways to help prevent h…
Microbiology
Second Award
Bats, like bees, are a keystone species benefiting the environment and saving farmers billions of dollars in chemicals. However, since 2006, millions of bats in North America have died of a…
Mathematics
Pancreatic metastatic cancer prompts the aggressive emergence of a subsect of cancer cells known as Poly-aneuploid Cancer Cells (PACCs) which sustain a state of dormancy called quiescence wh…
Embedded Systems
The key to performing well in an emergency room is accurate and quick triage. Therefore, the functions of technology that are related to healthcare should be examined, as they are very helpf…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The rising cases of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), having restrictive repetitive and impaired social behaviors, can be linked to maternal factors during fetal development. Ad…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The research and development of new medicine are expensive and time-consuming: the entire process from discovery to distribution takes up to 12 years, costing as much as $2.5 billion USD. Hu…
Physics and Astronomy
This experiment investigated the characteristics of the decoherence of qubits in quantum computers and the effects of decoherence on the superimposed state of the qubit. Four different tests…
Translational Medical Science
This study aimed to determine whether traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes learning and short-term memory (STM) deficits in Drosophila melanogaster, and if THIP, a GABA-A receptor agonist, wi…
Animal Sciences
Visual impairment is linked to increased all-cause mortality and elevated risk of ischemic heart disease, but its causal relationship is unclear. This study investigated whether visual impai…
Mathematics
Benford’s Law is a mathematical law that dictates the percentages of the appearances of initial digits 1-9 in a naturally occurring data set with no limits. This experiment tested to see if…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
Post-spay surgery, gonadal tissue can remain and pose a recurrent challenge in the care of dogs and cats. Shelters and pet owners are often unaware of Ovarian Remnant Syndrome (ORS) but noti…
Embedded Systems
Second Award
Globally, 250 million people have visual impairment, and many are unable to move around safely without human assistance due to the complexity of finding pathways, avoiding obstacles, risk of…
Animal Sciences
Cancer radiotherapy weakens surrounding benign cells whilst eradicating a malignant tumor. These consequences are indicative of a general decline in cellular vitality within the organism. Em…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Pediatric Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most common cancers among infants, with 90% of its cases occurring in children under the age of five and only 50% of youth with high-risk NB surviv…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Aging is the most important risk factor associated with many diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease. While many studies focused on the prediction of aging cross-sectionally, few met…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Through decades of endless carbon emissions and multiple energy crises, current renewable energy sources remain environmentally harmful, inconsistent, and energetically inefficient. A partic…
Embedded Systems
Traditional model rockets lack technology because their construction relies on simple physics and handcrafted components. When human mistake occurs, it can have a cascading effect that has a…
Translational Medical Science
Brain strokes are a prominent, life-threatening condition that significantly afflicts the world population, with 15 million people suffering from a stroke annually. A large percentage of str…
Materials Science
Pleurotus ostreatus is a common kind of white rot fungi, which possess the unique ability to degrade lignin into CO2 and H2O. The Kraft method is the most common pulping method for papermaki…
Materials Science
Millions of application-specific materials are currently in circulation, each with unique extraction, refinement, and synthesis requirements incurring severe environmental and economic costs…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy is the primary form of treatment for the majority of cancer patients, using cytotoxic drugs to suppress tumor growth. However, cancer cells, by evolving through rapid generation…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout the country, school shootings have disrupted harmony and injected fear into the lives of students and the community. The trait Psychopathy has been clearly linked to gun violence…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Since 2001, actor-critic algorithms have combined “the strong points of actor-only and critic- only methods” (Konda & Tsitsiklis, 1999) to reduce the time needed to train a reinforcement lea…
Chemistry
More than two people die from skin cancer every hour, and most melanomas are caused by the sun. Many people ignore the necessity of sunscreen in their everyday lives, opting to only use it i…
Materials Science
World hunger is a growing issue and affects up to 820 million people globally. Although there are increasing efforts to increase sustainability, approximately ? of food produced globally is…
Translational Medical Science
According to the United Nations, about 1 in 6 of the world’s population suffers from neurological conditions. Microglia within the brain, aggravated by amyloidosis, serve as reactive oxidati…
Translational Medical Science
MCT oil was used to ease the created addiction.The experimental setup involved three groups, a control, nicotine, and MCT + nicotine. Over a week, both nicotine groups were treated once a da…
Translational Medical Science
First Award
One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…