Technology Enhances the Arts
This experiment aimed to create an Artificial Intelligence (AI) method that rates /s/ pronunciations comparable to a speech therapist, and more accurate than adults untrained in speech thera…
Embedded Systems
Those who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) live in a world in which they may miss the sound of a fire alarm, a severe weather announcement, or an approaching car horn, not because they are…
Materials Science
Arsenic (As) is a known carcinogen, and its contamination of groundwater is a major global public health concern, with approximately 200 million people at risk of arsenic poisoning. Addressi…
Software Design
Deepfake videos are increasingly convincing, yet current detectors show a frustrating gap between lab performance (over 90% accuracy) and real-world results (50–60% AUC) with latencies too s…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
3D point clouds are fundamental to robot perception and 3D reconstruction. However, due to interference, they often contain outliers which distort surface geometry and degrade the performanc…
Embedded Systems
My device "Dream Mornings" measures various biometrics to identify sleep stages to wake its user up at an ideal point in their sleep cycle. Traditional alarm clocks ring at a specified time…
Biochemistry
Liver fibrosis is a global health crisis, affecting approximately 7.3% of adults worldwide. The disease is progressive, with advanced stages characterized by formation of a permanent extrace…
Mathematics
The Monty Hall problem refers to a question that was asked in the television game, “Let’s Make a Deal”, whose host is Monty Hall. In this question a contestant chooses between three doors, o…
Materials Science
This study aimed to develop an environmentally friendly process to biosynthesize gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using pomegranate peels, an agro-waste. AuNPs were formed by reducing gold ions wi…
Software Design
Passwords are failing. Stolen credentials are now responsible for over 88% of online attacks, and systems are unable to detect when an attacker bypasses a login screen or accesses an unatten…
Environmental Engineering
Moyle (1944) found that lakes with high sulfate levels do not contain wild rice. In wetland soil with low oxygen concentrations, bacteria convert sulfate from municipal or industrial sources…
Materials Science
The fabric industry contributes roughly 20% of the world's waste water pollution, much of this occurs in Asia (CNN, 4/21/2023). Bananas are also prevalent in this area of the world. This stu…
Environmental Engineering
Minnesota’s 4 million drivers release heavy metals into the environment through their vehicles’ emissions. Copper, Lead, and Zinc account for 90% of vehicle-derived heavy metal pollution, wh…
Mathematics
Modern financial markets are complex, interconnected systems where localized stress can amplify into system-wide instability. Traditional risk measures, such as volatility indices, quantify…
Environmental Engineering
Indoor pools pose an under-monitored public health risk, as chloramines, formed from chlorine reacting with swimmer-derived compounds, accumulate in air and are linked to asthma and respirat…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Epilepsy affects over 50 million people, and one in three cannot stop their seizures with medication. Neuromodulatory therapies are the leading alternative, but development has been bottlene…
Biomedical Engineering
Ultrasound(US)-guided vascular access requires a high level of expertise as the clinician must understand the spatial relationship between US probe, imaging, and the patient’s anatomy. Furth…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study was done to determine how the frigid snow covered winters in Northeastern Minnesota affect wolf movement. The hypothesis was: If wolf movements are compared, then wolves [1] would…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
While racial smoking disparities are well-documented, traditional socioeconomic models often overlook the discordance between educational attainment and income. This study investigates ‘stat…
Materials Science
Conventional nail paints are formulated using pigments, solvents, and plasticizers linked to adverse health and environmental concerns. As these products are repeatedly applied directly to t…
Environmental Engineering
Lithium is essential for rechargeable batteries, and demand is rising rapidly due to E-mobility and clean energy growth. About 66% of the world's lithium is produced through brine pond evapo…
Animal Sciences
Bees are essential to global food production, pollinating roughly one-third of the foods consumed worldwide (USDA, 2023) with an economic value of $200 billion annually in the U.S. from poll…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this study was to develop an artificial intelligence electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) model to predict dementia in older adults. It has been previously reported that by using derive…
Materials Science
Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a global public health concern, with many areas across the globe exceeding the World Health Organization’s maximum permissible limit of 10 µg/L. Healt…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, are characterized by impairment of synaptic plasticity, the brain's capacity to rewire connections critical for cognition…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The lack of research in artificial intelligence systems for parsing and understanding text in less commonly spoken languages has led to a barrier to access to state-of-the-art natural langua…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Despite millions of teenagers feeling overwhelmingly stressed, mental health resources are often inaccessible, expensive, and/or under-promoted. Using 235 responses from opt-in anonymous que…
Biomedical Engineering
Borosins are a family of RiPPs that are characterized by post-translational ?-N-methylations on their peptide sequence. Since ?-N-methylations, though desirable, add difficult synthesis and…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Natural Language Processing has led to the development of voice recognition technology, and taking speech analysis further can lead to the development of technology to aid in treatment of sp…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems are crucial in diabetes care, but focus only on monitoring blood glucose levels (BGL), neglecting diet, exercise, and medication and lacking predi…