Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder impacting over 65 million people globally. Each year, >100000 patients die from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), many from fatal falls. A rel…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Disease-disease correlations lend to improved treatment modalities, however, current disease-disease correlation databases fail to include poorly-studied diseases. Craniosynostosis, despite…
Plant Sciences
Agriculturally speaking, the world is in desperate need of another “Green Revolution” to make up for widespread food shortages. Food security has become a global epidemic, and this is largel…
Chemistry
Acetaminophen (N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, paracetamol, APAP) toxicity is common primarily because the medication is so readily available and there is a perception that it is very safe. More…
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment is to test the quality of 3D printed, underactuated hands from the Yale OpenHand library by comparing the removal force, print time and overall print quality o…
Animal Sciences
In the aid of monitoring several poultry diseases, including Newcastle Disease (Avian Paramyxovirus) commercial poultry farm owners, managers, and veterinarians monitor antibody titers, whic…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Meditation and nature have both been demonstrated to reduce stress levels, however, a comparison in teenagers using electroencephalography (EEG) and blood pressure (BP) has not been made. Th…
Plant Sciences
Mangiferin, a xanthone glycoside, is extracted primarily from mango trees (Mangifera indica) and is mentioned in Ayurvedic texts to contain several biomedical properties. According to Ayurve…
Animal Sciences
Avian rotavirus and picornavirus are among the leading causes of gastrointestinal illnesses in poultry species around the world, and therefore, entail major economic loss for the global live…
Engineering Mechanics
The project utilizes high and low-pressure zones of 40kHz acoustic standing waves to levitate an object in three-dimensional space using two opposing arrays of 36 ultrasonic transducers/spea…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Gene expression is regulated by proteins known as transcription factors, which bind to specific DNA sequences called enhancers. Enhancers activate nearby genes, but there is still a limited…
Biomedical Engineering
The blind need a better way to get interpretable sensory data because current competing products and methods are too expensive or ineffective at compensating for the lack of sight. The essen…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coal accounts for 38% of global power production. Lignite is the lowest rank of coal, containing 25% to 35% carbon with low energy potential. Sulfur appears in coal in two forms; elemental f…
Materials Science
Nanoparticles have immensely contributed in different areas such as environment, industry and medicine. Among the different nanoparticles, titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles receive a gre…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to develop an alternative cooling system to replace the aging 5,900 acres of cooling canals at FPL’s Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant in South Florida. The…
Mathematics
Traffic models are fundamental to our ability to deal with traffic congestion in the modern world. Locating traffic congestion points are beneficial as the Government can find solutions to d…
Plant Sciences
This work reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a flexible digital light processing (DLP) 3D-printed coated microneedle patch, which is designed for transporting copper-based thera…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning is the study and design of algorithms that allow computer systems to perform tasks without explicit human instructions. Several of these algorithms are based on network-like…
Biomedical Engineering
Human blood plasma contains biomarkers associated with many diseases. Separation of plasma from blood cells is crucial for many disease diagnostics. The current centrifugation separation tec…
Mathematics
The classical method of stars-and-bars is used to count the number of ways to place identical items into distinct bins, but is not applicable when the bins are also identical. The aim of thi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Although mental illnesses account for 30% of all medical disabilities, the mechanisms behind these disorders are still very poorly understood. A significant spectrum within neurodevelopmenta…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors are a promising candidate for the electric vehicle system due to their inherent fast charging and high-current/temperature tolerance capabilities. However, commercial superca…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Allorecognition, the process of recognizing tissue of self or close kin through genetic similarity, plays an important role in organ and graft transplant success because it can trigger rejec…
Embedded Systems
While we often take the Internet for granted, millions of citizens in the US - and billions worldwide - still do not have access to high-speed broadband internet. In order to try to remediat…
Embedded Systems
Over the next 30 years, the United Nations is expecting the world’s population to increase by 2 billion people, from the current 7.7 billion, to 9.7 billion by the year 2050. Consequently, m…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Electronic noses, or e-noses, are still a very new concept in modern research; and while few working prototypes exist, the implications of such devices are huge. Harnessing odor-tracking tec…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in fifty-nine Americans suffers from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, as a result, has trouble with everyday social interaction. Without the ability to accurately read the emotions of…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study will help determine whether certain socio-economic factors emerge as common threads between patients dropping out of substance abuse treatment, which would help healthcare provide…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in games of incomplete information has increased over the past few years, primarily due to the valuable challenge it provides to new solving techniques…
Translational Medical Science
News reports of car injuries and sports concussions have shed light on a new "silent pandemic" for the current era: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI induces a cascade pathway within neural…