Animal Sciences
Declining Arctic sea ice is rapidly altering polar bear habitat and increasing interactions with human activities. This study investigated how sea-ice loss influences polar bear movement and…
Embedded Systems
Safe and efficient aviation operations rely heavily on precise verbal exchanges between pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC). These exchanges are conducted via voice radio transmissions…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Every day, there are over 40,000 crosswind landings occurring. Pilots use sideslip or crabbing methods to land in crosswinds. Both techniques require pilots to use ailerons to bank the airpl…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Crohn's Disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by intense inflammatory flares. CD is incurable, and available medications carry severe side effects. With few head-to-he…
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world, largely due to late-stage diagnosis. Current imaging diagnostic tools like CT and MRI scans lack the accuracy and sensitivity…
Physics and Astronomy
Dark matter dominates galaxy mass, but determining its central distribution depends on precise decomposition of total mass into dark and baryonic matter components. This study introduces a n…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Computer vision based artificial intelligence systems are increasingly explored as low-cost solutions to traditional systems in today’s modern age. One such system is the current sensor-base…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this research was to engineer and deploy a method and device that could selectively suppress cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins while improving the overall ecosystem and lake healt…
Biomedical Engineering
This study describes the design of an engineered fluorescent reporter system to detect plasmid co-residence resulting from horizontal gene transfer (HGT) within individual bacterial cells. T…
Physics and Astronomy
Efficient ion heating remains a major obstacle in magnetic fusion because radio-frequency waves often deposit too much of their energy into electrons rather than fuel ions. Existing ion-cycl…
Embedded Systems
As computing power increases, faster wireline data communication speeds are required, going from today’s 128GT/s to next-generation 256GT/s. With increasing data-rates through circuit boards…
Biomedical Engineering
Arterial plaque can cause cardiovascular disease, often requiring invasive interventions such as stent placement or angioplasty, which carry risks of restenosis and vessel injury. This study…
Biomedical Engineering
Brain health plays a critical role in overall well-being. Conditions like brain tumors can disrupt normal function and if malignant, will spread to other tissues with potentially fatal conse…
Embedded Systems
In 2025, car crashes resulted in an estimated 1.2 million deaths globally (1). Of the 1.6 billion vehicles in the world, it is estimated that only between 350 and 500 million vehicles have s…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Human activities have led to an alarming shift in the global climate and ecosystems. The scientific community had made various attempts to analyze and counteract climate change and environme…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Thermo-responsive hydrogels represent a promising advancement in sustainable water purification, as this research investigates PNIPAM-based hydrogels enhanced with silica, cellulose, and act…
Biochemistry
Interactomes provide a framework for understanding the interactions that dictate biological processes. A well-constructed interactome allows for better disease understanding; however, tradit…
Biomedical Engineering
Pressure injuries typically develop over bony prominences on the body such as the heels, sacrum, hips, and elbows, where blood flow to the skin is reduced due to sustained pressure. Their oc…
Plant Sciences
Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, with lead and copper among the most prevalent contaminants. While some remediation methods exist today, t…
Biochemistry
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's & Alzheimer's are increasing worldwide exponentially. While many studies focus on factors such as aging & genetics, the effects of environmenta…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Dehydration is one of the leading causes of hospital admissions. Evaluations to measure hydration status in clinical settings utilize methods such as blood tests, urinalysis, and skin turgor…
Microbiology
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major global health crisis affecting approximately 19 million pregnant women and 30 million children under the age of five, with over 50% of cases from rural…
Mathematics
Globally, water scarcity affects 75% of the population. Agriculture accounts for 70% of global freshwater withdrawals, and farmers use unreliable, reactive irrigation systems. This project i…
Animal Sciences
An unusual population of Camponotus (Mayr, 1861) was investigated, initially suspected to belong to the complex Camponotus sansabeanus (Buckley, 1866). Worker and gyne specimens were used in…
Microbiology
Antibiotic are medicines used to kill or inhibit bacterial growth. Due to overuse, antibiotics are becoming less effective. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a group of bacteria which produce a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting approximately 18 million people worldwide. Many treatments rely on monoclonal antibody drugs that block inflammatory signals such…
Microbiology
Food waste accounts for 58% of methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF), one of the top three sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Over 96% of MSWLFs lack deco…
Translational Medical Science
Airborne Neurotropic Viruses (ANVs) are emergent invasive neuropathogens, affecting 300-500 million people and being responsible for >700,000 deaths annually. Early neurotropic transcriptomi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder resulting in the dysregulation of blood glucose (BG), affecting more than 14% of adults. BG is typically regulated by the pancreatic hormone insulin…
Animal Sciences
With 5.6 billion pounds of pesticides entering ecosystems annually, traditional monitoring methods such as soil and water sampling cannot cover large areas, cost $500–600 per sample, and tak…