This research focuses on the role of uncertainty in explaining gender disparities in entrepreneurship by testing a behavioral decision model. It examines how misperceptions and ambiguity affect men’s and women’s decisions on founding startups or maintaining established firms in developed...

The Indigenous peoples of Taiwan maintained their valuable cultural and ecological understanding before colonial and post-colonial authorities started their systematic efforts to exclude them through land theft and enforced cultural assimilation and economic limitations during the last hundred years...

Assessment of both water quality and quantity pose a great challenge to those studying the effects of anthropogenic activities on bodies of water. Eutrophication created by the increased concentration of nutrients including nitrates and phosphates has been known to contribute to the development of b...

In this project, I delineate a method for addressing the scarcity of energy and cutting-edge microchip production supplies that were cut off from the US. Experts have been indicating peak oil has passed, and several recent global crises, including the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, have e...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease which affects more than six million Americans. Although the etiology of AD is unclear, studies suggest alcohol consumption as a risk factor for dementia requiring neurologists’ aid. The prevalence of binge drinking wor...

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are adaptive immune cells that play a significant role in engulfing mutated cells in the body's antitumor response. However, due to a lack of TIL analysis softwares, oncologists have not yet identified whether TILs are a viable prognostic biomarker for cance...

Young people experience their most critical developmental phase during adolescence because their brains and mental health remain highly sensitive to stress, anxiety, and identity exploration. The growing number of smartphones has created new difficulties for young people because their excessive phon...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe mental disorder identified as one of the most common mental illnesses. For 50 years, there has not been a full understanding of the brain’s biology when depression occurs. To reach a conclusive outcome, 86 MDD patients were surveyed, giv...

Bacterial infections negatively affect public health. Many organisms mobilize lipids as a source of energy to resist against pathogens. One pathway, the BMP pathway, plays a role in the regulation of lipid metabolism. By understanding the use of fat in cases such as loss of appetite in infection cou...

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP), also known as face blindness, is a condition in which individuals have an impairment in the FFA region of their brain. This results in inability to recognize faces. Majority of the current body of literature focuses on the biological aspect of developmental prosopag...