Volume 4

Study of Heritage and Market Forces via Business Ventures of Taiwans Indigenous Peoples

Author(s): Christian Draven Chung

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 enfor.....

Assessment of Lake Water Quality and Quantity Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Author(s): Noel Cercizi and Jiali Chen

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 includ.....

Alleviating the Energy Crisis: A Novel Multi-Task Machine Learning Algorithm for Designing Efficient Nanocatalysts to Reduce Industrial Energy Impact

Author(s): Sophie Halleweyn

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 rece.....

THE EFFECT OF COLD-INDUCIBLE RNA-BINDING PROTEIN (CIRP) ON PHOSPHORYLATED CAMKII DOWNREGULATION

Author(s): Hannah Joseph

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 .....

A Novel Prognostic Assessment of an Anti-tumor Biomarker: An In Silico Analysis of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Melanoma

Author(s): Ashna Muni,

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 .....

The Correlations Between Smartphone Overdependence and Adolescent Psychological Distress

Author(s): Yunseo Ahn

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 smartp.....

Analyzing Possible Biological Links Between Laterality in Different Areas of the Brain and the Onset of Major Depressive Disorder

Author(s): Grace Nolan

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 depr.....

THE EFFECT OF BMP SIGNALING IN THE TEMPORAL DYNAMIC OF INFECTION-INDUCED LIPID MOBILIZATION IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

Author(s): Fiona Lin

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.....

Comprehending Developmental Prosopagnosia Using a Trained Deep Convolutional Neural Network: A Perceptual Study

Author(s): Eushra Rahman

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 curre.....

Alternate Methods to Facilitate the Nucleophilic Attack of Alcohols in Fischer Esterification: The Application of Sulfonated Silica Gel as an Acid Catalyst and Zinc Oxide as a UV Photocatalyst

Author(s): Eric M. Reilly

Fischer esterification is one of the most prominent industrial methods of ester production, involving a reaction between an alcohol and carboxylic acid in the presence of a catalyst to turn the carboxylic acid into an es.....