Vol. 1 (2017)

2017 Award Winners

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*WINNER* Increasing the Population of Varroa Mite Resistant Honey Bees in the Upper Cumberland

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Cattle Tracking for Improving Health and Performance

Impact of Variety and Biochar Soil Amendment on Production of Humulus lupulus in Tennessee

*WINNER* Researching Environmental Wayfinding Design at Nashville International Airport

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*WINNER* Effects of Lake Depth on Hypoxia in Agricultural Lakes

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*WINNER* Testing Diel Fish Migrations Between Riffle-Pool Habitats

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A Comparison of Three Models of Wildlife Cameras for Small Mammal Surveys

Development of a Low-Cost Thermal Gradient to Test Temperature Preference in Arachnids

Diel Fish Community Turnover within Riffle Habitats in Little Creek, Tennessee

Effects of the nuisance alga Didymosphenia geminata on benthic community resource use

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Fighting a Deadly Fungus with Bacteria Harvested from Salamander Skin

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How Do You Treat Mental Illness in Dogs

Multiplex PCR: Identifying Staphylococcus Species and Methicillin Resistance in Commercial Pork Products

Spatiotemporal Variability of Fish Assemblage Structure in The Roaring River, Tennessee

Using Machine Learning to Discover Evolutionary Relationships

*WINNER* Using Creative Inquiry to Answer Human Resource Questions

*WINNER* Molecular mechanism of JNK attenuation by parkin

*WINNER* Synthesis of Pyruvaldehyde Thiosemicarbazone Ligands and Their NMR Spectrum Data

Application of Cavity-Ring-Down-Spectroscopy to Measure Local and Regional Methane Fugitive Emissions.

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A deep look into acetylcholinesterase phosphonylation by organophosphate pesticides: A computational study

Dehydration of Alcohols using Solar Irradiation

Effect of Thiosemicarbazone Complexes as Anticancer Agents on In-Vitro Cancer Cell-Lines

Fischer Esterification Using Solar Irradiation

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Identifying the multiple binding sites between arrestin-3 and JNK3

Molecular Mechanism of Apoptosis Signal Regulating Kinase-1 Oligomerization and Auto-activation

Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models for predicting organophosphate inhibition of acetylcholinesterase.

Synthesis and characterization of 2-acetyl-6-methoxypyridine (AMOPY) thiosemicarbazone ligands for drug design

Synthesis and characterization of 2-acetylpyrazine-tert-butylthiosemicarbazone, and its palladium (II) complex, [Pd(APZ-tBTSC)Cl].

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Synthesis and NMR Analysis of PPDO-TSC Compounds

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Synthesis and NMR Characterization of a New Series of Thiazole-2-Carboxaldehyde Thiosemicarbozone Compounds

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Synthesis and NMR Characterization of New Isatin Thiosemicarbazone Derivatives

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Synthesis and NMR of Four New Palladium Acetylthiazole-thiosemicarbazone Complexes

Synthesis Methods of Pyruvic Aldehyde-1-oxime Ethylthiosemicarbazone in Different Solvents

Synthesis of 2,3-Butanedione Tertbutyl-thiosemicarbazone (BDMO-tBTSC) and Characterization By 500 MHz NMR Spectrometer

Synthesis of 2-acetyl-thiazole thiosemicarbazone ligands and their characterization by NMR spectroscopy.

Synthesis of a Series of 2-Acetylpyrazine-ethylthiosemicarbazone Compounds: NMR and MIC Analysis

Understanding Diabetes in the Human Body

Use of 19F NMR to probe conformational changes of arrestin-3

Vibrational spectroscopy studies of the role of water in metal ion extraction into room temperature ionic liquids

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*WINNER* Little Suzie: Exploring Game Mechanics as a Narrative Device

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*WINNER* Machine Learning with Feature Selection for Continuous Authentication

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Customizing Harry Potter in Cybersecurity

Data Science in San Francisco: Predicting At-Risk Restaurants

Design and Implementation of Livestock Tracking and Logging System at Oakley Farm

Highway Traffic Flow Prediction

Leveraging Data Science to Understand and Predict Hospital Readmissions in Diabetes Patients

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NIJ Real-Time Crime Forecasting

A Novel Approach of Network Intrusion Detection using Deep Learning

Predicting Medical Appointment Attendance

Setting Up and Hardening Windows DNS/AD for Southeastern Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

A survey on rootkit detection and prevention techniques.

*WINNER* Bumped, Bruised and Broken: Mississippian Crinoids as Indicators of Paleoflow Conditions

Analysis of Terraced Fans on Mars Using High-Resolution Digital Terrain Models

Monthly Measurement and Long Term Erosion on Bare Ground, Putnam County, Tennessee

Petrographic Reconstruction: The Analyses of a Fort Payne Channel

Stream Substrate Mapping

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Synthetic Well Logging: The Effects of Dolomitization on Wireline Logs

Variations in Porosity and Permeability of the Sundance Formation, Northeast Wyoming

*WINNER* Effective Narrative Therapy Techniques with Latino College-Aged Clients

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*WINNER* The Role of Academic Self-Efficacy in Student Success

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A World of Difference: Exploring the Experiences of International Students

*Winner* Role of Electrokinetics in the Cleaning-Efficiency of a Dialyzer: Toward an Artificial-Kidney

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Adhesion at the Weld Line in 3-D Printing: A Model System

Characterization and Analysis of SDS Micelles for The Preparation of Nanotemplated Hydrogels

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Degradation of Organic-Contaminants from Wastewater by Photocatalytic-Methods via TiO2 Thin Films-Preliminary Investigation

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Detecting Interactions between Tetraphenylporphyrin and [6,6]-Phenyl-C61-Butyric Acid Methyl Ester via Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Development of Mathematical Approach to Studying Cholesterol Deposition in an Artery

Electrokinetic-Driven Microflows in Axially-Varying Rectangular Geometry- Selected Applications in Biomedicine

Examining Commercially Available Kits for Measurements of Inhibition of Human Neutrophil Elastase

Examining Inhibition of Elastase via a Radial Diffusion Assay

Fundamentals and Calibration of the DSC Technique for Hydrogel Thermoporometry

Improved Catalyst for Formic Acid Fuel Cells

Increasing Student Knowledge Acquisition Using Heuristics in a Team/Lab-Based Protein Engineering Course

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Liposome-nanotemplated Agarose-gel for Tissue Engineering Scaffold: Preliminary synthesis & transport characterization

Lithium-ion Batteries from Lignin: a Low Cost, Renewable Anode Material

Modeling Drug Delivery by Electrokinetic-based Methods in Cancer Tumor Treatment

Molecular Simulations of Human Beta Defensin 2 and 3 in Lipid Membrane

A Photo-catalytic Process for Hydrogen Production: Selecting New Semiconductors as Co-Catalysts

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Preliminary Advancement for an Electrochemical Biosensor for Early Diagnosis of Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

Role of Compatibilizer in 3D Printed Objects

Shear Viscosity production of Pure Molecules using molecular dynamic method

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Simulating Electric Field Distribution in Tumor Cells Undergoing Mitosis

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Sequential Use of Advanced Oxidation-Membranes for water treatment

Study of interaction of Human Beta Defensin-3 with POPG and POPS membrane

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Synthesis of Monodisperse Lithium Carbonate Nanoparticles to Use as Sacrificial Anode Template for Direct Acid Fuel Cells

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Towards the Detection of Lead Contaminates in Water Using Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

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Towards the Development of a Physical Model of an Early Phase Wound

Two-Phase Removal of Carbon Dioxide in a Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cell

Understanding the Role of Electrokinetics-Hydrodynamics in Electrical-Field Based Soil Remediation

Usage of Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery in Cancer therapy

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*WINNER* Improving Accuracy of Annual Average Daily Traffic Estimates from Short-Period Traffic Counts

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*WINNER* Short and Long-Term Chart Solutions for Design of Compacted Clay Slopes

Analysis of TTU Campus Storm Water Drainage by Storm Water Management Model

Correlation between Key Organic Substrate Characteristics and Biogas Production

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Development of a Hydrologic Modeling System for the Dry Valley Catchment

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Development of Integrated DHSVM-Flood2D-GPU modeling framework – Case of ACT River Basin

Parametric Study of Levee Saturation for Undrained Rapid Drawdown Analysis

*WINNER* Short-Term Voltage Stability Enhancement Using Advanced PV Control and M.A.S. in Distribution Feeders

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Efficient Scheme for Secure and Privacy Preserving Electrical Vehicle Dynamic Charging System

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Minimally Invasive Surgery Using Heterogeneous and Asynchronous Sensors-Part I: Offline Sensors Calibration

Modeling and Simulation of PV Arrays in a Low Voltage DC Microgrid

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PMU-based Dynamic Coordinated Voltage Control of a Distribution System with FACTS and Storageless PV Participation

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Privacy-Preserving Ride Sharing Scheme for Autonomous Vehicles in Big Data Era

Solder Joint Reliability in Extreme Thermal Cycling

State of Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Adaptive Filtering

A Study of Electromigration from Superconducting to Normal Conducting Metals

Voice Controlled Intelligent Vehicle for Physically Handicapped Drivers

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*WINNER* Reducing Post-Processing and Allowing Free Complexity in Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Design and Building a Solar Powered Mobile Refrigeration

Design of Automated Logging and Tracking System for Livestock at Oakley Farm

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Hybrid Solar Water Heater

Manufacturing of a Smaller Solar Biodiesel Manufacturing Unit

Redesigning TTU's Rover for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

*WINNER* Force and center of pressure detection in instrumented knee implant

*WINNER* Modeling and Prototyping of Artificial Knee Joint for Embedded Piezoelectric Transducers

Adaptive Motion Control of Quadrotors under Parametric Uncertainties with Guaranteed Stability

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The catalytic activity and durability of TiO2-nanoparticles catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

Design of adhesive surface for track-type climbing robots

Design of Track-Based Climbing Robots Using Dry Adhesives

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Impedance-Based Structural Health Monitoring of Additive Manufactured Structures with Embedded Piezoelectric Transducers

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Investigation of Alternative Electromechanical Impedance Method for Condition Monitoring

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Modeling of piezoelectret foam in a multilayer stack configuration for energy harvesting

On-machine measurement technique for cutting tool wear monitoring

On-machine measurement technique for dicing blade wear monitoring

Solar Generation of Hydrogen using Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles: Impact of Size on Stability and Efficiency

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*WINNER* Curiosity and Fear as Elements of the Sublime in Poe and Hawthorne

*WINNER* Eliza's Rising Consciousness in Pygmalion

*WINNER* Fulfilling Fate: Roman Mythological Allusions and Organic Unity in Romeo and Juliet

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*WINNER* Star-Crossed Oppression in a Patriarchal Society: A Feminist Critique of Romeo and Juliet

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*WINNER* "The Weaker Vessels": Gender Roles in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Faulkner's Elderly Ladies

Nature & Race in The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings

Sacrificial Love and Selfish Love: A Deconstructionist Approach to Romeo and Juliet

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Inside Shakespeare's Monomaniac Closet: Romeo and Tybalt's Homosexual Panic

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*WINNER* Community Outreach in the Form of Education in the Upper Cumberland

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*WINNER* Wastewater sample analysis by LC-MS/MS for amphetamine-type stimulants and opioids

Stream Habitat Modeling for Etheostoma akatulo (Bluemask Darter) in the Calfkiller River

*WINNER* Virtual Campus Historical Tour

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*WINNER* Classroom Physiology: The Mechanics of Student Interaction in the Honors Classroom

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Building Stanford University: An analysis and Interpretation of Stanford Family Correspondence

The Frequency of War References in MTSU Student Newspaper throughout WWII

Macon Lee Almonrode: A Diary Project of One Student’s Life at Tech

Tech's Buried History: Burntstand Cemetery

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*WINNER* Parents’ Perspectives of Nature or Nurture in their Children’s Development

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Biotechnology and the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Eating Disorders in Collegiate Athletes

The Effects of a Gluten-free Diet and Implications for the General Population

Etiology and Consequences of Kidney Stones

Health Benefits of Antioxidants

Health Consequences of Food Insecurity in Children

Health Effects of Artificial Sweeteners

Hormones in Beef: Should You Worry?

How Adolescents are Affected By Food Sources

Impact of Diet on Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Inflammation: the Good, the Bad and the Preventable?

Nutrition Problems Leading to Malnutrition in the Geriatric Population

USA FDA's Capacity in Protection of Consumer Safety on Dietary Supplements

What are The Health Effects and Consequences of PEDs with Athletes?

*WINNER* Importance of Religion and Politics among Southeastern College Students

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*WINNER* Optimizing the Timing Resolution for the NeXT Array

The β Decay of 35Mg and the Structure of 35Al

Effect of Detector Coincidence Criteria on a High Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime

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Material Depolarization of ultracold neutrons in collision with material guide tubes

Measuring the Depolarization of Ultracold Neutrons

A Precision Magnetic Mapper For The UCNtau Experiment

*WINNER* Prescription Pain Reliever Misuse: An Explanatory Study of the Social Factors

Cyberbullying: The Effects of Parental Guidance and Internet Use on Teenagers Experiencing Cyberbullying

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The Sociology of Sleep Apnea

The Varying Structures and Social Influences of Online Gaming Communities

Why They Come, Why They Leave: Examining Women Engineers’ Career Satisfaction

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