Vol. 2 (2018)

2018 Award Winners

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Using Sewage and Broiler Litter Soil Amendments for Establishing Grass and Legume Pastures

Consumer Rating of Importance of "All Natural" and "Omega 3" in Pork Sausage Products

Preparing students to become "citizens of the world" through study-abroad

Improving Cattle Management Using Connective Technology

*WINNER* Identifying patterns in the culturable skin microbiome of Appalachian salamanders

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Analysis of Microhabitat Preference of the Mountain Madtom, Noturus eleutherus

Antagonistic and Synergistic Co-Culture Activity of the Bat Microbiome

Inhibiting the causative agent of snake fungal disease, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, with common cutaneous bacteria isolated from snake skin.

Comparison of Different Estrus Synchronization Protocols

Genetic Diversity at the Major Histocompatibility Complex

Short-term Response of Fish Assemblage to a Low-head Dam Removal

Synthesis, NMR Analysis, and Copper Complex Formation of INAP-TSC compounds

Climate change-mediated expansion of Utah Juniper across the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area: Implications for bighorn sheep

Synthesis and NMR Characterization of New Isatin Sulfonic Acid Thiosemicarbazone Compounds

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Increasing Accessibility of the Rainbow Flame Test: Methods of Flame Delivery

*WINNER* The United States trade deficit with China - Solutions?

*WINNER* Heavy Metal Remediation from Aqueous Solutions by New SIT Materials

Isatin thiosemicarbazone ligands and their characterization by NMR spectroscopy: Formation of their Cu(II) metal complexes

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Thiosemicarbazone Ligands and their Metal Complexes; Compound Characterization and Topoisomerase II alpha Inhibitory Assays

Screening Method Development for the Identification of Designer Drugs by GC-MSn and LC-MS/MS

The exploration and analysis of alternative orienting media for use in residual dipolar coupling NMR

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Human Topoisomerase IIα Inhibition by New Palladium (II) and Platinum (II) Complexes of a 2-Acetylpyrazine tert-butylthiosemicarbazone Ligand

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Ethane: Implications for Tropospheric and Planetary Chemistry

Synthesis of Pyruvaldehyde Thiosemicarbazone (TSC) Metal Complexes and Their NMR Spectrum Data

Synthesis and NMR characterization of acetyl-pyrazine methyl thiosemicarbazone and acetyl-pyrazine ethyl-thiosemicarbazone ligands: Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes

Spectral Analysis of Tetraphenylporphyrins Synthesized Using Solar Irradiation

Analysis of Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase I (ASK1) Oligomerization

Advanced Oxidation of Herbicides Contaminants: Testing a new approach for the Degradation by Photocatalytic Methods via TiO2 Thin Films (With Simultaneous Production of Hydrogen)

Interrogating the role of water in metal ion extraction into room temperature ionic liquids

Increasing the Safety of the Rainbow Flame Test

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Site-specific Incorporation of 19F into Arrestin-3 as an NMR Probe for Characterizing Its Conformational Changes

Topoisomerase IIα C-terminus DNA Purification

*WINNER* Safety Analysis for UAV Networks

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Continuous Authentication for Smart Phone Users

Generation and Analysis of Breast Tumor Data Using Distance Weighted Discrimination and Subgroup Discovery.

Physical Process Monitoring for Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems

Use of Data Science to Predict Survival of Titanic Passengerss

Autonomous Tagging of Stackoverflow Questions

Extending Reinforcement Learning FeUdal Networks

Smart Grid Surveillance With Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Using K-Resiliency Modeling

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Security Challenges with ZigBee Communication Network in Industry 4.0

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Mining Heterogeneous Graph for Patterns and Anomalies

Time Based Graph Mining to Detect Insider Threats

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Vehicle Sales Data Inspection

Detecting Malicious Blockchain Transactions Utilizing Anomaly Detection Techniques

Security Analysis of Robotic Arms used in Smart Manufacturing

A Workflow for Novice to Intermediate Individuals Creating Digital Elevation Models Using the NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline

Predict Movie Revenue With Movie Meta-Data

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Software Assurance for Blockchain Contracts

*WINNER* Grain-scale strain analysis of rock in middle Tennessee

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Hydrochemical Evaluation of Human and Seasonal Effects of Karst Carbonate Groundwater

Paleoclimate reconstruction from pedogenic carbonates from the early Miocene Wayando and Kiahera Formations, Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya and the impact on early ape evolution

*WINNER* The Importance of Cultural Values in the Stigmatization of Mental Illness

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*WINNER* The land of a million elephants and me: Cross-culturally analyzing my first experience in Laos

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Conceptualizing Critical Theory in Counseling Education

Impact of Video Tutorials on Preparedness, Enjoyability, and Effort in General Chemistry Laboraties

*WINNER* The status of Tennessee foster parent training and support including fostering children with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), and the relationships of foster parents’ perceived abilities and motivations with likelihood to continue fostering

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Women's Stories of Maintaining Drug Recovery

*WINNER* The Difference in Step Frequency in Shod vs. Unshod Running

Review - The Inflection Point of Engineering Education and the Impact of Innovative Pedagogical Techniques to Shift Towards a Learning-Based Culture.

Modeling Heat Transfer Using an Integral Equation Approach via Green's Function: Application to Cancerous Tumor Undergoing Hyperthermia Treatment

Engineering Variant Forms of Alpha-1-antitrypsin

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Exploration of Mutations of Alpha-1-Antitrypsin

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Structural Comparison of Human Beta Defensin Type 3 in Vacuum, Implicit and Explicit Solvents using NAMD, FMO-DFTB3 and CHARMM

Batch-scale Synthesis of a new Inorganic Sorbent for Extracting Lithium from Brine

Detection of Lead Contamination in Water Using Fluorescence of Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

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Simultaneous Pharmaceutical Encasement in NIPAM-based Hydrogels

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Polymer Grafter Nano Particles and Bare Nanoparticles Dynamics in Polymer Nanocomposites

Towards sensitive fluorescent metal nanosensors, IR range, for dual detection of nitrates in water

Investigation of Streaming Potential Flow of Heavy Metal Ion Contaminants in Soil Matrix: An Area-Averaging Approach.

Improved Anode Catalyst for Formic Acid Fuel Cells

Simulation of Microfluidics in a Meandering Channel and Viability of a Manufactured Microfluidic Device for Medical Applications

TiO2/CdS Photocatalytic Degradation of Carbamazepine

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Diffusion and Concentration Profiles for Loading DL-propanolol in a Crosslinked Drug Carrier, Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Hydrogel

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Study of the Interactions of Human β Defensin Type 3 Protein with POPS and POPC Membrane

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies on Thermal Conductivity of Organic Molecules

*WINNER* Comparison of FEA and Analytical Methods for Determining Global Stability of a RAP Supported MSE Wall

Shear Modulus and Damping Relationships for Dynamic Analysis of Structures with Backfill Effect

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Alternative Seasonal Factor Estimation Methods and Their Accuracy in Predicting Annual Average Daily Traffic

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Parametric study of levee saturation for undrained rapid drawdown analysis

Effect of levee foundation conditions on the saturated zone during flooding for rapid drawdown analysis

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An Artificial Neural Network Framework to Predict Patients with High Likelihood of Chronic Kidney Disease

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Visualizations of Administered Health Services in Medicare

Efficient and Collusion-Resistant Detection of Sybil Attacks in VANETs

Development of Hybrid System for Minimally Invasive Surgeries.

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Literature Review: Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Field Programmable Gate Array

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Nickel Doped P2-type 〖Na〗_(0.67) 〖Fe〗_(0.5) 〖Mn〗_(0.5) O_2 Cathode Materials for Sodium Ion Batteries

Anomaly Detection In IoT Devices Using Data Mining Techniques

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Reducing Reflective Losses by Texturing Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cell Layers

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*WINNER* NASA Human Rover Exploration: An engineering design challenge changing the future

Design and Implementation of Safety Solution for Hands off Lathe Machining of Torque Converter Hubs

Design and Metal Casting of the Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society Emblem

Tracking of Livestock Using Connective Technology

Increase production rate of the Biodiesel Using a Solar Powered Thermally-Efficient High-yield Ultrasonic Processor

Development of a Hybrid Water Desalination System

*WINNER* Thermal Management Using Diamond Nanofluid

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*WINNER* Parametric Testing of Surrogate Knee Replacement Bearings with Embedded Piezoelectric Transducers

Comparison of MATLAB and TensorFlow Machine Learning Methods

Effects of Angle of Attack on Airfoil Velocity Profile

A modular impact-based experimental setup for evaluation of EMI based structural health monitoring in highly dynamic environments

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Thermal Distillation Using Heat Localization

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Modeling Heat Exchanger Performance with Application to Desalination Using a Vacuum Tubes Solar Collector

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Low-Cost Corrosion and Oxidation Resistant Coatings for Improved Reliability of Turbine Engine Components

Catalytic activity and stability of Pt/TiO2, Pt/TiN, and Pt/TiC catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in PEM fuel cells

A Study of the effects of Sulfur in Electro-codeposited MCrAlY Coatings

Impedance-Based Structural Health Monitoring of Total Knee Arthroplasty

Direct image mono-camera localization using deep learning

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Compartmental Force and Contact Location Sensing with Piezoelectric Transducers in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Fabrication of Microfibrillar Material

*WINNER* Creation and Community: Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful” and Poe’s “The Oval Portrait”

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*WINNER* David B.’s Epileptic and the Gothic

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Margaret Atwood’s Male Navigators: Prisons, Power, and Patriarchy

*WINNER* Qualification and quantification of various opioids in urban wastewater treatment plant and river by utilization of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) technique and LC-MS/MS

*WINNER* Analysis of wastewater samples for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

Recycling and Composing at the Appalachian Center for Craft

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Rails with Trails Hydrology

Trace Detection of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) in soils using Separation and Infrared Spectroscopy Methods

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Initiative for an Alternatively Fueled Bus at the Appalachian Center for Craft

Modern Efficient Boilers: Reducing Emissions

*WINNER* Hormones in Dairy and the Effect on Human Health

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Stress Eating and Effects on Health

The Effects of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

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The role of social norms and rape culture in reporting sexual assault on college campuses

Nutrition Intervention Effects in Pediatric Oncology

The Prevalence, Consumption, and Overall Health Effects of Nonnutritive Sweeteners

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The Influences and Effects of Pediatric Obesity Throughout the Life Cycle

The Proper Nutritional Support for Reducing Side Effects During Leukemia Treatment

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Levels of Bacterial Inhibition in Anti-Microbial Fabrics Before and After Laundering

The Effect of Home-Delivered Meals on the Elderly Population's Health Status

Overall Health Effects of Binge Eating and Fasting

Internal and External Components influencing the Prevalence of Obesity

Effects of fat intake on cardiovascular disease risk and implications for prevention

How Complementary and Alternative Medicine Affects Depression

Exploring Optimal Macronutrient Composition in Nutrition Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

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*WINNER* Stigma in Special Appalachian Populations: Stigma As A Barrier To Care In The HIV+ And Transgender Communities

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*WINNER* mu-rank of Noncommutative Quadratic Forms on Four Generators

*WINNER* Evaluating the Statistical Significance of Pedestrian Crossings on Superstreets using D-values instead of p-values

A study of the validity of D-values for samples of different sizes and normal and non-normal errors

*WINNER* An Interdisciplinary Case Study: Promoting Collaboration Between Undergraduate Nursing and Occupational Therapy Students

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Interprofessional communication: There's no "I" in team!

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Who’s Who in the Zoo: Defining Roles and Responsibilities of a Collaborative Health Care Team Abstract

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Interdisciplinary Studies and Patient Outcomes

*WINNER* Development of New High Resolution Neutron Detector

Preliminary Analysis of Magnetic Field Data from the UCNtau Experiment

Comparing Simulated and Experimental Data from UCNτ