Journal of Student-Scientists' Research | Issue: Issue: 2(0) (2020)

College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

JSSR

Reduced Meridional Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Warmer Climates Produce Enrichment of Delta 18O in the Mid to High Latitudes

NEHA BAGALKOT,
SAMUEL M. WRIGHT,
Scott Knapp
and Natalie Burls

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

JSSR

Predictability in the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Connection with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mixed Layer Depth: MEGAN CRAVEN, NITI POTDAR, Jon Martin, Natalie Burls

Natalie Burls

31 October 2020
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

JSSR

Predictability in the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Connection with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mixed Layer Depth

MEGAN CRAVEN,
NITI POTDAR,
Jon Martin
and Natalie Burls

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JSSR

Designing a De Novo Protein to Inhibit Shiga Toxin Expression in Pathogenic Escherichia coli

ALINA ALFARO,
Ustina Abdel Sayed
and Lee A. Solomon

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JSSR

A Computational Study on Destabilizing Effects on Grignard Reagents

ANH PHAM,
SURUTHIKHA VIJAY,
CHLOE PAIGE,
ELLA MOON,
Kenneth Foreman
and Mikell Paige

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JSSR

Computational Study of the Magnesium Bonds in Turbo Grignard Reagents

ANH PHAM,
Johnny Bui,
Kenneth Foreman
and Mikell Paige

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JSSR

Cleavage Site Prediction for Activation of Avian Cathelicidin Peptides

JULIA JACKSON,
Amy Carfagno
and Barney Bishop

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

JSSR

Predicting Potential Active Chiroptera Cathelicidins Sequences From Sequences of Precursors Using Bioinformatic Tools

MAHIKA RAWAT,
Amy Carfagno
and Barney Bishop

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

JSSR

Ensemble Learning Interpretation of COVID-19 Simulation Models Through Clustering Latent Feature Representations and Aggregated Time-Series Forecasts with Deep Learning

RAYAN YU,
ANDY CHEN,
JOHN PESAVENTO,
Taylor Anderson,
Andreas Züfle,
Hamdi Kavak
and Joon-Seok Kim

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

JSSR

Measuring Conflict Between Countries from a Data-Driven Perspective

AARAV KHANNA,
Hamdi Kavak
and Bora Aslan

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

JSSR

Comparison of Synthetic Population Generation Techniques

DAVID HAN,
SHEITAA BANSAL
and Hamdi Kavak

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

JSSR

Predicting Probability of Infection of an Estuarine Crab by a Castrating Isopod Parasite

LINDSEY COX,
Darby Pochtar
and Amy Fowler

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

JSSR

Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas on Mitigating Coral Disease

KRITHIKA LAYAGALA*,
PREETI BEDI*,
Valerie Nguyen
and Jennifer Salerno

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

JSSR

Analyzing Recycling Education Programs in the US: A Longitudinal Analysis

BILLY OH,
AASHNA SAWHNEY,
TARUN SIVANANDAN
and Younsung Kim

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

JSSR

Using Agent-based Simulations with Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling on Mobile Location Data to Prescribe COVID-19 Interventions

JOHN PESAVENTO,
ANDY CHEN,
RAYAN YU
and Andreas Züfle

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

JSSR

A Study of California Drought and Wildland Fires Using Satellite Remote Sensing Measurements

JOHN SMALL
and Xianjun Hao

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

JSSR

Changes in the Toolik Lake Ecosystem of Alaska in the Past Decades

LINA HAO
and Xianjun Hao

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

JSSR

Efficient Image Segmentation and Machine Learning Algorithms for Improved Malaria Detection from Blood Smear Images

VIRAJ BOREDA,
Kirthi Kumar,
Soraya Ngarnim,
Nathalia Peixoto
and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

JSSR

Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of the COVID-19 Epidemic

COMFORT OHAJUNWA,
Kirthi Kumar
and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

JSSR

Modeling and Simulation of the Dynamics of COVID-19 in Enclosed Spaces

UDBHAV MUTHAKANA
and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

JSSR

Rehabilitation Technology and Relapse-Detecting Software for Opioid Addiction Patients

DIEGO VALENCIA,
Kendall Johnson
and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

College of Science: Department of Physics and Astronomy

JSSR

Metabolic Constraints on Neuronal Signaling

JAYANT SIVA,
John Robert Cressman
and Monica Gertz

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Physics and Astronomy

JSSR

Chaotic Behavior of the Baker’s Map Under Quantization

PRAVALIKA PUTALAPATTU
and John Rob Cressman

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Department of Physics and Astronomy

College of Science: School of Systems Biology

JSSR

Plants Could Provide a New Dimension to Crime Scene Analysis

TIMOTHY STOCKER,
Paul Russo,
Weidong Zhou
and Virginia Espina

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: School of Systems Biology

JSSR

Advancing Scientific Communication about Cancer Research: How to Develop Inhibitors for PD-1 and PD-L1 and Why It Is So Important

SIRI NIKKU,
Rachel Carter
and Amanda Haymond

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: School of Systems Biology

JSSR

Oral Fluid Drug Testing: What Interferes With These On-Site Kits?

VALERIE CRUZ ORTIZ,
Sydney Andes,
Paul Russo,
Sally Rucker
and Virginia Espina

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: School of Systems Biology

JSSR

Characterization of the Saliva Microbiome in Women with Suspicious Mammograms

EMRE NALBANTOGLU,
Ngoc Vuong,
Ruben Magni,
Virginia Espina,
Lance Liotta
and Alessandra Luchini

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: School of Systems Biology

JSSR

Analysis of Bacterial Microbiome and Human Proteome for Lung Cancer Characterization via Affinity Nanoparticles and De Novo Assisted Database Search Mass Spectrometry

RAYMOND DEL VECCHIO,
Rayan Alhammad,
Ruben Magni
and Alessandra Luchini

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: School of Systems Biology

College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

JSSR

The Use of Mass Spectrometry to Determine Fatal Intoxication of Synthetic Cannabinoids, Baclofen, and PGAs through Body Matrices in Forensic Toxicology

ADELAIDE GANNON
and Emanuel F Petricoin

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

JSSR

Proteomics Profiling Around the AMPK-AKT Signaling Pathway Using the Reverse Phase Array Technology Reveals a Predictive Model for Both Recurrence and Overall Survival in NSCLC as well as Drug Sensitivity in Ovarian Cancer

CODY JONES
and Emanuel F Petricoin

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

JSSR

Computational Model of Vaccination Effects for COVID-19

SHAWN KIM,
Marissa Howard
and Lance Liotta

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

JSSR

Development of a Model for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Progression Using the Processing Visualization Software

MEERA GUPTA,
Marissa Howard
and Lance Liotta

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

JSSR

Determination of COVID-19 N-Protein Active Sites for Drug Targets using Torsion Angle Changes Function in Viral

SREENIDHI SANKARARAMAN
and M. Saleet Jafri

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

JSSR

Lead Mediates Concentration-Dependent Inhibition at mGluR7a Receptors but Does Not Cause Significant Changes at GlyR Alpha 1 in Xenopus Oocytes

BHAVYA BODDU
and Greta Ann Herin

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

Institute for Biohealth Innovation

JSSR

Viral Innovation: How Animals Are Being Used in the Fight Against the Novel Coronavirus

SULAIMAN YAMIN
and Lauren Huey

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
Institute for Biohealth Innovation

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

JSSR

Optimization of Methods to Quantify in Situ Staining for UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase (UGDH) Enzyme in Human Fibroblast Like Synoviocytes (hFLS) Cultured Under Different Inflammatory Cytokine Conditions

RISHI SHETH,
Ramya Chandrasekaran,
Robert McCormack
and Caroline D. Hoemann

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

JSSR

A Novel Approach for Predicting Osteoporosis Using Texture Analysis on Magnetic Resonance Images

PRITHWISH DASGUPTA,
PHILIP MILTON,
ANISHA RANGI
and Vasiliki Ikonomidou

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

JSSR

Epileptic Seizure Detection Through Machine Learning Classification of Heart Rate Variability Features

NICHOLAS BRENNER,
DIVYA MATHUR,
HASITA NALLURI,
MIHIR SAVKAR,
NORVIN WEST JR.
and Vasiliki Ikonomidou

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

JSSR

Analyzing the Axonal Projections of Individual Neurons Across the Mouse Brain

SHAINA BANDURI,
SRUTHI SANKARARAMAN,
SAMHITA VINAY,
Diek W. Wheeler
and Giorgio A. Ascoli

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

JSSR

Natural and Nature-Based Features for Coastal Resilience: Designing Field-Based Experiments for Measuring Hurricane Storm Surge and Wave Attenuation by Marshes

EDWIN CHEN,
Tyler Miesse
and Celso Ferreira

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

JSSR

Correcting Visual Design Errors in Presentation Slides

STUTI GUPTA,
SOMASEKHAR PATIL,
Safwat Ali Khan
and Thomas D. LaToza

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

JSSR

Helping Developers Find Debugging Hypotheses Using General Bug Descriptions and Code Analysis Techniques

SAIGAUTAM BONAM,
Abdulaziz Alaboudi
and Thomas D. LaToza

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

JSSR

Learning Design Rules in Code

AYESHA KEMAL,
AARAV BAJAJ,
Sahar Mehrpour
and Thomas LaToza

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

JSSR

The Field of Vision Through a Virtual Window to a Virtual Environment has a Smaller Effect than Age on Completion Time of a Dexterous Task

JOSHUA PARK
and Yotam Gingold

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

JSSR

A Novel Multimodal Physiological Monitoring System for Virtual Reality-Based Addiction Therapy

BENJAMIN J. CHOI
and Nathalia Peixoto

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

JSSR

A Wearable Biofeedback Intervention Device for Continuous Stress Monitoring with Pulse Transit Time Measurement

CHRISTIAN YUPANQUI
and Nathalia Peixoto

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

JSSR

Creating a Personalized Cognitive-Bias Modification Therapy Exercise in Virtual Reality Using Simulated Reaction Time Data

NOAH EGAN,
Nathalia Peixoto
and Holly Matto

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

JSSR

A Gait Retraining Assistant through an Ankle Sleeve Mobile Companion Application Uniquely Designed for Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

AMAD QURESHI,
Marissa Howard,
Amanda Haymond,
Alessandra Luchini,
Nelson Cortes
and Lance A. Liotta

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

JSSR

A Generalization of Compositional Matrix-Space Models of Language for Short Answer Scoring

STEPHEN HUAN,
DHRUV SUNDARARAMAN,
SHAWN MALIK
and Mihai Boicu

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

JSSR

Realtime Bidirectional Data Imputation of Multivariate Time Series for Anomaly Detection in Internet of Things Devices

KHOI NGUYEN
and Setareh Rafatirad

13 December 2022
Volume 2 • 2020
College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

Volume 2 • 2020

College of Science: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences

Reduced Meridional Sea Surface Temperature Gradients and Warmer Climates Produce Enrichment of Delta 18O in the Mid to High Latitudes

Predictability in the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Connection with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mixed Layer Depth: MEGAN CRAVEN, NITI POTDAR, Jon Martin, Natalie Burls

Predictability in the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Connection with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mixed Layer Depth

College of Science: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Designing a De Novo Protein to Inhibit Shiga Toxin Expression in Pathogenic Escherichia coli

A Computational Study on Destabilizing Effects on Grignard Reagents

Computational Study of the Magnesium Bonds in Turbo Grignard Reagents

Cleavage Site Prediction for Activation of Avian Cathelicidin Peptides

Predicting Potential Active Chiroptera Cathelicidins Sequences From Sequences of Precursors Using Bioinformatic Tools

College of Science: Department of Computational and Data Sciences

Ensemble Learning Interpretation of COVID-19 Simulation Models Through Clustering Latent Feature Representations and Aggregated Time-Series Forecasts with Deep Learning

Measuring Conflict Between Countries from a Data-Driven Perspective

Comparison of Synthetic Population Generation Techniques

College of Science: Department of Environmental Science and Policy

Predicting Probability of Infection of an Estuarine Crab by a Castrating Isopod Parasite

Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas on Mitigating Coral Disease

Analyzing Recycling Education Programs in the US: A Longitudinal Analysis

College of Science: Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science

Using Agent-based Simulations with Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling on Mobile Location Data to Prescribe COVID-19 Interventions

A Study of California Drought and Wildland Fires Using Satellite Remote Sensing Measurements

Changes in the Toolik Lake Ecosystem of Alaska in the Past Decades

College of Science: Department of Mathematical Sciences

Efficient Image Segmentation and Machine Learning Algorithms for Improved Malaria Detection from Blood Smear Images

Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of the COVID-19 Epidemic

Modeling and Simulation of the Dynamics of COVID-19 in Enclosed Spaces

Rehabilitation Technology and Relapse-Detecting Software for Opioid Addiction Patients

College of Science: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Metabolic Constraints on Neuronal Signaling

Chaotic Behavior of the Baker’s Map Under Quantization

College of Science: School of Systems Biology

Plants Could Provide a New Dimension to Crime Scene Analysis

Advancing Scientific Communication about Cancer Research: How to Develop Inhibitors for PD-1 and PD-L1 and Why It Is So Important

Oral Fluid Drug Testing: What Interferes With These On-Site Kits?

Characterization of the Saliva Microbiome in Women with Suspicious Mammograms

Analysis of Bacterial Microbiome and Human Proteome for Lung Cancer Characterization via Affinity Nanoparticles and De Novo Assisted Database Search Mass Spectrometry

College of Science: Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine

The Use of Mass Spectrometry to Determine Fatal Intoxication of Synthetic Cannabinoids, Baclofen, and PGAs through Body Matrices in Forensic Toxicology

Proteomics Profiling Around the AMPK-AKT Signaling Pathway Using the Reverse Phase Array Technology Reveals a Predictive Model for Both Recurrence and Overall Survival in NSCLC as well as Drug Sensitivity in Ovarian Cancer

Computational Model of Vaccination Effects for COVID-19

Development of a Model for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Progression Using the Processing Visualization Software

Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

Determination of COVID-19 N-Protein Active Sites for Drug Targets using Torsion Angle Changes Function in Viral

Lead Mediates Concentration-Dependent Inhibition at mGluR7a Receptors but Does Not Cause Significant Changes at GlyR Alpha 1 in Xenopus Oocytes

Institute for Biohealth Innovation

Viral Innovation: How Animals Are Being Used in the Fight Against the Novel Coronavirus

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Bioengineering

Optimization of Methods to Quantify in Situ Staining for UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase (UGDH) Enzyme in Human Fibroblast Like Synoviocytes (hFLS) Cultured Under Different Inflammatory Cytokine Conditions

A Novel Approach for Predicting Osteoporosis Using Texture Analysis on Magnetic Resonance Images

Epileptic Seizure Detection Through Machine Learning Classification of Heart Rate Variability Features

Analyzing the Axonal Projections of Individual Neurons Across the Mouse Brain

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Natural and Nature-Based Features for Coastal Resilience: Designing Field-Based Experiments for Measuring Hurricane Storm Surge and Wave Attenuation by Marshes

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Computer Science

Correcting Visual Design Errors in Presentation Slides

Helping Developers Find Debugging Hypotheses Using General Bug Descriptions and Code Analysis Techniques

Learning Design Rules in Code

The Field of Vision Through a Virtual Window to a Virtual Environment has a Smaller Effect than Age on Completion Time of a Dexterous Task

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

A Novel Multimodal Physiological Monitoring System for Virtual Reality-Based Addiction Therapy

A Wearable Biofeedback Intervention Device for Continuous Stress Monitoring with Pulse Transit Time Measurement

Creating a Personalized Cognitive-Bias Modification Therapy Exercise in Virtual Reality Using Simulated Reaction Time Data

College of Engineering and Computing: Department of Information Sciences and Technology

A Gait Retraining Assistant through an Ankle Sleeve Mobile Companion Application Uniquely Designed for Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

A Generalization of Compositional Matrix-Space Models of Language for Short Answer Scoring

Realtime Bidirectional Data Imputation of Multivariate Time Series for Anomaly Detection in Internet of Things Devices