Impacts of Parents’ Exercise on Inherited Genes

By  Arnav Kolluru
Received: 2022-4-25 / Accepted: 2022-5-18 / Published: 2022-5-19
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Abstract Physical exercise is considered an essential prospect in cognition. Exercise has a lot of benefits. It increases your body HDL (good cholesterol), controls your weight, prevents heart attacks and diabetes, regulates blood pressure, strengthens your muscles, and improves mood. However, we have minimal information regarding the effects of parents’ exercise on the genes they pass down. This research paper reviews three different previous studies done on this topic. The first study is about the research done on the mice to analyze the transmission of the exercise effects of the mice fathers to offspring. The second study is the comprehensive analysis of the epigenetic changes at the molecular level in both mammalian and rodent cells. The third study is exclusively about the research on humans. Later, I presented the research design that I set up to find the answers to my questions, the potential outcomes, and further analysis of the results. [More...]

Preliminary Model of Energy Harvesting through Prosthetics

By  Vyom Sachan
Received: 2021-9-15 / Accepted: 2021-10-26 / Published: 2022-5-19
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Abstract The goal of the paper is to harvest energy through the flexing of a piezoelectric unit in a prosthetic limb. Depending upon the flex of the sensor, it produces a voltage output. To embed this in a forearm prosthetic, a piezoelectric sensor can be attached to the hinge joint. Hence, the more it moves, the more voltage output is produced. In this paper, a prosthetic limb is modeled as a physical pendulum. The experiment done includes a voltmeter, a physical pendulum, and a piezoelectric sensor attached to the axis. Due to the formula breakdown into a 2-parameter model, the chi-squared analysis on the formula is much simpler. Hence, the author could fit the model to the data and the best fit values were found. [More...]