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2020 Cohort I
2020 - Computer Science
Drishti Nepal
2020 - Computer Science
Team Kisan
2020 - Economics
Team Arthasashtra
2020 - Physics
Team Brahmanda
2020 - Biology
Team Diabeters
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Drishti Nepal
Drishti is an android based mobile application that recognizes different Nepalese currency notes and gives its audio output. Project Drishti is driven by a team of like-minded individuals together with the amazing powers of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning working to empower low vision and visually impaired individuals in Nepal in their financial transactions.
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Team Kisan
Kisan Nepal is a mobile application that provides real-time agricultural news and notices to the farmers. Farmers in Nepal lack the privilege of acquiring relevant news efficiently and effectively. So, the Kisan Nepal app primarily focuses on bringing all the relevant information around the agricultural sector and presents them in one place. To help farmers keep track of coronavirus cases in their respective districts, the easily accessible interface to display the covid stats has been added to it. The farmers are unaware of the privilege they ought to receive from the government. Hence, to bridge this gap, it again brings all the government notices and displays them in a readily usable interface. The app also includes the feature to display the standard rate of vegetable in Nepal. This feature will help them to price their crops and sell them at an appropriate price.
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Team Arthasashtra
Project Artha's Economics Research provides deep insights on the relationship between one of the most prominent sources of income in Nepal - Remittance - and its impact on five major sectors, namely Education, Consumer Spending, Economic Investments, Migration Trends, and Youth Unemployment with the context of the global pandemic COVID-19 in mind. To understand the complex impact of Remittance, along with data analysis using econometric models, the team also included real-life perspectives through interviews with Nepalese migrant workers and forward-leaning policy proposals.
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Team Samsara
Team Samsara worked together to research in the field of Thangka Art and Paintings at Incubate Nepal. While there is a variety of styles and iconography in the art form, the methods and conventions for creating such work are often highly defined and scriptural. The team identified and explored themes that serve as the discourse analysis of Thangka art in the first quarter of the 21st century. They crafted a paper titled “The Intersection of Tradition and Modernity in Thangka painting: Discourse Analysis” to understand the perspectives of artists, art sellers, galleries, and buyers in this field during the course of eight weeks at Incubate Nepal.
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Team Brahmanda
At Incubate Nepal, team Brahmanda ventured on the quest to "Explore the history and the fate of the universe" and answer fundamental questions about the universe. Team Brahmanda started with the Friedmann's equations to model the expansion of the universe. They then dug deep into understanding the presence of matter, dark matter and dark energy in the universe. They were able to use their research to calculate the age of the universe from the first principles as well as predict the state of the universe in the future.
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Team Diabeters
As the name "Diabeters" suggests, our team worked for eight weeks at the Incubate Nepal program in an effort to beat Diabetes through the proposal of continuous glucose and ketone monitoring device for efficient control of diabetic conditions in humans. There were many existing devices in the market that measured glucose continuously providing glucose levels in a few minutes' interval in the display device which was connected to the sensor inside the abdominal region or in the upper arm via the transmitter, but no devices were available for continuous ketone monitoring. Due to the failure in continuous monitoring of ketones and its regulation, the build-up of ketones in the body increases acidity and results in the condition of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA). Since Diabetic Ketoacidosis killed 5% of diabetic patients, it was a must to develop a continuous monitoring system that could not only measure glucose level but could also measure ketone. Therefore, considering the huge need for a ketone monitoring system, we proposed continuous glucose and ketone monitoring system.
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2021 Cohort II
2021 - Politics
Team Samsad
2021 - Public Health
Team Swasthya Samata
2021 - Computer Science
Team Sathi
2021 - Art History
Team Samsara
2021 - Physics
Team Suryastra
2021 - Biology
Team Tumornators
2021 - Economics
Team Dravya
2021 - Computer Science and Art
Art Hub Nepal
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Team Samsad
The team’s research mainly focuses on studying the representation of minorities and underrepresented in the legislative parliament of Nepal. It tries to understand the structure of federal parliament and understand how changes in those structures can impact the representation of people in the parliament.
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Art Hub Nepal
Art Hub Nepal documented Nepali public artworks, creating a database of local paintings, murals, sculptures and architecture throughout Nepal. Art Hub Nepal uses this database of artwork to create an interactive map as an intuitive way for Nepali and foreign users to find and appreciate local art in Nepal. We hope to bridge the gap between local art, artists and society through Art Hub Nepal.
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Team Swasthya Samata
The team tried to address healthcare issues from the perspective of healthcare economists. The team’s exploration of Nepal’s health care system for women gave them an insight into how such a diversity influences the access to healthcare. The primary goal of their study was to identify the exploited and unprivileged communities of Nepal.
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Team Samsara
Team Samsara worked together to research in the field of Thangka Art and Paintings at Incubate Nepal. While there is a variety of styles and iconography in the art form, the methods and conventions for creating such work are often highly defined and scriptural. The team identified and explored themes that serve as the discourse analysis of Thangka art in the first quarter of the 21st century. They crafted a paper titled “The Intersection of Tradition and Modernity in Thangka painting: Discourse Analysis” to understand the perspectives of artists, art sellers, galleries, and buyers in this field during the course of eight weeks at Incubate Nepal.
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Team Sathi
The team made an app that provided guided tours for travelers to fully enhance their travel experience and promote Nepalese local, cultural and ethnic diversity.
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Team Suryastra
Team Suryastra worked on a research project related to solar energy. The team's research focused on the optimization of the tilt angle of solar devices. Their aim was to compensate for the high vulnerability of Nepal’s energy sector through a change in the current energy profile.
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Team Dravya
The team focuses on understanding the accessibility of financial services among all Nepali citizens. The team’s objective was to examine the current landscape of financial access in Nepal, pinpoint unmet needs and suggest relevant financial inclusion policies. The team analyzed the individual-level survey data and conducted a case study on comparable South Asian countries.
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Team Tumornators
Team Tumornators worked on their biology project of Target Validation in novel CDK-12 Protein whose function is increasing in cancer cells. Team Tumornators proposed 3 experiments to validate CDK12's role: Western Blot, IC50 Cell Viability Assay and Flow Cytometry during their project course. In addition, computational drug discovery tools were implemented amongst a group of potent inhibitors extracted from literature and the potential best inhibitor was proposed by the team.