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ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
With an increased link between neurological diseases and microbiota stability, this research elucidates the ability of probiotics to influence the link between the digestive system and neuro…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Massive waste disposal is one of the crises found in Thailand. More alarming, the waste’s decomposing process takes approximately 100 years to be degenerated in landfill. Many studies have s…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effect of insects on mass of decomposing organisms over time. By using ventilated, secure containers containing chicken thigh meat with four conditions (A- ant…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Vocal behavior of birds is linked to individual recognition, mate and parent-chick bonding, and enhancing social bonds. However, geographically-specific dialects have been observed in bird a…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Senecio madagascariensis (fireweed) is of global significance, due to its rapid spreading ability, productive and economic impacts and toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) content. PAs accumula…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The project's purpose is to test the effects of foods with HFCS and sucrose on the mass, BGL, and body fat of mice. This project can help support or deny the theory that HFCS is causing obes…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Sharks have been living in the oceans since the Ordovician period, for some 450 million years. Yet, no studies have quantified the roaming capacities and migratory habits of Great White Shar…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In South Carolina there have been very few studies examining the behavior of the resident bats. This project tests the hypothesis that the coastal evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis), easter…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Imbalances between the inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate, result in hyperexcitability disorders, such as anxiety. Many of these disord…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
To understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases aiding the discovery of new therapeutical targets, it is crucial to perform in vivo…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of stress on cattle due to transport. In order to determine the effects of stress, eight red angus heifers were selected to participate…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading into geographic areas due to climate change. Most mosquito control methods use lures based on odors from human hosts or gravid traps that attract only f…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
To maintain the nuclear integrity of somatic cells that provide the beneficial traits for cloning, tissue culture techniques are used to culture cells in vitro using a growth medium suppleme…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
It was hypothesized that If White Cornish Rock Cross Broilers are fed 1 percent of total weight of feed given, of powdered activated charcoal homogenized in their feed, the protein nutrition…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Invasive crayfish damage ecosystems and increase costs within aquaculture farms by burrowing themselves underground, creating levees, and physically harming fish by clipping fins, lacerating…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
a) Purpose - To find out if magnetic fields affect the rate of growth in the regeneration of planaria. Because magnetism alters the intracellular calcium distribution in neoblast cells, my h…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Current methods in pediatric hemodialysis are associated with a heightened risk of hemolysis, as the standard peristaltic pump can be damaging at slow flow rates. Rather than using a perista…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Second Award
Staining of silk threads and clothes is widely conducted chemically in factories and industry. However, chemically produced stainings of silk threads and clothes are not always fine and exce…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Second Award
It has been established that high-, low-, and non-fat dairy may potentially act as driving factors in varying human fertility rates. Given the unprecedented global rate of infertility, this…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The subterranean brahminy blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops braminus) is among the smallest vertebrate animals on Earth. Snakes in general have small eyes, but the fossorial R. braminus has extreme…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Purpose The purpose of this project is to survey trematodes species present in catfish production ponds, and to determine the effects of temperature on cercariae shedding rates, and to deter…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences First Award
Combinations of female wingbeat acoustic cues and visual cues were evaluated to determine their potential for use in male Aedes aegypti (L.) traps in peridomestic environments, potentially t…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The island apple snail (Pomacea maculata) is one of the world’s most invasive species that poses environmental and agricultural threats. In rice and taro fields, the snails can cause decreas…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In Drosophila melanogaster, the development of the compound eye is organized by a network of highly conserved transcriptional regulators called the retinal determination (RD) network, which…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
A horse’s heart rate and behavior is critical in many aspects of the equine world, e.g. sports events. This experiment studied the effect of different genres of music when grooming a horse o…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Degradation of coral reefs due to increasing eutrophication of the Earth's oceans is of increasing global concern. Understanding the effects of nutrient enrichment on corals and their endosy…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In the last half decade alone, 30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished. One factor contributing to this decline is…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In insects, oxidative stress is a crucial factor in life expectancy, reproduction, and sexual selection. The preparation for and process of sterilization puts mosquitoes under many forms of…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Scientists have long emphasized the importance of exercise in maintaining a healthy and balanced existence. While exercise may decrease age-related degeneration, few studies have looked at t…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Extensive studies have been done on the causes and consequences of aging, but the actual mechanism behind this process is only partially understood. My research on Rpd3, a homologue of mamma…