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ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Despite pronounced negative side effects on developing babies, 10.7% of women smoke regularly during pregnancy. In hopes of reducing smoking during pregnancy, nicotine patches, vaping, and o…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Invasive species are a growing threat to biodiversity. Crocodilians have been impacted by many invasive species including pythons and cane toads, and the effects on these apex predators and…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The anautogenous mosquitoes must consume at least one vertebrate blood meal to initiate oogenesis. Repeated blood meals make Anopheles efficient vectors of malaria, causing 445, 000 deaths g…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this project is to understand the effects sugar has on Caenorhabditis elegans and humans. The hypothesis stated High–Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) would have the greatest effect o…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The purposes of this research to explore the species of weaver bird that live in the locality. To study local environmental factors that affect to living behavior of weaver bird. To study th…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Due to having a cryptic habitat, very little is known about the life history characteristics and stridulatory devices found in runner plant bugs (Hallodapus spp.) and several other members b…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The aim of this study was to combat termites by finding alternatives to chemical pesticides by making extracts from plant origins: alfalfa, neem, arak, basil and several types of solvents: w…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
Curcumin is known for its multifarious effects like its antioxidative, cancer chemo-preventative, and anti-inflammatory properties. This research aimed to explore curcumin’s effect on planar…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Allelopathy is the process in which one organism produces compounds that influence the growth, development, and survival of other organisms in its vicinity. Although more commonly associated…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
C. semigranosa is a small bivalve with a shell length of about 1.5 cm predominating in exposed sandy beach. Intensive field observations revealed that C. semigranosa accumulated around 610 i…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive cognitive impairment in patients. Millions of people around the world are impacted by this fatal dis…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Through direct observation and experimentation, this investigation studies the Achupalla worm of the Schistotheca family (it has not been registered scientifically). It feeds on the Achupall…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Haemadipsa guangchuanensis, known as land leeches, is a genus of annelids feeding on blood. Although its biology and reproductive ecology had been studied, there were few reports regarding i…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Vaping and the use of e-cigarettes have major public health implications. E- cigarettes are abused by teens and used by adults seeking a “safer” alternative to smoking. However, e-cigarettes…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Northeastern United States populations of pollinating hawkmoths are in long-term decline or have been locally eradicated. Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a hypothesized contributor; howe…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Proper care of ram fertility is critical during the breeding season to avoid reduction in breeding success. Deworming is a common practice among ranchers in order to eliminate health complic…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Honey bees rely heavily on their circadian clock to achieve the orientation based on the solar compass and the "time memory", which allows them to locate food resources and return to the hiv…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Up to 30% of the 50 million infertile people worldwide are affected by unexplained infertility, which could result from a CISD gene mutation. The CDGSH iron sulfur domain (CISD) family consi…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
If rabbit waste is not cleaned adequately, it builds up in the cage and release toxic air particles into its surroundings. One of these toxic particles is ammonia. Ammonia can cause health p…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bees encounter numerous stimuli in nature. However, some prompt a stronger response than others as not all stimuli are of equal value. It is not well understood in any animal model how stimu…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Cryptosporidiosis is a disease caused by a parasite, Cryptosporidium, often found in neonatal calves. Roughly 57% of scours in young calves is caused by Cryptosporidium. Currently there is n…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Mosquitoes are estimated to kill between 700,000 and one million people per year through disease transmission, which is why effective mosquito control methods are imperative. An often-overlo…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
One-third of food produced for human consumption is wasted. This equates to approximately 1.3 billion tonnes annually, most of which becomes landfill. This study examines one way consumers c…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Natural fertilizers, such as chicken manure, are very important for good crop yield. Current research uses non laying type birds at a fixed time point in their lifespan to determine nitrogen…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
I examined if photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment can result in improved stress response and peripheral nerve regeneration, particularly of A delta and C nerve fibers, after caudal fin injury…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
A weekly count of the number of big game animals observed at a particular location in game unit 2B in Northern New Mexico was carried out in the months from September through December of 201…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The nervous system is one of the most complicated systems, not only structurally, but functionally in regulating behavioral and physiological processes. Because of its structural complexity…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Honey is a natural sweetener used for health and medicinal purposes, but it is considered one of the most adulterated food products in the world. Recent studies have yielded conflicting resu…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Canine Gaucher’s disease is an inherited Lysosomal Storage Disorder characterized by a near complete deficiency in the catabolic activity of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. As a result, the m…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Honey bees are extremely important, performing about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. Their population has been rapidly declining at an alarming rate. Multiple studies have shown lac…