Biosensors, Vol. 9, Pages 95: The Presence of Polysaccharides, Glycerol, and Polyethyleneimine in Hydrogel Enhances the Performance of the Glucose Biosensor Biosensors doi: 10.3390/bios9030095 Authors: Marco Fois Paola Arrigo Andrea Bacciu Patrizia Monti Salvatore Marceddu Gaia Rocchitta Pier Andrea Serra The use of amperometric biosensors has attracted particular attention in recent years, both from researchers and from companies, as they have proven to be low-cost,...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 9, Pages 86: HIV Viral Load Estimation Using Hematocrit Corrected Dried Blood Spot Results on a BioMerieux NucliSENS® Platform Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics9030086 Authors: Charles Nyagupe Hemant Deepak Shewade Serge Ade Collins Timire Hannock Tweya Norah Vere Sandra Chipuka Lucia Sisya Hlanai Gumbo Ezekiel Ditima Sekesai Zinyowera While reporting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load (VL) using dried blood spot (DBS) in...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1574: Testing the Symmetric Assumption of Complementary Relationship: A Comparison between the Linear and Nonlinear Advection-Aridity Models in a Large Ephemeral Lake Water doi: 10.3390/w11081574 Authors: Guojing Gan Yuanbo Liu Xin Pan Xiaosong Zhao Mei Li Shigang Wang The accuracy of a complementary relationship (CR) evapotranspiration (ET) model depends on how to parameterize the relationship between apparent potential ET and actual ET as the land...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 254: Foliar Application of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and Zinc Sulfate Boosts the Content of Bioactive Compounds in Habanero Peppers Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8080254 Authors: García-López Niño-Medina Olivares-Sáenz Lira-Saldivar Barriga-Castro Vázquez-Alvarado Rodríguez-Salinas Zavala-García The physiological responses of habanero pepper plants (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) to foliar applications of zinc sulphate and zinc nano-fertilizer...
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Resources, Vol. 8, Pages 135: An Assessment of Airport Sustainability: Part 3—Water Management at Copenhagen Airport Resources doi: 10.3390/resources8030135 Authors: Glenn Baxter Panarat Srisaeng Graham Wild Sustainable water management is critical for airports as they consume substantial volumes of water to maintain their infrastructure and operations. Airports also generate large volumes of surface and waste waters. The aim of this study was to examine Copenhagen Airport’s...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1572: Balance between the Reliability of Classification and Sampling Effort: A Multi-Approach for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) Ecological Status Applied to the Venice Lagoon (Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w11081572 Authors: Cacciatore Bonometto Paganini Sfriso Novello Parati Gabellini Boscolo Brusà The Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires Member States to assess the ecological status of water bodies and provide an estimation of...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1571: Flood Forecasting and Warning System Structures: Procedure and Application to a Small Urban Stream in South Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w11081571 Authors: Song Park Lee Park Song The runoff from heavy rainfall reaches urban streams quickly, causing them to rise rapidly. It is therefore of great importance to provide sufficient lead time for evacuation planning and decision making. An efficient flood forecasting and warning method is crucial for...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1573: Groundwater-Related Issues of Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) Systems: Assessment, Good Practices and Proposals from the European Experience Water doi: 10.3390/w11081573 Authors: Casasso Sethi Ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) gained increasing interest owing to benefits such as low heating and cooling costs, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and no pollutant emissions on site. However, GSHPs may have various possible interactions with underground...
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Medicina, Vol. 55, Pages 416: HDL-C Role in Acquired Aortic Valve Stenosis Patients and Its Relationship with Oxidative Stress Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina55080416 Authors: Hofmanis Hofmane Svirskis Mackevics Tretjakovs Lejnieks Signorelli Background and objectives: Mechanical stress is currently considered as the main factor promoting calcific aortic valve stenosis (AS) onset. It causes endothelial damage and dysfunction. The chronic inflammatory process causes...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 228: Keeping People in Place: Political Factors of (Im)mobility and Climate Change Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8080228 Authors: Zickgraf While those ‘trapped’ or who choose to stay in areas affected by climate change represent a substantial policy issue, there only a small amount of empirical work specifically targeting such populations. The scant attention that is afforded to immobility often emphasizes financial constraints...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 10, Pages 439: Commuter Exposure to Black Carbon, Fine Particulate Matter and Particle Number Concentration in Ferry and at the Pier in Istanbul Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos10080439 Authors: Onat Şahin Uzun Akın Özkaya Ayvaz This paper presents measurements and analyses of the concentrations of black carbon (BC), particle number concentration (PNC), and PM2.5 (≤2.5 μm) while commuting by ferries in Istanbul. In this context, exposures...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 456: Lear, Luke 17, and Looking for the Kingdom Within Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10080456 Authors: Stelzer The ending to Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Lear has generated much debate. Performance history and critical interpretations of the conclusion of the Folio version of Lear have been pronouncedly divided into readings intimating the tragic hero’s redemption and readings averring his ultimately bleak condition, whether of delusion or...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1569: Smoothing of Slug Tests for Laboratory Scale Aquifer Assessment—A Comparison Among Different Porous Media Water doi: 10.3390/w11081569 Authors: Aristodemo Lauria Tripepi Rivera-Velasquéz A filtering analysis of hydraulic head data deduced from slug tests injected in a confined aquifer with different porous media is proposed. Experimental laboratory tests were conducted in a large-scale physical model developed at the University of Calabria. The...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1570: Freshwater Ecosystems versus Hydropower Development: Environmental Assessments and Conservation Measures in the Transboundary Amur River Basin Water doi: 10.3390/w11081570 Authors: Simonov Nikitina Egidarev Hydropower development causes a multitude of negative effects on freshwater ecosystems, and to prevent and minimize possible damage, environmental impact assessments must be conducted and optimal management scenarios designed. This paper examines...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 185: Effects of Listening to Preferred versus Non-Preferred Music on Repeated Wingate Anaerobic Test Performance Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7080185 Authors: Christopher G. Ballmann Daniel J. Maynard Zachary N. Lafoon Mallory R. Marshall Tyler D. Williams Rebecca R. Rogers The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of listening to preferred or non-preferred music on repeated sprint performance. Fourteen physically active males (ages 18–25...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 448: Bottom-Up Proteomic Analysis of Polypeptide Venom Components of the Giant Ant Dinoponera Quadriceps Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11080448 Authors: Douglas Oscar Ceolin Mariano Úrsula Castro de Oliveira André Junqueira Zaharenko Daniel Carvalho Pimenta Gandhi Rádis-Baptista Álvaro Rossan de Brandão Prieto-da-Silva Ant species have specialized venom systems developed to sting and inoculate a biological cocktail of organic compounds, including peptide...
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Heritage, Vol. 2, Pages 2243-2254: Geomatics Techniques for Cultural Heritage Dissemination in Augmented Reality: Bronzi di Riace Case Study Heritage doi: 10.3390/heritage2030136 Authors: Vincenzo Barrile Antonino Fotia Gabriele Candela Ernesto Bernardo The Riace Bronzes are two full-size bronzes cast around the 5th century BC, located at the ‘Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Magna Grecia’ in Reggio Calabria; they truly represent significant sculptural...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1089: Tangeretin-Assisted Platinum Nanoparticles Enhance the Apoptotic Properties of Doxorubicin: Combination Therapy for Osteosarcoma Treatment Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9081089 Authors: Sangiliyandi Gurunathan Muniyandi Jeyaraj Min-Hee Kang Jin-Hoi Kim Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common type of cancer and the most frequent malignant bone tumor in childhood and adolescence. Nanomedicine has become an indispensable field in biomedical and...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1088: Fully Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Computation of Physico-Mechanical Properties of PB, PS, and SBS Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9081088 Authors: Yang Kang Dunhong Zhou Qiang Wu Fuyan Duan Rufang Yao Kun Cai The physical properties—including density, glass transition temperature (Tg), and tensile properties—of polybutadiene (PB), polystyrene (PS) and poly (styrene-butadiene-styrene: SBS) block copolymer were predicted...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 114: Lutathera®: The First FDA- and EMA-Approved Radiopharmaceutical for Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12030114 Authors: Ute Hennrich Klaus Kopka As the first radiopharmaceutical for Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT), Lutathera® was approved by the EMA in 2017 and the FDA in 2018 for the treatment of somatostatin receptor (SSTR) positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Using the...
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Foods, Vol. 8, Pages 298: Effect of Thermo-Sonication and Ultra-High Pressure on the Quality and Phenolic Profile of Mango Juice Foods doi: 10.3390/foods8080298 Authors: Abdul Ghani Dars Kai Hu Qiudou Liu Aqleem Abbas Bijun Xie Zhida Sun Consumer demand for safe and nutritious fruit juices has led to the development of a number of food processing techniques. To compare the effect of two processing technologies, thermo-sonication (TS) and ultra-high pressure (UHP), on the...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1567: Long-Term Perspective Changes in Crop Irrigation Requirement Caused by Climate and Agriculture Land Use Changes in Rechna Doab, Pakistan Water doi: 10.3390/w11081567 Authors: Arfan Arshad Zhijie Zhang Wanchang Zhang Ishfaq Gujree Climate change and agriculture land use changes in the form of cropping patterns are closely linked with crop water use. In this study the SDSM (statistical downscaling model) was used to downscale and simulate changes in...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1568: Evaluation of Stream and Wetland Restoration Using UAS-Based Thermal Infrared Mapping Water doi: 10.3390/w11081568 Authors: Mark C. Harvey Danielle K. Hare Alex Hackman Glorianna Davenport Adam B. Haynes Ashley Helton John W. Lane Martin A. Briggs Large-scale wetland restoration often focuses on repairing the hydrologic connections degraded by anthropogenic modifications. Of these hydrologic connections, groundwater discharge is an important...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 7, Pages 222: The Genetic Basis of Toxin Biosynthesis in Dinoflagellates Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7080222 Authors: Arjun Verma Abanti Barua Rendy Ruvindy Henna Savela Penelope A. Ajani Shauna A. Murray In marine ecosystems, dinoflagellates can become highly abundant and even dominant at times, despite their comparatively slow growth rates. One factor that may play a role in their ecological success is the production of complex secondary...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 54: Upstream Social Marketing for Implementing Mobile Government Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9030054 Authors: Valentina Burksiene Jaroslav Dvorak Mantas Duda This article analyses the main aspects of upstream social marketing for the implementation of mobile government (MGov). The methodology of current research is based on the systematic literature review in the fields of MGov and social marketing. According to our findings, most researchers investigated...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 8, Pages 105: Actinomycetes: The Antibiotics Producers Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8030105 Authors: Yvonne Mast Evi Stegmann Actinomycetes are well known as an inexhaustible source for antibiotics [...]
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Life, Vol. 9, Pages 64: Productivity and Community Composition of Low Biomass/High Silica Precipitation Hot Springs: A Possible Window to Earth’s Early Biosphere? Life doi: 10.3390/life9030064 Authors: Jeff R. Havig Trinity L. Hamilton Terrestrial hot springs have provided a niche space for microbial communities throughout much of Earth’s history, and evidence for hydrothermal deposits on the Martian surface suggest this could have also been the case for the red planet....
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Life, Vol. 9, Pages 63: Modelling Bacteria-Inspired Dynamics with Networks of Interacting Chemicals Life doi: 10.3390/life9030063 Authors: Tamás Bánsági Annette F. Taylor One approach to understanding how life-like properties emerge involves building synthetic cellular systems that mimic certain dynamical features of living cells such as bacteria. Here, we developed a model of a reaction network in a cellular system inspired by the ability of bacteria to form a biofilm in response...
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Diversity, Vol. 11, Pages 126: Phylogenomic Reconstruction of the Neotropical Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidae) and Their Conservation Diversity doi: 10.3390/d11080126 Authors: Wilson X. Guillory Morgan R. Muell Kyle Summers Jason L. Brown The evolutionary history of the Dendrobatidae, the charismatic Neotropical poison frog family, remains in flux, even after a half-century of intensive research. Understanding the evolutionary relationships between dendrobatid genera and the larger-order...
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Foods, Vol. 8, Pages 297: Understanding Food Loss and Waste—Why Are We Losing and Wasting Food? Foods doi: 10.3390/foods8080297 Authors: Rovshen Ishangulyyev Sanghyo Kim Sang Hyeon Lee The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that approximately one-third of all produced foods (1.3 billion tons of edible food) for human consumption is lost and wasted every year across the entire supply chain. Significant impacts of food loss and waste (FLW) have increased interest in...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1565: Potential Use of Biochar from Various Waste Biomass as Biosorbent in Co(II) Removal Processes Water doi: 10.3390/w11081565 Authors: Alina Roxana Lucaci Dumitru Bulgariu Iftikhar Ahmad Gabriela Lisă Anca Mihaela Mocanu Laura Bulgariu The removal of Co(II) ions from aqueous media was done using three types of biochars obtained from algae waste biomass, mustard waste biomass, and soy waste biomass. The biochar samples were obtained by pyrolysis...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1564: Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011? Water doi: 10.3390/w11081564 Authors: Arnon Karnieli Alexandra Shtein Natalya Panov Noam Weisbrod Alon Tal The role played by unsustainable resource management in initiating international conflicts is well documented. The Syrian Civil War, commencing in March 2011, presents such a case. The prevailing opinion links the unrest with sequential droughts occurring from 2007–2010....
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1566: Convective Bubbly Flow of Water in an Annular Pipe: Role of Total Dissolved Solids on Heat Transfer Characteristics and Bubble Formation Water doi: 10.3390/w11081566 Authors: M. M. Sarafraz M. S. Shadloo Zhe Tian Iskander Tlili Tawfeeq Abdullah Alkanhal Mohammad Reza Safaei Marjan Goodarzi M. Arjomandi Formation of bubbles in water inside an annulus pipe in a flow boiling regime was experimentally investigated. The effect of various variables,...
Mon Jul 29, 2019 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 76: Nanoparticle Vaccines for Inducing HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7030076 Authors: Mitch Brinkkemper Kwinten Sliepen The enormous sequence diversity between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains poses a major roadblock for generating a broadly protective vaccine. Many experimental HIV-1 vaccine efforts are therefore aimed at eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) that are capable of neutralizing the...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 7, Pages 221: Retrospective Analysis of Archived Pyrazinamide Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates from Uganda—Evidence of Interspecies Transmission Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7080221 Authors: Sylvia I. Wanzala Jesca Nakavuma Dominic Travis Praiscillia Kia Sam Ogwang Wade Ray Waters Tyler Thacker Timothy Johnson Syeda Anum Hadi Srinand Sreevatsan The contribution of Mycobacterium bovis to the proportion of...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 7, Pages 56: Diagnosis and Management of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines7030056 Authors: Gabrielle Macaron Daniel Ontaneda Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that results in varying degrees of disability. Progressive multiple sclerosis, characterized by a steady increase in neurological disability independently of relapses, can occur from onset (primary progressive) or after a relapsing–remitting...
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Clean Technol., Vol. 2, Pages 1-10: The Performance of an ASHP System Using Waste Air to Recover Heat Energy in a Subway System Clean Technologies doi: 10.3390/cleantechnol2010001 Authors: Konstantinos Ninikas Nicholas Hytiris Rohinton Emmanuel Bjorn Aaen In this short communication, we demonstrate that the performance of a typical air source heat pump (ASHP), exploiting a relatively stable air temperature within a subway environment, is high, even during the peak heating months....
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 62: FumeBot: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network Controlled Robot Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8030062 Authors: Ajith Thomas John Hedley This paper describes the development of a convolutional neural network for the control of a home monitoring robot (FumeBot). The robot is fitted with a Raspberry Pi for on board control and a Raspberry Pi camera is used as the data feed for the neural network. A wireless connection between the robot and a graphical user interface...
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Urban Science, Vol. 3, Pages 82: Determinants of Transport Mode Choice for Non-Commuting Trips: The Roles of Transport, Land Use and Socio-Demographic Characteristics Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci3030082 Authors: Sheila Convery Brendan Williams Despite rapid changes in vehicle technology and the expansion of IT-based mobility solutions, travel habits must be changed to address the environmental and health implications of increasing car dependency. A significant amount of research...
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