Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 146: Anticancer Ruthenium(III) Complexes and Ru(III)-Containing Nanoformulations: An Update on the Mechanism of Action and Biological Activity Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12040146 Authors: Claudia Riccardi Domenica Musumeci Marco Trifuoggi Carlo Irace Luigi Paduano Daniela Montesarchio The great advances in the studies on metal complexes for the treatment of different cancer forms, starting from the pioneering works on platinum derivatives,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 495: Comparison of Traditional and Ultrasound-Enhanced Electrospinning in Fabricating Nanofibrous Drug Delivery Systems Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11100495 Authors: Hakkarainen Kõrkjas Laidmäe Lust Semjonov Kogermann Nieminen Salmi Korhonen Haeggström Heinämäki We investigated nozzleless ultrasound-enhanced electrospinning (USES) as means to generate nanofibrous drug delivery systems (DDSs) for pharmaceutical...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 494: Silk Fibroin as a Functional Biomaterial for Drug and Gene Delivery Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11100494 Authors: Mhd Anas Tomeh Roja Hadianamrei Xiubo Zhao Silk is a natural polymer with unique physicochemical and mechanical properties which makes it a desirable biomaterial for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Silk fibroin (SF) has been widely used for preparation of drug delivery systems due to its biocompatibility, controllable...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 493: Application of ZnO-Based Nanocomposites for Vaccines and Cancer Immunotherapy Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11100493 Authors: Prashant Sharma Na-Yoon Jang Jae-Won Lee Bum Chul Park Young Keun Kim Nam-Hyuk Cho Engineering and application of nanomaterials have recently helped advance various biomedical fields. Zinc oxide (ZnO)-based nanocomposites have become one of the most promising candidates for biomedical applications due...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 377: Association Mapping Between Candidate Gene SNP and Production and Oil Quality Traits in Interspecific Oil Palm Hybrids Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8100377 Authors: Astorkia Hernandez Bocs Armentia Herran Ponce León Morales Quezada Orellana Wendra Sembiring Asmono Ritter Oil palm production is gaining importance in Central and South America. However, the main species Elaeis guineensis (Eg) is suffering severely...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 375: A Novel Stay-Green Mutant of Rice with Delayed Leaf Senescence and Better Harvest Index Confers Drought Tolerance Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8100375 Authors: M. K. Ramkumar S. Senthil Kumar Kishor Gaikwad Rakesh Pandey Viswanathan Chinnusamy Nagendra Kumar Singh Ashok Kumar Singh Trilochan Mohapatra Amitha Mithra Sevanthi Three Ethyl methansulphonate (EMS)-induced stay-green mutants (SGM-1, SGM-2 and SGM-3) and their wild-type (WT), were...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 374: Molecular Basis of Soybean Resistance to Soybean Aphids and Soybean Cyst Nematodes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8100374 Authors: Surendra Neupane Jordan M Purintun Febina M Mathew Adam J Varenhorst Madhav P Nepal Soybean aphid (SBA; Aphis glycines Matsumura) and soybean cyst nematode (SCN; Heterodera glycines Ichninohe) are major pests of the soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.). Substantial progress has been made in identifying the genetic basis of limiting...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 373: Deciphering the Genetic Architecture of Plant Height in Soybean Using Two RIL Populations Sharing a Common M8206 Parent Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8100373 Authors: Yongce Cao Shuguang Li Guoliang Chen Yanfeng Wang Javaid Akhter Bhat Benjamin Karikari Jiejie Kong Junyi Gai Tuanjie Zhao Plant height (PH) is an important agronomic trait that is closely related to soybean yield and quality. However, it is a complex quantitative trait governed...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 376: Advances in Molecular Genetics and Genomics of African Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8100376 Authors: Peterson W. Wambugu Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop Robert Henry African rice (Oryza glaberrima) has a pool of genes for resistance to diverse biotic and abiotic stresses, making it an important genetic resource for rice improvement. African rice has potential for breeding for climate resilience and adapting rice cultivation to climate...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 556: Religious Rights and Involuntary State Institutions in Democratic Countries: On Evenhandedness and Ecumenism in Militaries Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100556 Authors: Nahshon Perez Militaries present a difficult challenge for scholars interested in navigating the complex demands of religious liberty and religion-state relations. The reason is that the most familiar features of religion-state relations in liberal countries—governmental non-interference...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 551: Jingjiao under the Lenses of Chinese Political Theology Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100551 Authors: Chin Ken-pa Conflict between religion and state politics is a persistent phenomenon in human history. Hence it is not surprising that the propagation of Christianity often faces the challenge of “political theology”. When the Church of the East monk Aluoben reached China in 635 during the reign of Emperor Tang Taizong, he received the...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 555: Justice, Anger and Wrath: Tracing the Im/Moral Dimensions of Payback Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100555 Authors: Celia E. Deane-Drummond Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness makes explicit claims about the moral valence and irrationality of the desire for payback. This article explores the roots of that desire through an analysis of research on inequity aversion in primates, and the sociocultural developmental context for expressions of anger....
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 553: Sheng Ren in the Figurists’ Reinterpretation of the Yijing Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100553 Authors: Sophie Ling-chia Wei Christian missions to China have sought to make their message more acceptable to their Chinese audience by expressing, in translations of Christian texts, Christian terms and concepts in language borrowed from China’s indigenous Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist traditions. The Jesuits were especially renowned for their accommodation...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 552: Spinoza, Sin as Debt, and the Sin of the Prophets Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100552 Authors: Keith Green In Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Margaret Atwood examines different forms of debt and their various interrelations. Her work invites, but does not provide, an account or philosophy of debt or its deep implication in Christian beliefs such as sin, satisfaction, and atonement. This paper aims to bring to light insights into the link between...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 554: New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100554 Authors: Radhika Borde This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in India has resulted in the empowerment of the women who participate in it. As part of the movement, devotees of the indigenous Earth Goddess, who are mostly indigenous women, experience possession trances in sacred natural sites which they...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 550: Re-Enchanting Political Theology Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10100550 Authors: Jeremy H. Kidwell For this Special Issue which confronts the ways in which the question of pluralism represents both haunting and promise within modern political theology, I explore the presence of pluralism in the context of the environmental crisis and religious responses to issues such as climate change. Following Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, I suggest that models of disenchantment...
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Resources, Vol. 8, Pages 161: Examination of Short Supply Chains Based on Circular Economy and Sustainability Aspects Resources doi: 10.3390/resources8040161 Authors: Konrád Kiss Csaba Ruszkai Katalin Takács-György The sustainability of global food chains and intense agricultural production has become questionable. At the same time, the consumers’ interest in short supply chains (SSCs) and direct sales from producers has increased. SSCs are connected to sustainability...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 85: Tactile-Driven Grasp Stability and Slip Prediction Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8040085 Authors: Brayan S. Zapata-Impata Pablo Gil Fernando Torres One of the challenges in robotic grasping tasks is the problem of detecting whether a grip is stable or not. The lack of stability during a manipulation operation usually causes the slippage of the grasped object due to poor contact forces. Frequently, an unstable grip can be caused by an inadequate pose...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 84: Design and Preliminary Testing of a Continuum Assistive Robotic Manipulator Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8040084 Authors: Ryan Coulson Megan Robinson Max Kirkpatrick Devin R. Berg Background: The application of continuum manipulators as assistive robots is discussed and tested through the use of Bendy ARM, a simple manually teleoperated tendon driven continuum manipulator prototype. Methods: Two rounds of user testing were performed to evaluate the...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 270: What Helps and What Hinders? Exploring the Role of Workplace Characteristics for Parental Leave Use and Its Career Consequences Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8100270 Authors: Samtleben Bringmann Bünning Hipp The division of parental leave among couples today is still unequal—even in countries with progressive leave schemes. Given the gendered nature of the workplace, we examine how organizational characteristics relate to...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 67: Disabilities and Livelihoods: Rethinking a Conceptual Framework Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9040067 Authors: Stienstra Lee Livelihoods, or the means to secure the necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, and our sense of well-being. While discussions of livelihoods have influenced academic discussions and government actions in international development over the past 25 years, few have discussed the implications of...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 565: Performance of Broilers Fed with Maize Colonized by Either Toxigenic or Atoxigenic Strains of Aspergillus flavus with and without an Aflatoxin-Sequestering Agent Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11100565 Authors: M. O. Samuel Aikore Alejandro Ortega-Beltran Daisy Eruvbetine Joseph Atehnkeng Titilayo D. O. Falade Peter J. Cotty Ranajit Bandyopadhyay In warm agricultural areas across the globe, maize, groundnut, and other crops become frequently contaminated...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 130: Human Papillomavirus Infection and Vaccination: Knowledge, Attitude and Perception among Undergraduate Men and Women Healthcare University Students in Switzerland Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040130 Authors: Jeannot Viviano Follonier Kaech Oberhauser Mpinga Vassilakos Kaiser Petignat Abstract: Background: Human Papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted infection, representing the main cause of genital warts and cervical...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 129: Impact of Maternal Immunity on Congenital Cytomegalovirus Birth Prevalence and Infant Outcomes: A Systematic Review Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040129 Authors: Coppola Mangold Cantrell Permar Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), and efforts are geared towards prevention through vaccine development. Transmission rates following primary maternal infection occur at rates of 30–40%,...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 77: Sertoli Cell Tumor (SCT) in a Captive Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6040077 Authors: Elfadl Park Ullah Youn Chung Son Lee Lee Lee Baek Jeon Lee Hong Park Jeong A black bear of 29-year-old (Ursus americanus) died unexpectedly in captivity without any gross lesions or clinical signs. We identified a firm, lobulated, yellowish tan, and well-circumscribed...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 899: A Quest of Great Importance-Developing a Broad Spectrum Escherichia coli Phage Collection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11100899 Authors: Joanna Kaczorowska Eoghan Casey Horst Neve Charles M.A.P. Franz Jean-Paul Noben Gabriele A. Lugli Marco Ventura Douwe van Sinderen Jennifer Mahony Shigella ssp. and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are the most common etiological agents of diarrheal diseases in malnourished children under five years of age...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 898: Genetic Analysis of Avian Coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus in Yellow Chickens in Southern China over the Past Decade: Revealing the Changes of Genetic Diversity, Dominant Genotypes, and Selection Pressure Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11100898 Authors: Wensheng Fan Ning Tang Zhihua Dong Jiming Chen Wen Zhang Changrun Zhao Yining He Meng Li Cuilan Wu Tianchao Wei Teng Huang Meilan Mo Ping Wei The high mutation rates of infectious...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 897: Epidemiology of Deltacoronaviruses (δ-CoV) and Gammacoronaviruses (γ-CoV) in Wild Birds in the United States Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11100897 Authors: Francine C. Paim Andrew S. Bowman Lauren Miller Brandi J. Feehan Douglas Marthaler Linda J. Saif Anastasia N. Vlasova Porcine deltacoronavirus (δ-CoV) is the object of extensive research in several countries including the United States. In contrast, the epidemiology of δ-CoVs...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2006: Intensive Livestock Production Causing Antibiotic Pollution in the Yinma River of Northeast China Water doi: 10.3390/w11102006 Authors: Hanyu Ju Sijia Li Y. Jun Xu Guangxin Zhang Jiquan Zhang Antibiotics are increasingly used in livestock production in rural China, raising concerns over pollution and health risk in countryside waterways. The Yinma River Basin in China’s far northeast is an agriculture-dominated area mixed with a densely...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2004: Removal of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Wastewater Treatment Plant in Jordan Water doi: 10.3390/w11102004 Authors: Al-Mashaqbeh Alsafadi Dalahmeh Bartelt-Hunt Snow The largest wastewater treatment plant in Jordan was monitored in the summer to determine the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). Grab samples were collected from the influent and effluent of As-Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2003: Regulation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) in Drinking Water: A Comprehensive Review Water doi: 10.3390/w11102003 Authors: Pontius Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) are receiving global attention due to their persistence in the environment through wastewater effluent discharges and past improper industrial waste disposal. They are resistant to biological degradation and if present...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2005: Analysis of the Interconnections between Classic Vortex Models of Coherent Structures Based on DNS Data Water doi: 10.3390/w11102005 Authors: Wang Peng Chen Fan Low- and high-speed streaks (ejection, Q2, and sweep, Q4, events in quadrant analysis) are significant features of coherent structures in turbulent flow. Streak formation is closely related to turbulent structures in several vortex models, such as attached eddy models, streamwise vortex...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2001: Impact of Climate Change and Human Activities on Streamflow Variations Based on the Budyko Framework Water doi: 10.3390/w11102001 Authors: Lee Yeh In recent years, the influence of climate change and human activity on the global environment have become a concern. It is essential to better understand the hydrologic environment to evaluate water availability and related issues. In this study, we perform a trend and breakpoint analysis on streamflow time...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2002: Heterogeneity and Anthropogenic Impacts on a Small Lowland Stream Water doi: 10.3390/w11102002 Authors: Somlyai Berta Nagy Dévai Ács Szabó Nagy Grigorszky During our work, we investigated the physical and chemical variables of a small surface watercourse to investigate how different anthropogenic effects affect its water quality. Along this small watercourse, there are well-separated areas that are affected by various anthropogenic...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2000: An Efficient and Structured Procedure to Develop Conceptual Catchment and Sewer Models from Their Detailed Counterparts Water doi: 10.3390/w11102000 Authors: Julia M. Ledergerber Leila Pieper Guillaume Binet Adrien Comeau Thibaud Maruéjouls Dirk Muschalla Peter A. Vanrolleghem Modelling flow rates in catchments and sewers with a conceptual, also known as hydrological, approach is widely applied if fast simulations are important. In cases...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1999: Relationship between Landform Development and Lake Water Recharge in the Badain Jaran Desert, China Water doi: 10.3390/w11101999 Authors: Da-Peng Yue Jing-Bo Zhao Yan-Dong Ma Xiao-Gang Huang Tian-Jie Shao Xiao-Qing Luo Ai-Hua Ma Four distinctive but poorly documented landforms in the Badain Jaran megadunes were studied: arcuate steps, multi-stage fans, depressions formed by runoff erosion, and groundwater overflow zones around lakes. The...
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