Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 4049: Spruce Bark—A Source of Polyphenolic Compounds: Optimizing the Operating Conditions of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24224049 Authors: Petra Strižincová Aleš Ház Zuzana Burčová Jozef Feranc František Kreps Igor Šurina Michal Jablonský The present study described the optimization of the extraction process with carbon dioxide in supercritical state for obtaining extractives, especially polyphenols...
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 4048: Microwave-Assisted Green Synthesis and Antioxidant Activity of Selenium Nanoparticles Using Theobroma Cacao L. Bean Shell Extract Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24224048 Authors: Mellinas Jiménez Garrigós Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) are successfully synthesized through microwave heating by using Theobroma cacao L. bean shell extract as a stabilizing and capping agent. Response surface methodology is used to obtain optimal synthesis conditions....
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 4047: Essential Oil Composition of Ruta graveolens L. Fruits and Hyssopus officinalis Subsp. aristatus (Godr.) Nyman Biomass as a Function of Hydrodistillation Time Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24224047 Authors: Ivanka B. Semerdjieva Marian Burducea Tess Astatkie Valtcho D. Zheljazkov Ivayla Dincheva The aim of this study was to establish the kinetics regression models for yield and composition of Ruta graveolens fruit and Hyssopus officinalis...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1587: -1-5753907Highly Sensitive Plasmonic Sensor Based on a Dual-Side Polished Photonic Crystal Fiber for Component Content Sensing Applications Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111587 Authors: Chen Chang Zhang Zhou Lu Zhuang ：A plasmonic sensor based on a dual-side polished photonic crystal fiber operating in a telecommunication wavelength range is proposed and investigated numerically by the finite element method (FEM). We study the...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1588: Hybrid Au/Si Disk-Shaped Nanoresonators on Gold Film for Amplified SERS Chemical Sensing Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111588 Authors: Grégory Barbillon Andrey Ivanov Andrey K. Sarychev We present here the amplification of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signal of nanodisks on a gold film for SERS sensing of small molecules (thiophenol) with an excellent sensitivity. The enhancement is achieved by adding a silicon underlayer for...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1586: Glycerol-Mediated Facile Synthesis of Colored Titania Nanoparticles for Visible Light Photodegradation of Phenolic Compounds Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111586 Authors: Nawaz Kait Chia Isa Huei In this study, we developed a glycerol-mediated safe and facile method to synthesize colored titania nanoparticles (NPs) via solution route. Our method is considerably effective and greener than other options currently available. Colored...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1585: Dry-Coated Graphite onto Sandpaper for Triboelectric Nanogenerator as an Active Power Source for Portable Electronics Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111585 Authors: Smitha Ankanahalli Shankaregowda Rumana Farheen Sagade Muktar Ahmed Yu Liu Chandrashekar Bananakere Nanjegowda Xing Cheng Srikantaswamy Shivanna Seeram Ramakrishna Zhenfei Yu Xiang Zhang Krishnaveni Sannathammegowda Developing an eco-friendly, flexible and recyclable...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1584: Creation of Superhydrophobic Coatings Based on MWCNTs Xerogel Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111584 Authors: Marat Eseev Andrey Goshev Sergey Kapustin Yuliana Tsykareva The creation of hydrophobic anti-icing and self–cleaning coatings is a relevant task for many industrial sectors. The potential field of application includes production of liquid and gas separators and filters, the field of textiles and clothing, construction and...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1583: Nanostructured Nickel Nitride with Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for an Efficient Water-Urea Splitting Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111583 Authors: Feng Wang Dongsheng Zhao Linbao Zhang Liming Fan Xiutang Zhang Shengnan Hu A three-dimensional nickel nitride with reduced graphene oxide composite on nickel foam (s-X, where s represents Ni3N/rGO@NF and the annealing temperature X can be 320, 350, or 380)...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1582: Catalytic Performance of Ni/CeO2/X-ZrO2 (X = Ca, Y) Catalysts in the Aqueous-Phase Reforming of Methanol Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111582 Authors: Daniel Goma Juan José Delgado Leon Lefferts Jimmy Faria José Juan Calvino Miguel Ángel Cauqui In this study, we reported on the effect of promoting Ni/ZrO2 catalysts with Ce, Ca (two different loadings), and Y for the aqueous-phase reforming (APR) of methanol. We mainly focused on the...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2716: Anti-Osteoporotic Effects of Combined Extract of Lycii Radicis Cortex and Achyranthes japonica in Osteoblast and Osteoclast Cells and Ovariectomized Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112716 Authors: Eunkuk Park Jeonghyun Kim Subin Yeo Eunguk Lim Chun Whan Choi Sangho Choi Wan Yi Li Ji-Won Lee Jin-Hyok Park Dam Huh Seon-Yong Jeong Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone density and quality with high risk of bone fracture. Here,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2717: Low Calorie Sweeteners Differ in Their Physiological Effects in Humans Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112717 Authors: Stephanie R. Hunter Evan J. Reister Eunjin Cheon Richard D. Mattes Low calorie sweeteners (LCS) are prevalent in the food supply for their primary functional property of providing sweetness with little or no energy. Though tested for safety individually, there has been extremely limited work on the efficacy of each LCS. It is commonly...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2715: Commercial Snack Food and Beverage Consumption Prevalence among Children 6–59 Months in West Africa Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112715 Authors: Stella Nordhagen Alissa M. Pries Romance Dissieka Consumption of commercial snack food and beverage products among infants, young, and school-aged children may have negative effects on child nutritional outcomes, as these foods are typically dense in energy but not in micronutrients. However, there is limited...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2714: Undigested Food and Gut Microbiota May Cooperate in the Pathogenesis of Neuroinflammatory Diseases: A Matter of Barriers and a Proposal on the Origin of Organ Specificity Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112714 Authors: Paolo Riccio Rocco Rossano As food is an active subject and may have anti-inflammatory or pro-inflammatory effects, dietary habits may modulate the low-grade neuroinflammation associated with chronic neurodegenerative diseases. Food is living...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2712: Plant-Based Diets in the Reduction of Body Fat: Physiological Effects and Biochemical Insights Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112712 Authors: Najjar Feresin Obesity affects over one-third of Americans and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes. Interventional trials have consistently demonstrated that consumption of plant-based diets reduces body fat in overweight and obese subjects, even when controlling for energy intake....
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2713: Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency in the Rat Impairs Recognition Memory, but Has No Effect on Social Approach or Hedonia Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112713 Authors: Overeem Alexander Burne Ko Eyles Developmental vitamin D (DVD) deficiency is a risk factor for schizophrenia. In rodents we show that DVD-deficiency alters brain development and produces behavioral phenotypes in the offspring of relevance to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia....
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2710: Potato-Resistant Starch Supplementation Improves Microbiota Dysbiosis, Inflammation, and Gut–Brain Signaling in High Fat-Fed Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112710 Authors: Elizabeth A. Klingbeil Carolina Cawthon Rebecca Kirkland Claire B. de La Serre (1) High-fat (HF) diet leads to gut microbiota dysbiosis which is associated with systemic inflammation. Bacterial-driven inflammation is sufficient to alter vagally mediated satiety and induce hyperphagia....
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2709: Reduced Oxidative Stress and Enhanced FGF21 Formation in Livers of Endurance-Exercised Rats with Diet-Induced NASH Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112709 Authors: Janin Henkel Katja Buchheim-Dieckow José P. Castro Thomas Laeger Kristina Wardelmann André Kleinridders Korinna Jöhrens Gerhard P. Püschel Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) including the severe form with steatohepatitis (NASH) are highly prevalent ailments to which no...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2711: Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome per the New International Evidence-Based Guideline Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112711 Authors: Annie W. Lin Maryam Kazemi Brittany Y. Jarrett Heidi Vanden Brink Kathleen M. Hoeger Steven D. Spandorfer Marla E. Lujan Lifestyle modifications are recommended as first-line therapy in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). However, usual dietary and physical activity...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2708: Effects of Nutrient Intake during Pregnancy and Lactation on the Endocrine Pancreas of the Offspring Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112708 Authors: Valentine Suzanne Moullé Patricia Parnet The pancreas has an essential role in the regulation of glucose homeostasis by secreting insulin, the only hormone with a blood glucose lowering effect in mammals. Several circulating molecules are able to positively or negatively influence insulin secretion. Among them,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2707: The Timing of Water and Beverage Consumption During the Day Among Children and Adults in the United States: Analyses of NHANES 2011–2016 Data Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112707 Authors: Florent Vieux Matthieu Maillot Colin D. Rehm Pamela Barrios Adam Drewnowski Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015–20 recommend replacing sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) with plain water in order to promote adequate hydration while reducing added sugar...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2706: Deriving the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score in Women from Seven Pregnancy Cohorts from the European ALPHABET Consortium Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112706 Authors: Adrien M. Aubert Anne Forhan Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain Ling-Wei Chen Kinga Polanska Wojciech Hanke Agnieszka Jankowska Sara M. Mensink-Bout Liesbeth Duijts Matthew Suderman Caroline L. Relton Sarah R. Crozier Nicholas C. Harvey Cyrus Cooper...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 225: Current Knowledge on Pathogenicity and Management of Stemphylium botryosum in Lentils (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris Medik) Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040225 Authors: Arpita Das Subrata Dutta Subhendu Jash Ashis Roy Barman Raju Das Shiv Kumar Sanjeev Gupta Stemphylium blight (SB) caused by Ascomycete, Stemphylium botryosum Wallr. has been a serious threat to lentil cultivation, mainly in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and Canada since...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 592: Extended Release Combination Antibiotic Therapy from a Bone Void Filling Putty for Treatment of Osteomyelitis Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110592 Authors: Hasan Schaner Schroeder Wohlers Shreffler Schaper Subramanian Brooks In spite of advances in Total Joint Replacements (TJR), infection remains a major concern and a primary causative factor for revision surgery. Current clinical standards treat these osteomyelitis...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 589: Preparation, Characterization, and In Vivo Pharmacokinetic Study of the Supercritical Fluid-Processed Liposomal Amphotericin B Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110589 Authors: Chang-baek Lim Sharif Md Abuzar Pankaj Ranjan Karn Wonkyung Cho Hee Jun Park Cheong-Weon Cho Sung-Joo Hwang Here, we aimed to prepare and optimize liposomal amphotericin B (AmB) while using the supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide (SCF-CO2) method and...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 590: Microfluidics-Assisted Size Tuning and Biological Evaluation of PLGA Particles Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110590 Authors: Maria Camilla Operti Yusuf Dölen Jibbe Keulen Eric A. W. van Dinther Carl G. Figdor Oya Tagit Polymeric particles made up of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers such as poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) are promising tools for several biomedical applications including drug delivery. Particular...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 588: Advances in Lipid and Metal Nanoparticles for Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110588 Authors: Marcin Makowski Ítala C. Silva Constança Pais do Amaral Sónia Gonçalves Nuno C. Santos Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been described as excellent candidates to overcome antibiotic resistance. Frequently, AMPs exhibit a wide therapeutic window, with low cytotoxicity and broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 587: IVIVC Assessment of Two Mouse Brain Endothelial Cell Models for Drug Screening Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110587 Authors: Ina Puscas Florian Bernard-Patrzynski Martin Jutras Marc-André Lécuyer Lyne Bourbonnière Alexandre Prat Grégoire Leclair V. Gaëlle Roullin Since most preclinical drug permeability assays across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) are still evaluated in rodents, we compared an in vitro mouse primary endothelial...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 591: Recent Progress and Advances of Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Dendrimers in Drug Delivery for Cancer Treatment Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110591 Authors: Ngoc Thuy Trang Le Thi Nhu Quynh Nguyen Van Du Cao Duc Thuan Hoang Van Cuong Ngo Thai Thanh Hoang Thi Despite the fact that nanocarriers as drug delivery systems overcome the limitation of chemotherapy, the leakage of encapsulated drugs during the delivery process to the target...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 586: C60 Fullerene as an Effective Nanoplatform of Alkaloid Berberine Delivery into Leukemic Cells Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110586 Authors: Anna Grebinyk Svitlana Prylutska Anatoliy Buchelnikov Nina Tverdokhleb Sergii Grebinyk Maxim Evstigneev Olga Matyshevska Vsevolod Cherepanov Yuriy Prylutskyy Valeriy Yashchuk Anton Naumovets Uwe Ritter Thomas Dandekar Marcus Frohme A herbal alkaloid Berberine (Ber),...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 150: Influence of Sales Promotion Techniques on Consumers’ Purchasing Decisions at Community Pharmacies Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7040150 Authors: Younes Ben Said Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Natalia Valeryevna Pyatigorskaya This research aims to identify the most prevalent and impactful sales promotion tools used by pharmaceutical companies on consumers’ purchasing decisions at community pharmacies. A cross-sectional study design was carried out...
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Philosophies, Vol. 4, Pages 58: Responsibility and Robot Ethics: A Critical Overview Philosophies doi: 10.3390/philosophies4040058 Authors: Loh This paper has three concerns: first, it represents an etymological and genealogical study of the phenomenon of responsibility. Secondly, it gives an overview of the three fields of robot ethics as a philosophical discipline and discusses the fundamental questions that arise within these three fields. Thirdly, it will be explained how in these...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 484: Effect of Elevated CO2 Concentration on the Disease Severity of Compatible and Incompatible Interactions of Brassica napus–Leptosphaeria maculans Pathosystem Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110484 Authors: Zou Liu Chen Fernando Global warming by increased atmospheric CO2 concentration has been widely accepted. Yet, there has not been any consistent conclusion on the doubled CO2 concentration that in the future will affect plant disease incidence and...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 483: New Aspects of HECT-E3 Ligases in Cell Senescence and Cell Death of Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110483 Authors: Wei Lan Ying Miao Plant cells undergo massive orderly changes in structure, biochemistry, and gene expression during cell senescence. These changes cannot be distinguished from the hydrolysis/degradation function controlled by the ubiquitination pathway, autophagy, and various hydrolases in cells. In this mini-review, we summarized current...
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Publications, Vol. 7, Pages 62: Third Mission as an Opportunity for Professionalization in Science Management Publications doi: 10.3390/publications7040062 Authors: Justus Henke With the rise of the Third Mission of universities, the role of science management, which itself has been growing steadily over the years, is gaining relevance for organizational success. Science managers possess exclusive knowledge of organizational processes and keep their own external networks; neither scientists...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 621: Religion and Sex as Factors of Individual Differences of Reification in an Intercultural-Community-Based Society Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110621 Authors: Olmos Gómez López Cordero Mohamed Mohand The objective of this study was to analyze individual differences of reification in an intercultural-community-based society while considering the variables of religion and sex in a sample of 1120 Spanish individuals: 810 women (72.5%) and 310 men (27.5%)....
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 620: “Beautiful and New”: The Logic of Complementarity in Hedwig and the Angry Inch Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110620 Authors: Adam Beyt This article suggests that reading John Cameron Mitchell’s musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch as a religious classic undermines the logic of complementarity within Catholic theological anthropology, particularly the Theology of the Body of John Paul II. A religious classic, a term coined by theologian David Tracy,...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 619: Living the Bhagavad Gita at Gandhi’s Ashrams Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110619 Authors: Karline McLain The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical Hindu scripture in which the god Krishna imparts lessons to the warrior prince Arjuna about sacred duty (dharma) and the path to spiritual liberation (moksha). This classical scripture has had a long and active interpretive life, and by the 19th century it had come to be regarded as a core text, if not the core text,...
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Resources, Vol. 8, Pages 172: Example of a German Free-Float Car-Sharing Company Expansion in East-Central Europe Resources doi: 10.3390/resources8040172 Authors: Árpád Tóth Cecília Szigeti This study examines the expansion of a German free-float car-sharing company in Hungary from financial and sustainability perspectives. BMW and Daimler recently created the joint ventures ShareNow, ChargeNow, ReachNow, FreeNow, and ParkNow, which are having a significant global impact, as their...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 94: Characterization and Lubrication of Tube-Guided Shape-Memory Alloy Actuators for Smart Textiles Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8040094 Authors: Tim Helps Adithya Vivek Jonathan Rossiter Smart textiles are flexible materials with interactive capabilities such as sensing, actuation, and computing, and in recent years have garnered considerable interest. Shape-memory alloy (SMA) wire is a well-suited for smart textiles due to its high strength, small size,...
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Safety, Vol. 5, Pages 81: Training Competences in Industrial Risk Prevention with Lego® Serious Play®: A Case Study Safety doi: 10.3390/safety5040081 Authors: Alberto Cerezo-Narváez Antonio Córdoba-Roldán Andrés Pastor-Fernández Francisco Aguayo-González Manuel Otero-Mateo Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez This paper proposes the use of the Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology as a facilitating tool for the introduction of competences for Industrial Risk Prevention...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 307: Ecological Citizens with a Movie Camera: Communitarian and Agonistic Environmental Documentaries Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8110307 Authors: Hedemann Environmental documentaries attained wider public and academic attention, especially in the aftermath of Al Gore’s prominent documentary on climate change An Inconvenient Truth. Making environmental documentaries is a cinematic form of political advocacy. However, there is a lack of...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 306: Email Based Institutional Network Analysis: Applications and Risks Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8110306 Authors: Christidis Losada Social Network Analysis can be applied to describe the patterns of communication within an organisation. We explore how extending standard methods, by accounting for the direction and volume of emails, can reveal information regarding the roles of individual members. We propose an approach that models certain...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 76: Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9040076 Authors: Shaun Grech An increasing body of literature has started to look at how disability impacts and shifts poverty in the global South in and through a range of areas, including health, education, and livelihoods. However, much of this research is limited to disabled individuals, while qualitative research focusing on...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 651: The Effect of Botulinum Toxin Injections on Gross Motor Function for Lower Limb Spasticity in Children with Cerebral Palsy Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11110651 Authors: Ja Young Choi Seung Ki Kim Eun Sook Park The aim of this study was to investigate the use of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) injections and their efficacy on gross motor function for lower limb spasticity in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). This retrospective study included 919...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 180: Immunogenicity and Protection from Receptor-Binding Domains of Toxins as Potential Vaccine Candidates for Clostridium difficile Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040180 Authors: Deyan Luo Xuechao Liu Li Xing Yakun Sun Jie Huang Liangyan Zhang Jiajia Li Hui Wang The receptor-binding domains (RBDs) located in toxin A and toxin B of Clostridium difficile are known to be nontoxic and immunogenic. We need to develop a new type vaccine based on...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 179: Disease Resurgence, Production Capability Issues and Safety Concerns in the Context of an Aging Population: Is There a Need for a New Yellow Fever Vaccine? Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040179 Authors: Kay M. Tomashek Mark Challberg Seema U. Nayak Helen F. Schiltz Yellow fever is a potentially fatal, mosquito-borne viral disease that appears to be experiencing a resurgence in endemic areas in Africa and South America and spreading to non-endemic...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1044: Transmissibility versus Pathogenicity of Self-Propagating Protein Aggregates Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111044 Authors: Byron Caughey Allison Kraus The prion-like spreading and accumulation of specific protein aggregates appear to be central to the pathogenesis of many human diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Accumulating evidence indicates that inoculation of tissue extracts from diseased individuals into suitable experimental...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1043: Seasonal Dynamics of Algae-Infecting Viruses and Their Inferred Interactions with Protists Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111043 Authors: Sandra Gran-Stadniczeñko Anders K. Krabberød Ruth-Anne Sandaa Sheree Yau Elianne Egge Bente Edvardsen Viruses are a highly abundant, dynamic, and diverse component of planktonic communities that have key roles in marine ecosystems. We aimed to reveal the diversity and dynamics of marine large dsDNA viruses infecting...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1041: Viruses in the Invasive Hornet Vespa velutina Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111041 Authors: Anne Dalmon Philippe Gayral Damien Decante Christophe Klopp Diane Bigot Maxime Thomasson Elisabeth A Herniou Cédric Alaux Yves Le Conte The Asian yellow-legged hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax, a major predator of honeybees, is spreading in Europe in part due to a lack of efficient control methods. In this study, as a first step to identify biological...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1042: Characterization of a Novel Thermobifida fusca Bacteriophage P318 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111042 Authors: Cheepudom Lin Lee Meng Thermobifida fusca is of biotechnological interest due to its ability to produce an array of plant cell wall hydrolytic enzymes. Nonetheless, only one T. fusca bacteriophage with genome information has been reported to date. This study was aimed at discovering more relevant bacteriophages to expand the existing knowledge...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1040: Genetic, Molecular, and Pathogenic Characterization of the H9N2 Avian Influenza Viruses Currently Circulating in South China Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111040 Authors: Hailiang Sun Jiate Lin Zhiting Liu Yanan Yu Meihua Wu Shuo Li Yang Liu Yaling Feng Yuqian Wu Mingliang Li Peirong Jiao Kaijian Luo Ming Liao The prevalence and variation of the H9N2 avian influenza virus (AIV) pose a threat to public health. A total of eight...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1039: Visualization of Positive and Negative Sense Viral RNA for Probing the Mechanism of Direct-Acting Antivirals against Hepatitis C Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111039 Authors: Dandan Liu Philip R. Tedbury Shuiyun Lan Andrew D. Huber Maritza N. Puray-Chavez Juan Ji Eleftherios Michailidis Mohsan Saeed Tanyaradzwa P. Ndongwe Leda C. Bassit Raymond F. Schinazi Robert Ralston Charles M. Rice Stefan G. Sarafianos RNA viruses...
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Vision, Vol. 3, Pages 60: The Horizontal Raphe of the Human Retina and its Watershed Zones Vision doi: 10.3390/vision3040060 Authors: Christian Albrecht May Paul Rutkowski The horizontal raphe (HR) as a demarcation line dividing the retina and choroid into separate vascular hemispheres is well established, but its development has never been discussed in the context of new findings of the last decades. Although factors for axon guidance are established (e.g., slit-robo pathway, ephrin-protein-receptor...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2352: Streamflow and Sediment Declines in a Loess Hill and Gully Landform Basin Due to Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Activities Water doi: 10.3390/w11112352 Authors: Qingrui Chang Chi Zhang Song Zhang Binquan Li Streamflow and sediment runoff are important indicators for the changes in hydrological processes. In the context of environmental changes, decreases in both streamflow and sediment (especially in the flood season) are often observed in...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2350: Environmentally Sensitive Elements in Groundwater of an Industrial Town in India: Spatial Distribution and Human Health Risk Water doi: 10.3390/w11112350 Authors: Singh Thind Sharma SashikantaSahoo John This paper presents the results of a study to assess the groundwater quality in an industrial town located in Punjab, India. A total of 99 samples of groundwater were analyzed during the premonsoon and postmonsoon periods of 2018, which revealed...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2351: Reduction of Potable Water Consumption and Sewage Generation on a City Scale: A Case Study in Brazil Water doi: 10.3390/w11112351 Authors: Roberta Jacoby Cureau Enedir Ghisi This article aims to estimate the reduction of potable water consumption and sewage generation in the city of Joinville, southern Brazil. Four strategies were considered to promote potable water savings: replacement of conventional toilets with dual-flush ones, greywater reuse, rainwater...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2349: Endemic Freshwater Fish Range Shifts Related to Global Climate Changes: A Long-Term Study Provides Some Observational Evidence for the Mediterranean Area Water doi: 10.3390/w11112349 Authors: Carosi Padula Ghetti Lorenzoni Climate changes will lead to a worsening of the ecological conditions, in terms of hydrological instability and rising water temperatures, of the Mediterranean rivers. Freshwater fishes inhabiting this area can be threatened...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2348: Contribution of the Amazon River Discharge to Regional Sea Level in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean Water doi: 10.3390/w11112348 Authors: Pierrick Giffard William Llovel Julien Jouanno Guillaume Morvan Bertrand Decharme The Amazon River is by far the largest river by volume of water in the world, representing around 17% of the global riverine discharge to the oceans. Recent studies suggested that its impact on sea level is potentially important at...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2347: Simulation of Climate Change Impact on A Coastal Aquifer under Arid Climate. The Tadjourah Aquifer (Republic of Djibouti, Horn of Africa) Water doi: 10.3390/w11112347 Authors: Moumtaz Razack Mohamed Jalludin Abdourahman Houmed-Gaba The Republic of Djibouti has an area of 23,000 km2, a coastline 370 km long and a population of 820,000 inhabitants. It experiences an arid climate characterized by high daytime temperatures and low and irregular rainfall...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2345: A Method for Estimating Urban Flood-Carrying Capacity Using the VIS-W Underlying Surface Model: A Case Study from Wuhan, China Water doi: 10.3390/w11112345 Authors: Hongping Zhang Xinwen Cheng Lei Jin Dong Zhao Tianjing Feng Kun Zheng In 2016, 192 cities, including Wuhan, Nanjing, and Jiujiang, suffered from severe flooding, which raised social and government concerns in China. This paper proposes a method based on the underlying surface to...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2344: Wastewater Treatment by Constructed Wetland Eco-Technology: Influence of Mineral and Plastic Materials as Filter Media and Tropical Ornamental Plants Water doi: 10.3390/w11112344 Authors: Sergio Zamora J. Luis Marín-Muñíz Carlos Nakase-Rodríguez Gregorio Fernández-Lambert Luis Sandoval Constructed wetlands (CWs) are sustainable technologies where the channels are filled with porous material and plants, which collectively remove pollutants, depending...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2346: Bed Shear Stress Influence on Local Scour Geometry Properties in Various Flume Development Conditions Water doi: 10.3390/w11112346 Authors: Kiraga Popek Numerous approaches in sediment mobility studies highlighted the key meaning of channel roughness, which results not only from bed material granulation but also from various bed forms presence, caused by continuous sediment transport. Those forms are strictly connected with the intensity of particle transport,...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2343: Experimental and Numerical Analysis on Hydraulic Characteristics of Coastal Aquifers with Seawall Water doi: 10.3390/w11112343 Authors: Woo-Dong Lee Young-Jae Yoo Yeon-Myeong Jeong Dong-Soo Hur In this study, hydraulic model experiments were conducted to measure the saltwater–freshwater equilibrium interface in a coastal aquifer with underground obstructions such as an impermeable seawall. To analyse the hydraulic characteristics inside the coastal...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2340: Effect of Deficit Irrigation on Nitrogen Uptake of Sunflower in the Low Desert Region of California Water doi: 10.3390/w11112340 Authors: Mohamed Galal Eltarabily John M. Burke Khaled M. Bali Nitrogen (N) accounts for more than 80% of the total mineral nutrients absorbed by plants and it is the most widely limiting element for crop production, particularly under water deficit conditions. For a comprehensive understanding of sunflower Helianthus annuus...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2341: The Low-Impact Development Demand Index: A New Approach to Identifying Locations for LID Water doi: 10.3390/w11112341 Authors: Sarah Kaykhosravi Karen Abogadil Usman T. Khan Mojgan A. Jadidi The primary goal of low impact development (LID) is to capture urban stormwater runoff; however, multiple indirect benefits (environmental and socioeconomic benefits) also exist (e.g., improvements to human health and decreased air pollution). Identifying sites...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2342: Activated Carbon from Yam Peels Modified with Fe3O4 for Removal of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid in Aqueous Solution Water doi: 10.3390/w11112342 Authors: Udualdo Herrera-García Jefferson Castillo David Patiño-Ruiz Ricardo Solano Adriana Herrera The removal of organic pollutants from water sources can be enhanced using suitable adsorbents. The aim of this research was to study the adsorption capacity and potential reuse of a magnetic adsorbent...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2339: Chromaticity Measurement Based on the Image Method and Its Application in Water Quality Detection Water doi: 10.3390/w11112339 Authors: Pingping Cao Yuanyang Zhu Wenzhu Zhao Sheng Liu Hongwen Gao In order to measure the chromaticity of water and the content of dissolved matter more accurately, effectively, and cheaply, a chromaticity measurement system based on the image method was proposed and applied. The measurement system used the designed...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2338: Greenhouse and Nursery Water Management Characterization and Research Priorities in the USA Water doi: 10.3390/w11112338 Authors: Sarah A. White James S. Owen John C. Majsztrik Lorence R. Oki Paul R. Fisher Charles R. Hall John D. Lea-Cox R. Thomas Fernandez Nursery, floriculture, and propagation production accounted for 79% ($13.3 Billion) of 2017 ornamental specialty crop production in the United States. Access to high quality water...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2337: Social and Economic Aspects of Water Use in Specialty Crop Production in the USA: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w11112337 Authors: John C. Majsztrik Bridget Behe Charles R. Hall Dewayne L. Ingram Alexa J. Lamm Laura A. Warner Sarah A. White Understanding human behavior is a complicated and complex endeavor. Academicians and practitioners need to understand the underlying beliefs and motivations to identify current trends and to effectively...
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