Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 41: Effects of a Remote Antimicrobial Stewardship Program on Antimicrobial Use in a Regional Hospital System Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8010041 Authors: Joshua Knight Jessica Michal Stephanie Milliken Jenna Swindler While antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are well established at most large medical centers, small or rural facilities often do not have the same resources; therefore, different methods must be developed to start or expand ASPs for...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 364: Screening of Chilli Pepper Genotypes as a Source of Capsaicinoids and Antioxidants under Conditions of Simulated Drought Stress Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030364 Authors: Tomas Kopta Agnieszka Sekara Robert Pokluda Vojtech Ferby Gianluca Caruso In many regions of the world, the production of vegetable crops is limited by a deepening water crisis. Drought stress affects productivity and the chemical composition of crops. The variability of drought...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 365: The 21st Century Agriculture: When Rice Research Draws Attention to Climate Variability and How Weedy Rice and Underutilized Grains Come in Handy Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030365 Authors: Hanafiah Mispan Lim Baisakh Cheng Rice, the first crop to be fully sequenced and annotated in the mid-2000s, is an excellent model species for crop research due mainly to its relatively small genome and rich genetic diversity. The 130-million-year-old cereal...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 366: The Role of Root Exudates of Barley Colonized by Pseudomonas fluorescens in Enhancing Root Colonization by Fusarium culmorum Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030366 Authors: Vishnevskaya Shakhnazarova Shaposhnikov Strunnikova The aim of this study was to find out why after joint inoculation of the substrate with the phytopathogenic fungus Fusarium culmorum and the antagonistic bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens the amount of the fungus on the root surface...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 363: Photosynthetic Response Mechanism of Soil Salinity-Induced Cross-Tolerance to Subsequent Drought Stress in Tomato Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030363 Authors: Xiaolong Yang Yangyang Li Hangbing Chen Juan Huang Yumeng Zhang Mingfang Qi Yufeng Liu Tianlai Li Soil salinization and water shortage cause ion imbalance and hyperosmoticity in plant cells, adversely impairing photosynthesis efficiency. How soil salinity-induced photosynthetic...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 131: Overt and Covert Buddhism: The Two Faces of University-Based Buddhism in Beijing Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030131 Authors: Joseph Chadwin As more and more students in China turn to religion, it follows that an increasing number of students in Chinese universities self-identify as Buddhist. Chinese academia has a tendency to treat this as problematic, offering reasons for this trend as well as solutions but neglecting to examine the nature of student belief...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 132: Emotional State of Parents of Children Diagnosed with Cancer: Examining Religious and Meaning-Focused Coping Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030132 Authors: Natalia Ziółkowska Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz Ewa Gruszczyńska For parents, a child’s oncological disease is a critical life event with a high burdening potential, which changes the functioning of the whole family on many different levels. It triggers various coping strategies with this...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 133: Introduction: Fashion/Religion Interfaces Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030133 Authors: Anna-Mari Almila The complex interconnections between religious beliefs and fashion in clothing have been increasingly recognised by researchers, already since the ‘new veiling’ phenomenon spread across the Muslim world in the 1970s (El-Guindi 1981, 1999; MacLeod 1987, 1992), and especially since the extreme politicisation of the Muslim veil in the...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 130: White Womanhood and/as American Empire in Arrival and Annihilation Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030130 Authors: Meghan Johnston Aelabouni American science fiction stories, such as U.S. historical narratives, often give central place to white, Western male subjects as noble explorers, benevolent colonizers, and border-guarding patriots. This constructed subjectivity renders colonized or cultural others as potentially threatening aliens, and it works alongside...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 14: Cobot with Prismatic Compliant Joint Intended for Doppler Sonography Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9010014 Authors: Juan Sandoval Med Amine Laribi Saïd Zeghloul Marc Arsicault Jean-Michel Guilhem This paper deals with a collaborative robot, i.e., cobot, coupled with a new prismatic compliant joint (PCJ) at its end-effector. The proposed collaborative solution is intended for Doppler sonography to prevent musculoskeletal disorders issues. On one...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 15: Images of Roman Imperial Denarii: A Curated Data Set for the Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms Applied to Ancient Numismatics, and an Overview of Challenges in the Field Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010015 Authors: Ognjen Arandjelović Automatic ancient Roman coin analysis only recently emerged as a topic of computer science research. Nevertheless, owing to its ever-increasing popularity, the field is already reaching a certain degree of maturity, as witnessed by...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 187: Biological Activities and Proteomic Profile of the Venom of Vipera ursinii ssp., a very Rare Karst Viper from Croatia Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030187 Authors: Maja Lang Balija Adrijana Leonardi Marija Brgles Dora Sviben Tihana Kurtović Beata Halassy Igor Križaj The karst viper (Vipera ursinii ssp.) favours high-mountain dry grasslands in southern and south-eastern Croatia. It is medically less important than other Vipera species, because...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 188: The Influence of the Different Disposition Characteristics of Snake Toxins on the Pharmacokinetics of Snake Venom Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030188 Authors: Suchaya Sanhajariya Geoffrey K. Isbister Stephen B. Duffull Snake venom is comprised of a combination of different proteins and peptides with a wide range of molecular weights and different disposition processes inherent to each compound. This causes venom to have a complex exposure profile. Our...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 185: Klotho/FGF23 and Wnt Signaling as Important Players in the Comorbidities Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030185 Authors: Juan Rafael Muñoz-Castañeda Cristian Rodelo-Haad Maria Victoria Pendon-Ruiz de Mier Alejandro Martin-Malo Rafael Santamaria Mariano Rodriguez Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF23) and Klotho play an essential role in the regulation of mineral metabolism, and both are altered as a consequence...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 186: The Pharmacological Mechanism of Diabetes Mellitus-Associated Overactive Bladder and Its Treatment with Botulinum Toxin A Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030186 Authors: Chung-Cheng Wang Yung-Hong Jiang Hann-Chorng Kuo Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an independent risk factor for overactive bladder (OAB). The pathophysiology of DM-associated OAB is multifactorial and time-dependent. Diabetic bladder dysfunction is highly associated with diabetic complications,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 130: Design of an Epitope-Based Vaccine Ensemble for Animal Trypanosomiasis by Computational Methods Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010130 Authors: Lucas Michel-Todó Pascal Bigey Pedro A Reche María-Jesus Pinazo Joaquim Gascón Julio Alonso-Padilla African animal trypanosomiasis is caused by vector-transmitted parasites of the genus Trypanosoma. T. congolense and T. brucei brucei are predominant in Africa; T. evansi and T. vivax in America and Asia....
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 129: An Antibody Persistent and Protective Two rSsCLP-Based Subunit Cocktail Vaccine against Sarcoptes scabiei in a Rabbit Model Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010129 Authors: Nengxing Shen Wenrui Wei Yuhang Chen Yongjun Ren Lang Xiong Yuanyuan Tao Xiaobin Gu Yue Xie Xuerong Peng Guangyou Yang Scabies is a highly contagious disease caused by Sarcoptes scabiei which burrows into stratum corneum of host’s skin. In this study,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 314: Suramin Inhibits Chikungunya Virus Replication by Interacting with Virions and Blocking the Early Steps of Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030314 Authors: Albulescu White-Scholten Tas Hoornweg Ferla Kovacikova Smit Brancale Snijder van Hemert Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that can cause a debilitating disease that is primarily characterized by persistent joint pain. CHIKV has been emerging...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 320: Feline Parvovirus Seroprevalence Is High in Domestic Cats from Disease Outbreak and Non-Outbreak Regions in Australia Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030320 Authors: Elizabeth Jenkins Conor Davis Maura Carrai Michael P. Ward Susan O’Keeffe Martine van van Boeijen Louise Beveridge Costantina Desario Canio Buonavoglia Julia A. Beatty Nicola Decaro Vanessa R. Barrs Multiple, epizootic outbreaks of feline panleukopenia (FPL) caused by...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 318: High Prevalence of Rotavirus A in Raw Sewage Samples from Northeast Spain Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030318 Authors: Marcelle Silva-Sales Sandra Martínez-Puchol Eloy Gonzales-Gustavson Ayalkibet Hundesa Rosina Gironès Rotavirus A (RVA) is the most common virus associated with infantile gastroenteritisworldwide, being a public health threat, as it is excreted in large amounts in stool and can persist inthe environment for extended periods. In this...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 316: Outbreak of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus 1 in Taiwan Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030316 Authors: Wei-Hao Lin Kraijak Kaewprom Sheng-Yuan Wang Chuen-Fu Lin Cheng-Yao Yang Ming-Tang Chiou Chao-Nan Lin Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) causes significant economic lossesin the swine industry worldwide. The PRRS virus (PRRSV) can be divided into two species, PRRSV1 (European) and PRRSV 2 (North American)....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 319: A Turkey-origin H9N2 Avian Influenza Virus Shows Low Pathogenicity but Different Within-Host Diversity in Experimentally Infected Turkeys, Quail and Ducks Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030319 Authors: Edyta Świętoń Karolina Tarasiuk Monika Olszewska-Tomczyk Ewelina Iwan Śmietanka Avian influenza virus (AIV) is a highly diverse and widespread poultry pathogen. Itsevolution and adaptation may be affected by multiple host and ecological factors, which...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 317: Investigating the Diversity of Marine Bacteriophage in Contrasting Water Masses Associated with the East Australian Current (EAC) System Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030317 Authors: Amaranta Focardi Martin Ostrowski Kirianne Goossen Mark V. Brown Ian Paulsen Virus- and bacteriophage-induced mortality can have a significant impact on marine productivity and alter the flux of nutrients in marine microbial food-webs. Viral mediated horizontal gene transfer...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 315: Construction and Immunogenicity of Virus-Like Particles of Feline Parvovirus from the Tiger Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030315 Authors: Cuicui Jiao Hongliang Zhang Wei Liu Hongli Jin Di Liu Jian Zhao Na Feng Chuanmei Zhang Jing Shi Feline panleukopenia, caused by feline parvovirus (FPV), is a highly infectious disease characterized by leucopenia and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis that severely affects the health of large wild Felidae. In...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 835: Multi-Objective Approach for Determining Optimal Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Combination at City Scale. The Case of San Luis Potosí (México) Water doi: 10.3390/w12030835 Authors: Sergio Zubelzu Leonor Rodríguez-Sinobas Alvaro Sordo-Ward Alan Pérez-Durán Rodolfo Cisneros-Almazán A method for determining the optimal Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDs) combination at city scale is presented in this paper. A comprehensive set of SUDs categories...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 839: The Effect of Hydrology on Soil Erosion Water doi: 10.3390/w12030839 Authors: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino José María Senciales-González José Damián Ruiz-Sinoga In this Special Issue, we have tried to include manuscripts about soil erosion anddegradation processes and the accelerated rates due to hydrological processes and climate change.We considered that the main goal was successfully reached. The new research focused onmeasurements, modelling, and experiments...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 838: Unsustainability Syndrome—From Meteorological to Agricultural Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions Water doi: 10.3390/w12030838 Authors: Ali Torabi Haghighi Nizar Abou Zaki Pekka M. Rossi Roohollah Noori Ali Akbar Hekmatzadeh Hossein Saremi Bjørn Kløve Water is the most important resource for sustainable agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions, where agriculture is the mainstay for rural societies. By relating the water usage to renewable...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 834: Copula-Based Multivariate Frequency Analysis of the 2012–2018 Drought in Northeast Brazil Water doi: 10.3390/w12030834 Authors: João Dehon Pontes Filho Francisco de Assis Souza Filho Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart The 2012–2018 drought was such an extreme event in the drought-prone area of Northeast Brazil that it triggered a discussion about proactive drought management. This paper aims at understanding...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 837: Lag in Hydrologic Recovery Following Extreme Meteorological Drought Events: Implications for Ecological Water Requirements Water doi: 10.3390/w12030837 Authors: Qiang Liu Xiaojing Ma Sirui Yan Liqiao Liang Jihua Pan Junlong Zhang Hydrological regimes, being strongly impacted by climate change, play a vital role in maintaining the integrity of aquatic river habitats. We investigated lag in hydrologic recovery following extreme meteorological drought...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 836: Hydrochemical Characteristics of Groundwater and Dominant Water–Rock Interactions in the Delingha Area, Qaidam Basin, Northwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030836 Authors: Biao Zhang Dan Zhao Pengpeng Zhou Shen Qu Fu Liao Guangcai Wang Groundwater is undoubtedly important for water supplies and eco-environment protection, especially for arid and semi-arid regions. Analyzing the characteristics and evolution of groundwater is significant for the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 833: Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models Water doi: 10.3390/w12030833 Authors: Ernest Amoussou Hervé Awoye Henri S. Totin Vodounon Salomon Obahoundje Pierre Camberlin Arona Diedhiou Kouakou Kouadio Gil Mahé Constant Houndénou Michel Boko This study characterizes the future changes in extreme rainfall and air temperature in the Mono river basin...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 832: Fractal-Heuristic Method of Water Quality Sensor Locations in Water Supply Network Water doi: 10.3390/w12030832 Authors: Kowalska Beata Kowalski Dariusz Hołota Ewa The article presents a new methodology for the selection of the water quality monitoring sensor locations using the water quality model created by means of the EPANET 2.0 software (United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Durham, NC, USA). The model represents the propagation...
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