Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 143: The Academic Mobility of Students from Kazakhstan to Japan: Problems and Prospects Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9080143 Authors: Aktolkyn Rustemova Serik Meirmanov Akito Okada Zhanar Ashinova Kamshat Rustem Background: Despite the internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Kazakhstan and it being among the top 15 countries sending students abroad, the level of student mobility between Kazakhstan and Japan and factors influencing...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 114: No Effects of New Zealand Blackcurrant Extract on Physiological and Performance Responses in Trained Male Cyclists Undertaking Repeated Testing across a Week Period Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8080114 Authors: Stefano Montanari Mehmet A. Şahin Ben J. Lee Sam D. Blacker Mark E.T. Willems Anthocyanin supplements are receiving attention due to purported benefits to physiological, metabolic, and exercise responses in trained individuals. However, the...
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Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 57: Phthalates, Para-Hydroxybenzoic Acids, Bisphenol-A, and Gonadal Hormones’ Effects on Susceptibility to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030057 Authors: Ching-Shu Tsai Wen-Jiun Chou Sheng-Yu Lee Min-Jing Lee Miao-Chun Chou Liang-Jen Wang This study aimed to examine whether endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), such as phthalates, para-hydroxybenzoic acids, and bisphenol-A (BPA), affect gonadal hormones and further...
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Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 56: The Immunotoxicity of Chronic Exposure to High Levels of Lead: An Ex Vivo Investigation Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030056 Authors: Kawinsaya Pukanha Supabhorn Yimthiang Wiyada Kwanhian Lead (Pb) is a toxic metal known for its wide-ranging adverse health effects. However, a compound of Pb is still used in the caulking process to repair wooden fishing boats. The present study aimed to measure Pb exposure and its immunologic effects in boatyard workers in...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 518: The Proposed Neurotoxin β-N-Methylamino-l-Alanine (BMAA) Is Taken up through Amino-Acid Transport Systems in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080518 Authors: Zi-Qian Wang Suqin Wang Ju-Yuan Zhang Gui-Ming Lin Nanqin Gan Lirong Song Xiaoli Zeng Cheng-Cai Zhang Produced by cyanobacteria and some plants, BMAA is considered as an important environmental factor in the occurrence of some neurodegenerative diseases....
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 519: Production of Recombinant Gelonin Using an Automated Liquid Chromatography System Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080519 Authors: Maria E. B. Berstad Lawrence H. Cheung Anette Weyergang Advances in recombinant DNA technology have opened up new possibilities of exploiting toxic proteins for therapeutic purposes. Bringing forth these protein toxins from the bench to the bedside strongly depends on the availability of production methods that are reproducible,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 453: The Age of Cyclic Dinucleotide Vaccine Adjuvants Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030453 Authors: Himanshu Gogoi Samira Mansouri Lei Jin As prophylactic vaccine adjuvants for infectious diseases, cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) induce safe, potent, long-lasting humoral and cellular memory responses in the systemic and mucosal compartments. As therapeutic cancer vaccine adjuvants, CDNs induce potent anti-tumor immunity, including cytotoxic T cells and NK cells...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 111: Prevalence of the Microsporidian Nosema spp. in Honey Bee Populations (Apis mellifera) in Some Ecological Regions of North Asia Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030111 Authors: Nadezhda V. Ostroverkhova Olga L. Konusova Aksana N. Kucher Tatyana N. Kireeva Svetlana A. Rosseykina Two species of microsporidia, Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae, are obligate intracellular parasites that are widespread in the world and cause the infectious...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 889: Phylogenetic Characterization of Arboviruses in Patients Suffering from Acute Fever in Rondônia, Brazil Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080889 Authors: Jackson Alves da Silva Queiroz Luan Felipo Botelho-Souza Felipe Souza Nogueira-Lima Rita de Cássia Pontello Rampazzo Marco Aurélio Krieger Miriam Ribas Zambenedetti Fabricio Klerinton Marchini Ivo Alberto Borghetti Dhelio Batista Pereira Juan Miguel Vilalobos Salcedo Deusilene Souza Vieira...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 888: How HIV-1 Gag Manipulates Its Host Cell Proteins: A Focus on Interactors of the Nucleocapsid Domain Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080888 Authors: Jéromine Klingler Halina Anton Eléonore Réal Manon Zeiger Christiane Moog Yves Mély Emmanuel Boutant The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) polyprotein Gag (Group-specific antigen) plays a central role in controlling the late phase of the viral lifecycle. Considered to be only a scaffolding protein...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 885: Low-Level Ionizing Radiation Induces Selective Killing of HIV-1-Infected Cells with Reversal of Cytokine Induction Using mTOR Inhibitors Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080885 Authors: Daniel O. Pinto Catherine DeMarino Thy T. Vo Maria Cowen Yuriy Kim Michelle L. Pleet Robert A. Barclay Nicole Noren Hooten Michele K. Evans Alonso Heredia Elena V. Batrakova Sergey Iordanskiy Fatah Kashanchi HIV-1 infects 39.5 million people worldwide,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 886: Synthesis of Full-Length cDNA Infectious Clones of Soybean Mosaic Virus and Functional Identification of a Key Amino Acid in the Silencing Suppressor Hc-Pro Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080886 Authors: Wenhua Bao Ting Yan Xiaoyi Deng Hada Wuriyanghan Soybean mosaic virus (SMV), which belongs to the Potyviridae, causes significant reductions in soybean yield and seed quality. In this study, both tag-free and reporter gene green fluorescent protein (GFP)-containing...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 887: Extracellular Vesicles in Viral Replication and Pathogenesis and Their Potential Role in Therapeutic Intervention Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080887 Authors: Asit Kumar Sunitha Kodidela Erene Tadrous Theodore James Cory Crystal Martin Walker Amber Marie Smith Ahona Mukherjee Santosh Kumar Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown their potential as a carrier of molecular information, and they have been involved in physiological functions and...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 884: Silencing and Transcriptional Regulation of Endogenous Retroviruses: An Overview Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080884 Authors: Franziska K. Geis Stephen P. Goff Almost half of the human genome is made up of transposable elements (TEs), and about 8% consists of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). ERVs are remnants of ancient exogenous retrovirus infections of the germ line. Most TEs are inactive and not detrimental to the host. They are tightly regulated to ensure...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 37: Foreground Scattering Elimination by Inverse Lock-in-Like Spatial Modulation Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4030037 Authors: Yueyu Lin Sune Svanberg We describe a simple approach to enhance vision, which is impaired by close range obscuring and/or scattering structures. Such structures may be found on a dirty windscreen of a car, or by tree branches blocking the vision of objects behind. The main idea is to spatially modulate the obscuration, either by periodically...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 36: Intraocular Pressure Rise Linked to Silicone Oil in Retinal Surgery: A Review Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4030036 Authors: Michele Nicolai Nicola Lassandro Alessandro Franceschi Alessandro Rosati Serena De Turris Paolo Pelliccioni Vittorio Pirani Cesare Mariotti Silicone oil represents the main choice for intraocular tamponade in cases of complicated retinal detachment surgery. The intraocular pressure of an eye filled with silicone oil could...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2283: Analyses of Runoff and Sediment Transport and their Drivers in a Rare Earth Mine Drainage Basin of the Yangtze River, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12082283 Authors: Youcun Liu Qianqian Ding Ming Chen Lirong Zhong David Labat Ming Zhang Yimin Mao Yongtao Li A comprehensive analysis of the effects of major climate conditions such as El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and precipitation on changes in runoff and sediment transport in a basin...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2282: Integrating Sustainable Water Resource Management and Land Use Decision-Making Water doi: 10.3390/w12082282 Authors: Heidi L. N. Moltz Carlington W. Wallace Erfaneh Sharifi Karin Bencala Human uses of land and water are directly linked and must, therefore, be managed with each other in mind. This paper puts forward an approach for integrating sustainable water resource management into local land use decision-making in the Potomac basin. The approach...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2281: Experimental and Numerical Analyses on Mixing Uniformity of Water and Saline in Pipe Flow Water doi: 10.3390/w12082281 Authors: Bin Sun Yuanbo Lu Quan Liu Hongyuan Fang Chao Zhang Jinping Zhang Liquid—liquid mixing is commonly observed in many applications such as the chlorination of water supplies and the agricultural fertigation. In order to study the mixing law of water-chlorine or water-fertilizer in a turbulent pipeline, saline...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2279: Which Aspects of Hydrological Regime in Mid-Latitude Montane Basins Are Affected by Climate Change? Water doi: 10.3390/w12082279 Authors: Jakub Langhammer Jana Bernsteinová This study analyzed the long-term alterations in runoff regime, seasonality and variability in headwater montane basins in Central Europe in response to the manifestations of climate change. We tested the common hypotheses on climate change effects on surface runoff dynamics in the Central...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2278: Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter and Its Role in Lake Eutrophication at the Early Stage of Algal Blooms—A Case Study of Lake Taihu, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12082278 Authors: Shuhang Wang Wenwen Wang Junyi Chen Bo Zhang Li Zhao Xia Jiang Decaying algal blooms in eutrophic lakes can introduce organic matter into the water and change nutrient concentrations in the water column. The spatial distribution and composition characteristics,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2277: Minimal Building Flood Fragility and Loss Function Portfolio for Resilience Analysis at the Community Level Water doi: 10.3390/w12082277 Authors: Omar M. Nofal John W. van de van de Lindt Current flood vulnerability analyses rely on deterministic methods (e.g., stage–damage functions) to quantify resulting damage and losses to the built environment. While such approaches have been used extensively by communities, they do not enable the propagation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2280: Seasonal and Interannual Trends of Oceanographic Parameters over 40 Years in the Northern Adriatic Sea in Relation to Nutrient Loadings Using the EMODnet Chemistry Data Portal Water doi: 10.3390/w12082280 Authors: Federica Grilli Stefano Accoroni Francesco Acri Fabrizio Bernardi Bernardi Aubry Caterina Bergami Marina Cabrini Alessandra Campanelli Michele Giani Stefano Guicciardi Mauro Marini Francesca Neri Antonella Penna Pierluigi...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2275: Microclimate Characteristics and Evapotranspiration Estimates of Cucumber Plants in a Newly Developed Sunken Solar Greenhouse Water doi: 10.3390/w12082275 Authors: Haijun Liu Congyan Yin Xiaodong Hu Josef Tanny Xiaopei Tang In north China, vegetables are always cultivated in conventional solar greenhouses (SG), however, these structures cannot be used during most of the winter due to extremely low temperatures. In this study, a new type of a solar...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2274: A Compound Approach for Monthly Runoff Forecasting Based on Multiscale Analysis and Deep Network with Sequential Structure Water doi: 10.3390/w12082274 Authors: Chen Dong Cao Guo Accurate runoff forecasting is of great significance for the optimization of water resource management and regulation. Given such a challenge, a novel compound approach combining time-varying filtering-based empirical mode decomposition (TVFEMD), sample entropy (SE)-based...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2276: Effect of Pulse Drip Irrigation Duration on Water Distribution Uniformity Water doi: 10.3390/w12082276 Authors: David Lozano Natividad Ruiz Rafael Baeza Juana I. Contreras Pedro Gavilán Developing an appropriate irrigation schedule is essential in order to save water while at the same time maintaining high crop yields. The standard procedures of the field evaluation of distribution uniformity do not take into account the effects of the filling...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2272: Response of Soil Water Dynamics to Rainfall on A Collapsing Gully Slope: Based on Continuous Multi-Depth Measurements Water doi: 10.3390/w12082272 Authors: Zhi-Yun Jiang Xue-Dan Wang Si-Yi Zhang Bin He Xiao-Li Zhao Fan-Ling Kong Dan Feng Yu-Chao Zeng Soil water conditions play an important role in the formation of a collapsing gully, but we are still at the early stages of understanding how the soil water changes on the slope after different...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2273: Enhanced Sulfamerazine Removal via Adsorption–Photocatalysis Using Bi2O3–TiO2/PAC Ternary Nanoparticles Water doi: 10.3390/w12082273 Authors: Xiaoxuan Zhuang Xing Li Yanling Yang Nan Wang Yi Shang Zhiwei Zhou Jiaqi Li Huiping Wang The presence of sulfonamides (SAs) in water has received increasing attention due to the risk to ecosystems. The adsorption and photocatalysis performance for sulfamerazine (SMZ) of Bi2O3–TiO2 supported...
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