Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2742: The Association between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentration and Disability Trajectories in Very Old Adults: The Newcastle 85+ Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12092742 Authors: Sarah Hakeem Nuno Mendonca Terry Aspray Andrew Kingston Carmen Ruiz-Martin Carol Jagger John C. Mathers Rachel Duncan Tom R. Hill Background: Low vitamin D status is common in very old adults which may have adverse consequences for muscle function, a major predictor...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2743: Milk Intake and Stroke Mortality in the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study—A Bayesian Survival Analysis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12092743 Authors: Chaochen Wang Hiroshi Yatsuya Yingsong Lin Tae Sasakabe Sayo Kawai Shogo Kikuchi Hiroyasu Iso Akiko Tamakoshi The aim of this study was to further examine the relationship between milk intake and stroke mortality among the Japanese population. We used data from the Japan Collaborative Cohort...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2741: Effect of Physical Exercise on Taste Perceptions: A Systematic Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12092741 Authors: Alexandre-Charles Gauthier Roseane de Fátima Guimarães Khoosheh Namiranian Vicky Drapeau Marie-Eve Mathieu The effect of physical exercise on nutrition has gained substantial interest in the last decade. Meaningful results have been produced concerning the effect of physical exercise on different appetite hormones and food choice/preference....
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2740: Carrot Pomace Polysaccharide (CPP) Improves Influenza Vaccine Efficacy in Immunosuppressed Mice via Dendritic Cell Activation Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12092740 Authors: Pureum Sun Yeeun Kim Hoyoung Lee Jihyun Kim Bok Kyung Han Eunbyeol Go Somin Kwon Ju-Gyeong Kang Sooseong You Jaeyul Kwon Despite the advancements in vaccination research and practices, influenza viruses remain a global health concern. Inducing a robust immune...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 745: Classical Swine Fever: A Truly Classical Swine Disease Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090745 Authors: Fun-In Wang Chia-Yi Chang Recent reemergence of classical swine fever (CSF) in previous CSF-free areas reminds the veterinary community of this old disease [...]
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 744: Comparative Analysis of Infection by Rickettsia rickettsii Sheila Smith and Taiaçu Strains in a Murine Model Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090744 Authors: Eliane Esteves Chanida Fongsaran Ingeborg M. Langohr Sean P. Riley Marcelo B. Labruna Sirlei Daffre Andréa C. Fogaça Kevin R. Macaluso Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a life-threatening tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, which is widely distributed throughout...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 742: Assessing Campylobacter Colonization of Broiler Herds Ante Mortem and Monitoring Campylobacter Contamination Post Mortem by qPCR Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090742 Authors: Gudrun Overesch Katrin Haas Peter Kuhnert Human campylobacteriosis is the most prevalent zoonosis, with chicken meat contributing substantially to the number of cases. Measures to avoid or at least reduce exposure by meat contaminated with Campylobacter (C.) spp. are needed....
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 741: Determination of the Infectious Agent of Translucent Post-Larva Disease (TPD) in Penaeus vannamei Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090741 Authors: Ying Zou Guosi Xie Tianchang Jia Tingting Xu Chong Wang Xiaoyuan Wan Yingxia Li Kun Luo Xiaodong Bian Xiuhua Wang Jie Kong Qingli Zhang A new emerging disease called “translucent post-larvae disease” (TPD) or “glass post-larvae disease” (GPD)...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 743: Current Perspectives on Uniparental Mitochondrial Inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090743 Authors: Amber R. Matha Xiaorong Lin The mitochondrion is a vital organelle in most eukaryotic cells. It contains its own DNA which differs from nuclear DNA, since it is often inherited from only one parent during sexual reproduction. In anisogamous mammals, this is largely due to the fact that the oocyte has over 1000 times...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 740: Nematocidal Effects of a Coriander Essential Oil and Five Pure Principles on the Infective Larvae of Major Ovine Gastrointestinal Nematodes In Vitro Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090740 Authors: Mohamed A. Helal Ahmed M. Abdel-Gawad Omnia M. Kandil Marwa M. E. Khalifa Gareth W. V. Cave Alison A. Morrison David J. Bartley Hany M. Elsheikha The anthelmintic effects of extracted coriander oil and five pure essential oil constituents...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 739: Immune Response to COVID-19: Can We Benefit from the SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV Pandemic Experience? Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9090739 Authors: Emilia Sinderewicz Wioleta Czelejewska Katarzyna Jezierska-Wozniak Joanna Staszkiewicz-Chodor Wojciech Maksymowicz The global range and high fatality rate of the newest human coronavirus (HCoV) pandemic has made SARS-CoV-2 the focus of the scientific world. Next-generation sequencing of the viral genome...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 240: A New Insight into Meloxicam: Assessment of Antioxidant and Anti-Glycating Activity in In Vitro Studies Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13090240 Authors: Cezary Pawlukianiec Małgorzata Ewa Gryciuk Kacper Maksymilian Mil Małgorzata Żendzian-Piotrowska Anna Zalewska Mateusz Maciejczyk Meloxicam is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, which has a preferential inhibitory effect to cyclooxyganase-2 (COX-2). Although the drug inhibits prostaglandin...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 239: Incubation with a Complex Orange Essential Oil Leads to Evolved Mutants with Increased Resistance and Tolerance Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13090239 Authors: Daniel Berdejo Elisa Pagán Natalia Merino Rafael Pagán Diego García-Gonzalo Emergence of strains with increased resistance/tolerance to natural antimicrobials was evidenced after cyclic exposure to carvacrol, citral, and (+)-limonene oxide. However, no previous studies have reported...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 238: Can Nuclear Imaging of Activated Macrophages with Folic Acid-Based Radiotracers Serve as a Prognostic Means to Identify COVID-19 Patients at Risk? Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13090238 Authors: Cristina Müller Roger Schibli Britta Maurer Herein, we discuss the potential role of folic acid-based radiopharmaceuticals for macrophage imaging to support clinical decision-making in patients with COVID-19. Activated macrophages play an important...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 862: Serine Protease-Mediated Cutaneous Inflammation: Characterization of an Ex Vivo Skin Model for the Assessment of Dexamethasone-Loaded Core Multishell-Nanocarriers Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090862 Authors: Janna Frombach Fiorenza Rancan Katharina Kübrich Fabian Schumacher Michael Unbehauen Ulrike Blume-Peytavi Rainer Haag Burkhard Kleuser Robert Sabat Kerstin Wolk Annika Vogt Standard experimental set-ups...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 863: Encapsulation of Nedaplatin in Novel PEGylated Liposomes Increases Its Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity against A549 and U2OS Human Cancer Cells Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090863 Authors: Salma El-Shafie Sherif Ashraf Fahmy Laila Ziko Nada Elzahed Tamer Shoeib Andreas Kakarougkas Following the discovery of cisplatin over 50 years ago, platinum-based drugs have been a widely used and effective form of cancer therapy, primarily...
Thu Sep 10, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 861: Ex-Vivo Trans-Corneal and Trans-Scleral Diffusion Studies with Ocular Formulations of Glutathione as an Antioxidant Treatment for Ocular Diseases Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090861 Authors: María Sebastián-Morelló Adrián M. Alambiaga-Caravaca María Aracely Calatayud-Pascual Vicent Rodilla Cristina Balaguer-Fernández María Miranda Alicia López-Castellano Exposure to sunlight and contact with atmospheric oxygen makes the...
Thu Sep 10, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 860: Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Smart Drug Delivery Systems in the Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090860 Authors: Raneem Jnaidi António José Almeida Lídia M. Gonçalves Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant type of brain tumor. In fact, tumor recurrence usually appears a few months after surgical resection and chemotherapy, mainly due to many...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 859: Recent Advances in the Development of In Situ Gelling Drug Delivery Systems for Non-Parenteral Administration Routes Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090859 Authors: Barbara Vigani Silvia Rossi Giuseppina Sandri Maria Cristina Bonferoni Carla M. Caramella Franca Ferrari In situ gelling drug delivery systems have gained enormous attention over the last decade. They are in a sol-state before administration, and they are capable...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 857: Biocompatible Catanionic Vesicles from Arginine-Based Surfactants: A New Strategy to Tune the Antimicrobial Activity and Cytotoxicity of Vesicular Systems Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090857 Authors: Aurora Pinazo Ramon Pons Ana Marqués Maribel Farfan Anderson da Silva Lourdes Perez Their stability and low cost make catanionic vesicles suitable for application as drug delivery systems. In this work we prepared catanionic...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 858: Berberine-Loaded Liposomes for the Treatment of Leishmania infantum-Infected BALB/c Mice Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090858 Authors: Alba Calvo Esther Moreno Esther Larrea Carmen Sanmartín Juan Manuel Irache Socorro Espuelas Berberine (BER)—an anti-inflammatory quaternary isoquinoline alkaloid extracted from plants—has been reported to have a variety of biologic properties, including antileishmanial activity....
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 856: Role of OATP1B1 and OATP1B3 in Drug-Drug Interactions Mediated by Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090856 Authors: Dominique A. Garrison Zahra Talebi Eric D. Eisenmann Alex Sparreboom Sharyn D. Baker Failure to recognize important features of a drug’s pharmacokinetic characteristics is a key cause of inappropriate dose and schedule selection, and can lead to reduced efficacy and increased rate...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 167: Use of End-of-Class Quizzes to Promote Pharmacy Student Self-Reflection, Motivate Students to Improve Study Habits, and to Improve Performance on Summative Examinations Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030167 Authors: Ruth Vinall Eugene Kreys Underperforming students are often unaware of deficiencies requiring improvement until after poor performance on summative exams. The goal of the current study was to determine whether inclusion of individual end-of-class...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1176: Plant Soft Rot Development and Regulation from the Viewpoint of Transcriptomic Profiling Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091176 Authors: Ivan Tsers Vladimir Gorshkov Natalia Gogoleva Olga Parfirova Olga Petrova Yuri Gogolev Soft rot caused by Pectobacterium species is a devastating plant disease poorly characterized in terms of host plant responses. In this study, changes in the transcriptome of tobacco plants after infection with Pectobacterium...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1177: Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Traditional Healers in Roi Et, Thailand Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091177 Authors: Auemporn Junsongduang Wanpen Kasemwan Sukanya Lumjoomjung Wichuda Sabprachai Wattana Tanming Henrik Balslev Traditional healers in Thailand are a primary source of health care for the Thai people. Highly experienced traditional healers are generally older people and they continue to pass away without recording or passing on their knowledge....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1175: Evaluation of Anti-Colitis Effect of KM1608 and Biodistribution of Dehydrocostus Lactone in Mice Using Bioimaging Analysis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091175 Authors: Sullim Lee Sang-Back Kim Jaemin Lee Jimin Park Sungyoul Choi Gwi Seo Hwang Han-Seok Choi Ki Sung Kang Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing disorder modulated by numerous factors. Recent failures of drugs targeting single factors suggest that multitargeting...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1172: Longer Photoperiods with the Same Daily Light Integral Increase Daily Electron Transport through Photosystem II in Lettuce Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091172 Authors: Claudia Elkins Marc W. van Iersel Controlled environment crop production recommendations often use the daily light integral (DLI) to quantify the light requirements of specific crops. Sole-source electric lighting, used in plant factories, and supplemental electric lighting, used in greenhouses,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1173: Chitosan Modified Biochar Increases Soybean (Glycine max L.) Resistance to Salt-Stress by Augmenting Root Morphology, Antioxidant Defense Mechanisms and the Expression of Stress-Responsive Genes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091173 Authors: Sajid Mehmood Waqas Ahmed Muhammad Ikram Muhammad Imtiaz Sammina Mahmood Shuxin Tu Diyun Chen Soybean is an important oilseed crop that provides high-quality protein and vegetable oil. Salinity constitutes...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1174: Variations of Essential Oil Constituents in Oregano (Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum (= O. heracleoticum) over Cultivation Cycles Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091174 Authors: Edoardo Napoli Antonio Giovino Alessandra Carrubba Vandana How Yuen Siong Carmelo Rinoldo Onofrio Nina Giuseppe Ruberto Oregano is—probably—the most appreciated and widespread aromatic plant in Sicily. With the aim of evaluating the modifications...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1170: Establishment of Pluripotent Cell Cultures to Explore Allelopathic Activity of Coffee Cells by Protoplast Co-Culture Bioassay Method Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091170 Authors: Shinjiro Ogita Muchamad Imam Asrori Hamako Sasamoto We focused on the demonstration of a new pluripotent coffee cell culture system to control the growth and metabolic functions. Somatic cells in the epidermal layer of in vitro somatic embryos (SEs) of Coffea canephora expressed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1171: Iron-Sulfur Cluster Complex Assembly in the Mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091171 Authors: Alejandro M. Armas Manuel Balparda Agustina Terenzi Maria V. Busi Maria A. Pagani Diego F. Gomez-Casati In plants, the cysteine desulfurase (AtNFS1) and frataxin (AtFH) are involved in the formation of Fe-S groups in mitochondria, specifically, in Fe and sulfur loading onto scaffold proteins, and the subsequent formation...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1167: Current Utility of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria as Biological Control Agents towards Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091167 Authors: Pratima Subedi Kaitlin Gattoni Wenshan Liu Kathy S. Lawrence Sang-Wook Park Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are among the most economically and ecologically damaging pests, causing severe losses of crop production worldwide. Chemical-based nematicides have been widely used, but these may...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1168: Effect of Daytime and Tree Canopy Height on Sampling of Cacopsylla melanoneura, a ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma mali’ Vector Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091168 Authors: Dana Barthel Christine Kerschbamer Bernd Panassiti Igor Malenovský Katrin Janik The psyllids Cacopsylla melanoneura and Cacopsylla picta reproduce on apple (Malus × domestica) and transmit the bacterium ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma mali’, the causative agent of...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1166: The Active Compounds and Therapeutic Mechanisms of Pentaherbs Formula for Oral and Topical Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis Based on Network Pharmacology Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091166 Authors: Man Chu Miranda Sin-Man Tsang Ru He Christopher Wai-Kei Lam Zhi Bo Quan Chun Kwok Wong To examine the molecular targets and therapeutic mechanism of a clinically proven Chinese medicinal pentaherbs formula (PHF) in atopic dermatitis (AD), we analyzed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1169: Differential Regulation of Phytoene Synthase PSY1 During Fruit Carotenogenesis in Cultivated and Wild Tomato Species (Solanum section Lycopersicon) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091169 Authors: Gleb I. Efremov Maria A. Slugina Anna V. Shchennikova Elena Z. Kochieva In plants, carotenoids define fruit pigmentation and are involved in the processes of photo-oxidative stress defense and phytohormone production; a key enzyme responsible for carotene synthesis...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 21: Principles and Policies for Recycling Decisions and Risk Management Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5030021 Authors: Jonatan Gehandler Ulrika Millgård Swedish recycling businesses argue that the Non-Toxic Environmental target gets too much weight and that resource efficiency gets too little focus, which results in decreased recycling. The purpose of this paper is to highlight different factors that recycling of waste decisions should consider, as well...
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Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 20: Determination of Metals’ Content in Components Mounted on Printed Circuit Boards from End-of-Life Mobile Phones Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5030020 Authors: Tadeusz Gorewoda Marcus Eschen Jadwiga Charasińska Magdalena Knapik Sylwia Kozłowicz Jacek Anyszkiewicz Michał Jadwiński Martyna Potempa Marta Gawliczek Andrzej Chmielarz Witold Kurylak The electronic components mounted on the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of mobile phones...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 465: Teaching Controversial Issues in Diverse Religious Education Classrooms Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090465 Authors: Karin K. Flensner In educational contexts, certain issues are perceived as controversial, since they reflect conflicts of interest and reveal divergent views. This is especially evident in debates related to religion in societies regarding themselves as secular but whose population is multi-religious. The aim of this article is to analyse...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 464: The Shapeshifting Self: Narrative Pathways into Political Violence Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090464 Authors: Hannes Sonnenschein Tomas Lindgren In the wake of numerous terror attacks around the globe, academic and popular discourse on radicalization has witnessed exponential growth in publications that, sadly, have not resulted in a coherent or consensus definition of the concept, nor have they determined its causality and effects. In this article,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 463: Theodicy, Undeserved Suffering, and Compassionate Solidarity: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Hwang Sok-Yong’s The Guest Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090463 Authors: Young Hoon Kim The author explores theological questions regarding the Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong’s The Guest from interdisciplinary perspectives. This paper analyzes the novel in relation to the emotional complex of han as understood in Korean minjung theology, the political theology...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 461: Have Christian Colleges and Universities Become More Inclusive of LGBTQ Students Since Obergefell v. Hodges? Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090461 Authors: Jonathan S. Coley Due to rapid changes in societal attitudes toward LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, Christian colleges and universities are experiencing...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 462: Religious Coping of Selected Filipino Catholic Youth Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090462 Authors: Fides del Castillo Marie Antoniette Alino This study determined the reliability and validity of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE) outside the Western Christian context. After construct and measurement equivalence, the Brief RCOPE was used to ascertain and illuminate the religious coping of selected Catholic youth in the Philippines. A group of...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 111: The Impact of Coal’s Petrographic Composition on Its Suitability for the Gasification Process: The Example of Polish Deposits Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9090111 Authors: Barbara Bielowicz Jacek Misiak In this paper, we discuss the impact of the rank of coal, petrographic composition, and physico-chemical coal properties on the release and composition of syngas during coal gasification in a CO2 atmosphere. This study used humic coals (parabituminous...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 96: Optimal Dividend Payment in De Finetti Models: Survey and New Results and Strategies Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8030096 Authors: Christian Hipp We consider optimal dividend payment under the constraint that the with-dividend ruin probability does not exceed a given value α. This is done in most simple discrete De Finetti models. We characterize the value function V(s,α) for initial surplus s of this problem, characterize the corresponding optimal...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 70: Proximity Operations and Three Degree-of-Freedom Maneuvers Using the Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030070 Authors: Nasir Hariri Hector Gutierrez John Rakoczy Richard Howard Ivan Bertaska This paper presents the first demonstration of NASA’s Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) as real-time position and attitude estimator for proximity and formation maneuvers. An optimal linear quadratic Gaussian controller...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 71: Computational Design Thinking and Physical Computing: Preliminary Observations of a Pilot Study Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030071 Authors: Dochshanov Alden Michela Tramonti Today’s technological development inevitably defies educational approaches in terms of future demand for skills to be imparted. Among other skills, the capacity to operate and communicate effectively within multidisciplinary realms is duly considered as the fundamental...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 69: FloorVLoc: A Modular Approach to Floorplan Monocular Localization Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030069 Authors: John Noonan Ehud Rivlin Hector Rotstein Intelligent vehicles for search and rescue, whose mission is assisting emergency personnel by visually exploring an unfamiliar building, require accurate localization. With GPS not available, and approaches relying on new infrastructure installation, artificial landmarks, or pre-constructed dense 3D...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 71: Lasers for Satellite Uplinks and Downlinks Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030071 Authors: Mark Dmytryszyn Matthew Crook Timothy Sands The use of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (i.e., LASERs or lasers) by the U.S. Department of Defense is not new and includes laser weapons guidance, laser-aided measurements, even lasers as weapons (e.g., Airborne Laser). Lasers in support of telecommunications is also not new. The use of laser light in fiber...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 1004-1021: A New SDN-Based Routing Protocol for Improving Delay in Smart City Environments Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3030050 Authors: Lamia EL-Garoui Samuel Pierre Steven Chamberland The smart city is an ecosystem that interconnects various devices like sensors, actuators, mobiles, and vehicles. The intelligent and connected transportation system (ICTS) is an essential part of this ecosystem that provides new real-time applications. The emerging...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 157: Towards a Comprehensive School Effectiveness Model of Citizenship Education: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Schools in The Netherlands Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9090157 Authors: Coopmans Ten Dam Dijkstra Van der Veen We still have only a limited understanding of the effectiveness of schools in promoting citizenship, the factors explaining this effectiveness and the way in which these aspects interact. Using elaborate cross-sectional...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 156: How Individual Involvement with Digitalized Work and Digitalization at the Workplace Level Impacts Supervisory and Coworker Bullying in German Workplaces Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9090156 Authors: Silvia Maja Melzer Martin Diewald Digitalized work has gained importance across industrialized countries. Simultaneously, research investigating the consequences of digitalized work for workplace relations among employees, supervisors, and coworkers,...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 155: Does Scientific Evaluation Matter? Improving Digital Simulation Games by Design-Based Research Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9090155 Authors: Sven Ivens Monika Oberle Grounded in a design-based research approach, the aim of this article is to determine whether scientific evaluations help to (a) identify and fix problems in educational interventions and (b) eventually foster a more effective and positive evaluated intervention. Therefore, data...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 125: Tapering and Peaking Maximal Strength for Powerlifting Performance: A Review Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8090125 Authors: S. Kyle Travis Iñigo Mujika Jeremy A. Gentles Michael H. Stone Caleb D. Bazyler Prior to major competitions, athletes often use a peaking protocol such as tapering or training cessation to improve performance. The majority of the current literature has focused on endurance-based sports such as swimming, cycling, and running to...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 376-395: Bottleneck or Crossroad? Problems of Legal Sources Annotation and Some Theoretical Thoughts Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3030024 Authors: Amedeo Santosuosso Giulia Pinotti So far, in the application of legal analytics to legal sources, the substantive legal knowledge employed by computational models has had to be extracted manually from legal sources. This is the bottleneck, described in the literature. The paper is an exploration of this obstacle, with a...
Wed Sep 09, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 585: [D-Leu1]MC-LR and MC-LR: A Small–Large Difference: Significantly Different Effects on Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) Growth and Phototropic Response after Single Contact during Imbibition with Each of These Microcystin Variants Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090585 Authors: Luciano Malaissi Cristian Adrián Vaccarini Marcelo Paulo Hernández Marcela Ruscitti Cecilia Arango Federico Busquets Ana María Arambarri Leda Giannuzzi Darío Andrinolo...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 584: Staphylococcal Enterotoxin C—An Update on SEC Variants, Their Structure and Properties, and Their Role in Foodborne Intoxications Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090584 Authors: Danai Etter Jenny Schelin Markus Schuppler Sophia Johler Staphylococcal enterotoxins are the most common cause of foodborne intoxications (staphylococcal food poisoning) and cause a wide range of diseases. With at least six variants staphylococcal enterotoxin C (SEC) stands out...
Thu Sep 10, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 583: Bedside Coagulation Tests in Diagnosing Venom-Induced Consumption Coagulopathy in Snakebite Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090583 Authors: Supun Wedasingha Geoffrey Isbister Anjana Silva Venom-induced consumption coagulopathy is the most important systemic effect of snake envenoming. Coagulation tests are helpful to accurately and promptly diagnose venom-induced consumption coagulopathy and administer antivenom, which is the only specific treatment available....
Thu Sep 10, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 582: Redox-Sensitive Nanocomplex for Targeted Delivery of Melittin Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090582 Authors: Bei Cheng Peisheng Xu Although peptide therapeutics have been explored for decades, the successful delivery of potent peptides in vitro and in vivo remains challenging due to the poor stability, low cell permeability, and off-target effects. We developed a redox sensitive polymer-based nanocomplex which can efficiently and stably deliver the peptide...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 581: Consequences of Metabolic Interactions during Staphylococcus aureus Infection Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090581 Authors: Alice Prince Tania Wong Fok Lung Staphylococcus aureus is a metabolically flexible pathogen that causes infection in diverse settings. An array of virulence factors, including the secreted toxins, enables S. aureus to colonize different environmental niches and initiate infections by any of several discrete pathways. During these infections,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 580: Is a Central Sediment Sample Sufficient? Exploring Spatial and Temporal Microbial Diversity in a Small Lake Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090580 Authors: Barbara Weisbrod Susanna A. Wood Konstanze Steiner Ruby Whyte-Wilding Jonathan Puddick Olivier Laroche Daniel R. Dietrich (1) Background: Paleolimnological studies use sediment cores to explore long-term changes in lake ecology, including occurrences of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. Most...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 578: The Effect of Using New Synbiotics on the Turkey Performance, the Intestinal Microbiota and the Fecal Enzymes Activity in Turkeys Fed Ochratoxin A Contaminated Feed Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090578 Authors: Katarzyna Śliżewska Paulina Markowiak-Kopeć Anna Sip Krzysztof Lipiński Magdalena Mazur-Kuśnirek The feed supplementation of probiotic microorganisms is a promising method for detoxification of ochratoxin A (OTA) in poultry. The aim of the...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 579: The Influence of Calcium toward Order/Disorder Conformation of Repeat-in-Toxin (RTX) Structure of Family I.3 Lipase from Pseudomonas fluorescens AMS8 Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090579 Authors: Nur Shidaa Mohd Ali Abu Bakar Salleh Thean Chor Leow Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali Calcium-binding plays a decisive role in the folding and stabilization of many RTX proteins, especially for the RTX domain. Although many studies...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 519: Adjuvantation of an Influenza Hemagglutinin Antigen with TLR4 and NOD2 Agonists Encapsulated in Poly(D,L-Lactide-Co-Glycolide) Nanoparticles Enhances Immunogenicity and Protection against Lethal Influenza Virus Infection in Mice Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030519 Authors: Amir Tukhvatulin Alina Dzharullaeva Alina Erokhova Anastasia Zemskaya Maxim Balyasin Tatiana Ozharovskaia Olga Zubkova Natalia Shevlyagina Vladimir Zhukhovitsky Irina...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 518: Trends, Spatial Disparities, and Social Determinants of DTP3 Immunization Status in Indonesia 2004–2016 Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030518 Authors: Holipah Holipah Asri Maharani Sujarwoto Sujarwoto Takuji Hinoura Yoshiki Kuroda Although 91% of 12–23-month-old children in Indonesia received at least one immunization in 2013, only 76% completed DTP3 immunization. This percentage is below the UNICEF and WHO recommended standards. Thus,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 517: Immunomodulatory Role of the Antimicrobial LL-37 Peptide in Autoimmune Diseases and Viral Infections Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030517 Authors: Bapi Pahar Stefania Madonna Arpita Das Cristina Albanesi Giampiero Girolomoni Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are produced by neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages, as well as epithelial cells, and are an essential component of innate immunity system against infection, including several viral infections....
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 515: Immunization with a Recombinant Protein of Trichinella britovi 14-3-3 Triggers an Immune Response but No Protection in Mice Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030515 Authors: Anna Stachyra Sylwia Grzelak Katarzyna Basałaj Anna Zawistowska-Deniziak Justyna Bień-Kalinowska 14-3-3 proteins are present in all eukaryotic organisms and are ubiquitously expressed in a broad range of tissues and cellular compartments. They are regulatory adapter proteins...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 516: A Comparison of the Attitudes to Influenza Vaccination Held by Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy, and Public Health Students and Their Knowledge of Viral Infections Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030516 Authors: Sylwia Kałucka Elżbieta Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk Izabela Grzegorczyk-Karolak Agnieszka Głowacka Influenza is a viral vaccine-preventable disease. The present study aims to explore the attitude to influenza immunization and the knowledge of influenza...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 133: Hydrothermal Processing of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) Filets: Insights on the Nutritive Value and Organoleptic Parameters Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030133 Authors: Victor Tosin Okomoda Lateef Oloyede Tiamiyu Amighty Olorunpelumi Ricketts Sunday Abraham Oladimeji Austine Agbara Mhd Ikhwanuddin Korede Isaiah Alabi Ambok Bolong Abol-Munafi This study evaluated the effects of cooking for different hydrothermal-treatment...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1013: Infection Dynamics of Swine Influenza Virus in a Danish Pig Herd Reveals Recurrent Infections with Different Variants of the H1N2 Swine Influenza A Virus Subtype Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091013 Authors: Tarka Bhatta Pia Ryt-Hansen Jens Nielsen Lars Larsen Inge Larsen Anthony Chamings Nicole Goecke Soren Alexandersen Influenza A virus (IAV) in swine, so-called swine influenza A virus (swIAV), causes respiratory illness in pigs around the...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1012: Analysis of Amino Acid Mutations of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O Using both Heparan Sulfate and JMJD6 Receptors Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091012 Authors: Gyeongmin Lee Ji-Hyeon Hwang Aro Kim Jong-Hyeon Park Min Ja Lee Byounghan Kim Su-Mi Kim Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an economically devastating animal disease. Adapting the field virus to cells is critical to the vaccine production of FMD viruses (FMDV), and heparan sulfate...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1011: Characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 Lentiviral Pseudotypes and Correlation between Pseudotype-Based Neutralisation Assays and Live Virus-Based Micro Neutralisation Assays Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091011 Authors: Inesa Hyseni Eleonora Molesti Linda Benincasa Pietro Piu Elisa Casa Nigel J Temperton Alessandro Manenti Emanuele Montomoli The recent outbreak of a novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and its rapid spread across the continents has generated...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1009: PRRSV Vaccine Strain-Induced Secretion of Extracellular ISG15 Stimulates Porcine Alveolar Macrophage Antiviral Response against PRRSV Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091009 Authors: Hongbin Liu Bingjun Shi Zhigang Zhang Bao Zhao Guangming Zhao Yijing Li Yuchen Nan Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has disrupted the global swine industry since the 1980s. PRRSV-host interactions are largely still unknown but may involve...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1010: Family Level Phylogenies Reveal Relationships of Plant Viruses within the Order Bunyavirales Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091010 Authors: Venura Herath Gustavo Romay Cesar D. Urrutia Jeanmarie Verchot Bunyavirales are negative-sense segmented RNA viruses infecting arthropods, protozoans, plants, and animals. This study examines the phylogenetic relationships of plant viruses within this order, many of which are recently classified species. Comprehensive...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1007: Ocular Histopathological Findings in Semi-Domesticated Eurasian Tundra Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) with Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis after Experimental Inoculation with Cervid Herpesvirus 2 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091007 Authors: Javier Sánchez Romano Karen K. Sørensen Anett K. Larsen Torill Mørk Morten Tryland Infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) is a common transmissible ocular disease in semi-domesticated Eurasian tundra reindeer...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1008: Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx) and Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) in Oropharyngeal Cancer Associated with EBV and HPV Coinfection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091008 Authors: Strycharz-Dudziak Fołtyn Dworzański Kiełczykowska Malm Drop Polz-Dacewicz Recent reports have pointed to the link between persistent inflammation, oxidative stress, and carcinogenesis; however most of the studies concerning the role of viruses in head and neck cancer (HNC)...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1005: Going beyond Integration: The Emerging Role of HIV-1 Integrase in Virion Morphogenesis Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091005 Authors: Jennifer L. Elliott Sebla B. Kutluay The HIV-1 integrase enzyme (IN) plays a critical role in the viral life cycle by integrating the reverse-transcribed viral DNA into the host chromosome. This function of IN has been well studied, and the knowledge gained has informed the design of small molecule inhibitors that now form key...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1006: Coronavirus Antiviral Research Database (CoV-RDB): An Online Database Designed to Facilitate Comparisons between Candidate Anti-Coronavirus Compounds Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091006 Authors: Philip L. Tzou Kaiming Tao Janin Nouhin Soo-Yon Rhee Benjamin D. Hu Shruti Pai Neil Parkin Robert W. Shafer Background: To prioritize the development of antiviral compounds, it is necessary to compare their relative preclinical activity and clinical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2533: Sustainable Development of Arid Rangelands and Managing Rainwater in Gullies, Central Asia Water doi: 10.3390/w12092533 Authors: Zheng Li Wentai Zhang Yilahong Aikebaier Tong Dong Guoping Huang Tao Qu Hexin Zhang Along with the global climate change, gully erosion, flood and drought jointly restrict the sustainable development of arid rangeland in Central Asia. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) system in gully is a flexible practice that alleviate...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2528: Applicability of Kinematic Wave Model for Flood Routing under Unsteady Inflow Water doi: 10.3390/w12092528 Authors: Hanwu Zheng Er Huang Ming Luo This study implemented kinematic wave and dynamic wave approximation of flood routing for a prismatic rectangular channel. The results of the two methods were compared by differences in maximum flow depth, and the applicability of kinematic wave equation was discussed. The influences of hydraulic and geometrical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2531: Degradation of Hexacyanoferrate (III) from Gold Mining Wastewaters via UV-A/LED Photocatalysis Using Modified TiO2 P25 Water doi: 10.3390/w12092531 Authors: Augusto Arce-Sarria Kevin Mauricio Aldana-Villegas Luis Andres Betancourt-Buitrago Jose Ángel Colina-Márquez Fiderman Machuca-Martínez Miguel Angel Mueses The photocatalytic degradation of potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) was assessed in a bench-scale compound parabolic collectors (CPC)...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2530: Comparison of Surface Roughness and Transport Processes of Sawed, Split and Natural Sandstone Fractures Water doi: 10.3390/w12092530 Authors: Sascha Frank Thomas Heinze Stefan Wohnlich In single fractures, dispersion is often linked to the roughness of the fracture surfaces andthe resulting local aperture distribution. To experimentally investigate the effects of diverse fracturetypes and surface morphologies in sandstones, three fractures were considered:...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2529: Soil Management Effects on Soil Water Erosion and Runoff in Central Syria—A Comparative Evaluation of General Linear Model and Random Forest Regression Water doi: 10.3390/w12092529 Authors: Safwan Mohammed Ali Al-Ebraheem Imre J. Holb Karam Alsafadi Mohammad Dikkeh Quoc Bao Pham Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh Szilard Szabo The Mediterranean part of Syria is affected by soil water erosion due to poor land management. Within this context, the main...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2532: Treatment of Bio-Treated Coking Wastewater by Catalytic Ozonation with Semi-Batch and Continuous Flow Reactors Water doi: 10.3390/w12092532 Authors: Can He Jianbing Wang Heng Xu Xiangyu Ji Weiyi Wang Xieyang Xu In this work, the treatment of bio-treated coking wastewater (BCW) by catalytic ozonation was conducted in semi-batch and continuous flow reactors. The kinetics of chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal were analyzed using BCWs from five...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2527: Correction: Gao, Y., et al. Application of NSGA-II and Improved Risk Decision Method for Integrated Water Resources Management of Malian River Basin. Water 2019, 11, 1650 Water doi: 10.3390/w12092527 Authors: Yayu Gao Xinmin Zhang Xiaoyou Zhang Duan Li Min Yang Jinhua Tian In the published article [1], the authors realized some errors in the second affiliation and thus wish to make the revisions as below: Change the Affiliation 2 “Chinese...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2526: Modeling Wave Overtopping on a Seawall with XBeach, IH2VOF, and Mase Formulas Water doi: 10.3390/w12092526 Authors: Oliveira Oliveira Neves Clavero Trigo-Teixeira The advances in computational fluid dynamics have made numerical modeling a reliable complementary tool to the traditional physical modeling in the study of the wave overtopping phenomenon. This paper addresses overtopping on a seawall by combining the numerical models XBeach (nonhydrostatic...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2525: Using Analytical Hierarchy Process and Multi-Influencing Factors to Map Groundwater Recharge Zones in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Coastal Aquifer Water doi: 10.3390/w12092525 Authors: Adel Zghibi Ali Mirchi Mohamed Haythem Msaddek Amira Merzougui Lahcen Zouhri Jean-Denis Taupin Anis Chekirbane Ismail Chenini Jamila Tarhouni Mapping groundwater recharge zones (GWRZs) is essential for planning artificial recharge programs to mitigate groundwater...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2524: Effects of Combined High Temperature and Waterlogging Stress at Booting Stage on Root Anatomy of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Water doi: 10.3390/w12092524 Authors: Bo Zhen Huizhen Li Qinglin Niu Husen Qiu Guangli Tian Hongfei Lu Xinguo Zhou In recent years, the alternating occurrence of high temperature and waterlogging disasters in South China has seriously reduced the yield of single cropping rice. Studying the changes in anatomical structure...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2523: Evaluation of the Effect of Gold Mining on the Water Quality in Monterrey, Bolívar (Colombia) Water doi: 10.3390/w12092523 Authors: Alison Martín Juliana Arias Jennifer López Lorena Santos Camilo Venegas Marcela Duarte Andrés Ortíz-Ardila Nubia de Parra Claudia Campos Crispín Celis Zambrano Gold mining uses chemicals that are discharged into rivers without any control when there are no good mining practices, generating environmental...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2522: Habitat Use by Pseudochondrostoma duriense and Squalius carolitertii Downstream of a Small-Scale Hydropower Plant Water doi: 10.3390/w12092522 Authors: Isabel Boavida Filipa Ambrósio Maria João Costa Ana Quaresma Maria Manuela Portela António Pinheiro Francisco Godinho Downstream of small-scale hydropower plants (SHPs), the intensity, frequency and persistence of hydropeaking events often cause an intolerable stress on fish of all life stages....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2521: The Prediction of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddy Properties and Propagation Trajectories Based on Machine Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12092521 Authors: Xin Wang Huizan Wang Donghan Liu Wenke Wang Mesoscale eddies play an important role in ocean circulation, material energy exchange and variation of ocean environments. Machine learning methods can efficiently process massive amounts of data and automatically learn the implicit features, thus providing a new...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2519: The Benthic Quality Index to Assess Water Quality of Lakes May Be Affected by Confounding Environmental Features Water doi: 10.3390/w12092519 Authors: Angela Boggero Silvia Zaupa Roberta Bettinetti Marzia Ciampittiello Diego Fontaneto To assess if environmental differences other than water quality may affect the outcome of the Benthic Quality Index, a comparison of the application of four different methods (Benthic Quality Index—BQIES,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2520: Seasonal Variations of the Depletion Factor during Recession Periods in the Senegal, Gambia and Niger Watersheds Water doi: 10.3390/w12092520 Authors: Bader Dacosta Pouget The daily depletion factor K describes the discharge decrease of rivers only fed by groundwater in the absence of rainfall. In the Senegal, Gambia and Niger river basins in West Africa, the flow recession can exceed 6 months and the precise knowledge of K thus allows discharge forecasts...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2513: Drag Force Modeling of Surface Wave Dissipation by a Vegetation Field Water doi: 10.3390/w12092513 Authors: Tze-Yi Yang I-Chi Chan In this paper, we explore the use of coastal vegetation as a natural barrier to defend our shoreline from hazards caused by large wind waves, storm surges, and tsunamis. A numerical model based on XBeach is employed to evaluate the wave damping by vegetation. An explicit formula for the required drag coefficient used to help...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2518: The Use of Straw Mulches to Mitigate Soil Erosion under Different Antecedent Soil Moistures Water doi: 10.3390/w12092518 Authors: Ataollah Kavian Mahin Kalehhouei Leila Gholami Zeinab Jafarian Maziar Mohammadi Jesús Rodrigo-Comino Straw mulch cover is one of the most important soil erosion control measures applied to reduce runoff and soil loss in cultivated areas. However, in developing countries such as Iran, without a clear tradition or knowledge...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2514: CFD Modelling of the Transport of Soluble Pollutants from Sewer Networks to Surface Flows during Urban Flood Events Water doi: 10.3390/w12092514 Authors: Md Nazmul Azim Beg Matteo Rubinato Rita F. Carvalho James D. Shucksmith Surcharging urban drainage systems are a potential source of pathogenic contamination of floodwater. While a number of previous studies have investigated net sewer to surface hydraulic flow rates through manholes and gullies...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2515: Estimating Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles in a Timber Reef Deployment Area Water doi: 10.3390/w12092515 Authors: Alam Yamamoto Umino Nakahara Hiraoka In an oligotrophic bay, Mitsu Bay, Japan, artificial timber reefs (ATRs) are deployed to increase fish production. In such man-made ecosystems, the biological activities of other organisms as well as the physical structures of ATRs could influence nutrient cycling. A pelagic–benthic...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2517: Mechanistic Study of Pb2+ Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Eggshells
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2517: Mechanistic Study of Pb2+ Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Eggshells Water doi: 10.3390/w12092517 Authors: Mohamed A. Hamouda Haliemeh Sweidan Munjed A. Maraqa Hilal El-Hassan This study investigates the impact of eggshell particle size and solid-to-water (s/w) ratio on lead (Pb2+) removal from aqueous solution. Collected raw eggshells were washed, crushed, and sieved into two particle sizes (<150 and 150–500 µm). Batch...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2516: Evaluation of the GPM-IMERG Precipitation Product for Flood Modeling in a Semi-Arid Mountainous Basin in Morocco Water doi: 10.3390/w12092516 Authors: Tarik Saouabe El Mahdi El Khalki Mohamed El Mehdi Saidi Adam Najmi Abdessamad Hadri Said Rachidi Mourad Jadoud Yves Tramblay A new precipitation dataset is provided since 2014 by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite constellation measurements combined in the Integrated Multi-satellite...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2512: Use of a Novel Biopellet to Treat Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Groundwater Water doi: 10.3390/w12092512 Authors: Dun-Sheng Yang Shyi-Tien Chen Conventional pump-and-treat strategies for dealing with groundwater contamination are both energy- and time-consuming. Potential passive biological techniques are of interest to remedy the massive volume of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH)-contaminated groundwater worldwide. In this study, novel biopellets...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2510: Resilience Viewed through the Lens of Climate Change and Water Management Water doi: 10.3390/w12092510 Authors: Robert L. Wilby Resilience is not a new idea but there has been an upsurge in efforts to operationalize the concept within water management. This review begins with a synopsis of related themes around persistent and emerging pressures on freshwaters; environmental thresholds (or tipping points); ‘safe’ operating conditions; multiple...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2511: Reactive Silica Traces Manure Spreading in Alluvial Aquifers Affected by Nitrate Contamination: A Case Study in a High Plain of Northern Italy Water doi: 10.3390/w12092511 Authors: Edoardo Severini Marco Bartoli Monica Pinardi Fulvio Celico In the northern sector of the Po River Plain (Italy), widespread intensive agriculture and animal farming are supported by large amounts of water from Alpine lakes and their emissaries. Flood irrigation and excess...
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