Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2961: The Effects of Long-Term Magnesium Creatine Chelate Supplementation on Repeated Sprint Ability (RAST) in Elite Soccer Players Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102961 Authors: Adam Zajac Artur Golas Jakub Chycki Mateusz Halz Małgorzata Magdalena Michalczyk Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of 16 weeks of a low dose of magnesium creatine chelate supplementation on repeated sprint ability test (RAST) results in elite soccer players....
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 274: Clotrimazole for Vulvovaginal Candidosis: More Than 45 Years of Clinical Experience Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13100274 Authors: Werner Mendling Maged Atef El Shazly Lei Zhang Vulvovaginal candidosis is a common disease, and various treatment strategies have emerged over the last few decades. Clotrimazole belongs to the drugs of choice for the treatment of vulvovaginal candidosis. Although available for almost 50 years, systematic reviews...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 271: Sequence Permutation Generates Peptides with Different Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activities Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13100271 Authors: Biswajit Mishra Jayaram Lakshmaiah Narayana Tamara Lushnikova Yingxia Zhang Radha M. Golla D. Zarena Guangshun Wang Antibiotic resistance poses a threat to our society, and 10 million people could die by 2050. To design potent antimicrobials, we made use of the antimicrobial peptide database...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 270: Structure, Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Activities of the (4R)- and (4S)-epimers of S-Carboxymethyl-L-cysteine Sulfoxide Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13100270 Authors: James K. Waters Steven P. Kelley Valeri V. Mossine Thomas P. Mawhinney S-Carboxymethyl-L-cysteine (CMC) is an antioxidant and mucolytic commonly prescribed to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In humans, CMC is rapidly metabolized to S-carboxymethyl-L-cysteine...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 923: Mitoxantrone-Loaded Nanoparticles for Magnetically Controlled Tumor Therapy–Induction of Tumor Cell Death, Release of Danger Signals and Activation of Immune Cells Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100923 Authors: Ratschker Egenberger Alev Zschiesche Band Schreiber Frey Derer Alexiou Janko Stimulating the patient`s immune system represents a promising therapeutic strategy to fight cancer. However, low immunogenicity...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 922: Defining a Regulatory Strategy for ATMP/Aerosol Delivery Device Combinations in the Treatment of Respiratory Disease Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100922 Authors: Niamh Woods Ronan MacLoughlin Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products (ATMP) are a heterogenous group of investigational medicinal products at the forefront of innovative therapies with direct applicability in respiratory diseases. ATMPs include, but are not limited to, stem...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 921: Contribution of Intrinsic Fluorescence to the Design of a New 3D-Printed Implant for Releasing SDABS Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100921 Authors: Alexandre Nicolas Alice Dejoux Cécile Poirier Nicolas Aubrey Jean-Manuel Péan Florence Velge-Roussel Single-domain antibodies (sdAbs) offer great features such as increased stability but are hampered by a limited serum half-life. Many strategies have been developed to improve the...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 920: Development of Metronidazole Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles Using QbD Approach—A Novel and Potential Antibacterial Formulation Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100920 Authors: Nagaraja Sreeharsha Kuldeep Rajpoot Muktika Tekade Dnyaneshwar Kalyane Anroop B. Nair Katharigatta N. Venugopala Rakesh K. Tekade The aim of this study was to design, optimize, and develop metronidazole (Met) loaded nanoparticles (MetNp) by employing...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 918: In Vitro Activity of Carbosilane Cationic Dendritic Molecules on Prevention and Treatment of Candida Albicans Biofilms Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100918 Authors: Irene Heredero-Bermejo Natalia Gómez-Casanova Sara Quintana Juan Soliveri Francisco Javier de la Mata Jorge Pérez-Serrano Javier Sánchez-Nieves José Luis Copa-Patiño Candida spp. are one of the most common fungal pathogens. Biofilms formed by Candidaalbicans...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 919: Interaction of Hydroxychloroquine with Pharmacokinetically Important Drug Transporters Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100919 Authors: Johanna Weiss Gzona Bajraktari-Sylejmani Walter E. Haefeli (1) Background: Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and autoimmune diseases, and its potential use against COVID-19 is currently under investigation. Thus far, information on interactions of hydroxychloroquine with drug transporters mediating...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 178: The Development and Proof of Principle Test of TRIAGE: A Practical Question Set to Identify and Discuss Medication-Related Problems in Community Pharmacy Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8040178 Authors: Marcia Vervloet Hanneke E. Zwikker Annemiek J. Linn Ellen S. Koster Suzan G. H. Gipmans Maaike C. W. van Aarle Liset van Dijk The pharmacy counter is a good place to identify and discuss medication-related problems. However, there is a lack...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 177: Learning from Practice: How East Lancashire Hospitals’ Pharmacy Service Has Embraced Information Technology Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8040177 Authors: Alistair Gray Clare Mackie William Price Emma Coupe Susan Holgate Emma Watson John Eatough Neil Fletcher Karen Hodson Efi Mantzourani The ethos of the pharmacy service at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) could be described as ‘let’s make things better’....
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1275: Profiling of Altered Metabolomic States in Bidens pilosa Leaves in Response to Treatment by Methyl Jasmonate and Methyl Salicylate Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101275 Authors: Anza-Tshilidzi Ramabulana Paul A. Steenkamp Ntakadzeni E. Madala Ian A. Dubery Bidens pilosa (Asteraceae) is an edible medicinal plant with many bioactivities reported to have a health-beneficial role in controling various diseases. Though B. pilosa contain a diverse array of...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1273: Reaching Natural Growth: Light Quality Effects on Plant Performance in Indoor Growth Facilities Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101273 Authors: Camilo Chiang Daniel Bånkestad Günter Hoch To transfer experimental findings in plant research to natural ecosystems it is imperative to reach near to natural-like plant performance. Previous studies propose differences in temperature and light quantity as main sources of deviations between indoor and outdoor plant...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1272: Molecular Characterization of the Complete Coding Sequence of Olive Leaf Yellowing-Associated Virus Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101272 Authors: Ana Belén Ruiz-García Thierry Candresse Celia Canales Félix Morán Carlos Machado de Oliveira Edson Bertolini Antonio Olmos Genome organization and phylogenetic relationships of olive leaf yellowing-associated virus (OLYaV) with other members of the Closteroviridae family were determined. The complete...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1274: Mitochondrial Genome of Fagus sylvatica L. as a Source for Taxonomic Marker Development in the Fagales Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101274 Authors: Malte Mader Hilke Schroeder Thomas Schott Katrin Schöning-Stierand Ana Paula Leite Montalvão Heike Liesebach Mirko Liesebach Barbara Fussi Birgit Kersten European beech, Fagus sylvatica L., is one of the most important and widespread deciduous tree species in Central Europe and is widely managed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1271: Enzymes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Arginine from Ornithine in Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101271 Authors: José Alberto Urbano-Gámez Jorge El-Azaz Concepción Ávila Fernando N. de la Torre Francisco M. Cánovas The amino acids arginine and ornithine are the precursors of a wide range of nitrogenous compounds in all living organisms. The metabolic conversion of ornithine into arginine is catalyzed by the sequential...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1270: Orange Leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata Feeding Induces Gall Formation Nitrogen Dependently and Regulates Gibberellin Signaling Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101270 Authors: Sho Miyazaki Keita Kasahara Soh Matsui Makoto Tokuda Yoko Saikawa Orange leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata feeding induces wallaby ear symptoms, namely growth suppression and gall formation characterized by severe swelling of leaf veins, on various Poaceae, thereby leading to low...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1269: Essential Oils of Zingiber Species from Vietnam: Chemical Compositions and Biological Activities Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101269 Authors: Le Thi Huong Nguyen Thanh Chung Trinh Thi Huong Ly Ngoc Sam Nguyen Huy Hung Isiaka Ajani Ogunwande Do Ngoc Dai Le Duy Linh William N. Setzer Mosquito-borne diseases are a large problem in Vietnam as elsewhere. Due to environmental concerns regarding the use of synthetic insecticides as well as developing...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1268: Functional Traits Plasticity of the Invasive Herb Argemone ochroleuca Sweet in Different Arid Habitats Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101268 Authors: Abdulaziz M. Assaeed Saud L. Al-Rowaily Magdy I. El-Bana Ahmad K. Hegazy Basharat A. Dar Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad Understanding the strategies and mechanisms of invasive species could guide their control and management especially in arid ecosystems. This study compares the vegetative and reproductive functional...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1266: The Effects of Moderate and Severe Salinity on Composition and Physiology in the Biomass Crop Miscanthus × giganteus Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101266 Authors: Evangelia Stavridou Richard J. Webster Paul R. H. Robson Saline land represents a growing resource that could be utilised for growing biomass crops, such as Miscanthus × giganteus (Greef et Deu.), for eliminating competition with staple food crops. However, the response mechanisms to...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1267: Integrative Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis Identifies Major Molecular Regulation Pathways Involved in Ramie (Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich) under Nitrogen and Water Co-Limitation Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101267 Authors: Jikang Chen Gang Gao Ping Chen Kunmei Chen Xiaofei Wang Lianyang Bai Chunming Yu Aiguo Zhu Water and N are the most important factors affecting ramie (Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich) growth. In this study, de novo transcriptome...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1265: Efficacy of Mushroom Metabolites (Pleurotus ostreatus) as A Natural Product for the Suppression of Broomrape Growth (Orobanche crenata Forsk) in Faba Bean Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101265 Authors: Tamer Elsakhawy Muneera D. F. ALKahtani Ali A. H. Sharshar Kotb A. Attia Yaser M. Hafez Khaled A. A. Abdelaal Broomrape parasitism on faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is the most destructive factor for this crop in Egypt. Pot experiments were conducted...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 246-251: A Modified Technique for Fabricating Customized Angled Dual Abutments for Implants with Severe Angulations Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis2040022 Authors: Aboulfazl Saboury Elaheh Beyabanaki Ideally, dental implants should be placed parallel to each other and perpendicular to the occlusal forces. However, they might be implanted with undesirable angulations due to anatomic limitations such as proximity to infra alveolar nerve or maxillary sinus...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 24: Minimizing Organic Waste Generated by Pineapple Crown: A Simple Process to Obtain Cellulose for the Preparation of Recyclable Containers Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5040024 Authors: Diana Choquecahua Mamani Kristy Stefany Otero Nole Efrén Eugenio Chaparro Montoya Dora Amalia Mayta Huiza Roxana Yesenia Pastrana Alta Hector Aguilar Vitorino In this study, cellulose was obtained from the residues of pineapple crown by means of simple acid...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 491: A Hermeneutic for and from Reading Kierkegaard’s For Self-Examination
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 491: A Hermeneutic for and from Reading Kierkegaard’s For Self-Examination Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100491 Authors: Nathan Eric Dickman This essay provides a close reading of Kierkegaard’s later signed text, For Self-Examination. While many of Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous texts often are selected for their philosophically explicit engagements with Hegelian philosophy, I use Hegel’s dialectic of lordship and bondage to draw out...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 493: Medieval Shiloh—Continuity and Renewal Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100493 Authors: Amichay Shcwartz Abraham Ofir Shemesh The present paper deals with the development of cult in Shiloh during the Middle Ages. After the Byzantine period, when Shiloh was an important Christian cult place, it disappeared from the written sources and started to be identified with Nebi Samwil. In the 12th century Shiloh reappeared in the travelogues of Muslims, and shortly...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 492: ‘Beyond Boundaries or Best Practice’ Prayer in Clinical Mental Health Care: Opinions of Professionals and Patients Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100492 Authors: Joke C. van Nieuw Amerongen-Meeuse Arjan W. Braam Christa Anbeek Hanneke Schaap-Jonker The use of prayer in mental health care is controversial. Several scholars in the field have emphasized possibilities, whereas others have expressed clear disapproval. The aim of the current study was to...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 490: Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100490 Authors: Jeffrey Haynes The aim of this paper is to examine comparatively the growth and political effectiveness of right-wing populism in Western Europe, Central Europe, and the USA since 9/11. The focus is on such politicians’ vilification of Islam as a faith and Muslims as a people. The paper examines the following research question: how and why do right-wing...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 489: “Glory to the Righteous One” (Tzvi la-tzaddik) (Isa. 24:16): The Use of Biblical Quotations in the Polemic against the Sabbatean Movement Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100489 Authors: Idan Breier Promoted by Nathan of Gaza—a reputable figure—Sabbatai Tzvi was hailed as the messiah across the Jewish communities of the medieval world, thousands flocking to his side. One of his prominent detractors was R. Jacob Sasportas, who wrote numerous...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 488: Sustainability, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Catholic Church’s Ecological Turn Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100488 Authors: Jaime Tatay-Nieto The promulgation of the encyclical letter Laudato si’ by Pope Francis in 2015 has been interpreted as the final phase in the integration of sustainability concerns into Catholic Social Teaching. In this recent historical development, academic research has paid particular attention to how different...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 101: A Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8040101 Authors: Christa Cuchiero Wahid Khosrawi Josef Teichmann We propose a fully data-driven approach to calibrate local stochastic volatility (LSV) models, circumventing in particular the ad hoc interpolation of the volatility surface. To achieve this, we parametrize the leverage function by a family of feed-forward neural networks...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 100: Quantile Credibility Models with Common Effects Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8040100 Authors: Wei Wang Limin Wen Zhixin Yang Quan Yuan Different from classical Bühlmann and Bühlmann Straub credibility models in which independence between different risks are assumed, this paper takes dependence between risks into consideration and extends the classical Bühlmann model by introducing a common stochastic shock element. What is more,...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 78: Robotic Systems of Systems Based on a Decentralized Service-Oriented Architecture Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9040078 Authors: Lennart Siefke Volker Sommer Björn Wudka Carsten Thomas Multi-robot systems are often static and pre-configured during the design time of their software. Emerging cooperation between unknown robots is still rare and limited. Such cooperation might be basic like sharing sensor data or complex like conjoined motion planning...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 169: Sports Influencers on Twitter. Analysis and Comparative Study of Track Cycling World Cups 2016 and 2018 Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9100169 Authors: José María Lamirán-Palomares Tomás Baviera Amparo Baviera-Puig Social media has driven a sea change in the way users view and participate in sporting events through the media. In the digital medium, identifying the profiles with the greatest influential capacity is a key issue. Using the analytical...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 75: A Reflexive GOAL Framework for Achieving Student-Centered Learning in European Higher Education: From Class Learning to Community Engagement Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10040075 Authors: Costas S. Constantinou Student-centered learning (SCL) has been acknowledged and supported by research as very important for helping students develop life-long independent learning and transferable skills. Yet the implementation of SCL in European higher education has been...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 74: Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Comparison of Four European Countries with Regards to Assistive Technologies Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10040074 Authors: Tanja Bratan Piret Fischer Maria Maia Vera Aschmann The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international treaty that aims to promote, protect and ensure the rights of persons with disabilities so that...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 132: Effects of a Multi-Ingredient Preworkout Supplement Versus Caffeine on Energy Expenditure and Feelings of Fatigue during Low-Intensity Treadmill Exercise in College-Aged Males Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8100132 Authors: Daniel J. Lutsch Clayton L. Camic Andrew R. Jagim Riley R. Stefan Brandon J. Cox Rachel N. Tauber Shaine E. Henert The primary purpose of this study was to examine the acute effects of a multi-ingredient (i.e., caffeine, green...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 427-443: Identification of Judicial Outcomes in Judgments: A Generalized Gini-PLS Approach Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3040027 Authors: Gildas Tagny-Ngompé Stéphane Mussard Guillaume Zambrano Sébastien Harispe Jacky Montmain This paper presents and compares several text classification models that can be used to extract the outcome of a judgment from justice decisions, i.e., legal documents summarizing the different rulings made by a judge. Such models can...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 50: Towards a Secure and Scalable IoT Infrastructure: A Pilot Deployment for a Smart Water Monitoring System Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8040050 Authors: Anthony Overmars Sitalakshmi Venkatraman Recent growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) looks promising for realizing a smart environment of the future. However, concerns about the security of IoT devices are escalating as they are inherently constrained by limited resources, heterogeneity, and...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 618: Clinical Applications of Bee Venom Acupoint Injection Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100618 Authors: Ting-Yen Lin Ching-Liang Hsieh Bee venom is a complex natural mixture with various pharmaceutical properties. Among these properties, its peptides and enzymes have potential medical therapy for pain relief and inflammation. In clinical settings, this therapy has been used widely to treat diseases by injecting into acupoints. In this article, we have conducted...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 617: Physiological Stress Integrates Resistance to Rattlesnake Venom and the Onset of Risky Foraging in California Ground Squirrels Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100617 Authors: Matthew L. Holding Breanna J. Putman Lauren M. Kong Jennifer E. Smith Rulon W. Clark Using venom for predation often leads to the evolution of resistance in prey. Understanding individual variation in venom resistance is key to unlocking basic mechanisms by which antagonistic...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 616: Two VHH Antibodies Neutralize Botulinum Neurotoxin E1 by Blocking Its Membrane Translocation in Host Cells Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100616 Authors: Kwok-Ho Lam Kay Perry Charles B. Shoemaker Rongsheng Jin Botulinum neurotoxin serotype E (BoNT/E) is one of the major causes of human botulism, which is a life-threatening disease caused by flaccid paralysis of muscles. After receptor-mediated toxin internalization into motor neurons, the translocation...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 615: Maternal Exposure Results in Long-Term Deoxynivalenol Persistence in Piglets’ Plasma and Modulates the Immune System Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100615 Authors: Hana Štěpánová Karolina Hlavová Kamil Šťastný Eduard Gopfert Lenka Levá Martin Faldyna Deoxynivalenol (DON)-contaminated feed represents a serious problem for pigs due to their high sensitivity to its toxicological effects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of intrauterine...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 151: Point-Of-Care or Point-Of-Need Diagnostic Tests: Time to Change Outbreak Investigation and Pathogen Detection Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5040151 Authors: Sören Hansen Ahmed Abd El Wahed In the recent years, the progress of international trade and travel has led to an increased risk of emerging infections. Around 75 percent of the pathogens causing these infections are of animal origin. Point-of-care tests (POCT)...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Urban Science, Vol. 4, Pages 46: Modeling the Effect of Desert Urbanization on Local Climate and Natural Dust Generation: A Case Study for Erbil, Iraq Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci4040046 Authors: Sherzad T. Tahir Huei-Ping Huang This study uses a suite of meteorological and land-surface models to quantify the changes in local climate and surface dust fluxes associated with desert urbanization. Formulas connecting friction velocity and soil moisture to dust generation are used...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 560: Vaccinations and Chronic Diseases: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Self-Reported Adherence among Patients in Italy Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8040560 Authors: Francesco Napolitano Giorgia Della Polla Maria Simona Capano Michela Augimeri Italo Francesco Angelillo The aims of this cross-sectional survey were to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported adherence to recommended vaccinations among a random sample of patients with chronic conditions...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 145: Primary Retrobulbar Leiomyosarcoma in a Dog: A Case Report Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7040145 Authors: Joong-Hyun Song Do-Hyeon Yu Dong-In Jung A 2-year-old female Mongrel dog weighing 3.12 kg presented with a 2-month history of progressive exophthalmos of the left eye and periorbital swelling. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of the affected tissue revealed atypical cells of suspected malignant mesenchymal tumor origin. Computed...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 343-356: Guided Wave Inspection of Bars in Reinforced-Concrete Beams Using Surface-Mounted Vibration Sensors Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3040023 Authors: Evelyne El Masri Timothy Waters Neil Ferguson Steel reinforcement bars (rebars) in concrete structures are inaccessible and not conducive to many inspection methods. This paper proposes a non-invasive technique based on guided waves for detecting localised abnormalities in rebars embedded in concrete...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1095: Host Immune Response Driving SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101095 Authors: Rui Wang Yuta Hozumi Yong-Hui Zheng Changchuan Yin Guo-Wei Wei The transmission and evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are of paramount importance in controlling and combating the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Currently, over 15,000 SARS-CoV-2 single mutations have been recorded, which have a great impact...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1093: Thapsigargin at Non-Cytotoxic Levels Induces a Potent Host Antiviral Response that Blocks Influenza A Virus Replication Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101093 Authors: Leah V. Goulding Jiayun Yang Zhimin Jiang Hongyu Zhang Daniel Lea Richard D. Emes Tania Dottorini Juan Pu Jinhua Liu Kin-Chow Chang Influenza A virus is a major global pathogen of humans, and there is an unmet need for effective antivirals. Current antivirals against influenza...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1094: The Spillover of African Swine Fever in Western Poland Revealed Its Estimated Origin on the Basis of O174L, K145R, MGF 505-5R and IGR I73R/I329L Genomic Sequences Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101094 Authors: Natalia Mazur-Panasiuk Marek Walczak Małgorzata Juszkiewicz Grzegorz Woźniakowski The African swine fever epidemic occurred in Poland at the beginning of 2014 and, up to date, the disease has been spreading mainly in the eastern part of the country....
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1089: Host Gene Regulation by Transposable Elements: The New, the Old and the Ugly Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101089 Authors: Rocio Enriquez-Gasca Poppy A. Gould Helen M. Rowe The human genome has been under selective pressure to evolve in response to emerging pathogens and other environmental challenges. Genome evolution includes the acquisition of new genes or new isoforms of genes and changes to gene expression patterns. One source of genome innovation is...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1091: Phages in Anaerobic Systems Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101091 Authors: Santiago Hernández Martha J. Vives Since the discovery of phages in 1915, these viruses have been studied mostly in aerobic systems, or without considering the availability of oxygen as a variable that may affect the interaction between the virus and its host. However, with such great abundance of anaerobic environments on the planet, the effect that a lack of oxygen can have on the phage-bacteria...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1090: Delayed by Design: Role of Suboptimal Signal Peptidase Processing of Viral Structural Protein Precursors in Flaviviridae Virus Assembly Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101090 Authors: Nabeel Alzahrani Ming-Jhan Wu Saravanabalaji Shanmugam MinKyung Yi The Flaviviridae virus family is classified into four different genera, including flavivirus, hepacivirus, pegivirus, and pestivirus, which cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and other mammals,...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1092: Potential Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Therapeutics That Target the Post-Entry Stages of the Viral Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Review Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101092 Authors: Rami A. Al-Horani Srabani Kar The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to challenge health care systems around the world. Scientists and pharmaceutical companies have promptly responded by advancing potential therapeutics into clinical trials at an exponential rate. Initial encouraging...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1088: HIF-1α Modulates Core Metabolism and Virus Replication in Primary Airway Epithelial Cells Infected with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101088 Authors: Dorothea R. Morris Yue Qu Anurodh Agrawal Roberto P. Garofalo Antonella Casola Metabolic reprogramming of host cells is key to the foundation of a successful viral infection. Hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) mediate oxygen utilization by regulating cellular metabolism and redox...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1087: Network Controllability-Based Prioritization of Candidates for SARS-CoV-2 Drug Repositioning Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101087 Authors: Emily E. Ackerman Jason E. Shoemaker In a short time, the COVID-19 pandemic has left the world with over 25 million cases and staggering death tolls that are still rising. Treatments for SARS-CoV-2 infection are desperately needed as there are currently no approved drug therapies. With limited knowledge of viral mechanisms,...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1086: Intercellular Transmission of Naked Viruses through Extracellular Vesicles: Focus on Polyomaviruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101086 Authors: Francois Helle Lynda Handala Marine Bentz Gilles Duverlie Etienne Brochot Extracellular vesicles have recently emerged as a novel mode of viral transmission exploited by naked viruses to exit host cells through a nonlytic pathway. Extracellular vesicles can allow multiple viral particles to collectively traffic...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1084: FUT2, Secretor Status and FUT3 Polymorphisms of Children with Acute Diarrhea Infected with Rotavirus and Norovirus in Brazil Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101084 Authors: Marco André Loureiro Tonini Débora Maria Pires Gonçalves Barreira Luciana Bueno de Freitas Santolin Lays Paula Bondi Volpini José Paulo Gagliardi Leite Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye Jacques Le Pendu Liliana Cruz Spano Host susceptibility according to human histo-blood group...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1082: Construction of Stable Reporter Flaviviruses and Their Applications Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101082 Authors: Coleman Baker Pei-Yong Shi Flaviviruses are significant human pathogens that cause frequent emerging and reemerging epidemics around the world. Better molecular tools for studying, diagnosing, and treating these diseases are needed. Reporter viruses represent potent tools to fill this gap but have been hindered by genetic instability. Recent advances...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1083: Neurological Development, Epilepsy, and the Pharmacotherapy Approach in Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome: Results from a Two-Year Follow-up Study Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101083 Authors: Maria Eulina Quilião Fabio Antonio Venancio Lisany Krug Mareto Sahra de Almeida Metzker Ana Isabel do Nascimento Daniele Cristina Vitorelli-Venancio Cláudia Du Bocage Santos-Pinto Everton Falcão de Oliveira Clinical outcomes related to congenital...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1079: Regulation of Expression and Latency in BLV and HTLV Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101079 Authors: Aneta Pluta Juan P. Jaworski Renée N. Douville Human T-lymphotrophic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) belong to the Deltaretrovirus genus. HTLV-1 is the etiologic agent of the highly aggressive and currently incurable cancer adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and a neurological disease HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1081: Molecular Characterization of Dengue Type 2 Outbreak in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, 2017–2020 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101081 Authors: Catherine Inizan Olivia O’Connor George Worwor Talica Cabemaiwai Jean-Claude Grignon Dominique Girault Marine Minier Matthieu Prot Valentine Ballan George Junior Pakoa Jean-Paul Grangeon Philippe Guyant Christelle Lepers Daniel Faktaufon Aalisha Sahukhan Onofre Edwin Merilles...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1080: Atypical Porcine Pestivirus Circulation and Molecular Evolution within an Affected Swine Herd Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101080 Authors: Alba Folgueiras-González Robin van den Braak Bartjan Simmelink Martin Deijs Lia van der Hoek Ad de Groof Atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) is a single-stranded RNA virus from the family Flaviviridae, which is linked to congenital tremor (CT) type A-II in newborn piglets. Here, we retrospectively investigated...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1085: Characterization of Avian Influenza Virus H10–H12 Subtypes Isolated from Wild Birds in Shanghai, China from 2016 to 2019 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101085 Authors: Ling Tang Wangjun Tang Le Ming Jianming Gu Kai Qian Xiaofang Li Tianhou Wang Guimei He H10, H11 and H12 (H10–H12) subtypes of the avian influenza virus (AIV) are associated with waterfowl. Although these subtypes of AIV are infrequently detected in nature, they can...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1074: Imaging-Based Reporter Systems to Define CVB-Induced Membrane Remodeling in Living Cells Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101074 Authors: Nicholas J. Lennemann Azia S. Evans Carolyn B. Coyne Enteroviruses manipulate host membranes to form replication organelles, which concentrate viral and host factors to allow for efficient replication. However, this process has not been well-studied in living cells throughout the course of infection. To define the dynamic...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1077: Macrophage Tropism in Pathogenic HIV-1 and SIV Infections Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101077 Authors: Matthew Moeser Joshua R. Nielsen Sarah B. Joseph Most myeloid lineage cells express the receptor and coreceptors that make them susceptible to infection by primate lentiviruses (SIVs and HIVs). However, macrophages are the only myeloid lineage cell commonly infected by SIVs and/or HIVs. The frequency of infected macrophages varies greatly across specific...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1076: The Protective Effect of Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Matrix against Phage Predation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101076 Authors: Luís D. R. Melo Graça Pinto Fernando Oliveira Diana Vilas-Boas Carina Almeida Sanna Sillankorva Nuno Cerca Joana Azeredo Staphylococcus epidermidis is a major causative agent of nosocomial infections, mainly associated with the use of indwelling devices, on which this bacterium forms structures known as biofilms....
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1078: Twelve Children with Varicella Vaccine Meningitis: Neuropathogenesis of Reactivated Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101078 Authors: Ethan H. Heusel Charles Grose Varicella vaccine is a live attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Like its parental strain called VZV pOka, the vaccine virus vOka retains some neurotropic properties. To better understand vOka neuropathogenesis, we reassessed 12 published cases of vOka meningitis...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1075: Binding Mechanism Elucidation of the Acute Respiratory Disease Causing Agent Adenovirus of Serotype 7 to Desmoglein-2 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101075 Authors: Marc-André Hograindleur Gregory Effantin Daphna Fenel Caroline Mas André Lieber Guy Schoehn Pascal Fender Emilie Vassal-Stermann The study of viruses causing acute respiratory distress syndromes (ARDS) is more essential than ever at a time when a virus can create a global pandemic...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2711: The Soil Water Evaporation Process from Mountains Based on the Stable Isotope Composition in a Headwater Basin and Northwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12102711 Authors: Leilei Yong Guofeng Zhu Qiaozhuo Wan Yuanxiao Xu Zhuanxia Zhang Zhigang Sun Huiying Ma Liyuan Sang Yuwei Liu Huiwen Guo Yu Zhang Soil water is a link between different water bodies. The study of soil water evaporation is of great significance to understand the...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2710: Analytic Representation of the Optimal Flow for Gravity Irrigation Water doi: 10.3390/w12102710 Authors: Fuentes Chávez The aim of this study is the deduction of an analytic representation of the optimal irrigation flow depending on the border length, hydrodynamic properties, and soil moisture constants, with high values of the coefficient of uniformity. In order not to be limited to the simplified models, the linear relationship of the numerical simulation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2709: Nitrate Contamination in Brazilian Urban Aquifers: A Tenacious Problem Water doi: 10.3390/w12102709 Authors: Ricardo Hirata Fabiana Cagnon Aline Bernice Carlos Henrique Maldaner Paulo Galvão Carlos Marques Rafael Terada Claudia Varnier M. Cathryn Ryan Reginaldo Bertolo This study follows the geochemistry of nitrogen in a Cretaceous and unconfined sedimentary aquifer in the city of Urânia (Brazil) over 20 years. Although...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2704: Quality Assessments of Shallow Groundwaters for Drinking and Irrigation Purposes: Insights from a Case Study (Jinta Basin, Heihe Drainage Area, Northwest China) Water doi: 10.3390/w12102704 Authors: Jianguo Feng Hao Sun Minghao He Zongjun Gao Jiutan Liu Xi Wu Yonghui An This study aimed to determine the hydrochemical characteristics and hydrogeochemical processes of shallow groundwater in the Jinta Basin, northwest China, and to evaluate...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2701: Large Eddy Simulation of Near-Bed Flow and Turbulence over Roughness Elements in the Shallow Open-Channel Water doi: 10.3390/w12102701 Authors: Zeng Zhang S. Samuel Li Turbulent flows in rough open-channels have complex structures near the channel-bed. The near-bed flow can cause bed erosion, channel instability, and damages to fish habitats. This paper aims to improve our understanding of the structures. Transverse square bars placed at the channel-bed...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2703: Habitat Suitability Curves for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Tropical Andean Rivers Water doi: 10.3390/w12102703 Authors: Raúl Vázquez Diego Vimos-Lojano Henrietta Hampel Sustainable river management requires a thorough understanding of the response of aquatic biota to riverine microhabitat variability. The purpose of this study was to assess macroinvertebrate hydraulic-habitat suitability in Ecuadorian Andean rivers to support habitat modelling for...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2707: Optimization of Phytoremediation of Nickel by Alocasia puber Using Response Surface Methodology Water doi: 10.3390/w12102707 Authors: Najaa Syuhada Mohamad Thani Rozidaini Mohd Ghazi Ikarastika Rahayu Abdul Wahab Mohamad Faiz Mohd Amin Zulhazman Hamzah Nik Raihan Nik Yusoff The contamination of water by heavy metals is a worldwide environmental problem. Phytoremediation and constructed wetlands have become increasingly popular as more sustainable...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2705: Evaluation of Lamella Settlers for Treating Suspended Sediment Water doi: 10.3390/w12102705 Authors: Lan Liu Michael A. Perez J. Blake Whitman Stormwater quality management has become an increasingly important topic. Pollutants from construction, urban, and agricultural runoff sources create adverse water quality impacts to receiving water bodies. Among these sources, suspended sediment has a significant influence on water quality and further acts as...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2706: Anthropogenic Modifications and River Ecosystem Services: A Landscape Perspective Water doi: 10.3390/w12102706 Authors: Anjana Ekka Saket Pande Yong Jiang Pieter van der Zaag The process of development has led to the modification of river landscapes. This has created imbalances between ecological, economic, and socio-cultural uses of ecosystem services (ESs), threatening the biotic and social integrity of rivers. Anthropogenic modifications influence...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2702: Hydrogeology of Volcanic Highlands Affects Prioritization of Land Management Practices Water doi: 10.3390/w12102702 Authors: Anwar A. Adem Gashaw G. Addis Dessalew W. Aynalem Seifu A. Tilahun Wolde Mekuria Mulugeta Azeze Tammo S. Steenhuis Volcanic highlands supply water to 40% of the world’s population. Soil degradation threatens this water supply. Studies on geohydrology that affect the effectiveness of land and water management...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2708: Challenges and Achievements beyond Decision-Making Power of Planners: How Are Decisions on Planning for Stream Restoration Made in South Korea? Water doi: 10.3390/w12102708 Authors: Chang-Yu Hong This research covers existing planning theory and possible ways to improve the decision-making process in Korean stream restoration. First, it attempts to recognize what extent the Korean stream restoration case follows Western environmental decision-making models....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2700: Estimation of Water-Use Rates Based on Hydro-Meteorological Variables Using Deep Belief Network Water doi: 10.3390/w12102700 Authors: Jang Hyun Sung Young Ryu Eun-Sung Chung This study proposed a deep learning-based model to estimate stream water-use rate (WUR) using precipitation (P) and potential evapotranspiration (PET). Correlations were explored to identify relationships among accumulated meteorological variables for various time durations (three-,...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2699: Correction: Hervás-Gámez, Carmen and Delgado-Ramos, Fernando. Are the Modern Drought Management Plans Modern Enough? The Guadalquivir River Basin Case in Spain. Water 2020, 12, 49 Water doi: 10.3390/w12102699 Authors: Carmen Hervás-Gámez Fernando Delgado-Ramos The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2698: Influence of the Aggregate-Pouring Sequence on the Efficiency of Plugging Inundated Tunnels through Drilling Ground Boreholes Water doi: 10.3390/w12102698 Authors: Xiangming Jiang Shuang Hui Wanghua Sui Zhiyuan Shi Jiahao Wang This paper presents an experimental and field investigation on the efficiency of plugging by pouring aggregate in different sequences through multiple boreholes in a tunnel with flowing water. There have been controversies...
Sun Sep 27, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2697: Towards Model-Free Pressure Control in Water Distribution Networks Water doi: 10.3390/w12102697 Authors: Thapelo C. Mosetlhe Yskandar Hamam Shengzhi Du Eric Monacelli Adedayo A. Yusuff Pressure control in water distribution networks (WDNs) is one of the interventions commonly employed to improve the reliability and sustainability of water supply. Various approaches have been proposed to solve the problem of pressure control. However, most schemes...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2693: Impact of the City on the Rapid Increase in the Runoff and Transport of Suspended and Dissolved Solids During Rainfall—The Example of the Silnica River (Kielce, Poland) Water doi: 10.3390/w12102693 Authors: Tadeusz Ciupa Roman Suligowski Urbanisation changes the water cycle and affects the parameters of transported, suspended and dissolved matter, especially in small river catchments. This paper presents the reasons why river runoff and fluvial transport...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2696: The Water Footprint of Global Food Production Water doi: 10.3390/w12102696 Authors: Mesfin M. Mekonnen Winnie Gerbens-Leenes Agricultural production is the main consumer of water. Future population growth, income growth, and dietary shifts are expected to increase demand for water. The paper presents a brief review of the water footprint of crop production and the sustainability of the blue water footprint. The estimated global consumptive (green plus blue)...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2692: Hybridised Artificial Neural Network Model with Slime Mould Algorithm: A Novel Methodology for Prediction of Urban Stochastic Water Demand Water doi: 10.3390/w12102692 Authors: Salah L. Zubaidi Iqbal H. Abdulkareem Khalid S. Hashim Hussein Al-Bugharbee Hussein Mohammed Ridha Sadik Kamel Gharghan Fuod F. Al-Qaim Magomed Muradov Patryk Kot Rafid Al-Khaddar Urban water demand prediction based on climate change is always challenging...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2695: Spatiotemporal Variation in Phytoplankton Community Driven by Environmental Factors in the Northern East China Sea Water doi: 10.3390/w12102695 Authors: Yejin Kim Seok-Hyun Youn Hyun Ju Oh Jae Joong Kang Jae Hyung Lee Dabin Lee Kwanwoo Kim Hyo Keun Jang Junbeom Lee Sang Heon Lee The East China Sea (ECS) is the largest marginal sea in the northern western Pacific Ocean. In comparison to various physical studies, little information...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2691: Technical Efficiency of China’s Agriculture and Output Elasticity of Factors Based on Water Resources Utilization Water doi: 10.3390/w12102691 Authors: Shiliang Yang Huimin Wang Jinping Tong Jianfeng Ma Fan Zhang Shijuan Wu A stochastic frontier approach (SFA) model of translog production function was constructed to analyze the growth effect of agricultural production factors on grain production in China. Under the condition of unchanged cultivated...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2694: How Did the Late 1980s Climate Regime Shift Affect Temperature-Sensitive Fish Population Dynamics: Case Study of Vendace (Coregonus albula) in a Large North-Temperate Lake Water doi: 10.3390/w12102694 Authors: Külli Kangur Kai Ginter Andu Kangur Peeter Kangur Tõnu Möls The population dynamics of fish in northern lakes is strongly influenced by climatic factors. In this study, we investigated whether there is a link between the late 1980s climate...
Sat Sep 26, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2690: Does China’s Belt and Road Initiative Threaten Food Security in Central Asia? Water doi: 10.3390/w12102690 Authors: Troy Sternberg Chris McCarthy Buho Hoshino China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) needs little introduction; the infrastructure investment will reconfigure development in Central Asia. As its origin story and initial encounter, Central Asia offers a prismatic lens to delve into the vital impacts and significant changes wrought...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2688: Aggregation–Decomposition-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Reservoir Operations Optimization Water doi: 10.3390/w12102688 Authors: Milad Hooshyar S. Jamshid Mousavi Masoud Mahootchi Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam Stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) is a widely-used method for reservoir operations optimization under uncertainty but suffers from the dual curses of dimensionality and modeling. Reinforcement learning (RL), a simulation-based...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2685: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change Prediction Based on Surrounding Environmental Conditions with Deep Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12102685 Authors: Xin Wang Wenke Wang Bing Yan Tropical cyclone (TC) motion has an important impact on both human lives and infrastructure. Predicting TC intensity is crucial, especially within the 24 h warning time. TC intensity change prediction can be regarded as a problem of both regression and classification. Statistical...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2684: The Modelling of Freezing Process in Saturated Soil Based on the Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical Multi-Physics Field Coupling Theory Water doi: 10.3390/w12102684 Authors: Dawei Lei Yugui Yang Chengzheng Cai Yong Chen Songhe Wang The freezing process of saturated soil is studied under the condition of water replenishment. The process of soil freezing was simulated based on the theory of the energy and mass conservation equations and the equation of mechanical...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2689: Risk Assessment of China’s Water-Saving Contract Projects Water doi: 10.3390/w12102689 Authors: Qian Li Ziheng Shangguan Mark Yaolin Wang Dengcai Yan Ruizhi Zhai Chuanhao Wen In order to alleviate the problem of water shortage, the Ministry of Water Resources of China proposed a Water-Saving Contract (WSC) project management model in 2014, which is similar to the Energy Performance Contract (EPC). In this context, this research aims to explore...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2686: Silicon Fractionation of Soluble Silicon in Volcanic Ash Soils That May Affect Groundwater Silicon Content on Jeju Island, Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w12102686 Authors: Won-Pyo Park Hae-Nam Hyun Bon-Jun Koo Silicon (Si) is found in various fractions of soil, depending on the pedogenic processes of the environment. Dissolved Si (DSi) is adsorbed in soil particles or leaches through the soil profile into the groundwater. The objective of this study is to...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2683: Impact of the Monthly Variability of the Trent River on the Hydrodynamical Conditions of the Bay of Quinte, Ontario: A Case Study 2016–2019 Water doi: 10.3390/w12102683 Authors: Jennifer A. Shore The spatial and temporal (monthly) variability of river discharge has a significant effect on circulation and transport pathways within shallow embayments whose dynamics are largely controlled by wind and riverine inputs. This study illustrates the effects of the...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2687: Effect of Inclination Angles on the Local Scour around a Submerged Cylinder Water doi: 10.3390/w12102687 Authors: Shaohua Wang Shiyu Yang Zhiguo He Li Li Yuezhang Xia In ocean engineering and coastal environmental studies, local scour around a submerged structure is a typical issue, which is affected by the inclination of the structure. To investigate the effect of inclination directions and angles on flow structure and the bed morphology, a three-dimensional...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2682: Spatial Distribution of Sea Salt Deposition in a Coastal Pinus thunbergii Forest Water doi: 10.3390/w12102682 Authors: Akira Haraguchi Masato Sakaki We investigated the sea salt deposition process on the soil in a coastal black pine (Pinusthunbergii Parlatore) forest in Japan with reference to sea salt scavenging by the forest canopy and the following washout by precipitation. We collected throughfall and soil-infiltration water along transects crossing...
Fri Sep 25, 2020 03:00
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