Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 164: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Hybrid Graphene/Gold Substrates near the Percolation Threshold Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010164 Authors: Dmitry E. Tatarkin Dmitry I. Yakubovsky Georgy A. Ermolaev Yury V. Stebunov Artem A. Voronov Aleksey V. Arsenin Valentyn S. Volkov Sergey M. Novikov Graphene is a promising platform for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-active substrates, primarily due to the possibility...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 165: Metal–Organic Framework-Based Sustainable Nanocatalysts for CO Oxidation Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010165 Authors: Luis A. Lozano Betina M. C. Faroldi María A. Ulla Juan M. Zamaro The development of new catalytic nanomaterials following sustainability criteria both in their composition and in their synthesis process is a topic of great current interest. The purpose of this work was to investigate the preparation of nanocatalysts derived...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 161: Indocyanine Green-Nexturastat A-PLGA Nanoparticles Combine Photothermal and Epigenetic Therapy for Melanoma Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010161 Authors: Debbie K. Ledezma Preethi B. Balakrishnan Juliana Cano-Mejia Elizabeth E. Sweeney Melissa Hadley Catherine M. Bollard Alejandro Villagra Rohan Fernandes In this study, we describe poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA)-based nanoparticles that combine photothermal therapy (PTT)...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 162: Preparation and Characterization of Epoxy Resin Filled with Ti3C2Tx MXene Nanosheets with Excellent Electric Conductivity Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010162 Authors: Ailing Feng Tianqi Hou Zirui Jia Yi Zhang Fan Zhang Guanglei Wu MXene represents new kinds of two-dimensional material transition metal carbides and/or carbonitrides, which have attracted much attention in various applications including electrochemical storage devices,...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 160: Surfactant-Free Synthesis of Nb2O5 Nanoparticles Anchored Graphene Nanocomposites with Enhanced Electrochemical Performance for Supercapacitor Electrodes Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010160 Authors: P. Nagaraju R. Vasudevan A. Alsalme A. Alghamdi M. Arivanandhan R. Jayavel Nb2O5/graphene nanocomposites without any surfactant are synthesized by an in situ microwave irradiation technique. Structural and morphological studies revealed...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 163: Structural, Thermal, and Release Properties of Hybrid Materials Based on Layered Zinc Hydroxide and Caffeic Acid Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10010163 Authors: Christhy V. Ruiz María E. Becerra Oscar Giraldo Caffeic acid (CA) molecules were immobilized in a layered inorganic host matrix based on zinc hydroxide structures with different starting interlayer anions, nitrate, and acetate. The chemical composition, structure, thermal stability, morphology,...
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ncRNA, Vol. 6, Pages 4: Centromeric Non-Coding RNAs: Conservation and Diversity in Function Non-Coding RNA doi: 10.3390/ncrna6010004 Authors: Takashi Ideue Tokio Tani Chromosome segregation is strictly regulated for the proper distribution of genetic material to daughter cells. During this process, mitotic chromosomes are pulled to both poles by bundles of microtubules attached to kinetochores that are assembled on the chromosomes. Centromeres are specific regions where kinetochores...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 261: Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Function by Amino Acids Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010261 Authors: Yasutomi Kamei Yukino Hatazawa Ran Uchitomi Ryoji Yoshimura Shinji Miura Amino acids are components of proteins that also exist free-form in the body; their functions can be divided into (1) nutritional, (2) sensory, and (3) biological regulatory roles. The skeletal muscle, which is the largest organ in the human body, representing ~40% of the total...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 259: Potential Role of Tocotrienols on Non-Communicable Diseases: A Review of Current Evidence Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010259 Authors: Wong Kamisah Mohamed Muhammad Masbah Fahami Mohamed Shuid Saad Abdullah Mohamad Ibrahim Pang Chow Thong Subramaniam Chan Ima-Nirwana Chin Tocotrienol (T3) is a subfamily of vitamin E known for its wide array of medicinal properties. This review aimed...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 258: Predictors of Early Introduction of Core and Discretionary Foods in Australian Infants—Results from HSHK Birth Cohort Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010258 Authors: Narendar Manohar Andrew Hayen Sameer Bhole Amit Arora Early introduction of complementary foods can have a detrimental impact on children’s long-term health. This study examined the timing and determinants of early introduction of core and discretionary foods among infants...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 260: Dietary Daily Sodium Intake Lower than 1500 mg Is Associated with Inadequately Low Intake of Calorie, Protein, Iron, Zinc and Vitamin B1 in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010260 Authors: Bossola Di Stasio Viola Cenerelli Leo Santarelli Monteburini Background: To measure daily sodium intake in patients on chronic hemodialysis and to compare the intake of nutrients, minerals, trace elements, and vitamins...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 257: The Effects of Trifolium pratense L. Sprouts’ Phenolic Compounds on Cell Growth and Migration of MDA-MB-231, MCF-7 and HUVEC Cells Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010257 Authors: Zakłos-Szyda Budryn Uncontrolled growth and migration and invasion abilities are common for cancer cells in malignant tumors with low therapeutic effectiveness and high mortality and morbidity. Estrogen receptor β (ERβ), as a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 255: Effects of Lactobacillus plantarum Q180 on Postprandial Lipid Levels and Intestinal Environment: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010255 Authors: Ye Eun Park Min Seo Kim Kyung Won Shim You-Il Kim Jaeryang Chu Byoung-Kook Kim In Suk Choi Ji Yeon Kim Probiotics can improve the intestinal environment by enhancing beneficial bacteria to potentially regulate lipid levels; however,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 254: Essential Amino Acid Supplement Lowers Intrahepatic Lipid despite Excess Alcohol Consumption Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010254 Authors: Melynda S. Coker Kaylee R. Ladd Jimin Kim Carl J. Murphy Ryan DeCort Bradley R. Newcomer Robert R. Wolfe Robert H. Coker Excess alcohol consumption is a top risk factor for death and disability. Fatty liver will likely develop and the risk of liver disease increases. We have previously demonstrated...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 256: Saliva Secretion and Swallowing—The Impact of Different Types of Food and Drink on Subsequent Intake Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010256 Authors: Catherina Bozorgi Celina Holleufer Karin Wendin The oral processing of food is important for eating and digestion in order to gain energy and nutrients. Due to disease, injury, or aging, individuals may experience difficulties in this process. These difficulties often lead to dysphagia, which is associated...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 252: Small-Scale Livestock Production in Nepal Is Directly Associated with Children’s Increased Intakes of Eggs and Dairy, But Not Meat Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010252 Authors: Broaddus-Shea Manohar Thorne-Lyman Bhandari Nonyane Winch West Animal source foods (ASF) provide nutrients essential to child growth and development yet remain infrequently consumed in rural Nepal. Agriculture and nutrition programs aim to increase ASF intake...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 253: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Child Stunting Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010253 Authors: Kaleab Baye Arnaud Laillou Stanley Chitweke Stunting in children less than five years of age is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to: (i) evaluate how the prevalence of stunting has changed by socio-economic status and rural/urban residence, and (ii) assess inequalities in children’s diet quality and access to...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 251: Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Bioavailability in Humans after Oral Intake of DHA-Containing Triacylglycerol or the Structured Phospholipid AceDoPC® Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010251 Authors: Hachem Nacir Picq Belkouch Bernoud-Hubac Windust Meiller Sauvinet Feugier Lambert-Porcheron Laville Lagarde AceDoPC® is a structured glycerophospholipid that targets the brain with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and is neuroprotective...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 250: Diet-Induced Rodent Models of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Retinopathy and Nephropathy Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010250 Authors: Preguiça Alves Nunes Gomes Fernandes Viana Reis Unhealthy dietary habits are major modifiable risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disease with increasing prevalence and serious consequences. Microvascular complications of diabetes, namely diabetic peripheral neuropathy...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 249: Fermented Morinda citrifolia (Noni) Alleviates DNCB-Induced Atopic Dermatitis in NC/Nga Mice through Modulating Immune Balance and Skin Barrier Function Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010249 Authors: Kim Seong Choung Morinda citrifolia, a fruit generally known as “Noni”, has been traditionally used in parts of East Asia to relieve inflammatory diseases. Although several studies using noni have been reported, the effect of fermented...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 248: Microencapsulated Tuna Oil Results in Higher Absorption of DHA in Toddlers Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010248 Authors: Ghasemi Fard Loh Turchini Wang Elliott Sinclair : Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an essential component for brain and visual acuity development during foetal and early postnatal life. A newly released directive under the European Commission stipulates DHA as a mandatory ingredient in infant formula. This poses challenges...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 246: The Preparation of Ginsenoside Rg5, Its Antitumor Activity against Breast Cancer Cells and Its Targeting of PI3K Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010246 Authors: Yannan Liu Daidi Fan Ginsenosides have been reported to possess various pharmacological effects, including anticancer effects. Nevertheless, there are few reports about the antitumor activity and mechanisms of ginsenoside Rg5 against breast cancer cells. In the present study, the major ginsenoside...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 247: Folic Acid Fortification and Neural Tube Defect Risk: Analysis of the Food Fortification Initiative Dataset Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010247 Authors: Murphy Westmark The United States implemented mandatory fortification of cereal grains with folic acid in 1998 to prevent neural tube defects (NTDs) during pregnancy. The health benefits of folate (vitamin B9) are well documented; however, there are potential risks of exceeding the upper tolerable limit,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 245: Alpha-Lactalbumin Enriched Whey Protein Concentrate to Improve Gut, Immunity and Brain Development in Preterm Pigs Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010245 Authors: Charlotte Holme Nielsen Yan Hui Duc Ninh Nguyen Agnethe May Ahnfeldt Douglas G. Burrin Bolette Hartmann Anne Birgitte Heckmann Per Torp Sangild Thomas Thymann Stine Brandt Bering Human milk is rich in nutritional factors, such as alpha-lactalbumin (α-Lac), and important...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 244: In Vivo Fat Quantification: Monitoring Effects of a 6-Week Non-Energy-Restricted Ketogenic Diet in Healthy Adults Using MRI, ADP and BIA Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010244 Authors: Martin Buechert Thomas Lange Peter Deibert Paul Urbain The ketogenic diet (KD) is a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat, and adequate-protein diet that induces many metabolic adaptations when calorie intake is not limited. Its therapeutic use in a range of diseases including...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 242: Association Between Diet, Physical Activity and Body Mass Index, Fat Mass Index and Bone Mineral Density of Soldiers of the Polish Air Cavalry Units Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010242 Authors: Anna Anyżewska Roman Łakomy Tomasz Lepionka Ewa Szarska Ewelina Maculewicz Andrzej Tomczak Jerzy Bertrandt Research from recent years indicates a problem of excessive body weight among soldiers, who, due to the kind of work carried out, should possess...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 243: The Role of Vitamin D in Primary Headache–from Potential Mechanism to Treatment Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010243 Authors: Magdalena Nowaczewska Michał Wiciński Stanisław Osiński Henryk Kaźmierczak Some studies have suggested a link between vitamin D and headache; however, the underlying physiological mechanisms are unclear. We aimed to summarize the available evidence on the relationship between vitamin D and the various subtypes of primary headaches,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 241: Gut Microbiota Modulation by Dietary Barley Malt Melanoidins Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12010241 Authors: Nesreen Aljahdali Pascale Gadonna-Widehem Pauline M. Anton Franck Carbonero Melanoidins are the final Maillard reaction products (protein–carbohydrate complexes) produced in food by prolonged and intense heating. We assessed the impact of the consumption of melanoidins from barley malts on gut microbiota. Seventy-five mice were assigned...
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Particles, Vol. 3, Pages 62-79: Dense Baryonic Matter and Applications of QCD Phase Diagram Dualities Particles doi: 10.3390/particles3010006 Authors: Tamaz G. Khunjua Konstantin G. Klimenko Roman N. Zhokhov Recently it has been found that quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram possesses a duality between chiral symmetry breaking and pion condensation. For the first time this was revealed in the QCD motivated toy model. Then it was demonstrated in effective models as well and...
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Particles, Vol. 3, Pages 39-61: Probing Vacuum Polarization Effects with High-Intensity Lasers Particles doi: 10.3390/particles3010005 Authors: Felix Karbstein These notes provide a pedagogical introduction to the theoretical study of vacuum polarization effects in strong electromagnetic fields as provided by state-of-the-art high-intensity lasers. Quantum vacuum fluctuations give rise to effective couplings between electromagnetic fields, thereby supplementing Maxwell’s linear...
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Particles, Vol. 3, Pages 24-38: Color Transparency and Hadron Formation Effects in High-Energy Reactions on Nuclei Particles doi: 10.3390/particles3010004 Authors: Alexei Larionov Mark Strikman An incoming or outgoing hadron in a hard collision with large momentum transfer gets squeezed in the transverse direction to its momentum. In the case of nuclear targets, this leads to the reduced interaction of such hadrons with surrounding nucleons which is known as color transparency (CT)....
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 69: Staphylococcus saprophyticus Proteomic Analyses Elucidate Differences in the Protein Repertories among Clinical Strains Related to Virulence and Persistence Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9010069 Authors: Silva Silva Silva Borges Novaes Paccez Fontes Giambiagi-deMarval Soares Parente-Rocha Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a Gram-positive and coagulase negative cocci that composes the skin microbiota and can act as an opportunistic...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 68: Differences in Epstein-Barr Virus Characteristics and Viral-Related Microenvironment Could Be Responsible for Lymphomagenesis in Children Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9010068 Authors: Aldana Vistarop Oscar Jimenez Melina Cohen Elena De Matteo Maria Victoria Preciado Paola Chabay In Argentina, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) presence is associated with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in patients younger than 10 years, suggesting a relationship between low...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 67: In Vivo Antiviral Effects of U18666A Against Type I Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9010067 Authors: Tomoyoshi Doki Tomoyo Tarusawa Tsutomu Hohdatsu Tomomi Takano Background: The cationic amphiphilic drug U18666A inhibits the proliferation of type I FIPV in vitro. In this study, we evaluated the in vivo antiviral effects of U18666A by administering it to SPF cats challenged with type I FIPV. Methods: Ten SPF cats...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 18: Electron Microscopy of In-Plaque Phage T3 Assembly: Proposed Analogs of Neurodegenerative Disease Triggers Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13010018 Authors: Philip Serwer Barbara Hunter Elena T. Wright Increased knowledge of virus assembly-generated particles is needed for understanding both virus assembly and host responses to virus infection. Here, we use a phage T3 model and perform electron microscopy (EM) of thin sections (EM-TS) of gel-supported...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 17: Biopolymer Extracted from Anadenanthera colubrina (Red Angico Gum) Exerts Therapeutic Potential in Mice: Antidiarrheal Activity and Safety Assessment Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13010017 Authors: Thiago S. L. Araújo Taiane M. de Oliveira Nayara A. de Sousa Luan K.M. Souza Francisca B. M. Sousa Ana P. de Oliveira Lucas A. D. Nicolau Alfredo A. V. da Silva Alyne R. Araújo Pedro J. C. Magalhães Daniel F. P. Vasconcelos Hugo...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 16: Design, Synthesis and Biochemical Evaluation of Novel Ethanoanthracenes and Related Compounds to Target Burkitt’s Lymphoma Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13010016 Authors: Andrew J. Byrne Sandra A. Bright James P. McKeown John E. O’Brien Brendan Twamley Darren Fayne D. Clive Williams Mary J. Meegan Lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system) account for 12% of malignant diseases worldwide. Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) is a...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 81: Gastrointestinal Tracking and Gastric Emptying of Coated Capsules in Rats with or without Sedation Using CT imaging Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010081 Authors: Noemí Gómez-Lado Iria Seoane-Viaño Silvia Matiz Christine M. Madla Vipul Yadav Pablo Aguiar Abdul W. Basit Alvaro Goyanes Following oral administration, gastric emptying is often a rate-limiting step in the absorption of drugs and is dependent on both physiological...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 80: Oral Treatment of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats with Captopril-Surface Functionalized Furosemide-Loaded Multi-Wall Lipid-Core Nanocapsules Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010080 Authors: Cecilia B. Michalowski Marcelo D. Arbo Louise Altknecht Andréia N. Anciuti Angélica S. G. Abreu Luciana M. R. Alencar Adriana R. Pohlmann Solange C. Garcia Sílvia S. Guterres Multi-wall lipid-core nanocapsule (MLNC) functionalized...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 79: Comparison of Various Cell Lines and Three-Dimensional Mucociliary Tissue Model Systems to Estimate Drug Permeability Using an In Vitro Transport Study to Predict Nasal Drug Absorption in Rats Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010079 Authors: Tomoyuki Furubayashi Daisuke Inoue Noriko Nishiyama Akiko Tanaka Reiko Yutani Shunsuke Kimura Hidemasa Katsumi Akira Yamamoto Toshiyasu Sakane Recently, various types of cultured...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 75: Optimization of Rifapentine-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles Using a Quality-by-Design Strategy Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010075 Authors: Joana Magalhães Luise L. Chaves Alexandre C. Vieira Susana G. Santos Marina Pinheiro Salette Reis This work aims to optimize and assess the potential use of lipid nanoparticles, namely nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs), as drug delivery systems of rifapentine (RPT) for the treatment of tuberculosis...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 77: Fabrication of Intragastric Floating, Controlled Release 3D Printed Theophylline Tablets Using Hot-Melt Extrusion and Fused Deposition Modeling Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010077 Authors: Bhupendra Raj Giri Eon Soo Song Jaewook Kwon Ju-Hyun Lee Jun-Bom Park Dong Wuk Kim This work presents a novel approach for producing gastro-retentive floating tablets (GRFT) by coupling hot-melt extrusion (HME) and fused deposition three-dimensional...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 76: Novel Intranasal Drug Delivery: Geraniol Charged Polymeric Mixed Micelles for Targeting Cerebral Insult as a Result of Ischaemia/Reperfusion Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010076 Authors: Sara M. Soliman Nermin M. Sheta Bassant M. M. Ibrahim Mohammad M. El-Shawwa Shady M. Abd El-Halim Brain damage caused by cerebral ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) can lead to handicapping. So, the present study aims to evaluate the prophylactic and...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 74: A Mechanistic Physiologically-Based Biopharmaceutics Modeling (PBBM) Approach to Assess the In Vivo Performance of an Orally Administered Drug Product: From IVIVC to IVIVP Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010074 Authors: Marival Bermejo Bart Hens Joseph Dickens Deanna Mudie Paulo Paixão Yasuhiro Tsume Kerby Shedden Gordon L. Amidon The application of in silico modeling to predict the in vivo outcome of an oral drug product...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 78: Aerosol Characteristics and Physico-Chemical Compatibility of Combivent® (Containing Salbutamol and Ipratropium Bromide) Mixed with Three Other Inhalants: Budesonide, Beclomethasone or N-Acetylcysteine Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010078 Authors: Rui Zhang Junhua Hu Liangjun Deng Sha Li Xi Chen Fei Liu Shanping Wang Khaja Shameem Mohammed Abdul Huimin Beng Wen Tan Inhalation therapy with a nebulizer is widely used...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 72: PLGA-PEG-ANG-2 Nanoparticles for Blood–Brain Barrier Crossing: Proof-of-Concept Study Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010072 Authors: Gina P. Hoyos-Ceballos Barbara Ruozi Ilaria Ottonelli Federica Da Ros Maria Angela Vandelli Flavio Forni Eleonora Daini Antonietta Vilella Michele Zoli Giovanni Tosi Jason T. Duskey Betty L. López-Osorio The treatment of diseases that affect the central nervous system (CNS) represents...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 73: Induction of WNT16 via Peptide-mRNA Nanoparticle-Based Delivery Maintains Cartilage Homeostasis Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010073 Authors: Huimin Yan Ying Hu Antonina Akk Muhammad Farooq Rai Hua Pan Samuel A. Wickline Christine T.N. Pham Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive joint disease that causes significant disability and pain and for which there are limited treatment options. We posit that delivery of anabolic factors...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 126: Volatile Compositions and Antifungal Activities of Native American Medicinal Plants: Focus on the Asteraceae Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010126 Authors: Lawson Sharp Powers McFeeters Satyal Setzer In the past, Native Americans of North America had an abundant traditional herbal legacy for treating illnesses, disorders, and wounds. Unfortunately, much of the ethnopharmacological knowledge of North American Indians has been lost due to population...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 127: Temporal Distinction between Male and Female Floral Organ Development in Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi (Solanaceae) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010127 Authors: Hongli Chang Fengjie Sun Early floral developmental investigations provide crucial evidence for phylogenetic and molecular studies of plants. The developmental and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the variations in floral organs are critical for a thorough understanding of the diversification of flowers....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 122: Inhibition of Digestive Enzymes and Antioxidant Activity of Extracts from Fruits of Cornus alba, Cornus sanguinea subsp. hungarica and Cornus florida–A Comparative Study Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010122 Authors: Truba Stanisławska Walasek Wieczorkowska Woliński Buchholz Melzig Czerwińska The fruits of some Cornus species (dogwoods) are used in traditional medicine and considered potential anti-diabetic and hypolipemic agents. The...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 124: Fumigant Toxicity in Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae): Controlled Release of (E)-anethole from Microspheres Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010124 Authors: Pascual-Villalobos Cantó-Tejero Guirao López (E)-anethole is a phenylpropanoid that is the main compound found in the essential oils (EOs) of anise and fennel seeds, and either fumigant or direct contact activity of this compound has been demonstrated against aphids and stored product...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 123: Biostimulant Effect and Biochemical Response in Lettuce Seedlings Treated with A Scenedesmus quadricauda Extract Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010123 Authors: Puglisi La Bella Rovetto Lo Piero Baglieri The use of natural biostimulants is becoming an attractive option in order to reduce the use of fertilizer and increase the yield of crops. In particular, algal extracts are suitable candidates as they positively affect plant physiology. Among...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 125: Fast Track to Discover Novel Promoters in Rice Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010125 Authors: Yoo Kim Moon Gho Hong Kim Jiang Jung Promoters are key components for the application of biotechnological techniques in crop plants. Reporter genes such as GUS or GFP have been used to test the activity of promoters for diverse applications. A huge number of T-DNAs carrying promoterless GUS near their right borders have been inserted into the...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 121: Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010121 Authors: Ditengou Teale Palme Plants orientate their growth either towards (in roots) or away from (in shoots) the Earth’s gravitational field. While we are now starting to understand the molecular architecture of these gravity response pathways, the gravity receptor remains elusive. This perspective looks at the biology of statoliths and suggests...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 120: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Plants in 2019 Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010120 Authors: Plants Editorial Office
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 119: Citrus limon (Lemon) Phenomenon—A Review of the Chemistry, Pharmacological Properties, Applications in the Modern Pharmaceutical, Food, and Cosmetics Industries, and Biotechnological Studies Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010119 Authors: Klimek-Szczykutowicz Szopa Ekiert This review presents important botanical, chemical and pharmacological characteristics of Citrus limon (lemon)—a species with valuable pharmaceutical, cosmetic and culinary (healthy...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 118: Leaves of Invasive Plants—Japanese, Bohemian and Giant Knotweed—The Promising New Source of Flavan-3-ols and Proanthocyanidins Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010118 Authors: Maja Bensa Vesna Glavnik Irena Vovk This is the first report on identification of all B-type proanthocyanidins from monomers to decamers (monomers—flavan-3-ols, dimers, trimers, tetramers, pentamers, hexamers, heptamers, octamers, nonamers, and decamers) and some of their gallates...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 117: Plant Mitochondrial Carriers: Molecular Gatekeepers That Help to Regulate Plant Central Carbon Metabolism Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010117 Authors: M. Rey Toleco Thomas Naake Youjun Zhang Joshua L. Heazlewood Alisdair R. Fernie The evolution of membrane-bound organelles among eukaryotes led to a highly compartmentalized metabolism. As a compartment of the central carbon metabolism, mitochondria must be connected to the cytosol by molecular gates...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 116: Steady-State Levels of Cytokinins and Their Derivatives May Serve as a Unique Classifier of Arabidopsis Ecotypes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010116 Authors: Zuzana Samsonová Nagavalli S. Kiran Ondřej Novák Ioannis Spyroglou Jan Skalák Jan Hejátko Vít Gloser We determined steady-state (basal) endogenous levels of three plant hormones (abscisic acid, cytokinins and indole-3-acetic acid) in a collection of thirty different ecotypes of Arabidopsis...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 115: Can Inositol Pyrophosphates Inform Strategies for Developing Low Phytate Crops? Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9010115 Authors: Catherine Freed Olusegun Adepoju Glenda Gillaspy Inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are an emerging class of “high-energy” intracellular signaling molecules, containing one or two diphosphate groups attached to an inositol ring, that are connected with phosphate sensing, jasmonate signaling, and inositol hexakisphosphate...
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Psych, Vol. 2, Pages 52-53: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Psych in 2019 Psych doi: 10.3390/psych2010006 Authors: Psych Editorial Office
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 51: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Religions in 2019 Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010051 Authors: Religions Editorial Office The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not.[...]
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 50: Non-Affiliated Believers and Atheists in the Very Secular Uruguay Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010050 Authors: Nestor Da Costa In recent years, literature in the field of religion has presented attempts to understand and characterize people who define themselves as believers but are not affiliated with any religious institution, along with those who define themselves as non-believers, or “nones”. Several quantitative studies covering this...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 49: The Role of the Spiritual Meaning System in Coping with Cancer Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010049 Authors: Anja Visser Nicoline Uwland-Sikkema Gerben J. Westerhof Bert Garssen Spirituality can support the adjustment process of people with cancer, by forming a meaning system that supports understanding of the cause and implications of the experience and that provides coping strategies. The different ways in which spiritual meaning systems might fulfill...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 48: Luther, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland: A Gender-Sensitive Historical Analysis Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010048 Authors: Mikkola The issue of whether to accept same-sex relationships as marriages has been under discussion worldwide in recent years, including in the Nordic countries, such as Finland. While in other Nordic countries, the Lutheran churches officiate same-sex marriages, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of...
Sat Jan 18, 2020 02:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 47: The Perception of Organisational Nepotism Depending on the Membership in Selected Christian Churches Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010047 Authors: Ignatowski Sułkowski Stopczyński Nepotism, just like any other form of favouratism in the workplace, is a phenomenon that is basically evaluated negatively. It adversely influences social and economic development and it has not been considered in relation to the membership of a given Christian denomination....
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 46: Centrality of Religiosity, Attitude Towards Christianity and Post-Critical Belief: Comparing Three Measures of Religiosity Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11010046 Authors: Riegel The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity (FAC) and the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCB) are three prominent measures of religiosity. Comparing the three measures on theoretical grounds, one may assume that high religiosity (CRS) is...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 9: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Resources in 2019 Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9010009 Authors: Resources Editorial Office Office The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 17-30: Identify a Spoofing Attack on an In-Vehicle CAN Bus Based on the Deep Features of an ECU Fingerprint Signal Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3010002 Authors: Yang Duan Tehranipoor An in-vehicle controller area network (CAN) bus is vulnerable because of increased sharing among modern autonomous vehicles and the weak protocol design principle. Spoofing attacks on a CAN bus can be difficult to detect and have the potential to enable devastating...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 6: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Social Sciences in 2019 Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9010006 Authors: Social Sciences Editorial Office
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Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 11: Dependence on Interprovincial Migrant Labour in Atlantic Canadian Communities: The Role of the Alberta Economy Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10010011 Authors: Doug Lionais Christina Murray Chloe Donatelli (1) Background: In the face of persistent and chronically weak labour markets, Atlantic Canada has become increasingly dependent on mobile oil work in Northern Alberta for employment and income. In the regions, most intensely engaged in this form of employment,...
Sun Jan 19, 2020 02:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 9: The Weather Impact on Physical Activity of 6–12 Year Old Children: A Clustered Study of the Health Oriented Pedagogical Project (HOPP) Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8010009 Authors: Iana Kharlova Wei Hai Deng Jostein Mamen Asgeir Mamen Maren Valand Fredriksen Per Morten Fredriksen It is commonly known that children do not engage in a sufficient amount of physical activity. Weather conditions and day length may influence physical activity of children....
Sun Jan 19, 2020 02:00
Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 32-33: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Stats in 2019 Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3010003 Authors: Stats Editorial Office Stats Editorial Office The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]
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Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 7: The Importance of Introducing the OCTC Method to Undergraduate Students as a Tool for Circuit Analysis and Amplifier Design Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8010007 Authors: Nikolaos Voudoukis Christos Dimas Konstantinos Asimakopoulos Dimitrios Baxevanakis Konstantinos Papafotis Konstantinos Oustoglou Paul Peter Sotiriadis The open-circuit-time-constant (OCTC) method is an approximate analytical computationally simple approach applicable...
Sun Jan 19, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 59: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Toxins in 2019 Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12010059 Authors: Toxins Editorial Office Toxins Editorial Office The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 58: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Induce Arterial Calcification by Indoxyl Sulfate and P-Cresyl Sulfate Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12010058 Authors: Britt Opdebeeck Patrick C. D’Haese Anja Verhulst The protein-bound uremic toxins, indoxyl sulfate (IS) and p-cresyl sulfate (PCS), are considered to be harmful vascular toxins. Arterial media calcification, or the deposition of calcium phosphate crystals in the arteries, contributes significantly to cardiovascular...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 57: Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Profiling of Volatile Compounds Reveals Metabolic Changes in a Non-Aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus Induced by 5-Azacytidine Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12010057 Authors: Song Geng Wang Gao He Zhao Lan Tian Yang Wang Aspergillus flavus is one of the most opportunistic pathogens invading many important oilseed crops and foodstuffs with such toxic secondary metabolites as aflatoxin (AF) and...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 14: The Drugs of Sleeping Sickness: Their Mechanisms of Action and Resistance, and a Brief History Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010014 Authors: Harry P. De Koning With the incidence of sleeping sickness in decline and genuine progress being made towards the WHO goal of eliminating sleeping sickness as a major public health concern, this is a good moment to evaluate the drugs that ‘got the job done’: their...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 13: Further Evidence of Inadequate Quality in Lateral Flow Devices Commercially Offered for the Diagnosis of Rabies Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010013 Authors: Klein Fahrion Finke Eyngor Novak Yakobson Ngoepe Phahladira Sabeta De Benedictis Gourlaouen Orciari Yager Gigante Knowles Fehlner-Gardiner Servat Cliquet Marston McElhinney Johnson Fooks...
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Urban Science, Vol. 4, Pages 4: The Most Frequently Cited Topics in Urban Planning Scholarship Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci4010004 Authors: Thomas W. Sanchez Analyses of faculty citation activity usually focus on counts as a function of author characteristics, such as rank, gender, previous citation levels, and other factors influencing productivity and career path. Citation analyses of publications consider aspects, such as the number of authors, author reputation, author order,...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 33: Protective Immunity against Vibrio harveyi in Grouper Induced by Single Vaccination with Poly (Lactide-co-glycolide) Microparticles Releasing Pleurocidin Peptide and Recombinant Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010033 Authors: Shang-Pin Liu Shu-Chun Chuang Chung-Da Yang The peptide adjuvant, pleurocidin (PLE), and the Vibrio harveyi antigen, recombinant glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (rGAPDH) protein,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 32: Vaccination with Ectoparasite Proteins Involved in Midgut Function and Blood Digestion Reduces Salmon Louse Infestations Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010032 Authors: Marinela Contreras Marius Karlsen Margarita Villar Rolf Hetlelid Olsen Lisa Marie Leknes Anette Furevik Karine Lindmo Yttredal Haitham Tartor Soren Grove Pilar Alberdi Bjorn Brudeseth José de la Fuente Infestation with the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis...
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Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 1-2: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Vibration in 2019 Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3010001 Authors: Vibration Editorial Office The editorial team greatly appreciates [...]
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 121: Microtubules in Polyomavirus Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010121 Authors: Horníková Bruštíková Forstová Microtubules, part of the cytoskeleton, are indispensable for intracellular movement, cell division, and maintaining cell shape and polarity. In addition, microtubules play an important role in viral infection. In this review, we summarize the role of the microtubules’ network during polyomavirus infection. Polyomaviruses usurp microtubules...
Sat Jan 18, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 120: Using the LN34 Pan-Lyssavirus Real-Time RT-PCR Assay for Rabies Diagnosis and Rapid Genetic Typing from Formalin-Fixed Human Brain Tissue Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010120 Authors: Rene Edgar Condori Michael Niezgoda Griselda Lopez Carmen Acosta Matos Elinna Diaz Mateo Crystal Gigante Claire Hartloge Altagracia Pereira Filpo Joseph Haim Panayampalli Subbian Satheshkumar Brett Petersen Ryan Wallace Victoria Olson Yu Li Human...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 119: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Viruses in 2019 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010119 Authors: Viruses Editorial Office
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 118: Integrated Analysis of Differentially Expressed miRNAs and mRNAs in Goat Skin Fibroblast Cells in Response to Orf Virus Infection Reveals That cfa-let-7a Regulates Thrombospondin 1 Expression Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010118 Authors: Feng Pang Xinying Wang Zhen Chen Zhenxing Zhang Mengmeng Zhang Chengqiang Wang Xiaohong Yang Qi An Li Du Fengyang Wang Orf is a zoonotic disease that has caused huge economic losses globally. Systematical...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 116: Real Time Analysis of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Infection and Its Dependence on Bovine CD46 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010116 Authors: Christiane Riedel Hann-Wei Chen Ursula Reichart Benjamin Lamp Vibor Laketa Till Rümenapf Virus attachment and entry is a complex interplay of viral and cellular interaction partners. Employing bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) encoding an mCherry-E2 fusion protein (BVDVE2-mCherry), being the first genetically...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 115: Population- and Variant-Based Genome Analyses of Viruses from Vaccine-Derived Rabies Cases Demonstrate Product Specific Clusters and Unique Patterns Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010115 Authors: Sten Calvelage Marcin Smreczak Anna Orłowska Conrad Martin Freuling Thomas Müller Christine Fehlner-Gardiner Susan Nadin-Davis Dirk Höper Paweł Trębas Rabies in wildlife has been successfully controlled in parts of Europe and North America using...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 117: Microtubules in Influenza Virus Entry and Egress Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12010117 Authors: Caitlin Simpson Yohei Yamauchi Influenza viruses are respiratory pathogens that represent a significant threat to public health, despite the large-scale implementation of vaccination programs. It is necessary to understand the detailed and complex interactions between influenza virus and its host cells in order to identify successful strategies for therapeutic intervention....
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 8: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Vision in 2019 Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4010008 Authors: Vision Editorial Office The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 300: Hydraulic Modeling of Beaver Dams and Evaluation of Their Impacts on Flood Events Water doi: 10.3390/w12010300 Authors: Michael Neumayer Sonja Teschemacher Sara Schloemer Volker Zahner Wolfgang Rieger There is a general agreement on the impact of beaver dams regarding the increasing diversity of habitats and the improvement of the water quality, whereas the retention effect during flood events is still being discussed. In this study, we modeled...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 298: Correction: Carrard, N., et al. Groundwater as a Source of Drinking Water in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: A Multi-Country Review of Current Reliance and Resource Concerns. Water 2019, 11, 1605 Water doi: 10.3390/w12010298 Authors: Naomi Carrard Tim Foster Juliet Willetts The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 299: Multiple Temporal Scales Assessment in the Hydrological Response of Small Mediterranean-Climate Catchments Water doi: 10.3390/w12010299 Authors: Fortesa Latron García-Comendador Tomàs-Burguera Company Calsamiglia Estrany Mediterranean-climate catchments are characterized by significant spatial and temporal hydrological variability caused by the interaction of natural as well human-induced abiotic and biotic factors. This study investigates...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 296: Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Recent Advances and Interdisciplinary Challenges Water doi: 10.3390/w12010296 Authors: Jörg Lewandowski Karin Meinikmann Stefan Krause The interactions of groundwater with surface waters such as streams, lakes, wetlands, or oceans are relevant for a wide range of reasons—for example, drinking water resources may rely on hydrologic fluxes between groundwater and surface water. However, nutrients and pollutants...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 295: Benefits of Water-Harvesting Systems (Jessour) on Soil Water Retention in Southeast Tunisia Water doi: 10.3390/w12010295 Authors: Calianno Fallot Fraj Ouezdou Reynard Milano Abbassi Messedi Adatte In this paper, we quantify the water balance of Jessour at the scale of agricultural plots. Jessour (plural of Jesr) are ancestral hydro-agricultural systems in the Dahar plateau (southeastern Tunisia). They consist of small dams built...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 297: Interactions between Microalgae and Bacteria in the Treatment of Wastewater from Milk Whey Processing Water doi: 10.3390/w12010297 Authors: Marazzi Bellucci Fantasia Ficara Mezzanotte Milk whey processing wastewaters (MWPWs) are characterized by high COD and organic nitrogen content; the concentrations of phosphorus are also relevant. A microalgal-based process was tested at lab scale in order to assess the feasibility of treating MWPW without...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 292: A Non-Uniform Broadcast Fertilization Method and Its Performance Analysis under Basin Irrigation Water doi: 10.3390/w12010292 Authors: Zhang Bai Li Zhang Xu The broadcast fertilization method is widely used under basin irrigation in China. A reasonable broadcast fertilization method can effectively improve application performance of fertilization and reduce pollution from non-point agricultural sources. In this study, firstly, a non-uniform...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 293: Hydrologic Response of a Montane Meadow from Conifer Removal and Upslope Forest Thinning Water doi: 10.3390/w12010293 Authors: Christopher Surfleet Noel Fie John Jasbinsek This study evaluates the hydrologic response of restoration of a montane meadow by removal of encroached Pinus contorta and thinning of the adjacent forest. It is now a follow-up with four years of post-restoration data, on a previous analysis of a hydrologic response of the same meadow...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 294: Machine Learning and Data Analytic Techniques in Digital Water Metering: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12010294 Authors: Rahim Nguyen Stewart Giurco Blumenstein Digital or intelligent water meters are being rolled out globally as a crucial component in improving urban water management. This is because of their ability to frequently send water consumption information electronically and later utilise the information to generate insights or provide...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 290: The First Drying Lake in Chile: Causes and Recovery Options Water doi: 10.3390/w12010290 Authors: Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda Pablo García-Chevesich Juan B. Valdés Roberto Pizarro-Tapia Located southwest of the city of Santiago (Chile), the Aculeo Lagoon used to be an important body of water, providing environmental, social, and economic services to both locals (mostly drinking water and small-scale agricultural irrigation) and tourists who visited the area...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 291: Reliability Analysis of Activated Sludge Process by Means of Biokinetic Modelling and Simulation Results Water doi: 10.3390/w12010291 Authors: Dariusz Andraka Analysis of wastewater treatment plant reliability is a difficult process, therefore it is often limited to selected aspects, e.g., mechanical reliability of equipment or technological availability of the process. The research presents a method of combining the above mentioned aspects in order to determine...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 289: Effects of Water Stress on Fluorescence Parameters and Photosynthetic Characteristics of Drip Irrigation in Rice Water doi: 10.3390/w12010289 Authors: Qiang Xu Xiaopeng Ma Tingbo Lv Meng Bai Zelin Wang Jingran Niu To study the effects of water stress on the fluorescence parameters and photosynthetic characteristics of rice under drip irrigation and mulching, so as to determine the response mechanisms to water stress during the tillering stage....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 282: Sediment Transport in Sewage Pressure Pipes, Part II: 1 D Numerical Simulation Water doi: 10.3390/w12010282 Authors: Martin Rinas Alexander Fricke Jens Tränckner Kurt Frischmuth Thilo Koegst Urban drainage modelling is a state-of-the-art tool to understand urban water cycles. Nevertheless, there are gaps in knowledge of urban water modelling. In particular pressure drainage systems are hardly considered in the scientific investigation of urban drainage...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 287: Variation of Groundwater Flow Caused by Any Spatiotemporally Varied Recharge Water doi: 10.3390/w12010287 Authors: Wu Hsieh The objective of this study was to develop a complete analytical solution to determining the effect of any varying rainfall recharge rates on groundwater flow in an unconfined sloping aquifer. The domain of the unconfined aquifer was assumed to be semi-infinite with an impervious bottom base, and the initial water level was parallel...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 286: Speeding up the Computation of the Transient Richards’ Equation with AMGCL Water doi: 10.3390/w12010286 Authors: Robert Pinzinger René Blankenburg The Richards’-equation is widely used for modeling complex soil water dynamics in the vadose zone. Usually, the Richards’-equation is simulated with the Finite Element Method, the Finite Difference Method, or the Finite Volume Method. In all three cases, huge systems of equations are to be...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 285: Algal Bloom Occurrence and Effects in Russia Water doi: 10.3390/w12010285 Authors: Zorigto Namsaraev Anna Melnikova Anastasia Komova Vasily Ivanov Anastasia Rudenko Evgenii Ivanov Eutrophication caused by the entry of nutrients into a water body may lead to algal bloom. Russia possesses the world’s second highest supply of renewable freshwater resources and has faced the problem of eutrophication for many years. Nevertheless, as far...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 284: The Use of Multisource Optical Sensors to Study Phytoplankton Spatio-Temporal Variation in a Shallow Turbid Lake Water doi: 10.3390/w12010284 Authors: Mariano Bresciani Monica Pinardi Gary Free Giulia Luciani Semhar Ghebrehiwot Marnix Laanen Steef Peters Valentina Della Bella Rosalba Padula Claudia Giardino Lake water quality monitoring has the potential to be improved through integrating detailed spatial information from new generation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 281: Dissolved Metal(loid) Concentrations and Their Relations with Chromophoric and Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter in an Urban River in Shenzhen, South China Water doi: 10.3390/w12010281 Authors: Song Zhang Xun-Wen Chen Quanhui Ye Zi-Ting Zhang Si-Fang Kong Chun Cao Jun-Jian Wang Urbanization is often accompanied by aquatic metal(loid) pollution, which is regulated by dissolved organic matter (DOM). However, the relationships between dissolved...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 283: Regional Response to Global Warming: Water Temperature Trends in Semi-Natural Mountain River Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12010283 Authors: Kędra River water temperature (TW) is a key environmental factor that determines the quality of the fluvial environment and its suitability for aquatic organisms. Atmospheric warming, accompanied by more frequent extreme weather phenomena, especially heat waves and prolonged drought, may pose a serious threat to the river...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 288: Adaptation of Water Supply to Changing Climate and Land-Use Activities, Case of Ljubljana Water Supply, Slovenia Water doi: 10.3390/w12010288 Authors: Cencur Curk Bracic Zeleznik Bogardi A risk management methodology is presented for the adaptation of water supply to changing climate and land-use activities, considering socio-economic aspects. Several management options were selected for the case of the public water supply of Ljubljana, the capital...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 279: Hydrodynamics of Uasb Reactor Treating Domestic Wastewater: A Three-Dimensional Numerical Study Water doi: 10.3390/w12010279 Authors: Brito Nunes Magalhães Lima Moura Neto Lima This work performed a three-dimensional numerical study to describe the hydrodynamics of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor treating domestic wastewater. The simulations were made in the commercial software Ansys CFX®. Different inclinations of the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 280: Velocity Fields at Horizontal Bar Racks as Fish Guidance Structures Water doi: 10.3390/w12010280 Authors: Julian Meister Helge Fuchs Claudia Beck Ismail Albayrak Robert M. Boes Horizontal bar racks used as fish protection measures at hydropower plants have rapidly gained importance in recent years. Despite the large number of installed racks in Europe, systematic investigations of the hydraulic losses and velocity fields were missing. To fill these...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 277: Sensibility Analysis of the Hydraulic Conductivity Anisotropy on Seepage and Stability of Sandy and Clayey Slope Water doi: 10.3390/w12010277 Authors: Shuyang Yu Xuhua Ren Jixun Zhang Haijun Wang Zhitao Zhang Evaluation of slope stability under rainfall is an important topic of Geotechnical Engineering. In order to study the influence of anisotropy ratio (kr = kx/ky) and anisotropy direction (α) on the seepage and stability of a slope,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 278: Application of a Self-Organizing Map of Isotopic and Chemical Data for the Identification of Groundwater Recharge Sources in Nasunogahara Alluvial Fan, Japan Water doi: 10.3390/w12010278 Authors: Tsuchihara Shirahata Ishida Yoshimoto Paddy rice fields on an alluvial fan not only use groundwater for irrigation but also play an important role as groundwater recharge sources. In this study, we investigated the spatial distribution of isotopic and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 275: Phosphorus Removal and Carbon Dioxide Capture in a Pilot Conventional Septic System Upgraded with a Sidestream Steel Slag Filter Water doi: 10.3390/w12010275 Authors: Claveau-Mallet Seltani Comeau The objective of this work was to demonstrate the removal of the phosphorus and carbon dioxide capture potential of a conventional septic system upgraded with a sidestream steel slag filter used in recirculation mode. A pilot scale sidestream experiment was...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 274: Characteristics of δD and δ18O of Reclaimed Mine Soil Water Profile and Its Source Water Bodies in a Coal Mining Subsidence Area with High Groundwater Level—A Case Study from the Longdong Coal Mining Subsidence Area in Jiangsu Province, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12010274 Authors: Ge Chen Coal mining, as one of the key drivers of land degradation worldwide, caused land subsidence problems. In this study, we conducted experimental research to explore the...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 276: Water Resource Assessment of a Complex Volcanic System Under Semi-Arid Climate Using Numerical Modeling: The Borena Basin in Southern Ethiopia Water doi: 10.3390/w12010276 Authors: Razack Furi Fanta Shiferaw The Borena basin is located in southern Ethiopia, in a semi-arid climate, on the eastern shoulder of the south Main Ethiopian Rift (MER). The study area covers 18,000 km2 and is characterized by a lack of perennial surface waters that can be...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 273: Application of NEXRAD Radar-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimations for Hydrologic Simulation Using ArcPy and HEC Software Water doi: 10.3390/w12010273 Authors: Younghyun Cho Recent availability of various spatial data, especially for gridded rainfall amounts, provide a great opportunity in hydrological modeling of spatially distributed rainfall–runoff analysis. In order to support this advantage using gridded precipitation in hydrological application,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 269: Quantitative Assessment of Specific Vulnerability to Nitrate Pollution of Shallow Alluvial Aquifers by Process-Based and Empirical Approaches Water doi: 10.3390/w12010269 Authors: Francesco Fusco Vincenzo Allocca Silvio Coda Delia Cusano Rita Tufano Pantaleone De Vita Shallow aquifers of coastal and internal alluvial plains of developed countries are commonly characterized by the challenging management of groundwater resources due to the intense...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 271: Climate Change Impacts on Reservoir Inflow in the Prairie Pothole Region: A Watershed Model Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12010271 Authors: Ameer Muhammad Grey R. Evenson Fisaha Unduche Tricia A. Stadnyk The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is known for its hydrologically complex landscape with a large number of pothole wetlands. However, most watershed-scale hydrologic models that are applied in this region are incapable of representing the dynamic nature...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 270: SewerSedFoam: A Model for Free Surface Flow, Sediment Transport, and Deposited Bed Morphology in Sewers Water doi: 10.3390/w12010270 Authors: Madhu K Murali Matthew R Hipsey Anas Ghadouani Zhiguo Yuan This paper aims to bridge the gap in the detailed modelling of flow and sediment process interactions in sewers through the development of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. It draws on previous models developed for surface water sediment transport...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 268: Changes in the Dynamics and Nature of Sedimentation in Mill Ponds as an Indicator of Environmental Changes in a Selected Lake Catchment (Chełmińskie Lake District, Poland) Water doi: 10.3390/w12010268 Authors: Zbigniew Podgórski Dawid Szatten The article presents the changes in a hydrographic network resulting from the construction and functioning of nine water mills located in the Struga Rychnowska catchment (Poland). Two ponds (Bierzgieł and Oleszek) have...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 272: Technical and Agronomical Assessment of the Use of Desalinated Seawater for Coastal Irrigation in an Insular Context Water doi: 10.3390/w12010272 Authors: Adrián Monterrey-Viña Ana Musicki-Savic Francisco J. Díaz-Peña Baltasar Peñate-Suárez The growing need for alternative water resources for irrigation has led to advanced technological developments, which are addressing some of the challenges that our planet is facing regarding the water supply. The...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 265: Effects of Farming Activities on the Temporal and Spatial Changes of Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes Present in Groundwater in the Hani Rice Terraces, Southwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12010265 Authors: Chengjing Liu Yuanmei Jiao Dongmei Zhao Yinping Ding Zhilin Liu Qiue Xu Landform changes caused by human activities can directly affect the recharge of groundwater, and are reflected in the temporal and spatial changes in groundwater stable isotope...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 266: The Drag Effect of Water Resources on China’s Regional Economic Growth: Analysis Based on the Temporal and Spatial Dimensions Water doi: 10.3390/w12010266 Authors: Yao Zhang Wenxin Liu Minjuan Zhao Studying the influencing factors of the drag effect of water resources and its temporal–spatial variation can help governments to solve the problem of water resource constraints on the economic growth of different regions. Based on Romer’s...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 267: Temporal Probability Assessment and Its Use in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for Eastern Bhutan Water doi: 10.3390/w12010267 Authors: Abhirup Dikshit Raju Sarkar Biswajeet Pradhan Ratiranjan Jena Dowchu Drukpa Abdullah M. Alamri Landslides are one of the major natural disasters that Bhutan faces every year. The monsoon season in Bhutan is usually marked by heavy rainfall, which leads to multiple landslides, especially across the highways,...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 264: Batch Study of Cadmium Biosorption by Carbon Dioxide Enriched Aphanothece sp. Dried Biomass Water doi: 10.3390/w12010264 Authors: Awalina Satya Ardiyan Harimawan Gadis Sri Haryani Md. Abu Hasan Johir Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran Huu Hao Ngo Tjandra Setiadi The conventional method for cadmium removal in aqueous solutions (1–100 mg/L) is ineffective and inefficient. Therefore, a batch biosorption reactor using a local freshwater microalga...
Fri Jan 17, 2020 02:00
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