Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 71: Clinical Experience with Ceftazidime-Avibactam for the Treatment of Infections due to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Other than Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020071 Authors: Vena Giacobbe Castaldo Cattelan Mussini Luzzati Rosa Puente Mastroianni Cascio Carbonara Capone Boni Sepulcri Meschiari Raumer Oliva Corcione Bassetti Background:...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 70: IncI1 Plasmid Associated with blaCTX-M-2 Transmission in ESBL-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Healthy Thoroughbred Racehorse, Japan Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020070 Authors: Eddy Sukmawinata Ryoko Uemura Wataru Sato Shuya Mitoma Takuya Kanda Masuo Sueyoshi In our previous study, extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli (ESBLEC) were isolated from healthy Thoroughbred racehorse feces samples...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 68: Comparative In Vitro Resistance of Human Periodontal Bacterial Pathogens to Tinidazole and Four Other Antibiotics Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020068 Authors: Thomas E. Rams Jacqueline D. Sautter Arie J. van Winkelhoff The in vitro resistance of selected red/orange complex periodontal pathogens to tinidazole was compared with four other antibiotics. Subgingival biofilm samples from 88 adults with severe periodontitis were anaerobically incubated...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 69: Targeting Bacterial Cell Division: A Binding Site-Centered Approach to the Most Promising Inhibitors of the Essential Protein FtsZ Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020069 Authors: Casiraghi Suigo Valoti Straniero Binary fission is the most common mode of bacterial cell division and is mediated by a multiprotein complex denominated the divisome. The constriction of the Z-ring splits the mother bacterial cell into two daughter cells of the...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 67: Identification and Heterologous Expression of the Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Encoding the Lasso Peptide Humidimycin, a Caspofungin Activity Potentiator Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9020067 Authors: Sánchez-Hidalgo Martín Genilloud Humidimycin (MDN-0010) is a ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) belonging to class I lasso peptides, and is structurally related to siamycins, which have been shown to have strong...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 146: The Kinetics of Total Phenolic Content and Monomeric Flavan-3-ols during the Roasting Process of Criollo Cocoa Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9020146 Authors: Fernández-Romero Chavez-Quintana Siche Castro-Alayo Cardenas-Toro Cocoa beans are the main raw material for the manufacture of chocolate and are currently gaining great importance due to their antioxidant potential attributed to the total phenolic content (TPC) and the monomeric...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 145: Reactive Sulfur Species Interact with Other Signal Molecules in Root Nodule Symbiosis in Lotus japonicus Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9020145 Authors: Fukudome Shimada Uchi Osuki Ishizaki Murakami Kawaguchi Uchiumi Reactive sulfur species (RSS) function as strong antioxidants and are involved in various biological responses in animals and bacteria. Few studies; however, have examined RSS in plants. In the present study,...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 144: Beneficial Effects of Fermented Papaya Preparation (FPP®) Supplementation on Redox Balance and Aging in a Mouse Model Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9020144 Authors: Logozzi Di Raimo Mizzoni Andreotti Spada Macchia Fais In recent decades much attention has been paid to how dietary antioxidants may positively affect the human health, including the beneficial effects of fermented foods and beverages. Fermented Papaya Preparation...
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Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 17: Asserting the Vernacular: Contested Musealities and Contemporary Art in Lima, Peru Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9010017 Authors: Gabriela Germana Amy Bowman-McElhone This essay examines three museums of contemporary art in Lima, Peru: MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), MALI (Lima Art Museum), and MASM (San Marcos Art Museum). As framed through curatorial studies and cultural politics, we argue that the curatorial practices of these institutions are embedded with tensions...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 184: Assessment of Open-path Spectrometer Accuracy at Low Path-integrated Methane Concentrations Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020184 Authors: Zachary J. DeBruyn Claudia Wagner-Riddle Andrew VanderZaag The accurate measurement of greenhouse gas emissions is a challenge for atmospheric science. Long-range open-path sensors are flexible enough to be applied to a variety of complex emission sources, and single devices are often used to measure both high...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 183: Comparison of the Madden–Julian Oscillation-Related Tropical Cyclone Genesis over the South China Sea and Western North Pacific under Different El Niño-Southern Oscillation Conditions Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020183 Authors: Ye Deng Huang Chen This paper explores the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) modulation of tropical cyclone (TC; hereafter, MJO-TC) genesis over the South China Sea (SCS) and Western North Pacific (WNP) under...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 181: Evidence of a Diurnal Cycle in Precipitation over the Southern Ocean as Observed at Macquarie Island Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020181 Authors: Francisco Lang Yi Huang Steven T. Siems Michael J. Manton Due to a lack of observations, relatively large discrepancies exist between precipitation products over the Southern Ocean. In this manuscript, surface hourly precipitation observations from Macquarie Island (54.62 ∘ S, 158.85 ∘...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 182: Assimilation of Radar Data, Pseudo Water Vapor, and Potential Temperature in a 3DVAR Framework for Improving Precipitation Forecast of Severe Weather Events Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020182 Authors: Lai Min Gao Ma Cui Xiao Wang An improved approach to derive pseudo water vapor mass mixing ratio and in- cloud potential temperature was developed in this paper to better initialize numerical weather prediction (NWP) and build...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 180: The Implication of Different Sets of Climate Variables on Regional Maize Yield Simulations Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020180 Authors: Srivastava Ceglar Zeng Gaiser Mboh Ewert High-resolution and consistent grid-based climate data are important for model-based agricultural planning and farm risk assessment. However, the application of models at the regional scale is constrained by the lack of required high-quality weather data,...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 179: Source Identification of Trace Elements in PM2.5 at a Rural Site in the North China Plain Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020179 Authors: Liu Liu Wen Liang Ma Jiao Guo An intensive sampling of PM2.5 was conducted at a rural site (Gucheng) in the North China Plain from 22 October to 23 November 2016. A total of 25 elements (Al, Na, Cl, Mg, P, S, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Br, Sr, Cd, Ba, Pb, and Sb) from PM2.5...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 178: GPU Parallelization of a Hybrid Pseudospectral Geophysical Turbulence Framework Using CUDA Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020178 Authors: Duane Rosenberg Pablo D. Mininni Raghu Reddy Annick Pouquet An existing hybrid MPI-OpenMP scheme is augmented with a CUDA-based fine grain parallelization approach for multidimensional distributed Fourier transforms, in a well-characterized pseudospectral fluid turbulence code. Basics of the hybrid scheme are...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 176: Evaluating the Adaptation of Chinese Torreya Plantations to Climate Change Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020176 Authors: Xiongwen Chen Jianzhi Niu Studying the capacity of some plant species to adapt to climate change is essential for ecological research and agricultural policy development. Chinese Torreya (Torreya grandis ‘Merrillii’) has been an important crop tree in subtropical China for over a thousand years. It is necessary...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 175: Modulation of the Westerly and Easterly Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Phases on the Connection between the Madden–Julian Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020175 Authors: Lei Song Renguang Wu Previous studies have revealed the relationship between the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). The MJO phase 2/3 is followed by the positive AO phase, and the MJO phase 6/7 is followed by...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 177: Coexistence of Lightning Generated Whistlers, Hiss and Lower Hybrid Noise Observed by e-POP (SWARM-E)–RRI Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020177 Authors: Ashanthi Maxworth Glenn Hussey Mark Gołkowski Whistler mode waves play a major role in regulating the lifetime of trapped electrons in the Earth’s radiation belts. Specifically, interaction with whistler mode hiss waves is one of the mechanisms that maintains the slot region between the...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 174: The Influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the Choco Low-Level Jet and Precipitation in Colombia Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020174 Authors: Loaiza Cerón Andreoli Kayano Ferreira de Souza Jones Carvalho This study examines the influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) on the Choco Low-level Jet (CJ) variations during the 1983–2016 period. Considering the September–November (SON)...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 172: Characterization of Aerosol Physical and Optical Properties at The Observatoire Pérenne de l’Environnement (OPE) Site Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020172 Authors: Farah Villani Rose Conil Langrene Laj Sellegri The Observatoire Pérenne de l'Environnement (OPE) station is a rural background site located in North-Eastern France. Besides emissions from agricultural activities, the site is located far from local emissions...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 173: Neural Network Model Analysis for Investigation of NO Origin in a High Mountain Site Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020173 Authors: Eleonora Aruffo Piero Di Carlo Paolo Cristofanelli Paolo Bonasoni Measurements of nitrogen oxide (NO), ozone (O3), and meteorological parameters have been carried out between September and November 2013 in a high mountain site in Central Italy at the background station of Mt. Portella (2401 m a.s.l.). Three NO plumes,...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 171: Representing Organic Compound Oxidation in Chemical Mechanisms for Policy-Relevant Air Quality Models under Background Troposphere Conditions Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020171 Authors: Derwent This intercomparison has taken thirteen chemical mechanisms and compared how they treat VOC oxidation and degradation and its relationship to the photochemical formation of ozone and hydroxyl radicals. Here, we have looked in some detail at the incremental responses...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 170: The Heat Health Warning System in Germany—Application and Warnings for 2005 to 2019 Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11020170 Authors: Andreas Matzarakis Gudrun Laschewski Stefan Muthers During intense heat episodes, the human population suffers from an increased morbidity and mortality. In order to minimize such negative health impacts, the general public and the public health authorities are informed and warned by means of an advanced procedure known...
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Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 57: Team Role Adoption and Distribution in Engineering Project Meetings Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs10020057 Authors: Nestsiarovich Pons Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. This research explored role adoption using qualitative methods comprising observations, questionnaires...
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Bioengineering, Vol. 7, Pages 14: Changes in Epithelial and Stromal Corneal Stiffness Occur with Age and Obesity Bioengineering doi: 10.3390/bioengineering7010014 Authors: Xu Londregan Rich Trinkaus-Randall The cornea is avascular, which makes it an excellent model to study matrix protein expression and tissue stiffness. The corneal epithelium adheres to the basement zone and the underlying stroma is composed of keratocytes and an extensive matrix of collagen and proteoglycans....
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 26: Determining Ancestry between Rodent- and Human-Derived Virus Sequences in Endemic Foci: Towards a More Integral Molecular Epidemiology of Lassa Fever within West Africa Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9020026 Authors: Olayemi Adesina Strecker Magassouba Fichet-Calvet Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic illness responsible for thousands of human deaths in West Africa yearly. Rodents are known as natural reservoirs of the causative Lassa mammarenavirus...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 30: Impact of Statin Use on Dementia Incidence in Elderly Men and Women with Ischemic Heart Disease Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8020030 Authors: Kim Jung Noh Shin Hong Lee Jung This study aimed to determine the association between statins and the prevention of dementia according to sex differences in elderly patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). We performed a nationwide retrospective cohort study using the Korean Health...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 29: Effects of Anchomanes difformis on Inflammation, Apoptosis, and Organ Toxicity in STZ-Induced Diabetic Cardiomyopathy Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8020029 Authors: Toyin D. Alabi Novel N. Chegou Nicole L. Brooks Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju Persistent hyperglycemia is known to cause enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species in diabetes. Several inflammatory cytokines are induced by oxidative stress, and their release also leads to increased...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 28: NAFLD Preclinical Models: More than a Handful, Less of a Concern? Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8020028 Authors: Oligschlaeger Shiri-Sverdlov Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of liver diseases ranging from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. Due to its increasing prevalence, NAFLD is currently a major public health concern. Although a wide variety of...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 27: New Herbal Biomedicines for the Topical Treatment of Dermatological Disorders Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8020027 Authors: Julia Hoffmann Fabian Gendrisch Christoph Mathis Schempp Ute Wölfle Herbal extracts and isolated plant compounds play an increasing role in the treatment of skin disorders and wounds. Several new herbal drugs, medicinal products and cosmetic products for the treatment of various skin conditions have been developed...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 26: A Versatile Model of Microfluidic Perifusion System for the Evaluation of C-Peptide Secretion Profiles: Comparison Between Human Pancreatic Islets and HLSC-Derived Islet-Like Structures Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8020026 Authors: Gomez Navarro-Tableros Tetta Camussi Brizzi A robust and easy-to-use tool for the ex vivo dynamic evaluation of pancreatic islet (PI) function is essential for further development of novel cell-based...
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Biomimetics, Vol. 5, Pages 6: Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Biomimetics in 2019 Biomimetics doi: 10.3390/biomimetics5010006 Authors: Biomimetics 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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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 260: UFL1 Alleviates LPS-Induced Apoptosis by Regulating the NF-κB Signaling Pathway in Bovine Ovarian Granulosa Cells Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020260 Authors: Xinling Wang Chengmin Li Yiru Wang Lian Li Zhaoyu Han Genlin Wang Ubiquitin-like modifier 1 ligating enzyme 1 (UFL1) is an E3 ligase of ubiquitin fold modifier 1 (UFM1), which can act together with its target protein to inhibit the apoptosis of cells. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS)...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 259: The Inhibition of Icing and Frosting on Glass Surfaces by the Coating of Polyethylene Glycol and Polypeptide Mimicking Antifreeze Protein Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020259 Authors: Kazuya Kasahara Tomonori Waku Peter W. Wilson Taishi Tonooka Yoshimichi Hagiwara The development of anti-icing, anti-frosting transparent plates is important for many reasons, such as poor visibility through the ice-covered windshields of vehicles. We have...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 258: Oral Administration of Fucoidan Can Exert Anti-Allergic Activity after Allergen Sensitization by Enhancement of Galectin-9 Secretion in Blood Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020258 Authors: Mizuno Sakaguchi Sakane : A previous study revealed that fucoidan inhibited mast cell degranulation through the upregulation of galectin-9 in blood. The purpose of this study is to elucidate its mechanism using ovalbumin (OVA) induced anaphylaxis model mice...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 255: Revisiting the Roles of Pro-Metastatic EpCAM in Cancer Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020255 Authors: Mohtar Syafruddin Nasir Yew Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a cell surface protein that was discovered as a tumour marker of epithelial origins nearly four decades ago. EpCAM is expressed at basal levels in the basolateral membrane of normal epithelial cells. However, EpCAM expression is upregulated in solid epithelial cancers...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 253: The Mitochondrial Lon Protease: Novel Functions off the Beaten Track? Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020253 Authors: Voos Pollecker To maintain organellar function, mitochondria contain an elaborate endogenous protein quality control system. As one of the two soluble energy-dependent proteolytic enzymes in the matrix compartment, the protease Lon is a major component of this system, responsible for the degradation of misfolded proteins, in particular...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 256: Low Lactic Acid-Producing Strain of Lachancea thermotolerans as a New Starter for Beer Production Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10020256 Authors: Zdaniewicz Satora Pater Bogacz Growing consumer interest in new beer flavors is contributing to the application of innovative materials and non-Saccharomyces yeast in brewing. The goal of this study was to test the impact of the low lactic acid-producing Lachancea thermotolerans MN477031 strain...
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