Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 125: Compass, Continuity and Change. Everyday Religion among Women Living in Asylum Centers in Norway Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030125 Authors: Zubia Willmann Robleda When seeking asylum in Norway, asylum seekers are usually placed in asylum centers, where their everyday life is filled with uncertainty and few meaningful activities. Despite the importance of religion for many residents, little attention is paid both by authorities as well as by scholars to...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 33: Investigating the Suitability of Grape Husks Biochar, Municipal Solid Wastes Compost and Mixtures of Them for Agricultural Applications to Mediterranean Soils Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9030033 Authors: Despina Vamvuka Katerina Esser Kostas Komnitsas Present work aimed at evaluating the leaching potential of grape husks biochar, municipal solid wastes compost and their combined application as amendments of sandy Mediterranean soil, in order to...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 32: A Review of Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Electric Vehicles with a Focus on Resource Use Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9030032 Authors: Iulia Dolganova Anne Rödl Vanessa Bach Martin Kaltschmitt Matthias Finkbeiner Changes in the mobility patterns have evoked concerns about the future availability of certain raw materials necessary to produce alternative drivetrains and related batteries. The goal of this article is to determine if resource...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 29: Mean-Variance Optimization Is a Good Choice, But for Other Reasons than You Might Think Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8010029 Authors: Andrea Rigamonti Mean-variance portfolio optimization is more popular than optimization procedures that employ downside risk measures such as the semivariance, despite the latter being more in line with the preferences of a rational investor. We describe strengths and weaknesses of semivariance and how to minimize it for asset allocation...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 28: General Compound Hawkes Processes in Limit Order Books Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8010028 Authors: Anatoliy Swishchuk Aiden Huffman In this paper, we study various new Hawkes processes. Specifically, we construct general compound Hawkes processes and investigate their properties in limit order books. With regard to these general compound Hawkes processes, we prove a Law of Large Numbers (LLN) and a Functional Central Limit Theorems (FCLT) for several specific...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 27: CARL and His POT: Measuring Risks in Commodity Markets Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8010027 Authors: Bernardina Algieri Arturo Leccadito The present study aims at modelling market risk for four commodities, namely West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, natural gas, gold and corn for the period 2007–2017. To this purpose, we use Extreme Value Theory (EVT) together with a set of Conditional Auto-Regressive Logit (CARL) models to predict risk measures...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 13: Design of a UGV Powered by Solar Energy for Precision Agriculture Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9010013 Authors: Giuseppe Quaglia Carmen Visconte Leonardo Sabatino Scimmi Matteo Melchiorre Paride Cavallone Stefano Pastorelli In this paper, a novel UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) for precision agriculture, named “Agri.q,” is presented. The Agri.q has a multiple degrees of freedom positioning mechanism and it is equipped with...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 13: Visual Reconstruction of Ancient Coins Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010013 Authors: Marios Zachariou Neofytos Dimitriou Ognjen Arandjelović In this paper, our goal is to perform a virtual restoration of an ancient coin from its image. The present work is the first one to propose this problem, and it is motivated by two key promising applications. The first of these emerges from the recently recognised dependence...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 14: Thermodynamic Jump from Prebiotic Microsystems to Primary Living Cells Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010014 Authors: Kompanichenko It is proposed that the primary living cells (“probionts”) cannot emerge of organic substance simply by continuous chemical complication of prebiotic macromolecules and microsystems. The complication must be accompanied by the radical thermodynamic transformation (“jump”) of prebiotic microsystems that...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 12: Organic Molecules: Is It Possible To Distinguish Aromatics From Aliphatics Collected By Space Missions in High-Speed Impacts? Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010012 Authors: Burchell Harriss A prime site of astrobiological interest within the Solar System is the interior ocean of Enceladus. This ocean has already been shown to contain organic molecules, and is thought to have the conditions necessary for more complex organic biomolecules to emerge and potentially even...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 11: Modeling Regulation of Economic Sustainability in Energy Systems with Diversified Resources Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010011 Authors: Alabugin Aliukov The imperfection of theoretical and methodological approaches to regulate the jump process transition when combining differentiated energy resources is a pressing issue. The goal of this paper is to develop a theory and a method to regulate the integration-balancing processes of combining diversified resources. The...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 10: Data Fusion of Scanned Black and White Aerial Photographs with Multispectral Satellite Images Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010010 Authors: Kaimaris Patias Mallinis Georgiadis Αbstract: To date, countless satellite image fusions have been made, mainly with panchromatic spatial resolution to a multispectral image ratio of 1/4, fewer fusions with lower ratios, and relatively recently fusions with much higher spatial resolution ratios have been published....
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 36: Off-Season Training Habits and BMI, Not Preseason Jump Measures, Are Associated with Time-Loss Injury in Female Collegiate Soccer Players Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8030036 Authors: Jason Brumitt Alma Mattocks Amy Engilis Jill Sikkema Jeremy Loew The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the standing long jump (SLJ) and the single-leg hop (SLH) tests to discriminate lower quadrant (low back and lower extremities) injury...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 35: Factors Affecting Training and Physical Performance in Recreational Endurance Runners Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8030035 Authors: Daniel Boullosa Jonathan Esteve-Lanao Arturo Casado Leonardo A. Peyré-Tartaruga Rodrigo Gomes da Rosa Juan Del Coso Endurance running has become an immensely popular sporting activity, with millions of recreational runners around the world. Despite the great popularity of endurance running as a recreational activity...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 34: Relationships between Resisted Sprint Performance and Different Strength and Power Measures in Rugby Players Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8030034 Authors: Santiago Zabaloy Jorge Carlos-Vivas Tomás T. Freitas Fernando Pareja-Blanco Lucas Pereira Irineu Loturco Thomas Comyns Javier Gálvez-González Pedro E. Alcaraz This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a specific isometric-strength sprint test (SIST) and unresisted maximum...
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Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 20: Fate of Pyriproxyfen in Soils and Plants Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8010020 Authors: James Devillers Since the 1990s, the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen has been widely used worldwide as a larvicide in vector control and in agriculture to fight a very large number of pests. Due to its widespread use it is of first importance to know how pyriproxyfen behaves in the terrestrial ecosystems. This was the goal of this work to establish the fate profile of pyriproxyfen...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 184: Isolation and Characterization of a Deoxynivalenol-Degrading Bacterium Bacillus licheniformis YB9 with the Capability of Modulating Intestinal Microbial Flora of Mice Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030184 Authors: Shiwei Wang Qiuqiu Hou Qianqian Guo Jian Zhang Yanmei Sun Hong Wei Lixin Shen Deoxynivalenol (DON) is one of the most prevalent food- and feed-associated mycotoxins. It frequently contaminates agricultural commodities and poses serious...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 183: Effects of Microcystin-LR on Metabolic Functions and Structure Succession of Sediment Bacterial Community under Anaerobic Conditions Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030183 Authors: Qin Ding Kaiyan Liu Zhiquan Song Rongli Sun Juan Zhang Lihong Yin Yuepu Pu Microcystins (MCs), which are produced by harmful cyanobacteria blooms, pose a serious threat to environmental health. However, the effect of MCs on the bacterial community under anaerobic conditions...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 182: Mycotoxin Contamination Concerns of Herbs and Medicinal Plants Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030182 Authors: Ałtyn Twarużek Plants and medicinal herbs that are available on the market do not always meet quality and safety standards. One particular concern is the risk of contamination with mycotoxins. Aflatoxins and ochratoxin A are the most frequently described mycotoxins in herbal products and have repeatedly been reported to occur at concentrations which...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 181: Cardiovascular Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease—Therapeutic Opportunities Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030181 Authors: Anika Himmelsbach Carina Ciliox Claudia Goettsch Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are highly susceptible to cardiovascular (CV) complications, thus suffering from clinical manifestations such as heart failure and stroke. CV calcification greatly contributes to the increased CV risk in CKD patients. However, no clinically...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 180: Deoxynivalenol Induces Inflammation in IPEC-J2 Cells by Activating P38 Mapk And Erk1/2 Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030180 Authors: Hua Zhang Xiwen Deng Chuang Zhou Wenda Wu Haibin Zhang Fusarium-derived mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) usually induces diarrhea, vomiting and gastrointestinal inflammation. We studied the cytotoxic effect of DON on porcine small intestinal epithelium using the intestinal porcine epithelial cell line IPEC-J2. We screened...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 179: Toxins of Okadaic Acid-Group Increase Malignant Properties in Cells of Colon Cancer Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030179 Authors: Danae Jiménez-Cárcamo Carlos García Héctor R. Contreras Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) is a syndrome caused by the intake of shellfish contaminated with a group of lipophilic and thermostable toxins, which consists of okadaic acid (OA), dinophysistoxin-1 (DTX-1) and dinophysistoxin-2 (DTX-2). These toxins are potent protein...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 178: Analysis of Covalently Bound Microcystins in Sediments and Clam Tissue in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, California, USA Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030178 Authors: Melissa Bolotaolo Tomofumi Kurobe Birgit Puschner Bruce G Hammock Matt J. Hengel Sarah Lesmeister Swee J. Teh Harmful cyanobacterial blooms compromise human and environmental health, mainly due to the cyanotoxins they often produce. Microcystins (MCs) are the most commonly...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 128: Better Adjuvants for Better Vaccines: Progress in Adjuvant Delivery Systems, Modifications, and Adjuvant–Antigen Codelivery Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010128 Authors: Zhi-Biao Wang Jing Xu Traditional aluminum adjuvants can trigger strong humoral immunity but weak cellular immunity, limiting their application in some vaccines. Currently, various immunomodulators and delivery carriers are used as adjuvants, and the mechanisms of action of some of these...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 127: Tauopathy Analysis in P301S Mouse Model of Alzheimer Disease Immunized With DNA and MVA Poxvirus-Based Vaccines Expressing Human Full-Length 4R2N or 3RC Tau Proteins Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010127 Authors: Juan García-Arriaza María Q. Marín Jesús Merchán-Rubira Sara M. Mascaraque Miguel Medina Jesús Ávila Félix Hernández Mariano Esteban Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 126: Baseline Levels of Influenza-Specific B Cells and T Cell Responses Modulate Human Immune Responses to Swine Variant Influenza A/H3N2 Vaccine Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010126 Authors: Lilin Lai Nadine Rouphael Yongxian Xu Amy C. Sherman Srilatha Edupuganti Evan J. Anderson Pamela Lankford-Turner Dongli Wang Wendy Keitel Monica M. McNeal Kaitlyn Cross Heather Hill Abbie R. Bellamy Mark J. Mulligan The cellular immune...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 32: Spontaneous Tumors and Non-Neoplastic Proliferative Lesions in Pet Degus (Octodon degus) Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7010032 Authors: Tanja Švara Mitja Gombač Alessandro Poli Jožko Račnik Marko Zadravec In recent years, degus (Octodon degus), rodents native to South America, have been becoming increasingly popular as pet animals. Data about neoplastic diseases in this species are still sparse and mainly limited to single-case...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 313: Eradicating the Scourge of Peste Des Petits Ruminants from the World Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030313 Authors: Felix Njeumi Dalan Bailey Jean. Jacques Soula Bouna Diop Berhe G. Tekola Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious viral disease of both domestic (goats and sheep) and wild ruminants. Caused by a morbillivirus, that belongs to the family Paramyxoviridae. The disease is clinically and pathologically similar to rinderpest of...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 312: Systematics, Ecology, and Host Switching: Attributes Affecting Emergence of the Lassa Virus in Rodents across Western Africa Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030312 Authors: Ayodeji Olayemi Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet Ever since it was established that rodents serve as reservoirs of the zoonotic Lassa virus (LASV), scientists have sought to answer the questions: which populations of rodents carry the virus? How do fluctuations in LASV prevalence and rodent abundance...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 311: Suppression of a Subset of Interferon-Induced Genes by Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 via a Cyclin Dependent Kinase 8-Dependent Mechanism Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030311 Authors: Sadie Rice Seong-man Kim Cynthia Rodriguez William Songock Gaurav Raikhy Rebecca Lopez Lauren Henderson Arjun Yusufji Jason Bodily Persistent infection by human papillomaviruses (HPVs), small, double-stranded DNA viruses that infect keratinocytes of the squamous...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 831: Trends of Runoff Variation and Effects of Main Causal Factors in Mun River, Thailand During 1980–2018 Water doi: 10.3390/w12030831 Authors: Renzhi Li Heqing Huang Guoan Yu Hong Yu Arika Bridhikitti Teng Su Mun River is the largest tributary of the Mekong River in Thailand and provides abundant water resources not only for an important agricultural area in Thailand but also for the lower Mekong River. To understand how the runoff of Mun River...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 830: Nitrification in Premise Plumbing: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12030830 Authors: Tyler C. Bradley Charles N. Haas Christopher M. Sales Nitrification is a major issue that utilities must address if they utilize chloramines as a secondary disinfectant. Nitrification is the oxidation of free ammonia to nitrite which is then further oxidized to nitrate. Free ammonia is found in drinking water systems as a result of overfeeding at the water treatment plant...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 827: Unpacking Water Governance: A Framework for Practitioners Water doi: 10.3390/w12030827 Authors: Alejandro Jiménez Panchali Saikia Ricard Giné Pilar Avello James Leten Birgitta Liss Lymer Kerry Schneider Robin Ward Water governance has emerged as an important topic in the international arena and is acknowledged to be a crucial factor for adequate and sustained progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. However, there...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 828: Delineation of Hydraulic Flow Regime Areas Based on the Statistical Analysis of Semicentennial Shallow Groundwater Table Time Series Water doi: 10.3390/w12030828 Authors: Tamás Garamhegyi István Gábor Hatvani József Szalai József Kovács Shallow groundwater acts as an important source of water for the ecosystem, agriculture, drinking water supply, etc.; it is, however, among those water resources most sensitive to climate change, and especially to aridification....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 829: Precipitation Characteristic Analysis of the Zhoushan Archipelago: From the View of MSWEP and Rainfall Merging Water doi: 10.3390/w12030829 Authors: Dangwei Xuan Qingfang Hu Yintang Wang Hanbo Yang Lingjie Li Leizhi Wang Based on the long series of gauge rainfall data from 1979 to 2015, the performance of Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) precipitation dataset in the Zhoushan Archipelago and its surrounding sea area in Southeast...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 826: Injection of Zerovalent Iron Gels for Aquifer Nanoremediation: Lab Experiments and Modeling Water doi: 10.3390/w12030826 Authors: Federico Mondino Amelia Piscitello Carlo Bianco Andrea Gallo Alessandra de Folly D’Auris Tiziana Tosco Marco Tagliabue Rajandrea Sethi One of the main technical problems faced during field-scale injections of iron microparticles (mZVI) for groundwater nanoremediation is related to their poor colloidal stability...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 817: Understanding the Role of Organic Matter Cycling for the Spatio-Temporal Structure of PCBs in the North Sea Water doi: 10.3390/w12030817 Authors: Ute Daewel Evgeniy V. Yakushev Corinna Schrum Luca Nizzetto Elena Mikheeva Using the North Sea as a case scenario, a combined three-dimensional hydrodynamic-biogeochemical-pollutant model was applied for simulating the seasonal variability of the distribution of hydrophobic chemical pollutants in a marine...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 822: Assessment of Flood Inundation by Coupled 1D/2D Hydrodynamic Modeling: A Case Study in Mountainous Watersheds along the Coast of Southeast China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030822 Authors: Wenting Zhang Xingnan Zhang Yongzhi Liu Wenwen Tang Jan Xu Zhimin Fu Mountain flood disasters in China’s southeastern coastal watershed are not predictable and are sudden. With rapid urbanization and development in the middle and lower reaches of the region,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 825: Spatial Variation in Aragonite Saturation State and the Influencing Factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030825 Authors: Yunxiao Li Longjun Zhang Liang Xue Wenhua Fan Fenwu Liu Hong Yang Both natural processes and human activities affect seawater calcium carbonate saturation state (Ωarag), while the mechanisms are still far from being clearly understood. This study analysed the seawater surface Ωarag during...
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