Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 259: Chastity as a Virtue Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050259 Authors: Hwa Yeong Wang This paper analyzes two philosophers’ views on chastity as a virtue, comparing Song Siyeol, a Korean neo-Confucian philosopher of the east, and David Hume, a Scottish philosopher. Despite the importance in and impact on women’s lives, chastity has been understated in religio-philosophical fields. The two philosophers’ understandings and arguments...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 59: The Role of Hydrocarbons in the Global Energy Agenda: The Focus on Liquefied Natural Gas Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9050059 Authors: Vladimir Litvinenko Presently, there is a paradoxical situation in the global energy market related to a gap between the image of hydrocarbon resources (HCR) and their real value for the economy. On the one hand, we face an increase in expected HCR production and consumption volumes, both in the short and long term. On...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 49: Proactive Management of Regulatory Policy Ripple Effects via a Computational Hierarchical Change Management Structure Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8020049 Authors: Alrabiah Drew The paper proposes a novel computational impact analysis framework to proactively manage dynamic constraints and optimally promote the inception of central banks’ regulatory policies. Currently, central banks are encountering contradictory challenges in developing and implementing...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 50: Machine Learning for Multiple Yield Curve Markets: Fast Calibration in the Gaussian Affine Framework Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8020050 Authors: Sandrine Gümbel Thorsten Schmidt Calibration is a highly challenging task, in particular in multiple yield curve markets. This paper is a first attempt to study the chances and challenges of the application of machine learning techniques for this. We employ Gaussian process regression, a machine learning methodology...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 87: Covid-19 and Women’s Triple Burden: Vignettes from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9050087 Authors: Helen Jaqueline McLaren Karen Rosalind Wong Kieu Nga Nguyen Komalee Nadeeka Damayanthi Mahamadachchi During disease outbreaks, women endure additional burdens associated with paid and unpaid work, often without consideration or the alleviation of other life responsibilities. This paper draws on the...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 71: The Effects of Lateral Bounds on Post-Activation Potentiation of Change-of-Direction Speed Measured by the 505 Test in College-Aged Men and Women Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8050071 Authors: Ashley J. Orjalo Robert G. Lockie Katherine Balfany Samuel J. Callaghan Forty recreationally-trained individuals completed four testing sessions to determine whether lateral bounds (LB) or weighted lateral bounds enhanced change-of-direction (COD) speed measured by...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 339: Diversity and Toxigenicity of Fungi that Cause Pineapple Fruitlet Core Rot Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050339 Authors: Bastien Barral Marc Chillet Anna Doizy Maeva Grassi Laetitia Ragot Mathieu Léchaudel Noel Durand Lindy Joy Rose Altus Viljoen Sabine Schorr-Galindo The identity of the fungi responsible for fruitlet core rot (FCR) disease in pineapple has been the subject of investigation for some time. This study describes the diversity...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 340: Monocytes in Uremia Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050340 Authors: Matthias Girndt Bogusz Trojanowicz Christof Ulrich Monocytes play an important role in both innate immunity and antigen presentation for specific cellular immune defense. In patients with chronic renal failure, as well as those treated with maintenance hemodialysis, these cells are largely dysregulated. There is a large body of literature on monocyte alterations in such patients. However,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 338: Human Botulism in France, 1875–2016 Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050338 Authors: Christine Rasetti-Escargueil Emmanuel Lemichez Michel R. Popoff Botulism is a rare but severe disease which is characterized by paralysis and inhibition of secretions. Only a few cases had been reported at the end of the 19th century in France. The disease was frequent during the second world war, and then the incidence decreased progressively. However, human botulism is...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 241: A Multi-Filovirus Vaccine Candidate: Co-Expression of Ebola, Sudan, and Marburg Antigens in a Single Vector Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020241 Authors: Sarah Sebastian Amy Flaxman Kuan M. Cha Marta Ulaszewska Ciaran Gilbride Hannah Sharpe Edward Wright Alexandra J. Spencer Stuart Dowall Roger Hewson Sarah Gilbert Teresa Lambe In the infectious diseases field, protective immunity against individual virus species or strains...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 239: Replication of Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) in Primary Human-Derived Monocytes and Macrophages In Vitro Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020239 Authors: Ibrahim M. Sayed Mohamed Ismail Seddik Marwa A. Gaber Saber H. Saber Sahar A. Mandour Mohamed A. El-Mokhtar HEV is the most causative agent of acute viral hepatitis globally. HEV causes acute, chronic, and extrahepatic manifestations. Chronic HEV infection develops in immunocompromised patients such...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 240: Use of PELC/CpG Adjuvant for Intranasal Immunization with Recombinant Hemagglutinin to Develop H7N9 Mucosal Vaccine Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020240 Authors: Ting-Hsuan Chen Chung-Chu Chen Ming-Hsi Huang Chung-Hsiung Huang Jia-Tsrong Jan Suh-Chin Wu Human infections with H7N9 avian influenza A virus can result in severe diseases with high mortality. Developing an effective vaccine is urgently needed to prevent its pandemic potential. Vaccine...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 566: Pesticide–Virus Interactions in Honey Bees: Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Drivers of Bee Declines Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12050566 Authors: Gyan P. Harwood Adam G. Dolezal Honey bees are key agricultural pollinators, but beekeepers continually suffer high annual colony losses owing to a number of environmental stressors, including inadequate nutrition, pressures from parasites and pathogens, and exposure to a wide variety of pesticides....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1476: Modeling Daily and Monthly Water Quality Indicators in a Canal Using a Hybrid Wavelet-Based Support Vector Regression Structure Water doi: 10.3390/w12051476 Authors: Yuxin Wang Yuan Yuan Ye Pan Zhengqiu Fan Accurate prediction of water quality indicators plays an important role in the effective management of water resources. The models which studied limited water quality indicators in natural rivers may give inadequate guidance for managing a canal...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1474: Attitude and Actual Behaviour towards Water-Related Green Infrastructures and Sustainable Drainage Systems in Four North-Western Mediterranean Regions of Italy and France Water doi: 10.3390/w12051474 Authors: Simone Maria Piacentini Rudy Rossetto Water-related green infrastructures (WrGIs), also known as blue infrastructures, and sustainable drainage systems (SuDSs) offer services such as stormwater runoff management, water purification, water storage at...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1475: Aquatic Microplastic Research—A Critique and Suggestions for the Future Water doi: 10.3390/w12051475 Authors: Judith S. Weis While there are numerous papers on microplastics (mps) being published every week, there is a need for improvement for the field to mature. The papers reporting numbers found in water bodies cannot be compared because there are no standard methods for collection and analysis. It is clear that using nets for sampling misses most of the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1473: Laboratory Assessment of Water Permeability Loss of Geotextiles Due to Their Installation in Pervious Pavements Water doi: 10.3390/w12051473 Authors: Carmen García-Casuso Pablo Lapeña-Mañero Elena Blanco-Fernández Ángel Vega-Zamanillo José Miguel Montenegro-Cooper During the last decades, the importance of sustainable development in society has increased considerably. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) are a group of techniques that aim...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1477: Revisiting the Comparison of Public and Private Water Service Provision: An Empirical Study in Portugal Water doi: 10.3390/w12051477 Authors: Rui Cunha Marques Pedro Simões The controversy between the performance of public and private ownership of water and wastewater services is common worldwide. In most cases, this discussion is biased due to ideological issues or insufficiency or inconsistency of information. This study aims to compare the performance...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1465: Three-Dimensional Wave-Induced Dynamic Response in Anisotropic Poroelastic Seabed Water doi: 10.3390/w12051465 Authors: Cheng-Jung Hsu Ching Hung This paper presents a novel analytical solution, which is developed for investigating three-dimensional wave-induced seabed responses for anisotropic permeability. The analytical solution is based on the assumption of the poroelastic and the u − p dynamic form, which considers the inertia force...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1472: The Establishment and Rapid Spread of Sagittaria Platyphylla in South Africa Water doi: 10.3390/w12051472 Authors: Mpilonhle S. Ndlovu Julie A. Coetzee Menzi M. Nxumalo Reshnee Lalla Ntombifuthi Shabalala Grant D. Martin Sagittaria platyphylla Engelm. (Alismataceae) is a freshwater aquatic macrophyte that has become an important invasive weed in freshwater systems in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and recently China. In South Africa,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1468: Heavy Precipitation Systems in Calabria Region (Southern Italy): High-Resolution Observed Rainfall and Large-Scale Atmospheric Pattern Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12051468 Authors: Aldo Greco Davide Luciano De De Luca Elenio Avolio An in-depth analysis of historical heavy rainfall fields clearly constitutes an important aspect in many related topics: as examples, mesoscale models for early warning systems and the definition of design event scenarios...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1466: Flood Risk Evaluation in Ungauged Coastal Areas: The Case Study of Ippocampo (Southern Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w12051466 Authors: Ciro Apollonio Maria Francesca Bruno Gabriele Iemmolo Matteo Gianluca Molfetta Roberta Pellicani The growing concentration of population and the related increase in human activities in coastal areas require numerical simulations to analyze the effects of flooding events that might occur in susceptible coastal areas...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1469: A Pragmatic Slope-Adjusted Curve Number Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Predicting Flood Runoff from Steep Watersheds Water doi: 10.3390/w12051469 Authors: Muhammad Ajmal Muhammad Waseem Dongwook Kim Tae-Woong Kim The applicability of the curve number (CN) model to estimate runoff has been a conundrum for years, among other reasons, because it presumes an uncertain fixed initial abstraction coefficient (λ = 0.2), and because choosing the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1470: Changes in Water Surface Area of the Lake in the Steppe Region of Mongolia: A Case Study of Ugii Nuur Lake, Central Mongolia Water doi: 10.3390/w12051470 Authors: Erdenesukh Sumiya Batsuren Dorjsuren Denghua Yan Sandelger Dorligjav Hao Wang Altanbold Enkhbold Baisha Weng Tianlin Qin Kun Wang Tuvshin Gerelmaa Oyunbaatar Dambaravjaa Wuxia Bi Yuheng Yang Byambabayar Ganbold Mohammed Gedefaw Asaminew Abiyu Abel Girma ...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1467: Using Isotopes (H, O, and Sr) and Major Ions to Identify Hydrogeochemical Characteristics of Groundwater in the Hongjiannao Lake Basin, Northwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12051467 Authors: Chu Wu Xiong Wu Wenping Mu Ge Zhu Hongjiannao Lake is the largest desert freshwater lake in the Ordos Plateau, China, and the relict gull is an endangered species that uses the lake for its habitat, with the largest colonies being located there. Using hydrochemical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1471: The Effect of Monsoon Rainfall Patterns on Epilithic Diatom Communities in the Hantangang River, Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w12051471 Authors: In-Hwan Cho Ha-Kyung Kim Min-Hyuk Lee Yong-Jae Kim Hyuk Lee Baik-Ho Kim Most of Korea’s rivers and lakes are subject to physico-chemical disturbances, such as increased water quantity and flow rates, and influx of nitrogen and phosphorus, due to intense rainfall concentrated in the Asian monsoon...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1464: Detecting Pattern Anomalies in Hydrological Time Series with Weighted Probabilistic Suffix Trees Water doi: 10.3390/w12051464 Authors: Yufeng Yu Dingsheng Wan Qun Zhao Huan Liu Anomalous patterns are common phenomena in time series datasets. The presence of anomalous patterns in hydrological data may represent some anomalous hydrometeorological events that are significantly different from others and induce a bias in the decision-making process related...
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