Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 790: Mitigation of the Adverse Effects of the El Niño (El Niño, La Niña) Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Phenomenon and the Most Important Diseases in Avocado cv. Hass Crops Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060790 Authors: Joaquín Guillermo Ramírez-Gil Juan Camilo Henao-Rojas Juan Gonzalo Morales-Osorio Areas cultivated with Hass avocado crops in Colombia have growth rapidly. One of the major limitations is the avocado wilt complex disease (AWC) caused by biotic and...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 789: Phytochemical Analysis and Establishment of Embryogenic Cell Suspension and Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation for Farmer Preferred Cultivars of West African Plantain (Musa spp.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060789 Authors: Jekayinoluwa Tripathi Obiero Muge Tripathi Banana and plantain are among the foremost staple food crops providing food and livelihood to over 500 million people in tropical countries. Despite the importance, their production...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 311: Claiming the Term “Liberal” in Academic Religious Discourse Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060311 Authors: Sofia Betancourt Dan McKanan Tisa Wenger Sheri Prud’homme The three papers which follow were originally presented at the triennial Unitarian Universalist Convocation in 2016, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society and Collegium, an Association for Liberal Religious Studies [...]
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 312: Melancholy, Narcissism and Hope in Truth Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060312 Authors: Catherine Pickstock The fate of a ‘correlational’ approach to truth, which defines contemporary epistemological theories of knowledge, is described as inescapable by Quentin Meillasoux. If Meillasoux is right, then we are far from being able to hope in truth, if we are to follow the philosopher, Andrea Bellantone’s identification of correlation...
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Safety, Vol. 6, Pages 33: Risk Perception and Its Influencing Factors among Construction Workers in Malawi Safety doi: 10.3390/safety6020033 Authors: Esther Nkhawazawo Chaswa Ishmael Bobby Mphangwe Kosamu Save Kumwenda Wells Utembe This study employed a deductive research approach and a survey strategy to assess risk perception and its influencing factors among construction workers in Malawi. Three specific construction hazards and their associated risks were selected. The hazards...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 110: The Unethical Managerial Behaviours and Abusive Use of Power in Downwards Vertical Workplace Bullying: A Phenomenological Case Study Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060110 Authors: Alicia Medina Eduardo Lopez Rolf Medina The aim of this article is to introduce an ethical perspective of managerial behaviours to the study of vertical workplace bullying. A framework called the line of impunity was chosen that describes the missuses of power...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 418: Analysis of Cry1Ah Toxin-Binding Reliability to Midgut Membrane Proteins of the Asian Corn Borer Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060418 Authors: Sivaprasath Prabu Muhammad Zeeshan Shabbir Zhenying Wang Kanglai He Evolution of insect resistance to Bt toxins challenges the use of Cry toxins to control agricultural pests. In lepidopterans, Cry toxin affinity towards multiple midgut epithelial receptors has become a matter of dispute. Cry1Ah toxin-binding...
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Urban Science, Vol. 4, Pages 29: Family Income and Gang Presence in the Neighborhood: Diminished Returns of Black Families Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci4020029 Authors: Shervin Assari Shanika Boyce Cleopatra H. Caldwell Mohsen Bazargan Ron Mincy Background: Based on the Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) framework, indicators of high socioeconomic status, such as higher family income, show weaker protective effects on various developmental, behavioral,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 681: PCR Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Megalocytivirus Isolates in Farmed Giant Sea Perch Lates calcarifer in Southern Taiwan Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060681 Authors: Jia-Ming Tsai Song-Lang Huang Chung-Da Yang The Megalocytivirus genus includes three genotypes, red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV), infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV), and turbot reddish body iridovirus (TRBIV), and has caused mass mortalities in various marine and freshwater...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 682: Role of the Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor GBF1 in the Replication of RNA Viruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060682 Authors: José L. Martínez Carlos F. Arias The guanine nucleotide exchange factor GBF1 is a well-known factor that can activate different ADP-ribosylation factor (Arf) proteins during the regulation of different cellular vesicular transport processes. In the last decade, it has become increasingly evident that GBF1 can also regulate different...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 683: Nuclear Egress Complexes of HCMV and Other Herpesviruses: Solving the Puzzle of Sequence Coevolution, Conserved Structures and Subfamily-Spanning Binding Properties Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060683 Authors: Manfred Marschall Sigrun Häge Marcus Conrad Sewar Alkhashrom Jintawee Kicuntod Johannes Schweininger Mark Kriegel Josephine Lösing Julia Tillmanns Frank Neipel Jutta Eichler Yves A. Muller Heinrich Sticht Herpesviruses...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 680: Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Atypical Porcine Pestivirus (APPV) Detected in South Korean Wild Boars Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060680 Authors: SeEun Choe Gyu-Nam Park Ra Mi Cha Bang-Hun Hyun Bong-Kyun Park Dong-Jun An Atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV), currently classified as pestivirus K, causes congenital tremor (CT) type A-II in piglets. Eighteen APPV strains were identified from 2297 South Korean wild boars captured in 2019. Phylogenetic...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 679: Host–Pathogen Responses to Pandemic Influenza H1N1pdm09 in a Human Respiratory Airway Model Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060679 Authors: Elizabeth A. Pharo Sinéad M. Williams Victoria Boyd Vinod Sundaramoorthy Peter A. Durr Michelle L. Baker The respiratory Influenza A Viruses (IAVs) and emerging zoonotic viruses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pose a significant threat to human health. To accelerate our understanding...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1818: Applied Strategy to Characterize the Energy Improvement Using PATs in a Water Supply System Water doi: 10.3390/w12061818 Authors: Camilo Rosado López-Jiménez Sánchez-Romero Conejos Fuertes Pérez-Sánchez Sustainable development has been an idea raised in recent years. The results are related to the improvement and the use of new technologies to maximize efficiency in water management. However, energy consumption has been increasing as a consequence...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1811: Microcystis Bloom in an Urban Lake after River Water Diversion—A Case Study Water doi: 10.3390/w12061811 Authors: Xiaoyan Chen Dong Bai Chunlei Song Yiyong Zhou Xiuyun Cao To improve the water quality of Lake Yuehu, a water diversion from the Han River was conducted in July 2008. However, an unexpected Microcystis bloom occurred in the lake after water introduction. Water and sediment samples were collected from Lake Yuehu and the variation of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1817: Impact of Permafrost Thaw and Climate Warming on Riverine Export Fluxes of Carbon, Nutrients and Metals in Western Siberia Water doi: 10.3390/w12061817 Authors: Oleg S. Pokrovsky Rinat M. Manasypov Sergey G. Kopysov Ivan V. Krickov Liudmila S. Shirokova Sergey V. Loiko Artem G. Lim Larisa G. Kolesnichenko Sergey N. Vorobyev Sergey N. Kirpotin The assessment of riverine fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and metals in surface waters of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1819: Advances in Hydrologic Forecasts and Water Resources Management Water doi: 10.3390/w12061819 Authors: Fi-John Chang Shenglian Guo The impacts of climate change on water resources management as well as the increasing severe natural disasters over the last decades have caught global attention. Reliable and accurate hydrological forecasts are essential for efficient water resources management and the mitigation of natural disasters. While the notorious nonlinear...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1816: Analysis of the Performance of Bank Filtration for Water Supply in Arid Climates: Case Study in Egypt Water doi: 10.3390/w12061816 Authors: Ahmed Abdelrady Saroj Sharma Ahmed Sefelnasr Mustafa El-Rawy Maria Kennedy Bank filtration (BF) is acknowledged as a sustainable and effective technique to provide drinking water of adequate quality; it has been known for a long time in Europe. However, this technique is site-specific and therefore its application...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1815: The Trend in the Risk of Flash Flood Hazards with Regional Development in the Guanshan River Basin, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061815 Authors: Ningyue Chen Yanjun Zhang Jinjin Wu Wenxun Dong Yixuan Zou Xin Xu The economic development of China’s mountainous areas has been rapid, but the impact of flash floods is often ignored during regional development planning. Therefore, a method needed to be developed to simulate flash flood disasters...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1814: Discharge Flow Rate for the Initiation of Jet Flow in Sky-Jump Spillways
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1814: Discharge Flow Rate for the Initiation of Jet Flow in Sky-Jump Spillways Water doi: 10.3390/w12061814 Authors: Raffaella Pellegrino Miguel Ángel Toledo Víctor Aragoncillo The sky-jump spillway is an economical and effective solution to return water to a river, eventually complemented by a pre-excavated basin. However, an inappropriate design could endanger spillways and even the dam itself. For the design of a sky-jump it is necessary to evaluate the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1809: Attribution Analysis on Regional Differentiation of Water Resources Variation in the Yangtze River Basin under the Context of Global Warming Water doi: 10.3390/w12061809 Authors: Xuchun Ye Zengxin Zhang Chong-Yu Xu Jia Liu Characterized by increasing surface air temperature, global warming has altered the hydrological cycle at global and regional scales. In order to adapt water resources management under the context of global warming, attribution...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1812: A Modified ABCD Model with Temperature-Dependent Parameters for Cold Regions: Application to Reconstruct the Changing Runoff in the Headwater Catchment of the Golmud River, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061812 Authors: Xiaoshu Wang Bing Gao Xusheng Wang The runoff changes due to global warming in hydrological basins in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) have received worldwide attention. The headwater catchment of the Golmud River, located in...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1810: Assessment of Different Contaminants in Freshwater: Origin, Fate and Ecological Impact Water doi: 10.3390/w12061810 Authors: Tiziana Di Di Lorenzo Grant C. Hose Diana M.P. Galassi Freshwater ecosystems cover over 15% of the world’s surface and provide ecosystem services that are pivotal in sustaining human society. However, fast-growing anthropogenic activities have deleterious impacts on these ecosystems. In this Special Issue, we collect...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1813: Floating Ice Transport Conditions at the Cross-Sections Between Pier Columns in Open Ice-Water Two-Phase Flow Canals Water doi: 10.3390/w12061813 Authors: Xiangpeng Mu Juan Bao Yunfei Chen Floating ice is easy to jam at the cross-sections contracted by bridge pier, gate pier, etc., in ice-water two-phase flow canals. To solve the problem, the critical hydraulic conditions of floating ice transport at the cross-sections between pier columns were explored...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1806: Temporal Variations of Submarine Groundwater Discharge into a Tide-Dominated Coastal Wetland (Gaomei Wetland, Western Taiwan) Indicated by Radon and Radium Isotopes Water doi: 10.3390/w12061806 Authors: Feng-Hsin Hsu Chih-Chieh Su Pei-Ling Wang In-Tian Lin Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is evidenced around Taiwan, but the seasonal/temporal changes of SGD have not been fully examined. Here, we report a time-series investigation of SGD into a...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1807: Temporal and Spatial Variation of Soil Moisture and Its Possible Impact on Regional Air Temperature in China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061807 Authors: Guolin Han Jialin Wang Yuying Pan Na Huang Ziyuan Zhang Ruiqi Peng Zizhong Wang Guofeng Sun Cong Liu Shangqian Ma Yu Song Zhihua Pan Soil moisture is closely related to the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere, which makes it one of the most significant climate variables. Using...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1808: Crossroads of Continents and Modern Boundaries: An Introduction to Inuit and Chukchi Experiences in the Bering Strait, Beaufort Sea, and Baffin Bay Water doi: 10.3390/w12061808 Authors: Henry P. Huntington Richard Binder Sr. Robert Comeau Lene Kielsen Holm Vera Metcalf Toku Oshima Carla SimsKayotuk Eduard Zdor The homeland of Inuit extends from Asia and the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Atlantic Ocean. Inuit and their Chukchi neighbors...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1798: Pollution Characteristics and Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Sediments of the Three Gorges Reservoir Water doi: 10.3390/w12061798 Authors: Lujie Shui Xiaojie Pan Xiaojuan Chen Fengyi Chang Duanji Wan Defu Liu Mingming Hu Shanze Li Yuchun Wang In order to understand the spatial distribution and ecological risk of heavy metal pollution in the sediments of the Three Gorges Reservoir, surface sediment samples in six typical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1802: Evaluation of Groundwater and Grey Water Contamination with Heavy Metals and Their Adsorptive Remediation Using Renewable Carbon from a Mixed-Waste Source Water doi: 10.3390/w12061802 Authors: Taghrid S. Alomar Mohamed A. Habila Zeid A. Alothman Najla AlMasoud Saad Saeed Alqahtany The contamination of water sources with heavy metals is a serious challenge that humanity is facing worldwide. The aim of this work was to evaluate and remediate the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1800: Integrated Monitoring with Moss-Bag and Mussel Transplants in Reservoirs
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1800: Integrated Monitoring with Moss-Bag and Mussel Transplants in Reservoirs Water doi: 10.3390/w12061800 Authors: Gana Gecheva Vesela Yancheva Iliana Velcheva Elenka Georgieva Stela Stoyanova Desislava Arnaudova Violeta Stefanova Deyana Georgieva Vesela Genina Borislava Todorova Ivelin Mollov For the first time, transplants with moss-bags and mussels together were applied to study the water quality in standing water bodies. The tested...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1803: Applicability and Hydrologic Substitutability of TMPA Satellite Precipitation Product in the Feilaixia Catchment, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061803 Authors: Xiaoli Chen Guoru Huang The assessment of various precipitation products’ performances in extreme climatic conditions has become a topic of interest. However, little attention has been paid to the hydrological substitutability of these products. The objective of this study is to explore the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1804: Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Water Leakages in a PVC-A Pipe Water doi: 10.3390/w12061804 Authors: Roberta Ferraiuolo Francesco De De Paola Diana Fiorillo Gerardo Caroppi Francesco Pugliese Nowadays, in the definition of effective approaches for the sustainable management of water pressurized systems, the assessment of water leakages in water supply and distribution systems represents a key aspect. Indeed, the large water volumes dispersed...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1801: Watershed Hydrological Response to Combined Land Use/Land Cover and Climate Change in Highland Ethiopia: Finchaa Catchment Water doi: 10.3390/w12061801 Authors: Wakjira Takala Dibaba Tamene Adugna Demissie Konrad Miegel Land use/land cover (LULC) and climate change affect the availability of water resources by altering the magnitude of surface runoff, aquifer recharge, and river flows. The evaluation helps to identify the level of water resources exposure...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1799: “Continuous” Backstepping of Holocene Coastal Barrier Systems into Incised Valleys: Insights from the Ofanto and Carapelle-Cervaro Valleys Water doi: 10.3390/w12061799 Authors: Vincenzo De Santis Massimo Caldara Luigi Pennetta Two recently recognised incised valleys in the Manfredonia Gulf are described. The first (CCV) is correlated with the current Carapelle and Cervaro streams. The second (OSFV) is correlated mostly with the current Ofanto River....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1805: Spatial Dependence Modeling of Flood Risk Using Max-Stable Processes: The Example of Austria Water doi: 10.3390/w12061805 Authors: Hansjörg Albrecher Dominik Kortschak Franz Prettenthaler We propose a new approach to model the dependence structure for aggregating the risk of flood damages from a local level to larger areas, which is based on the structure of the river network of a country and can be calibrated with publicly available data of river discharges....
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