Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 3025: Comparison of Chemometric Problems in Food Analysis Using Non-Linear Methods Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25133025 Authors: Rocha Prado Blonder Food analysis is a challenging analytical problem, often addressed using sophisticated laboratory methods that produce large data sets. Linear and non-linear multivariate methods can be used to process these types of datasets and to answer questions such as whether product origin is accurately labeled...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 3023: Selection of the Activated Carbon Type for the Treatment of Landfill Leachate by Fenton-Adsorption Process Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25133023 Authors: Liliana San-Pedro Roger Méndez-Novelo Emanuel Hernández-Núñez Manuel Flota-Bañuelos Jorge Medina Germán Giacomán-Vallejos Sanitary landfill leachates usually have characteristics that depend on the region where they are generated and according to the age of the landfill, which is why...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 3021: Anti-Hepatocellular-Cancer Activity Exerted by β-Sitosterol and β-Sitosterol-Glucoside from Indigofera zollingeriana Miq Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25133021 Authors: Tuong Kha Vo Qui Thanh Hoai Ta Quang Truyen Chu Thuy Trang Nguyen Van Giau Vo Indigofera zollingeriana Miq (I. zollingeriana) is a widely grown tree in Vietnam. It is used to cure various illnesses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the chemical constituents of...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1301: Comparative Chemico-Physical Analyses of Strain-Free GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As Quantum Dots Grown by Droplet Epitaxy Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10071301 Authors: Inah Yeo Doukyun Kim Kyu-Tae Lee Jong Su Kim Jin Dong Song Chul-Hong Park Il Ki Han We investigate the quantum confinement effects on excitons in several types of strain-free GaAs/Al 0 . 3 Ga 0 . 7 As droplet epitaxy (DE) quantum dots (QDs). By performing comparative...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1300: Direct Ink Writing Technology (3D Printing) of Graphene-Based Ceramic Nanocomposites: A Review Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10071300 Authors: Nestor Washington Solís Pinargote Anton Smirnov Nikita Peretyagin Anton Seleznev Pavel Peretyagin In the present work, the state of the art of the most common additive manufacturing (AM) technologies used for the manufacturing of complex shape structures of graphene-based ceramic nanocomposites,...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1299: Microstructure, Thermal Stability, and Catalytic Activity of Compounds Formed in CaO-SiO2-Cr(NO3)3-H2O System Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10071299 Authors: Domante Niuniavaite Kestutis Baltakys Tadas Dambrauskas Anatolijus Eisinas Dovile Rubinaite Andrius Jaskunas In this work, the thermal stability, microstructure, and catalytic activity in oxidation reactions of calcium silicate hydrates formed in the CaO-SiO2-Cr(NO3)3-H2O system...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1297: Ligand-Length Modification in CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals and Bilayers with PbS Quantum Dots for Improved Photodetection Performance Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10071297 Authors: Juan Navarro Arenas Ananthakumar Soosaimanickam Hamid Pashaei Adl Rafael Abargues Pablo P. Boix Pedro J. Rodríguez-Cantó Juan P. Martínez-Pastor Nanocrystals surface chemistry engineering offers a direct approach to tune charge carrier dynamics in...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1298: Surface Study of CuO Nanopetals by Advanced Nanocharacterization Techniques with Enhanced Optical and Catalytic Properties Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10071298 Authors: Muhammad Arif Khan Nafarizal Nayan Shadiullah Shadiullah Mohd Khairul Ahmad Chin Fhong Soon In the present work, a facile one-step hydrothermal synthesis of well-defined stabilized CuO nanopetals and its surface study by advanced nanocharacterization techniques for enhanced...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1974: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Time for Lifestyle Medicine Has Come!
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1974: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: The Time for Lifestyle Medicine Has Come! Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071974 Authors: Isabelle Lemieux The IDF (International Diabetes Federation) Diabetes Atlas Committee has recently published the global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2019 [...]
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1965: Comments to the Editor Re: Papukashvili et al. Nutrients 2020, 12, 184 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071965 Authors: Cyril Willson Papukashvili et al [...]
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1973: The Effectiveness of Probiotics in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)—A Critical Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071973 Authors: Dominika Jakubczyk Katarzyna Leszczyńska Sabina Górska Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects millions of people worldwide, includes two separate diseases: Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Although the background (chronic inflammatory state) and some of the symptoms of...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1972: Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum OLP-01 Supplementation during Endurance Running Training Improves Exercise Performance in Middle- and Long-Distance Runners: A Double-Blind Controlled Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071972 Authors: Che-Li Lin Yi-Ju Hsu Hsieh-Hsun Ho Yung-Cheng Chang Yi-Wei Kuo Yao-Tsung Yeh Shin-Yu Tsai Ching-Wei Chen Jui-Fen Chen Chi-Chang Huang Mon-Chien Lee Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum Olympic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1971: Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071971 Authors: Julio Plaza-Diaz The advent of new sequencing technologies has inspired the foundation of novel research to ascertain the connections between the microbial communities that reside in our gut and some physiological and pathological conditions [...]
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1970: Leptin and Nutrition in Gestational Diabetes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071970 Authors: Antonio Pérez-Pérez Teresa Vilariño-García Pilar Guadix José L. Dueñas Víctor Sánchez-Margalet Leptin is highly expressed in the placenta, mainly by trophoblastic cells, where it has an important autocrine trophic effect. Moreover, increased leptin levels are found in the most frequent pathology of pregnancy: gestational diabetes, where leptin may mediate...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1966: Phytopharmacological Possibilities of Bird Cherry Prunus padus L. and Prunus serotina L. Species and Their Bioactive Phytochemicals Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071966 Authors: Aleksandra Telichowska Joanna Kobus-Cisowska Piotr Szulc Wild cherry is a plant observed in the form of trees or shrubs. This species comprises about twenty kinds of plants and the most popular are two, Prunus padus L. and Prunus serotina L., whose properties and content of...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1968: Correction: Papukashvili et al. “Attenuation of Weight Gain and Prevention of Associated Pathologies by Inhibiting SSAO” Nutrients, 2020, 12, 184 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071968 Authors: Dimitri Papukashvili Nino Rcheulishvili Yulin Deng The authors wish to make a correction to the published paper [...]
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1969: Recent Caffeine Drinking Associates with Cognitive Function in the UK Biobank Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071969 Authors: Marilyn C. Cornelis Sandra Weintraub Martha Clare Morris Clinical evidence points to the premise that caffeine may benefit cognition, but whether these findings extend to real life settings and amidst factors that impact caffeine metabolism is unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of recent caffeine drinking...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1967: Collagen Extract Derived from Yeonsan Ogye Chicken Increases Bone Microarchitecture by Suppressing the RANKL/OPG Ratio via the JNK Signaling Pathway Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12071967 Authors: Kaudjhis Patrick Ulrich N’deh Han-Seok Yoo Kang-Hyun Chung Kwon-Jai Lee Dong-Hee Kim Jin A Yoon Jeung Hee An Yeonsan Ogye is a traditional Korean chicken breed (Gallus domesticus, GD), with a dominant gene for fibromelanosis, showing entirely black...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 534: Species, Sequence Types and Alleles: Dissecting Genetic Variation in Acanthamoeba Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9070534 Authors: Paul A. Fuerst Gregory C. Booton Species designations within Acanthamoeba are problematic because of pleomorphic morphology. Molecular approaches, including DNA sequencing, hinted at a resolution that has yet to be fully achieved. Alternative approaches were required. In 1996, the Byers/Fuerst lab introduced the concept of...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 532: Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing for Food Animal Source Attribution of Human Campylobacter jejuni Infections Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9070532 Authors: Chih-Hao Hsu Lucas Harrison Sampa Mukherjee Errol Strain Patrick McDermott Qijing Zhang Shaohua Zhao Campylobacter jejuni is a major foodborne pathogen and common cause of bacterial enteritis worldwide. A total of 622 C. jejuni isolates recovered from food animals and retail...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 533: Frequency of Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV-3) in Healthy Primiparous and Multiparous Sows and Their Mummified Fetuses and Stillborn Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9070533 Authors: Viviane Saporiti Susanna Martorell Taís F. Cruz Francini Klaumann Florencia Correa-Fiz Mònica Balasch Marina Sibila Joaquim Segalés Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV-3) has been suggested as a putative causal agent of swine reproductive...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 618: Nitric Oxide-Releasing S-Nitrosoglutathione-Conjugated Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) Nanoparticles for the Treatment of MRSA-Infected Cutaneous Wounds Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070618 Authors: Juho Lee Dongmin Kwak Hyunwoo Kim Jihyun Kim Shwe Phyu Hlaing Nurhasni Hasan Jiafu Cao Jin-Wook Yoo S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) has emerged as a potent agent for the treatment of infected cutaneous wounds. However, fabrication...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 617: Improvement in the Oral Bioavailability and Efficacy of New Ezetimibe Formulations—Comparative Study of a Solid Dispersion and Different Micellar Systems Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070617 Authors: Carlos Torrado-Salmerón Víctor Guarnizo-Herrero Teresa Gallego-Arranz Yvonne del Val-Sabugo Guillermo Torrado Javier Morales Santiago Torrado-Santiago Ezetimibe (EZ) is a poorly water-soluble drug with low bioavailability....
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 616: Cystic Fibrosis: Overview of the Current Development Trends and Innovative Therapeutic Strategies Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070616 Authors: Fahad A. Almughem Ahmad M. Aldossary Essam A. Tawfik Mohammad N. Alomary Waleed S. Alharbi Mohammad Y. Alshahrani Abdullah A. Alshehri Cystic Fibrosis (CF), an autosomal recessive genetic disease, is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 831: Review of the Impact of Apple Fruit Ripening, Texture and Chemical Contents on Genetically Determined Susceptibility to Storage Rots Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070831 Authors: Hilde Nybom Masoud Ahmadi-Afzadi Kimmo Rumpunen Ibrahim Tahir Fungal storage rots like blue mould, grey mould, bull’s eye rot, bitter rot and brown rot destroy large amounts of the harvested apple crop around the world. Application of fungicides is nowadays severely...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 833: Evaluation of Wild Potato Germplasm for Tuber Starch Content and Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070833 Authors: Silvia Bachmann-Pfabe Klaus J. Dehmer Potato wild relatives provide a considerable source of variation for important traits in cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) breeding. This study evaluates the variation of tuber starch content and nitrogen utilization efficiency (NutE) in wild potato germplasm. For the experiments...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 834: Arabidopsis Plastid-RNA Polymerase RPOTp Is Involved in Abiotic Stress Tolerance Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070834 Authors: Abel Lidón-Soto Eva Núñez-Delegido Iván Pastor-Martínez Pedro Robles Víctor Quesada Plastid gene expression (PGE) must adequately respond to changes in both development and environmental cues. The transcriptional machinery of plastids in land plants is far more complex than that of prokaryotes. Two types of DNA-dependent RNA...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 832: Protective Roles of Cytosolic and Plastidal Proteasomes on Abiotic Stress and Pathogen Invasion Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070832 Authors: Md. Sarafat Ali Kwang-Hyun Baek Protein malfunction is typically caused by abiotic stressors. To ensure cell survival during conditions of stress, it is important for plant cells to maintain proteins in their respective functional conformation. Self-compartmentalizing proteases, such as ATP-dependent Clp proteases and...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 829: Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci Relating to Flowering Time, Flag Leaf and Awn Characteristics in a Novel Triticum dicoccum Mapping Population Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070829 Authors: Tally I.C. Wright Angela C. Burnett Howard Griffiths Maxime Kadner James S. Powell Hugo R. Oliveira Fiona J. Leigh Tetraploid landraces of wheat harbour genetic diversity that could be introgressed into modern bread wheat with the aid of marker-assisted...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 830: Effects of Soil Fertilization on Terpenoids and Other Carbon-Based Secondary Metabolites in Rosmarinus officinalis Plants: A Comparative Study Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070830 Authors: Maria Ángeles Bustamante Marco Michelozzi Anna Barra Caracciolo Paola Grenni Janine Verbokkem Peter Geerdink Carl Safi Isabel Nogues Rosmarinus officinalis is an evergreen aromatic plant with important commercial interest as it contains numerous essential...
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Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 15: Hazardous Waste Management: An African Overview Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5030015 Authors: Akpan Olukanni Hazardous waste materials and their management are of prime importance to society. This article gives an overview of the current practices that relate to hazardous waste management. It looks at issues concerning the transboundary or international movement of harmful materials from industrialized nations to the developing and emerging world....
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 329: Religious Crisis as an Independent Causal Predictor of Psychological Distress: Understanding the Unique Role of the Numinous for Intrapsychic Functioning Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070329 Authors: Jesse Fox Ralph L. Piedmont Religious and spiritual (R/S) struggles are tensions or conflicts one experiences in relationship to what is considered sacred or transcendent. In this study, we tested competing causal models of psychological distress as it relates...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 328: Speaking Truth to Power: Exploring Guru Nanak’s Bābar-vāṇī in Light of the Baburnama Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070328 Authors: Pashaura Singh This essay offers in-depth analysis of Guru Nanak’s works, collectively known as the Bābar-vāņī (“arrow-like utterances concerning Babur”), in the context of the memoirs of the first Mughal emperor Babur (1483–1530). It extends the number of works in the collection from a...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 326: Pathology, Therapeutic Discipline and Its Limits in Augustine: A Dialogue with Foucauldian Readings Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070326 Authors: Eun Young Hwang Recently, there has been some attempt to reframe the Augustinian view of political realism in terms of the Foucauldian concept of resistance and discipline, which resonates with another Foucauldian, post-colonial understanding of Augustine. This paper shows how Augustine envisages critical resistance...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 327: Spiritual Warfare in Circulation Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070327 Authors: Kimberly Marshall Andreana Prichard Without a doubt, an overenthusiastic focus on rupture, as a way of coping with neoliberal trauma, has shaped the conversation about recent religious change in Africa. Yet, rupture remains at the heart of what African charismatics understand themselves to be doing. In this paper, we attempt to nuance this conversation about rupture in religious...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 83: ‘Poisoned Chalice’: Law on Access to Biological and Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge in Namibia Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9070083 Authors: Wana W. Chinsembu Kazhila C. Chinsembu Many countries in Africa provide ethnobiological resources (more especially ethnomedicinal plants), which are converted by companies and users from developed countries into biopharmaceutical products without any monetary benefits to the countries of...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 73: Neural Network Pricing of American Put Options Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8030073 Authors: Raquel M. Gaspar Sara D. Lopes Bernardo Sequeira In this study, we use Neural Networks (NNs) to price American put options. We propose two NN models—a simple one and a more complex one—and we discuss the performance of two NN models with the Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) method. This study relies on American put option market prices, for four large...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 48: Statistics and Machine Learning Experiments in Poetry Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030048 Authors: Ovidiu Calin This paper presents a quantitative approach to poetry, based on the use of several statistical measures (entropy, information energy, N-gram, etc.) applied to a few characteristic English writings. We found that English language changes its entropy as time passes, and that entropy depends on the language used and on the author. In order to compare two similar...
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Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 585-603: Shortening the Last Mile in Urban Areas: Optimizing a Smart Logistics Concept for E-Grocery Operations Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3030031 Authors: Max Leyerer Marc-Oliver Sonneberg Maximilian Heumann Michael H. Breitner Urbanization, the corresponding road traffic, and increasing e-grocery markets require efficient and at the same time eco-friendly transport solutions. In contrast to traditional food procurement at local grocery...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 113: Metapolitical New Right Influencers: The Case of Brittany Pettibone Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070113 Authors: Ico Maly Far-right movements, activists, and political parties are on the rise worldwide. Several scholars connect this rise of the far-right at least partially to the affordances of digital media and to a new digital metapolitical battle. A lot has been written about the far-right’s adoption of trolling, harassment, and...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 112: Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070112 Authors: Alice Rizzuti Food offers highly profitable opportunities to criminal actors. Recent cases, from wine and meat adulteration to milk powder contaminations, have brought renewed attention to forms of harmful activities which have long occurred in the food sector. Despite several scandals over the last few...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 96: Sociodemographic Determinants of Physical Activity and Sport Participation among Women in the United States Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8070096 Authors: Jennifer R. Pharr Nancy L. Lough Angela M. Terencio Regular physical activity and sport participation have been shown to improve women’s health; however, research has found that better health is associated with sport participation. Little is known about the sociodemographic determinants of physical...
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Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 39: Blue-Green Smart Mobility Technologies as Readiness for Facing Tomorrow’s Urban Shock toward the World as a Better Place for Living (Case Studies: Songdo and Copenhagen) Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8030039 Authors: Hamid Doost Mohammadian Fatemeh Rezaie Nowadays, we are on the cusp of a future that will face many global challenges and crises, as well as unforeseeable shocks of tomorrow. The rapid growth and development of technology will...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 434: Botulinum Toxin and Neuronal Regeneration after Traumatic Injury of Central and Peripheral Nervous System Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070434 Authors: Siro Luvisetto Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are toxins produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, the causing agent for botulism, in different serotypes, seven of which (A–G) are well characterized, while others, such as H or FA, are still debated. BoNTs exert their action by blocking SNARE (soluble...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 111: Cholera and Pancreatic Cholera: Is VIP the Common Pathophysiologic Factor? Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5030111 Authors: Farzana Afroze Steven Bloom Paul Bech Tahmeed Ahmed Shafiqul Alam Sarker John D. Clemens Farhana Islam David Nalin Background: Cholera remains a major global health problem, causing high output diarrhea leading to severe dehydration and shock in developing countries. We aimed to...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 354: HPV Vaccination: The Position Paper of the Italian Society of Colposcopy and Cervico-Vaginal Pathology (SICPCV) Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030354 Authors: Andrea Ciavattini Luca Giannella Rosa De Vincenzo Jacopo Di Giuseppe Maria Papiccio Ankica Lukic Giovanni Delli Carpini Antonio Perino Antonio Frega Francesco Sopracordevole Maggiorino Barbero Murat Gultekin Human papillomavirus (HPV) related cervical cancer represents...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 353: Mucosal Vaccination with UV-Inactivated Chlamydia suis in Pre-Exposed Outbred Pigs Decreases Pathogen Load and Induces CD4 T-Cell Maturation into IFN-γ+ Effector Memory Cells Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030353 Authors: Amanda F. Amaral Khondaker S. Rahman Andrew R. Kick Lizette M. Cortes James Robertson Bernhard Kaltenboeck Volker Gerdts Catherine M. O’Connell Taylor B. Poston Xiaojing Zheng Chuwen Liu Sam Y. Omesi Toni Darville...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 84: Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Urachal Anomalies in Cats and Dogs: Retrospective Study of 98 Cases (2009–2019) Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030084 Authors: Francesca Perondi Caterina Puccinelli Ilaria Lippi Daniele Della Santa Michelangelo Benvenuti Tommaso Mannucci Simonetta Citi This retrospective study investigated the prevalence of different urachal anomalies (UA) in cats (n = 60) and dogs (n = 38) and their association...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 83: Asymmetries of Forelimb Digits of Young Cattle Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030083 Authors: Pere M. Parés-Casanova Laura Castel-Mas Kirian N. Jones-Capdevila Based on the anatomical premise that, in bovines, the medial (inner) hoof is larger than the lateral (outer) one in the forelimb, we hypothesized that this implies a phalangeal form difference. To test this hypothesis, asymmetries of the forelimb acropodia (phalangeal series)...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 718: The Adenovirus Dodecahedron: Beyond the Platonic Story Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070718 Authors: Solène Besson Charles Vragniau Emilie Vassal-Stermann Marie Claire Dagher Pascal Fender Many geometric forms are found in nature, some of them adhering to mathematical laws or amazing aesthetic rules. One of the best-known examples in microbiology is the icosahedral shape of certain viruses with 20 triangular facets and 12 edges. What is less known,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 719: Effect of Oral Infection of Mayaro Virus on Fitness Correlates and Expression of Immune Related Genes in Aedes aegypti Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070719 Authors: Barry W. Alto Ayse Civana Keenan Wiggins Bradley Eastmond Dongyoung Shin Mayaro virus is a mosquito-borne Alphavirus endemic to forests of tropical South America with a sylvatic cycle involving non-human primates and Haemagogus mosquitoes. Human infection with Mayaro virus causes a febrile...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 717: The Diversity and Distribution of Viruses Associated with Culex annulirostris Mosquitoes from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070717 Authors: Simon H. Williams Avram Levy Rachel A. Yates Nilusha Somaweera Peter J. Neville Jay Nicholson Michael D. A. Lindsay John S. Mackenzie Komal Jain Allison Imrie David W. Smith W. Ian Lipkin Metagenomics revealed an impressive breadth of previously unrecognized...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 716: Acidic pH Triggers Lipid Mixing Mediated by Lassa Virus GP Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070716 Authors: Uriel Bulow Ramesh Govindan James B. Munro Lassa virus (LASV) is the causative agent of Lassa hemorrhagic fever, a lethal disease endemic to Western Africa. LASV entry is mediated by the viral envelope glycoprotein (GP), a class I membrane fusogen and the sole viral surface antigen. Previous studies have identified components of the LASV entry pathway,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1894: An Alternative for Estimating the Design Flood Interval of Agricultural Reservoirs under Climate Change Using a Non-Parametric Resampling Technique Water doi: 10.3390/w12071894 Authors: Jihoon Park Syewoon Hwang Jung-Hun Song Moon-Seong Kang Agricultural reservoirs play such a central role in supplying water to rural areas that it is essential to properly estimate the design flood for agricultural reservoirs under climate change. The objective of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1895: Risk-Based and Hydrodynamic Pluvial Flood Forecasts in Real Time Water doi: 10.3390/w12071895 Authors: Julian Hofmann Holger Schüttrumpf The effective forecast and warning of pluvial flooding in real time is one of the key elements and remaining challenges of an integrated urban flood risk management. This paper presents a new methodology for integrating risk-based solutions and 2D hydrodynamic models into the early warning process. Whereas existing hydrodynamic...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1893: Real-Time Behavior of a Microalgae–Bacteria Consortium Treating Wastewater in a Sequencing Batch Reactor in Response to Feeding Time and Agitation Mode Water doi: 10.3390/w12071893 Authors: Emna Mhedhbi Nadia Khelifi Paola Foladori Issam Smaali A study of a microalgae–bacteria treatment system was conducted in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) by combining a precultured native algae Nannochloropsis gaditana L2 with spontaneous municipal wastewater...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1892: The Impacts of Soil Moisture Initialization on the Forecasts of Weather Research and Forecasting Model: A Case Study in Xinjiang, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12071892 Authors: Hailiang Zhang Junjian Liu Huoqing Li Xianyong Meng Ablimitijan Ablikim Soil moisture is a critical parameter in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models because it plays a fundamental role in the exchange of water and energy cycles between the atmosphere and the land surface...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1891: Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water by Surface-Flow Wetlands Paired with Woodchip Bioreactors Water doi: 10.3390/w12071891 Authors: Lorenzo Pugliese Henrik Skovgaard Lipe R. D. Mendes Bo V. Iversen Nutrient losses from agricultural fields have long been a matter of concern worldwide due to the ecological disturbance this can cause to surface waters downstream. In this paper a new design concept, which pairs a surface-flow constructed wetland...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1890: Meta-Evaluation of Water Quality Indices. Application into Groundwater Resources Water doi: 10.3390/w12071890 Authors: Dimitrios E. Alexakis Until now, there was no simple procedure to test the performance of water quality indices (WQIs) or, in other words, to perform their meta-evaluation. The purpose of this study is to provide a meta-evaluation approach of two widely used WQIs and suggestions for selecting one or both of them for application in groundwater...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1889: A Regional Difference Analysis of Microplastic Pollution in Global Freshwater Bodies Based on a Regression Model Water doi: 10.3390/w12071889 Authors: Hanwen Chen Yinghuan Qin Hao Huang Weiyi Xu Based on statistical data of the average abundance of microplastics from 37 global freshwater locations up to November 2019, we classified the freshwater bodies according to developments in their local countries and geographic positions. We highlighted the...
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