Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 857: Impacts of Verticillium Wilt on Photosynthesis Rate, Lint Production, and Fiber Quality of Greenhouse-Grown Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070857 Authors: Addissu G. Ayele Terry A. Wheeler Jane K. Dever Verticillium wilt, caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb., leads to significant losses in cotton yield and fiber quality worldwide. To investigate Verticillium wilt impact on photosynthesis rate, yield, and fiber quality, six upland...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 861: Effect of Seedling Nitrogen Condition on Subsequent Vegetative Growth Stages and Its Relationship to the Expression of Nitrogen Transporter Genes in Rice Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070861 Authors: Hue Thi Nong Ryota Tateishi Chetphilin Suriyasak Takuya Kobayashi Yui Oyama Wun Jin Chen Ryo Matsumoto Norimitsu Hamaoka Mari Iwaya-Inoue Yushi Ishibashi Nitrogen (N) deficiency is one of the most common problems in soils, limiting crop...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 858: Discovery of Dihydrophaseic Acid Glucosides from the Florets of Carthamus tinctorius Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070858 Authors: Su Cheol Baek Bum Soo Lee Sang Ah Yi Jae Sik Yu Jaecheol Lee Yoon-Joo Ko Changhyun Pang Ki Hyun Kim Carthamus tinctorius L. (Compositae; safflower or Hong Hua) has been used in Korean traditional medicine for maintaining the homeostasis of body circulation. Phytochemical investigation was performed on the florets...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 859: Biochemical and Histo-Anatomical Responses of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. to Spruce and Beech Bark Extracts Application Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070859 Authors: Corneliu Tanase Ruxandra Ștefănescu Béla Darkó Daniela Lucia Muntean Anca Corina Fărcaş Sonia Ancuţa Socaci This paper aims to assess the biological responses of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. to beech and spruce bark crude extract application. Thus, the biological activity of bark extracts...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 860: Comparative Metabolite Profiling of Wild and Cultivated Justicia procumbens L. Based on 1H-NMR Spectroscopy and HPLC-DAD Analysis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070860 Authors: Hyunyong Lee Jihyun Jeon Joobyoung Yoon Seung-Hwan Kim Hyun Sik Choi Jong Seung Kang Yong Sup Lee Mase Lee Young Ho Kim Hwan Bong Chang Justicia procumbens L. is known across Korea, India, China, and Taiwan as a remedy against fever, cough, sore throat, and cirrhosis...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 856: The Use of Essential Oil and Hydrosol Extracted from Satureja hellenica for the Control of Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070856 Authors: Iro Pardavella Eleni Nasiou Dimitra Daferera Panayiotis Trigas Ioannis Giannakou Essential oil (EO) and hydrosol (HL) isolated from an indigenous plant species Satureja hellenica were evaluated against Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica. Particularly, the activity of extracts...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 335: Suffering and Sacrifice in an Unfinished Universe: The Energy of Love
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 335: Suffering and Sacrifice in an Unfinished Universe: The Energy of Love Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070335 Authors: Ilia Delio Transhumanism is a cultural and philosophical movement that advocates human enhancement through technological means. Seeking to eradicate suffering and death and transcend the limits of biology, transhumanists celebrate the power of technology to transform human life. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was intrigued by computer technology...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 338: Teaching Islam in an International School: A Bourdieusian Analysis Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070338 Authors: Mohammed Adly Gamal Recent years have witnessed the burgeoning growth of international schools in Qatar, where Islamic Studies is a statutory subject for all schools. This paper aims to investigate how Islamic Studies teachers navigate an internationalized setting where there is dissonance between local and global educational priorities. International...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 337: Changes in Measures of Dementia Awareness in UK Church Congregations Following a ‘Dementia-Friendly’ Intervention: A Pre–Post Cohort Study Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070337 Authors: Peter Kevern David Primrose Given their stability, their ability to influence public attitudes and capacity to mobilise human resources, it seems likely that many faith communities can have a significant impact on the wellbeing of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 336: Religious Experiences of Older People Receiving Palliative Care at Home Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070336 Authors: Suvi-Maria Saarelainen Auli Vähäkangas Mirja Sisko Anttonen Increasingly more older people are now being cared for in their own homes. Furthermore, it has become more common that people stay at home to receive end-of-life care. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), we analyzed the religious experiences of older people...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 52: Finite Element Modeling in the Design Process of 3D Printed Pneumatic Soft Actuators and Sensors Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030052 Authors: Charbel Tawk Gursel Alici The modeling of soft structures, actuators, and sensors is challenging, primarily due to the high nonlinearities involved in such soft robotic systems. Finite element modeling (FEM) is an effective technique to represent soft and deformable robotic systems containing geometric nonlinearities...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 54: Process Controls of the Live Root Zone and Carbon Sequestration Capacity of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030054 Authors: Bomer Wilson Elsey-Quirk The conservation of coastal wetland ecosystems, like mangrove forests and salt marshes, represents a critical strategy for mitigating atmospheric emissions and climate change in the 21st century. Yet the existence of these environments is threatened by human-induced disturbances,...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 53: A Comparison of Denoising Methods in Onset Determination in Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle Activations during Stance Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030053 Authors: Jian Zhang Rahul Soangra Thurmon E. Lockhart One of the most basic pieces of information gained from dynamic electromyography is accurately defining muscle action and phase timing within the gait cycle. The human gait relies on selective timing and the intensity of appropriate muscle activations for stability,...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 117: Non-Permanent Employment and Employees’ Health in the Context of Sustainable HRM with a Focus on Poland Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070117 Authors: Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej Dominika Bąk-Grabowska This study is focused on the assumption that the analyses focused on sustainable human resource management (HRM) should include the problem of unstable forms of employment. Reference was also made to Poland, the country where the share of unstable...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 116: Help and Solidarity Interactions in Interactive Groups: A Case Study with Roma and Immigrant Preschoolers Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070116 Authors: Andrea Khalfaoui Rocío García-Carrión Lourdes Villardón-Gallego Elena Duque Peer interactions in early childhood education play a key role in establishing the first structures of social relationships and foundations for future development. Engaging in social exchanges with different people...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 49: The Return of the Clan Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10030049 Authors: Johan Lundberg This is a conceptual paper which deals with a subject that has been neglected by contemporary Swedish researchers, politicians and journalists: the clan society, which is one of the most common forms of society in the world—from which many of today’s nations seem to have sprung. The thesis of the essay is that the taboo around the clan issue has meant that...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 48: Recycling Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and the Management of Its Toxic Substances in Taiwan—A Case Study Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030048 Authors: Wen-Tien Tsai In the past two decades, the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management has become an important environmental issue internationally because it contained hazardous substances like heavy metals and brominated flame retardants. Moreover, some valuable substances were...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 442: Change in Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Depending on Dynamics of Harmful Alexandrium catenella (Group I) in the Geoje Coast (South Korea) during Bloom Season Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070442 Authors: Seung Ho Baek Jung Min Choi Minji Lee Bum Soo Park Yuchengmin Zhang Osamu Arakawa Tomohiro Takatani Joong-Kyun Jeon Young Ok Kim Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) produced by Alexandrium catenella...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 114: Vertical Infestation Profile of Aedes in Selected Urban High-Rise Residences in Malaysia Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5030114 Authors: Nurulhusna Ab Hamid Siti Nurfadhlina Mohd Noor Nur Rasyidah Isa Rohaiyu Md Rodzay Ainaa Mardia Bachtiar Effendi Afiq Ahnaf Hafisool Fatin Atirah Azman Siti Farah Abdullah Muhammad Khairi Kamarul Zaman Mohd Iqbal Mohd Norsham Noor Hasmiza Amanzuri Nurliyana Abd...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 113: Towards a Sustainable One Health Approach to Crimean–Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Prevention: Focus Areas and Gaps in Knowledge Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5030113 Authors: Teresa E. Sorvillo Sergio E. Rodriguez Peter Hudson Megan Carey Luis L. Rodriguez Christina F. Spiropoulou Brian H. Bird Jessica R. Spengler Dennis A. Bente Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) infection is identified...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 365: Rotavirus Inner Capsid VP6 Acts as an Adjuvant in Formulations with Particulate Antigens Only Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030365 Authors: Suvi Heinimäki Kirsi Tamminen Vesa P. Hytönen Maria Malm Vesna Blazevic Novel adjuvants present a concern for adverse effects, generating a need for alternatives. Rotavirus inner capsid VP6 protein could be considered a potential candidate, due to its ability to self-assemble into highly immunogenic nanospheres...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 364: Evidence for Anti-Viral Effects of Complete Freund’s Adjuvant in the Mouse Model of Enterovirus Infection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030364 Authors: Arunakumar Gangaplara Chandirasegaran Massilamany Ninaad Lasrado David Steffen Jay Reddy Group B coxsackieviruses (CVBs) belonging to the genus, Enterovirus and contain six serotypes that induce various diseases, whose occurrence may involve the mediation of more than one serotype. We recently...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 89: A National Survey of Companion Animal Owners’ Self-Reported Methods of Coping Following Euthanasia Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030089 Authors: Rachel Park Kenneth Royal (1) Background: The human–animal bond is often regarded as a special relationship in which owners benefit from unconditional love and perceived understanding from their companion animal. Thus, end-of-life decisions such as euthanasia may inflict significant...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 88: Development of a Genome-Wide Oligonucleotide Microarray Platform for Detection of DNA Copy Number Aberrations in Feline Cancers Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030088 Authors: Rachael Thomas Joan U Pontius Luke B Borst Matthew Breen The utility of the domestic cat as a model system for biomedical studies was constrained for many years by the absence of a comprehensive feline reference genome sequence assembly. While such a resource...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 734: Hsv-1 Endocytic Entry into a Human Oligodendrocytic Cell Line is Mediated by Clathrin and Dynamin but Not Caveolin Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070734 Authors: Beatriz Praena Raquel Bello-Morales José Antonio López-Guerrero Endocytosis is a pathway used by viruses to enter cells that can be classified based on the proteins involved, such as dynamin, clathrin or caveolin. Although the entry of herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) by endocytosis has been documented...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 735: Heat Inactivation of Different Types of SARS-CoV-2 Samples: What Protocols for Biosafety, Molecular Detection and Serological Diagnostics? Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070735 Authors: Boris Pastorino Franck Touret Magali Gilles Xavier de Lamballerie Remi N. Charrel Standard precautions to minimize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission implies that infected cell cultures and clinical specimens may undergo some sort of inactivation to reduce or abolish...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 733: Of Keeping and Tipping the Balance: Host Regulation and Viral Modulation of IRF3-Dependent IFNB1 Expression Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070733 Authors: Hella Schwanke Markus Stempel Melanie M. Brinkmann The type I interferon (IFN) response is a principal component of our immune system that allows to counter a viral attack immediately upon viral entry into host cells. Upon engagement of aberrantly localised nucleic acids, germline-encoded pattern recognition...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1937: Assessment of Wind and Vegetation Interactions in Constructed Wetlands Water doi: 10.3390/w12071937 Authors: Moustafa Wang Meteorological data from vegetated and un-vegetated wetlands during wet and dry seasons, were collected and analyzed to evaluate the role of wind and vegetation on wetlands’ hydrology. Wind speed diminished by as much as 40%, accompanied by a measurable change in wind directions in the vegetated compared to the open water...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1936: Multi-Collocation-Based Estimation of Wave Climate in a Non-Tidal Bay: The Case Study of Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay (Tyrrhenian Sea) Water doi: 10.3390/w12071936 Authors: Contestabile Conversano Centurioni Golia Musco Danovaro Vicinanza In this paper, the advantages of shaping a non-conventional triple collocation-based calibration of a wave propagation model is pointed out. Illustrated through a case study in the Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay (central...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1934: A Flow-Calibrated Method to Project Groundwater Infiltration into Coastal Sewers Affected by Sea Level Rise Water doi: 10.3390/w12071934 Authors: Adrienne Fung Roger Babcock Collection systems in coastal cities are often below the groundwater table, leading to groundwater infiltration (GWI) through defects such as cracks and poor lateral connections. Climate-change-induced sea level rise (SLR) will raise groundwater levels, increasing the head and thus...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1931: Bimolecular Reactive Transport Experiments and Simulations in Porous Media Water doi: 10.3390/w12071931 Authors: Qian Wang Jianmin Bian Yihan Li Chunpeng Zhang Fei Ding For reactive transport process in porous media, limited mixing and non-Fickian behavior are difficult to understand and predict. To explore the effects of anomalous diffusion and limited mixing, the column-based experiments of bimolecular reactive migration were performed and simulated...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1933: Removal of Sulfadiazine Using 3D Interconnected Petal-Like Magnetic Reduced Graphene Oxide (MrGO) Nanocomposites Water doi: 10.3390/w12071933 Authors: Jie Zhong Yong Feng Jin-Ling Li Bin Yang Guang-Guo Ying Adsorption has been regarded as one of the most efficient and economic methods for the removal of antibiotics from aqueous solutions. In this work, different graphene-based magnetic nanocomposites using a modified solvothermal method were synthesized...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1932: Long-Term Trends in 20-Day Cumulative Precipitation for Residential Rainwater Harvesting in Poland Water doi: 10.3390/w12071932 Authors: Fausto A. Canales Joanna Gwoździej-Mazur Piotr Jadwiszczak Joanna Struk-Sokołowska Katarzyna Wartalska Marcin Wdowikowski Bartosz Kaźmierczak Rainwater harvesting (RWH) for domestic uses is widely regarded as an economic and ecological solution in water conservation and storm management programs. This paper...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1935: Analysis of the Sealing Mechanism of Cement-Sodium Silicate Grout in Rock Fractures with Flowing Water Water doi: 10.3390/w12071935 Authors: Guangxuan Zhu Qingsong Zhang Xin Lin Rentai Liu Lianzhen Zhang Jianwei Zhang The diffusion and sealing mechanisms of cement–sodium silicate grout (C-S grout), which is widely used in flowing water sealing projects, are complicated. Based on a large-scale quasi-three-dimensional simulation test...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1930: Generalised Linear Models for Prediction of Dissolved Oxygen in a Waste Stabilisation Pond Water doi: 10.3390/w12071930 Authors: Duy Tan Pham Long Ho Juan Espinoza-Palacios Maria Arevalo-Durazno Wout Van Echelpoel Peter Goethals Due to simplicity and low costs, waste stabilisation ponds (WSPs) have become one of the most popular biological wastewater treatment systems that are applied in many places around the globe. Increasingly, pond modelling...
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