IJMS, Vol. 21, Pages 7049: OsExo70B1 Positively Regulates Disease Resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae in Rice International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms21197049 Authors: Hongna Hou Jianbo Fang Jiahui Liang Zhijuan Diao Wei Wang Dewei Yang Shengping Li Dingzhong Tang The exocyst, an evolutionarily conserved octameric protein complex, mediates tethering of vesicles to the plasma membrane in the early stage of exocytosis. Arabidopsis Exo70, a subunit...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 1465: Association of Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella—Statistical and Computational Insights into a Selected Set of Clinical Isolates Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8101465 Authors: Daleniece Higgins Nabanita Mukherjee Chandan Pal Irshad M. Sulaiman Yu Jiang Samir Hanna John R. Dunn Wilfried Karmaus Pratik Banerjee The acquisition of antibiotic resistance (AR) by foodborne pathogens, such as Salmonella...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 1470: Impact of Hepatitis B Virus Genetic Variation, Integration, and Lymphotropism in Antiviral Treatment and Oncogenesis Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8101470 Authors: Keith C.K. Lau Kelly W. Burak Carla S. Coffin Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection poses a significant global health burden. Although, effective treatment and vaccinations against HBV are available, challenges still exist, particularly in the development of curative...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4401: The Key Role of IP6K: A Novel Target for Anticancer Treatments? Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194401 Authors: Mirko Minini Alice Senni Vittorio Unfer Mariano Bizzarri Inositol and its phosphate metabolites play a pivotal role in several biochemical pathways and gene expression regulation: inositol pyrophosphates (PP-IPs) have been increasingly appreciated as key signaling modulators. Fluctuations in their intracellular levels hugely impact...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4400: A Series of Isatin-Hydrazones with Cytotoxic Activity and CDK2 Kinase Inhibitory Activity: A Potential Type II ATP Competitive Inhibitor Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194400 Authors: Huda S. Al-Salem Md Arifuzzaman Hamad M. Alkahtani Ashraf N. Abdalla Iman S. Issa Aljawharah Alqathama Fatemah S. Albalawi A. F. M. Motiur Rahman Isatin derivatives potentially act on various biological targets. In this article, a series of novel isatin-hydrazones...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4393: The wPDI Redox Cycle Coupled Conformational Change of the Repetitive Domain of the HMW-GS 1Dx5—A Computational Study Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194393 Authors: Jihui Gao Peixuan Yu Hongrui Liang Jiahui Fu Ziyue Luo Dong Yang The repetitive sequence of glutenin plays an important role in dough rheology; however, its interaction with wheat protein disulfide isomerase (wPDI) remains unclear. In this study, the conformations of wild type...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4398: Anthocyanin Intake and Physical Activity: Associations with the Lipid Profile of A US Working Population Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194398 Authors: Maria S. Hershey Mercedes Sotos-Prieto Miguel Ruiz-Canela Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez Aedin Cassidy Steven Moffatt Stefanos N. Kales While growing evidence exists on the independent associations between anthocyanins and physical activity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk determinants,...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4397: Cyclodextrin Encapsulated pH Sensitive Dyes as Fluorescent Cellular Probes: Self-Aggregation and In Vitro Assessments Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194397 Authors: Monica-Cornelia Sardaru Oana Carp Elena-Laura Ursu Anda-Mihaela Craciun Corneliu Cojocaru Mihaela Silion Vladyslava Kovalska Ionel Mangalagiu Ramona Danac Alexandru Rotaru We have designed and synthesized a series of novel, supramolecular, long-lived fluorescent...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4399: Multi-Class Determination of 64 Illicit Compounds in Dietary Supplements Using Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194399 Authors: Dasom Shin Hui-Seung Kang Hyungsoo Kim Guiim Moon In this work, liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for screening and confirmation of 64 illicit compounds in dietary supplements. The target compounds were...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4396: A Selenophene-Incorporated Metal–Organic Framework for Enhanced CO2 Uptake and Adsorption Selectivity Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194396 Authors: Pavel A. Demakov Sergey S. Volynkin Denis G. Samsonenko Vladimir P. Fedin Danil N. Dybtsev A new metal–organic coordination polymer [Zn2(sedc)2(dabco)] (1se; sedc2– = selepophene-2,5-dicarboxylate; dabco = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) was synthesized and characterized by...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4391: Investigation on Intestinal Proteins and Drug Metabolizing Enzymes in Simulated Microgravity Rats by a Proteomics Method Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194391 Authors: Huayan Liu Jingjing Guo Yujuan Li Yushi Zhang Jiaping Wang Jianyi Gao Yulin Deng Yongzhi Li The present study aimed to investigate the change of intestinal mucosa proteins, especially the alteration of intestinal drug metabolizing enzymes (IDMEs) following 14-day...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4390: Diversity of Ginsenoside Profiles Produced by Various Processing Technologies Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194390 Authors: Xiang Min Piao Yue Huo Jong Pyo Kang Ramya Mathiyalagan Hao Zhang Dong Uk Yang Mia Kim Deok Chun Yang Se Chan Kang Ying Ping Wang Ginseng is a traditional medicinal herb commonly consumed world-wide owing to its unique family of saponins called ginsenosides. The absorption and bioavailability of ginsenosides...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4394: Bifunctional HDAC Therapeutics: One Drug to Rule Them All? Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194394 Authors: Joshua P. Smalley Shaun M. Cowley James T. Hodgkinson Histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes play crucial roles in epigenetic gene expression and are an attractive therapeutic target. Five HDAC inhibitors have been approved for cancer treatment to date, however, clinical applications have been limited due to poor single-agent drug efficacy and...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4395: Sericin-Induced Melanogenesis in Cultured Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Is Associated with Elevated Levels of Hydrogen Peroxide and Inflammatory Proteins Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194395 Authors: Ayyad Zartasht Khan Catherine Joan Jackson Tor Paaske Utheim Sjur Reppe Dipak Sapkota Ole Kristoffer Olstad Bernd Thiede Jon Roger Eidet We previously demonstrated that the silk protein sericin promotes pigmentation of retinal pigment...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4387: Protective Effect of Flavonoids from Ohwia caudata against Influenza a Virus Infection Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194387 Authors: Eun Bin Kwon Hye Jin Yang Jang-Gi Choi Wei Li To identify new potential anti-influenza compounds, we isolated six flavonoids, 2′-hydroxyl yokovanol (1), 2′-hydroxyl neophellamuretin (2), yokovanol (3), swertisin (4), spinosin (5), and 7-methyl-apigenin-6-C-β-glucopyranosyl 2″-O-β-d-xylopyranoside...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4389: Peptides: Prospects for Use in the Treatment of COVID-19 Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194389 Authors: Vladimir Khavinson Natalia Linkova Anastasiia Dyatlova Boris Kuznik Roman Umnov There is a vast practice of using antimalarial drugs, RAS inhibitors, serine protease inhibitors, inhibitors of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the virus and immunosuppressants for the treatment of the severe form of COVID-19, which often occurs in patients...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4392: New Insights on the Feature and Function of Tail Tubular Protein B and Tail Fiber Protein of the Lytic Bacteriophage φYeO3-12 Specific for Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:3 Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194392 Authors: Anna Pyra Karolina Filik Bożena Szermer-Olearnik Anna Czarny Ewa Brzozowska For the first time, we are introducing TTPBgp12 and TFPgp17 as new members of the tail tubular proteins B (TTPB) and tail fiber proteins (TFP)...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4388: Is It Conjugated or Not? The Theoretical and Experimental Electron Density Map of Bonding in p-CH3CH2COC6H4-C≡C-C≡C-p-C6H4COCH3CH2 Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194388 Authors: Przemysław Starynowicz Sławomir Berski Nurbey Gulia Karolina Osowska Tadeusz Lis Sławomir Szafert The electron density of p-CH3CH2COC6H4-C≡CC≡C-p-C6H4COCH3CH2 has been investigated on the basis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data collected...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4386: Resonance Raman Optical Activity Spectroscopy in Probing Structural Changes Invisible to Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: A Study on Truncated Vitamin B12 Derivatives Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194386 Authors: Ewa Machalska Grzegorz Zajac Monika Halat Aleksandra J. Wierzba Dorota Gryko Malgorzata Baranska This work demonstrates resonance Raman optical activity (RROA) spectra of three truncated vitamin B12 derivatives modified within...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4385: A Bioactive Olive Pomace Extract Prevents the Death of Murine Cortical Neurons Triggered by NMDAR Over-Activation Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194385 Authors: Franchi Alice Pedrazzi Marco Casazza Alessandro Alberto Millo Enrico Damonte Gianluca Salis Annalisa Liessi Nara Onofri Franco Marte Antonella Casagrande Silvia De Tullio Roberta Perego Patrizia Averna Monica We have recently demonstrated that bioactive molecules,...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 4384: Hybrid Cellulose–Basalt Polypropylene Composites with Enhanced Compatibility: The Role of Coupling Agent Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25194384 Authors: Claudia Sergi Francesca Sbardella Matteo Lilli Jacopo Tirillò Andrea Calzolari Fabrizio Sarasini This study deals with the development and optimization of hybrid composites integrating microcrystalline cellulose and short basalt fibers in a polypropylene (PP) matrix to maximize the mechanical...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1909: Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Electrocatalytic H2 Evolution over Pt(0,II,IV)-Loaded Oxidized Ti Sheets Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101909 Authors: Ju Hyun Yang So Jeong Park Choong Kyun Rhee Youngku Sohn Energy recycling and production using abundant atmospheric CO2 and H2O have increasingly attracted attention for solving energy and environmental problems. Herein, Pt-loaded Ti sheets were prepared by sputter-deposition and Pt4+-reduction...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1910: Influence of SERS Activity of SnSe2 Nanosheets Doped with Sulfur
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1910: Influence of SERS Activity of SnSe2 Nanosheets Doped with Sulfur Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101910 Authors: Yuan Tian Haonan Wei Yujie Xu Qianqian Sun Baoyuan Man Mei Liu The application of 2D semiconductor nanomaterials in the field of SERS is limited due to its weak enhancement effect and the unclear enhancement mechanism. In this study, we changed the surface morphology and energy level structure of 2D SnSe2 nanosheets using...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1907: Biomimetic ZnO for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101907 Authors: Javier Orozco-Messana A research study on the application of biomimetic ZnO (from eggshell membranes) as photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is presented. Biomimetic ZnO powder was produced and characterized. Its surface area, crystallinity, and morphology were analyzed and compared to commercial ZnO. Then, solar cells with and without dye were...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1906: Optimization of Pt-C Deposits by Cryo-FIBID: Substantial Growth Rate Increase and Quasi-Metallic Behaviour Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101906 Authors: Alba Salvador-Porroche Soraya Sangiao Patrick Philipp Pilar Cea José María De Teresa The Focused Ion Beam Induced Deposition (FIBID) under cryogenic conditions (Cryo-FIBID) technique is based on obtaining a condensed layer of precursor molecules by cooling the substrate below the condensation...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1908: Your Spreadsheets Can Be FAIR: A Tool and FAIRification Workflow for the eNanoMapper Database Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101908 Authors: Nikolay Kochev Nina Jeliazkova Vesselina Paskaleva Gergana Tancheva Luchesar Iliev Peter Ritchie Vedrin Jeliazkov The field of nanoinformatics is rapidly developing and provides data driven solutions in the area of nanomaterials (NM) safety. Safe by Design approaches are encouraged and promoted...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1905: Toward Multi-Functional Road Surface Design with the Nanocomposite Coating of Carbon Nanotube Modified Polyurethane: Lab-Scale Experiments Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101905 Authors: Sang-Guk Yum Huiming Yin Sung-Hwan Jang A novel multi-functional road surface system is designed to improve safety, the efficiency of traffic flow, and environmental sustainability for future transportation systems. The surface coating, preforming temperature...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1904: Laser-Induced Biochar Formation through 355 nm Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Wood, and Application to Eco-Friendly pH Sensors Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101904 Authors: Sung-Yeob Jeong Chan-Woo Lee Jun-Uk Lee Yong-Won Ma Bo-Sung Shin Due to the limited availability of agricultural land, pH sensing is becoming more and more important these days to produce efficient agricultural products. Therefore, to fabricate eco-friendly and disposable...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1903: Agricultural and Biomedical Applications of Chitosan-Based Nanomaterials Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10101903 Authors: Subhani Bandara Hongbo Du Laura Carson Debra Bradford Raghava Kommalapati Chitosan has emerged as a biodegradable, nontoxic polymer with multiple beneficial applications in the agricultural and biomedical sectors. As nanotechnology has evolved as a promising field, researchers have incorporated chitosan-based nanomaterials...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2930: Postprandial Effect of Yogurt Enriched with Anthocyanins from Riceberry Rice on Glycemic Response and Antioxidant Capacity in Healthy Adults Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102930 Authors: Tanisa Anuyahong Charoonsri Chusak Thavaree Thilavech Sirichai Adisakwattana The pigment of riceberry rice has been reported to contain anthocyanins which act as a free radical scavenger and inhibitor of carbohydrate digestive enzymes. Since the probiotic yogurt...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2931: Abscisic Acid Treatment in Patients with Prediabetes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102931 Authors: Giuseppe Derosa Pamela Maffioli Angela D’Angelo Paola S. Preti Giancarlo Tenore Ettore Novellino Aim: to evaluate the effects of abscisic acid (ABA), contained in dwarf peaches, on the regression of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) conditions. Materials and methods: sixty-five patients with IFG or IGT were randomized...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2927: Protective Effects of ALDH1A Enzyme Inhibition on Helicobacter-Induced Colitis in Smad3−/− Mice are Associated with Altered α4ß7 Integrin Expression on Activated T Cells Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102927 Authors: Audrey Seamons Michael Haenisch Stacey Meeker Olesya Pershutkina Thea Brabb Piper M. Treuting Jisun Paik Many inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients require surgical intervention due to limited pharmacological treatment options....
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2932: Rhubarb Supplementation Prevents Diet-Induced Obesity and Diabetes in Association with Increased Akkermansia muciniphila in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102932 Authors: Marion Régnier Marialetizia Rastelli Arianne Morissette Francesco Suriano Tiphaine Le Roy Geneviève Pilon Nathalie M Delzenne André Marette Matthias Van Hul Patrice D. Cani Obesity and obesity-related disorders, such as type 2 diabetes have been progressively...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2925: Short Communication: Oral Administration of Heat-killed Lactobacillus brevis KB290 in Combination with Retinoic Acid Provides Protection against Influenza Virus Infection in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102925 Authors: Shohei Satomi Sofia Khanum Poppy Miller Shigenori Suzuki Hiroyuki Suganuma Axel Heiser Sandeep K. Gupta Influenza virus type A (IAV) is a seasonal acute respiratory disease virus with severe symptoms, and an effective...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2929: Is There Such a Thing as “Anti-Nutrients”? A Narrative Review of Perceived Problematic Plant Compounds Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102929 Authors: Weston Petroski Deanna M. Minich Plant-based diets are associated with reduced risk of lifestyle-induced chronic diseases. The thousands of phytochemicals they contain are implicated in cellular-based mechanisms to promote antioxidant defense and reduce inflammation. While recommendations encourage the intake...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2924: Improvement in Uncontrolled Eating Behavior after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Is Associated with Alterations in the Brain–Gut–Microbiome Axis in Obese Women Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102924 Authors: Tien S. Dong Arpana Gupta Jonathan P. Jacobs Venu Lagishetty Elizabeth Gallagher Ravi R. Bhatt Priten Vora Vadim Osadchiy Jean Stains Anna Balioukova Yijun Chen Erik Dutson Emeran A. Mayer Claudia Sanmiguel Background:...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2928: Circulating Levels of the Soluble Receptor for AGE (sRAGE) during Escalating Oral Glucose Dosages and Corresponding Isoglycaemic i.v. Glucose Infusions in Individuals with and without Type 2 Diabetes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102928 Authors: Amelia K. Fotheringham Jonatan I. Bagger Danielle J. Borg Domenica A. McCarthy Jens J. Holst Tina Vilsbøll Filip K. Knop Josephine M. Forbes Postprandial glucose excursions are postulated to increase...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2919: Maternal High-Fat–High-Carbohydrate Diet-Induced Obesity Is Associated with Increased Appetite in Peripubertal Male but Not Female C57Bl/6J Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102919 Authors: Debra Kulhanek Rachel Weigel Megan E. Paulsen Diet-induced maternal obesity might play a critical role in altering hypothalamic development, predisposing the offspring to obesity and metabolic disease later in life. The objective of this study was to describe both...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2926: Impact of a Rice-Centered Diet on the Quality of Sleep in Association with Reduced Oxidative Stress: A Randomized, Open, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102926 Authors: Minori Koga Atsuhito Toyomaki Yoshinobu Kiso Ichiro Kusumi Previously, we found that a Japanese diet was associated with psychological status, and a combination of rice and miso was related to mental and physical health. We hypothesized that the intake...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2922: Anthocyanins in Whole Grain Cereals and Their Potential Effect on Health Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102922 Authors: Alyssa Francavilla Iris J. Joye Coloured (black, purple, blue, red, etc.) cereal grains, rich in anthocyanins, have recently gained a lot of attention in the food industry. Anthocyanins are water-soluble flavonoids, and are responsible for red, violet, and blue colours in fruits, vegetables, and grains. Anthocyanins have demonstrated antioxidant...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2923: Prevalence and Predictors of Emotional Eating among Healthy Young Saudi Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102923 Authors: Sara Al-Musharaf Emotional eating (EE) is prevalent among women and is associated with obesity. The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and mandatory quarantine increased the risk of mental symptoms and, inferentially, emotional eating (EE). We investigated the EE prevalence and predictors during this pandemic....
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2921: A Priori and a Posteriori Dietary Patterns in Women of Childbearing Age in the UK Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102921 Authors: Karim Khaled Vanora Hundley Orouba Almilaji Mareike Koeppen Fotini Tsofliou Poor diet quality is a major cause of maternal obesity. We aimed to investigate a priori and a-posteriori derived dietary patterns in childbearing-aged women in UK. An online survey assessed food intake, physical activity (PA), anthropometry and...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2920: Families’ Perception of Classic Ketogenic Diet Management in Acute Medical Conditions: A Web-Based Survey Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102920 Authors: Ludovica Pasca Costanza Varesio Cinzia Ferraris Monica Guglielmetti Claudia Trentani Anna Tagliabue Pierangelo Veggiotti Valentina De Giorgis Objective: To describe families’ experiences in managing epileptic patients undergoing ketogenic dietary therapies (KDTs) in acute medical...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2918: Association of Low Serum l-Carnitine Levels with Aortic Stiffness in Patients with Non-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12102918 Authors: Yi-Jen Hsieh Bang-Gee Hsu Yu-Hsien Lai Chih-Hsien Wang Yu-Li Lin Chiu-Huang Kuo Jen-Pi Tsai l-carnitine (LC) is a co-factor in fatty acid metabolism; its role with respect to aortic stiffness (AS) associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was unclear. Our aim was to investigate...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 782: Low Pathogenic Strain of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) Associated with Recent Outbreaks in Iranian Trout Farms Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9100782 Authors: Sohrab Ahmadivand Manfred Weidmann Mansour El-Matbouli Hooman Rahmati-Holasoo Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), first described as acute viral catarrhal enteritis, is a highly contagious disease with variable pathogenicity that has been linked to genetic variation in the...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 783: Occurrence of Fungi in the Potable Water of Hospitals: A Public Health Threat Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9100783 Authors: Giuseppina Caggiano Giusy Diella Francesco Triggiano Nicola Bartolomeo Francesca Apollonio Carmen Campanale Marco Lopuzzo Maria Teresa Montagna Since the last decade, attention towards the occurrence of fungi in potable water has increased. Commensal and saprophytic microorganisms widely distributed in nature...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 780: Transstadial Transmission and Replication Kinetics of West Nile Virus Lineage 1 in Laboratory Reared Ixodes ricinus Ticks Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9100780 Authors: Cristian Răileanu Oliver Tauchmann Ana Vasić Ulrike Neumann Birke Andrea Tews Cornelia Silaghi West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne agent that has also been isolated from several tick species. Vector competence of Ixodes ricinus, one of the most common tick species in...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 779: Infectious Bronchitis Coronavirus Infection in Chickens: Multiple System Disease with Immune Suppression Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9100779 Authors: Shahnas M. Najimudeen Mohamed S. H. Hassan Susan C. Cork Mohamed Faizal Abdul-Careem In the early 1930s, infectious bronchitis (IB) was first characterized as a respiratory disease in young chickens; later, the disease was also described in older chickens. The etiology of IB was confirmed later...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 781: Detection of Babesia odocoilei in Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected from Songbirds in Ontario and Quebec, Canada Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9100781 Authors: John D. Scott Emily L. Pascoe Muhammad S. Sajid Janet E. Foley Songbirds widely disperse ticks that carry a diversity of pathogens, some of which are pathogenic to humans. Among ticks commonly removed from songbirds, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, can harbor any combination of...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 269: The Phytochemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Annona atemoya: A Systematic Review Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13100269 Authors: Bassam S. M. Al Kazman Joanna E. Harnett Jane R. Hanrahan Annona atemoya also known as the custard apple is a hybrid between two Annonaceae species: Cherimoya (Annona cherimola) and the sugar apple (Annona squamosa). It is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical continents including north...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 268: Imaging Tissue Physiology In Vivo by Use of Metal Ion-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13100268 Authors: Pooyan Khalighinejad Daniel Parrott A. Dean Sherry Paramagnetic metal ion complexes, mostly based on gadolinium (Gd3+), have been used for over 30 years as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. Gd3+-based contrast agents have a strong influence on T1 relaxation times and are consequently the most commonly...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 917: Development and Evaluation of Feline Tailored Amlodipine Besylate Mini-Tablets Using L-lysine as a Candidate Flavouring Agent Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100917 Authors: Chinedu S. Ekweremadu Hend E. Abdelhakim Duncan Q. M. Craig Susan A. Barker Felines may find orally administered medicines unpalatable, thus presenting a problem in the treatment of chronic conditions such as hypertension, a commonly diagnosed condition in felines...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 915: Mannose-Decorated Dendritic Polyglycerol Nanocarriers Drive Antiparasitic Drugs To Leishmania infantum-Infected Macrophages Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100915 Authors: Laura I. Vossen Bárbara Domínguez-Asenjo Camino Gutiérrez-Corbo M. Yolanda Pérez-Pertejo Rafael Balaña-Fouce Rosa María Reguera Marcelo Calderón Macrophages are hosts for intracellular pathogens involved in numerous diseases including leishmaniasis. They...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 916: Quasi-Irreversible Inhibition of CYP2D6 by Berberine Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100916 Authors: Ha Gyeong Kim Han Sol Lee Jang Su Jeon Young Jae Choi Yeon Jung Choi So-Yeol Yoo Eun-yeong Kim Kiho Lee InWha Park MinKyun Na Han-Jin Park Seung-Woo Cho Jong-Hoon Kim Jae-Young Lee Sang Kyum Kim In our previous study, Hwang-Ryun-Hae-Dok-Tang, which contains berberine (BBR) as a main active ingredient,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 913: Inhibition of MicroRNA 6937 Delays Photoreceptor and Vision Loss in a Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100913 Authors: Ander Anasagasti Araceli Lara-López Santiago Milla-Navarro Leire Escudero-Arrarás María Rodríguez-Hidalgo Nerea Zabaleta Gloria González Aseguinolaza Pedro de la Villa Javier Ruiz-Ederra Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are a group of rare retinal conditions, including...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 914: Praziquantel–Clays as Accelerated Release Systems to Enhance the Low Solubility of the Drug Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100914 Authors: Ana Borrego-Sánchez Rita Sánchez-Espejo Fátima García-Villén César Viseras C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz Praziquantel is an antiparasitic drug indicated for the treatment of the schistosomiasis disease. This drug has very low aqueous solubility, requiring high oral doses for its administration which...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1263: A Dual Strategy of Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Introducing Drought-Tolerant, Underutilized Crops into Production Systems to Enhance Their Resilience to Water Deficiency Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101263 Authors: Amparo Rosero Leiter Granda Jhon A. Berdugo-Cely Olga Šamajová Jozef Šamaj Radim Cerkal Water scarcity is the primary constraint on crop productivity in arid and semiarid tropical areas suffering from climate alterations; in accordance,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1264: Improved Porosity of Insect Proof Screens Enhances Quality Aspects of Zucchini Squash without Compromising the Yield Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101264 Authors: Luigi Formisano Antonio Pannico Christophe El-Nakhel Giuseppe Starace Milena Poledica Stefania De Pascale Youssef Rouphael In a global climate change environment, assuring optimal growing conditions is a difficult challenge, compromising the food supply for a rapidly rising population....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1262: Genome-Wide Discovery of InDel Markers in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Using ddRADSeq Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101262 Authors: Sibel Kizil Merve Basak Birgul Guden Hilal Sule Tosun Bulent Uzun Engin Yol The development and validation of different types of molecular markers is crucial to conducting marker-assisted sesame breeding. Insertion-deletion (InDel) markers are highly polymorphic and suitable for low-cost gel-based genotyping. From this...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1258: Inflorescence Development and Floral Organogenesis in Taraxacum kok-saghyz Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101258 Authors: Carolina Schuchovski Tea Meulia Bruno Francisco Sant’Anna-Santos Jonathan Fresnedo-Ramírez Rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz Rodin; TK) has received attention for its natural rubber content as a strategic biomaterial, and a promising, sustainable, and renewable alternative to synthetic rubber from fossil carbon sources. Extensive...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1260: Nematode Identification Techniques and Recent Advances Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101260 Authors: Mesfin Bogale Anil Baniya Peter DiGennaro Nematodes are among the most diverse but least studied organisms. The classic morphology-based identification has proved insufficient to the study of nematode identification and diversity, mainly for lack of sufficient morphological variations among closely related taxa. Different molecular methods have been used...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1259: Potassium Application Boosts Photosynthesis and Sorbitol Biosynthesis and Accelerates Cold Acclimation of Common Plantain (Plantago major L.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101259 Authors: Li-Hsuan Ho Regina Rode Maike Siegel Frank Reinhardt H. Ekkehard Neuhaus Jean-Claude Yvin Sylvain Pluchon Seyed Abdollah Hosseini Benjamin Pommerrenig Potassium (K) is essential for the processes critical for plant performance, including photosynthesis,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1257: Sowing Date Affects the Timing and Duration of Key Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Growth Phases Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101257 Authors: Mark F. Richards Aaron L. Preston Tony Napier Leigh Jenkins Lancelot Maphosa Chickpea is the main legume rotation crop within farming systems in northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and is grown mainly under rainfed conditions. Recent expansion of chickpea growing areas in southern and central western NSW...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1261: Natural Variation in Plant Pluripotency and Regeneration Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9101261 Authors: Robin Lardon Danny Geelen Plant regeneration is essential for survival upon wounding and is, hence, considered to be a strong natural selective trait. The capacity of plant tissues to regenerate in vitro, however, varies substantially between and within species and depends on the applied incubation conditions. Insight into the genetic factors underlying this...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 487: The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100487 Authors: Yigal Levin For several hundred years, from the late Iron Age to the end of the 2nd century BCE, the southern neighbor of Judea was “Idumea”, populated by descendants of Edomites, together with Qedarite and other Arabs and a mix of additional ethnicities. This paper examines the known data on the identity, especially religious identity,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 486: The Contribution of Church-Based Networks to Social Care in the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond: The Case of Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa in Brazil Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100486 Authors: Peter Kevern Ruth Gelehrter da Costa Lopes Áurea Eleutério Barroso Beltrina Côrte Carolina Lucena The Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa (PPI) is a national voluntary movement linked to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), comprising approximately 2500...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 483: Mediatization of Beliefs: The Adventism from “Morning Star” to the Public Sphere Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100483 Authors: Stefan Bratosin This article examines “the material becoming-forces of symbolic forms” mobilized by the Adventist beliefs in the public sphere of the United States of America during the 19th century. Particularly, the article focuses on the “transformation” of the prophetic letter’s...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 484: Psychospiritual Developmental Risk Factors for Moral Injury Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100484 Authors: Timothy J. Usset Erika Gray Brandon J. Griffin Joseph M. Currier Marek S. Kopacz John H. Wilhelm J. Irene Harris There is increasing theoretical, clinical, and empirical support for the hypothesis that psychospiritual development, and more specifically, postconventional religious reasoning, may be related to moral injury. In this study,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 485: Muslim Community Organizations’ Perceptions of Islamophobia: Towards an Informed Countering Response Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11100485 Authors: Sara Cheikh Husain During the past two decades, Muslim Community Organizations (MCOs) in the West have increasingly become stakeholders in the public debates and the national consultations regarding the Muslim communities. MCO’s perception of Islamophobia is critical for understanding their collective...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 77: Occupancy Grid and Topological Maps Extraction from Satellite Images for Path Planning in Agricultural Robots Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9040077 Authors: Luís Carlos Santos André Silva Aguiar Filipe Neves Santos Santos António Valente Marcelo Petry Robotics will significantly impact large sectors of the economy with relatively low productivity, such as Agri-Food production. Deploying agricultural robots on the farm is still a challenging...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 76: Kinematic-Model-Free Orientation Control for Robot Manipulation Using Locally Weighted Dual Quaternions Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9040076 Authors: Ahmad AlAttar Petar Kormushev Conventional control of robotic manipulators requires prior knowledge of their kinematic structure. Model-learning controllers have the advantage of being able to control robots without requiring a complete kinematic model and work well in less structured environments. Our recently...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 74: Rainfall and Temperature Trend Analysis by Mann–Kendall Test and Significance for Rainfed Cereal Yields in Northern Togo Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2040074 Authors: Agossou Gadedjisso-Tossou Komlavi II Adjegan Armand Ketcha Malan Kablan This study investigates the trend in monthly and annual rainfall, minimum and maximum temperature (Tmin and Tmax) using the Mann–Kendall (MK) test and Sen’s slope (SS) method and evaluates the significance of...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 168: Marketing in the Public Sector—Benefits and Barriers: A Bibliometric Study from 1931 to 2020 Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9100168 Authors: Nelson de Matos Marisol B. Correia José Ramón Saura Ana Reyes-Menendez Nuno Baptista The global economy has brought economic and social changes that have led organizations to extend their vision beyond consumer and business markets. Particularly, in the marketing of public sector (MPS), the extant...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 167: Online Discourse in the Context of COVID-19, the First Health Crisis in China after the Advent of Mobile Social Media: A Content Analysis of China’s Weibo and Baidu Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9100167 Authors: Christian Carvajal-Miranda Luis Mañas-Viniegra Li Liang The COVID-19 epidemic was the first universal health crisis since China entered the era of mobile social media. When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) broke out in 2003,...
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Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 73: Exploring the Impact of Medical Brain Drain on Child Health in 188 Countries over 2000–2015 Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10040073 Authors: Amm Quamruzzaman Medical brain drain has been a policy concern in recent years when many countries are struggling with health workforce shortages. Some suggest that wealthy countries only exacerbate this problem by recruiting internationally trained health professionals. Little research has considered the impact of medical...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 614: Inhibitory Effects of a Reengineered Anthrax Toxin on Canine and Human Osteosarcoma Cells Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100614 Authors: Jonathan Mackowiak da Fonseca Ivone Izabel Mackowiak da Fonseca Marcia Kazumi Nagamine Cristina de Oliveira Massoco Adriana Tomoko Nishiya Jerrold Michael Ward Shihui Liu Stephen Howard Leppla Thomas Henrik Bugge Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli Canine and human osteosarcomas (OSA) share similarities. Novel...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 611: Camelid VHH Antibodies that Neutralize Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype E Intoxication or Protease Function Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100611 Authors: Jacqueline M. Tremblay Edwin Vazquez-Cintron Kwok-Ho Lam Jean Mukherjee Daniela Bedenice Celinia A. Ondeck Matthieu T. Conroy Skylar M. L. Bodt Brittany M. Winner Robert P. Webb Konstantin Ichtchenko Rongsheng Jin Patrick M. McNutt Charles B. Shoemaker Botulinum neurotoxin...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 612: Solanum Nigrum Fruit Extract Increases Toxicity of Fenitrothion—A Synthetic Insecticide, in the Mealworm Beetle Tenebrio Molitor Larvae Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100612 Authors: Marta Spochacz Monika Szymczak Szymon Chowański Sabino Aurelio Bufo Zbigniew Adamski Synthetic insecticides are widely used for crop protection both in the fields and in the food stored facilities. Due to their toxicity, and assumptions of Integrated Pest Management,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 613: Detection of Cyclic Imine Toxins in Dietary Supplements of Green Lipped Mussels (Perna canaliculus) and in Shellfish Mytilus chilensis Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100613 Authors: Paz Otero Carmen Vale Andrea Boente-Juncal Celia Costas M. Carmen Louzao Luis M. Botana Seafood represents a significant part of the human staple diet. In the recent years, the identification of emerging lipophilic marine toxins has increased, leading to the potential...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 610: Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol Has Different Impacts on Intestinal Barrier and Stem Cells by Its Route of Exposure Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12100610 Authors: Hikaru Hanyu Yuki Yokoi Kiminori Nakamura Tokiyoshi Ayabe Keisuke Tanaka Kinuko Uno Katsuhiro Miyajima Yuki Saito Ken Iwatsuki Makoto Shimizu Miki Tadaishi Kazuo Kobayashi-Hattori The different effects of deoxynivalenol (DON) on intestinal barrier and stem cells by its route...
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Urban Science, Vol. 4, Pages 45: Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’ Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci4040045 Authors: Philip Cooke This contribution seeks to achieve three main objectives. First it draws on a substantial, but often overlooked literature on wide-scale international decline in entrepreneurship as recorded in the ‘business dynamics’ literature. This has serious implications...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 559: Possible Cross-Reactivity between SARS-CoV-2 Proteins, CRM197 and Proteins in Pneumococcal Vaccines May Protect Against Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Disease and Death Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8040559 Authors: Robert Root-Bernstein Various studies indicate that vaccination, especially with pneumococcal vaccines, protects against symptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death. This paper explores the possibility that pneumococcal vaccines in particular,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 558: Challenges for the Newborn Immune Response to Respiratory Virus Infection and Vaccination Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8040558 Authors: Kali F. Crofts Martha A. Alexander-Miller The initial months of life reflect an extremely challenging time for newborns as a naïve immune system is bombarded with a large array of pathogens, commensals, and other foreign entities. In many instances, the immune response of young infants is dampened or altered,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 557: Depletion of CD8αβ+ T Cells in Chickens Demonstrates Their Involvement in Protective Immunity towards Marek’s Disease with Respect to Tumor Incidence and Vaccinal Protection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8040557 Authors: Supawadee Umthong John R. Dunn Hans H. Cheng Marek’s disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease in chickens caused by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), a highly oncogenic alphaherpesvirus. Since 1970, MD has been controlled...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 144: Incidence of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Dogs Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery or Endoscopic Evaluation of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7040144 Authors: Carlotta Lambertini Marco Pietra Giorgia Galiazzo Francesco Torresan Stefania Pinna Luciano Pisoni Noemi Romagnoli Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is a common event during general anaesthesia but is often underdiagnosed in veterinary medicine....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1073: Meta-Transcriptomic Discovery of a Divergent Circovirus and a Chaphamaparvovirus in Captive Reptiles with Proliferative Respiratory Syndrome Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101073 Authors: Wei-Shan Chang Ci-Xiu Li Jane Hall John-Sebastian Eden Timothy H. Hyndman Edward C. Holmes Karrie Rose Viral pathogens are being increasingly described in association with mass morbidity and mortality events in reptiles. However, our knowledge of reptile viruses...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1072: Regulation of Polyomavirus Transcription by Viral and Cellular Factors
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1072: Regulation of Polyomavirus Transcription by Viral and Cellular Factors Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101072 Authors: June F. Yang Jianxin You Polyomavirus infection is widespread in the human population. This family of viruses normally maintains latent infection within the host cell but can cause a range of human pathologies, especially in immunocompromised individuals. Among several known pathogenic human polyomaviruses, JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) has the potential...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1070: Structure and Function of the T4 Spackle Protein Gp61.3 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101070 Authors: Shuji Kanamaru Kazuya Uchida Mai Nemoto Alec Fraser Fumio Arisaka Petr G. Leiman The bacteriophage T4 genome contains two genes that code for proteins with lysozyme activity—e and 5. Gene e encodes the well-known T4 lysozyme (commonly called T4L) that functions to break the peptidoglycan layer late in the infection cycle, which is required...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1069: Solid-State NMR for Studying the Structure and Dynamics of Viral Assemblies Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101069 Authors: Lauriane Lecoq Marie-Laure Fogeron Beat H. Meier Michael Nassal Anja Böckmann Structural virology reveals the architecture underlying infection. While notably electron microscopy images have provided an atomic view on viruses which profoundly changed our understanding of these assemblies incapable of independent life, spectroscopic...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1071: Mutation of N-glycosylation Sites in Salmonid Alphavirus (SAV) Envelope Proteins Attenuate the Virus in Cell Culture Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12101071 Authors: Ida Aksnes Turhan Markussen Stine Braaen Espen Rimstad Salmonid alphavirus (SAV) is the cause of pancreas disease and sleeping disease in farmed salmonid fish in Europe. The spread of these diseases has been difficult to control with biosecurity and current vaccination strategies, and increased...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2681: Contemporary Snow Changes in the Karakoram Region Attributed to Improved MODIS Data between 2003 and 2018 Water doi: 10.3390/w12102681 Authors: Amrit Thapa Sher Muhammad Snowmelt significantly contributes to meltwater in most parts of High Mountain Asia. The Karakoram region is one of these densely glacierized and snow-covered regions. Several studies have reported that glaciers in the Karakoram region remained stable or experience slight mass loss. This...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2679: Cost Effectiveness of Ecosystem-Based Nutrient Targets—Findings from a Numerical Model for the Baltic Sea Water doi: 10.3390/w12102679 Authors: Ing-Marie Gren Wondmagegn Tafesse Tirkaso An ecosystem-based management of a large sea can give heterogeneous nutrient load targets for different parts of the sea. Cost effective solutions to heterogeneous nutrient reductions targets based on ecological conditions are compared with the same overall nutrient reductions...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2680: Fate of COVID-19 Occurrences in Wastewater Systems: Emerging Detection and Treatment Technologies—A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12102680 Authors: Emmanuel Kweinor Tetteh Mark Opoku Amankwa Edward Kwaku Armah Sudesh Rathilal The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is currently posing a significant threat to the world’s public health and social-economic growth. Despite the rigorous international lockdown and quarantine efforts, the rate of COVID-19...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2678: Validation and Modification of the Van Genuchten Model for Eroded Black Soil in Northeastern China Water doi: 10.3390/w12102678 Authors: Shuang Li Yun Xie Yan Xin Gang Liu Wenting Wang Xiaofei Gao Junrui Zhai Jing Li The soil water characteristic curve is highly related to soil physical characteristics, which may be affected by the soil erosion degree. To explore the applicability of the soil moisture characteristic curve model in northeastern...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2676: Incorporating Uncertainty of the System Behavior in Flood Risk Assessment—Sava River Case Study Water doi: 10.3390/w12102676 Authors: Toni Kekez Snježana Knezić Roko Andričević This paper proposes a framework for evaluation of the sources of uncertainty that can disrupt the flood emergency response process. During the flood response, flood emergency managers usually choose between several decision options under limited available lead-time, but they are...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2677: A Stepwise Approach to Beach Restoration at Calabaia Beach Water doi: 10.3390/w12102677 Authors: Mario Maiolo Riccardo Alvise Mel Salvatore Sinopoli Sea hazards are increasingly threatening worldwide coastal areas, which are among the most strategic resources of the Earth in supporting human population, economy and the environment. These hazards enhance erosion processes and flooding events, producing severe socio-economic impacts and posing a challenge...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2673: Climate Change Impacts on Water and Agriculture Sectors in Southern Africa: Threats and Opportunities for Sustainable Development Water doi: 10.3390/w12102673 Authors: Charles Nhemachena Luxon Nhamo Greenwell Matchaya Charity R. Nhemachena Binganidzo Muchara Selma T. Karuaihe Sylvester Mpandeli Agriculture remains important in driving economic transformation, sustainable livelihoods, and development in developing countries. This paper provides...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2674: Effect of Diverse Abiotic Conditions on the Structure and Biodiversity of Ichthyofauna in Small, Natural Water Bodies Located on Agricultural Lands Water doi: 10.3390/w12102674 Authors: Adam Brysiewicz Przemysław Czerniejewski Małgorzata Bonisławska Mid-field natural ponds promote regional biodiversity, providing alternative habitats for many valuable animal species. The study’s objective was to determine the most important abiotic factors,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2675: The Role of Sewer Network Structure on the Occurrence and Magnitude of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) Water doi: 10.3390/w12102675 Authors: Julian D. Reyes-Silva Emmanuel Bangura Björn Helm Jakob Benisch Peter Krebs Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) prevent surges in sewer networks by releasing untreated wastewater into nearby water bodies during intense storm events. CSOs can have acute and detrimental impacts on the environment and thus need to...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2672: Application of HEC-RAS (2D) for Flood Hazard Maps Generation for Yesil (Ishim) River in Kazakhstan Water doi: 10.3390/w12102672 Authors: Nurlan Ongdas Farida Akiyanova Yergali Karakulov Altynay Muratbayeva Nurlybek Zinabdin The use of hydraulic models for carrying out flood simulations is a common practice globally. The current study used HEC-RAS (2D) in order to simulate different flood scenarios on the River Yesil (Ishim). Comparison of different...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2671: Ambient Background Values of Selected Chemical Substances in Four Groundwater Bodies in the Pannonian Region of Croatia Water doi: 10.3390/w12102671 Authors: Zoran Nakić Zoran Kovač Jelena Parlov Dario Perković Groundwater quality is a consequence of cumulative effects of natural and anthropogenic processes occurring in unsaturated and saturated zone, which, in certain conditions, can lead to elevated concentrations of chemical substances in groundwater....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2670: Environmental Flows in the Lower Ebro River and Delta: Current Status and Guidelines for a Holistic Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w12102670 Authors: Carles Ibáñez Nuno Caiola Oscar Belmar Deltas are a particular type of estuarine system in which the dependence on river flow (water, sediments and nutrients) is very strong, especially in river-dominated deltas such as the Mediterranean ones, but environmental flow (e-flow) proposals for deltaic systems are...
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