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Tuesday, June 23, 2020


Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1865: The Impact of Isolation Measures Due to COVID-19 on Energy Intake and Physical Activity Levels in Australian University Students
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1865: The Impact of Isolation Measures Due to COVID-19 on Energy Intake and Physical Activity Levels in Australian University Students Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12061865 Authors: Linda A. Gallo Tania F. Gallo Sophia L. Young Karen M. Moritz Lisa K. Akison The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in physical isolation measures in many parts of the world. In Australia, nationwide restrictions included staying at home, unless seeking...
Nutrients
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1863: Diet Quality and Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers Risk: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Assessment of Evidence Quality
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1863: Diet Quality and Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers Risk: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Assessment of Evidence Quality Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12061863 Authors: Sara Moazzen Kimberley W. J. van der Sloot Roel J. Vonk Geertruida H. de Bock Behrooz Z. Alizadeh We aimed to assess the effect of a high-quality diet on the risk of upper gastrointestinal cancer and to evaluate the overall quality of our findings by searching PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science,...
Nutrients
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 506: The Role of Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant and Rad3-Related DNA Damage Response in Pathogenesis of Human Papillomavirus
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 506: The Role of Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant and Rad3-Related DNA Damage Response in Pathogenesis of Human Papillomavirus Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060506 Authors: Ying Luo Shiyuan Hong Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection leads to a variety of benign lesions and malignant tumors such as cervical cancer and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Several HPV vaccines have been developed that can help to prevent cervical carcinoma, but these vaccines...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 504: Environmental Risk of Leptospirosis in Animals: The Case of The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 504: Environmental Risk of Leptospirosis in Animals: The Case of The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060504 Authors: Olga I. Zakharova Fedor I. Korennoy Nadezhda N. Toropova Olga A. Burova Andrey A. Blokhin Leptospirosis is a zoonotic natural focal disease caused by the pathogenic bacteria Leptospira. Its spread is related to certain ecological factors. The aim of the current research was to assess...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 507: Clinical Features Associated with Strongyloidiasis in Migrants and the Potential Impact of Immunosuppression: A Case Control Study
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 507: Clinical Features Associated with Strongyloidiasis in Migrants and the Potential Impact of Immunosuppression: A Case Control Study Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060507 Authors: Angela Martinez-Pérez Manuel Jesús Soriano-Pérez Fernando Salvador Joan Gomez-Junyent Judith Villar-Garcia Miguel Santin Carme Muñoz Ana González-Cordón Joaquín Salas-Coronas Elena Sulleiro Dolors Somoza Begoña Treviño Rosángela Pecorelli Jaume...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 505: Research into Neospora caninum—What Have We Learnt in the Last Thirty Years?
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 505: Research into Neospora caninum—What Have We Learnt in the Last Thirty Years? Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060505 Authors: Reichel Wahl Ellis Background: Neospora caninum has been recognised world-wide, first as a disease of dogs, then as an important cause of abortions in cattle for the past thirty years. Over that time period, there have been improvements in the diagnosis of infection and abortion, new tests have been developed and validated,...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 503: Global Prevalence Estimates of Toxascaris leonina Infection in Dogs and Cats
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 503: Global Prevalence Estimates of Toxascaris leonina Infection in Dogs and Cats Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060503 Authors: Ali Rostami Seyed Mohammad Riahi Vahid Fallah Omrani Tao Wang Andreas Hofmann Aliyar Mirzapour Masoud Foroutan Yadolah Fakhri Calum N. L. Macpherson Robin B. Gasser Toxascaris leonina is an ascaridoid nematode of dogs and cats; this parasite affects the health of these animals. This study estimated the global...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 502: A Probiotic-Based Sanitation System for the Reduction of Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistances: A Budget Impact Analysis
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 502: A Probiotic-Based Sanitation System for the Reduction of Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistances: A Budget Impact Analysis Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060502 Authors: Rosanna Tarricone Carla Rognoni Luca Arnoldo Sante Mazzacane Elisabetta Caselli Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and antibiotic resistance have high social and economic burdens. Healthcare environments play an important role in the transmission...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 501: Emerging Prevention and Treatment Strategies to Control COVID-19
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 501: Emerging Prevention and Treatment Strategies to Control COVID-19 Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9060501 Authors: Vipul K. Singh Abhishek Mishra Shubhra Singh Premranjan Kumar Manisha Singh Chinnaswamy Jagannath Arshad Khan Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has now become a serious global threat after inflicting more than 8 million infections and 425,000...
Pathogens
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 129: Wheatgrass Juice Administration and Immune Measures during Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Colon Cancer Patients: Preliminary Results
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 129: Wheatgrass Juice Administration and Immune Measures during Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Colon Cancer Patients: Preliminary Results Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13060129 Authors: Adva Avisar Miri Cohen Rina Katz Talia Shentzer Kutiel Anat Aharon Gil Bar-Sela Adjuvant chemotherapy is recommended in high-risk stage II–III colorectal cancer (CC). We examine the effect of daily wheatgrass juice (WGJ) intake in addition to chemotherapy...
Pharmaceuticals
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 128: Multi-Step Ubiquitin Decoding Mechanism for Proteasomal Degradation
Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 128: Multi-Step Ubiquitin Decoding Mechanism for Proteasomal Degradation Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13060128 Authors: Hikaru Tsuchiya Akinori Endo Yasushi Saeki The 26S proteasome is a 2.5-MDa protease complex responsible for the selective and ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitylated proteins in eukaryotic cells. Proteasome-mediated protein degradation accounts for ~70% of all cellular proteolysis under basal conditions, and thereby any dysfunction...
Pharmaceuticals
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 583: Manipulation of Medicinal Products for Oral Administration to Paediatric Patients at a German University Hospital: An Observational Study
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 583: Manipulation of Medicinal Products for Oral Administration to Paediatric Patients at a German University Hospital: An Observational Study Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060583 Authors: Julia Zahn André Hoerning Regina Trollmann Wolfgang Rascher Antje Neubert Pharmacotherapy in children requires medicinal products in age-appropriate dosage forms and flexible dose strengths. Healthcare professionals often encounter a lack of licensed...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 584: Topical Administration of SLN-Based Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Corneal Inflammation by De Novo IL-10 Production
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 584: Topical Administration of SLN-Based Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Corneal Inflammation by De Novo IL-10 Production Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060584 Authors: Mónica Vicente-Pascual Itziar Gómez-Aguado Julen Rodríguez-Castejón Alicia Rodríguez-Gascón Elisabetta Muntoni Luigi Battaglia Ana del Pozo-Rodríguez María Ángeles Solinís Aspiazu One of the main challenges in gene therapy is the issue of delivery, and it...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 582: Drug Release from a Spherical Matrix: Theoretical Analysis for a Finite Dissolution Rate Affected by Geometric Shape of Dispersed Drugs
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 582: Drug Release from a Spherical Matrix: Theoretical Analysis for a Finite Dissolution Rate Affected by Geometric Shape of Dispersed Drugs Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060582 Authors: Yung-Sheng Lin Ruey-Yug Tsay Amending the neglect of finite dissolution in traditional release models, this study proposed a more generalized drug release model considering the simultaneous dissolution and diffusion procedure from a drug-loaded spherical matrix....
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 581: Rapidly Separable Micropillar Integrated Dissolving Microneedles
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 581: Rapidly Separable Micropillar Integrated Dissolving Microneedles Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060581 Authors: Chung-ryong Jung Shayan Fakhraei Lahiji Youseong Kim Hyeonjun Kim Hyungil Jung Dissolving microneedle (DMN) patches were developed as efficient and patient-friendly transdermal delivery systems for biopharmaceuticals. However, recent studies have confirmed that the efficiency of DMNs to deliver biopharmaceuticals is...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 577: Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Biocompatible Membrane Vesicles Demonstrate Immunomodulatory Activity Inhibiting Activation and proliferation of Human Mononuclear Cells
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 577: Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Biocompatible Membrane Vesicles Demonstrate Immunomodulatory Activity Inhibiting Activation and proliferation of Human Mononuclear Cells Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060577 Authors: Marina O. Gomzikova Sevindzh K. Kletukhina Sirina V. Kurbangaleeva Olga A. Neustroeva Olga S. Vasileva Ekaterina E. Garanina Svetlana F. Khaiboullina Albert A. Rizvanov Immune-mediated diseases are characterized...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 579: Identification of Cell-Surface Proteins Endocytosed by Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells In Vitro
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 579: Identification of Cell-Surface Proteins Endocytosed by Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells In Vitro Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060579 Authors: Shingo Ito Mariko Oishi Seiryo Ogata Tatsuki Uemura Pierre-Olivier Couraud Takeshi Masuda Sumio Ohtsuki Cell-surface proteins that can endocytose into brain microvascular endothelial cells serve as promising candidates for receptor-mediated transcytosis across the blood–brain...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 578: Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling of Buprenorphine in Adults, Children and Preterm Neonates
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 578: Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling of Buprenorphine in Adults, Children and Preterm Neonates Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060578 Authors: Lukas Kovar Christina Schräpel Dominik Selzer Yvonne Kohl Robert Bals Matthias Schwab Thorsten Lehr Buprenorphine plays a crucial role in the therapeutic management of pain in adults, adolescents and pediatric subpopulations. However, only few pharmacokinetic studies...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 580: Fabrication of Core Crosslinked Polymeric Micelles as Nanocarriers for Doxorubicin Delivery: Self-Assembly, In Situ Diselenide Metathesis and Redox-Responsive Drug Release
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 580: Fabrication of Core Crosslinked Polymeric Micelles as Nanocarriers for Doxorubicin Delivery: Self-Assembly, In Situ Diselenide Metathesis and Redox-Responsive Drug Release Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060580 Authors: Yihenew Simegniew Birhan Haile Fentahun Darge Endiries Yibru Hanurry Abegaz Tizazu Andrgie Tefera Worku Mekonnen Hsiao-Ying Chou Juin-Yih Lai Hsieh-Chih Tsai Polymeric micelles (PMs) have been used to improve...
Pharmaceutics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 107: The Mbeya Antimicrobial Stewardship Team: Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Zonal-Level Hospital in Southern Tanzania
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 107: The Mbeya Antimicrobial Stewardship Team: Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Zonal-Level Hospital in Southern Tanzania Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8020107 Authors: Jeffrey W. Hall Jeannette Bouchard P. Brandon Bookstaver Matthew Haldeman Peter Kishimbo Godlove Mbwanji Issakwisa Mwakyula Davance Mwasomola Megan Seddon Mark Shaffer Stephanie C. Shealy Anthony Nsojo Background: In 2017, Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital...
Pharmacy
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 787: Radiation Interception, Conversion and Partitioning Efficiency in Potato Landraces: How Far Are We from the Optimum?
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 787: Radiation Interception, Conversion and Partitioning Efficiency in Potato Landraces: How Far Are We from the Optimum? Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060787 Authors: Cecilia Silva-Díaz David A. Ramírez Javier Rinza Johan Ninanya Hildo Loayza René Gómez Noelle L. Anglin Raúl Eyzaguirre Roberto Quiroz Crop efficiencies associated with intercepted radiation, conversion into biomass and allocation to edible organs are essential for yield improvement...
Plants
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 788: Generation of High Yielding and Fragrant Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Lines by CRISPR/Cas9 Targeted Mutagenesis of Three Homoeologs of Cytochrome P450 Gene Family and OsBADH2 and Transcriptome and Proteome Profiling of Revealed Changes Triggered by Mutations
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 788: Generation of High Yielding and Fragrant Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Lines by CRISPR/Cas9 Targeted Mutagenesis of Three Homoeologs of Cytochrome P450 Gene Family and OsBADH2 and Transcriptome and Proteome Profiling of Revealed Changes Triggered by Mutations Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060788 Authors: Babar Usman Gul Nawaz Neng Zhao Yaoguang Liu Rongbai Li The significant increase in grain yield and quality are often antagonistic but a constant demand...
Plants
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 785: Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of CpMYC2 and CpBHLH13 Transcription Factors from Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox L.)
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 785: Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of CpMYC2 and CpBHLH13 Transcription Factors from Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox L.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060785 Authors: Muhammad Zeshan Aslam Xiang Lin Xiang Li Nan Yang Longqing Chen Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox L.) is an ornamental and economically significant shrub known for its unique flowering characteristics, especially the emission of abundant floral volatile organic compounds....
Plants
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 786: Comparative Functional Analysis of Class II Potassium Transporters, SvHKT2;1, SvHKT2;2, and HvHKT2;1, on Ionic Transport and Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 786: Comparative Functional Analysis of Class II Potassium Transporters, SvHKT2;1, SvHKT2;2, and HvHKT2;1, on Ionic Transport and Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060786 Authors: Yuichi Tada Aki Ohnuma Class II high-affinity potassium transporters (HKT2s) mediate Na+–K+ cotransport and Na+/K+ homeostasis under K+-starved or saline conditions. Their functions have been studied in yeast and X. laevis oocytes; however,...
Plants
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 784: Photosynthetic Metabolism and Nitrogen Reshuffling Are Regulated by Reversible Cysteine Thiol Oxidation Following Nitrogen Deprivation in Chlamydomonas
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 784: Photosynthetic Metabolism and Nitrogen Reshuffling Are Regulated by Reversible Cysteine Thiol Oxidation Following Nitrogen Deprivation in Chlamydomonas Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060784 Authors: Amanda L. Smythers Evan W. McConnell Hailey C. Lewis Saher N. Mubarek Leslie M. Hicks As global temperatures climb to historic highs, the far-reaching effects of climate change have impacted agricultural nutrient availability. This has extended to low latitude...
Plants
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 117-139: Functionalization of Polymers and Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications: Antimicrobial Platforms and Drug Carriers
Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 117-139: Functionalization of Polymers and Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications: Antimicrobial Platforms and Drug Carriers Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis2020012 Authors: Masoud Delfi Matineh Ghomi Ali Zarrabi Reza Mohammadinejad Zahra Baghban Taraghdari Milad Ashrafizadeh Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare Tarun Agarwal Vinod V. T. Padil Babak Mokhtari Filippo Rossi Giuseppe Perale Mika Sillanpaa Assunta Borzacchiello Tapas Kumar...
Prosthesis
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 309: Academization of Pious Learning: A Student’s Quest in Religious Education
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 309: Academization of Pious Learning: A Student’s Quest in Religious Education Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060309 Authors: Groeninck This paper focuses on the move towards “academization” of Islamic religious education in private institutes belonging to the reform movement in Brussels. An attempt is made to think through this move in terms of the sacred knowledge concerned, and the alleged implications for teachers and students of Islam....
Religions
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 310: The Female Line in the Bible. Ratzinger’s Deepening of the Church’s Understanding of Tradition and Mary
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 310: The Female Line in the Bible. Ratzinger’s Deepening of the Church’s Understanding of Tradition and Mary Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060310 Authors: Mary Frances McKenna This paper explores the female line in the Bible that Joseph Ratzinger identifies as running in parallel to, and being indispensable for, the male line in the Bible. This female line expands the understanding of Salvation History as described by Dei Verbum so that it runs not just from Abraham...
Religions
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 308: Implementing “Link Nurses” as Spiritual Care Support in a General Hospital
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 308: Implementing “Link Nurses” as Spiritual Care Support in a General Hospital Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060308 Authors: Bart Cusveller Aliza Damsma-Bakker Theotimus Streefkerk René van Leeuwen Background: spiritual care by nurses may be omitted from clinical practice when not structurally embedded in daily professional care routines. Method: a mixed method study was designed to measure qualitative and quantitative outcomes of a “link nurse”...
Religions
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 306: Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 306: Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060306 Authors: Anna Halafoff Sam Han Caroline Starkey James V. Spickard The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges [...]
Religions
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 307: Hagiography as Source: Gender and Conversion Narratives in The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 307: Hagiography as Source: Gender and Conversion Narratives in The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060307 Authors: Anna Redhair Wells Drawing on the work of Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, this essay proposes utilizing hagiographies from the The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, a fifteenth-century Ethiopian collection of saints’ lives, to explore various aspects of conversion. Other scholars employ...
Religions
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 78: Correction: Smol, M., et al. Importance of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management in Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) Model and the European Green Deal Strategy. Resource 2020, 9, 55
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 78: Correction: Smol, M., et al. Importance of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management in Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) Model and the European Green Deal Strategy. Resource 2020, 9, 55 Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060078 Authors: Marzena Smol Paulina Marcinek Joanna Duda Dominika Szołdrowska In the published article [...]
Resources
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 47: Multi-Robot Coverage and Persistent Monitoring in Sensing-Constrained Environments
Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 47: Multi-Robot Coverage and Persistent Monitoring in Sensing-Constrained Environments Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9020047 Authors: Tauhidul Alam Leonardo Bobadilla This article examines the problems of multi-robot coverage and persistent monitoring of regions of interest with limited sensing robots. A group of robots, each equipped with only contact sensors and a clock, execute a simple trajectory by repeatedly moving straight and then bouncing at perimeter...
Robotics
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 109: A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 109: A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060109 Authors: Lakshmi P. Rajendran Christopher T. Boyko Claire J. Coulton James D. Hale Rachel F. D. Cooper This article examines density and deprivation, the two important parameters that define health and well-being in cities. Discussions are drawn from a case study conducted in Birmingham in four neighborhoods...
Social Sciences
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 108: ‘The Feel of the Stones, Sounds of Cars, the Different Smells’: How Incorporating the Senses Can Help Support Equitable Health Promotion
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 108: ‘The Feel of the Stones, Sounds of Cars, the Different Smells’: How Incorporating the Senses Can Help Support Equitable Health Promotion Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060108 Authors: Barnfield There has been limited consideration to the role of the senses in health promotion regardless of the prominence placed on corporeality in intervention and prevention strategies. Touch as a form of sense-making challenges the representational approaches...
Social Sciences
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 46: The Obama Effect on Perceived Mobility
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 46: The Obama Effect on Perceived Mobility Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10020046 Authors: Christel Kesler Amber Churchwell Using American General Social Survey data from 1994 to 2018, this paper examines how Americans of different racial backgrounds perceive their past intergenerational mobility and their, and their children’s, prospects for future mobility, before, during, and after Barack Obama’s presidency. We find that White Americans...
Societies
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 416: Mobilizing Toxins for Cancer Treatment: Historical Perspectives and Current Strategies
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 416: Mobilizing Toxins for Cancer Treatment: Historical Perspectives and Current Strategies Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060416 Authors: Jessica Kopenhaver Robert D. Carlson Adam E. Snook The level of complexity in a disease like cancer presents a number of challenges for effective treatment development, which require significant innovation to overcome [...]
Toxins
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 417: Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 417: Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060417 Authors: Muzi Zhu Youfei Cen Wei Ye Saini Li Weimin Zhang Macrocyclic trichothecenes are an important group of trichothecenes bearing a large ring. Despite the fact that many of trichothecenes are of concern in agriculture, food contamination, health care and building protection, the macrocyclic ones are becoming the research...
Toxins
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 335: SARS-CoV-2: An Update on Potential Antivirals in Light of SARS-CoV Antiviral Drug Discoveries
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 335: SARS-CoV-2: An Update on Potential Antivirals in Light of SARS-CoV Antiviral Drug Discoveries Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020335 Authors: Hatem A. Elshabrawy Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of RNA viruses that are associated with different diseases in animals, birds, and humans. Human CoVs (HCoVs) have long been known to be the causative agents of mild respiratory illnesses. However, two HCoVs associated with severe respiratory diseases are Severe Acute...
Vaccines
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 334: Characterization of Physicians That Might Be Reluctant to Propose HIV Cure-Related Clinical Trials with Treatment Interruption to Their Patients? The ANRS-APSEC Study
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 334: Characterization of Physicians That Might Be Reluctant to Propose HIV Cure-Related Clinical Trials with Treatment Interruption to Their Patients? The ANRS-APSEC Study Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020334 Authors: Christel Protiere Lisa Fressard Marion Mora Laurence Meyer Marie Préau Marie Suzan-Monti Jean-Daniel Lelièvre Olivier Lambotte Bruno Spire the APSEC Study Group HIV cure-related clinical trials (HCRCT) with analytical...
Vaccines
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 678: Genetic Diversity of Potassium Ion Channel Proteins Encoded by Chloroviruses That Infect Chlorella heliozoae
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 678: Genetic Diversity of Potassium Ion Channel Proteins Encoded by Chloroviruses That Infect Chlorella heliozoae Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060678 Authors: Carter R. Murry Irina V. Agarkova Jayadri S. Ghosh Fiona C. Fitzgerald Roger M. Carlson Brigitte Hertel Kerri Kukovetz Oliver Rauh Gerhard Thiel James L. Van Etten Chloroviruses are large, plaque-forming, dsDNA viruses that infect chlorella-like green algae that live in a symbiotic...
Viruses
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 676: The C962R ORF of African Swine Fever Strain Georgia Is Non-Essential and Not Required for Virulence in Swine
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 676: The C962R ORF of African Swine Fever Strain Georgia Is Non-Essential and Not Required for Virulence in Swine Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060676 Authors: Elizabeth. Ramirez-Medina Elizabeth. A. Vuono Ayushi. Rai Sarah. Pruitt Ediane. Silva Lauro. Velazquez-Salinas James. Zhu Manuel. V. Borca Douglas. P. Gladue African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the causative agent of the African swine fever (ASF) epizootic currently affecting pigs throughout...
Viruses
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 677: Abrogation of Constitutive and Induced Type I and Type III Interferons and Interferon-Stimulated Genes in Keratinocytes by Canine Papillomavirus 2 E6 and E7
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 677: Abrogation of Constitutive and Induced Type I and Type III Interferons and Interferon-Stimulated Genes in Keratinocytes by Canine Papillomavirus 2 E6 and E7 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060677 Authors: Sarah Quinlan Susan May Ryan Weeks Hang Yuan Jennifer A. Luff Cutaneous papillomaviruses can cause severe, persistent infections and skin cancer in immunodeficient patients, including people with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID). A similar...
Viruses
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1797: Isotopic ‘Altitude’ and ‘Continental’ Effects in Modern Precipitation across the Adriatic–Pannonian Region
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1797: Isotopic ‘Altitude’ and ‘Continental’ Effects in Modern Precipitation across the Adriatic–Pannonian Region Water doi: 10.3390/w12061797 Authors: Zoltán Kern István Gábor Hatvani György Czuppon István Fórizs Dániel Erdélyi Tjaša Kanduč László Palcsu Polona Vreča It is generally observed that precipitation is gradually depleted in 18O and 2H isotopes as elevation increases (‘altitude’ effect) or when moving inland from...
Water
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1795: Studying Hydraulic Interconnections in Low-Permeability Media by Using Bacterial Communities as Natural Tracers
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1795: Studying Hydraulic Interconnections in Low-Permeability Media by Using Bacterial Communities as Natural Tracers Water doi: 10.3390/w12061795 Authors: Pietro Rizzo Emma Petrella Antonio Bucci Emma Salvioli-Mariani Alessandro Chelli Anna Maria Sanangelantoni Melinda Raimondo Andrea Quagliarini Fulvio Celico Knowledge about the processes governing subsurface microbial dynamics in and to groundwater represents an important tool for the...
Water
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1796: Physical Factors Impacting the Survival and Occurrence of Escherichia coli in Secondary Habitats
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1796: Physical Factors Impacting the Survival and Occurrence of Escherichia coli in Secondary Habitats Water doi: 10.3390/w12061796 Authors: Fritz Petersen Jason A. Hubbart Escherichia (E.) coli is a fecal microbe that inhabits the intestines of endotherms (primary habitat) and the natural environment (secondary habitats). Due to prevailing thinking regarding the limited capacity of E. coli to survive in the environment, relatively few published investigations...
Water
Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1794: Analyzing Particle-Associated Pollutant Transport to Identify In-Stream Sediment Processes During a High Flow Event
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1794: Analyzing Particle-Associated Pollutant Transport to Identify In-Stream Sediment Processes During a High Flow Event Water doi: 10.3390/w12061794 Authors: Clarissa Glaser Christiane Zarfl Hermann Rügner Amelia Lewis Marc Schwientek Urban areas are a leading source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that result from combustion processes and are emitted into rivers, especially during rain events and with particle wash-off from urban surfaces....
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1792: Groundwater–Surface Water Interaction—Analytical Approach
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1792: Groundwater–Surface Water Interaction—Analytical Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w12061792 Authors: Marek Nawalany Grzegorz Sinicyn Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska Dorota Mirosław-Świątek Modelling of water flow in the hyporheic zone and calculations of water exchange between groundwater and surface waters are important issues in modern environmental research. The article presents the Analytical Hyporheic Flux approach (AHF) permitting calculation of the amount...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1790: Numerical Analysis of Drag Force Acting on 2D Cylinder Immersed in Accelerated Flow
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1790: Numerical Analysis of Drag Force Acting on 2D Cylinder Immersed in Accelerated Flow Water doi: 10.3390/w12061790 Authors: Hyun A. Son Sungsu Lee Jooyong Lee In this study, the drag exerted by an accelerating fluid on a stationary 2D circular cylinder is numerically investigated using Fluent 19.2 based on the finite-volume method. The SST k–ω model is chosen as the turbulence model because of its superiority in treating the viscous...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1793: Uncertainty Quantification in Water Resource Systems Modeling: Case Studies from India
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1793: Uncertainty Quantification in Water Resource Systems Modeling: Case Studies from India Water doi: 10.3390/w12061793 Authors: Shaik Rehana Chandra Rupa Rajulapati Subimal Ghosh Subhankar Karmakar Pradeep Mujumdar Regional water resource modelling is important for evaluating system performance by analyzing the reliability, resilience and vulnerability criteria of the system. In water resource systems modelling, several uncertainties abound, including...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1789: Towards Integrated Flood Risk and Resilience Management
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1789: Towards Integrated Flood Risk and Resilience Management Water doi: 10.3390/w12061789 Authors: Guangtao Fu Fanlin Meng Mónica Rivas Casado Roy S. Kalawsky Flood resilience is an emerging concept for tackling extreme weathers and minimizing the associated adverse impacts. There is a significant knowledge gap in the study of resilience concepts, assessment frameworks and measures, and management strategies. This editorial introduces the latest advances...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1791: Numerical 3D Model Development and Validation of Curb-Cut Inlet for Efficiency Prediction
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1791: Numerical 3D Model Development and Validation of Curb-Cut Inlet for Efficiency Prediction Water doi: 10.3390/w12061791 Authors: Leena Jaydeep Shevade L. James Lo Franco A. Montalto Green infrastructure (GI) is a decentralized stormwater management strategy that can simultaneously enhance the resilience of the urban landscape to weather-related stressors. The effectiveness of individual GI facilities is determined by the physical characteristics of the...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1787: Can Lumped Characteristics of a Contributing Area Provide Risk Definition of Sediment Flux?
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1787: Can Lumped Characteristics of a Contributing Area Provide Risk Definition of Sediment Flux? Water doi: 10.3390/w12061787 Authors: Barbora Jáchymová Josef Krása Tomáš Dostál Miroslav Bauer Accelerated soil erosion by water has many offsite impacts on the municipal infrastructure. This paper discusses how to easily detect potential risk points around municipalities by simple spatial analysis using GIS. In the Czech Republic, the WaTEM/SEDEM model is...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1786: Discharge Estimation Using Tsallis and Shannon Entropy Theory in Natural Channels
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1786: Discharge Estimation Using Tsallis and Shannon Entropy Theory in Natural Channels Water doi: 10.3390/w12061786 Authors: Vyas Perumal Moramarco Streamflow measurements during high floods is a challenge for which the World Meteorological Organization fosters the development of innovative technologies for achieving an accurate estimation of the discharge. The use of non-contact sensors for monitoring surface flow velocities is of interest to turn these...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1785: Riparian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera) on the Banks of Running and Standing Waters
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1785: Riparian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera) on the Banks of Running and Standing Waters Water doi: 10.3390/w12061785 Authors: Marina Kirichenko-Babko Yaroslav Danko Małgorzata Franus Witold Stępniewski Roman Babko Rivers and their floodplains offer a wide variety of habitats for invertebrates. River ecosystems are subject to high anthropic influence: as a result the channel morphology is changed, swamps are drained, floodplains are built up, and rivers...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1788: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Hydraulics in Water Intake with Stop-Log Gate
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1788: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Hydraulics in Water Intake with Stop-Log Gate Water doi: 10.3390/w12061788 Authors: Ren Wei Xie Miao Wang A stop-log gate, installed in water intake of hydropower project, has become an effective facility in achieving selective withdrawal and temperature control for the sake of benefiting downstream ecosystems. Hence, it is of great importance to comprehensively explore the water intake hydraulics...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1783: Soil Hydraulic Properties of Plinthosol in the Middle Yangtze River Basin, Southern China
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1783: Soil Hydraulic Properties of Plinthosol in the Middle Yangtze River Basin, Southern China Water doi: 10.3390/w12061783 Authors: Yongwu Wang Tieniu Wu Jianwu Huang Pei Tian Hailin Zhang Tiantian Yang Soil hydraulic properties are ecologically important in arranging vegetation types at various spatial and temporal scales. However, there is still a lack of detailed understanding of the basic parameters of plinthosol in the Middle Yangtze River...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1784: Development of a Regeneration Technique for Aluminum-Rich and Iron-Rich Phosphorus Sorption Materials
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1784: Development of a Regeneration Technique for Aluminum-Rich and Iron-Rich Phosphorus Sorption Materials Water doi: 10.3390/w12061784 Authors: Isis S. P. C. Scott Chad J. Penn Chi-hua Huang The reduction of dissolved phosphorus (P) transport to water systems is of critical importance for water quality. Phosphorus sorption materials (PSMs) are media with high affinity for dissolved P, and therefore serve as the core components of P removal structures. These...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1782: Spatial Differentiation of the Maximum River Runoff Synchronicity in the Warta River Catchment, Poland
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1782: Spatial Differentiation of the Maximum River Runoff Synchronicity in the Warta River Catchment, Poland Water doi: 10.3390/w12061782 Authors: Adam Perz Leszek Sobkowiak Dariusz Wrzesiński Based on daily flows recorded in the period 1971–2010, the synchronous occurrence of the annual (AMAXq), winter (WMAXq), and summer (SMAXq) maximum specific runoffs in 39 sub-catchments of the Warta River catchment (WRC) in Poland was analyzed. First, trends...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1780: Numerical Solution of the Two-Dimensional Richards Equation Using Alternate Splitting Methods for Dimensional Decomposition
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1780: Numerical Solution of the Two-Dimensional Richards Equation Using Alternate Splitting Methods for Dimensional Decomposition Water doi: 10.3390/w12061780 Authors: Dariusz Gąsiorowski Tomasz Kolerski Research on seepage flow in the vadose zone has largely been driven by engineering and environmental problems affecting many fields of geotechnics, hydrology, and agricultural science. Mathematical modeling of the subsurface flow under unsaturated conditions...
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1781: A Dynamic Comparison Sustainability Study of Standard Wastewater Treatment System in the Straw Pulp Papermaking Process and Printing & Dyeing Papermaking Process Based on the Hybrid Neural Network and Emergy Framework
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1781: A Dynamic Comparison Sustainability Study of Standard Wastewater Treatment System in the Straw Pulp Papermaking Process and Printing & Dyeing Papermaking Process Based on the Hybrid Neural Network and Emergy Framework Water doi: 10.3390/w12061781 Authors: Junxue Zhang Lin Ma Yanyan Yan Sustainability study of the standard wastewater treatment system is the pivotal procedure in the water protection field. In order to better study the sustainability...
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