Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 84: Indigenous Labor and Land Resources: Guarani–Kaiowa’s Politico–Economic and Ethnic Challenges Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9070084 Authors: Antonio A. R. Ioris The article deals with the meaning and the management of land-based resources by indigenous peoples, which are analyzed through an assessment of the lived spaces of the Guarani–Kaiowa indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The discussion follows an analytical framework...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 74: Estimating the Volatility of Non-Life Premium Risk Under Solvency II: Discussion of Danish Fire Insurance Data Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8030074 Authors: Rocco Roberto Cerchiara Francesco Acri We studied the volatility assumption of non-life premium risk under the Solvency II Standard Formula and developed an empirical model on real data, the Danish fire insurance data. Our empirical model accomplishes two things. Primarily, compared to the present literature,...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 52: Visual Reconstruction of Ancient Coins Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030052 Authors: Marios Zachariou Neofytos Dimitriou Ognjen Arandjelović In this paper, our goal is to perform a virtual restoration of an ancient coin from its image. The present work is the first one to propose this problem, and it is motivated by two key promising applications. The first of these emerges from the recently recognised dependence...
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Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 604-641: The Nexus between Market Needs and Value Attributes of Smart City Solutions towards Energy Transition. An Empirical Evidence of Two European Union (EU) Smart Cities, Evora and Alkmaar Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3030032 Authors: Paraskevi Giourka Vasilis Apostolopoulos Komninos Angelakoglou Konstantinos Kourtzanidis Nikos Nikolopoulos Vasileios Sougkakis Federica Fuligni Stefano Barberis Karin Verbeek José Miguel Costa...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 115: The Lived Experience of Gender and Gender Equity Policies at a Regional Australian University Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070115 Authors: Jennifer Manyweathers Jessie Lymn Geraldine Rurenga Katie Murrell-Orgill Shara Cameron Cate Thomas The research question driving this project was ‘what is the congruence between the lived experience of gender and a policy designed to improve gender equity in a university environment?’...
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Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 185-202: Non-Negativity of a Quadratic form with Applications to Panel Data Estimation, Forecasting and Optimization Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3030015 Authors: Bhimasankaram Pochiraju Sridhar Seshadri Dimitrios D. Thomakos Konstantinos Nikolopoulos For a symmetric matrix B, we determine the class of Q such that Q t BQ is non-negative definite and apply it to panel data estimation and forecasting: the Hausman test for testing the endogeneity of the...
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Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 40: The Requirements for New Tools for Use by Pilots and the Aviation Industry to Manage Risks Pertaining to Work-Related Stress (WRS) and Wellbeing, and the Ensuing Impact on Performance and Safety Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8030040 Authors: Joan Cahill Paul Cullen Sohaib Anwer Keith Gaynor Simon Wilson Work is part of our wellbeing and a key driver of a person’s health. Pilots need to be fit for duty and aware of risks that...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 441: Spread of Jacobaea vulgaris and Occurrence of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Regionally Produced Honeys from Northern Germany: Inter- and Intra-Site Variations and Risk Assessment for Special Consumer Groups Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070441 Authors: Christoph Gottschalk Florian Kaltner Matthias Zimmermann Rainer Korten Oliver Morris Karin Schwaiger Manfred Gareis Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) and PA N-oxides (PANO) are secondary plant metabolites...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 440: Over 25 Years of Pediatric Botulinum Toxin Treatments: What Have We Learned from Injection Techniques, Doses, Dilutions, and Recovery of Repeated Injections? Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070440 Authors: Sätilä Botulinum toxin type A (BTXA) has been used for over 25 years in the management of pediatric lower and upper limb hypertonia, with the first reports in 1993. The most common indication is the injection of the triceps surae muscle for the correction of...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 362: Japan’s Ongoing Crisis on HPV Vaccination Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030362 Authors: Sekine Kudo Yamaguchi Hanley Hara Adachi Ueda Miyagi Ikeda Yagi Enomoto : The Japanese government suspended proactive recommendations for the HPV vaccine in June 2013. The suspension is now in its seventh year, despite all the data pointing to the safety of the HPV vaccine. We reported a high vaccine effectiveness in the group...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 363: Evaluation of Chimpanzee Adenovirus and MVA Expressing TRAP and CSP from Plasmodium cynomolgi to Prevent Malaria Relapse in Nonhuman Primates Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030363 Authors: Kim Dema Rodriguez-Garcia López-Camacho Leoratti Lall Remarque Kocken Reyes-Sandoval Plasmodium vivax is the world’s most widely distributed human malaria parasite, with over 2.8 billion people at risk in Asia, the Americas, and...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 361: Prospects and Challenges in the Development of Universal Influenza Vaccines Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030361 Authors: Anders Madsen Rebecca Jane Cox Current influenza vaccines offer suboptimal protection and depend on annual reformulation and yearly administration. Vaccine technology has rapidly advanced during the last decade, facilitating development of next-generation influenza vaccines that can target a broader range of influenza viruses. The...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 360: Tetravalent Immunogen Assembled from Conserved Regions of HIV-1 and Delivered as mRNA Demonstrates Potent Preclinical T-Cell Immunogenicity and Breadth Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030360 Authors: Nathifa Moyo Edmund G. Wee Bette Korber Kapil Bahl Samantha Falcone Sunny Himansu Adrianne L. Wong Antu K. Dey Mark Feinberg Tomáš Hanke A vaccine will likely be one of the key tools for ending the HIV-1/AIDS epidemic by preventing HIV-1...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 87: Cellular Response of Neutrophils to Bismuth Subnitrate and Micronized Keratin Products In Vitro Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030087 Authors: Shirli Notcovich Norman B. Williamson Jimena Yapura Ynte Schukken Cord Heuer The aim of this study was to assess the effect of bismuth subnitrate and micronized keratin on bovine neutrophils in vitro. We hypothesized that recruitment and activation of neutrophils into the teat canal and...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 86: Silicone Wristbands as Passive Samplers in Honey Bee Hives Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030086 Authors: Bullock Schafsnitz Wang Broadrup Macherone Mayack White The recent decline of European honey bees (Apis mellifera) has prompted a surge in research into their chemical environment, including chemicals produced by bees, as well as chemicals produced by plants and derived from human activity that bees also interact...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 85: Prevalence of Disease and Age-Related Behavioural Changes in Cats: Past and Present Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030085 Authors: Lorena Sordo Craig Breheny Vicky Halls Amy Cotter Camilla Tørnqvist-Johnsen Sarah M. A. Caney Danièlle A. Gunn-Moore (1) Background: age-related changes in behaviour and health may be thought of as “normal” ageing; however, they can reflect under-diagnosed, potentially treatable,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 732: Phylogenetic and Timescale Analysis of Barmah Forest Virus as Inferred from Genome Sequence Analysis Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070732 Authors: Alice Michie Timo Ernst I-Ly Joanna Chua Michael D. A. Lindsay Peter J. Neville Jay Nicholson Andrew Jardine John S. Mackenzie David W. Smith Allison Imrie Barmah Forest virus (BFV) is a medically important mosquito-borne alphavirus endemic to Australia. Symptomatic disease can be a major cause...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 731: In Silico Prediction of Human Leukocytes Antigen (HLA) Class II Binding Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Peptides in Botswana Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070731 Authors: Choga Anderson Zumbika Phinius Mbangiwa Bhebhe Baruti Kimathi Seatla Musonda Bell Moyo Blackard Gaseitsiwe : Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the primary cause of liver-related malignancies worldwide, and there is no effective cure for chronic HBV infection...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 728: Histone Deacetylase 6 Knockout Mice Exhibit Higher Susceptibility to Influenza A Virus Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070728 Authors: Mark Zanin Jennifer DeBeauchamp Gowthami Vangala Richard J. Webby Matloob Husain The host innate defence against influenza virus infection is an intricate system with a plethora of antiviral factors involved. We have identified host histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) as an anti-influenza virus factor in cultured cells....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 729: Targeting HIV-1 RNase H: N’-(2-Hydroxy-benzylidene)-3,4,5-Trihydroxybenzoylhydrazone as Selective Inhibitor Active against NNRTIs-Resistant Variants Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070729 Authors: Angela Corona Ester Ballana Simona Distinto Dominga Rogolino Claudia Del Vecchio Mauro Carcelli Roger Badia Eva Riveira-Muñoz Francesca Esposito Cristina Parolin José A. Esté Nicole Grandi Enzo Tramontano HIV-1 infection requires life-long...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 727: Multifaceted Functions of CH25H and 25HC to Modulate the Lipid Metabolism, Immune Responses, and Broadly Antiviral Activities Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070727 Authors: Jin Zhao Jiaoshan Chen Minchao Li Musha Chen Caijun Sun With the frequent outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases in recent years, an effective broad-spectrum antiviral drug is becoming an urgent need for global public health. Cholesterol-25-hydroxylase (CH25H) and its enzymatic...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 730: Beyond Cholera: Characterization of zot-Encoding Filamentous Phages in the Marine Fish Pathogen Vibrio anguillarum Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070730 Authors: Jesper Juel Mauritzen Daniel Castillo Demeng Tan Sine Lo Svenningsen Mathias Middelboe Zonula occludens toxin (Zot) is a conserved protein in filamentous vibriophages and has been reported as a putative toxin in Vibrio cholerae. Recently, widespread distribution of zot-encoding prophages was...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 726: Human Endogenous Retrovirus K in Cancer: A Potential Biomarker and Immunotherapeutic Target Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070726 Authors: Gislaine Curty Jez L. Marston Miguel de Mulder Rougvie Fabio E. Leal Douglas F. Nixon Marcelo A. Soares In diseases where epigenetic mechanisms are changed, such as cancer, many genes show altered gene expression and inhibited genes become activated. Human endogenous retrovirus type K (HERV-K) expression is usually...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 33: Three-Dimensional Motion Perception: Comparing Speed and Speed Change Discrimination for Looming Stimuli Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4030033 Authors: Lee Ales Harris Judging the speed of objects moving in three dimensions is important in our everyday lives because we interact with objects in a three-dimensional world. However, speed perception has been seldom studied for motion in depth, particularly when using monocular cues such as looming. Here, we...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1928: Automatic Extraction of Open Water Using Imagery of Landsat Series Water doi: 10.3390/w12071928 Authors: Dandan Xu Dong Zhang Dan Shi Zhaoqing Luan Open surface freshwater is an important resource for terrestrial ecosystems. However, climate change, seasonal precipitation cycling, and anthropogenic activities add high variability to its availability. Thus, timely and accurate mapping of open surface water is necessary. In this study, a methodology...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1927: Drought Index as Indicator of Salinization of the Salento Aquifer (Southern Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w12071927 Authors: Maria Rosaria Alfio Gabriella Balacco Alessandro Parisi Vincenzo Totaro Maria Dolores Fidelibus Salento peninsula (Southern Italy) hosts a coastal carbonate and karst aquifer. The semi-arid climate is favourable to human settlement and the development of tourism and agricultural activities, which involve high water demand and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1926: Hydrogeochemical Characters of Karst Aquifers in Central Italy and Relationship with Neotectonics Water doi: 10.3390/w12071926 Authors: Paolo Madonia Marianna Cangemi Ygor Oliveri Carlo Germani Groundwater from karst circulation systems of Central Italy were sampled and analyzed, in 2018, for delineating a preliminary, general geochemical framework of their relationship with neotectonics, in an area characterized by a frequent and often destructive...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1929: A Prediction Model Based on Deep Belief Network and Least Squares SVR Applied to Cross-Section Water Quality Water doi: 10.3390/w12071929 Authors: Jianzhuo Yan Ya Gao Yongchuan Yu Hongxia Xu Zongbao Xu Recently, the quality of fresh water resources is threatened by numerous pollutants. Prediction of water quality is an important tool for controlling and reducing water pollution. By employing superior big data processing ability of deep learning...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1925: Comparative Analysis of Drought Indicated by the SPI and SPEI at Various Timescales in Inner Mongolia, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12071925 Authors: Zhifang Pei Shibo Fang Lei Wang Wunian Yang The global climate is noticeably warming, and drought occurs frequently. Therefore, choosing a suitable index for drought monitoring is particularly important. The standardized precipitation index (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1924: Estimation of Surface Water Runoff for a Semi-Arid Area Using RS and GIS-Based SCS-CN Method Water doi: 10.3390/w12071924 Authors: Hussein Al-Ghobari Ahmed Dewidar Abed Alataway The proper planning of storage structures, waterways, irrigation schemes, water harvesting, erosion control structures, and groundwater development strategies requires accurate estimation of surface runoff. However, hydrologists in Saudi Arabia face serious challenges, specifically...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1923: Water Use Strategies of Dominant Species (Caragana korshinskii and Reaumuria soongorica) in Natural Shrubs Based on Stable Isotopes in the Loess Hill, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12071923 Authors: Yu Zhang Mingjun Zhang Deye Qu Wenguang Duan Jiaxin Wang Pengyan Su Rong Guo Water is a key and limiting factor for ecosystem processes (carbon dioxide fixation, vegetation growth, respiration, etc.) and functions (NPP, Net Primary Productivity) in...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1922: Impacts of Regional Groundwater Flow and River Fluctuation on Floodplain Wetlands in the Middle Reach of the Yellow River Water doi: 10.3390/w12071922 Authors: Yunmei Fu Yanhui Dong Yueqing Xie Zhifang Xu Liheng Wang Floodplain wetlands are of great importance in the entire river and floodplain ecosystems. Understanding the hydrological processes of floodplain wetlands is fundamental to study the changes in wetlands caused by climate change and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1921: Examining Water Area Changes Accompanying Dam Construction in the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon Water doi: 10.3390/w12071921 Authors: Dengqiu Li Dengsheng Lu Emilio Moran Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva Two recently constructed run-of-the-river dams (Santo Antônio and Jirau), along the Madeira River in Brazil, have been controversial due to their large unquantified impacts on (1) land use and land cover (LULC) and (2) on the area that...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1920: Structure and Physicochemical Properties of Water Treated under Carbon Dioxide with Low-Temperature Low-Pressure Glow Plasma of Low Frequency Water doi: 10.3390/w12071920 Authors: Aleksandra Ciesielska Wojciech Ciesielski Karen Khachatryan Henryk Koloczek Damian Kulawik Zdzisław Oszczeda Jacek Soroka Piotr Tomasik Treatment of water saturated with CO2 with low-temperature, low-pressure glow plasma of low-frequency (GP) produced a series...
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