Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2045: Estimation of the Burden of Iron Deficiency Anemia in France from Iron Intake: Methodological Approach Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092045 Authors: Mota Tounian Guillou Pierre Membré : Dietary iron deficiency (ID) is the first nutritional deficiency in the world, in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALY). This nutritional deficiency may lead to anemia, especially among children, adolescents, and adult women. The aim of this study...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2043: GLIM Criteria Using Hand Grip Strength Adequately Predict Six-Month Mortality in Cancer Inpatients Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092043 Authors: Contreras-Bolívar Sánchez-Torralvo Ruiz-Vico González-Almendros Barrios Padín Alba Olveira Protein-calorie malnutrition is very frequent in cancer patients and is associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality. Recently, the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2044: Impact of the Apolipoprotein E (epsilon) Genotype on Cardiometabolic Risk Markers and Responsiveness to Acute and Chronic Dietary Fat Manipulation Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092044 Authors: Kumari M. Rathnayake Michelle Weech Kim G. Jackson Julie A. Lovegrove Apolipoprotein (APO) E (ε) genotype is considered to play an important role in lipid responses to dietary fat manipulation but the impact on novel cardiometabolic risk markers...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2042: Association between Total Sugar Intake and Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Korean Men and Women Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092042 Authors: Eun Ha Seo Hyesook Kim Oran Kwon There is increasing evidence emerging that suggests high sugar intake may adversely increase the incidence of chronic diseases. However, there are only a few related studies in Korea. Based on the current Dietary Reference Intakes for Koreans, this study examined whether total...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2041: Complications Associated with Enteral Nutrition: CAFANE Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092041 Authors: Carmina Wanden-Berghe Maria-Carmen Patino-Alonso Purificación Galindo-Villardón Javier Sanz-Valero Objectives: To determine the association between home enteral nutrition (HEN) administration modality and its complications in patients. Methods: This is a prospective multicenter longitudinal study including 15 Spanish hospitals, from April 2015...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2040: Impact of Caffeine Intake on 800-m Running Performance and Sleep Quality in Trained Runners Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092040 Authors: Domingo Jesús Ramos-Campo Andrés Pérez Vicente Ávila-Gandía Silvia Pérez-Piñero Jacobo Ángel Rubio-Arias Background: Caffeine ingestion improves athletic performance, but impairs sleep quality. We aimed to analyze the effect of caffeine intake on 800-m running performance, sleep quality (SQ), and nocturnal cardiac...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2039: Virgin Olive Oil and Health: Summary of the III International Conference on Virgin Olive Oil and Health Consensus Report, JAEN (Spain) 2018 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092039 Authors: Gaforio Visioli Alarcón-de-la-Lastra Castañer Delgado-Rodríguez Fitó Hernández Huertas Martínez-González Menendez Osada Papadaki Parrón Pereira Rosillo Sánchez-Quesada Schwingshackl Toledo Tsatsakis ...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2037: Food Consumption Patterns and Body Composition in Children: Moderating Effects of Prop Taster Status Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092037 Authors: Lee Stoner Nicholas Castro Anna Kucharska-Newton Abbie E. Smith-Ryan Sally Lark Michelle A. Williams James Faulkner Paula Skidmore This cross-sectional study determined whether 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taster status moderates the relationship between food consumption patterns and body composition...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2038: Raw Garlic Consumption and Risk of Liver Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Eastern China Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092038 Authors: Xing Liu Aileen Baecker Ming Wu Jin-Yi Zhou Jie Yang Ren-Qiang Han Pei-Hua Wang Ai-Min Liu Xiaoping Gu Xiao-Feng Zhang Xu-Shan Wang Ming Su Xu Hu Zheng Sun Gang Li Zi-Yi Jin Su Yon Jung Lina Mu Na He Qing-Yi Lu Liming Li Jin-Kou Zhao Zuo-Feng Zhang...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2036: The Mediterranean Diet, a Rich Source of Angiopreventive Compounds in Cancer Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092036 Authors: Beatriz Martínez-Poveda José Antonio Torres-Vargas María del Carmen Ocaña Melissa García-Caballero Miguel Ángel Medina Ana R. Quesada Diet-based chemoprevention of cancer has emerged as an interesting approach to evade the disease or even target its early phases, reducing its incidence or slowing down tumor progression....
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2034: Variation and Interdependencies of Human Milk Macronutrients, Fatty Acids, Adiponectin, Insulin, and IGF-II in the European PreventCD Cohort Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092034 Authors: Grunewald Hellmuth Kirchberg Mearin Auricchio Castillejo Korponay-Szabo Polanco Roca Vriezinga Werkstetter Koletzko Demmelmair Human milk composition is variable. The identification of influencing factors and interdependencies...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2035: Improved Eating Behaviour and Nutrient Intake in Noncompliant Patients with Phenylketonuria after Reintroducing a Protein Substitute: Observations from a Multicentre Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092035 Authors: Green Rahman Firman Adam Jenkinson Nicol Adams Dawson Robertson Dunlop Cozens Hubbard Stratton Noncompliance is widespread in adults with PKU and is associated with adverse metabolic, nutritional...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2033: Rice Bran Reduces Weight Gain and Modulates Lipid Metabolism in Rats with High-Energy-Diet-Induced Obesity Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092033 Authors: Yang Huang Ng Lee Hsu Huang Wu Yeh Shirakawa Budijanto Tung Tung Obesity has become an epidemic worldwide. It is a complex metabolic disorder associated with many serious complications and high morbidity. Rice bran is a nutrient-dense by product of the rice milling...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2032: Conjugated Linoleic Acid Isomers Affect Profile of Lipid Compounds and Intensity of Their Oxidation in Heart of Rats with Chemically-Induced Mammary Tumors—Preliminary Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092032 Authors: Małgorzata Białek Agnieszka Białek Marian Czauderna Breast cancer and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have shared risk factors and mechanisms of pathogenicity, as proven by increased cardiac risk in breast cancer patients receiving anticancerogenic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2031: Short-Term Effects of the Serious Game “Fit, Food, Fun” on Nutritional Knowledge: A Pilot Study among Children and Adolescents Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092031 Authors: Sophie Laura Holzmann Hanna Schäfer Georg Groh David Alexander Plecher Gudrun Klinker Gunther Schauberger Hans Hauner Christina Holzapfel “Serious games” are a novel and entertaining approach for nutritional education. The aim of this pilot study...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 128: Phenolic Plant Extracts Versus Penicillin G: In Vitro Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Bovine Mastitis Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12030128 Authors: Fernanda Gomes Maria Elisa Rodrigues Natália Martins Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira Mariana Henriques Antibiotics are the elective drugs in bovine mastitis (BM) treatment, despite their low rates of efficiency and effectiveness and increasing risk of pathogen resistance. In...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 127: Therapeutic Advances Against ZIKV: A Quick Response, a Long Way to Go Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12030127 Authors: Juan-Carlos Saiz Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that spread throughout the American continent in 2015 causing considerable worldwide social and health alarm due to its association with ocular lesions and microcephaly in newborns, and Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) cases in adults. Nowadays, no...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 443: The Significance of NK1 Receptor Ligands and Their Application in Targeted Radionuclide Tumour Therapy Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090443 Authors: Agnieszka Majkowska-Pilip Paweł Krzysztof Halik Ewa Gniazdowska To date, our understanding of the Substance P (SP) and neurokinin 1 receptor (NK1R) system shows intricate relations between human physiology and disease occurrence or progression. Within the oncological field, overexpression...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 442: Molecular Interactions for the Curcumin-Polymer Complex with Enhanced Anti-Inflammatory Effects Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090442 Authors: Yan He Hongfei Liu Wangqing Bian Yue Liu Xinyang Liu Shijing Ma Xi Zheng Zhiyun Du Kun Zhang Defang Ouyang The molecular interactions between compound and polymeric carriers are expected to highly contribute to high drug load and good physical stability of solid dispersions....
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 444: Physicochemical Properties of A New PEGylated Polybenzofulvene Brush for Drug Encapsulation Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090444 Authors: Paolino Reale Razzano Giuliani Donati Giorgi Boccia Mendichi Piovani Botta Salvini Samperi Savoca Licciardi Paccagnini Gentile Cappelli A new polymer brush was synthesized by spontaneous polymerization of benzofulvene macromonomer 6-MOEG-9-T-BF3k...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 438: An Injectable Click-Crosslinked Hydrogel that Prolongs Dexamethasone Release from Dexamethasone-Loaded Microspheres Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090438 Authors: Ji Yeon Heo Jung Hyun Noh Seung Hun Park Yun Bae Ji Hyeon Jin Ju Da Yeon Kim Bong Lee Moon Suk Kim Our purpose was to test whether a preparation of injectable formulations of dexamethasone (Dex)-loaded microspheres (Dex-Ms) mixed with click-crosslinked hyaluronic...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 439: The Synergism of Platinum-Gold Bimetallic Nanoconjugates Enhances 5-Fluorouracil Delivery In Vitro Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090439 Authors: Vareessh Maney Moganavelli Singh Nanoparticle application has significantly impacted the field of medicine. The need to develop novel drugs with higher therapeutic potential has stimulated the development of innovative delivery strategies to mitigate the potent side effects associated with known...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 436: An Update of Moisture Barrier Coating for Drug Delivery Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090436 Authors: Qingliang Yang Feng Yuan Lei Xu Qinying Yan Yan Yang Danjun Wu Fangyuan Guo Gensheng Yang Drug hydrolytic degradation, caused by atmospheric and inherent humidity, significantly reduces the therapeutic effect of pharmaceutical solid dosages. Moisture barrier film coating is one of the most appropriate and effective approaches...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 440: Impact of GSTA1 Polymorphisms on Busulfan Oral Clearance in Adult Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090440 Authors: Veronique Michaud My Tran Benoit Pronovost Philippe Bouchard Sarah Bilodeau Karine Alain Barbara Vadnais Martin Franco François Bélanger Jacques Turgeon Background: Busulfan pharmacokinetics exhibit large inter-subject variability. Our objective...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 437: Arming Filamentous Bacteriophage, a Nature-Made Nanoparticle, for New Vaccine and Immunotherapeutic Strategies Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090437 Authors: Rossella Sartorius Luciana D’Apice Antonella Prisco Piergiuseppe De Berardinis The pharmaceutical use of bacteriophages as safe and inexpensive therapeutic tools is collecting renewed interest. The use of lytic phages to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains is pursued...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 435: Electrospray-Based Microencapsulation of Epigallocatechin 3-Gallate for Local Delivery into the Intervertebral Disc Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090435 Authors: Moira Loepfe Anja Duss Katerina-Alexandra Zafeiropoulou Oddny Björgvinsdóttir Matteo D’Este David Eglin Giuseppino Fortunato Juergen Klasen Stephen J. Ferguson Karin Wuertz-Kozak Olga Krupkova Locally delivered anti-inflammatory compounds can restore...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 441: Toll-Like Receptors and Relevant Emerging Therapeutics with Reference to Delivery Methods Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090441 Authors: Javaid Yasmeen Choi The built-in innate immunity in the human body combats various diseases and their causative agents. One of the components of this system is Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which recognize structurally conserved molecules derived from microbes and/or endogenous molecules. Nonetheless,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 434: Therapeutic Applications of Pretargeting Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090434 Authors: Verhoeven Seimbille Dalm Targeted therapies, such as radioimmunotherapy (RIT), present a promising treatment option for the eradication of tumor lesions. RIT has shown promising results especially for hematologic malignancies, but the therapeutic efficacy is limited by unfavorable tumor-to-background ratios resulting in high radiotoxicity. Pretargeting...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 128: Impact of a Pharmacy-Led Transition of Care Service on Post-Discharge Medication Adherence Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030128 Authors: Alaina Stroud Georges Adunlin Jessica W. Skelley This study assesses the effectiveness of a pharmacy-led transition of care (TOC) service on increasing patients’ understanding of, and reported adherence to, medication post hospital discharge. A cross-sectional survey was administered to patients who were...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 319: Genetic, Morphological, and Biochemical Diversity of Argan Tree (Argania spinosa L.) (Sapotaceae) in Tunisia Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090319 Authors: Louati Ucarli Arikan Ghada Hannachi Turgut-Kara Argan trees are normally endemic to Morocco and Algeria, but hundreds of argan trees exist in Tunisia, some introduced from Morocco and some from unknown origins. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the genetic, morphological, and...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 318: SpitWorm, a Herbivorous Robot: Mechanical Leaf Wounding with Simultaneous Application of Salivary Components Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090318 Authors: Guanjun Li Stefan Bartram Huijuan Guo Axel Mithöfer Maritta Kunert Wilhelm Boland Induction of jasmonate-mediated plant defense against insect herbivory is initiated by a combination of both mechanical wounding and chemical factors. In order to study both effects independently on plant defense...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 317: Tolerance of Eugenia dysenterica to Aluminum: Germination and Plant Growth Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090317 Authors: Arthur Almeida Rodrigues Sebastião Carvalho Vasconcelos Filho Caroline Müller Douglas Almeida Rodrigues Juliana de Fátima Sales Jacson Zuchi Alan Carlos Costa Cássia Lino Rodrigues Adinan Alves da Silva Danilo Pereira Barbosa Native Cerrado plants are exposed to soils with low pH and high availability of Al. In this...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 316: Influence of the Culture Substrate on the Agaricus blazei Murrill Mushrooms Vitamins Content Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090316 Authors: Rózsa Măniuțiu Poșta Gocan Andreica Bogdan Rózsa Laza The vitamin content of cultivated mushrooms differs from one species to another, depending on their stage of development, the nutrient substrate used to produce them, and the microclimate in the culture space. Agaricus blazei Murrill is one of...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 314: Effects of NaHCO3 Acclimation on Rye (Secale Cereale) Growth Under Sodic-Alkaline Stress Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090314 Authors: Liyun Liu Hirofumi Saneoka Sodic-alkalinity is a serious limiting factor in agricultural productivity. This study was conducted to examine the contribution of acclimation to the adaptation of rye (Secale cereale) to sodic-alkalinity. Effects of acclimation were determined in two sets of experiments: One experiment for mineral...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 315: The Interplay among Polyamines and Nitrogen in Plant Stress Responses Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090315 Authors: Konstantinos Paschalidis Georgios Tsaniklidis Bao-Quan Wang Costas Delis Emmanouil Trantas Konstantinos Loulakakis Muhammad Makky Panagiotis F. Sarris Filippos Ververidis Ji-Hong Liu The interplay between polyamines (PAs) and nitrogen (N) is emerging as a key factor in plant response to abiotic and biotic stresses. The...
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Plasma, Vol. 2, Pages 360-368: 1995–2005: A Decade of Innovation in Low Temperature Plasma and Its Applications Plasma doi: 10.3390/plasma2030028 Authors: Mounir Laroussi Scientific breakthroughs tend to come in spurts when unique societal, economical, and political circumstances conspire (knowingly or unknowingly) and create an environment ripe for creativity. The field of low temperature plasma (LTP) recently experienced such an upheaval, which this paper attempts to relate in some...
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Psych, Vol. 1, Pages 460-468: An Analysis of Acculturation Status and Healthcare Coverage for the Needs of Mental Health Service Utilization among Latinos in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama Psych doi: 10.3390/psych1010035 Authors: Azad R. Bhuiyan Gerri A. Cannon-Smith Sophia S. Leggett Pamela D. McCoy Maria Barvié Ashley White Jones Background: The use of mental health services by Latinos is only 7.3%, despite the high prevalence of depression rates of between 27.0%...
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Psych, Vol. 1, Pages 431-459: Ancestry and IQ: The Effects of Ancestry on Cognitive Ability in African-and European-Americans Psych doi: 10.3390/psych1010034 Authors: Jordan Lasker Bryan J. Pesta John G. R. Fuerst Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Using data from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort, we examined whether European ancestry predicted cognitive ability over and above both parental socioeconomic status (SES) and measures of eye, hair, and skin color. First, using multi-group...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 509: Christian Ethics and Ecologies of Violence Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090509 Authors: Kreider This essay introduces “ecologies of violence” as a problem for Christian ethics. Understanding the links between violence and the natural environment will be critical to the pursuit of justice, peace, and sustainability in the twenty-first century. Yet these links often evade political action and escape moral attention because they do not...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 508: Brazilian Validation of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-10BR and CRS-5BR) Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090508 Authors: Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio Hartmut August Juan José Camou Viacava Stefan Huber Márcio Luiz Fernandes The centrality of religiosity scale (CRS), available in three versions (with 5, 10 and 15 items), is a measuring instrument that identifies the central importance of religiosity in the psychological construction and in the...
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Risks, Vol. 7, Pages 95: Penalising Unexplainability in Neural Networks for Predicting Payments per Claim Incurred Risks doi: 10.3390/risks7030095 Authors: Jacky H. L. Poon In actuarial modelling of risk pricing and loss reserving in general insurance, also known as P&C or non-life insurance, there is business value in the predictive power and automation through machine learning. However, interpretability can be critical, especially in explaining to key stakeholders and regulators....
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Risks, Vol. 7, Pages 94: Optimal Stopping and Utility in a Simple Modelof Unemployment Insurance Risks doi: 10.3390/risks7030094 Authors: Jason S. Anquandah Leonid V. Bogachev Managing unemployment is one of the key issues in social policies. Unemployment insurance schemes are designed to cushion the financial and morale blow of loss of job but also to encourage the unemployed to seek new jobs more proactively due to the continuous reduction of benefit payments. In the present paper,...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 75: People Detection and Tracking Using LIDAR Sensors Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8030075 Authors: Claudia Álvarez-Aparicio Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Lera Jonatan Ginés Clavero Francisco Martín Rico Vicente Matellán The tracking of people is an indispensable capacity in almost any robotic application. A relevant case is the @home robotic competitions, where the service robots have to demonstrate that they possess...
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Safety, Vol. 5, Pages 62: Identifying Equipment Factors Associated with Snowplow Operator Fatigue Safety doi: 10.3390/safety5030062 Authors: Camden Hickman Soccolich Hanowski A recent body of research in fatigue management indicates that other factors, including in-cab and external equipment, contribute to operator fatigue. The goal of this project was to identify winter road maintenance equipment (in-cab and external) that may increase or mitigate snowplow operator fatigue....
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Safety, Vol. 5, Pages 61: Coopetition as an Emerging Trend in Research: Perspectives for Safety & Security Safety doi: 10.3390/safety5030061 Authors: Shvindina The study of coopetition has been evolving with rapid growth in the number of academic publications in this field. A number of literature reviews have been published focusing on nature, antecedents of coopetition and future perspectives of its implementation. Coopetition is proved to be beneficial for joint investments and...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 253: Gender Inequalities in Early Career Trajectories and Parental Leaves: Evidence from a Nordic Welfare State Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8090253 Authors: Kuitto Salonen Helmdag Parental leaves are, besides unemployment, the main reason for career breaks in early career. Despite the progress in recent decades towards more equal sharing of childcare between mothers and fathers, the labour market risk due to parenting remains mainly with...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 249: How do Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Teachers Experience UK Rural School Communities? Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8090249 Authors: Catherine Lee This article examines how lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers in rural schools negotiate their sexual identities within the workplace. Although there has been progress towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) inclusion for teachers in urban and suburban schools, this article shows that their...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 62: The Emotional Risks of Turning Stories into Data: An Exploration of the Experiences of Qualitative Researchers Working on Sensitive Topics Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9030062 Authors: Mallon Elliott A great deal of research has been undertaken into areas involving sensitive topics. In spite of longstanding acceptance that such research can be emotionally risky for participants, interest in the impact of this work on the researcher has only relatively recently...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 202: Stride and Step Length Obtained with Inertial Measurement Units during Maximal Sprint Acceleration Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7090202 Authors: Cornelis J. de Ruiter Jaap H. van Dieën During sprint acceleration, step length, step rate, ground contact, and airtime are key variables for coaches to guide the training process and technical development of their athletes. In the field, three of these variables are easily obtained with inertial measurement units...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 201: Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets in Male Endurance Athletes Demonstrate Different Micronutrient Contents and Changes in Corpuscular Haemoglobin over 12 Weeks Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7090201 Authors: Fionn T. McSwiney Lorna Doyle High-carbohydrate (HC) diets and low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets (LCKD) are consumed by athletes for body composition and performance benefits. Little research has examined nutrient density of self-selected HC or LCKDs and consequent...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 200: The Effects of an Eight over Cricket Bowling Spell upon Pace Bowling Biomechanics and Performance within Different Delivery Lengths Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7090200 Authors: Samuel J. Callaghan Robert G. Lockie Warren A. Andrews Walter Yu Robert F. Chipchase Sophia Nimphius Pace bowlers must often perform extended bowling spells with maximal ball release speed (BRS) while targeting different delivery lengths when playing a multi-day match. This...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 511: Nigritanine as a New Potential Antimicrobial Alkaloid for the Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus-Induced Infections Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090511 Authors: Casciaro Calcaterra Cappiello Mori Loffredo Ghirga Mangoni Botta Quaglio Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing a wide range of nosocomial infections including pulmonary, urinary, and skin infections. Notably, the emergence of bacterial strains resistant...
Sun Sep 01, 2019 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 507: A Review of Cardiovascular Toxicity of Microcystins Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090507 Authors: Linghui Cao Isaac Yaw Massey Hai Feng Fei Yang The mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in China is on the rise. The increasing burden of CVD in China has become a major public health problem. Cyanobacterial blooms have been recently considered a global environmental concern. Microcystins (MCs) are the secondary products of cyanobacteria metabolism...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 509: Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Does Not Influence Clostridium Perfringens α-Toxin-Induced Myonecrosis in Mice Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090509 Authors: Masaya Takehara Yuuta Sonobe Hiroto Bandou Keiko Kobayashi Masahiro Nagahama Clostridium perfringens type A causes gas gangrene characterized by myonecrosis and development of an effective therapy for treating affected patients is of clinical importance. It was recently reported that the...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 508: Validation of Predicted Virulence Factors in Listeria monocytogenes Identified Using Comparative Genomics Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090508 Authors: Hossam Abdelhamed Mark L. Lawrence Reshma Ramachandran Attila Karsi Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular facultative pathogen that causes listeriosis, a foodborne zoonotic infection. There are differences in the pathogenic potential of L. monocytogenes subtypes and strains. Comparison of the genome...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 510: Botulinum Neurotoxin A Intravesical Injections in Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Painful Syndrome: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090510 Authors: Antonella Giannantoni Marilena Gubbiotti Vittorio Bini Botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT/A) appears to be one of the best intravesical treatments for interstitial cystitis/bladder painful syndrome (IC/BPS). We aimed to point out what the evidence is regarding the effects of BoNT/A...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 506: Annona cherimola Seed Extract Activates Extrinsic and Intrinsic Apoptotic Pathways in Leukemic Cells Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090506 Authors: Tony Haykal Peter Nasr Mohammad H. Hodroj Robin I. Taleb Rita Sarkis Marvy Nadine El. Moujabber Sandra Rizk Annona cherimola Mill is a large green fruit with black seeds widely known to possess toxic properties due to the presence of Annonaceous acetogenins. The present study investigates the anti-cancer...
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