Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 521: Buddhist Integration of Forest and Farm in Northern Thailand Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090521 Authors: Susan M. Darlington Usually seen as incompatible, forests and farms are integrated by Buddhist environmental activists in Thailand. Monks engaged in environmental conservation see the conditions of farmers’ lives as related to how they treat the forests surrounding their farms. If farmers seek their livelihood through cash-cropping and contract...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 520: Catwalk Catholicism: On the Ongoing Significance of Federico Fellini’s Ecclesiastical Fashion Show Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090520 Authors: David Inglis Chris Thorpe In Fellini-Roma (1972), the film director Federico Fellini includes a sequence about an imaginary ecclesiastical fashion show, a display of ever more outlandish clerical clothing designs. Fellini brought together various elements that, in conventional cultural coding, do not seem to fit...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 259: Collective Perception of Anthropic and Extractive Interventions in the Colombian Llanos Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8090259 Authors: Luca Eufemia Hector Morales Michelle Bonatti Maximilian Graser Marcos Lana Stefan Sieber Increasingly, the developmental model of anthropic and extractive interventions is a global concern. Its impacts are challenging not only the precarious equilibrium of natural resources but also the one of local...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 207: Validity and Reliability of Kinematics Measured with PUSH Band vs. Linear Encoder in Bench Press and Push-Ups Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7090207 Authors: Roland van den Tillaar Nick Ball Background: The aim of this study was to compare the validity and reliability of a PUSH band device with a linear encoder to measure movement velocity with different loads during the push-up and bench press exercises. Methods: Twenty resistance-trained athletes performed...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 522: Modifying Phosphate Toxicity in Chronic Kidney Disease Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090522 Authors: Marc Vervloet Phosphate toxicity is a well-established phenomenon, especially in chronic kidney disease (CKD), where hyperphosphatemia is a frequent occurrence when CKD is advanced. Many therapeutic efforts are targeted at phosphate, and comprise dietary intervention, modifying dialysis schemes, treating uncontrolled hyperparathyroidism and importantly, phosphate...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 521: First Report of Microcystis Strains Producing MC-FR and -WR Toxins in Japan Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090521 Authors: Tsuyoshi Ikehara Kyoko Kuniyoshi Haruyo Yamaguchi Yuuhiko Tanabe Tomoharu Sano Masahiro Yoshimoto Naomasa Oshiro Shihoko Nakashima Mina Yasumoto-Hirose Microcystins (MCs) are a group of cyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxins produced by Microcystis and several other genera of cyanobacteria. Many structural variants have...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 109: Investigation of the Effect of PD-L1 Blockade on Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7030109 Authors: Mohamed H. M. Ali Salman M Toor Fazle Rakib Raghvendra Mall Ehsan Ullah Kamal Mroue Prasanna R. Kolatkar Khalid Al-Saad Eyad Elkord Interactions between programmed death-1 (PD-1) with its ligand PD-L1 on tumor cells can antagonize T cell responses. Inhibiting...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 108: A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7030108 Authors: Andre Coetzer Terence P. Scott Khadija Noor Lambert F. Gwenhure Louis H. Nel The elimination of canine rabies through the implementation of high coverage mass dog vaccination campaigns is a complex task, particularly in the resource-limited countries of the rabies endemic world. Here we demonstrated the feasibility...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 840: Exogenous Interleukin-33 Contributes to Protective Immunity via Cytotoxic T-Cell Priming against Mucosal Influenza Viral Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090840 Authors: Chae Won Kim Hye Jee Yoo Jang Hyun Park Ji Eun Oh Heung Kyu Lee Influenza is an infectious respiratory illness caused by the influenza virus. Though vaccines against influenza exist, they have limited efficacy. To additionally develop effective treatments, there is a need to...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 839: Special Issue: Applications of CRISPR Technology in Virology 2018 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090839 Authors: Dong-Yan Jin Precision genome engineering by CRISPR is a game-changing technology that originates from the study of virus–host interaction and promises to revolutionize virology and antiviral therapy [...]
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 837: The Proteolytic Regulation of Virus Cell Entry by Furin and Other Proprotein Convertases Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090837 Authors: Gonzalo Izaguirre A wide variety of viruses exploit furin and other proprotein convertases (PCs) of the constitutive protein secretion pathway in order to regulate their cell entry mechanism and infectivity. Surface proteins of enveloped, as well as non-enveloped, viruses become processed by these proteases intracellularly during...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 836: Insights into Thymus Development and Viral Thymic Infections Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090836 Authors: Francesco Albano Eleonora Vecchio Maurizio Renna Enrico Iaccino Selena Mimmi Carmen Caiazza Alessandro Arcucci Angelica Avagliano Valentina Pagliara Giuseppe Donato Camillo Palmieri Massimo Mallardo Ileana Quinto Giuseppe Fiume T-cell development in the thymus is a complex and highly regulated process, involving a wide...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 838: Serum LPS Associated with Hantavirus and Dengue Disease Severity in Barbados Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090838 Authors: Kirk Osmond Douglas Thelma Alafia Samuels Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire Hantavirus and dengue virus (DENV) infections are caused by RNA viruses which infect immune systems’ cells including monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells and occur year-round in Barbados. A retrospective serological study (2008–2015) was conducted...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1878: Leaf Wetness Duration Models Using Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms: Application to Farms in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w11091878 Authors: Junsang Park Ju-Young Shin Kyu Rang Kim Jong-Chul Ha Leaf wetness duration (LWD) models have been proposed as an alternative to in situ LWD measurement, as they can predict leaf wetness using physical mechanism and empirical relationship with meteorological conditions. Applications of...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1876: Optimization of the Multi-Start Strategy of a Direct-Search Algorithm for the Calibration of Rainfall–Runoff Models for Water-Resource Assessment Water doi: 10.3390/w11091876 Authors: García-Romero Paredes-Arquiola Solera Belda Andreu Sánchez-Quispe Calibration of conceptual rainfall–runoff models (CRRM) for water-resource assessment (WRA) is a complicated task that contributes to the reliability of results obtained from catchments....
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1877: High Resolution Monitoring of Seawater Intrusion in a Multi-Aquifer System-Implementation of a New Downhole Geophysical Tool Water doi: 10.3390/w11091877 Authors: Tal Weinstein Baïsset Golan Yechieli Monitoring of seawater intrusion is extremely important for the management of coastal aquifers, and therefore requires reliable and high-frequency monitoring tools. This paper describes the use of a new near field and downhole geophysical tool...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1875: SPH Modeling of Water-Related Natural Hazards Water doi: 10.3390/w11091875 Authors: Manenti Wang Domínguez Li Amicarelli Albano This paper collects some recent smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) applications in the field of natural hazards connected to rapidly varied flows of both water and dense granular mixtures including sediment erosion and bed load transport. The paper gathers together and outlines the basic aspects of some relevant...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1874: Estimating Peak Daily Water Demand Under Different Climate Change and Vacation Scenarios Water doi: 10.3390/w11091874 Authors: Vonk Cirkel Blokker Extremes in drinking water demand are commonly quantified with a so called peaking factor, a probabilistic ratio expressing the daily water demand relative to its annual average corresponding with a once in ten year recurrence period. In this study, we present a modeling framework that allows one to quantify...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1873: Automatic Control of the Middle Route Project for South-to-North Water Transfer Based on Linear Model Predictive Control Algorithm Water doi: 10.3390/w11091873 Authors: Kong Quan Yang Song Zhu The application of automatic control to irrigation canals is an important means of improving the efficiency of water delivery. The Middle Route Project (MRP) for South-to-North Water Transfer, the largest water transfer project in China, is currently...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1872: Smooth Open Channel with Increasing Aspect Ratio: Influence on Secondary Flow Water doi: 10.3390/w11091872 Authors: Siyu Jing Wenjun Yang Yue Chen A high-resolution particle image velocitmetry system is used to investigate the relationship between secondary flow and aspect ratio in a straight channel. Considering the symmetry of open channel flow, the flow parameters in half of the flume are measured. Since the variation of the aspect ratio has a direct...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1871: Simulation of the Transient Characteristics of Water Pipeline Leakage with Different Bending Angles Water doi: 10.3390/w11091871 Authors: Qiaoling Zhang Feng Wu Zhendong Yang Guodong Li Juanli Zuo Rapid global development has resulted in the widespread use of water pipelines in industrial and agricultural production and life. During water transportation and deployment, water pipes with different angles need to be positioned according to different...
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