Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1512: Inhibitory Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized Using Lycopersicon Esculentum against Biofilm Formation in Candida Species Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111512 Authors: Jeong Su Choi Ji Woong Lee Un Chul Shin Min Woo Lee Dae Jin Kim Suhng Wook Kim This paper investigated the antifungal and antibiofilm activity of silver nanoparticles synthesized with Lycopersicon esculentum extracts against Candida species. Lycopersicon esculentum...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1511: NPs-TiO2 and Lincomycin Coexposure Induces DNA Damage in Cultured Human Amniotic Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111511 Authors: Filomena Mottola Concetta Iovine Marianna Santonastaso Maria Luisa Romeo Severina Pacifico Luigi Cobellis Lucia Rocco Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (NPs-TiO2 or TiO2-NPs) have been employed in many commercial products such as medicines, foods and cosmetics. TiO2-NPs are able to carry antibiotics to...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1509: Highly Robust and Selective System for Water Pollutants Removal: How to Transform a Traditional Photocatalyst into a Highly Robust and Selective System for Water Pollutants Removal Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111509 Authors: Olga Sacco Vincenzo Vaiano Christophe Daniel Wanda Navarra Vincenzo Venditto Highly porous monolithic aerogels based on ZnO photocatalyst and syndiotactic polystyrene (s-PS) were obtained by supercritical CO2 treatment...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1508: Improvement in Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater Using an External Magnetic Inductor Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111508 Authors: Fernanda Lyzeth Rivera Francisco Javier Palomares Pilar Herrasti Eva Mazario Magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3O4) of 12 ± 4 nm diameter are electrochemically synthesized for the adsorption and magnetic harvesting of Cr(VI) from contaminated simulated solutions. The removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous media...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1510: Study of Oxidation and Polarization-Dependent Optical Properties of Environmentally Stable Layered GaTe Using a Novel Passivation Approach Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111510 Authors: Kotha Murray Tuschel Gallis Emerging two-dimensional gallium chalcogenides, such as gallium telluride (GaTe), are considered promising layered semiconductors that can serve as vital building blocks towards the implementation of nanodevices in the fields...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1507: Synthesis of g-C3N4-Decorated ZnO Porous Hollow Microspheres for Room-Temperature Detection of CH4 under UV-Light Illumination Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111507 Authors: Min Xiao Yanwei Li Bo Zhang Guang Sun Zhanying Zhang UV light-assisted gas sensors based on metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) have attracted much attention in detecting flammable and explosive gases at room temperature. In this paper, graphite-based carbon nitride (g-C3N4)...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1506: Electrochemical Sensors Modified with Combinations of Sulfur Containing Phthalocyanines and Capped Gold Nanoparticles: A Study of the Influence of the Nature of the Interaction between Sensing Materials Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111506 Authors: Ana Isabel Ruiz-Carmuega Celia Garcia-Hernandez Javier Ortiz Cristina Garcia-Cabezon Fernando Martin-Pedrosa Ángela Sastre-Santos Miguel Angel Rodríguez-Perez Maria Luz Rodriguez-Mendez ...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2561: Development of a Food-Based Diet Quality Score from a Short FFQ and Associations with Obesity Measures, Eating Styles and Nutrient Intakes in Finnish Twins Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112561 Authors: Masip Keski-Rahkonen Pietiläinen Kujala Rottensteiner Väisänen Kaprio Bogl We constructed a food-based diet quality score (DQS) and examined its association with obesity measures, eating styles and nutrient intakes. Participants...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2560: The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and Cancer Risk in Korea: A Prospective Cohort Study within the KoGES-HEXA Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112560 Authors: Injeong Ryu Minji Kwon Cheongmin Sohn Nitin Shivappa James R. Hébert Woori Na Mi Kyung Kim Several epidemiological studies have shown that there are consistent positive associations between dietary inflammatory index (DII®) and cancer incidence in Western...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2559: Epigenetic Activation of BRCA1 by Genistein In Vivo and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Linked to Antagonism toward Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112559 Authors: Donovan Selmin Doetschman Romagnolo Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) are the most aggressive and lethal breast cancers (BC). The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is often overexpressed in TNBC, and its activation results in the epigenetic silencing of...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2562: Combined Supplementation with Glycine and Tryptophan Reduces Purine-Induced Serum Uric Acid Elevation by Accelerating Urinary Uric Acid Excretion: A Randomized, Single-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112562 Authors: Oshima Shiiya Nakamura The authors previously confirmed the serum uric acid-lowering effects of the combination of glycine and tryptophan in subjects with mild hyperuricemia. This study examined...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2558: Post-Diagnostic Diet Quality and Mortality in Females with Self-Reported History of Breast or Gynecological Cancers: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112558 Authors: Karavasiloglou Pestoni Faeh Rohrmann High quality diets are associated with favorable disease and mortality outcomes in various populations; little and conflicting information is available for female...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2556: Intake of Processed Meat and Association with Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in a Representative Sample of the Swiss Population Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112556 Authors: Janice Sych Ivo Kaelin Fabienne Gerlach Anna Wróbel Thu Le Rex FitzGerald Giulia Pestoni David Faeh Jean-Philippe Krieger Sabine Rohrmann Processed meat (PM) intake is associated with health risks, but data are lacking in Switzerland. Using national...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2555: Effects of Nutrient Intake Timing on Post-Exercise Glycogen Accumulation and its Related Signaling Pathways in Mouse Skeletal Muscle Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112555 Authors: Takahashi Matsunaga Banjo Takahashi Sato Seike Nakano Hatta We investigated the effects of nutrient intake timing on glycogen accumulation and its related signals in skeletal muscle after an exercise that did not induce large glycogen depletion. Male...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2557: Multifactorial Etiology of Anemia in Celiac Disease and Effect of Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112557 Authors: Martín-Masot Nestares Diaz-Castro López-Aliaga Alférez Moreno-Fernandez Maldonado Celiac disease (CD) is a multisystemic disorder with different clinical expressions, from malabsorption with diarrhea, anemia, and nutritional compromise to extraintestinal manifestations. Anemia might...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2554: Docosahexaenoic Acid Inhibits PTP1B Phosphatase and the Viability of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112554 Authors: Alicja Kuban-Jankowska Magdalena Gorska-Ponikowska Kamlesh Kumar Sahu Tomasz Kostrzewa Michal Wozniak Jack Tuszynski Background: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an essential polyunsaturated fatty acid compound present in deep water fishes and dietary supplements, with a wide spectrum of potential health...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2552: Obesity in the Liver Transplant Setting Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112552 Authors: Moctezuma-Velazquez Márquez-Guillén Torre The obesity epidemic has resulted in an increased prevalence of obesity in liver transplant (LT) candidates and in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) becoming the fastest growing indication for LT. LT teams will be dealing with obesity in the coming years, and it is necessary for them to recognize some key aspects...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2551: CX3CL1–CX3CR1 Axis: A New Player in Coeliac Disease Pathogenesis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112551 Authors: Marta Fernández-Prieto María Jesús Fernández-Aceñero Natalia López-Palacios Andrés Bodas Sergio Farrais David Cuevas Virginia Pascual M. Ángeles Cerón-Nieto Saúl Horta-Herrera Laura Espino-Paisán Isabel Salazar Concepción Núñez Background: The CX3CL1–CX3CR1 axis has been related to numerous diseases. The...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2550: Ubiquinol Supplementation Alters Exercise Induced Fatigue by Increasing Lipid Utilization in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112550 Authors: Huan-Chieh Chen Chi-Chang Huang Tien-Jen Lin Mei-Chich Hsu Yi-Ju Hsu Ubiquinol (QH), a reduced form of coenzyme Q10, is a lipid antioxidant that is hydro-soluble and is commonly formulated in commercial supplements. Ubiquinol has been increasingly reported to exert antioxidant functions, in addition to...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2553: Adipose Tissue Quality in Aging: How Structural and Functional Aspects of Adipose Tissue Impact Skeletal Muscle Quality Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112553 Authors: Flavia G. De Carvalho Jamie N. Justice Ellen C. de Freitas Erin E. Kershaw Lauren M. Sparks The interplay between adipose tissue and skeletal muscle and the impact on mobility and aging remain enigmatic. The progressive decline in mobility promoted by aging has been previously attributed...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 203: Opening the OPK Assay Gatekeeper: Harnessing Multi-Modal Protection by Pneumococcal Vaccines Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040203 Authors: Riegler Mann Orihuela Tuomanen Pneumococcal vaccine development is driven by the achievement of high activity in a single gatekeeper assay: the bacterial opsonophagocytic killing (OPK) assay. New evidence challenges the dogma that anti-capsular antibodies have only a single function that predicts success....
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 202: Detection of Neospora Caninum DNA in Wild Birds from Italy Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040202 Authors: Simona Nardoni Alessandro Poli Ilaria Varvaro Guido Rocchigiani Renato Ceccherelli Francesca Mancianti The role of avian species in the Neospora caninum life cycle has not been completely elucidated, and epidemiological data from Europe are scant. The aim of the present report was to evaluate the presence of N. caninum DNA in the tissues...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 160: Study of Iron Piperazine-Based Chelators as Potential Siderophore Mimetics Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12040160 Authors: Loupias Dechamps-Olivier Dupont Vanlemmens Mullié Taudon Bouchut Dassonville-Klimpt Sonnet Gram-negative bacteria’s resistance such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the Burkholderia group to conventional antibiotics leads to therapeutic failure. Use of siderophores as Trojan horses to internalize...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 550: Resorbable Beads Provide Extended Release of Antifungal Medication: In Vitro and In Vivo Analyses Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110550 Authors: Yung-Heng Hsu Huang-Yu Chen Jin-Chung Chen Yi-Hsun Yu Ying-Chao Chou Steve Wen-Neng Ueng Shih-Jung Liu Fungal osteomyelitis has been difficult to treat, with first-line treatments consisting of implant excision, radical debridement, and local release of high-dose antifungal agents....
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 549: Scalp Micro-Pigmentation via Transcutaneous Implantation of Flexible Tissue Interlocking Biodegradable Microneedles Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110549 Authors: Lahiji Um Kim Jang Yang Jung Alopecia, characterized by hair follicle blockage and hair loss, disrupts the normal cycle of hair growth. Although not a life-threatening condition, a growing body of evidence suggests that the psychological state of individuals...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 143: Anticholinergic Burden, Sleep Quality and Health Outcomes in Malaysian Aged Care Home Residents Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7040143 Authors: Kumar Hasan Wong Chong Kairuz The use of anticholinergic medications by residents in aged care homes is associated with increased risk of adverse effects. These include cognitive impairment, sleep disturbances, and falls, and necessitate increased healthcare visits and the associated burden on healthcare...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 445: Whey: The Soil Bio-Community Enhancer That Selectively Controls Root-Knot Nematodes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110445 Authors: Ntalli Tsiafouli Tzani Mavridi Oplos Menkissoglu-Spiroudi Monokrousos To date, it is mandatory for ecofriendly pest-management tools to be used in agriculture. Whey is a dairy-processing waste, a plant and soil chemical and fungicidal basic substance. The beneficial effect of whey on soil microorganisms, enzymatic...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 443: Variation in Responses of Photosynthesis and Apparent Rubisco Kinetics to Temperature in Three Soybean Cultivars Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110443 Authors: Bunce Recent in vivo assays of the responses of Rubisco to temperature in C3 plants have revealed substantial diversity. Three cultivars of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.), Holt, Fiskeby V, and Spencer, were grown in indoor chambers at 15, 20, and 25 °C. Leaf photosynthesis was measured over the...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 444: Silicon and Plant Natural Defenses against Insect Pests: Impact on Plant Volatile Organic Compounds and Cascade Effects on Multitrophic Interactions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110444 Authors: Leroy Tombeur Walgraffe Cornélis Verheggen Environmental factors controlling silicon (Si) accumulation in terrestrial plant are key drivers to alleviate plant biotic stresses, including insect herbivory. While there is a general agreement on the ability...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 442: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization Promotes Changes in the Volatile Compounds and Enzymatic Activity of Lipoxygenase and Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase in Piper nigrum L. ‘Bragantina’ Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110442 Authors: da Trindade Almeida Xavier Lins Andrade Maia Mello Setzer Ramos da Silva Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have been used to promote numerous benefits to plants. In this study, we evaluated the...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 440: Micronutrient Status and Selected Physiological Parameters of Roots in Nickel-Exposed Sinapis alba L. Affected by Different Sulphur Levels Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110440 Authors: Renata Matraszek-Gawron Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak An efficient method of improving the micronutrient status of Ni-treated white mustard (Sinapis alba L.) using intensive S-SO4 nutrition was developed. Twelve variants of Hoagland’s nutrient solution differing in the concentration...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 441: Genome-Wide Computational Identification of Biologically Significant Cis-Regulatory Elements and Associated Transcription Factors from Rice Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110441 Authors: Ho Geisler The interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and cis-acting regulatory elements (CREs) provide crucial information on the regulation of gene expression. The determination of TF-binding sites and CREs experimentally is costly and time intensive. An in silico...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 439: Organization Features of the Mitochondrial Genome of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) with ANN2-Type Male-Sterile Cytoplasm Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110439 Authors: Maksim S. Makarenko Alexander V. Usatov Tatiana V. Tatarinova Kirill V. Azarin Maria D. Logacheva Vera A. Gavrilova Igor V. Kornienko Renate Horn This study provides insights into the flexibility of the mitochondrial genome in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as well as into...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 438: Developing Chloroplast Genomic Resources from 25 Avena Species for the Characterization of Oat Wild Relative Germplasm Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110438 Authors: Yong-Bi Fu Pingchuan Li Bill Biligetu Chloroplast (cp) genomics will play an important role in the characterization of crop wild relative germplasm conserved in worldwide gene banks, thanks to the advances in genome sequencing. We applied a multiplexed shotgun sequencing procedure to sequence...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 437: Molecular Effects of Xylella fastidiosa and Drought Combined Stress in Olive Trees Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110437 Authors: Mariarosaria De Pascali Marzia Vergine Erika Sabella Alessio Aprile Eliana Nutricati Francesca Nicolì Ilaria Buja Carmine Negro Antonio Miceli Patrizia Rampino Luigi De Bellis Andrea Luvisi Due to global climate change, complex combinations of stresses are expected to occur, among which the interaction...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 591: The Cult in Shiloh during the Roman-Byzantine Period Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110591 Authors: Amichay Schwartz Abraham Ofir Shemesh This article reviews the historical sources and archeological finds concerning the cult in Shiloh in the Roman-Byzantine period. The study examines the transition to the Byzantine period and attempts to follow the conversion to Christianity in the region, with regard to both the holy site and the populace. Furthermore,...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 592: The Appropriation of Popular Culture: A Sensational Way of Practicing Evangelism of Korean Churches Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110592 Authors: Lee Since the end of the 20th century, Korean churches have awakened to the fact that pop culture is enjoyed by a large segment of the population and thus provides a natural bridge between Christians and non-Christians. As a result, many Korean churches utilize popular cultural elements that Christians and non-Christians...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 91: Control of the Sit-To-Stand Transfer of a Biped Robotic Device for Postural Rehabilitation Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8040091 Authors: Giuseppe Menga Marco Ghirardi This paper deals with the control of the sit-to-stand transfer of a biped robotic device (either an autonomous biped robot or a haptic assistive exoskeleton for postural rehabilitation). The control has been synthesized, instead of considering the physiology, analyzing the basic laws of dynamics....
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 296: Feminist New Materialisms: Activating Ethico-Politics Through Genealogies in Social Sciences Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8110296 Authors: Revelles-Benavente Ernst Rogowska-Stangret The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors’ collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: NetworkingEuropean Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to...
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Sports, Vol. 7, Pages 227: What Is Injury in Ice Hockey: An Integrative Literature Review on Injury Rates, Injury Definition, and Athlete Exposure in Men’s Elite Ice Hockey Sports doi: 10.3390/sports7110227 Authors: Donskov Humphreys Dickey Injuries in men’s elite ice hockey have been studied over the past 40 years, however, there is a lack of consensus on definitions of both injury and athlete exposure. These inconsistencies compromise the reliability and comparability...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 84: Correction: Alvarez, I., et al. Detection of Bovine Leukemia Virus RNA in Blood Samples of Naturally Infected Dairy Cattle. Vet. Sci. 2019, 6, 66 Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6040084 Authors: Alvarez Porta Trono The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 977: The Effect of a Commercially Available Bacteriophage and Bacteriocin on Listeria monocytogenes in Coleslaw Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110977 Authors: Lewis Bolocan Draper Ross Hill Changing consumer attitudes show an increased interest in non-chemical antimicrobials in food preservation and safety. This greater interest of consumers in more ‘natural’ or ‘clean-label’ food interventions is complicated by...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 978: Antigenic Change in Human Influenza A(H2N2) Viruses Detected by Using Human Plasma from Aged and Younger Adult Individuals Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110978 Authors: Matsuzawa Iwatsuki-Horimoto Nishimoto Abe Fukuyama Hamabata Okuda Go Watanabe Imai Arai Fouchier Yamayoshi Kawaoka Human influenza A(H2N2) viruses emerged in 1957 and were replaced by A(H3N2) viruses in 1968. The antigenicity of human H2N2 viruses...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 976: In-Vitro Subtype-Specific Modulation of HIV-1 Trans-Activator of Transcription (Tat) on RNAi Silencing Suppressor Activity and Cell Death Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110976 Authors: Ronsard Yousif Ramesh Sumi Gorman Ramachandran Banerjea Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a global health concern affecting millions of individuals with a wide variety of currently circulating subtypes affecting various regions of the globe. HIV relies...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 975: Clinical and Serological Evaluation of LINDA Virus Infections in Post-Weaning Piglets Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110975 Authors: Alexandra Kiesler Kerstin Seitz Lukas Schwarz Katharina Buczolich Helga Petznek Elena Sassu Sophie Dürlinger Sandra Högler Andrea Klang Christiane Riedel Hann-Wei Chen Marlene Mötz Peter Kirkland Herbert Weissenböck Andrea Ladinig Till Rümenapf Benjamin Lamp The novel pestivirus species...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 974: Influence of Immunogenetic Biomarkers in the Clinical Outcome of HTLV-1 Infected Persons Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110974 Authors: Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto Izaura Cayres-Vallinoto Maria Alice Freitas Queiroz Marluísa de Oliveira Guimarães Ishak Ricardo Ishak Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, a member of the Retroviridae family, causes a neglected, silent, persistent infection affecting circa 5 to 10 million people around the world, with biology,...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 973: Fluorescent Protein Inserts in between NC and SP2 are Tolerated for Assembly, Release and Maturation of HIV with Limited Infectivity Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110973 Authors: Bendjennat Saffarian We report the design of a fluorescent HIV construct that is labeled by insertion of fluorescent protein between the nucleocapsid (NC) and spacer peptide 2 (SP2) domains of Gag and further show that the fluorescent protein is released from its confines within...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2209: Relationships between Wind Effect, Hydrodynamics and Water Level in the World's Largest Coastal Lagoonal System Water doi: 10.3390/w11112209 Authors: Oliveira Fernandes Möller García-Rodríguez The Patos-Mirim is the largest coastal limnological system of the world, located in southern Brazil and eastern Uruguay, which encompass over 500 km of coastline. The economical demand for the development of an international waterway brings the need for...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2201: Identification of Hydrological Models for Enhanced Ensemble Reservoir Inflow Forecasting in a Large Complex Prairie Watershed Water doi: 10.3390/w11112201 Authors: Awol Coulibaly Tsanis Unduche Accurate and reliable flow forecasting in complex Canadian prairie watersheds has been one of the major challenges faced by hydrologists. In an attempt to improve the accuracy and reliability of a reservoir inflow forecast, this study investigates structurally...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2204: Two Dimensional Model for Backwater Geomorphology: Darby Creek, PA Water doi: 10.3390/w11112204 Authors: Hosseiny Smith Predicting morphological alterations in backwater zones has substantial merit as it potentially influences the life of millions of people by the change in flood dynamics and land topography. While there is no two-dimensional river model available for predicting morphological alterations in backwater zones, there is an absolute need for...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2207: The Use of Stable Isotope-Based Water Age to Evaluate a Hydrodynamic Model Water doi: 10.3390/w11112207 Authors: Gross Andrews Bergamaschi Downing Holleman Burdick Durand Transport time scales are common metrics of the strength of transport processes. Water age is the time elapsed since water from a specific source has entered a study area. An observational method to estimate water age relies on the progressive concentration of the...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2206: Coastal Resources Economics and Ecosystem Valuation Water doi: 10.3390/w11112206 Authors: J. Milon Sergio Alvarez The papers in this special issue provide new insights into ongoing research to value coastal and marine ecosystem services, and offer meaningful information for policymakers and resource managers about the economic significance of coastal resources for planning, restoration, and damage assessment. Study areas encompass a broad geographic scope...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2205: A Rainwater Harvesting Accounting Tool for Water Supply Availability in Colorado Water doi: 10.3390/w11112205 Authors: Gilliom Bell Hogue McCray Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a renewable water supply option for nonpotable use, most commonly used for landscaping irrigation. Water rights in Colorado prohibit all RWH except residential rain barrels and a pilot project program that allows centralized rainwater harvesting for new development. Development...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2203: Flood-Prone Area Assessment Using GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Case Study in Davao Oriental, Philippines Water doi: 10.3390/w11112203 Authors: Cabrera Lee Flooding is one of the major destructive natural disasters in Davao Oriental, Philippines, and results primarily from a high incidence of typhoons and heavy rainfalls. The main objective of this study was to identify flood-prone risk areas by mapping them based on the integration of multiple...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2200: Environmental-friendly Contamination Assessment of Habitats Based on the Trace Element Content of Dragonfly Exuviae Water doi: 10.3390/w11112200 Authors: Simon Tóthmérész Kis Jakab Szalay Vincze Baranyai Harangi Miskolczi Dévai We tested the usefulness of exuviae as an environmentally friendly method for exploring the variability of the trace element contents of protected insect populations without killing specimens. It...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2208: Solute Transport and Transformation in an Intermittent, Headwater Mountain Stream with Diurnal Discharge Fluctuations Water doi: 10.3390/w11112208 Authors: Ward Kurz Schmadel Knapp Blaen Harman Drummond Hannah Krause Li Marti Milner Miller Neil Plont Packman Wisnoski Wondzell Zarnetske Time-variable discharge is known to control both transport and transformation of solutes in the river...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2202: Towards a Transferable Antecedent Rainfall—Susceptibility Threshold Approach for Landsliding Water doi: 10.3390/w11112202 Authors: Monsieurs Dewitte Depicker Demoulin Determining rainfall thresholds for landsliding is crucial in landslide hazard evaluation and early warning system development, yet challenging in data-scarce regions. Using freely available satellite rainfall data in a reproducible automated procedure, the bootstrap-based frequentist...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2199: Terrestrial Laser Scanning for the Detection of Coarse Grain Size Movement in a Mountain Riverbed Water doi: 10.3390/w11112199 Authors: Walicka Jóźków Kasprzak Borkowski Fluvial transport is a natural process that shapes riverbeds and the surrounding terrain surface, particularly in mountainous areas. Since the traditional techniques used for fluvial transport investigation provide only limited information about the bed load transport, recently,...
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