Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2647: Cognitive Performance Following Ingestion of Glucose–Fructose Sweeteners That Impart Different Postprandial Glycaemic Responses: A Randomised Control Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112647 Authors: Celeste Keesing Brianna Mills Charlene Rapsey Jillian Haszard Bernard Venn We aimed to investigate the isolated effect of glycaemia on cognitive test performance by using beverages sweetened with two different glucose–fructose disaccharides,...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1022: Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Antarctic Cryoconite Holes Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111022 Authors: Pacifica Sommers Rafaela S. Fontenele Tayele Kringen Simona Kraberger Dorota L. Porazinska John L. Darcy Steven K. Schmidt Arvind Varsani Antarctic cryoconite holes, or small melt-holes in the surfaces of glaciers, create habitable oases for isolated microbial communities with tightly linked microbial population structures. Viruses may influence...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2645: Prevalence of Carnitine Deficiency and Decreased Carnitine Levels in Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112645 Authors: Satoshi Shimizu Hiroyuki Takashima Ritsukou Tei Tetsuya Furukawa Makiyo Okamura Maki Kitai Chinami Nagura Takashi Maruyama Terumi Higuchi Masanori Abe Background: Carnitine deficiency is common in patients on dialysis. Serum free carnitine concentration is significantly lower in patients...
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Sustainability, Vol. 11, Pages 6145: Teachers’ Transgressive Pedagogical Practices in Context: Ecology, Politics, and Social Change Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su11216145 Authors: Antonia Condeza-Marmentini Luis Flores-González Chilean teachers face the urgent challenge of incorporating environmental and sustainability dimensions into their teaching practices within an economic and social context of extreme neoliberalism, which has an important impact on both teaching practices and...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5481: Therapeutic Evaluation of Synthetic Peucedanocoumarin III in an Animal Model of Parkinson’s Disease International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215481 Authors: Sangwoo Ham Heejeong Kim Jin-Ha Yoon Hyojung Kim Bo Reum Song Jeong-Yun Choi Yun-Song Lee Seung-Mann Paek Han-Joo Maeng Yunjong Lee The motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) correlate with the formation and propagation of aberrant...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 574: Gemcitabine Combination Nano Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110574 Authors: Kamalika Samanta Saini Setua Sonam Kumari Meena Jaggi Murali M. Yallapu Subhash C. Chauhan Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest causes of cancer-related death in the United States, with a 5-year overall survival rate of 6 to 8%. These statistics suggest that immediate medical attention is needed. Gemcitabine (GEM)...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4792: Correction: Kutafina, E.; Laukamp, D.; Bettermann, R.; Schroeder, U.; Jonas, S.M. Wearable Sensors for eLearning of Manual Tasks: Using Forearm EMG in Hand Hygiene Training. Sensors 2016, 16, 1221 Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214792 Authors: Ekaterina Kutafina David Laukamp Ralf Bettermann Ulrik Schroeder Stephan M. Jonas The authors wish to make the following erratum to this paper [...]
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4277: Prevalence of Respiratory Health Symptoms among Landfill Waste Recyclers in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214277 Authors: Nonhlanhla Tlotleng Tahira Kootbodien Kerry Wilson Felix Made Angela Mathee Vusi Ntlebi Spo Kgalamono Moses Mokone Karen Du Preez Nisha Naicker In developing countries, waste sorting and recycling have become a source...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4278: Increased Dementia Mortality in West Virginia Counties with Mountaintop Removal Mining? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214278 Authors: A. K. Salm Michael J. Benson Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is elevated in areas of mountaintop removal mining (MTM), a practice that has been ongoing in some counties of West Virginia (WV) USA since the 1970s. PM inhalation has been linked to central nervous...
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Materials, Vol. 12, Pages 3616: Investigation of AgInS2/ZnS Quantum Dots by Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy Materials doi: 10.3390/ma12213616 Authors: Yulia Gromova Anastasiia Sokolova Danil Kurshanov Ivan Korsakov Victoria Osipova Sergei Cherevkov Aliaksei Dubavik Vladimir Maslov Tatiana Perova Yurii Gun’ko Alexander Baranov Anatoly Fedorov Over recent years, quantum dots (QDs) based on ternary metal dichalcogenides have attracted a lot of attention...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4694: Shape Memory Polyurethane and its Composites for Various Applications Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214694 Authors: Arvind Gupta Anoth Maharjan Beom Soo Kim The inherent capability to deform and reform in a predefined environment is a unique property existing in shape memory polyurethane. The intrinsic shape memory ability of the polyurethane is due to the presence of macro domains of soft and hard segments in its bulk, which make this...
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Materials, Vol. 12, Pages 3618: Nanocomposites SnO2/SiO2:SiO2 Impact on the Active Centers and Conductivity Mechanism Materials doi: 10.3390/ma12213618 Authors: Dayana Gulevich Marina Rumyantseva Artem Marikutsa Tatyana Shatalova Elizaveta Konstantinova Evgeny Gerasimov Alexander Gaskov This paper is focused on the effect of the stabilizing component SiO2 on the type and concentration of active sites in SnO2/SiO2 nanocomposites compared with nanocrystalline SnO2. Previously,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2646: Grape Seed Extract Eliminates Visceral Allodynia and Colonic Hyperpermeability Induced by Repeated Water Avoidance Stress in Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112646 Authors: Hideyuki Arie Tsukasa Nozu Saori Miyagishi Masayuki Ida Takayuki Izumo Hiroshi Shibata Grape seed extract (GSE) is rich in polyphenols composed mainly of proanthocyanidins, which are known to attenuate proinflammatory cytokine production. Repeated water avoidance stress...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 642: Investigation of the In-Vivo Cytotoxicity and the In Silico-Prediction of MDM2-p53 Inhibitor Potential of Euphorbia peplus Methanolic Extract in Rats Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11110642 Authors: Yasmina M. Abd-Elhakim Mohamed Abdo Nassan Gamal A. Salem Abdelkarim Sasi Adil Aldhahrani Khaled Ben Issa Amany Abdel-Rahman Mohamed This study explored the probable in vivo cardiac and renal toxicities together with in silico approaches for predicting...
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Materials, Vol. 12, Pages 3617: Deformation and Compressive Strength of Steel Fiber Reinforced MgO Concrete Materials doi: 10.3390/ma12213617 Authors: Feifei Jiang Zhongyang Mao Min Deng Dawang Li To reduce the cracking caused by shrinkage and avoid the brittle behavior of concrete, MgO expansion agent and steel fibers were used in this paper. Firstly, the effect of MgO and steel fibers on the compressive strength of concrete was compared. The results showed that the compressive...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 575: Synthesis, Characterization, and Three-Dimensional Structure Generation of Zinc Oxide-Based Nanomedicine for Biomedical Applications Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110575 Authors: Su-Eon Jin Hyo-Eon Jin Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles have been studied as metal-based drugs that may be used for biomedical applications due to the fact of their biocompatibility. Their physicochemical properties, which depend on synthesis techniques involving...
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Arts, Vol. 8, Pages 147: Reviewing the Inclusion of Artists’ Holograms in the Permanent Collections of Fine Art Museums Arts doi: 10.3390/arts8040147 Authors: Sydney Dinsmore Opening in 1976 with the exhibition, “Through the Looking Glass”, the Museum of Holography (MOH) emphasized from the beginning the importance of artistic holography with the inclusion of several holograms by artists whose primary practice was holography, articulating for the first time a distinction...
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Mathematics, Vol. 7, Pages 1051: An Optimisation-Driven Prediction Method for Automated Diagnosis and Prognosis Mathematics doi: 10.3390/math7111051 Authors: Valentino Santucci Alfredo Milani Fabio Caraffini This article presents a novel hybrid classification paradigm for medical diagnoses and prognoses prediction. The core mechanism of the proposed method relies on a centroid classification algorithm whose logic is exploited to formulate the classification task as a real-valued...
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Forests, Vol. 10, Pages 974: Historical Development of the Portuguese Forest: The Introduction of Invasive Species Forests doi: 10.3390/f10110974 Authors: Leonel J. R. Nunes Catarina I. R. Meireles Carlos J. Pinto Gomes Nuno M. C. Almeida Ribeiro Portugal is a country with a territorial dimension of approximately 90,000 km2. However, the forest occupies a prominent position, since it represents about 35% of the total area of the country. Portuguese people always had a very close...
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Foods, Vol. 8, Pages 549: Developing and Validating a Method for Separating Flavonoid Isomers in Common Buckwheat Sprouts Using HPLC-PDA Foods doi: 10.3390/foods8110549 Authors: Davin Jang Young Sung Jung Mi-Seon Kim Seung Eel Oh Tae Gyu Nam Dae-Ok Kim Buckwheat sprouts that are synthesized during the germination process are rich in flavonoids, including orientin, vitexin, rutin, and their isomers (isoorientin, isovitexin, and quercetin-3-O-robinobioside, respectively)....
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4693: Effect of Geraniol and Citronellol Essential Oils on the Biophysical Gating Properties of AMPA Receptors Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214693 Authors: Mohammad Qneibi Nidal Jaradat Nour Emwas Essential oils have been advertised endlessly to be very beneficial for the health of humans, and an extensive amount of research examines the validity of such claims. In contribution, the current study evaluates the neuroprotective properties of Citronellol...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4691: Evaluation of Molecular Polarizability and of Intensity Carrying Modes Contributions in Circular Dichroism Spectroscopies Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214691 Authors: Chiara Zanchi Giovanna Longhi Sergio Abbate Giovanni Pellegrini Paolo Biagioni Matteo Tommasini We re-examine the theory of electronic and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy in terms of the formalism of frequency-dependent molecular polarizabilities. We...
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Separations, Vol. 6, Pages 52: Advancements in Non-Invasive Biological Surface Sampling and Emerging Applications Separations doi: 10.3390/separations6040052 Authors: Atakan Arda Nalbant Ezel Boyacı Biological surfaces such as skin and ocular surface provide a plethora of information about the underlying biological activity of living organisms. However, they pose unique problems arising from their innate complexity, constant exposure of the surface to the surrounding elements, and...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4692: On Non-Completeness and G-Equivariance Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214692 Authors: Yoo-Jin Baek With the growing threat of the side-channel attack (SCA) to the cryptographic algorithm’s implementations, the masking method has become one of the most promising SCA countermeasures for securely implementing, for example, block ciphers. The basic principle of the masking method is that if the sensitive variable (which, by definition, depends...
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Polymers, Vol. 11, Pages 1808: Crosslinking of Electrospun Fibres from Unsaturated Polyesters by Bis-Triazolinediones (TAD) Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym11111808 Authors: Viviane Chiaradia Saltuk B. Hanay Scott D. Kimmins Débora de Oliveira Pedro H. H. Araújo Claudia Sayer Andreas Heise Crosslinking of an unsaturated aliphatic polyester poly(globalide) (PGl) by bistriazolinediones (bisTADs) is reported. First, a monofunctional model compound, phenyl–TAD (PTAD),...
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Animals, Vol. 9, Pages 916: Spatial Analysis of Infections by Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) in Small Ruminants in Northern Italy Animals doi: 10.3390/ani9110916 Authors: Alessia Gazzonis Luca Villa MariaTeresa Manfredi Sergio Zanzani The objectives of this study were: (i) To investigate possible geographical or environmental factors influencing the infections by Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in sheep and goats in northern Italy; (ii)...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4276: Spatio-Temporal Variation Characteristics of PM2.5 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region, China, from 2013 to 2018 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214276 Authors: Lili Wang Qiulin Xiong Gaofeng Wu Atul Gautam Jianfang Jiang Shuang Liu Wenji Zhao Hongliang Guan Air pollution, including particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution, is extremely harmful to the environment as well as human health....
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Microorganisms, Vol. 7, Pages 525: Distinct Microbial Community of Phyllosphere Associated with Five Tropical Plants on Yongxing Island, South China Sea Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7110525 Authors: Lijun Bao Wenyang Cai Xiaofen Zhang Jinhong Liu Hao Chen Yuansong Wei Xiuxiu Jia Zhihui Bai The surfaces of a leaf are unique and wide habitats for a microbial community. These microorganisms play a key role in plant growth and adaptation to adverse conditions,...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2306: Reconstruction of Seasonal Net Erosion in a Mediterranean Landscape (Alento River Basin, Southern Italy) over the Past Five Decades Water doi: 10.3390/w11112306 Authors: Nazzareno Diodato Gianni Bellocchi In the low Mediterranean basin, late spring and autumn rainfall events have the potential to increase discharge and transport substantial amounts of sediment soil (that is, the net soil erosion from a watershed). For the Alento River Basin (ARB), located...
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Processes, Vol. 7, Pages 809: Essential and Recovery Oils from Matricaria chamomilla Flowers as Environmentally Friendly Fungicides Against Four Fungi Isolated from Cultural Heritage Objects Processes doi: 10.3390/pr7110809 Authors: Mervat EL-Hefny Wael A.A. Abo Elgat Asma A. Al-Huqail Hayssam M. Ali Recovery oils, obtained from the hydro-distillation of the fresh flowers of Matricaria chamomilla, as well as essential oils, were studied for their environmental purposes in cultural...
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Fermentation, Vol. 5, Pages 95: The Second-Generation Biomethane from Mandarin Orange Peel under Cocultivation with Methanogens and the Armed Clostridium cellulovorans Fermentation doi: 10.3390/fermentation5040095 Authors: Hisao Tomita Yutaka Tamaru This study demonstrates that the consortium, which consists of the microbial flora of methane production (MFMP) and Clostridium cellulovorans grown with cellulose, can perform the direct conversion of cellulosic biomass to methane. The...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4789: Outage Probability Performance Prediction for Mobile Cooperative Communication Networks Based on Artificial Neural Network Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214789 Authors: Han Wang Lingwei Xu Xianpeng Wang This paper investigates outage probability (OP) performance predictions using transmit antenna selection (TAS) and derives exact closed-form OP expressions for a TAS scheme. It uses Monte-Carlo simulations to evaluate OP performance and verify the analysis....
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Processes, Vol. 7, Pages 808: Natural Frequency Sensitivity Analysis of Fire-Fighting Jet System with Adaptive Gun Head Processes doi: 10.3390/pr7110808 Authors: Xiaoming Yuan Xuan Zhu Chu Wang Lijie Zhang Yong Zhu The gun head is the end effector of the fire-fighting jet system. Compared with a traditional fixed gun head, an adaptive gun head has the advantages of having an adjustable nozzle opening, a wide applicable flow range, and a high fire-extinguishing efficiency....
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2644: Hochu-Ekki-To Improves Motor Function in an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Animal Model Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112644 Authors: Mudan Cai Eun Jin Yang Hochu-ekki-to (Bojungikgi-Tang (BJIGT) in Korea; Bu-Zhong-Yi-Qi Tang in Chinese), a traditional herbal prescription, has been widely used in Asia. Hochu-ekki-to (HET) is used to enhance the immune system in respiratory disorders, improve the nutritional status associated with chronic diseases, enhance...
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 3983: Comparison of the Fatty Acid and Triglyceride Profiles of Big Eye Tuna (Thunnus obesus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Bighead Carp (Aristichthysnobilis) Heads Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24213983 Authors: Jing Zhang Ningping Tao Yueliang Zhao Xichang Wang Mingfu Wang Big eye tuna (Thunnus obesus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis) are three representative marine and fresh water fishes. In this study,...
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JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1867: Secretome and Extracellular Vesicles as New Biological Therapies for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8111867 Authors: Daniele D’Arrigo Alice Roffi Magali Cucchiarini Matteo Moretti Christian Candrian Giuseppe Filardo Secretome and extracellular vesicles (EVs) are considered a promising option to exploit mesenchymal stem cells’ (MSCs) properties to address knee osteoarthritis (OA)....
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 471: Assessment of the Genetic Diversity of Rice Germplasms Characterized by Black-Purple and Red Pericarp Color Using Simple Sequence Repeat Markers Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110471 Authors: Jae-Ryoung Park Won-Tae Yang Yong-Sham Kwon Hyeon-Nam Kim Kyung-Min Kim Doh-Hoon Kim The assessment of the genetic diversity within germplasm collections can be accomplished using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and association mapping techniques. The present...
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