Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2829: Investigation of Antibacterial and Antiinflammatory Activities of Proanthocyanidins from Pelargonium sidoides DC Root Extract Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112829 Authors: Aiste Jekabsone Inga Sile Andrea Cochis Marina Makrecka-Kuka Goda Laucaityte Elina Makarova Lia Rimondini Rasa Bernotiene Lina Raudone Evelina Vedlugaite Rasa Baniene Alina Smalinskiene Nijole Savickiene Maija Dambrova The study explores antibacterial,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2827: Evaluation of the Nutritional Quality of Breakfast Cereals Sold on the Italian Market: The Food Labelling of Italian Products (FLIP) Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112827 Authors: Donato Angelino Alice Rosi Margherita Dall’Asta Nicoletta Pellegrini Daniela Martini Breakfast cereals are present on the market as different types and, in general, are one of the food categories in which voluntary information, such as nutrition or health claims...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2832: Cultural Moderation of Unconscious Hedonic Responses to Food Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112832 Authors: Wataru Sato Krystyna Rymarczyk Kazusa Minemoto Jakub Wojciechowski Sylwia Hyniewska Previous psychological studies have shown that images of food elicit hedonic responses, either consciously or unconsciously, and that participants’ cultural experiences moderate conscious hedonic ratings of food. However, whether cultural factors...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 250: Persistent Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from a Poultry-Processing Facility Form more Biofilm but Do Not Have a Greater Resistance to Disinfectants Than Sporadic Strains Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040250 Authors: Rodríguez-Campos Rodríguez-Melcón Alonso-Calleja Capita Some strains of Listeria monocytogenes can persist in food-processing environments, increasing the likelihood of the contamination of foodstuffs. To identify traits that...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 249: From Stable to Lab—Investigating Key Factors for Sudden Deaths Caused by Streptococcus suis Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040249 Authors: Hennig-Pauka Imker Mayer Brügmann Werckenthin Weber Menrath de Buhr Swine stocks are endemically infected with the major porcine pathogen Streptococcus (S.) suis. The factors governing the transition from colonizing S. suis residing in the tonsils and the exacerbation of disease have not...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 248: Serological and Molecular Identification of Brucella spp. in Pigs from Cairo and Giza Governorates, Egypt Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040248 Authors: Khan Melzer El-Soally Elschner Mohamed Sayed Ahmed Roesler Neubauer El-Adawy Brucellosis is considered as endemic disease of animals and humans since thousands of years in Egypt. However, brucellosis in pigs has never been reported in Egypt. Thus, serological and molecular...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 247: Genome-Wide Analyses Revealed Remarkable Heterogeneity in Pathogenicity Determinants, Antimicrobial Compounds, and CRISPR-Cas Systems of Complex Phytopathogenic Genus Pectobacterium Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040247 Authors: Arizala Arif The Pectobacterium genus comprises pectolytic enterobacteria defined as the causal agents of soft rot, blackleg, and aerial stem rot diseases of potato and economically important crops. In this study, we undertook...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 246: Distinct Effects of Immunosuppressive Drugs on the Anti-Aspergillus Activity of Human Natural Killer Cells Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040246 Authors: Schmidt Schubert Demir Lehrnbecher As the prognosis of invasive aspergillosis remains unacceptably poor in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), there is a growing interest in the adoptive transfer of antifungal effector cells, such as Natural Killer (NK) cells....
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 245: Characterization and Pathogenicity of Fusarium Species Associated with Soybean Pods in Maize/Soybean Strip Intercropping Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040245 Authors: Naeem Li Yan Raza Gong Chen Yang Zhang Shang Liu Chen Faheem Abbas Irshad I. Khaskheli Yang Chang Intercropping has been considered as a kind of a sustainable agricultural cropping system. In southwest China, maize/soybean strip...
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Pathogens, Vol. 8, Pages 244: Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) and Random Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Comparisons of Geographic Isolates of Neoparamoeba perurans, the Causative Agent of Amoebic Gill Disease Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens8040244 Authors: Johnson-Mackinnon Crosbie Karlsbakk Marcos-Lopez Paley Nowak Bridle Neoparamoba perurans, is the aetiological agent of amoebic gill disease (AGD), a disease that affects farmed Atlantic salmon worldwide. Multilocus...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 155: Validation of a Novel Electronic Device for Medication Adherence Monitoring of Ambulatory Patients Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7040155 Authors: Arnet Rothen Hersberger Several methods exist for measuring medication adherence. The Time4MedTM device (Adherence Innovations, Hong Kong) is a small, electronic card to affix on medication packaging that records date and time of intakes when a button is pushed. We aimed to validate the device with an emphasis...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 525: Citric Acid Enhances Plant Growth, Photosynthesis, and Phytoextraction of Lead by Alleviating the Oxidative Stress in Castor Beans Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110525 Authors: Zahid Imran Mallhi Muhammad Rizwan Asim Mansha Qasim Ali Sadia Asim Shafaqat Ali Afzal Hussain Salman H. Alrokayan Haseeb A. Khan Pravej Alam Parvaiz Ahmad Lead (Pb) toxicity has a great impact in terms of toxicity towards living organisms as it severely affects...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 524: Valuable Fatty Acids in Bryophytes—Production, Biosynthesis, Analysis and Applications Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110524 Authors: Lu Eiriksson Thorsteinsdóttir Simonsen Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) often produce high amounts of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (vl-PUFAs) including arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4 △5,8,11,14) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 △5,8,11,14,17). The presence of vl-PUFAs is common for marine...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 523: A World of Gorse: Persistence of Ulex europaeus in Managed Landscapes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110523 Authors: Nicholas Broadfield Melinda T. McHenry Gorse (Ulex europeus L.) is a woody legume and invasive woody weed that has been introduced to temperate pastoral landscapes worldwide. Despite the apparent cosmopolitan distribution of gorse across much of the temperate agroecological landscapes of the world, research and practice pertaining to the management...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 522: Plant-Based Biostimulants Influence the Agronomical, Physiological, and Qualitative Responses of Baby Rocket Leaves under Diverse Nitrogen Conditions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8110522 Authors: Ida Di Mola Lucia Ottaiano Eugenio Cozzolino Mauro Senatore Maria Giordano Christophe El-Nakhel Adriana Sacco Youssef Rouphael Giuseppe Colla Mauro Mori Nitrogen is the primary technical means responsible for food production increase, but on...
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Publications, Vol. 7, Pages 65: Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities? Publications doi: 10.3390/publications7040065 Authors: Knöchelmann Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the humanities appear to be less coherent as a cluster of scholarship than the sciences are,...
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Recycling, Vol. 4, Pages 44: Design for Recycling in a Critical Raw Materials Perspective Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling4040044 Authors: Ferro Bonollo The European Union (EU) identified a number of raw materials that are strategic for its economy but suffer at the same time from a high supply risk. Such critical raw materials (CRMs) are used in a wide range of commercial and governmental applications: green technology, telecommunications, space exploration, aerial imaging, aviation,...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 640: Sculptures and Accessories: Domestic Piety in the Norwegian Parish around 1300 Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110640 Authors: Ragnhild M. Bø Eagerly venerated and able to perform miracles, medieval relics and religious artefacts in the Latin West would occasionally also be subject to sensorial and tactile devotional practices. Evidenced by various reports, artefacts were grasped and stroked, kissed and tasted, carried and pulled. For medieval Norway, however,...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 639: Presence and Absence: Constructions of Gender in Dasam Granth Exegesis Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110639 Authors: Robin Rinehart Controversy has swirled round the writings attributed to Guru Gobind Singh in the Dasam Granth, for not all Sikhs agree that he composed the entire text. Disputes about the Dasam Granth and its status have addressed the fact that many of the text’s compositions are concerned with gender with respect to the nature of...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 638: An Invitation to Suffer: Evangelicals and Sports Ministry in the U.S.
Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 638: An Invitation to Suffer: Evangelicals and Sports Ministry in the U.S. Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110638 Authors: Annie Blazer When American evangelicals sought to use the tools of sport for religious outreach in the mid-twentieth century, they began to wonder if the essential features of sport—competition and hierarchy—conflicted with their approach to salvation. For most evangelical Christians, salvation is an option for every human...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 637: Comparison of Different Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality: Implications for Neurotheological Research Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110637 Authors: Andrew Newberg Nancy Wintering Mark Waldman The neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena requires the development of methodologies that can target both the biological as well as the subjective dimensions of such phenomena. The purpose of the current study was to compare various...
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Risks, Vol. 7, Pages 117: A Review of First-Passage Theory for the Segerdahl-Tichy Risk Process and Open Problems Risks doi: 10.3390/risks7040117 Authors: Florin Avram Jose-Luis Perez-Garmendia The Segerdahl-Tichy Process, characterized by exponential claims and state dependent drift, has drawn a considerable amount of interest, due to its economic interest (it is the simplest risk process which takes into account the effect of interest rates). It is also the simplest non-Lévy,...
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Sci. Pharm., Vol. 87, Pages 32: The Optimization of Gel Preparations Using the Active Compounds of Arabica Coffee Ground Nanoparticles Scientia Pharmaceutica doi: 10.3390/scipharm87040032 Authors: Salfauqi Nurman Ruka Yulia Irmayanti Erliza Noor Titi Candra Sunarti Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) ground nanoparticles contain phenolics compounds that have anti-inflammatory effects, so they can be used as sources of active compounds in anti-inflammatory gel preparations....
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Smart Cities, Vol. 2, Pages 522-537: Urban Systems Design: A Conceptual Framework for Planning Smart Communities Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities2040032 Authors: Tobey Binder Chang Yoshida Yamagata Yang Urban systems design arises from disparate current planning approaches (urban design, Planning Support Systems, and community engagement), compounded by the reemergence of rational planning methods from new technology (Internet of Things (IoT), metric based analysis,...
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Toxics, Vol. 7, Pages 58: Toxicity and Organ Distribution of Mercury in Freshwater Fish (Oreochromis niloticus) after Exposure to Water Contaminated Mercury (HgII) Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics7040058 Authors: Suhendrayatna Arahman Sipahutar Rinidar Elvitriana The purpose of this study was to investigate the toxicity and the distribution of mercury (Hg) in the main tissues of freshwater fish (Oreochromis niloticus) after being exposed to water containing Hg(II). A sample...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 677: Helicobacter pylori Virulence Factors Exploiting Gastric Colonization and its Pathogenicity Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11110677 Authors: Shamshul Ansari Yoshio Yamaoka Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric epithelial cells of at least half of the world’s population, and it is the strongest risk factor for developing gastric complications like chronic gastritis, ulcer diseases, and gastric cancer. To successfully colonize and establish a persistent...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 676: Predictive Factors for a Satisfactory Treatment Outcome with Intravesical Botulinum Toxin A Injection in Patients with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11110676 Authors: Hsiu-Jen Wang Wan-Ru Yu Hueih-Ling Ong Hann-Chorng Kuo A botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) intravesical injection can improve the symptoms of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS). Patients with IC/BPS have different clinical characteristics,...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 675: Pre-Harvest Survival and Post-Harvest Chlorine Tolerance of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli on Lettuce Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11110675 Authors: Deepti Tyagi Autumn L. Kraft Sara Levadney Smith Sherry E. Roof Julie S. Sherwood Martin Wiedmann Teresa M. Bergholz In the field, foodborne pathogens such as enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are capable of surviving on produce over time, yet little is known about how these pathogens...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 93: Influence of Colostrum and Vitamins A, D3, and E on Early Intestinal Colonization of Neonatal Holstein Calves Infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6040093 Authors: Stabel Krueger Jenvey Wherry Hostetter Beitz Exposure of neonates to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) via infected dams is the primary mode of transmission of Johne’s disease. Little...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 92: Detection and Molecular Characterization of a Natural Coinfection of Marek’s Disease Virus and Reticuloendotheliosis Virus in Brazilian Backyard Chicken Flock Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6040092 Authors: Chacón Astolfi-Ferreira Guimarães Torres De la Torre Sá Piantino Ferreira Marek’s disease virus (MDV) and the reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) are two of the primary oncogenic viruses that significantly...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1081: A Novel Benthic Phage Infecting Shewanella with Strong Replication Ability Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111081 Authors: Zengmeng Wang Jiulong Zhao Long Wang Chengcheng Li Jianhui Liu Lihua Zhang Yongyu Zhang The coastal sediments were considered to contain diverse phages playing important roles in driving biogeochemical cycles based on genetic analysis. However, till now, benthic phages in coastal sediments were very rarely isolated, which largely...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1080: Characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 Isolates and Their Interactions with Lytic Phages Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111080 Authors: Demeng Tan Yiyuan Zhang Mengjun Cheng Shuai Le Jingmin Gu Juan Bao Jinhong Qin Xiaokui Guo Tongyu Zhu The bacterial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae causes urinary tract infections in immunocompromised patients. Generally, the overuse of antibiotics contributes to the potential development and the...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1079: Identification of B-Cell Epitopes with Potential to Serologicaly Discrimnate Dengue from Zika Infections Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111079 Authors: Alice F. Versiani Raissa Prado Rocha Tiago A. O. Mendes Glauco C. Pereira Jordana Graziella A. Coelho dos Reis Daniella C. Bartholomeu Flávio G. da Fonseca Dengue is currently one of the most important arbovirus infections worldwide. Early diagnosis is important for disease outcome, particularly...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 1078: Cellular Attachment and Entry Factors for Chikungunya Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11111078 Authors: Barbara S. Schnierle Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is clinically the most relevant member of the Alphavirus genus. Like alphaviruses in general, CHIKV has the capacity to infect a large variety of cells, tissues, and species. This broad host tropism of CHIKV indicates that the virus uses a ubiquitously expressed receptor to infect cells. This review summarizes...
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Vision, Vol. 3, Pages 66: Errors in Imagined and Executed Typing Vision doi: 10.3390/vision3040066 Authors: Dahm Rieger In motor imagery (MI), internal models may predict the action effects. A mismatch between predicted and intended action effects may result in error detection. To compare error detection in MI and motor execution (ME), ten-finger typists and hunt-and-peck typists performed a copy-typing task. Visibility of the screen and visibility of the keyboard were manipulated....
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Vision, Vol. 3, Pages 65: The Perceptual and Aesthetic Aspects of the Music-Paintings Congruence Vision doi: 10.3390/vision3040065 Authors: Rančić Marković The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of congruence between music and paintings on the aesthetic preference of paintings. Congruence was specified as the similarity in perceived regularity and the complexity of jazz compositions and abstract paintings (the ratings of regularity and complexity in both sets...
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Vision, Vol. 3, Pages 64: On the Aperture Problem of Binocular 3D Motion Perception Vision doi: 10.3390/vision3040064 Authors: Martin Lages Suzanne Heron Like many predators, humans have forward-facing eyes that are set a short distance apart so that an extensive region of the visual field is seen from two different points of view. The human visual system can establish a three-dimensional (3D) percept from the projection of images into the left and right eye. How the visual system...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2426: Experimental Research on the Rotating Stall of a Pump Turbine in Pump Mode Water doi: 10.3390/w11112426 Authors: Xue Liu Lu Gao Meng The rotating stall is an unstable flow phenomenon of pump turbines in pump mode, which is of increasing concern to scientists and engineers working on pump turbines. However, at present, various studies are carried out based on CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation, while directly measured data and experimental...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2425: Mobilising Finance for WASH: Getting the Foundations Right Water doi: 10.3390/w11112425 Authors: Pories Fonseca Delmon Responding to the substantial finance gap for achieving Sustainable Development Goals 6.1 and 6.2, the water and sanitation sector has mobilized to launch new blended finance vehicles with increasing frequency. The sustainability and scale-up of financial solutions is intended to support increased access to unserved, marginalized...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2427: How do Interactive Flood Simulation Models Influence Decision-Making? An Observations-Based Evaluation Method Water doi: 10.3390/w11112427 Authors: Leskens Brugnach Hoekstra Interactive flood simulations models are computer models that are usable for practitioners during work sessions, allowing demand-driven flood simulations together with domain experts. It is assumed among developers of such models that these interactive models better serve decision-making...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2424: Conceptual Models and Calibration Performance—Investigating Catchment Bias Water doi: 10.3390/w11112424 Authors: Alexander J. V. Buzacott Bruce Tran Floris F. van Ogtrop R. Willem Vervoort Many lumped rainfall-runoff models are available but no single model can account for the uniqueness and variability of all catchments. While there has been progress in developing frameworks for optimal model selection, the process currently selects a range of model...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2422: New Pond—Indicator Bacteria to Complement Routine Monitoring in a Wet/Dry Tropical Wastewater Stabilization System Water doi: 10.3390/w11112422 Authors: Alea Rose Anna Padovan Keith Christian Mirjam Kaestli Keith McGuinness Skefos Tsoukalis Karen Gibb Bacteria monitoring is a critical part of wastewater management. At tropical wastewater stabilization ponds (WSPs) in north Australia, sanitation is assessed using the standard fecal indicator...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2419: Correction: Zhu, S., et al. A New Digital Lake Bathymetry Model Using the Step-Wise Water Recession Method to Generate 3D Lake Bathymetric Maps Based on DEMs. Water 2019, 11, 1151 Water doi: 10.3390/w11112419 Authors: Siyu Zhu Baojian Liu Wei Wan Hongjie Xie Yu Fang Xi Chen Huan Li Weizhen Fang Guoqing Zhang Mingwei Tao Yang Hong In the published article [1], the authors realized some errors in the affiliation and email address...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2423: Influence of Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms on a Tropical Microcrustacean Community Based on Taxonomic and Functional Trait Diversity Water doi: 10.3390/w11112423 Authors: Lígia R. Stephan Beatrix E. Beisner Samuel G. M. Oliveira Maria Stela M. Castilho-Noll Macrophytes are important structural attributes of freshwater ponds and wetlands, affecting zooplankton community composition. One of the best-known macrophytes in the world is Eichhornia crassipes,...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2421: Flood Simulations in Mid-Latitude Agricultural Land Using Regional Current and Future Extreme Weathers Water doi: 10.3390/w11112421 Authors: Nobuaki Kimura Hirohide Kiri Sachie Kanada Iwao Kitagawa Ikuo Yoshinaga Hidenori Aiki Recent extreme weather events like the August 2016 flood disaster have significantly affected farmland in mid-latitude regions like the Tokachi River (TR) watershed, the most productive farmland in Japan. The August 2016...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2420: Untargeted Metabolite Profiling for Screening Bioactive Compounds in Digestate of Manure under Anaerobic Digestion Water doi: 10.3390/w11112420 Authors: Jiaxin Lu Atif Muhmood Wojciech Czekała Jakub Mazurkiewicz Jacek Dach Renjie Dong Untargeted metabolite profiling was performed on chicken manure (CHM), swine manure (SM), cattle manure (CM), and their respective digestate by XCMS coupled with MetaboAnalyst programs. Through global chemical...
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