Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 279: Characterization and Incidence of the First Member of the Genus Mitovirus Identified in the Phytopathogenic Species Fusarium oxysporum Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030279 Authors: Almudena Torres-Trenas Encarnación Pérez-Artés A novel mycovirus named Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi mitovirus 1 (FodMV1) has been identified infecting a strain of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi from Colombia. The genome of FodMV1 is 2313 nt long, and comprises a 172-nt 5’-UTR,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 278: IRE1α Promotes Zika Virus Infection via XBP1 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030278 Authors: Elena P. Kolpikova Ana R. Tronco Andreas B. den Hartigh Konner J. Jackson Takao Iwawaki Susan L. Fink Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emergent member of the Flaviviridae family which causes severe congenital defects and other major sequelae, but the cellular processes that support ZIKV replication are incompletely understood. Related flaviviruses use the endoplasmic...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 17: Judging Relative Onsets and Offsets of Audiovisual Events Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4010017 Authors: Puti Wen Collins Opoku-Baah Minsun Park Randolph Blake This study assesses the fidelity with which people can make temporal order judgments (TOJ) between auditory and visual onsets and offsets. Using an adaptive staircase task administered to a large sample of young adults, we find that the ability to judge temporal order varies widely among people,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 696: Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to Simulate the Pesticide Dynamics in the Data Scarce Guayas River Basin, Ecuador Water doi: 10.3390/w12030696 Authors: Cambien Gobeyn Nolivos Forio Arias-Hidalgo Dominguez-Granda Witing Volk Goethals Agricultural intensification has stimulated the economy in the Guayas River basin in Ecuador, but also affected several ecosystems. The increased use of pesticides poses a serious threat...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 694: Water Recharge of Jinan Karst Springs, Shandong, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12030694 Authors: Henghua Zhu Liting Xing Qinghan Meng Xuerui Xing Yuming Peng Changsuo Li Hu Li Lizhi Yang As the main scavenge port of groundwater in the karst water system, most of the karst springs affected by human activities experienced discharge attenuation phenomenon in the north of China. Whilst artificial replenishment measures have been taken to keep water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 693: Evaluating the Level of the Household Water Service Provided by a Private Water Enterprise in Ghana Water doi: 10.3390/w12030693 Authors: Philip Deal David Sabatini Innovative service delivery models are attempting to more consistently provide clean water to communities in developing countries. It is imperative that these approaches be evaluated for their performance in these contexts while understating potential consequences. A private service delivery...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 695: Comparison of Searching Behaviour of Three Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Water Distribution System Design Optimization Water doi: 10.3390/w12030695 Authors: Weiwei Bi Yihui Xu Hongyu Wang Over the past few decades, various evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been applied to the optimization design of water distribution systems (WDSs). An important research area is to compare the performance of these EAs, thereby offering guidance for the selection...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 692: Recent Developments and Future Challenges of Hydrogels as Draw Solutes in Forward Osmosis Process Water doi: 10.3390/w12030692 Authors: Jichao Wang Shanshan Gao Jiayu Tian Fuyi Cui Wenxin Shi Forward osmosis (FO) has been recently regarded as a promising water treatment technology due to its lower energy consumption and lower membrane fouling propensity compared to the reverse osmosis (RO). The absence of suitable draw solute constraints the wide-range...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 691: Detection of Helminth Ova in Wastewater Using Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Coupled to Lateral Flow Strips Water doi: 10.3390/w12030691 Authors: Vivek B Ravindran Basma Khallaf Aravind Surapaneni Nicholas D Crosbie Sarvesh K Soni Andrew S Ball Ascaris lumbricoides is a major soil-transmitted helminth that is highly infective to humans. The ova of A. lumbricoides are able to survive wastewater treatment, thus making it an indicator organism...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 690: A New Mass-Conservative, Two-Dimensional, Semi-Implicit Numerical Scheme for the Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations in Gravel Bed Rivers with Erodible Fine Sediments Water doi: 10.3390/w12030690 Authors: Maurizio Tavelli Sebastiano Piccolroaz Giulia Stradiotti Giuseppe Roberto Pisaturo Maurizio Righetti The selective trapping and erosion of fine particles that occur in a gravel bed river have important consequences for its stream ecology, water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 689: Groundwater Contribution to Sewer Network Baseflow in an Urban Catchment-Case Study of Pin Sec Catchment, Nantes, France Water doi: 10.3390/w12030689 Authors: Fabrice Rodriguez Amélie-Laure Le Delliou Hervé Andrieu Jorge Gironás Sewer systems affect urban soil characteristics and subsoil water flow. The direct connection observed between baseflow in sewer systems under drainage infiltrations and piezometric levels influences the hydrological behavior...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 686: Study on the Nearshore Evolution of Regular Waves under Steady Wind Water doi: 10.3390/w12030686 Authors: Changbo Jiang Yang Yang Bin Deng We present a study on regular wave propagation on a sloping bed under the action of steady wind, which is of a great significance to complement and replenish the interaction mechanisms of nearshore wave and wind. Physical experiments were conducted in a wind-wave flume, and the corresponding numerical model was constructed...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 687: Estimating Current and Future Rainfall Erosivity in Greece Using Regional Climate Models and Spatial Quantile Regression Forests Water doi: 10.3390/w12030687 Authors: Konstantinos Vantas Epaminondas Sidiropoulos Athanasios Loukas A future variation of precipitation characteristics, due to climate change, will affect the ability of rainfall to precipitate soil loss. In this paper, the monthly and annual values of rainfall erosivity (R) in Greece are calculated,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 685: Multi-Dimensional Interval Number Decision Model Based on Mahalanobis-Taguchi System with Grey Entropy Method and Its Application in Reservoir Operation Scheme Selection Water doi: 10.3390/w12030685 Authors: Changming Ji Xiaoqing Liang Yang Peng Yanke Zhang Xiaoran Yan Jiajie Wu In decision-making with interval numbers, there are problems such as how to reduce the loss of decision information to improve decision accuracy and the difficulty of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 688: Assessment of Spatial Variation in River Water Quality of the Baiyangdian Basin (China) during Environmental Water Release Period of Upstream Reservoirs Water doi: 10.3390/w12030688 Authors: Ling Zhou Wenchao Sun Quan Han Haiyang Chen He Chen Yongliang Jin Runze Tong Zaifeng Tian Baiyangdian Lake, the largest freshwater body in Northern China, is facing water shortage and eutrophication problems that threaten the lake’s ecosystem....
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