Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 518: A Spray-Dried, Co-Processed Rice Starch as a Multifunctional Excipient for Direct Compression Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060518 Authors: Karnkamol Trisopon Nisit Kittipongpatana Ornanong Suwannapakul Kittipongpatana A new co-processed, rice starch-based excipient (CS) was developed via a spray-drying technique. Native rice starch (RS) was suspended in aqueous solutions of 10%–15% cross-linked carboxymethyl rice starch...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 516: Nano-Vesicle Based Anti-Fungal Formulation Shows Higher Stability, Skin Diffusion, Biosafety and Anti-Fungal Efficacy In Vitro Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060516 Authors: Isaac G. Deaguero Md Nurul Huda Victor Rodriguez Jade Zicari Taslim A. Al-Hilal Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza Md Nurunnabi Opportunistic fungal infections are responsible for over 1.5 million deaths per year. This has created a need for highly effective antifungal...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 517: Production of Drug Delivery Systems Using Fused Filament Fabrication: A Systematic Review Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12060517 Authors: Bahaa Shaqour Aseel Samaro Bart Verleije Koen Beyers Chris Vervaet Paul Cos Fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing technology is widely used in many fields. For almost a decade, medical researchers have been exploring the potential use of this technology for improving the healthcare...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 98: Pharmacy Technicians Help to Push Boundaries in Delivering Quality Care Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8020098 Authors: Shane P. Desselle Kenneth C. Hohmeier We are so pleased that Pharmacy dedicated a themed Special Issue to pharmacy workforce supportpersonnel, namely technicians [...]
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 723: Arabidopsis Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes UBC7, UBC13, and UBC14 Are Required in Plant Responses to Multiple Stress Conditions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060723 Authors: Hui Feng Sheng Wang Dengfeng Dong Ruiyang Zhou Hong Wang Protein ubiquitination plays important roles in plants, including stress responses. The ubiquitin (Ub) E2 enzymes are required in the transfer of Ub to a substrate and are also important in determining the Ub-chain linkage...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 724: Salicylic Acid Stimulates Antioxidant Defense and Osmolyte Metabolism to Alleviate Oxidative Stress in Watermelons under Excess Boron Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060724 Authors: Mohamed Moustafa-Farag Heba I. Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud Amr Elkelish Amarendra N. Misra Kateta Malangisha Guy Muhammad Kamran Shaoying Ai Mingfang Zhang Boron (B) is a microelement required in vascular plants at a high concentration that produces excess boron and...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 725: Impact of Different Phytohormones on Morphology, Yield and Cannabinoid Content of Cannabis sativa L Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060725 Authors: Lisa Burgel Jens Hartung Daniele Schibano Simone Graeff-Hönninger The impact of exogenously applied plant growth regulators (PGR), 1-naphthalenaecetic acid (NAA), 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP), and a mixture of both (NAA/BAP-mix), was investigated in regard to plant height, length of axillary branches, number of...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 722: Growth, Physiology and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Eugenia dysenterica DC under Varying Rates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060722 Authors: Daniele Nogueira dos Reis Fabiano Guimarães Silva Reginaldo da Costa Santana Thales Caetano de Oliveira Mariângela Brito Freiberger Fábia Barbosa da Silva Elídio Monteiro Júnior Caroline Müller The production of high-quality seedlings and their use in commercial planting reduce...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 721: Morpho-Anatomical and Physiological Responses Can Predict the Ideal Period for the Transplantation of Hydroponic Seedlings of Hymenaea courbaril, a Neotropical Fruit Tree Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060721 Authors: Daniele de Cássia Vieira de Sousa Layara Alexandre Bessa Fabiano Guimarães Silva Márcio Rosa Sebastião de Carvalho Vasconcelos Filho Luciana Cristina Vitorino Hydroponics is an excellent alternative approach for the production of seedlings,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 720: Maize Tolerance against Drought and Chilling Stresses Varied with Root Morphology and Antioxidative Defense System Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060720 Authors: Hafiz Athar Hussain Shengnan Men Saddam Hussain Qingwen Zhang Umair Ashraf Shakeel Ahmad Anjum Iftikhar Ali Longchang Wang Maize belongs to a tropical environment and is extremely sensitive to drought and chilling stress, particularly at early developmental stages. The present study...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 719: Genomic Prediction and Genetic Correlation of Agronomic, Blackleg Disease, and Seed Quality Traits in Canola (Brassica napus L.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060719 Authors: Mulusew Fikere Denise M. Barbulescu M. Michelle Malmberg Pankaj Maharjan Phillip A. Salisbury Surya Kant Joe Panozzo Sally Norton German C. Spangenberg Noel O. I. Cogan Hans D. Daetwyler Genomic selection accelerates genetic progress in crop breeding through...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 718: A Low-Cost Method for Phenotyping Wilting and Recovery of Wheat Leaves under Heat Stress Using Semi-Automated Image Analysis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9060718 Authors: Agata Rascio Giuditta De Santis Giuseppe Sorrentino Leaf wilting is the most common symptom of dehydration stress. Methods to analyze this phenomenon are particularly relevant to evaluate crop agronomic performance, to genetically dissect out the wilting process, and for functional analysis...
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Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 87-90: Worldwide 3D Printers against the New Coronavirus Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis2020009 Authors: Fiorillo Leanza The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has placed national health systems of different countries in difficulty, and has demonstrated the need for many types of personal protective equipment (PPE). Thanks to the advent of new three-dimensional printing technologies, it was possible to share print files (using stereolithography (stl))...
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Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 13: Utilization of Waste Cooking Oil via Recycling as Biofuel for Diesel Engines Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5020013 Authors: Hoi Nguyen Xa Thanh Nguyen Viet Khanh Nguyen Duc Vinh Nguyen Duy In this study, waste cooking oil (WCO) was used to successfully manufacture catalyst cracking biodiesel in the laboratory. This study aims to evaluate and compare the influence of waste cooking oil synthetic diesel (WCOSD) with that of commercial diesel (CD)...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 280: The Cao Đài Deathscape: Reimagining Death, Funerals and Salvation in Contemporary Vietnam Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060280 Authors: Jérémy Jammes Shao Zhu Shuai This article sheds light on the sophisticated funeral process set up by the Cao Đài religion (or Caodaism), combining both a theological and an ethnographical analysis. After introducing how Cao Đài theology represents both the body and the spiritual components of each...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 279: Kierkegaard in the Anthropocene: Hope, Philosophy, and the Climate Crisis Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060279 Authors: Ruby Guyatt What is the role of hope in the climate crisis? What type of hope does this crisis demand? How can we sustain hope, in order to resist falling into fatalistic despair or paralyzing fear, whilst always guarding against hope giving way to happy complacency? This essay considers these urgent questions through a novel encounter between...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 278: Seeking Solidarity between Protestant and Catholic Churches for Social Justice in Korea: The Case of the Korea Christian Action Organization for Urban Industrial Mission (Saseon) (1976–1989) Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060278 Authors: Kim The Korea Christian Action Organization for Urban Industrial Mission (Hanguk-gyohoe-sahoeseongyo-hyeubuihoe (Saseon)) was an organization which devoted itself not only to the Korean democratization movement against the...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 277: Superordinate Ties, Value Orientations, and Congregations’ Organizational Cultures Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11060277 Authors: Matthew May In this paper, I examine how clergy’s value orientations and congregations’ relationships to the superordinate organizations in their institutional environment are reflected in congregations’ organizational cultures. My analysis of nearly 50 qualitative interviews with clergy, members, and...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 71: Improving Risk Assessments by Sanitary Inspection for Small Drinking-Water Supplies—Qualitative Evidence Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060071 Authors: Katherine Pond Richard King Jo Herschan Rosalind Malcolm Rory Moses McKeown Oliver Schmoll Small drinking-water supplies face particular challenges in terms of their management. Being vulnerable to contamination but often not monitored regularly nor well-maintained, small drinking-water supplies...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 72: Critical Analysis of the Current State of Knowledge in the Field of Waste Heat Recovery in Sewage Systems Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060072 Authors: Beata Piotrowska Daniel Słyś Sabina Kordana-Obuch Kamil Pochwat The need for efficient use of energy and sustainable energy management and the fact that large quantities of heat are deposited in the discharged sewage have contributed to the development of research on waste heat recovery. Gray water...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 70: Pathway to Sustainability in the Mining Industry: A Case Study of Alcoa and Rio Tinto Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060070 Authors: Prasanna Shrivastava Rachana Vidhi Sustainability for the mining companies is a critical requirement for their ongoing operations. Regulations and licenses generally depend on the companies’ sustainability practices, forcing them to focus on environmental impact and social welfare. While the mining industry has...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 69: Modelling the Steady-State Performance of Coiled Falling-Film Drain Water Heat Recovery Systems Using Rated Data Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060069 Authors: Manouchehri Collins Falling-film drain water heat recovery (DWHR) systems are heat exchangers used to recover energy from warm water travelling down vertical drainpipes. DWHR systems are rated at constant inlet temperatures at multiple flow rates while maintaining an equal flow rate through...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 68: Responsible Materials Management for a Resource-Efficient and Low-Carbon Society Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9060068 Authors: Lucia Mancini Philip Nuss Our societies rely on the quality and availability of natural resources. Driven by population growth, economic development, and innovation, future demand for natural resources is expected to further increase in coming decades. Raw materials will be an important part of society’s future material...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 62: Hedging with Liquidity Risk under CEV Diffusion Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8020062 Authors: Sang-Hyeon Park Kiseop Lee We study a discrete time hedging and pricing problem in a market with the liquidity risk. We consider a discrete version of the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model by applying Leland’s discrete time replication scheme. The pricing equation becomes a nonlinear partial differential equation, and we solve it by a multi scale perturbation...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 41: Organic Molecules: Is It Possible to Distinguish Aromatics from Aliphatics Collected by Space Missions in High-Speed Impacts? Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2020041 Authors: Mark Burchell Kathryn Harriss A prime site of astrobiological interest within the Solar System is the interior ocean of Enceladus. This ocean has already been shown to contain organic molecules, and is thought to have the conditions necessary for more complex organic biomolecules to emerge and potentially...
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 40: Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19): Handling Challenges in Kuwait Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2020040 Authors: Janvier Gasana Maryam Shehab The world is currently facing a serious pandemic of Coronavirus (COVID 19) which started in Wuhan, China, and was then transmitted rapidly to other countries. These countries applied different methods and procedures in an attempt to prevent or reduce and/or control the incident cases and manage prevalent cases. This paper discusses...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 97: Fostering the Social Development of Children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) through Dialogue and Interaction: A Literature Review Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060097 Authors: Aitana Fernandez-Villardon Pilar Alvarez Leire Ugalde Itxaso Tellado The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4 stresses the importance of offering all students an inclusive, quality education, so that they can develop necessary...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 98: Safeguarding Children in the Developing World—Beyond Intra-Organisational Policy and Self-Regulation Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060098 Authors: Afrooz Kaviani Johnson Julia Sloth-Nielsen Safeguarding in the context of development and humanitarian assistance has received heightened international attention since 2018. Emerging literature has not yet investigated the extent to which responses are evolving in the best interests of the child,...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 96: The Use of Facility Dogs to Bridge the Justice Gap for Survivors of Sexual Offending Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060096 Authors: Elizabeth Spruin Katarina Mozova Tammy Dempster Rachel Freeman The current study investigated the support that a facility dog can provide to survivors of sexual crimes when undergoing video-recorded police interviews. In total, 13 survivors of sexual offences, who were undergoing a video-recorded interview,...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 95: Assessment of Mental Burden of Family Caregivers of Persons with Health Disabilities in the Czech Republic Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060095 Authors: Zuzana Truhlarova Ondrej Stech Alena Voseckova Blanka Klimova Kamil Kuca The purpose of this study was to analyse the subjective perception of stress burden in family caregivers, especially those caring for disabled and elderly persons. The tool for quantifying the burden was the Meister...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 94: The Treatment of Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Spanish Curriculum of the Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO): An Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Teaching Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060094 Authors: Daniel Abril-López María del Carmen Morón-Monge Hortensia Morón-Monge José María Cuenca-López Socioeconomic inequality is a burning issue in today’s world. It has been a characteristic feature of human societies since prehistoric...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 93: Wildlife Crime: A Crime of Hegemonic Masculinity? Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9060093 Authors: Ragnhild Sollund Scholarship within green criminology focusing on crimes and harms against nonhuman animals has been increasing. Little attention, however, has been directed at the gendered aspects of these crimes. For example, why is it that the great majority of offenders involved in wildlife trade and the illegal killing of endangered predators are...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 85: Physical and Fitness Characteristics of Elite Professional Rugby Union Players Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8060085 Authors: Logan Posthumus Campbell Macgregor Paul Winwood Katrina Darry Matthew Driller Nicholas Gill This study explored the physical and fitness characteristics of elite professional rugby union players and examined the relationships between these characteristics within forwards and backs. Thirty-nine elite professional rugby union...
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Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 33: Investigation of Methods to Extract Fetal Electrocardiogram from the Mother’s Abdominal Signal in Practical Scenarios Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8020033 Authors: Sadaf Sarafan Tai Le Amir Mohammad Naderi Quoc-Dinh Nguyen Brandon Tiang-Yu Kuo Tadesse Ghirmai Huy-Dung Han Michael P. H. Lau Hung Cao Monitoring of fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) would provide useful information about fetal wellbeing as well as any abnormal...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 379: Functional Profile of Antigen Specific CD4+ T Cells in the Immune Response to Phospholipase A1 Allergen from Polybia paulista Venom Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060379 Authors: Luís Gustavo Romani Fernandes Amilcar Perez-Riverol Murilo Luiz Bazon Débora Moitinho Abram Márcia Regina Brochetto-Braga Ricardo de Lima Zollner Insect venom can cause systemic allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Improvements in diagnosis and venom immunotherapy...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 378: Harmful Algal Bloom Toxicity in Lithobates catesbeiana Tadpoles Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060378 Authors: Robin C. Su Casey M. Meyers Emily A. Warner Jessica A. Garcia Jeanine M. Refsnider Apurva Lad Joshua D. Breidenbach Nikolai Modyanov Deepak Malhotra Steven T. Haller David J. Kennedy Harmful algal blooms (HAB) have become a major health concern worldwide, not just to humans that consume and recreate on contaminated waters,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 380: mRNA Interferase Bacillus cereus BC0266 Shows MazF-Like Characteristics Through Structural and Functional Study Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060380 Authors: Sung-Min Kang Ji Sung Koo Chang-Min Kim Do-Hee Kim Bong-Jin Lee Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are prevalent in bacteria and are known to regulate cellular growth in response to stress. As various functions related to TA systems have been revealed, the importance of TA systems are rapidly...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 377: Zearalenone (ZEN) in Livestock and Poultry: Dose, Toxicokinetics, Toxicity and Estrogenicity Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060377 Authors: Liu Applegate One of the concerns when using grain ingredients in feed formulation for livestock and poultry diets is mycotoxin contamination. Aflatoxin, fumonisin, ochratoxin, trichothecene (deoxynivalenol, T-2 and HT-2) and zearalenone (ZEN) are mycotoxins that have been frequently reported in animal feed. ZEN, which...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 376: A Non-Enzyme and Non-Label Sensitive Fluorescent Aptasensor Based on Simulation-Assisted and Target-Triggered Hairpin Probe Self-Assembly for Ochratoxin a Detection Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060376 Authors: Mengyao Qian Wenxiao Hu Luhui Wang Yue Wang Yafei Dong The monitoring and control of mycotoxins has caused widespread concern due to their adverse effects on human health. In this research, a simple, sensitive and non-label fluorescent aptasensor...
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