Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 925: SNP Markers and Evaluation of Duplicate Holdings of Brassica oleracea in Two European Genebanks Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9080925 Authors: Anna E. Palmé Jenny Hagenblad Svein Øivind Solberg Karolina Aloisi Anna Artemyeva Around the world, there are more than 1500 genebanks storing plant genetic resources to be used in breeding and research. Such resources are essential for future food security, but many genebanks experience backlogs in their conservation...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 168-184: A Finite Element Model for Trigger Finger Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis2030015 Authors: Helena I. Relf Carla G. Barberio Daniel M. Espino The aim of this study was to develop a finite element model to investigate the forces on tendons which ensue due to trigger finger. The model was used to simulate both flexor and extensor tendons within the index finger; two test cases were defined, simulating a “mildly” and “severely”...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 377: Tolerance in UAE Islamic Education Textbooks Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080377 Authors: Mariam Alhashmi Naved Bakali Rama Baroud The concept of “tolerance” has been thoroughly promoted within educational settings in light of the increasing need to foster co-existence and to nurture peaceful climates in societies. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Islamic education curriculum promotes the notion of tolerance as a core tenant across...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 376: A Non-Doxastic Fear of Hell: On the Impact of Negative Factors for an Agnostic Religious Commitment Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080376 Authors: Carl-Johan Palmqvist On the standard view, an agnostic might commit non-doxastically to religion because she wants to receive some goods, which might be either natural or supernatural in kind. I broaden the picture by showing how the agnostic must also take negative factors into account. Negative mundane factors...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Safety, Vol. 6, Pages 36: A Decision Tree Approach to the Risk Evaluation of Urban Water Distribution Network Pipes Safety doi: 10.3390/safety6030036 Authors: Yanying Yang Yu Hu Jianchun Zheng To evaluate the risk of a pipe in the water supply network of Beijing, we used the accident records of the gridding urban management (GUM) system. In addition, road and building information derived from a three-dimensional (3D) electronic map was also employed. A machine learning algorithm,...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Sci. Pharm., Vol. 88, Pages 30: Sunitinib-Loaded MPEG-PCL Micelles for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Scientia Pharmaceutica doi: 10.3390/scipharm88030030 Authors: Jarriaun Streets Priyanka Bhatt Deepak Bhatia Vijaykumar Sutariya Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will be responsible for the vision impairment of more than five million late-aged adults in the next 30 years. Current treatment includes frequent intravitreal injections of anti-vascular endothelial...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 128: A Study of the Protocols for Action on Sexual Harassment in Public Universities—Proposals for Improvement Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9080128 Authors: Ignacio Rodriguez-Rodriguez Purificación Heras-González Sexual harassment and harassment on the grounds of sex are social problems that still need to be solved in 2020. Universities are not immune to these issues and they generally determine a set of measures to be implemented, sometimes in...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 127: Gender and Social Justice in Urban Agriculture: The Network of Agroecological and Peripheral Female Urban Farmers from São Paulo Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9080127 Authors: Laura Martins de Carvalho Cláudia Maria Bógus This article analyses women’s participation in the ‘Network of Agroecological and Peripheral Female Urban Farmers’, an agroecological urban agriculture grassroots network in São Paulo,...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Technologies, Vol. 8, Pages 41: A Space-Time Correlation Model for MRC Receivers in Rayleigh Fading Channels Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies8030041 Authors: Ramiro Sámano-Robles This paper presents a statistical model for maximum ratio combining (MRC) receivers in Rayleigh fading channels enabled with a temporal combining process. This means that the receiver effectively combines spatial and temporal branch components. Therefore, the signals that will be processed by the MRC receiver...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 467: Introduction to the Toxins Special Issue on Improved Analytical Technologies for the Detection of Natural Toxins and Their Metabolites in Food Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080467 Authors: Veronica Maria Teresa Lattanzio Food, by nature, is a biological substrate and is therefore capable of supporting the growth of microbials that are potential producers of toxic compounds [...]
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 404: COVID-19: Mechanisms of Vaccination and Immunity Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030404 Authors: Daniel E. Speiser Martin F. Bachmann Vaccines are needed to protect from SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. Vaccines that induce large quantities of high affinity virus-neutralizing antibodies may optimally prevent infection and avoid unfavorable effects. Vaccination trials require precise clinical management, complemented with detailed evaluation of safety...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 406: Designing Functionally Versatile, Highly Immunogenic Peptide-Based Multiepitopic Vaccines against Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030406 Authors: Sira Defaus Mar Forner Rodrigo Cañas-Arranz Patricia de León María J. Bustos Miguel Rodríguez-Pulido Esther Blanco Francisco Sobrino David Andreu A broadly protective and biosafe vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) remains an unmet need in the animal...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 405: Willingness to Pay for Seasonal Influenza Vaccination among Children, Chronic Disease Patients, and the Elderly in China: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030405 Authors: Xiaozhen Lai Hongguo Rong Xiaochen Ma Zhiyuan Hou Shunping Li Rize Jing Haijun Zhang Zhibin Peng Luzhao Feng Hai Fang Background: The disease burden of seasonal influenza is substantial in China, while the vaccination rate is extremely...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 403: Enhanced Immunogenicity of Engineered HER2 Antigens Potentiates Antitumor Immune Responses Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030403 Authors: Insu Jeon Jeong-Mi Lee Kwang-Soo Shin Taeseung Kang Myung Hwan Park Hyungseok Seo Boyeong Song Choong-Hyun Koh Jeongwon Choi Young Kee Shin Byung-Seok Kim Chang-Yuil Kang For cancer vaccines, the selection of optimal tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) that can maximize the immunogenicity of...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 407: Sex-Differential Impact of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection on In Vitro Reactivity to Toll-Like Receptor 2, 4 and 7/8 Stimulation in Gambian Infants Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030407 Authors: Momodou Cox Jane U. Adetifa Fatou Noho-Konteh Lady C. Sanyang Abdoulie Drammeh Magdalena Plebanski Hilton C. Whittle Sarah L. Rowland-Jones Iain Robertson Katie L. Flanagan Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection rates approach 100% by the...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 402: Revisiting CD8 T-cell ‘Memory Inflation’: New Insights with Implications for Cytomegaloviruses as Vaccine Vectors Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030402 Authors: Rafaela Holtappels Kirsten Freitag Angelique Renzaho Sara Becker Niels A.W. Lemmermann Matthias J. Reddehase Murine models of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection have revealed an exceptional kinetics of the immune response. After resolution of productive infection, transient contraction...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 786: Genome Sequencing of a Camelpox Vaccine Reveals Close Similarity to Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080786 Authors: Maurilia Marcacci Abdelmalik I. Khalafalla Zulaikha M. Al Hammadi Federica Monaco Cesare Cammà Mohammed F. Yusof Saeed M. Al Yammahi Iolanda Mangone Fabrizia Valleriani Mohamed A. Alhosani Nicola Decaro Alessio Lorusso Salama S. Almuhairi Giovanni Savini Camelpox is a viral...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 787: Comparison of Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Imaging to Chromogenic Immunohistochemistry of Skin Biomarkers in Response to Monkeypox Virus Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080787 Authors: Anup Sood Yunxia Sui Elizabeth McDonough Alberto Santamaría-Pang Yousef Al-Kofahi Zhengyu Pang Peter B. Jahrling Jens H. Kuhn Fiona Ginty Over the last 15 years, advances in immunofluorescence-imaging based cycling methods, antibody conjugation methods,...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 34: Attention Distribution While Detecting Conflicts between Converging Objects: An Eye-Tracking Study Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4030034 Authors: Eisma Looijestijn de Winter In many domains, including air traffic control, observers have to detect conflicts between moving objects. However, it is unclear what the effect of conflict angle is on observers’ conflict detection performance. In addition, it has been speculated that observers use specific...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2083: Understanding the Key Factors That Influence Efficient Water-Saving Practices among Tourists: A Mediterranean Case Study Water doi: 10.3390/w12082083 Authors: Maria Torres-Bagur Anna Ribas Josep Vila-Subirós The future of tourism activity is dependent on its ability to adapt to the effects of climate change. One of the most notable effects in the Mediterranean area will be water shortages in a scenario marked by increasing demand for this resource. While...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2081: Analysis of Infiltrating Water Characteristics of Permeable Pavements in a Parking Lot at Full Scale Water doi: 10.3390/w12082081 Authors: Jaerock Park Jaehyun Park Jonghyun Cheon Jaehyuk Lee Hyunsuk Shin Impermeable materials are used for parking lots at apartment complexes and large stores which are concentrated in urban areas. These materials increase the amount of surface runoff by blocking infiltration, resulting in flood damage, dry stream...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2082: Modeling Green Roof Potential to Mitigate Urban Flooding in a Chinese City Water doi: 10.3390/w12082082 Authors: Li Liu Liwei Sun Jie Niu William J. Riley The Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River (MLRYR) region, which has humid subtropical climate conditions and unique plum rain season, is characterized by a simultaneous high-frequency urban flooding and reduction in groundwater levels. Retrofitting the existing buildings into green roofs...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2077: Ecohydrological Separation Hypothesis: Review and Prospect Water doi: 10.3390/w12082077 Authors: Yaping Liu Yongchen Fang Hongchang Hu Fuqiang Tian Zhiqiang Dong Mohd Yawar Ali Khan The ecohydrological-separation (ES) hypothesis is that the water used for plant transpiration and the water used for streams and groundwater recharge comes from distinct subsurface compartmentalized pools. The ES hypothesis was first proposed in a study conducted...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2079: Spatial Predictions of Debris Flow Susceptibility Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Jilin Province, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12082079 Authors: Yang Chen Shengwu Qin Shuangshuang Qiao Qiang Dou Wenchao Che Gang Su Jingyu Yao Uzodigwe Emmanuel Nnanwuba Debris flows are a major geological disaster that can seriously threaten human life and physical infrastructures. The main contribution of this paper is the establishment of...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2078: Photolytic Degradation of Tetracycline in the Presence of Ca(II) and/or Humic Acid Water doi: 10.3390/w12082078 Authors: Si Li Yiyan He Fanguang Kong Weiling Sun Jiangyong Hu Photolytic degradation of tetracycline (TC) was investigated in mono- and binary solute systems of Ca(II) and humic acid (HA) under UVA light emitting diode (UVA-LED) light irradiation. TC photolysis proceeded via pseudo-first-order reaction kinetics. The presence of Ca(II)...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2076: An Integrated Approach for the Simulation Modeling and Risk Assessment of Coastal Flooding Water doi: 10.3390/w12082076 Authors: Yazhi Zheng Hai Sun The evaluation of storm surge flood risk is vital to disaster management and planning at national, regional and local levels, particularly in coastal areas that are affected more severely by storm surges. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new method that includes two modules for the simulation modeling...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2080: Dynamic Distributed Storage of Stormwater in Sponge-Like Porous Bodies: Modelling Water Uptake Water doi: 10.3390/w12082080 Authors: T. Staffan Lundström Hans O. Åkerstedt I. A. Sofia Larsson Jiri Marsalek Maria Viklander An innovative concept of dynamic stormwater storage in sponge-like porous bodies (SPBs) is presented and modelled using first principles, for down-flow and up-flow variants of SPBs. The rate of inflow driven by absorption and/or...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2075: Probabilistic Prediction of Significant Wave Height Using Dynamic Bayesian Network and Information Flow Water doi: 10.3390/w12082075 Authors: Ming Li Kefeng Liu Short-term prediction of wave height is paramount in oceanic operation-related activities. Statistical models have advantages in short-term wave prediction as complex physical process is substantially simplified. However, previous statistical models have no consideration in selection of predictive...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2074: Environmental Fate and Effects of Foaming Agents Containing Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulphate in Soil Debris from Mechanized Tunneling Water doi: 10.3390/w12082074 Authors: Luisa Patrolecco Tanita Pescatore Livia Mariani Ludovica Rolando Paola Grenni Antonio Finizio Francesca Spataro Jasmin Rauseo Nicoletta Ademollo Valerio Giorgio Muzzini Enrica Donati Ines Lacchetti Sara Padulosi Anna Barra Caracciolo A wide use of foaming...
Wed Jul 22, 2020 03:00
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