Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 78: Tail Risk Transmission: A Study of the Iran Food Industry Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8030078 Authors: Fatemeh Mojtahedi Seyed Mojtaba Mojaverian Daniel F. Ahelegbey Paolo Giudici This paper extends the extreme downside correlation (EDC) and extreme downside hedge (EDH) methodology to model the interdependence in the sensitivity of assets to the downside risk of other financial assets under severe firm-level and market conditions. The model is applied to...
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Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 53: Youth Agency in Civic Education: Contemporary Perspectives from Cabo Verde Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10030053 Authors: Aleida Cristina Mendes Borges Globally, young people have demonstrated a certain level of disenchantment with the way their societies are being governed. Whereas some argue that they have become apathetic and somehow passive bystanders, new trends highlight that the opposite is true in many parts of the world. This paper explores the dynamics...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 103: Validity of the Stryd Power Meter in Measuring Running Parameters at Submaximal Speeds Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8070103 Authors: Frank Imbach Robin Candau Romain Chailan Stephane Perrey This study assessed the Stryd running power meter validity at sub-maximal speeds (8 to 19 km/h). Six recreational runners performed an incremental indoor running test. Power output (PO), ground contact time (GCT) and leg spring stiffness (LSS) were compared to reference...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 102: Predictors of CrossFit Open Performance Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8070102 Authors: Gerald T. Mangine Joy E. Tankersley Jacob M. McDougle Nathanael Velazquez Michael D. Roberts Tiffany A. Esmat Trisha A. VanDusseldorp Yuri Feito The 2018 CrossFit Open (CFO) was the initial stage of an annual competition that consisted of five weekly workouts. Current evidence suggests that a variety of fitness parameters are important for progressing beyond...
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Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 49: Mechanism of Vascular Toxicity in Rats Subjected to Treatment with a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030049 Authors: Claudia Reyes-Goya Álvaro Santana-Garrido Estefanía Soto-Astacio Óscar Aramburu Sonia Zambrano Alfonso Mate Carmen M. Vázquez Sunitinib (Su) is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor with antiangiogenic and antineoplastic effects that is recommended therapy for renal cell carcinoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumors,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 463: Effects of Deoxynivalenol and Zearalenone on the Histology and Ultrastructure of Pig Liver Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070463 Authors: Natalia Skiepko Barbara Przybylska-Gornowicz Magdalena Gajęcka Maciej Gajęcki Bogdan Lewczuk The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of single and combined administrations of deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEN) on the histology and ultrastructure of pig liver. The study was performed on immature...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 464: Anthrax Edema and Lethal Toxins Differentially Target Human Lung and Blood Phagocytes Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070464 Authors: Vineet I. Patel J. Leland Booth Mikhail Dozmorov Brent R. Brown Jordan P. Metcalf Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of inhalation anthrax, is a serious concern as a bioterrorism weapon. The vegetative form produces two exotoxins: Lethal toxin (LT) and edema toxin (ET). We recently characterized and compared six...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 399: Safety and Efficacy Evaluation of Recombinant Marek’s Disease Virus with REV-LTR Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030399 Authors: Cuiping Song Yang Yang Jing Hu Shengqing Yu Yingjie Sun Xvsheng Qiu Lei Tan Chunchun Meng Ying Liao Weiwei Liu Chan Ding Recently, chickens vaccinated with the CVI988/Rispens vaccine showed increased tumor incidence. Moreover, many strains of Marek’s disease virus (MDV) that were naturally...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 393: A Randomized Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Reactogenicity of a Novel rVLP-Based Plant Virus Nanoparticle Adjuvant Combined with Seasonal Trivalent Influenza Vaccine Following Single Immunization in Healthy Adults 18–50 Years of Age Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030393 Authors: Joanne Langley Elodie Pastural Scott Halperin Shelly McNeil May ElSherif Donna MacKinnon-Cameron Lingyun Ye Cécile Grange Valérie Thibodeau Jean-François...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 395: Adjuvant Activity of Synthetic Lipid A of Alcaligenes, a Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue-Resident Commensal Bacterium, to Augment Antigen-Specific IgG and Th17 Responses in Systemic Vaccine Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030395 Authors: Yunru Wang Koji Hosomi Atsushi Shimoyama Ken Yoshii Haruki Yamaura Takahiro Nagatake Tomomi Nishino Hiroshi Kiyono Koichi Fukase Jun Kunisawa Alcaligenes spp. are identified as commensal bacteria...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 397: Identification and Analysis of Unstructured, Linear B-Cell Epitopes in SARS-CoV-2 Virion Proteins for Vaccine Development Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030397 Authors: Andrés Corral-Lugo Mireia López-Siles Daniel López Michael J. McConnell Antonio J. Martin-Galiano The efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid-based vaccines may be limited by proteolysis of the translated product due to anomalous protein folding. This may be the case for vaccines employing...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 396: IMVAMUNE® and ACAM2000® Provide Different Protection against Disease When Administered Postexposure in an Intranasal Monkeypox Challenge Prairie Dog Model Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030396 Authors: M. Shannon Keckler Johanna S Salzer Nishi Patel Michael B Townsend Yoshinori J Nakazawa Jeffrey B Doty Nadia F Gallardo-Romero Panayampalli S Satheshkumar Darin S Carroll Kevin L Karem Inger K Damon The protection provided by smallpox...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 394: NK Cell Memory to Cytomegalovirus: Implications for Vaccine Development
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 394: NK Cell Memory to Cytomegalovirus: Implications for Vaccine Development Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030394 Authors: Calum Forrest Ariane Gomes Matthew Reeves Victoria Male Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells that recognize and eliminate virally-infected and cancerous cells. Members of the innate immune system are not usually considered to mediate immune memory, but over the past decade evidence has emerged that NK cells can do...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 398: Characterization of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Serotype b Strains with Five Different, Including Two Novel, Leukotoxin Promoter Structures Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030398 Authors: Rolf Claesson Huei-Min Chiang Mark Lindholm Carola Höglund Åberg Dorte Haubek Anders Johansson Jan Oscarsson The JP2 genotype of A. actinomycetemcomitans, serotype b has attracted much interest during the past three decades due to its close association...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 94: Postoperative Analgesic Effects of Laserpuncture and Meloxicam in Bitches Submitted to Ovariohysterectomy Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030094 Authors: Rubia M. Tomacheuski Marilda O. Taffarel Guilherme S. Cardoso Ana A. P. Derussi Marcos Ferrante Rodrigo Volpato Stelio P. L. Luna Background: This prospective, randomised and blind study investigated the efficacy of laserpuncture for postoperative pain management in dogs....
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Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 174-188: Experimental and Numerical Investigations into Dynamic Modal Parameters of Fiber-Reinforced Foamed Urethane Composite Beams in Railway Switches and Crossings Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3030014 Authors: Pasakorn Sengsri Chayut Ngamkhanong Andre Luis Oliveira de Melo Sakdirat Kaewunruen Dynamic behaviors of composite railway sleepers and bearers in railway switches and crossings are not well-known and have never been thoroughly investigated....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 778: Putative Role of Arthropod Vectors in African Swine Fever Virus Transmission in Relation to Their Bio-Ecological Properties Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070778 Authors: Sarah I. Bonnet Emilie Bouhsira Nick De Regge Johanna Fite Florence Etoré Mutien-Marie Garigliany Ferran Jori Laetitia Lempereur Marie-Frédérique Le Le Potier Elsa Quillery Claude Saegerman Timothée Vergne Laurence Vial African swine fever (ASF) is one of the...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 776: Tiotropium is Predicted to be a Promising Drug for COVID-19 Through Transcriptome-Based Comprehensive Molecular Pathway Analysis Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070776 Authors: Keunsoo Kang Hoo Hyun Kim Yoonjung Choi The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects almost everyone in the world in many ways. We previously predicted antivirals (atazanavir, remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir)...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 780: Comparative Analyses of the Antiviral Activities of IgG and IgA Antibodies to Influenza A Virus M2 Protein Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070780 Authors: Kosuke Okuya Nao Eguchi Rashid Manzoor Reiko Yoshida Shinji Saito Tadaki Suzuki Michihito Sasaki Takeshi Saito Yurie Kida Akina Mori-Kajihara Hiroko Miyamoto Osamu Ichii Masahiro Kajihara Hideaki Higashi Ayato Takada The influenza A virus (IAV) matrix-2 (M2) protein is...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 779: Age-Dependent Progression of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Syrian Hamsters Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070779 Authors: Nikolaus Osterrieder Luca D. Bertzbach Kristina Dietert Azza Abdelgawad Daria Vladimirova Dusan Kunec Donata Hoffmann Martin Beer Achim D. Gruber Jakob Trimpert In late 2019, an outbreak of a severe respiratory disease caused by an emerging coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, resulted in high morbidity and mortality in infected humans....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 781: Human Metapneumovirus Escapes NK Cell Recognition through the Downregulation of Stress-Induced Ligands for NKG2D Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070781 Authors: Mohammad Diab Dominik Schmiedel Einat Seidel Eran Bacharach Ofer Mandelboim The Pneumoviridae family includes human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and human orthopneumovirus, which is also known as a respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV). These are large enveloped, negative single-strand RNA viruses. HMPV...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 777: Covid-19 Transmission Trajectories—Monitoring the Pandemic in the Worldwide Context Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070777 Authors: Henry Loeffler-Wirth Maria Schmidt Hans Binder The Covid-19 pandemic is developing worldwide with common dynamics but also with marked differences between regions and countries. These are not completely understood, but presumably, provide a clue to find ways to mitigate epidemics until strategies leading to its eradication become...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2061: Biocontrol of Phytopathogens under Aquaponics Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12072061 Authors: Tomás Rivas-García Ramsés Ramón González-Estrada Roberto Gregorio Chiquito-Contreras Juan José Reyes-Pérez Uriel González-Salas Luis Guillermo Hernández-Montiel Bernardo Murillo-Amador Aquaponics is an alternative method of food production that confers advantages of biological and economic resource preservations. Nonetheless, one of the main difficulties...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2060: Assessment of the Urban Water Security in a Severe Water Stress Area–Application to Palestinian Cities Water doi: 10.3390/w12072060 Authors: Samah Jabari Isam Shahrour Jamal EL EL Khatabi This paper presents an assessment of the urban water security in a severe water stress area using a semi-quantitative risk-based approach. Water security indicators are selected according to the recommendations of international institutions, the literature review and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2059: Lagoon Resident Fish Species of Conservation Interest According to the Habitat Directive (92/43/CEE): A Review on Their Potential Use as Ecological Indicator Species Water doi: 10.3390/w12072059 Authors: Chiara Facca Francesco Cavraro Piero Franzoi Stefano Malavasi Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2057: Debris Flow Susceptibility Assessment Using the Integrated Random Forest Based Steady-State Infinite Slope Method: A Case Study in Changbai Mountain, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12072057 Authors: Alu Si Jiquan Zhang Yichen Zhang Emmanuel Kazuva Zhenhua Dong Yongbin Bao Guangzhi Rong Debris flow events often pose significant damage and are a threat to infrastructure and even livelihoods. Recent studies have mainly focused on determining the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2058: Shift Detection in Hydrological Regimes and Pluriannual Low-Frequency Streamflow Forecasting Using the Hidden Markov Model Water doi: 10.3390/w12072058 Authors: Larissa Zaira Rafael Rolim Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho Improved water resource management relies on accurate analyses of the past dynamics of hydrological variables. The presence of low-frequency structures in hydrologic time series is an important feature. It can modify the probability of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2056: Editorial—Using Applied Economics to Study Participatory Irrigation Institutions and Their Impact in South Asia Water doi: 10.3390/w12072056 Authors: Lin Crase For many decades, participatory approaches, with their emphasis on farmer-centred management, have been presented as panaceas for overcoming weaknesses in irrigation systems. Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has assumed such a high status that it is regularly mandated by donors sponsoring irrigation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2055: Macroplastic Storage and Remobilization in Rivers Water doi: 10.3390/w12072055 Authors: Maciej Liro Tim van Emmerik Bartłomiej Wyżga Justyna Liro Paweł Mikuś The paper presents a conceptual model of the route of macroplastic debris (>5 mm) through a fluvial system, which can support future works on the overlooked processes of macroplastic storage and remobilization in rivers. We divided the macroplastic route into (1) input, (2) transport,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2054: Feasible Ways Promoting Nitrate Removal in Riparian Zone Downstream of a Regulated River Water doi: 10.3390/w12072054 Authors: Dongsheng Liu Bei Zhu Haoyu Zhu Jian Zhao Set in the downstream riparian zone of Xin’an River Dam, this paper established a 2D transversal coupling flow and solute transport and reaction model by verification within situ groundwater level and temperature. The denitrifying methods and principles in the riparian zone...
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