Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1218: Fabrication of Crystalline Microresonators of High Quality Factors with a Controllable Wedge Angle on Lithium Niobate on Insulator Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9091218 Authors: Jianhao Zhang Zhiwei Fang Jintian Lin Junxia Zhou Min Wang Rongbo Wu Renhong Gao Ya Cheng We report the fabrication of crystalline microresonators of high quality (Q) factors with a controllable wedge angle on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). Our technique...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2030: Evaluation of the Influence of Raw Almonds on Appetite Control: Satiation, Satiety, Hedonics and Consumer Perceptions Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092030 Authors: Sophie Hollingworth Michelle Dalton John E. Blundell Graham Finlayson Snack foods can be substantial contributors to daily energy intake, with different types of snacks exerting potentially different effects on satiety per calorie consumed. The present research compared the effect of consuming...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2029: The Influence of Early Nutrition on Brain Growth and Neurodevelopment in Extremely Preterm Babies: A Narrative Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092029 Authors: Barbara E. Cormack Jane E. Harding Steven P. Miller Frank H. Bloomfield Extremely preterm babies are at increased risk of less than optimal neurodevelopment compared with their term-born counterparts. Optimising nutrition is a promising avenue to mitigate the adverse neurodevelopmental...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2028: The Problem of Hospital Malnutrition in the African Continent Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092028 Authors: Renée Blaauw Esther Achar Robin C Dolman Janetta Harbron Merel Moens Faith Munyi Dzifa Nyatefe Janicke Visser This study aims to determine the prevalence of risk of malnutrition on admission and discharge in African hospitals, and to identify the association with selected indicators. In this multi-center prospective cohort study,...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2026: Korean Red Ginseng Extract Increases Apoptosis by Activation of the Noxa Pathway in Colorectal Cancer Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092026 Authors: Yoon A. Jeong Bo Ram Kim Dae Young Kim Soyeon Jeong Yoo Jin Na Jung Lim Kim Hye Kyeong Yun Bu Gyeom Kim Seong Hye Park Min Jee Jo Sun Il Lee Byung-Cheol Han Dae-Hee Lee Sang Cheul Oh Background: Although the anticancer activity of Korean Red Ginseng (KRG) has been known in...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2027: Effectiveness of Non-Animal Chondroitin Sulfate Supplementation in the Treatment of Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis in a Group of Overweight Subjects: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092027 Authors: Mariangela Rondanelli Valentina Braschi Clara Gasparri Mara Nichetti Milena Anna Faliva Gabriella Peroni Maurizio Naso Giancarlo Iannello Daniele Spadaccini Niccolò Miraglia Pietro Putignano...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2025: Breast Milk Content of Vitamin A and E from Early- to Mid-Lactation Is Affected by Inadequate Dietary Intake in Brazilian Adult Women Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092025 Authors: Michele R. Machado Fernanda Kamp Juliana C. Nunes Tatiana El-Bacha Alexandre G. Torres Our aims were to investigate vitamin A and E status during lactation and the determinants of breast milk content for the appropriate nutrition of the infant in a study with nursing...
Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2024: Mice Lacking the Intestinal and Renal Neutral Amino Acid Transporter SLC6A19 Demonstrate the Relationship between Dietary Protein Intake and Amino Acid Malabsorption Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092024 Authors: Kiran Javed Stefan Bröer Dietary protein restriction has beneficial impacts on metabolic health. B0AT1 (SLC6A19) is the major transporter of neutral amino acids at the intestinal epithelia and absorbs the bulk of the diet-derived neutral amino...
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Particles, Vol. 2, Pages 385-410: Nonlocal Scalar Quantum Field Theory—Functional Integration, Basis Functions Representation and Strong Coupling Expansion Particles doi: 10.3390/particles2030024 Authors: Matthew Bernard Vladislav A. Guskov Mikhail G. Ivanov Alexey E. Kalugin Stanislav L. Ogarkov Nonlocal quantum field theory (QFT) of one-component scalar field φ in D-dimensional Euclidean spacetime is considered. The generating functional (GF) of complete Green...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 12, Pages 126: Multilevel Impacts of Iron in the Brain: The Cross Talk between Neurophysiological Mechanisms, Cognition, and Social Behavior Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph12030126 Authors: Ana Ferreira Pedro Neves Raffaella Gozzelino Iron is a critical element for most organisms, which plays a fundamental role in the great majority of physiological processes. So much so, that disruption of iron homeostasis has severe multi-organ impacts with the brain being...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 127: The Experiences of People Living with Peripheral Neuropathy in Kuwait—A Process Map of the Patient Journey Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030127 Authors: Maryam Alkandari Kath Ryan Amelia Hollywood Peripheral neuropathy is a neurological disease characterised by pain, numbness, tingling, swelling or muscle weakness due to nerve damage, caused by multiple factors such as trauma, infections and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. In Kuwait 54% of the...
Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 126: Polypharmacy Definitions for Multimorbid Older Adults Need Stronger Foundations to Guide Research, Clinical Practice and Public Health Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030126 Authors: Caroline Sirois Nelia Sofia Domingues Marie-Laure Laroche Arsène Zongo Carlotta Lunghi Line Guénette Edeltraut Kröger Valérie Émond There are numerous definitions of polypharmacy to describe the use of many medications among older adults, but there is a need...
Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 125: Pharmacists’ Utilization of Information Sources Related to Community and Population Needs in the Upper Midwest and Associations with Continuing Professional Education Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030125 Authors: Paul Henkel Marketa Marvanova Background: To investigate information sources utilized in pharmacists’ assessment of population-based health needs and/or community changes; and the association between information sources utilized and...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 312: N-Linked Glycosylation Modulates Golgi-Independent Vacuolar Sorting Mediated by the Plant Specific Insert Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090312 Authors: Vanessa Vieira Bruno Peixoto Mónica Costa Susana Pereira José Pissarra Cláudia Pereira In plant cells, the conventional route to the vacuole involves the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi and the prevacuolar compartment. However, over the years, unconventional sorting to the vacuole, bypassing the...
Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 313: The Evolution of the KANADI Gene Family and Leaf Development in Lycophytes and Ferns Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090313 Authors: Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona Alejandra Vasco Barbara A. Ambrose Leaves constitute the main photosynthetic plant organ and even though their importance is not debated, the origin and development of leaves still is. The leaf developmental network has been elucidated for angiosperms, from genes controlling leaf initiation, to leaf polarity...
Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 311: Effect of Long-Term Fungicide Applications on Virulence and Diversity of Colletotrichum spp. Associated to Olive Anthracnose Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090311 Authors: Materatski Varanda Carvalho Dias Campos Gomes Nobre Rei Félix In this study, the presence and variability of Colletotrichum spp. was evaluated by comparing fungal isolates obtained from olive trees under long-time phytosanitary treatments with trees without any...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 507: Introduction to the Special Issue on “Religions in African-American Popular Culture” Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090507 Authors: Angela M. Nelson This Special Issue on “Religions in African-American Popular Culture” puts the concepts of religion and popular culture in dialogue (Cobb 2005; Greeley 1988; Hinds et al [...]
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Toxics, Vol. 7, Pages 45: Real-Time Assessment of E-Cigarettes and Conventional Cigarettes Emissions: Aerosol Size Distributions, Mass and Number Concentrations Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics7030045 Authors: Spyros Lampos Evangelia Kostenidou Konstantinos Farsalinos Zoi Zagoriti Aristeidis Ntoukas Konstantinos Dalamarinis Panagiotis Savranakis George Lagoumintzis Konstantinos Poulas Cigarette smoke is a complex mixture of chemical compounds which are emitted during...
Toxics, Vol. 7, Pages 44: Toxicity of Aqueous L-Selenomethionine and Tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide Exposure to Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Embryos Following Tert-Butyl Hydroquinone Treatment Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics7030044 Authors: Allyson K. Gerhart David M. Janz Aqueous L-selenomethionine (SeMet) embryo exposures represent a rapid and simplified method for investigating the embryotoxic effects of SeMet. Using zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism, the objective of the present study...
Toxics, Vol. 7, Pages 43: Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Bisphenol A Interact with Doxorubicin Transcriptional Effects in Human Cell Lines Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics7030043 Authors: Edna Ribeiro Mariana Delgadinho Miguel Brito The worldwide production of synthetic chemicals, including endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs), such as Bisphenol A (BPA) has increased significantly in the last two decades. Human exposure to BPA, particularly through ingestion, is continuous...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 504: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study on Pharmacological Habitus, Headache-Related Disability and Psychological Profile in Patients with Chronic Migraine Undergoing OnabotulinumtoxinA Prophylactic Treatment Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090504 Authors: Gandolfi Donisi Marchioretto Battista Smania Del Piccolo Chronic Migraine (CM) is a disabling neurologic condition with a severe impact on functioning and quality of life. Successful therapeutic...
Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 505: Baicalein Inhibits Stx1 and 2 of EHE: Effects of Baicalein on the Cytotoxicity, Production, and Secretion of Shiga Toxins of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090505 Authors: Vinh Shinohara Yamada Duc Nakayama Ozawa Sato Masuda Honjoh Miyamoto Shiga toxin-producing enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is an important foodborne pathogen. Baicalein (5,6,7-trihydroxylflavone), a...
Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 503: Fusarubin and Anhydrofusarubin Isolated from A Cladosporium Species Inhibit Cell Growth in Human Cancer Cell Lines Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090503 Authors: Sabrina Adorisio Alessandra Fierabracci Isabella Muscari Anna Marina Liberati Lorenza Cannarile Trinh Thi Thuy Tran Van Sung Hossain Sohrab Choudhury Mahmood Hasan Emira Ayroldi Carlo Riccardi Abdul Mazid Domenico V. Delfino Cladosporium species are endophytic fungi...
Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 502: Genetics, Toxicity, and Distribution of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Hemolysin Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090502 Authors: Maike Schwidder Laura Heinisch Herbert Schmidt The ability to produce enterohemolysin is regarded as a potential virulence factor for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) and is frequently associated with severe human diseases such as hemorrhagic colitis (HC) and the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). The responsible toxin,...
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Urban Science, Vol. 3, Pages 96: Living Structure Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: Christopher Alexander Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci3030096 Authors: Bin Jiang Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: “Far more small things than large ones” across all scales from the smallest...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 801: Detection of Pig Cells Harboring Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses in Non-Human Primate Bladder After Renal Xenotransplantation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090801 Authors: Yoonki Heo Yeondong Cho Keon Bong Oh Ki Hoon Park Hansam Cho Hanul Choi Minjee Kim Ik Jin Yun Hee Jung Lee Young Bong Kim Pigs are used as potential donor animals for xenotransplantation. However, porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV), shown to infect both human and...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 800: Fusogenicity of the Ghana Virus (Henipavirus: Ghanaian bat henipavirus) Fusion Protein is Controlled by the Cytoplasmic Domain of the Attachment Glycoprotein Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090800 Authors: Kathleen Voigt Markus Hoffmann Jan Felix Drexler Marcel Alexander Müller Christian Drosten Georg Herrler Nadine Krüger The Ghana virus (GhV) is phylogenetically related to the zoonotic henipaviruses Nipah (NiV) and Hendra virus. Although GhV uses...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 802: Lettuce Chlorosis Virus Disease: A New Threat to Cannabis Production Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090802 Authors: Hadad Luria Smith Sela Lachman Dombrovsky In a survey conducted in Cannabis sativa L. (cannabis) authorized farms in Israel, plants showed disease symptoms characteristic of nutrition deprivation. Interveinal chlorosis, brittleness, and occasional necrosis were observed in older leaves. Next generation sequencing analysis of RNA...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 798: Updated Phylogeny of Chikungunya Virus Suggests Lineage-Specific RNA Architecture Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090798 Authors: Adriano de Bernardi Schneider Roman Ochsenreiter Reilly Hostager Ivo L. Hofacker Daniel Janies Michael T. Wolfinger Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, has recently emerged in the Americas from lineages from two continents: Asia and Africa. Historically, CHIKV circulated as at...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 799: A Novel Bacterium-Like Particle Vaccine Displaying the MERS-CoV Receptor-Binding Domain Induces Specific Mucosal and Systemic Immune Responses in Mice Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090799 Authors: Li Chi Huang Yan Zhang Liu Wang Li Zhang Mo Jin Wang Feng Wang Bi Wang Sun Gao Zhao Yang Xia Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a new coronavirus that has been causing...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 797: Mayaro Virus Infects Human Chondrocytes and Induces the Expression of Arthritis-Related Genes Associated with Joint Degradation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090797 Authors: Michèle Bengue Pauline Ferraris Cécile Baronti Cheikh Tidiane Diagne Loïc Talignani Sineewanlaya Wichit Florian Liegeois Catherine Bisbal Antoine Nougairède Dorothée Missé Mayaro virus (MAYV) is an emerging arthritogenic alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family....
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 796: The T-Cell Response to Type 2 Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090796 Authors: Andrew R. Kick Amanda F. Amaral Lizette M. Cortes Jonathan E. Fogle Elisa Crisci Glen W. Almond Tobias Käser Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to cause severe reproductive and respiratory pathologies resulting in immense monetary and welfare costs for the swine industry. The...
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 795: Experimental Infection of Pregnant Female Sheep with Zika Virus During Early Gestation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090795 Authors: Erika R. Schwarz Malgorzata A. Pozor Ruiyu Pu Kelli L. Barr Sarah E. Beachboard N. James MacLachlan Dhani Prakoso Maureen T. Long Zika virus (ZIKV) is a vertically and sexually transmissible virus resulting in severe congenital malformation. The goal of this study was to develop an ovine model of ZIKV infection....
Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 794: Throw out the Map: Neuropathogenesis of the Globally Expanding California Serogroup of Orthobunyaviruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090794 Authors: Alyssa B. Evans Karin E. Peterson The California serogroup (CSG) comprises 18 serologically and genetically related mosquito-borne orthobunyaviruses. Of these viruses, at least seven have been shown to cause neurological disease in humans, including the leading cause of pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1805: The Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production in Uganda—An Integrated Systems Assessment with Water and Energy Implications Water doi: 10.3390/w11091805 Authors: Sridharan Ramos Zepeda Boehlert Shivakumar Taliotis Howells With less than 3% of agricultural cropland under irrigation, subsistence farmers in Uganda are dependent on seasonal precipitation for crop production. The majority of crops grown in the country—especially...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1806: Estimation of Soil Erosion in the Chaohu Lake Basin through Modified Soil Erodibility Combined with Gravel Content in the RUSLE Model Water doi: 10.3390/w11091806 Authors: Sai Hu Long Li Longqian Chen Liang Cheng Lina Yuan Xiaodong Huang Ting Zhang It is generally acknowledged that soil erosion has become one of the greatest global threats to the human–environment system. Although the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1804: Unfolding the Water Framework Directive Implementation at the River Basin District Scale: An Italian Case Study on Irrigation Measures Water doi: 10.3390/w11091804 Authors: Pellegrini Bortolini Defrancesco Despite that the European Water Framework Directive has attracted scholars’ attention worldwide, research is sparse on how its implementation is carried out for the whole River Basin District (RBD). This paper aims to fill this research...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1802: The-Proof-of-Concept of Biochar Floating Cover Influence on Water pH Water doi: 10.3390/w11091802 Authors: Zhanibek Meiirkhanuly Jacek A. Koziel Andrzej Białowiec Chumki Banik Robert C. Brown Studies have shown that biochar has the potential to remove organic and inorganic contaminants from wastewater. pH is known to have a crucial role in the transformation of pollutants. In this research, we explore the feasibility of using biochars properties...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1803: Scaling up Microbial Fuel Cells for Treating Swine Wastewater Water doi: 10.3390/w11091803 Authors: Yuko Goto Naoko Yoshida Conventional aerobic treatment of swine wastewater, which generally contains 4500–8200 mg L−1 of organic matter, is energy-consuming. The aim of this study was to assess the application of scaled-up microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with different capacities (i.e., 1.5 L, 12 L, and 100 L) for removing organic matter from...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1800: The Influence of Channel Morphological Changes on Environmental Flow Requirements in Urban Rivers Water doi: 10.3390/w11091800 Authors: Liu Zhang Buxian Yuan Xinan Yin Yanwei Zhao Previous research on environmental flows (e-flows) of urban rivers usually assumes that the channel morphology is fixed. However, due to the trapping of sediments by weirs, the channel morphology will undergo significant changes. In this research, the influence of channel...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1799: Rice Irrigation Schedule Optimization Based on the AquaCrop Model: Study of the Longtouqiao Irrigation District Water doi: 10.3390/w11091799 Authors: Biying Zhai Qiang Fu Tianxiao Li Dong Liu Yi Ji Mo Li Song Cui As a crop with high water consumption, rice is an important measure of efforts to improve agricultural irrigation efficiency and alleviate the contradiction between the supply and demand of agricultural water resources. This paper...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1801: Interannual Hydroclimatic Variability of the Lake Mweru Basin, Zambia Water doi: 10.3390/w11091801 Authors: Peter Waylen Christopher Annear Erin Bunting Annual precipitation inputs to the Lake Mweru basin, Zambia, were computed from historic data and recent gridded data sets to determine historic (1925–2013) changes in lake level and their potential impacts on the important fisheries of the lake. The results highlight a period from the early...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1797: Assessing the Freshwater Quality of a Large-Scale Mining Watershed: The Need for Integrated Approaches Water doi: 10.3390/w11091797 Authors: Daniel Mercado-Garcia Eveline Beeckman Jana Van Butsel Nilton Deza Arroyo Marco Sanchez Peña Cécile Van Buggendhoudt Nancy De Saeyer Marie Anne Eurie Forio Karel A. C. De Schamphelaere Guido Wyseure Peter Goethals Water quality assessments provide essential information for protecting aquatic...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1796: Factors Controlling the Spatial and Temporal Variability in Groundwater 222Rn and U Levels Water doi: 10.3390/w11091796 Authors: Soo Young Cho Min-Ho Koo Byong Wook Cho Youn-Young Jung Yong Hwa Oh Radon (222Rn) and uranium (U) measurements were conducted in 98 groundwater samples in Yongin area, Korea to identify the factors controlling their levels and spatial distributions. Groundwater samples were obtained from the different depth of wells used...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1798: Impacts of Climate Change on the Hydro-Climate of Peninsular Malaysia Water doi: 10.3390/w11091798 Authors: Ir. Mohd Zaki bin Mat Amin Ali Ercan Kei Ishida M. Levent Kavvas Z.Q. Chen Su-Hyung Jang In this study, a regional climate model was used to dynamically downscale 15 future climate projections from three GCMs covering four emission scenarios (SRES B1, A1FI, A1B, A2) based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) datasets...
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1795: An Improved Genetic Algorithm Coupling a Back-Propagation Neural Network Model (IGA-BPNN) for Water-Level Predictions Water doi: 10.3390/w11091795 Authors: Nengcheng Chen Chang Xiong Wenying Du Chao Wang Xin Lin Zeqiang Chen Accurate water-level prediction is of great significance to flood disaster monitoring. A genetic algorithm coupling a back-propagation neural network (GA-BPNN) has been adopted as a hybrid model to improve forecast performance....
Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1794: Enhanced Photo-Catalytic Performance of Activated Carbon Fibers for Water Treatment Water doi: 10.3390/w11091794 Authors: Konstantinos V. Plakas Athina Taxintari Anastasios J. Karabelas The synthesis, characterization, and performance of composite photocatalytic adsorbents are investigated in this work using the dip-coating and the electrophoretic coating methods for the deposition of titanium dioxide (TiO2) on porous activated carbon fiber (ACF) substrates....
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