Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 80: Analysis of the Compliance Properties of an Industrial Robot with the Mozzi Axis Approach Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8030080 Authors: Doria Cocuzza Comand Bottin Rossi In robotic processes, the compliance of the robot arm plays a very important role. In some conditions, for example, in robotic assembly, robot arm compliance can compensate for small position and orientation errors of the end-effector. In other processes, like machining,...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 64: Class, Style and Territory in the Drari Microcultures of Brussels Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9030064 Authors: Mattias De Backer Much like Parsons’s notion of “youth culture,” the tradition of subculture developed by the Birmingham School was criticised as being too romantic, too general, and too dependent on a simplistic model based on the inside/outside binary. Since the 1990s, “post-subcultural” studies have...
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Technologies, Vol. 7, Pages 65: Data-Driven Recognition and Extraction of PDF Document Elements Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies7030065 Authors: Matthias Hansen André Pomp Kemal Erki Tobias Meisen In the age of digitalization, the collection and analysis of large amounts of data is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to improve their businesses and processes, such as the introduction of new services or the realization of resource-efficient production. Enterprises...
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Technologies, Vol. 7, Pages 64: Enhancing Q-Factor in a Biquadratic Bandpass Filter Implemented with Opamps Technologies doi: 10.3390/technologies7030064 Authors: Esteban Tlelo-Coyotecatl Alejandro Díaz-Sánchez José Miguel Rocha-Pérez Jose Luis Vázquez-González Luis Abraham Sánchez-Gaspariano Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle Active filter design is a mature topic that provides good solutions that can be implemented using discrete devices or integrated circuit technology. For instance,...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 525: Vaccine Production to Protect Animals Against Pathogenic Clostridia Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090525 Authors: Zaragoza Orellana Moonen Moutafis Marcellin Clostridium is a broad genus of anaerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria that can be found in different environments all around the world. The genus includes human and animal pathogens that produce potent exotoxins that cause rapid and potentially fatal diseases responsible...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 4, Pages 119: A Decade of Avian Influenza in Bangladesh: Where Are We Now? Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed4030119 Authors: Rimi Hassan Chowdhury Rahman Sultana Biswas Debnath Islam Ross Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been a public health threat in Bangladesh since the first reported outbreak in poultry in 2007. The country has undertaken numerous efforts to detect, track, and combat avian...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 111: Mutations in VP0 and 2C Proteins of Duck Hepatitis A Virus Type 3 Attenuate Viral Infection and Virulence Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7030111 Authors: Wen Guo Sun Wang Cao Cheng Zhu Liu Zhao Yang Chen Jia Wu Zhang Mao Ou Chen Yu Zhang Liu Tian Pan Rehman Duck hepatitis A virus (DHAV) is prevalent worldwide and has caused significant economic losses. As the predominant...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 110: The Cellular Immune Response to Rabies Vaccination: A Systematic Review
Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 110: The Cellular Immune Response to Rabies Vaccination: A Systematic Review Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7030110 Authors: Overduin van Dongen Visser The effectiveness of rabies vaccines is conventionally determined by serological testing. In addition to this assessment of humoral immunity, cellular immunity could help assess effectiveness and protection through a broad range of parameters. Therefore, this study aimed to systematically review all literature...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 847: Rice Dwarf Virus Small RNA Profiles in Rice and Leafhopper Reveal Distinct Patterns in Cross-Kingdom Hosts Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090847 Authors: Yu Wang Rui Qiao Chunhong Wei Yi Li RNA silencing has evolved as a widespread antiviral strategy in many eukaryotic organisms. Antiviral RNA silencing is mediated by virus-derived small RNAs (vsiRNAs), created by the cleavage of double-stranded viral RNA substrates by Dicer (Dcr) in animals or Dicer-like...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 845: Follow-Up of Viral Parameters in FeLV- or FIV-Naturally Infected Cats Treated Orally with Low Doses of Human Interferon Alpha Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090845 Authors: Gomez-Lucia Collado Miró Martín Benítez Doménech Specific treatments for the long-life infections by feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are either toxic, expensive or not too effective. Interferon α (IFN-α) is an immunomodulatory...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 846: A Deep-Sequencing Workflow for the Fast and Efficient Generation of High-Quality African Swine Fever Virus Whole-Genome Sequences Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090846 Authors: Forth Forth King Groza Hübner Olesen Höper Dixon Netherton Rasmussen Blome Pohlmann Beer African swine fever (ASF) is a severe disease of suids caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV). Its dsDNA genome (170–194 kbp) is scattered...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 843: Presence of a Novel Subtype of Bovine Hepacivirus in China and Expanded Classification of Bovine Hepacivirus Strains Worldwide into 7 Subtypes Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090843 Authors: Gang Lu Jiajun Ou Jiawei Zhao Shoujun Li The newest member of the Hepacivirus genus, bovine hepacivirus (BovHepV), was first identified in cattle in 2015 and is a novel hepacivirus C virus (HCV)-like virus. This virus has been detected in five countries so far and is...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 844: African Horse Sickness: A Review of Current Understanding and Vaccine Development Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090844 Authors: Susan J Dennis Ann E Meyers Inga I Hitzeroth Edward P Rybicki African horse sickness is a devastating disease that causes great suffering and many fatalities amongst horses in sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by nine different serotypes of the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and it is spread by Culicoid midges. The...
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Vision, Vol. 3, Pages 46: Seeing Beyond Salience and Guidance: The Role of Bias and Decision in Visual Search Vision doi: 10.3390/vision3030046 Authors: Alasdair D. F. Clarke Anna Nowakowska Amelia R. Hunt Visual search is a popular tool for studying a range of questions about perception and attention, thanks to the ease with which the basic paradigm can be controlled and manipulated. While often thought of as a sub-field of vision science, search tasks are significantly more complex...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1897: Mining Rock Wastes for Water Treatment: Potential Reuse of Fe- and Mn-Rich Materials for Arsenic Removal Water doi: 10.3390/w11091897 Authors: Casentini Lazzazzara Amalfitano Salvatori Guglietta Passeri Belardi Trapasso The worldwide mining industry produces millions of tons of rock wastes, raising a considerable burden for managing both economic and environmental issues. The possible reuse of Fe/Mn-rich materials for arsenic removal...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1898: Case Study: Model Test on the Effects of Grade Control Datum Drop on the Upstream Bed Morphology in Shiting River Water doi: 10.3390/w11091898 Authors: Ma Wang Nie Yang Liu This paper conducted an undistorted scaled model test (geometric scale λL = 1:80; the others are derived scales based on Froude similitude) of a 1.3 km-long river reach in Shiting River, China, investigating the impacts of the grade control datum (GCD, defined...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1890: Correction: Gisele Cristina Rubert et al., Evapotranspiration of the Brazilian Pampa Biome: Seasonality and Influential Factors. Water 2018, 10, 1864 Water doi: 10.3390/w11091890 Authors: Gisele Rubert Débora Roberti Luis Santos Pereira Fernando Quadros Haroldo Campos Velho Osvaldo de Moraes The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1899: Preparation of Activated Biochar-Supported Magnetite Composite for Adsorption of Polychlorinated Phenols from Aqueous Solutions Water doi: 10.3390/w11091899 Authors: Jun Kim Han Yoon Kim Park For this study, we applied activated biochar (AB) and its composition with magnetite (AB-Fe3O4) as adsorbents for the removal of polychlorophenols in model wastewater. We comprehensively characterized these adsorbents and performed adsorption tests...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1896: Dependence Between Extreme Rainfall Events and the Seasonality and Bivariate Properties of Floods. A Continuous Distributed Physically-Based Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w11091896 Authors: Gabriel-Martin Sordo-Ward Garrote García This paper focuses on proposing the minimum number of storms necessary to derive the extreme flood hydrographs accurately through event-based modelling. To do so, we analyzed the results obtained by coupling a continuous...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1895: Flash Flood Risk Perception by the Population of Mindelo, S. Vicente (Cape Verde) Water doi: 10.3390/w11091895 Authors: Martins Nunes Lourenço Velez-Castro São Vicente Island (Republic of Cape Verde) lies within the Sahelian zone and faces several natural hazards, one of which is flash flooding. With the purpose of understanding what factors determine flash flood risk perception, a questionnaire entitled Flash Flood Hazard Perception...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1894: Application of Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes (UV-LED) to Full-Scale Drinking-Water Disinfection Water doi: 10.3390/w11091894 Authors: Jarvis Autin Goslan Hassard Ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) have recently emerged as a viable technology for water disinfection. However, the performance of the technology in full-scale drinking-water treatment systems remains poorly characterised. Furthermore, current UV disinfection standards and...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1893: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Water Quality Assessment for the Upper Reaches of Syr Darya River in Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia Water doi: 10.3390/w11091893 Authors: Ma Abuduwaili Li Abdyzhaparuulu Mu Based on water sampling of the upper reaches of the Syr River and its tributaries from the parts of Aral Sea Basin in Kyrgyzstan, the chemical compositions of river waters were systematically analyzed for revealing the hydrochemical characteristics...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1891: Hydrogeochemical Assessment of Groundwater Quality of Mokopane Area, Limpopo, South Africa Using Statistical Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w11091891 Authors: Mmasabata Dolly Molekoa Ram Avtar Pankaj Kumar Huynh Vuong Thu Minh Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan Despite being a finite resource, both the quality and quantity of groundwater are under tremendous pressure due to rapid global changes, viz. population growth, land-use/land-cover changes (LULC), and...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1892: Influence of Different Types of Small Hydropower Stations on Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Changjiang River Basin, China Water doi: 10.3390/w11091892 Authors: Weihua Zhao Weijie Guo Liangyuan Zhao Qingyun Li Xiaohuan Cao Xianqiang Tang Many studies have investigated the influence of hydropower stations on macroinvertebrate communities, but few have clarified the influence of different types of hydropower stations. A total of 133 samples...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1885: Physical Experiment and Modeling of the Transport and Deposition of Polydisperse Particles in Stormwater: Effects of a Depth-Dependent Initial Filter Coefficient Water doi: 10.3390/w11091885 Authors: Zhike Zou Longcang Shu Xing Min Esther Chifuniro Mabedi The artificial recharge of stormwater is an effective approach for replenishing aquifer and reduce urban waterlogging, but prone to clogging by suspended particles (SP) that are highly heterogeneously...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1889: Methods for Sample Collection, Storage, and Analysis of Freshwater Phosphorus Water doi: 10.3390/w11091889 Authors: Yusef Kianpoor Kalkhajeh Bahman Jabbarian Amiri Biao Huang Azad Henareh Khalyani Wenyou Hu Hongjian Gao Michael L. Thompson Although phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for biological productivity, it can cause freshwater degradation when present at fairly low concentrations. Monitoring studies using continuous sampling...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1888: Willingness to Pay for Enhanced Water Security in a Rapidly Developing Shale Gas Region in China Water doi: 10.3390/w11091888 Authors: Danlu Jiang Dong Bai Zhaowei Yin Gongyuan Fan With the rapid development of shale gas exploration (SGE) in China, there is an urgent need to evaluate the public’s preferences with respect to the environmental risks that go along with the exploration, which have not yet been studied in the literature. This...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1886: Scale Effects of Ecological Safety of Water-Saving Irrigation: A Case Study in the Arid Inland River Basin of Northwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w11091886 Authors: Guangyu Jiang Zhongjing Wang Water cycles exist in all processes of water resources utilization, including water-saving irrigation. Due to the complex water cycle process of irrigation, the ecological effects and safety of large-scale water-saving irrigation have received increasing attention....
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1887: Flood Risk Assessment of the Wadi Nu’man Basin, Mecca, Saudi Arabia (During the Period, 1988–2019) Based on the Integration of Geomatics and Hydraulic Modeling: A Case Study Water doi: 10.3390/w11091887 Authors: Ashraf Abdelkarim Ahmed F.D. Gaber This study aims to assess the impact of flash floods in the Wadi Nu’man basin on urban areas, east of Mecca, which are subjected to frequent floods, during the period from 1988–2019. By producing...
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