Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 523: Exploring the Antioxidant Features of Polyphenols by Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Methods Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8110523 Authors: Berta Alcalde Mercè Granados Javier Saurina This paper evaluates the antioxidant ability of polyphenols as a function of their chemical structures. Several common food indexes including Folin-Ciocalteau (FC), ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assays...
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Proceedings, Vol. 28, Pages 8: Exploring the Perceptions of Applying Blockchain Technology in the Higher Education Institutes in the UAE Proceedings doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019028008 Authors: Nokiti Yusof Based on the increasing demand for having a reliable method to verify student records in the education sector in the UAE, this research will attempt to get the perception of the managerial unit of higher education organizations in the UAE about the expected value of applying this...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4222: Domestic Violence During Pregnancy in Greece International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214222 Authors: Evangelia Antoniou Georgios Iatrakis There are no data about the prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy in Greece. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and the associated factors of domestic violence in a representative population of pregnant women in Greece. Five hundred and forty-six...
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Electronics, Vol. 8, Pages 1248: Post Text Processing of Chinese Speech Recognition Based on Bidirectional LSTM Networks and CRF Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics8111248 Authors: Li Yang Ying Li Jin Wang Zhuo Tang With the rapid development of Internet of Things Technology, speech recognition has been applied more and more widely. Chinese Speech Recognition is a complex process. In the process of speech-to-text conversion, due to the influence of dialect, environmental noise,...
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Micromachines, Vol. 10, Pages 739: Reliability of Protective Coatings for Flexible Piezoelectric Transducers in Aqueous Environments Micromachines doi: 10.3390/mi10110739 Authors: Massimo Mariello Francesco Guido Vincenzo Mariano Mastronardi Roberto Giannuzzi Luciana Algieri Antonio Qualteri Alfonso Maffezzoli Massimo De Vittorio Electronic devices used for marine applications suffer from several issues that can compromise their performance. In particular, water...
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Animals, Vol. 9, Pages 885: Parturition and Its Relationship with Stillbirths and Asphyxiated Piglets Animals doi: 10.3390/ani9110885 Authors: Pieter Langendijk Kate Plush The transition from an intra- to extrauterine existence is extremely challenging for the pig. This is evidenced by the fact that conservative estimates place intrapartum piglet death at between 5% and 10%. The main cause of this loss is the parturition process itself, with a long farrowing duration resulting in...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 998: Npro of Classical Swine Fever Virus Suppresses Type III Interferon Production by Inhibiting IRF1 Expression and Its Nuclear Translocation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11110998 Authors: Tong Cao Xiaoye Li Yonghao Xu Shengnan Zhang Zuohuan Wang Ying Shan Jianhe Sun Weihuan Fang Xiaoliang Li Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) causes a contagious disease of pigs. The virus can break the mucosal barrier to establish its infection. Type III interferons...
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Buildings, Vol. 9, Pages 228: Earthquake Response of Cold-Formed Steel-Based Building Systems: An Overview of the Current State of the Art Buildings doi: 10.3390/buildings9110228 Authors: Gianmaria Di Lorenzo Attilio De Martino Building systems fabricated with cold-formed steel (CFS) profiles and members made of wood, gypsum, or other materials allow solving a range of issues arising in common constructional elements thanks to their advantages, such as lightness, strength, durability,...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 7, Pages 85: Cystatin from Filarial Parasites Suppress the Clinical Symptoms and Pathology of Experimentally Induced Colitis in Mice by Inducing T-Regulatory Cells, B1-Cells, and Alternatively Activated Macrophages Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines7040085 Authors: Nalini Bisht Vishal Khatri Nikhil Chauhan Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram Potential alternative therapeutic strategies for immune-mediated disorders are being increasingly recognized and are studied...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 8, Pages 205: Antitumor Potential of Seaweed Derived-Endophytic Fungi Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8040205 Authors: Thaiz Rodrigues Teixeira Gustavo Souza dos Santos Lorene Armstrong Pio Colepicolo Hosana Maria Debonsi The marine environment presents a high biodiversity and a valuable source of bioactive compounds with therapeutic and biotechnological potential. Among the organisms present in marine environment, the endophytic fungi isolated from...
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Insects, Vol. 10, Pages 379: Susceptibility of Environmentally Friendly Sheep Wool Insulation Panels to the Common Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella in Laboratory Assays Insects doi: 10.3390/insects10110379 Authors: Luca Ruiu Ignazio Floris In this study the resistance opposed to Tineola bisselliella larvae by a commercial sheep-wool panel incorporating borate salts was determined under laboratory conditions. The susceptibility of clothes moth larvae to different concentrations of...
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Crystals, Vol. 9, Pages 571: Two-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonded Crystal Structure, Hirshfeld Surface Analysis and Morphology Prediction of a New Polymorph of 1H-Nicotineamidium Chloride Salt Crystals doi: 10.3390/cryst9110571 Authors: Hela Ferjani Hammouda Chebbi Abderrahmen Guesmi Obaid S. AlRuqi Sami A. Al-Hussain A new polymorph of 1H-nicotineamidium chloride salt, (C6H7N2O)+·Cl−, was grown by slow evaporation at room temperature. It crystallizes in the...
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Marine Drugs, Vol. 17, Pages 622: Echinochrome A Reduces Colitis in Mice and Induces In Vitro Generation of Regulatory Immune Cells Marine Drugs doi: 10.3390/md17110622 Authors: Su-Jeong Oh Yoojin Seo Ji-Su Ahn Ye Young Shin Ji Won Yang Hyoung Kyu Kim Jin Han Natalia P. Mishchenko Sergey A. Fedoreyev Valentin A. Stonik Hyung-Sik Kim Echinochrome A (Ech A), a natural pigment extracted from sea urchins, is the active ingredient of a marine-derived pharmaceutical...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5421: EPO and TMBIM3/GRINA Promote the Activation of the Adaptive Arm and Counteract the Terminal Arm of the Unfolded Protein Response after Murine Transient Cerebral Ischemia International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215421 Authors: Pardes Habib Ann-Sophie Stamm Joerg B. Schulz Arno Reich Alexander Slowik Sandro Capellmann Michael Huber Thomas Wilhelm Ischemic stroke is known to cause the accumulation of misfolded proteins...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4727: Special Issue “Advanced Signal Processing in Intelligent Systems for Health Monitoring” Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214727 Authors: Maysam Abbod Jiann-Shing Shieh Recently, significant developments have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular the introduction of deep learning technology that has improved the learning and prediction accuracy to unpresented levels, especially when dealing with big data and high-resolution images....
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2280: Correction: Tapoglou, E., et al. Climate Change Impact on the Frequency of Hydrometeorological Extremes in the Island of Crete. Water 2019, 11, 587 Water doi: 10.3390/w11112280 Authors: Evdokia Tapoglou Anthi Eirini Vozinaki Ioannis Tsanis The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2605: Immunomodulatory Effect of Gut Microbiota-Derived Bioactive Peptides on Human Immune System from Healthy Controls and Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11112605 Authors: Samuel Fernández-Tomé Alicia C. Marin Lorena Ortega Moreno Montserrat Baldan-Martin Irene Mora-Gutiérrez Aitor Lanas-Gimeno José Andrés Moreno-Monteagudo Cecilio Santander Borja Sánchez María Chaparro Javier P. Gisbert David Bernardo...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4223: Systematic Development of Materials for Inviting Low Health-Literate Individuals to Participate in Preconception Counseling International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214223 Authors: Laxsini Murugesu Miriam E. Hopman Sabine F. Van Voorst Ageeth N. Rosman Mirjam P. Fransen In this study we aimed to systematically analyze problems in the recruitment of women with low health literacy for preconception counseling...
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Materials, Vol. 12, Pages 3570: Transformation Pathway upon Heating of Metastable β Titanium Alloy Ti-15Mo Investigated by Neutron Diffraction Materials doi: 10.3390/ma12213570 Authors: Pavel Zháňal Petr Harcuba Josef Stráský Jana Šmilauerová Přemysl Beran Thomas C. Hansen Hanuš Seiner Miloš Janeček A transformation pathway during thermal treatment of metastable β Ti-15Mo alloy was investigated by in situ neutron diffraction. The evolution of individual...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4729: A Novel Method for Classification of Running Fatigue Using Change-Point Segmentation Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214729 Authors: Taha Khan Lina E. Lundgren Eric Järpe M. Charlotte Olsson Pelle Viberg Blood lactate accumulation is a crucial fatigue indicator during sports training. Previous studies have predicted cycling fatigue using surface-electromyography (sEMG) to non-invasively estimate lactate concentration in blood. This study used sEMG to...
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Information, Vol. 10, Pages 336: Resource Allocation Combining Heuristic Matching and Particle Swarm Optimization Approaches: The Case of Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Information doi: 10.3390/info10110336 Authors: Dimitrios Pliatsios Panagiotis Sarigiannidis The ever-increasing requirement of massive connectivity, due to the rapid deployment of internet of things (IoT) devices, in the emerging 5th generation (5G) mobile networks commands for even higher utilization of the...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1538: Readable High-Speed Racetrack Memory Based on an Antiferromagnetically Coupled Soft/Hard Magnetic Bilayer Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111538 Authors: Ziyang Yu Chenhuinan Wei Fan Yi Rui Xiong The current-induced domain wall (DW) motion in a racetrack memory with a synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) structure has attracted attention because of the ultrahigh velocity of the DW. However, since there is little stray field due to the zero net...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5403: Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Changes in the Blood of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215403 Authors: Virginie Bottero Judith A. Potashkin Background: Dementia is a major public health concern affecting approximately 47 million people worldwide. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is one form of dementia that affects an individual’s memory with...
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Metals, Vol. 9, Pages 1169: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure Characterization of AISI “D2” and “O1” Cold Work Tool Steels Metals doi: 10.3390/met9111169 Authors: Mohammed Algarni This research analyzes the mechanical properties and fracture behavior of two cold work tool steels: AISI “D2” and “O1”. Tool steels are an economical and efficient solution for manufacturers due to their superior mechanical properties. Demand for tool steels is...
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Brain Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 298: Do EEG and Startle Reflex Modulation Vary with Self-Reported Aggression in Response to Violent Images? Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci9110298 Authors: Sajeev Kunaharan Sean Halpin Thiagarajan Sitharthan Peter Walla Increased violence and aggressive tendencies are a problem in much of the world and are often symptomatic of many other neurological and psychiatric conditions. Among clinicians, current methods of diagnosis of problem aggressive...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 9, Pages 669: Ethanol Impairs NRF2/Antioxidant and Growth Signaling in the Intact Placenta In Vivo and in Human Trophoblasts Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom9110669 Authors: Sambantham Shanmugam Dhyanesh Patel John M. Wolpert Caezaan Keshvani Xiaobo Liu Susan E. Bergeson Srivatsan Kidambi Lenin Mahimainathan George I. Henderson Madhusudhanan Narasimhan NRF2 is a redox-sensitive transcription factor that depending on the duration or magnitude...
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Vaccines, Vol. 7, Pages 163: Maternally-Derived Antibodies Protect against Challenge with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus of the H7N3 Subtype Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040163 Authors: Stivalis Cardenas-Garcia Lucas Ferreri Zhimin Wan Silvia Carnaccini Ginger Geiger Adebimpe O. Obadan Charles L. Hofacre Daniela Rajao Daniel R. Perez Vaccination of hens against influenza leads to the transfer of protective maternally-derived antibodies (MDA) to hatchlings....
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Machines, Vol. 7, Pages 67: Design and Testing of a 3-DOF Robot for Studying the Human Response to Vibration Machines doi: 10.3390/machines7040067 Authors: Pietro Marzaroli Alessandro Albanetti Edoardo Negri Hermes Giberti Marco Tarabini This work describes the design and validation of an electro-mechanical excitation system for characterization of the response of the human body to multiaxial vibrations. The presented system is based on the linear delta configuration and...
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Genes, Vol. 10, Pages 860: Transcriptional Structure of Petunia Clock in Leaves and Petals Genes doi: 10.3390/genes10110860 Authors: Marta I. Terry Marta Carrera-Alesina Julia Weiss Marcos Egea-Cortines The plant circadian clock coordinates environmental signals with internal processes including secondary metabolism, growth, flowering, and volatile emission. Plant tissues are specialized in different functions, and petals conceal the sexual organs while attracting pollinators....
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JMSE, Vol. 7, Pages 385: The Effectiveness of Adaptive Beach Protection Methods under Wind Application Journal of Marine Science and Engineering doi: 10.3390/jmse7110385 Authors: Kyu-Tae Shim Kyu-Han Kim Jun-Ho Park A physical model test was carried out to evaluate a measure of reducing sediment transport in a condition of erosive wave incidence. The erosion trend was analyzed in a beach profile consisting of 0.1 mm sand, and a scenario in which 1 mm and 5 mm materials were applied...
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Coatings, Vol. 9, Pages 708: Chemical Safety of Furniture Products Coatings doi: 10.3390/coatings9110708 Authors: Boris Rybin Ruslan Safin Irina Zavrazhnova Shamil Mukhametzyanov Dmitry Rybin Albina Gazizulina At present, technical regulations are adopted for furniture products of various types, establishing the protection of human health from the influence of harmful substances in the parts and assemblies of wood products and wood materials. The technical regulation adopted...
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Entropy, Vol. 21, Pages 1063: An Integrated Approach for Making Inference on the Number of Clusters in a Mixture Model Entropy doi: 10.3390/e21111063 Authors: Erlandson Ferreira Saraiva Adriano Kamimura Suzuki Luis Aparecido Milan Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira This paper presents an integrated approach for the estimation of the parameters of a mixture model in the context of data clustering. The method is designed to estimate the unknown number of clusters from observed...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4612: Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Characteristics of a Mechanical-Electromagnetic Vibration System with Rubbing Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214612 Authors: Yiming Li Zhilong Huang He Li Guiqiu Song In this study, a rotor-bearing-runner system (RBRS) considering multiple nonlinear factors is established, and the complex nonlinear dynamic behavior of the coupling system is studied. The effects of excitation current, radial stiffness, and...
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Sustainability, Vol. 11, Pages 6027: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Blue Water Use of Dutch Diets and Its Association with Health Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su11216027 Authors: Reina E. Vellinga Mirjam van de Kamp Ido B. Toxopeus Caroline T. M. van Rossum Elias de Valk Sander Biesbroek Anne Hollander Elisabeth H. M. Temme Food consumption patterns affect the environment as well as public health, and monitoring is needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Dutch...
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Electronics, Vol. 8, Pages 1239: Video Streaming in Urban Vehicular Environments: Junction-Aware Multipath Approach Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics8111239 Authors: Ahmed Aliyu Hesham El-Sayed Abdul Hanan Abdullah Intyaz Alam Jun Li Mukesh Prasad In multipath video streaming transmission, the selection of the best vehicle for video packet forwarding considering the junction area is a challenging task due to the several diversions in the junction area. The vehicles...
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Energies, Vol. 12, Pages 4135: Experimental Investigation of Transient Characteristics of a Double Suction Centrifugal Pump System during Starting Period Energies doi: 10.3390/en12214135 Authors: Faye Jin Zhifeng Yao Duanming Li Ruofu Xiao Fujun Wang Chenglian He The starting phase for pumps in water transportation pipelines is crucial and has significant transient characteristics which merit further study in order to evaluate the operational stability of the pumping system....
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Polymers, Vol. 11, Pages 1779: Effects of Three Different Injection-Molding Methods on the Mechanical Properties and Electrical Conductivity of Carbon Nanotube/Polyethylene/Polyamide 6 Nanocomposite Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym11111779 Authors: Dashan Mi Zhongguo Zhao Wenli Zhu Morphological evolution under shear, during different injection processes, is an important issue in the phase morphology control, electrical conductivity, and physical properties of immiscible polymer blends....
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Sustainability, Vol. 11, Pages 6026: An Integrated Framework on the Sustainability of SMEs Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su11216026 Authors: Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu Laurentiu Stelian Mihai The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the budget related to corporate social responsibility (CSR), Innovation and Training, defined as sustainable factors, and the financial results of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The investigation is made by analysing the...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4202: Building a Sustainable Construction Workforce International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214202 Authors: Rosemary K. Sokas Xiuwen Sue Dong Chris Trahan Cain The average U.S. construction worker is aged 42.6 years, and will not be eligible for full Social Security retirement benefits until age 67. Delayed retirement is largely driven by economic need, but construction workers face considerable challenges in...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Information, Vol. 10, Pages 335: Studying Transaction Fees in the Bitcoin Blockchain with Probabilistic Logic Programming Information doi: 10.3390/info10110335 Authors: Damiano Azzolini Fabrizio Riguzzi Evelina Lamma In Bitcoin, if a miner is able to solve a computationally hard problem called proof of work, it will receive an amount of bitcoin as a reward which is the sum of the fees for the transactions included in a block plus an amount inversely proportional to the number of...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4611: Microbial Ecology Evaluation of an Iberian Pig Processing Plant through Implementing SCH Sensors and the Influence of the Resident Microbiota on Listeria monocytogenes Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214611 Authors: Anne-Sophie Hascoët Carolina Ripolles-Avila Alfons Eduard Guerrero-Navarro José Juan Rodríguez-Jerez There is a whole community of microorganisms capable of surviving the cleaning and disinfection processes in the food industry....
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Electronics, Vol. 8, Pages 1240: Tilted-Beam Switched Array Antenna for UAV Mounted Radar Applications with 360° Coverage Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics8111240 Authors: Cheol Ung Lee Gunhark Noh ByungKuon Ahn Jong-Won Yu Han Lim Lee A highly efficient antenna array for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mounted radar applications with a tilted-beam characteristic and a 360° beam coverage is proposed in this paper. The proposed array antenna is configured by four...
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Forecasting, Vol. 1, Pages 189-204: Automatic Grouping in Singular Spectrum Analysis Forecasting doi: 10.3390/forecast1010013 Authors: Mahdi Kalantari Hossein Hassani Singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is a non-parametric forecasting and filtering method that has many applications in a variety of fields such as signal processing, economics and time series analysis. One of the four steps of the SSA, which is called the grouping step, plays a pivotal role in the SSA because reconstruction...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 521: Sideritis Perfoliata (Subsp. Perfoliata) Nutritive Value and Its Potential Medicinal Properties Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8110521 Authors: Namrita Lall Antonios Chrysargyris Isa Lambrechts Bianca Fibrich Analike Blom Van Staden Danielle Twilley Marco Nuno de Canha Carel Basson Oosthuizen Dikonketso Bodiba Nikolaos Tzortzakis Sideritis perfoliata L. subsp. perfoliata is an endemic species of the Eastern Mediterranean region...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4201: Authentic Leadership and Employees’ Innovative Behaviour: A Multilevel Investigation in Three Countries International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214201 Authors: Mariola Laguna Karolina Walachowska Marjan J. Gorgievski-Duijvesteijn Juan A. Moriano The innovativeness of individual employees is a vital source of competitive advantage of firms, contributing to societal development. Therefore, the aim of this...
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Agronomy, Vol. 9, Pages 695: Comparison of the Effect of Perennial Energy Crops and Agricultural Crops on Weed Flora Diversity Agronomy doi: 10.3390/agronomy9110695 Authors: Beata Feledyn-Szewczyk Mariusz Matyka Mariola Staniak The cultivation of perennial energy crops is a new agricultural system and so there is limited information available on its effects on biodiversity. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the cultivation of energy crops on the diversity of weed...
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Marine Drugs, Vol. 17, Pages 619: Lemnalol Modulates the Electrophysiological Characteristics and Calcium Homeostasis of Atrial Myocytes Marine Drugs doi: 10.3390/md17110619 Authors: Buh-Yuan Tai Zhi-Hong Wen Pao-Yun Cheng Hsiang-Yu Yang Chang-Yih Duh Ping-Nan Chen Chih-Hsueng Hsu Sepsis, an inflammatory response to infection provoked by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), is associated with high mortality, as well as ischemic stroke and new-onset atrial arrhythmia. Severe bacterial...
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Energies, Vol. 12, Pages 4134: Positive Phase Pressure Function and Pressure Attenuation Characteristic of a Liquid Carbon Dioxide Blasting System Energies doi: 10.3390/en12214134 Authors: Bo Ke Keping Zhou Gaofeng Ren Ji Shi Yanan Zhang As environmental requirements become more stringent, the liquid carbon dioxide blasting system is one of the non-explosive blasting technologies that, with low tensile stress energy, will replace the chemical explosive blasting technology,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 562: Development of Folate-Functionalized PEGylated Zein Nanoparticles for Ligand-Directed Delivery of Paclitaxel Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11110562 Authors: Zar Chi Soe Wenquan Ou Milan Gautam Kishwor Poudel Bo Kyun Kim Le Minh Pham Cao Dai Phung Jee-Heon Jeong Sung Giu Jin Han-Gon Choi Sae Kwang Ku Chul Soon Yong Jong Oh Kim In this study, we investigated the active targeted delivery of a hydrophobic drug,...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 9, Pages 667: Unravelling the Skin Secretion Peptides of the Gliding Leaf Frog, Agalychnis spurrelli (Hylidae) Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom9110667 Authors: Carolina Proaño-Bolaños Ailín Blasco-Zúñiga José Rafael Almeida Lei Wang Miguel Angel Llumiquinga Miryan Rivera Mei Zhou Tianbao Chen Chris Shaw Frog skin secretions contain medically-valuable molecules, which are useful for the discovery of new biopharmaceuticals. The peptide profile of...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1688: Secondary Somatic Mutations in G-Protein-Related Pathways and Mutation Signatures in Uveal Melanoma Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11111688 Authors: Francesca Piaggio Veronica Tozzo Cinzia Bernardi Michela Croce Roberto Puzone Silvia Viaggi Serena Patrone Annalisa Barla Domenico Coviello Martine J. Jager Pieter A. van der Velden Michael Zeschnigk Davide Cangelosi Alessandra Eva Ulrich Pfeffer Adriana Amaro Background:...
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Membranes, Vol. 9, Pages 140: Development of CVD Silica Membranes Having High Hydrogen Permeance and Steam Durability and a Membrane Reactor for a Water Gas Shift Reaction Membranes doi: 10.3390/membranes9110140 Authors: Ryoichi Nishida Toshiki Tago Takashi Saitoh Masahiro Seshimo Shin-ichi Nakao Water gas shift reaction of carbon monoxide (CO) with membrane reactors should be a promising method for hydrogen mass-production because of its high CO conversion, high hydrogen...
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Metals, Vol. 9, Pages 1168: Prediction of Wrinkling of a Beverage Can Subjected to the Redrawing Process by J2 Deformation Theory Metals doi: 10.3390/met9111168 Authors: Jin Jae Kim Phu Van Nguyen Young Suk Kim Wrinkling of beverage cans is one of the problems faced by can manufacturers and aluminum suppliers. The bottom of an aluminum can is wrinkled by compression during the forming process. In this study, to predict the occurrence of wrinkles during the redrawing process of...
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Entropy, Vol. 21, Pages 1062: Impact of Misclassification Rates on Compression Efficiency of Red Blood Cell Images of Malaria Infection Using Deep Learning Entropy doi: 10.3390/e21111062 Authors: Yuhang Dong W. David Pan Dongsheng Wu Malaria is a severe public health problem worldwide, with some developing countries being most affected. Reliable remote diagnosis of malaria infection will benefit from efficient compression of high-resolution microscopic images. This paper addresses...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 9, Pages 668: FDA- and EMA-Approved Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Advanced EGFR-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Safety, Tolerability, Plasma Concentration Monitoring, and Management Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom9110668 Authors: Isabelle Solassol Frédéric Pinguet Xavier Quantin Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common form of primary lung cancer. The discovery of several oncogenic driver mutations in patients with NSCLC has allowed the development...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4713: A Low-Cost Strain Gauge Displacement Sensor Fabricated via Shadow Mask Printing Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214713 Authors: Ying Yi Bo Wang Amine Bermak This work presents a cost-effective shadow mask printing approach to fabricate flexible sensors. The liquid-state sensing material can be directly brushed on a flexible substrate through a shadow mask. The ink leakage issue which often occurs in printed electronics is addressed with a custom taping scheme....
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 3906: Protein Prenylation in Plant Stress Responses Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24213906 Authors: Michal Hála Viktor Žárský Protein prenylation is one of the most important posttranslational modifications of proteins. Prenylated proteins play important roles in different developmental processes as well as stress responses in plants as the addition of hydrophobic prenyl chains (mostly farnesyl or geranyl) allow otherwise hydrophilic proteins to operate...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 520: Influence of the Physical State of Spray-Dried Flavonoid-Inulin Microparticles on Oxidative Stability of Lipid Matrices Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8110520 Authors: Guibeth Morelo Begoña Giménez Gloria Márquez-Ruiz Francisca Holgado Patricio Romero-Hasler Eduardo Soto-Bustamante Paz Robert The effect of the physical state of flavonoid-inulin microparticles (semi-crystalline/amorphous) on the oxidative stability of lipid matrices...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Electronics, Vol. 8, Pages 1238: Efficient Implementation on Low-Cost SoC-FPGAs of TLSv1.2 Protocol with ECC_AES Support for Secure IoT Coordinators Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics8111238 Authors: Ahmed Mohamed Bellemou Antonio García Encarnación Castillo Nadjia Benblidia Mohamed Anane José Antonio Álvarez-Bermejo Luis Parrilla Security management for IoT applications is a critical research field, especially when taking into account the performance variation over...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5402: Animal Models for Parkinson’s Disease Research: Trends in the 2000s International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215402 Authors: Kyohei Kin Takao Yasuhara Masahiro Kameda Isao Date Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive movement disorder and the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Although many studies have been conducted, there is an unmet clinical need to develop new treatments because, currently,...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1349: Functions and Implications of Autophagy in Colon Cancer Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8111349 Authors: Samantha N Devenport Yatrik M Shah Autophagy is an essential function to breakdown cellular proteins and organelles to recycle for new nutrient building blocks. In colorectal cancer, the importance of autophagy is becoming widely recognized as it demonstrates both pro- and anti-tumorigenic functions. In colon cancer, cell autonomous and non-autonomous roles for...
Wed Oct 30, 2019 02:00
Fermentation, Vol. 5, Pages 93: The Use of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing to Determine the Importance of Glycerol Uptake in Wine Yeast During Icewine Fermentation Fermentation doi: 10.3390/fermentation5040093 Authors: Jared Muysson Laurianne Miller Robert Allie Debra L. Inglis The high concentration of sugars in Icewine juice causes formidable stress for the fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae, causing cells to lose water and shrink in size. Yeast can combat this stress by increasing...
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Prosthesis, Vol. 1, Pages 29-40: New Tricks in the Preparation Design for Prosthetic Ceramic Laminate Veeners Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis1010005 Authors: Luca Ortensi Tommaso Vitali Roberto Bonfiglioli Francesco Grande Background: The prosthetic preparation of the teeth for ceramic laminate veneers has to follow the minimally invasive concept brought by the modern Conservative Dentistry and Prosthodontics. However, during the cementation phase under the rubber dam, the...
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Symmetry, Vol. 11, Pages 1338: A Dynamical System with Random Parameters as a Mathematical Model of Real Phenomena Symmetry doi: 10.3390/sym11111338 Authors: Josef Diblík Irada Dzhalladova Miroslava Růžičková In many cases, it is difficult to find a solution to a system of difference equations with random structure in a closed form. Thus, a random process, which is the solution to such a system, can be described in another way, for example, by its moments. In this paper, we consider...
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Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Pages 2549: A Rapidly Assessed Wetland Stress Index (RAWSI) Using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-1 Radar Data Remote Sensing doi: 10.3390/rs11212549 Authors: Matthew Walter Pinki Mondal Wetland ecosystems are important resources, providing great economic benefits for surrounding communities. In this study, we developed a new stress indicator called “Rapidly Assessed Wetlands Stress Index” (RAWSI) by combining several natural and anthropogenic stressors...
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 3907: Observations on the Effects of Residualization and Dehalogenation on the Utility of N-Succinimidyl Ester Acylation Agents for Radioiodination of the Internalizing Antibody Trastuzumab Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24213907 Authors: Satish K. Chitneni Eftychia Koumarianou Ganesan Vaidyanathan Michael R. Zalutsky Trastuzumab is an antibody used for the treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-overexpressing breast cancers....
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Crystals, Vol. 9, Pages 566: Highly Textured Seed Layers for the Growth of Vertically Oriented ZnO Nanorods Crystals doi: 10.3390/cryst9110566 Authors: Basinova Nikola Cernohorsky Ondrej Grym Jan Kucerova Sarka Faitova Hana Yatskiv Roman Vanis Jan Vesely Jozef Maixner Jaroslav One dimensional ZnO nanostructures prepared by favorable and simple solution growth methods are at the forefront of this research. Vertically oriented ZnO nanorods with uniform physical...
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Medicina, Vol. 55, Pages 720: Antioxidant Capacity of Preterm Neonates Assessed by Hydrogen Donor Value Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina55110720 Authors: Melinda Matyas Monica G. Hasmasanu Gabriela Zaharie Background and objectives: Premature newborns have a number of oxidative stress-inducing disorders. Antioxidant defense is deficient in premature newborns. Hydrogen donors can be used to evaluate the non-enzymatic antioxidant defense. By measuring hydrogen donors, a group of antioxidants...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 2270: Evaluation of Partial Nitritation/Anammox (PN/A) Process Performance and Microorganisms Community Composition under Different C/N Ratio Water doi: 10.3390/w11112270 Authors: Hussein Al-Hazmi Dominika Grubba Joanna Majtacz Przemyslaw Kowal Jacek Makinia A one-stage partial nitritation/anammox (PN/A) process with intermittent aeration is possible under sidestream conditions, but implementation in a mainstream is a challenge due to increased Carbon/Nitrogen...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5399: Immunotherapies and Future Combination Strategies for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215399 Authors: Valerie Cristina Ruth Gabriela Herrera-Gómez Petr Szturz Vittoria Espeli Marco Siano Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage and has a dismal prognosis. Nearly 10 years after the approval of cetuximab, anti-PD1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors...
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IJGI, Vol. 8, Pages 488: Investigating Contextual Effects on Burglary Risks: A Contextual Effects Model Built Based on Bayesian Spatial Modeling Strategy ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information doi: 10.3390/ijgi8110488 Authors: Hongqiang Liu Xinyan Zhu Dongying Zhang Zhen Liu A contextual effects model, built based on Bayesian spatial modeling strategy, was used to investigate contextual effects on neighborhood burglary risks in Wuhan, China. The contextual effects denote...
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IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 4200: Association of Typical Toxic Heavy Metals with Schizophrenia International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214200 Authors: Jiahui Ma Lailai Yan Tongjun Guo Siyu Yang Chen Guo Yaqiong Liu Qing Xie Jingyu Wang Toxic heavy metals (THMs) are contaminants commonly found in the environment. Although a large number of studies have demonstrated their damage to the biological functions of the human being,...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 4610: Modeling of Three-Way Catalyst Dynamics for a Compressed Natural Gas Engine during Lean–Rich Transitions Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app9214610 Authors: Dario Di Maio Carlo Beatrice Valentina Fraioli Pierpaolo Napolitano Stefano Golini Francesco Giovanni Rutigliano The main objective of the present research activity was to investigate the effect of very fast composition transitions of the engine exhaust typical in real-world driving...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Pages 1537: Mixed-Solvent Polarity-Assisted Phase Transition of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with Improved Stability at Room Temperature Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano9111537 Authors: Rui Yun Li Luo Jingqi He Jiaxi Wang Xiaofen Li Weiren Zhao Zhaogang Nie Zhiping Lin Cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have attracted enormous interest in light-emitting diode, photodetector and low-threshold lasing application in...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 601: Guidance as ‘Women’s Work’: A New Generation of Female Islamic Authorities in Britain Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10110601 Authors: Giulia Liberatore This article is about a new publicly visible generation of female Islamic authorities in the UK and the ways in which they make sense of what it means to be a female scholar within largely male-dominated structures of knowledge production. These authorities are setting up their own institutes and emphasising...
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Marine Drugs, Vol. 17, Pages 618: Fast Detection of Two Smenamide Family Members Using Molecular Networking Marine Drugs doi: 10.3390/md17110618 Authors: Alessia Caso Germana Esposito Gerardo Della Sala Joseph R. Pawlik Roberta Teta Alfonso Mangoni Valeria Costantino Caribbean sponges of the genus Smenospongia are a prolific source of chlorinated secondary metabolites. The use of molecular networking as a powerful dereplication tool revealed in the metabolome of S....
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1348: Glycobiology of Human Fungal Pathogens: New Avenues for Drug Development Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8111348 Authors: Danielle J. Lee Holly O’Donnell Françoise H. Routier Joe Tiralongo Thomas Haselhorst Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are an increasing threat to the developing world, with fungal spores being ubiquitous and inhaled every day. Some fungal species are commensal organisms that are part of the normal human microbiota, and, as such, do not...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4711: Occlusion-Free Road Segmentation Leveraging Semantics for Autonomous Vehicles Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214711 Authors: Kewei Wang Fuwu Yan Bin Zou Luqi Tang Quan Yuan Chen Lv The deep convolutional neural network has led the trend of vision-based road detection, however, obtaining a full road area despite the occlusion from monocular vision remains challenging due to the dynamic scenes in autonomous driving. Inferring the occluded road area...
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Inorganics, Vol. 7, Pages 131: Bioinorganic Chemistry of Nickel Inorganics doi: 10.3390/inorganics7110131 Authors: Michael J. Maroney Stefano Ciurli Following the discovery of the first specific and essential role of nickel in biology in 1975 (the dinuclear active site of the enzyme urease) [...]
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JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1808: Does the Microbiota Play a Pivotal Role in the Pathogenesis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8111808 Authors: Sharmila Fagoonee Rinaldo Pellicano The microbial community that lives in the human body, called the microbiota, consists of a large variety of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, fungi, eukaryotes and archae [...]
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Children, Vol. 6, Pages 120: Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children: Interrupted Child Development and Unfulfilled Child Rights Children doi: 10.3390/children6110120 Authors: Ziba Vaghri Zoë Tessier Christian Whalen The 21st century phenomenon of “global displacement” is particularly concerning when it comes to children. Childhood is a critical period of accelerated growth and development. These processes can be negatively affected by the many stressors to which...
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Materials, Vol. 12, Pages 3558: Resistance of Geosynthetics against the Isolated and Combined Effect of Mechanical Damage under Repeated Loading and Abrasion Materials doi: 10.3390/ma12213558 Authors: Filipe Almeida David Miranda Carlos José Ricardo Carneiro Maria de Lurdes Lopes The behaviour of materials used for developing engineering structures should be properly foreseen during the design phase. Regarding geosynthetics, which are construction materials used in a wide range...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5401: Soyuretox, an Intrinsically Disordered Polypeptide Derived from Soybean (Glycine Max) Ubiquitous Urease with Potential Use as a Biopesticide International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215401 Authors: Karine Kappaun Anne H. S. Martinelli Valquiria Broll Barbara Zambelli Fernanda C. Lopes Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun Leonardo L. Fruttero Natalia R. Moyetta Carla D. Bonan Celia R. Carlini Stefano Ciurli Ureases from different...
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IJMS, Vol. 20, Pages 5400: Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals System-Wide Phosphorylation Network Altered by Spry in Mouse Mammary Stromal Fibroblasts International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms20215400 Authors: Tiezhu Shi Linli Yao Ying Han Piliang Hao Pengfei Lu Understanding the fundamental role of the stroma in normal development and cancer progression has been an emerging focus in recent years. The receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling pathway...
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Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 3905: Fabrication of Spherical Titania Inverse Opal Structures Using Electro-Hydrodynamic Atomization Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24213905 Authors: Jong-Min Lim Sehee Jeong Spherical PS/HEMA opal structure and spherical titania inverse opal structure were fabricated by self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles in uniform aerosol droplets generated with electro-hydrodynamic atomization method. When a solution of PS/HEMA nanoparticles with uniform size distribution...
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Coatings, Vol. 9, Pages 707: Enhancement of Polyvinyl Acetate (PVAc) Adhesion Performance by SiO2 and TiO2 Nanoparticles Coatings doi: 10.3390/coatings9110707 Authors: Gorana Petković Marina Vukoje Josip Bota Suzana Pasanec Preprotić Post press processes include various types of bonding and adhesives, depending upon the nature of adherends, the end use performance requirements and the adhesive bonding processes. Polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) adhesive is a widely used adhesive in...
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Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 4712: Outlier Detection Using Improved Support Vector Data Description in Wireless Sensor Networks Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19214712 Authors: Pei Shi Guanghui Li Yongming Yuan Liang Kuang Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are susceptible to faults in sensor data. Outlier detection is crucial for ensuring the quality of data analysis in WSNs. This paper proposes a novel improved support vector data description method (ID-SVDD) to effectively detect outliers...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 4, Pages 132: New York State Emergency Preparedness and Response to Influenza Pandemics 1918–2018 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040132 Authors: Kay L. Escuyer Meghan E. Fuschino Kirsten St. George Emergency health preparedness and response efforts are a necessity in order to safeguard the public against major events, such as influenza pandemics. Since posting warnings of the epidemic influenza in 1918, to the mass media communications...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 9, Pages 168: Comparative Analysis of the Serological Reactivity of Individuals with Clinical History of Malaria using Two Different ELISA Tests Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics9040168 Authors: Yorleydy Ruiz Moreno Silvia Tavares Donato Fátima Nogueira Marcelo Sousa Silva Early diagnosis of malaria reduces disease, prevents deaths, and contributes to decreased malaria transmission. The use of specific and sensitive antigens in the execution of serological...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1687: Fibroblasts in Nodular Sclerosing Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Are Defined by a Specific Phenotype and Protect Tumor Cells from Brentuximab-Vedotin Induced Injury Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11111687 Authors: Katrin Bankov Claudia Döring Adam Ustaszewski Maciej Giefing Marco Herling Chiara Cencioni Francesco Spallotta Carlo Gaetano Ralf Küppers Martin-Leo Hansmann Sylvia Hartmann Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is one of the...
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