Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 20: Decision Criteria for the Development of Stormwater Management Systems in Poland Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9020020 Authors: Sabina Kordana Daniel Słyś Progressing urbanisation is one of the key causes of environmental degradation. This problem also applies to stormwater management. For this reason, drainage infrastructures should be designed in harmony with nature and the decision for selecting a specific stormwater management system solution must...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 21: Machine Learning in Least-Squares Monte Carlo Proxy Modeling of Life Insurance Companies Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8010021 Authors: Krah Nikolic Korn Under the Solvency II regime, life insurance companies are asked to derive their solvencycapital requirements from the full loss distributions over the coming year. Since the industryis currently far from being endowed with sufficient computational capacities to fully simulatethese distributions, the insurers...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 20: A Survey of the Individual Claim Size and Other Risk Factors Using Credibility Bonus-Malus Premiums Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8010020 Authors: Emilio Gómez-Déniz Enrique Calderín-Ojeda In this paper, a flexible count regression model based on a bivariate compound Poisson distribution is introduced in order to distinguish between different types of claims according to the claim size. Furthermore, it allows us to analyse the factors that affect the number of claims...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 21: A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9020021 Authors: Kosmas Panagiotidis Nikolaos Tsipas Theodora Saridou Andreas Veglis During the last two decades, citizens’ participation in news production process has attracted significant interest from both academia and the media industry. Media production and consumption have been altered considerably and traditional...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 22: The Policies of Provision of Assistive and Welfare Technology—A Literature Review Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10010022 Authors: Baudin Mullersdorf Sundstrom Gustafsson Background: Due to the increasing ageing population worldwide, humanity is facing global demographic challenges. For many people, their later years are often lived with changed functioning and the need for support in daily living activities. Assistive technology and welfare technology...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 21: The Effects of Fear Appeals and Message Format on Promoting Skin Cancer Prevention Behaviors among College Students Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10010021 Authors: Cui Zhang Meadows This study tested the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) by examining how fear mediated the effects of threat on individuals’ assessment of risk, which was neglected in many fear appeal studies. Second, this study treated efficacy as an existing perception, and explored...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 15: Mercury in Soil and Forage Plants from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Bombana Area, Indonesia Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8010015 Authors: Basri Masayuki Sakakibara Koichiro Sera Mercury (Hg) contamination in soil and forage plants is toxic to ecosystems, and artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the main source of such pollution in the Bombana area of Indonesia. Hg contamination in soil and forage plants was investigated by particle-induced...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 139: Human Mycotoxin Biomonitoring: Conclusive Remarks on Direct or Indirect Assessment of Urinary Deoxynivalenol Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020139 Authors: Vidal Bouzaghnane De Saeger De Boevre Deoxynivalenol is one of the most ubiquitous mycotoxins in the Western diet through its presence in cereals and cereal products. A vast amount of studies indicate the worrying level of exposure to this toxin, while even high percentages of the population exceed...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 138: Effect of Ozone and Electron Beam Irradiation on Degradation of Zearalenone and Ochratoxin A Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020138 Authors: Kai Yang Ke Li Lihong Pan Xiaohu Luo Jiali Xing Jing Wang Li Wang Ren Wang Yuheng Zhai Zhengxing Chen Zearalenone (ZEN) and ochratoxin A (OTA) are key concerns of the food industry because of their toxicity and pollution scope. This study investigated the effects of ozone and electron beam irradiation...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 137: Interactions of Destruxin A with Silkworms’ Arginine tRNA Synthetase and Lamin-C Proteins Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020137 Authors: Wang Weng Yin Hu Destruxin A (DA), a cyclodepsipeptidic mycotoxin produced by entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, has good insecticidal activity and potential to be a new pesticide. However, the mechanism of action is still obscure. Our previous experiments showed that DA was involved in regulation of...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 136: A Lateral Flow Strip Based on a Truncated Aptamer-Complementary Strand for Detection of Type-B Aflatoxins in Nuts and Dried Figs Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020136 Authors: Zhilei Zhao He Wang Wenlei Zhai Xiaoyuan Feng Xia Fan Ailiang Chen Meng Wang Type-B aflatoxins (AFB1 and AFB2) frequently contaminate food, especially nuts and fried figs, and seriously threaten human health; hence, it is necessary for the newly rapid and sensitive detection...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 135: Composite Uremic Load and Physical Performance in Hemodialysis Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020135 Authors: Karsten Vanden Wyngaert Amaryllis H. Van Craenenbroeck Els Holvoet Patrick Calders Wim Van Biesen Sunny Eloot Impaired physical performance is common in patients on hemodialysis (HD) and is associated with poor prognosis. A patient relevant marker of adequacy of dialysis is lacking. Previous studies evaluated...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 134: Toxicity Characterisation of Gambierdiscus Species from the Canary Islands Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020134 Authors: Araceli E. Rossignoli Angels Tudó Isabel Bravo Patricio A. Díaz Jorge Diogène Pilar Riobó In the last decade, several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) have been reported in the Canary Islands (central northeast Atlantic Ocean), confirming ciguatera as an emerging alimentary risk in this region. Five Gambierdiscus...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 133: Study of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ia Protein Oligomerization Promoted by Midgut Brush Border Membrane Vesicles of Lepidopteran and Coleopteran Insects, or Cultured Insect Cells Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020133 Authors: Ayda Khorramnejad Mikel Domínguez-Arrizabalaga Primitivo Caballero Baltasar Escriche Yolanda Bel Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) produces insecticidal proteins that are either secreted during the vegetative growth phase or accumulated...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 32: Wildlife and Bait Density Monitoring to Describe the Effectiveness of a Rabies Vaccination Program in Foxes Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010032 Authors: Paolo Tizzani Angela Fanelli Carsten Potzsch Joerg Henning Srdjan Šašić Paolo Viviani Mevlida Hrapović Fox rabies has been eliminated from vast areas of West and Central Europe, but cases still occur in the Balkans. Oral vaccination is an effective...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 31: In Vivo Efficacy of SYN023, an Anti-Rabies Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail, in Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Animal Models Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010031 Authors: Tzu-Yuan Chao Shou-feng Zhang Li Chen Eric Tsao Charles E. Rupprecht Rabies immune globulin (RIG) is an indispensable component of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) because it provides passive immunity to prevent this otherwise inescapably fatal...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 102: Intramuscular Immunization with Chemokine-Adjuvanted Inactive Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Induces Substantial Protection in Pigs Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010102 Authors: Hsueh Chang Kao Hsu Chang Intramuscular (IM) immunization is generally considered incapable of generating a protective mucosal immune response. In the swine industry, attempts to develop a safe and protective vaccine for controlling porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED)...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 101: Causality Assessment Guidelines for Adverse Events Following Immunization with a Focus on Guillain–Barré Syndrome Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010101 Authors: Lee Kang Cho Park Kim Jung Seong Lee South Korea operates a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) for people who experience adverse events following immunization (AEFI). To run this program rationally, it is a prerequisite to confirm whether adverse events...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 100: Downregulation of A20 Expression Increases the Immune Response and Apoptosis and Reduces Virus Production in Cells Infected by the Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010100 Authors: María Martín-Vicente Rubén González-Sanz Isabel Cuesta Sara Monzón Salvador Resino Isidoro Martínez Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) causes severe lower respiratory tract infections in infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 99: Influenza Hemagglutinin Nanoparticle Vaccine Elicits Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies against Structurally Distinct Domains of H3N2 HA Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010099 Authors: Alyse D. Portnoff Nita Patel Michael J. Massare Haixia Zhou Jing-Hui Tian Bin Zhou Vivek Shinde Gregory M. Glenn Gale Smith Influenza vaccine effectiveness varies annually due to the fast evolving seasonal influenza A(H3N2) strain and egg-derived mutations—both...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 98: The Utility of Human Immune System Mice for High-Containment Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Research Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010098 Authors: David M. Wozniak Kerry J. Lavender Joseph Prescott Jessica R. Spengler Human immune system (HIS) mice are a subset of humanized mice that are generated by xenoengraftment of human immune cells or tissues and/or their progenitors into immunodeficient mice. Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) cause severe disease in...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 96: Antigen-Based Nano-Immunotherapy Controls Parasite Persistence, Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress, and Cardiac Fibrosis, the Hallmarks of Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy, in A Mouse Model of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010096 Authors: Nandadeva Lokugamage Subhadip Choudhuri Carolina Davies Imran Hussain Chowdhury Nisha Jain Garg Chagas cardiomyopathy is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi (Tc). We identified two candidate antigens...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 97: Generation of A Triple Insert Live Avian Herpesvirus Vectored Vaccine Using CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Editing Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010097 Authors: Na Tang Yaoyao Zhang Yashar Sadigh Katy Moffat Zhiqiang Shen Venugopal Nair Yongxiu Yao Herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT), used originally as a vaccine against Marek’s disease (MD), has recently been shown to be a highly effective viral vector for generation of recombinant vaccines...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 34-41: Effect of Incident Acoustic Pressure Amplitude on the Transmission Loss of Helmholtz Resonators Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3010004 Authors: Sachedina Lato Mohany Hassan Acoustic transmission loss is a common parameter utilized throughout several studies to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of a given test element. Transmission loss has been frequently referred to as a source independent parameter. However, this work presents evidence...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 251: A Hyper-Glycosylation of HBV Surface Antigen Correlates with HBsAg-Negativity at Immunosuppression-Driven HBV Reactivation in Vivo and Hinders HBsAg Recognition in Vitro Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020251 Authors: Romina Salpini Lorenzo Piermatteo Arianna Battisti Luna Colagrossi Marianna Aragri Katia Yu La Rosa Ada Bertoli Patrizia Saccomandi Miriam Lichtner Massimo Marignani Sarah Maylin Constance Delaugerre Filomena Morisco Nicola...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 247: Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus: An Emerging Ancient Zoonosis? Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020247 Authors: Andrei A. Deviatkin Ivan S. Kholodilov Yulia A. Vakulenko Galina G. Karganova Alexander N. Lukashev Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is one of the most important viral zoonosis transmitted by the bite of infected ticks. In this study, all tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) E gene sequences available in GenBank as of June 2019 with known date of...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 250: The Cajal Body in Plant-Virus Interactions Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020250 Authors: Yi Ding Rosa Lozano-Durán Cajal bodies (CBs) are nuclear membraneless bodies composed of proteins and RNA. Although it is known that CBs play a role in RNA metabolism and the formation of functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, the whole breadth of CB functions is far from being fully elucidated. In this short review, we will summarize and discuss the growing body...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 248: Substantial Antigenic Drift in the Hemagglutinin Protein of Swine Influenza A Viruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020248 Authors: Pia Ryt-Hansen Anders Gorm Pedersen Inge Larsen Charlotte Sonne Kristensen Jesper Schak Krog Silke Wacheck Lars Erik Larsen The degree of antigenic drift in swine influenza A viruses (swIAV) has historically been regarded as minimal compared to that of human influenza A virus strains. However, as surveillance activities...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 249: Chicken eEF1α is a Critical Factor for the Polymerase Complex Activity of Very Virulent Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020249 Authors: Bo Yang Nana Yan Aijing Liu Yue Li Zehua Chen Li Gao Xiaole Qi Yulong Gao Changjun Liu Yanping Zhang Hongyu Cui Kai Li Qing Pan Yongqiang Wang Xiaomei Wang Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an immunosuppressive, highly contagious, and lethal disease of young...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 246: Updating the Quarantine Status of Prunus Infecting Viruses in Australia
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 246: Updating the Quarantine Status of Prunus Infecting Viruses in Australia Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020246 Authors: Wycliff M. Kinoti Narelle Nancarrow Alison Dann Brendan C. Rodoni Fiona E. Constable One hundred Prunus trees, including almond (P. dulcis), apricot (P. armeniaca), nectarine (P. persica var. nucipersica), peach (P. persica), plum (P. domestica), purple leaf plum (P. cerasifera) and sweet cherry (P. avium), were selected from growing...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 244: Systematic Comparison of Two Animal-to-Human Transmitted Human Coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020244 Authors: Xu Zhao Teng Abdalla Zhu Xie Wang Guo After the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the world in 2003, human coronaviruses (HCoVs) have been reported as pathogens that cause severe symptoms in respiratory tract infections. Recently, a new emerged HCoV isolated from...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 245: The Heat Shock Response in the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) is Antiviral Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020245 Authors: McMenamin Daughenbaugh Flenniken Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are an agriculturally important pollinator species that live in easily managed social groups (i.e., colonies). Unfortunately, annual losses of honey bee colonies in many parts of the world have reached unsustainable levels. Multiple abiotic and biotic stressors, including...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 240: Structural Basis for Inhibiting Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Replication with the 3C-Like Protease Inhibitor GC376 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020240 Authors: Gang Ye Xiaowei Wang Xiaohan Tong Yuejun Shi Zhen F. Fu Guiqing Peng Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), being highly virulent and contagious in piglets, has caused significant damage to the pork industries of many countries worldwide. There are no commercial drugs targeting coronaviruses...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 241: Identification of HIV-1 Envelope Mutations that Enhance Entry Using Macaque CD4 and CCR5 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020241 Authors: Jeremy I. Roop Noah A. Cassidy Adam S. Dingens Jesse D. Bloom Julie Overbaugh Although Rhesus macaques are an important animal model for HIV-1 vaccine development research, most transmitted HIV-1 strains replicate poorly in macaque cells. A major genetic determinant of this species-specific restriction is a non-synonymous...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 242: Measles Vaccines Designed for Enhanced CD8+ T Cell Activation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020242 Authors: Busch Kubon Mayer Pidelaserra-Martí Albert Hoyler Heidbuechel Stephenson Lichty Osen Eichmüller Jäger Ungerechts Engeland Priming and activation of CD8+ T cell responses is crucial to achieve anti-viral and anti-tumor immunity. Live attenuated measles vaccine strains have been used successfully for immunization...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 243: Letea Virus: Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetic Analysis of a Novel Reassortant Orbivirus Discovered in Grass Snakes (Natrix natrix) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020243 Authors: Alexandru Tomazatos Rachel E. Marschang Iulia Maranda Heike Baum Alexandra Bialonski Marina Spînu Renke Lühken Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Daniel Cadar The discovery and characterization of novel arthropod-borne viruses provide valuable information on their genetic...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 239: Extracellular Vesicles from Human Papilloma Virus-Infected Cervical Cancer Cells Enhance HIV-1 Replication in Differentiated U1 Cell Line Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020239 Authors: Sabina Ranjit Sunitha Kodidela Namita Sinha Subhash Chauhan Santosh Kumar In the current study, we hypothesized that extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted from human papilloma virus (HPV)-infected cervical cancer cells exacerbate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 replication...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 616: Change of Contributions from Different Natural Processes to the Ionic Budget in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Water doi: 10.3390/w12030616 Authors: Rui Wang Zhijun Yao Zhaofei Liu Understanding the geochemistry of natural waters is helpful for grasping how the water environment responds to climate and environment changes. The basin of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, the most important river in the Tibetan Plateau, was selected as the study area. Based on our field...
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