Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 33: Principles of Drug Dosing in Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis (SLED) and Review of Antimicrobial Dosing Literature Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8010033 Authors: Paula Brown Marisa Battistella The use of sustained low-efficiency dialysis (SLED) as a renal replacement modality has increased in critically ill patients with both acute kidney injury (AKI) and hemodynamic instability. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of data regarding the appropriate dosing...
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 34: Pilot Implementation of Falsified Medicines Directive in Hospital Pharmacy to Develop Best Practices for Medicine Decommissioning Process Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8010034 Authors: Piotr Merks Damian Świeczkowski Mikołaj Zerhau Anna Gawronska Anna Kowalczuk Klaudiusz Gajewski Ralf Däinghaus Miłosz Jaguszewski David Brindley Background: The introduction of a medicines verification and decommissioning system into the hospital pharmacy...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 347: Lost in Translation: Physiological Roles of Stored mRNAs in Seed Germination Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030347 Authors: Naoto Sano Loïc Rajjou Helen M. North Seeds characteristics such as germination ability, dormancy, and storability/longevity are important traits in agriculture, and various genes have been identified that are involved in its regulation at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level. A particularity of mature dry seeds is a special...
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 346: Synergistic Effect of NaCl Pretreatment and PVP on Browning Suppression and Callus Induction from Petal Explants of Paeonia Lactiflora Pall. ‘Festival Maxima’ Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030346 Authors: Xuan Cai Hao Wei Chen Liu Xiuxia Ren Luc The Thi Byoung Ryong Jeong Browning is prevalent in tissue cultures of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. (herbaceous peony), and severely affects and restricts the growth and differentiation of the explants. In this...
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 344: Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Candidate Genes Related to Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Different Carrot Genotypes and Tissues Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030344 Authors: Meng Clausen Rasmussen Black carrots are characterized by a significant amount of anthocyanins, which are not only a good source of natural food colorant, but can also provide many health benefits to humans. In the present work, taproots of different carrot genotypes were used to identify...
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 345: Endemic Plant Species Conservation: Biotechnological Approaches Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030345 Authors: Natacha Coelho Sandra Gonçalves Anabela Romano Endemic plant species are usually more vulnerable to anthropogenic threats and natural changes and, therefore, hold a higher extinction risk. The preservation of these species is a major concern on a worldwide context and in situ protection alone will not guarantee their conservation. Ex situ conservation...
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 343: Effects of Monoterpenes of Trachyspermum ammi on the Viability of Spermatogonia Stem Cells In Vitro Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030343 Authors: Sahar Omidpanah Fereshte Aliakbari Seyed Mohammad Nabavi Mahdi Vazirian Abbas Hadjiakhoondi Mahdieh Kurepaz-mahmoodabadi Azadeh Manayi Trachyspermum ammi (Apiaceae) plants have several medicinal and condimentary applications and are considered an aphrodisiac agent in Iranian Traditional Medicine. Thus,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 117: Situating Pārśva’s Biography in Varanasi Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030117 Authors: Ellen Gough This study shows how Varanasi, a site that many people understand to be a sacred Hindu city, has been made “Jain” through its association with the lives of four of the twenty-four enlightened founders of Jainism, the jinas or tīrthaṅkaras. It provides an overview of the Jain sites of worship in Varanasi, focusing especially on how events...
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 116: To Spite the Devil: Martin Luther and Katharina Von Bora’s Wedding as Reform and Resistance Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030116 Authors: Diane V. Bowers The basis of Martin Luther’s decision to marry Katharina von Bora on 13 June 1525, stemmed from his public, theological position that unless one were a particular exception, all men and women should marry. However, Luther’s decision to marry when he did was controversial because the Peasants’...
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 115: Martin Luther and the Early Modern Beginnings of a Feminist Maternal Theology Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11030115 Authors: Amy Marga This essay argues that the German Reformer, Martin Luther, makes a contribution to a Christian feminist theology of mothering. His preaching and theology about child-bearing stand out in the Christian theology of his time because of the realistic way in which he describes the experiences of pregnancy and birth, especially in...
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Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 27: Sustainability Assessment of Food Redistribution Initiatives in Sweden Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9030027 Authors: Pauline Bergström Christopher Malefors Ingrid Strid Ole Jørgen Hanssen Mattias Eriksson Food banks that redistribute surplus food from retailers and the food industry to people in need are not a new concept globally, but their connection to food waste prevention is new. As a result, new types of food redistribution units are...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 12: Advances in Mechanical Systems Dynamics Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9010012 Authors: Giulio Rosati Giovanni Boschetti Giuseppe Carbone Nowadays, robotics is developing at a much faster pace than ever in the past, both inside and outside industrial environments [...]
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Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 9: Fall Risk in Older Adults Transitioning between Different Flooring Materials Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2010009 Authors: Hyung Nam Kim Thurmon E. Lockhart As there is lack of understanding about the effect of transitioning between different flooring materials on the gait of older adults, this study investigated the effect of transitioning between a carpeted floor and a vinyl floor on the gait characteristics of older adults. Fourteen older (65 years old and over) and...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 168: Botulinum Toxin Therapy for Managing Sleep Bruxism: A Randomized and Placebo—Controlled Trial Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030168 Authors: Young Joo Shim Hee Jin Lee Keun Jeong Park Hyung Tack Kim Il Hee Hong Seong Taek Kim The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) for managing sleep bruxism (SB) in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Thirty SB subjects were randomly assigned into two groups evenly....
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 167: Engineering of Ribosome-inactivating Proteins for Improving Pharmacological Properties Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030167 Authors: Jia-Qi Lu Zhen-Ning Zhu Yong-Tang Zheng Pang-Chui Shaw Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are N-glycosidases, which depurinate a specific adenine residue in the conserved α-sarcin/ricin loop (α-SRL) of rRNA. This loop is important for anchoring elongation factor (EF-G for prokaryote or eEF2 for eukaryote)...
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 166: Therapeutic Effect of Botulinum Toxin A on Sensory Bladder Disorders—from Bench to Bedside Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12030166 Authors: Yuan-Hong Jiang Wan-Ru Yu Hann-Chorng Kuo Bladder oversensitivity arises from several different conditions involving the bladder, bladder outlet, systemic or central nervous system diseases. Increase of the bladder sensation results from activation of the sensory receptors in the urothelial cells or suburothelial tissues....
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 41: What Are the Barriers for Uptake of Antiretroviral Therapy in Hiv-Infected Tuberculosis Patients? A Mixed-Methods Study from Ayeyawady Region, Myanmar Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010041 Authors: Naychi Htet Htet Lin Aung Kyaw Thu Soe Ajay M.V. Kumar Saw Saw Si Thu Aung Antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage among HIV-infected tuberculosis (HIV-TB) patients has been suboptimal in Myanmar and the reasons are...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 122: A Plant-Produced Recombinant Fusion Protein-Based Newcastle Disease Subunit Vaccine and Rapid Differential Diagnosis Platform Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010122 Authors: Fanshu Ma Erqin Zhang Qingmei Li Qianru Xu Jiquan Ou Heng Yin Kunpeng Li Li Wang Xiangyue Zhao Xiangxiang Niu Xueyang Li Shenli Zhang Yanan Wang Ruiguang Deng Enmin Zhou Gaiping Zhang Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious avian disease,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 298: Evolution and Pathogenicity of the H1 and H3 Subtypes of Swine Influenza Virus in Mice between 2016 and 2019 in China Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030298 Authors: Yuzhong Zhao Fachao Sun Li Li Ting Chen Shengliang Cao Guofei Ding Fangyuan Cong Jiaqi Liu Liting Qin Sidang Liu Yihong Xiao Pigs are considered a “mixing vessel” that can produce new influenza strains through genetic reassortments, which pose a threat...
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 297: The Determination of HIV-1 RT Mutation Rate, Its Possible Allosteric Effects, and Its Implications on Drug Resistance Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030297 Authors: Joshua Yi Yeo Ghin-Ray Goh Chinh Tran-To Su Samuel Ken-En Gan The high mutation rate of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) plays a major role in treatment resistance, from the development of vaccines to therapeutic drugs. In addressing the crux of the issue, various attempts to...
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 296: Vector-Borne Transmission of the Zika Virus Asian Genotype in Europe Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12030296 Authors: Guillaume A. Durand Géraldine Piorkowski Laurence Thirion Laetitia Ninove Sandra Giron Christine Zandotti Jessica Denis Cyril Badaut Anna-Bella Failloux Gilda Grard Isabelle Leparc-Goffart Xavier de Lamballerie Three autochthonous cases of Zika virus occurred in southern France in August 2019. Diagnosis relied on serology...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 756: Trends in Ozonation Disinfection By-Products—Occurrence, Analysis and Toxicity of Carboxylic Acids Water doi: 10.3390/w12030756 Authors: Rama Pulicharla François Proulx Sonja Behmel Jean-B. Sérodes Manuel Rodriguez Ozonation is becoming a common disinfection method for drinking water treatment. This has prompted the investigation of ozonation disinfection by-products (ODBPs) in drinking water. Ozonation generates a diverse range of carbonyl disinfection...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 755: Projections of Future Climate Change in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, Vietnam by Using Statistical DownScaling Model (SDSM) Water doi: 10.3390/w12030755 Authors: Dang Nguyen Dong Phuong Trung Q. Duong Nguyen Duy Liem Vo Ngoc Quynh Tram Dang Kien Cuong Nguyen Kim Loi Future projections of anthropogenic climate change play a pivotal role in devising viable countermeasures to address climate-related risks. This study strove to construct future...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 750: A Design for Vortex Suppression Downstream of a Submerged Gate Water doi: 10.3390/w12030750 Authors: Ender Demirel Mustafa M. Aral Interaction of recirculating and mean flow downstream of a submerged gate may form significant vortex structures, which may affect the stability of the gate. Although these flow structures that appear in submerged hydraulic jumps received considerable attention in the literature, relatively less work was devoted to the analysis...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 752: Incorporating Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Iran’s Potable Water-Saving Scheme by Using a GIS-Simulation Based Decision Support System Water doi: 10.3390/w12030752 Authors: Yie-Ru Chiu Kamaleddin Aghaloo Babak Mohammadi Rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSs) have been accepted as a simple and effective approach to ease the worsening of urban water stress. However, in arid and semiarid regions, a comprehensive method for promoting domestic RWHSs in a large-scale...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 753: Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Urban Water Consumption Using Chaotic Approach (Case Study: City of Kelowna) Water doi: 10.3390/w12030753 Authors: Peyman Yousefi Gregory Courtice Gholamreza Naser Hadi Mohammadi This study investigated urban water consumption complexity using chaos theory to improve forecasting performance to help optimize system management, reduce costs and improve reliability. The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate urban...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 754: History of Hygiene Focusing on the Crucial Role of Water in the Hellenic Asclepieia (i.e., Ancient Hospitals) Water doi: 10.3390/w12030754 Authors: Angelakis Antoniou Yapijakis Tchobanoglous Prehistoric Hellenic civilizations like many other civilizations believed in gods and thought they had influence on the everyday life of the people. During the Bronze Ages the explanations of illness and health problems were based on mythological, divine, or...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 751: Correction: Tabassum Abbasi et al., Modelling Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Rice Paddy Wetlands in India Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Water 2019, 11, 2169 Water doi: 10.3390/w12030751 Authors: Tabassum Abbasi Tasneem Abbasi Chirchom Luithui S. A. Abbasi The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 749: Drying Lakes: A Review on the Applied Restoration Strategies and Health Conditions in Contiguous Areas Water doi: 10.3390/w12030749 Authors: Kamshat Tussupova Anchita Anchita Peder Hjorth Mojtaba Moravej Decrease of saline lakes, which comprise 44% of all available lake water, is a major concern. It additionally accelerates the desertification process of the region. Thus, various countries have taken different actions in protecting their lake water...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 748: 222Rn Concentration in Groundwaters Circulating in Granitoid Massifs of Poland Water doi: 10.3390/w12030748 Authors: Tadeusz A. PRZYLIBSKI Elżbieta DOMIN Joanna GORECKA Agata KOWALSKA The authors’ research has shown that the maximum values of 222Rn activity concentration in all granitoid massifs of Poland exceed 100 Bq·L−1, i.e. the value allowed for waters intended for human consumption. Such waters should be de-radoned...
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 747: Distribution of Heavy Metals in Vegetative Biofiltration Columns Water doi: 10.3390/w12030747 Authors: Rezaul Chowdhury Jameelu Abaya Taoufik Ksiksi Mohamed Mohamed Simon Beecham Ataur Rahman This study investigated the distribution of heavy metals in vegetative biofiltration columns irrigated by synthetic greywater. Twelve species of ornamental plants (three plants from each species) were planted in the same designed 36 biofiltration columns....
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