Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1776: Front-Face Fluorescence of Honey of Different Botanic Origin: A Case Study from Tuscany (Italy) Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051776 Authors: Parri Santinami Domenici Honey is a natural pure food produced by honeybees from the nectar of various plants, and its chemical composition includes carbohydrates, water, and some minor compounds, which are very important for honey quality and authentication. Most of honey’s...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
JMMP, Vol. 4, Pages 20: Hydrostatic Bandsaw Blade Guides for Natural Stone-Cutting Applications Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing doi: 10.3390/jmmp4010020 Authors: Ammar Ahsan Kyle Kenney Jonas Kröger Stefan Böhm In a bandsaw machine, the blade guides provide additional stiffness and help to align the blade near the cutting region. Typically, these are either in the form of blocks made of carbide or ceramics or as sealed bearings. Abrasive particles,...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 187: Different Cell Wall-Degradation Ability Leads to Tissue-Specificity between Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9030187 Authors: Jianbo Cao Chuanliang Chu Meng Zhang Limin He Lihong Qin Xianghua Li Meng Yuan Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc) lead to the devastating rice bacterial diseases and have a very close genetic relationship....
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
J. Imaging, Vol. 6, Pages 9: A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Source Image Forensics Journal of Imaging doi: 10.3390/jimaging6030009 Authors: Pengpeng Yang Daniele Baracchi Rongrong Ni Yao Zhao Fabrizio Argenti Alessandro Piva Image source forensics is widely considered as one of the most effective ways to verify in a blind way digital image authenticity and integrity. In the last few years, many researchers have applied data-driven approaches to this task, inspired...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Quantum Reports, Vol. 2, Pages 208-220: Digital Quantum Simulation of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Elements Quantum Reports doi: 10.3390/quantum2010013 Authors: Carlos Sabín We provide a recipe for the digitalization of linear and nonlinear quantum optics in networks of superconducting qubits. By combining digital techniques with boson-qubit mappings, we address relevant problems that are typically considered in analog simulators, such as the dynamical Casimir effect or molecular...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
J. Imaging, Vol. 6, Pages 8: Real-Time System for Driver Fatigue Detection Based on a Recurrent Neuronal Network Journal of Imaging doi: 10.3390/jimaging6030008 Authors: Younes Ed-Doughmi Najlae Idrissi Youssef Hbali In recent years, the rise of car accident fatalities has grown significantly around the world. Hence, road security has become a global concern and a challenging problem that needs to be solved. The deaths caused by road accidents are still increasing and currently...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Cells, Vol. 9, Pages 623: Hybrid Epithelial/Mesenchymal State in Cancer Metastasis: Clinical Significance and Regulatory Mechanisms Cells doi: 10.3390/cells9030623 Authors: Liao Yang Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been well recognized for its essential role in cancer progression as well as normal tissue development. In cancer cells, activation of EMT permits the cells to acquire migratory and invasive abilities and stem-like properties. However, simple categorization...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1182: Formulation of Coefficient of Performance Characteristics of Water-cooled Chillers and Evaluation of Composite COP for Combined Chillers Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051182 Authors: Toru Yamamoto Hirofumi Hayama Takao Hayashi The Coefficient of Performance of an ordinary water-cooled chiller is presented as a relationship with the chiller load factor and cooling water temperature. However, the cooling water temperature fluctuates according to...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1181: Mathematical Modelling of Drive System with an Elastic Coupling Based on Formal Analogy between the Transmission Shaft and the Electric Transmission Line Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051181 Authors: Andrzej Popenda Marek Lis Marcjan Nowak Krzysztof Blecharz In the paper, the kinematic structure of the transmission shaft between the driving motor and the working mechanism is studied. The analysis is based on electrical and mechanical similarities....
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1180: Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Green Hybrid Nanocomposites for Application as Proton Exchange Membranes in Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051180 Authors: Marwa H. Gouda Noha A. Elessawy Diogo M.F. Santos Organic–inorganic nanocomposite membranes for potential application in direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) are formulated from sulfonated poly(vinyl alcohol) (SPVA) with the incorporation of (PO4-TiO2)...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1179: Can One Reinforce Investments in Renewable Energy Stock Indices with the ESG Index? Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051179 Authors: Guizhou Liu Shigeyuki Hamori Studies on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index have become increasingly important since the ESG index offers attractive characteristics, such as environmental friendliness. Scholars and institutional investors are evaluating if investment in the ESG index can positively change...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1178: A Multi-Facet Retrofit Approach to Improve Energy Efficiency of Existing Class of Single-Family Residential Buildings in Hot-Humid Climate Zones Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051178 Authors: Kwame Troy Hamidreza Targeting existing residential buildings for retrofit improvement presents significant prospects for global reduction of energy-usage and carbon footprints. Energy consumption of the existing single-family building in the hot-humid climate...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Brain Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 149: Erratum: Chén “The Roles of Statistics in Human Neuroscience”, Brain Sci. 2019, 9 (8), 194 Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci10030149 Authors: Chén The author wishes to make an erratum to the published version of his paper [...]
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1414: Coherent Markov Random Field-Based Unreliable DSM Areas Segmentation and Hierarchical Adaptive Surface Fitting for InSAR DEM Reconstruction Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051414 Authors: Qian Qian Bingnan Wang Xiaoning Hu Maosheng Xiang A digital elevation model (DEM) can be obtained by removing ground objects, such as buildings, in a digital surface model (DSM) generated by the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) system. However,...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 1968: Between Science Education and Environmental Education: How Science Motivation Relates to Environmental Values Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su12051968 Authors: Mona L. Schönfelder Franz X. Bogner Science education and environmental education are important gates to prepare the next generation for our society’s current and upcoming challenges. While in the informal sector, environmental education acts independently, on the formal side,...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Cells, Vol. 9, Pages 622: The G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (GPER) Expression Correlates with Pro-Metastatic Pathways in ER-Negative Breast Cancer: A Bioinformatics Analysis Cells doi: 10.3390/cells9030622 Authors: Marianna Talia Ernestina Marianna De Francesco Damiano Cosimo Rigiracciolo Maria Grazia Muoio Lucia Muglia Antonino Belfiore Marcello Maggiolini Andrew H. Sims Rosamaria Lappano The G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER, formerly...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Materials, Vol. 13, Pages 1144: Durability of Metal-Composite Friction Spot Joints under Environmental Conditions Materials doi: 10.3390/ma13051144 Authors: Seyed M. Goushegir Nico Scharnagl Jorge F. dos Santos Sergio T. Amancio-Filho The current paper investigates the durability of the single-lap shear aluminum-composite friction spot joints and their behavior under harsh accelerated aging as well as natural weathering conditions. Four aluminum surface pre-treatments...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 329: Phylogenetic Analysis and Development of Molecular Tool for Detection of Diaporthe citri Causing Melanose Disease of Citrus Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030329 Authors: Chingchai Chaisiri Xiang-Yu Liu Yang Lin Jiang-Bo Li Bin Xiong Chao-Xi Luo Melanose disease caused by Diaporthe citri is considered as one of the most important and destructive diseases of citrus worldwide. In this study, isolates from melanose samples were obtained and...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 699: Changes in Serum Creatinine Levels and Natural Evolution of Acute Kidney Injury with Conservative Management of Hemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Extremely Preterm Infants at 23–26 Weeks of Gestation Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9030699 Authors: Eun Seop Seo Se In Sung So Yoon Ahn Yun Sil Chang Won Soon Park Changes in kidney function in extremely preterm infants (EPT) with conservatively managed hemodynamically...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 401: The Biomolecular Spectrum Drives Microbial Biology and Functions in Agri-Food-Environments Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030401 Authors: Sharma Singh Rangappa Stadler Mishra Silva Prasad Gupta Microbial biomolecules have huge commercial and industrial potential. In nature, biological interactions are mostly associated with biochemical and biological diversity, especially with the discovery of associated biomolecules...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Processes, Vol. 8, Pages 294: Investigation into the Suppression Effects of Inert Powders on the Minimum Ignition Temperature and the Minimum Ignition Energy of Polyethylene Dust Processes doi: 10.3390/pr8030294 Authors: Chendi Lin Yingquan Qi Xiangyang Gan Hao Feng Yan Wang Wentao Ji Xiaoping Wen The risks associated with dust explosions still exist in industries that either process or handle combustible dust. This explosion risk could be prevented or mitigated...
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Processes, Vol. 8, Pages 295: A New Improved Learning Algorithm for Convolutional Neural Networks Processes doi: 10.3390/pr8030295 Authors: Jie Yang Junhong Zhao Lu Lu Tingting Pan Sidra Jubair The back-propagation (BP) algorithm is usually used to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and has made greater progress in image classification. It updates weights with the gradient descent, and the farther the sample is from the target, the greater the contribution...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 566: Conformation Variation and Tunable Protein Adsorption through Combination of Poly(acrylic acid) and Antifouling Poly(N-(2-hydroxyethyl) acrylamide) Diblock on a Particle Surface Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030566 Authors: Zun Wang Kaimin Chen Chen Hua Xuhong Guo Adsorption and desorption of proteins on biomaterial surfaces play a critical role in numerous biomedical applications. Spherical diblock polymer brushes (polystyrene with photoiniferter...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 567: New Insights into the Morphology of Silica and Carbon Black Based on Their Different Dispersion Behavior Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030567 Authors: Fabian Grunert André Wehmeier Anke Blume Precipitated silica in combination with bifunctional organosilanes almost fully replaces currently the commonly used carbon black fillers in modern passenger car tire tread compounds to improve tire properties such as wet traction (safety) and rolling resistance...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 327: Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of Polygalacturonase Gene Family in Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) during Fruit Softening Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030327 Authors: Wenjun Huang Meiyan Chen Tingting Zhao Fei Han Qi Zhang Xiaoli Liu Changying Jiang Caihong Zhong Polygalacturonase (PG) is an essential hydrolytic enzyme responsible for pectin degradation and thus plays an important role in fruit softening and...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 328: The bRPS6-Family Protein RFC3 Prevents Interference by the Splicing Factor CFM3b during Plastid rRNA Biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030328 Authors: Yumi Nagashima Katsutomo Ohshiro Akiyasu Iwase Miyuki T. Nakata Shugo Maekawa Gorou Horiguchi Plastid ribosome biogenesis is important for plant growth and development. REGULATOR OF FATTY ACID COMPOSITION3 (RFC3) is a member of the bacterial ribosomal protein...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
JRFM, Vol. 13, Pages 49: Analytical Gradients of Dynamic Conditional Correlation Models Journal of Risk and Financial Management doi: 10.3390/jrfm13030049 Authors: Massimiliano Caporin Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Giulio Palomba We provide the analytical gradient of the full model likelihood for the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) specification by Engle (2002), the generalised version by Cappiello et al. (2006), and of the cDCC model by Aielli(2013). We discuss how the...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 1965: Indoor Vertical Farming in the Urban Nexus Context: Business Growth and Resource Savings Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su12051965 Authors: Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki George Xydis In recent years, a new urban environment in the large metropolitan areas, the so-called “megacities”, has emerged. It is estimated that more than five billion people will be located in urban areas by 2030. Many projects have been initiated in the...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 227: Hierarchical Porous Carbon—PLLA and PLGA Hybrid Nanoparticles for Intranasal Delivery of Galantamine for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12030227 Authors: Stavroula G. Nanaki Konstantinos Spyrou Chryssa Bekiari Pelagia Veneti Turki N. Baroud Niki Karouta Ioannis Grivas Georgios C. Papadopoulos Dimitrios Gournis Dimitrios N. Bikiaris In the present study, poly(l-lactic acid)...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 1967: Optimization of A Low-Carbon Two-Echelon Heterogeneous-Fleet Vehicle Routing for Cold Chain Logistics Under Mixed Time Window Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su12051967 Authors: Ziqi Wang Peihan Wen Due to the rise of social and environmental concerns on global climate change, developing the low-carbon economy is a necessary strategic step to respond to greenhouse effect and incorporate sustainability. As such, there is a new trend for the cold...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 30: Safety and Efficacy of Direct Oral Anticoagulants for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Renal Impairment Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8010030 Authors: Soo Min Jang Khaled Bahjri Huyentran Tran Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are gaining popularity for patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) for stroke prevention. Less bleeding risk with comparable stroke prevention compared to warfarin was shown. DOACs have predictable anticoagulant...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 226: Cow Milk and Intestinal Epithelial Cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles as Systems for Enhancing Oral Drug Delivery Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12030226 Authors: Greta Carobolante Julia Mantaj Enrico Ferrari Driton Vllasaliu Ingestion is the preferred way for drug administration. However, many drugs have poor oral bioavailability, warranting the use of injections. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) from cow milk have shown potential...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 186: Insights into the Recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Light of Past Human Coronavirus Outbreaks Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9030186 Authors: Hossam M. Ashour Walid F. Elkhatib Md. Masudur Rahman Hatem A. Elshabrawy Coronaviruses (CoVs) are RNA viruses that have become a major public health concern since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (SARS-CoV) outbreak in 2002. The continuous evolution of coronaviruses was further...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 698: Severe Infection in Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease: A Retrospective Multicenter French Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9030698 Authors: Pauline Caillard Cécile Vigneau Jean-Michel Halimi Marc Hazzan Eric Thervet Morgane Heitz Laurent Juillard Vincent Audard Marion Rabant Alexandre Hertig Jean-François Subra Vincent Vuiblet Dominique Guerrot Mathilde Tamain Marie Essig Thierry...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1777: Virtual PLC Lab Enabled Physical Layer Improvement Proposals for PRIME and G3-PLC Standards Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051777 Authors: Asier Llano Itziar Angulo David de la Vega Laura Marron Narrowband (NB) powerline communication (PLC) is extensively adopted by utilities for the communication in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems. PLC technology needs to overcome channel disturbances present in certain grid...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Symmetry, Vol. 12, Pages 411: Contractive Inequalities for Some Asymptotically Regular Set-Valued Mappings and Their Fixed Points Symmetry doi: 10.3390/sym12030411 Authors: Pradip Debnath Manuel de La Sen The symmetry concept is a congenital characteristic of the metric function. In this paper, our primary aim is to study the fixed points of a broad category of set-valued maps which may include discontinuous maps as well. To achieve this objective, we newly extend the notions...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
IJMS, Vol. 21, Pages 1758: Biocomplexity and Fractality in the Search of Biomarkers of Aging and Pathology: Mitochondrial DNA Profiling of Parkinson’s Disease International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms21051758 Authors: Annamaria Zaia Pierluigi Maponi Martina Zannotti Tiziana Casoli Increasing evidence implicates mitochondrial dysfunction in the etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are considered a possible...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Symmetry, Vol. 12, Pages 410: Artificial Intelligence in the Cyber Domain: Offense and Defense Symmetry doi: 10.3390/sym12030410 Authors: Thanh Cong Truong Quoc Bao Diep Ivan Zelinka Artificial intelligence techniques have grown rapidly in recent years, and their applications in practice can be seen in many fields, ranging from facial recognition to image analysis. In the cybersecurity domain, AI-based techniques can provide better cyber defense tools and help adversaries...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1413: A Distributed Cooperative Localization Strategy in Vehicular-to-Vehicular Networks Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051413 Authors: Minji Kim Hong Ki Kim Sang Hyun Lee This work develops a distributed message-passing approach to cooperative localization for autonomous mobile vehicles that communicate via mm-wave wireless connection in vehicle-to-vehicle networks. Vehicles in the network obtain the measurement information about the relative distance and...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, Pages 833: Validation of Space-Based Albedo Products from Upscaled Tower-Based Measurements Over Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Landscapes Remote Sensing doi: 10.3390/rs12050833 Authors: Rui Song Jan-Peter Muller Said Kharbouche Feng Yin William Woodgate Mark Kitchen Marilyn Roland Nicola Arriga Wayne Meyer Georgia Koerber Damien Bonal Benoit Burban Alexander Knohl Lukas Siebicke Pauline Buysse Benjamin...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1412: Track-to-Track Association for Intelligent Vehicles by Preserving Local Track Geometry Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051412 Authors: Ke Zou Hao Zhu Allan De Freitas Yongfu Li Hamid Esmaeili Najafabadi Track-to-track association (T2TA) is a challenging task in situational awareness in intelligent vehicles and surveillance systems. In this paper, the problem of track-to-track association with sensor bias (T2TASB) is considered. Traditional T2TASB...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 54: Outer Nuclear Layer Damage for Detection of Early Retinal Toxicity of Hydroxychloroquine Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8030054 Authors: Casado López-de-Eguileta Fonseca Muñoz Demetrio Gordo-Vega Cerveró In hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy, early detection of asymptomatic retinal changes and the interruption of the drug are essential to prevent permanent vision loss. Our purpose was to investigate the roles...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 399: A Novel T Cell-Engaging Bispecific Antibody for Treating Mesothelin-Positive Solid Tumors Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030399 Authors: Yoon Lee Lee Lim Park Song Kim Kim Lim As mesothelin is overexpressed in various types of cancer, it is an attractive target for therapeutic antibodies. T-cell bispecific antibodies bind to target cells and engage T cells via binding to CD3, resulting in target cell killing...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 589: Kinetics of Prostate-Specific Antigen after Carbon Ion Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12030589 Authors: Narisa Dewi Maulany Darwis Takahiro Oike Hidemasa Kawamura Masahiro Kawahara Nobuteru Kubo Hiro Sato Yuhei Miyasaka Hiroyuki Katoh Hitoshi Ishikawa Hiroshi Matsui Yoshiyuki Miyazawa Kazuto Ito Kazuhiro Suzuki Soehartati Gondhowiardjo Takashi Nakano Tatsuya Ohno ...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
IJMS, Vol. 21, Pages 1762: Platelet Features and Derivatives in Osteoporosis: A Rational and Systematic Review on the Best Evidence International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms21051762 Authors: Francesca Salamanna Melania Maglio Maria Sartori Matilde Tschon Milena Fini Background: With the increase in aging population, the rising prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) has become an important medical issue. Accumulating evidence showed a close relationship...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 400: Phenols and Melanoidins as Natural Antioxidants in Beer. Structure, Reactivity and Antioxidant Activity Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030400 Authors: Martinez-Gomez Caballero Blanco Beer is one of the most consumed drinks around the world, containing a variety of compounds that offer both appreciated sensorial characteristics and health advantages. Important healthy compounds in beer are those with antioxidant properties that attenuate...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 571: Improvement of Foaming Ability of Surfactant Solutions by Water-Soluble Polymers: Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030571 Authors: Chaohang Xu Hetang Wang Deming Wang Xiaolong Zhu Yunfei Zhu Xing Bai Quanlin Yang Aqueous foam is widely used in fire extinguishing and dust suppression technologies. Improving the foaming ability is the key to reducing the added concentration of foaming agents...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1411: Nanostructured Chemoresistive Sensors for Oncological Screening and Tumor Markers Tracking: Single Sensor Approach Applications on Human Blood and Cell Samples Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051411 Authors: Nicolò Landini Gabriele Anania Michele Astolfi Barbara Fabbri Vincenzo Guidi Giorgio Rispoli Matteo Valt Giulia Zonta Cesare Malagù Preventive screening does not only allow to preemptively intervene on pathologies before...
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Entropy, Vol. 22, Pages 296: Robust and Scalable Learning of Complex Intrinsic Dataset Geometry via ElPiGraph Entropy doi: 10.3390/e22030296 Authors: Luca Albergante Evgeny Mirkes Jonathan Bac Huidong Chen Alexis Martin Louis Faure Emmanuel Barillot Luca Pinello Alexander Gorban Andrei Zinovyev Multidimensional datapoint clouds representing large datasets are frequently characterized by non-trivial low-dimensional geometry and topology which can...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1175: Reliability Evaluation for Aviation Electric Power System in Consideration of Uncertainty Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051175 Authors: Yao Wang Xinqin Gao Yuanfeng Cai Mingshun Yang Shujuan Li Yan Li With the rapid development of more electric aircraft (MEA) in recent years, the aviation electric power system (AEPS) has played an increasingly important role in safe flight. However, as a highly reliable system, because of its complicated...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 574: Designing Micro Bulge Structure with Uniform PS Microspheres for Boosted Dielectric Hydrophobic Blend Films Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030574 Authors: Zhu Yao Zhang Yang In this paper, homogeneous polystyrene (PS) microspheres with controllable sizes of 40 nm, 80 nm, and 120 nm were synthesized by controlling the temperature of solvothermal method. In order to explore the effect of PS microspheres on dielectric-hydrophobic properties...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 573: A Novel Multilayer Composite Membrane for Wound Healing in Mice Skin Defect Model Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030573 Authors: Qiu Wang Chen Xia Huang Wei To develop a wound dressing material that conforms to the healing process, we prepared a multilayer composite (MC) membrane consisting of an antibacterial layer (ABL), a reinforcement layer (RFL), and a healing promotion layer (HPL). Biocompatible zein/ethyl cellulose (zein/EC)...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
IJMS, Vol. 21, Pages 1761: Activation Effects of Carnosine- and Histidine-Containing Dipeptides on Human Carbonic Anhydrases: A Comprehensive Study International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms21051761 Authors: Giulio Vistoli Giancarlo Aldini Laura Fumagalli Clelia Dallanoce Andrea Angeli Claudiu T. Supuran l-Carnosine (β-Ala-l-His) and several other histidine-containing peptides, including two N-methylated forms on the imidazole ring...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1410: Detection and Speed Estimation of Moving Target Based on Phase Compensation and Coherent Accumulation Using Fractional Fourier Transform Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051410 Authors: Jian Yang Xinxin Liu Bo Yang Jian Lu Guisheng Liao As unmanned aerial vehicles and other small, low-flying, and low-speed aircrafts are being extensively used, studies on their detection are being extensively conducted in radar application research. However, weak...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 572: Flow-Through Catalytic Reactors Based on Metal Nanoparticles Immobilized within Porous Polymeric Gels and Surfaces/Hollows of Polymeric Membranes Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030572 Authors: Kudaibergenov Dzhardimalieva State-of-the-art of flow-through catalytic reactors based on metal nanoparticles immobilized within the pores of nano-, micro- and macrosized polymeric gels and in the surface or hollow of polymeric membranes is discussed in this...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 1964: Lifecycle Assessment of Biomass Supply Chain with the Assistance of Agent-Based Modelling Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su12051964 Authors: Raghu KC Mika Aalto Olli-Jussi Korpinen Tapio Ranta Svetlana Proskurina Even though biomass is characterised as renewable energy, it produces anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially from biomass logistics. Lifecycle assessment (LCA) is used as a tool to quantify the GHG emissions...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1177: The Effect of Air leakage through the Air Cavities of Building Walls on Mold Growth Risks Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051177 Authors: Yonghui Li Xinyuan Dang Changchang Xia Yan Ma Daisuke Ogura Shuichi Hokoi Mold growth poses a high risk to a large number of existing buildings and their users. Air leakage through the air cavities of the building walls, herein gaps between walls and air conditioner pipes penetrating the walls, may...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Sustainability, Vol. 12, Pages 1966: The Sustainable Effect of Operational Performance on Financial Benefits: Evidence from Chinese Quality Awards Winners Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su12051966 Authors: Huiming Liu Su Wu Chongwen Zhong Ying Liu Quality management practices have become increasingly important as firms seek to obtain quality certifications to dominate markets. To date, adequate research evaluating the effects of quality management is lacking. In this work,...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Cells, Vol. 9, Pages 621: Modulation of the Pol II CTD Phosphorylation Code by Rac1 and Cdc42 Small GTPases in Cultured Human Cancer Cells and Its Implication for Developing a Synthetic-Lethal Cancer Therapy Cells doi: 10.3390/cells9030621 Authors: Bo Zhang Xuelin Zhong Moira Sauane Yihong Zhao Zhi-Liang Zheng Rho GTPases, including Rho, Cdc42, Rac and ROP subfamilies, are key signaling molecules in RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcriptional control. Our prior work...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1774: Principle and Applications of the Coupling of Surface Plasmons and Excitons Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051774 Authors: He Li Liu Yao Xu Han Wang Surface plasmons have been attracting increasing attention and have been studied extensively in recent decades because of their half-light and half-material polarized properties. On the one hand, the tightly confined surface plasmonic mode may reduce the size...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1773: Conventional and Deep Learning Methods for Skull Stripping in Brain MRI Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051773 Authors: Rehman Hwang Lee Skull stripping in brain magnetic resonance volume has recently been attracting attention due to an increased demand to develop an efficient, accurate, and general algorithm for diverse datasets of the brain. Accurate skull stripping is a critical step for neuroimaging diagnostic systems because...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 1677: Systematic Assessment of Health Risk from Metals in Surface Sediment of the Xiangjiang River, China International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051677 Authors: Huan Li Liyuan Chai Zhihui Yang Weichun Yang Qi Liao Zhe Cao Yanchun Peng The common empirical screening method is limited to a preliminary screen target from vast elements for human health risk assessments. Here, an element screening...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1772: Waiting Time Distributions of Transport Through a Two-Channel Quantum System Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051772 Authors: Liu Wang Liang In this work, the waiting time distribution (WTD) statistics of electron transport through a two-channel quantum system in a strong Coulomb blockade regime and non-interacting dots are investigated by employing a particle-number resolved master equation with the Born–Markov approximation....
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1771: Stable Sparse Model with Non-Tight Frame Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051771 Authors: Min Zhang Yunhui Shi Na Qi Qi Yin Overcomplete representation is attracting interest in image restoration due to its potential to generate sparse representations of signals. However, the problem of seeking sparse representation must be unstable in the presence of noise. Restricted Isometry Property (RIP), playing a crucial role in...
Wed Mar 04, 2020 02:00
Energies, Vol. 13, Pages 1176: Hybrid Control Strategy of MPC and DBC to Achieve a Fixed Frequency and Superior Robustness Energies doi: 10.3390/en13051176 Authors: Yuhan Zhang Guiping Du Jiajian Li Yanxiong Lei In this paper, a hybrid control strategy for power converters, based on improved deadbeat control (DBC) and improved finite control set model predictive control (MPC), is proposed. The presented control strategy employs a switched method to achieve a fixed switching...
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Materials, Vol. 13, Pages 1143: Using Eco-Friendly Recycled Powder from CDW to Prepare Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites (SHCC) and Properties Determination Materials doi: 10.3390/ma13051143 Authors: Wan Wang Huixia Wu Zhiming Ma Ruixue Wu Using eco-friendly recycled brick powder (RBP) derived from waste brick to prepare strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) provides a new way of recycling the construction and demolition waste (CDW), and the dosage of...
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Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1402: Water Management for Sustainable Irrigation Systems Using Internet-of-Things Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20051402 Authors: André Glória Carolina Dionisio Gonçalo Simões João Cardoso Pedro Sebastião This paper introduces a new way of managing water in irrigation systems, which can be applied to gardens or agricultural fields, replacing human intervention with Wireless Sensor Networks. A typical irrigation system wastes on average 30% of the...
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Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 569: The Construction of a Hydrophilic Inorganic Layer Enables Mechanochemically Robust Super Antifouling UHMWPE Composite Membrane Surfaces Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030569 Authors: Liu Liu Yu Zhang Dai Zhang Zhang In this study, a facile and effective method is adopted to prepare mechanochemically robust super antifouling membrane surfaces. During the process, vinyl trimethoxy silane (VTMS) was used as the reactive intermediate...
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IJMS, Vol. 21, Pages 1760: Resveratrol Suppresses Prostate Cancer Epithelial Cell Scatter/Invasion by Targeting Inhibition of Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) Secretion by Prostate Stromal Cells and Upregulation of E-cadherin by Prostate Cancer Epithelial Cells International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms21051760 Authors: Tze-chen Hsieh Joseph M Wu Cancer mortality is primarily attributed to metastasis and the resulting compromise of organs secondary to the initial...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 326: One-Step Reverse-Transcription Digital PCR for Reliable Quantification of Different Pepino Mosaic Virus Genotypes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9030326 Authors: Nataša Mehle Larisa Gregur Alexandra Bogožalec Košir David Dobnik In recent years, pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) has rapidly evolved from an emerging virus to an endemic pathogen, as it causes significant loses to tomato crops worldwide. At present, the main control strategy for prevention...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1770: Super-Gain Optical Parametric Amplification in Dielectric Micro-Resonators via BFGS Algorithm-Based Non-Linear Programming Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051770 Authors: Aşırım Kuzuoğlu The goal of this paper is to show that super-gain optical parametric amplification can be achieved even in a small micro-resonator using high-intensity ultrashort pump waves, provided that the frequencies of the ultrashort pulses are tuned to maximize...
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Polymers, Vol. 12, Pages 570: Effect of Fructose and Ascorbic Acid on the Performance of Cross-Linked Fish Gelatin Films Polymers doi: 10.3390/polym12030570 Authors: Guerrero Zugasti Etxabide Bao Trang Si Peñalba de la Caba Gelatin was extracted from fish scales in this work, in an attempt to valorise abundant and available fishery by-products as an approach towards a more circular economy. With this strategy in mind, fish scale gelatin was used to...
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C, Vol. 6, Pages 11: Pulling Simulations and Hydrogen Sorption Modelling on Carbon Nanotube Bundles C — Journal of Carbon Research doi: 10.3390/c6010011 Authors: Anastasios Gotzias Andreas Sapalidis Recent progress in molecular simulation technology has grown an interest to modernize usual computational methods and approaches. For instance, most of the theoretical work on hydrogen adsorption on carbon nanotubes has been conducted a decade ago. It should be insightful to reinvestigate...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1769: A Proposed Soft Computing Model for Ultimate Strength Estimation of FRP-Confined Concrete Cylinders Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051769 Authors: Kamgar Naderpour Komeleh Jakubczyk-Gałczyńska Jankowski In this paper, the feed-forward backpropagation neural network (FFBPNN) is used to propose a new formulation for predicting the compressive strength of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-confined concrete cylinders. A set...
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 1768: A Fault Diagnosis Method of Mine Hoist Disc Brake System Based on Machine Learning Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app10051768 Authors: Li Jiang Li Xie The performance of the brake system is directly related to the safety and reliability of the mine hoist operation. Mining the useful fault information in the operation of a mine hoist brake system, analyzing the abnormal parts and causes of the equipment, and making accurate early...
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IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 1675: BIOLEACH: A New Decision Support Model for the Real-Time Management of Municipal Solid Waste Bioreactor Landfills International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051675 Authors: Rodrigo-Ilarri Rodrigo-Clavero Cassiraga This paper introduces BIOLEACH, a new decision support model for the real-time management of municipal solid waste bioreactor landfills that allows estimating the leachate and biogas production....
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Symmetry, Vol. 12, Pages 409: Symmetries in Foundation of Quantum Theory and Mathematics Symmetry doi: 10.3390/sym12030409 Authors: Felix M. Lev In standard quantum theory, symmetry is defined in the spirit of Klein’s Erlangen Program—the background space has a symmetry group, and the basic operators should commute according to the Lie algebra of that group. We argue that the definition should be the opposite—background space has a direct physical meaning...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 1154: Repositioning Natural Products in Drug Discovery Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25051154 Authors: Rastelli Pellati Pinzi Gamberini Drug repositioning (o repurposing) has become one of the most popular and successful strategies to reduce failures typically associated with drug discovery [...].
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 1152: Composition, Antifungal, Phytotoxic, and Insecticidal Activities of Thymus kotschyanus Essential Oil Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25051152 Authors: Ghasemi Alirezalu Ghosta Jarrahi Safavi Abbas-Mohammadi Barba Munekata Domínguez Lorenzo Essential oils (EOs) are some of the outstanding compounds found in Thymus that can exert antifungal, phytotoxic, and insecticidal activities, which encourage their...
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