Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 44: Exposure Assessment of Cadmium in Female Farmers in Cadmium-Polluted Areas in Northern Japan Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8020044 Authors: Hyogo Horiguchi Etsuko Oguma Satoshi Sasaki Kayoko Miyamoto Yoko Hosoi Akira Ono Fujio Kayama Akita prefecture is located in the northern part of Japan and has many cadmium-polluted areas. We herein performed an exposure assessment of cadmium in 712 and 432 female farmers in two adjacent cadmium-polluted areas...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 401: In Memoriam to Vittorio Ricci, Professor of Pathology at Pavia University Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060401 Authors: Patrice Boquet My great friend Vittorio Ricci died suddenly on 4 May 2020 [...]
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 400: In Vitro Toxicological Screening of Stable and Senescing Cultures of Aphanizomenon, Planktothrix, and Raphidiopsis Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060400 Authors: Łukasz Wejnerowski Halina Falfushynska Oksana Horyn Inna Osypenko Mikołaj Kokociński Jussi Meriluoto Tomasz Jurczak Barbara Poniedziałek Filip Pniewski Piotr Rzymski Toxicity of cyanobacteria is the subject of ongoing research, and a number of toxic metabolites have been described,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 313: Innate Immune Response against Hepatitis C Virus: Targets for Vaccine Adjuvants Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020313 Authors: Daniel Sepulveda-Crespo Salvador Resino Isidoro Martinez Despite successful treatments, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections continue to be a significant world health problem. High treatment costs, the high number of undiagnosed individuals, and the difficulty to access to treatment, particularly in marginalized susceptible populations,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 314: Search of Potential Vaccine Candidates against Trueperella pyogenes Infections through Proteomic and Bioinformatic Analysis Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020314 Authors: Ángela Galán-Relaño Lidia Gómez-Gascón Antonio Rodríguez-Franco Inmaculada Luque Belén Huerta Carmen Tarradas Manuel J. Rodríguez-Ortega Trueperella pyogenes is an opportunistic pathogen, responsible for important infections in pigs and significant economic losses in swine...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 310: Lipidation of Pneumococcal Antigens Leads to Improved Immunogenicity and Protection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020310 Authors: Franziska Voß Lucille F. van Beek Dominik Schwudke Thomas H. A. Ederveen Fred J. van Opzeeland Daniela Thalheim Sidney Werner Marien I. de Jonge Sven Hammerschmidt Streptococcus pneumoniae infections lead to high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccines significantly...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 311: Innate Lymphocyte Th1 and Th17 Responses in Elderly Hospitalised Patients with Infection and Sepsis Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020311 Authors: John Davis Coakley Eamon P. Breen Ana Moreno-Olivera Alhanouf I. Al-Harbi Ashanty M. Melo Brian O’Connell Ross McManus Derek G. Doherty Thomas Ryan Background: the role of innate immunity in human sepsis must be fully clarified to identify potential avenues for novel immune adjuvant sepsis...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 309: Vaccines against Coronaviruses: The State of the Art Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020309 Authors: Cristiano Conte Francesco Sogni Paola Affanni Licia Veronesi Alberto Argentiero Susanna Esposito The emerging epidemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 represents the most important socio-health threat of the 21st century. The high contagiousness of the virus, the strong impact on the health system of the various countries and the absence...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 312: The African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Topoisomerase II as a Target for Viral Prevention and Control Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020312 Authors: João Coelho Alexandre Leitão African swine fever (ASF) is, once more, spreading throughout the world. After its recent reintroduction in Georgia, it quickly reached many neighboring countries in Eastern Europe. It was also detected in Asia, infecting China, the world’s biggest pig producer, and spreading...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 308: The Survivor: A Clinical Case of Tetanus in a Non-Immunized, Parenteral Drug User, Former Female Convict with HIV and HCV Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020308 Authors: Nancy Vicente-Alcalde Tamara Martín-Casquero Esther Ruescas-Escolano José Tuells Tetanus is a serious and potentially fatal systemic disease, caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. It is estimated that 1 million cases occur worldwide annually. Immunization programs have drastically...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 656: Special Issue “Viral Evasion or Suppression of Host Immunity” Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060656 Authors: Bumsuk Hahm Viruses have evolved to survive in hosts, presumably by devising meticulous strategies to elude or suppress host immunity [...]
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 655: Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Antagonizes PCSK9’s Antiviral Effect via Nsp11 Endoribonuclease Activity Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060655 Authors: Yujiao Zhang Fei Gao Liwei Li Kuan Zhao Shan Jiang Yifeng Jiang Lingxue Yu Yanjun Zhou Changlong Liu Guangzhi Tong Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is one of the most important pathogens in the swine industry worldwide. Our previous study had...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 653: Structural Characterization of Cuta- and Tusavirus: Insight into Protoparvoviruses Capsid Morphology Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060653 Authors: Mario Mietzsch Robert McKenna Elina Väisänen Jennifer C. Yu Maria Ilyas Joshua A. Hull Justin Kurian J. Kennon Smith Paul Chipman Yi Lasanajak David Smith Maria Söderlund-Venermo Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Several members of the Protoparvovirus genus, capable of infecting humans, have...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 654: Cyclin-Dependent Kinases 8 and 19 Regulate Host Cell Metabolism during Dengue Virus Serotype 2 Infection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060654 Authors: Molly Butler Nunya Chotiwan Connie D. Brewster James E. DiLisio David F. Ackart Brendan K. Podell Randall J. Basaraba Rushika Perera Sandra L. Quackenbush Joel Rovnak Dengue virus infection is associated with the upregulation of metabolic pathways within infected cells. This effect is common...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 652: Human Cytomegalovirus Mediates Unique Monocyte-to-Macrophage Differentiation through the PI3K/SHIP1/Akt Signaling Network Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060652 Authors: Olesea Cojohari Jamil Mahmud Aaron M. Altman Megan A. Peppenelli Michael J. Miller Gary C. Chan Blood monocytes mediate the hematogenous dissemination of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in the host. However, monocytes have a short 48-hour (h) lifespan and are not permissive for viral...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 651: Characterization of Plaque Variants and the Involvement of Quasi-Species in a Population of EV-A71 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060651 Authors: Madiiha Bibi Mandary Malihe Masomian Seng-Kai Ong Chit Laa Poh Viral plaque morphologies in human cell lines are markers for growth capability and they have been used to assess the viral fitness and selection of attenuated mutants for live-attenuated vaccine development. In this study, we investigate whether the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1736: An Extended Ecosystem Model for Understanding EE2 Indirect Effects on a Freshwater Food Web and Its Ecosystem Function Resilience Water doi: 10.3390/w12061736 Authors: Ludiwine Clouzot Charlotte Haguenauer Peter A. Vanrolleghem Freshwater species are highly impacted by human activities and the consequences on ecosystem functioning are still not well understood. In the literature, a multitrophic perspective appears to be key to advance future biodiversity...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1734: Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques (LSTM, NARX, GPR, and SVR) Water doi: 10.3390/w12061734 Authors: Samit Thapa Zebin Zhao Bo Li Lu Lu Donglei Fu Xiaofei Shi Bo Tang Hong Qi Although machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly popular in water resource studies, they are not extensively utilized in modeling snowmelt. In this study, we developed a model based on a deep learning long short-term memory...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1735: Estimating Rainfall Design Values for the City of Oslo, Norway—Comparison of Methods and Quantification of Uncertainty Water doi: 10.3390/w12061735 Authors: Julia Lutz Lars Grinde Anita Verpe Dyrrdal Due to its location, its old sewage system, and the channelling of rivers, Oslo is highly exposed to urban flooding. Thus, it is crucial to provide relevant and reliable information on extreme precipitation in the planning and design of infrastructure. Intensity-Duration-Frequency...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1732: A Survey of Pressure Control Approaches in Water Supply Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12061732 Authors: Thapelo C. Mosetlhe Yskandar Hamam Shengzhi Du Eric Monacelli Pressure control in water distribution networks (WDNs) provides an avenue for improving both their sustainability and reliability. The complexities of the networks make the problem more challenging as various situational operations must be accounted for to ensure that the entire system...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1731: Effect of Plant Morphological Traits on Throughfall, Soil Moisture, and Runoff Water doi: 10.3390/w12061731 Authors: Yu Liu Liang Zhao Plant canopy morphology plays an important role in water balance, peculiarly in semiarid environments. Through a field experiment, the impact of plant morphology of two native plant species, Artemisia sacrorum Ledeb (ASL) and Spiraea pubescens Turcz (SPT), on partitioning rainwater was revealed. The results indicated that...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1730: Numerical Simulation and Risk Assessment of Cascade Reservoir Dam-Break Water doi: 10.3390/w12061730 Authors: Liangming Hu Xu Yang Qian Li Shuyu Li Despite the fact that cascade reservoirs are built in a large number of river basins nowadays, there is still an absence of studies on sequential embankment dam-break in cascade reservoirs. Therefore, numerical simulations and risk analyses of cascade reservoir dam-break are of practical engineering significance....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1733: Research on Hydraulic Safety Assessment of Water Distribution Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12061733 Authors: Weiping Cheng Yongxin Shen Xing Zhang Gang Xu Zipeng Zhu Zhihong Long There are two key issues in the safety assessment of the water distribution system (WDS). One is how to evaluate the safety levels of water supply for customers, while the other is how to describe the importance of a pipe for the global or local WDS. The water demand...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1728: Comparing Trends in Modeled and Observed Streamflows at Minimally Altered Basins in the United States Water doi: 10.3390/w12061728 Authors: Glenn A. Hodgkins Robert W. Dudley Amy M. Russell Jacob H. LaFontaine We compared modeled and observed streamflow trends from 1984 to 2016 using five statistical transfer models and one deterministic, distributed-parameter, process-based model, for 26 flow metrics at 502 basins in the United States that are minimally...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1729: Removal of Antibiotic Resistance Genes at Two Conventional Wastewater Treatment Plants of Louisiana, USA Water doi: 10.3390/w12061729 Authors: Ocean Thakali John P. Brooks Shalina Shahin Samendra P. Sherchan Eiji Haramoto Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent all known types of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and are considered as the critical points for the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). The purpose of this study is to...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1724: Modeling Approaches for Determining Dripline Depth and Irrigation Frequency of Subsurface Drip Irrigated Rice on Different Soil Textures Water doi: 10.3390/w12061724 Authors: Gerard Arbat Sílvia Cufí Miquel Duran-Ros Jaume Pinsach Jaume Puig-Bargués Joan Pujol Francisco Ramírez de Cartagena Water saving techniques such as drip irrigation are important for rice (Oriza sativa L.) production in some areas. Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) is...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1723: Mixed Convection in MHD Water-Based Molybdenum Disulfide-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Nanofluid Through an Upright Cylinder with Shape Factor Water doi: 10.3390/w12061723 Authors: Yu-Ming Chu Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar Umair Khan Hamed Daei Kasmaei Manuel Malaver Aurang Zaib Ilyas Khan Abstract: In this work, water is captured as regular fluid with suspension of two types of hybrid nanoparticles, namely molybdenumdisulfide (MoS2) and graphene oxide...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1726: Retrieval of Soil Moisture by Integrating Sentinel-1A and MODIS Data over Agricultural Fields Water doi: 10.3390/w12061726 Authors: Yizhi Han Xiaojing Bai Wei Shao Jie Wang Soil moisture is an essential variable in the land surface ecosystem, which plays an important role in agricultural drought monitoring, crop status monitoring, and crop yield prediction. High-resolution radar data can be combined with optical remote-sensing data to provide a new...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1725: Identification of Inundation Using Low-Resolution Images from Traffic-Monitoring Cameras: Bayes Shrink and Bayesian Segmentation Water doi: 10.3390/w12061725 Authors: Yin Chao Wu Seong Jin Noh Suyun Ham This study presents a comparative assessment of image enhancement and segmentation techniques to automatically identify the flash flooding from the low-resolution images taken by traffic-monitoring cameras. Due to inaccurate equipment in severe weather...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1727: An Artificial Compressibility Method for 1D Simulation of Open-Channel and Pressurized-Pipe Flow Water doi: 10.3390/w12061727 Authors: Ben R. Hodges Piping systems (e.g., storm sewers) that transition between free-surface flow and surcharged flow are challenging to model in one-dimensional (1D) networks as the continuity equation changes from hyperbolic to elliptic as the water surface reaches the pipe ceiling. Previous network models are known to have poor...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1722: Influence of Dissolved Organic Matter Sources on In-Stream Net Dissolved Organic Carbon Uptake in a Mediterranean Stream Water doi: 10.3390/w12061722 Authors: Anna Lupon Núria Catalán Eugènia Martí Susana Bernal Studies exploring how different sources of dissolved organic matter (DOM) influence in-stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) uptake at the ecosystem scale are scarce in the literature. To fill this knowledge gap, we examined the relationship...
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