Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 839: Cell Cycle Regulation in Macrophages and Susceptibility to HIV-1 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080839 Authors: Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira J. Zachary Porterfield Ravindra K. Gupta Petra Mlcochova Macrophages are the first line of defence against invading pathogens. They play a crucial role in immunity but also in regeneration and homeostasis. Their remarkable plasticity in their phenotypes and function provides them with the ability to quickly respond to...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 840: Screening and Evaluation of Novel Compounds against Hepatitis B Virus Polymerase Using Highly Purified Reverse Transcriptase Domain Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080840 Authors: Eriko Ohsaki Keiji Ueda Hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase seems to be very hard to express and purify sufficiently, which has long hampered the generation of anti-HBV drugs based on the nature of the polymerase. To date, there has been no useful system developed for drug screening against...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 837: BKTyper: Free Online Tool for Polyoma BK Virus VP1 and NCCR Typing Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080837 Authors: Joan Martí-Carreras Olga Mineeva-Sangwo Dimitrios Topalis Robert Snoeck Graciela Andrei Piet Maes Human BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) prevalence has been increasing due to the introduction of more potent immunosuppressive agents in transplant recipients, and its clinical interest. BKPyV has been linked mostly to polyomavirus-associated hemorrhagic...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 836: Insights into Sensing of Murine Retroviruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080836 Authors: Eileen A. Moran Susan R. Ross Retroviruses are major causes of disease in animals and human. Better understanding of the initial host immune response to these viruses could provide insight into how to limit infection. Mouse retroviruses that are endemic in their hosts provide an important genetic tool to dissect the different arms of the innate immune system that recognize...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2179: Modelling Hydrological Processes and Identifying Soil Erosion Sources in a Tropical Catchment of the Great Barrier Reef Using SWAT Water doi: 10.3390/w12082179 Authors: Vahid Rafiei Afshin Ghahramani Duc-Anh An-Vo Shahbaz Mushtaq Study region: North Johnstone catchment, located in the north east of Australia. The catchment has wet tropical climate conditions and is one of the major sediment contributors to the Great Barrier Reef. Study focus: The...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2178: Long Term Aquatic Vegetation Dynamics in Longgan Lake Using Landsat Time Series and Their Responses to Water Level Fluctuation Water doi: 10.3390/w12082178 Authors: Wenxia Tan Jindi Xing Shao Yang Gongliang Yu Panpan Sun Yan Jiang Aquatic vegetation in shallow freshwater lakes are severely degraded worldwide, even though they are essential for inland ecosystem services. Detailed information about the long term variability of aquatic plants can...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2177: Accuracy Analysis of IMERG Satellite Rainfall Data and Its Application in Long-term Runoff Simulation Water doi: 10.3390/w12082177 Authors: Chongxun Mo Mingshan Zhang Yuli Ruan Junkai Qin Yafang Wang Guikai Sun Zhenxiang Xing Frequent flood disasters have caused serious damage to karst areas with insufficient measured rainfall data, and the analysis of the applicability of satellite rainfall data in runoff simulation is helpful to the local...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2176: Studying the Effect of Channel Geometry on Different Water Quality Variables for Effective Designs and Waste Allocation Plans for Waterways Water doi: 10.3390/w12082176 Authors: Baradei It is necessary to study the parameters that affect water quality in order to devise mitigation measures if water quality would be at risk or negatively affected by those parameters. Those parameters are physical, chemical, biological, and hydraulic characteristics. This research...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2174: The Design of Pricing Policies for the Management of Water Resources in Agriculture under Adverse Selection Water doi: 10.3390/w12082174 Authors: Viaggi Galioto Lika Water pricing policy for irrigated agriculture is considered as a key issue in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation. The main obstacle is that a large part of the water used in agriculture is unmetered. The objective of this study is to assess the Water Authorities (WA)’s...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2173: Relative Sea-Level Rise and Potential Submersion Risk for 2100 on 16 Coastal Plains of the Mediterranean Sea Water doi: 10.3390/w12082173 Authors: Antonioli Falco Presti Moretti Scardino Anzidei Bonaldo Carniel Leoni Furlani Marsico Petitta Randazzo Scicchitano Mastronuzzi The coasts of the Mediterranean Sea are dynamic habitats in which human activities have been conducted for centuries and which feature...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2175: New Zealand River Hydrology under Late 21st Century Climate Change Water doi: 10.3390/w12082175 Authors: Collins Climate change is increasingly affecting the water cycle and as freshwater plays a vital role in countries’ societal and environmental well-being it is important to develop national assessments of potential climate change impacts. Focussing on New Zealand, a climate-hydrology model cascade is used to project hydrological impacts of late...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2172: Characterization of Thermophilic Microorganisms in the Geothermal Water Flow of El Chichón Volcano Crater Lake Water doi: 10.3390/w12082172 Authors: Sandy Luz Ovando-Chacon Veymar Guadalupe Tacias-Pascacio Guillermo Efren Ovando-Chacon Arnulfo Rosales-Quintero Abelardo Rodriguez-Leon Victor Manuel Ruiz-Valdiviezo Alberto Servin-Martinez This study reports for the first time the isolation, identification and characterization of lipase-producing...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2171: Legal Analysis and Case Study on the Choice between Setting Environmental Flows by Using Reclaimed Water in Non-Permanent Rivers and the Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Southeast Spain Water doi: 10.3390/w12082171 Authors: Andrés Molina-Giménez This article studies the interaction between two environmental objectives actively pursued in water governance. On the one hand, the convenience of establishing or raising a minimum circulating flow in surface...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2170: Habitats and Diversity of Subterranean Macroscopic Freshwater Invertebrates: Main Gaps and Future Trends Water doi: 10.3390/w12082170 Authors: Elzbieta Dumnicka Tanja Pipan David Culver Caves are the best studied aquatic subterranean habitat, but there is a wide variety of these habitats, ranging in depth below the surface and size of the spaces (pore or habitat size). Both factors are important in setting limits to species composition and richness....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2168: Nuisance Algae in Ballast Water Facing International Conventions. Insights from DNA Metabarcoding in Ships Arriving in Bay of Biscay Water doi: 10.3390/w12082168 Authors: Alba Ardura Yaisel J. Borrell Sara Fernández Mónica González González Arenales José L. Martínez Eva Garcia-Vazquez Ballast water is one of the main vectors of transport of nuisance species among marine ports. Neither treatment nor interchange completely reduces the risk of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2167: Numerical Investigation on the Collision between a Solitary Wave and a Moving Cylinder Water doi: 10.3390/w12082167 Authors: Emir Eren Mahdi Tabatabaei Malazi Galip Temir A 2-D numerical wave tank (NWT) was applied for solving the interaction between a solitary wave and a moving circular cylinder. The cylinder was placed at various positions from the tank bed floor. The cylinder can move at a constant horizontal velocity towards the solitary wave. The...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2169: Combining Hydrogeochemical Characterization and a Hyperspectral Reflectance Tool for Assessing Quality and Suitability of Two Groundwater Resources for Irrigation in Egypt Water doi: 10.3390/w12082169 Authors: Mohamed Gad Salah El-Hendawy Nasser Al-Suhaibani Muhammad Usman Tahir Muhammad Mubushar Salah Elsayed Hyperspectral reflectance sensing provides a rapid and cost-effective technique for assessing the suitability of groundwater for irrigation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2164: Stream Restoration for Legacy Sediments at Gramies Run, Maryland: Early Lessons from Implementation, Water Quality Monitoring, and Soil Health Water doi: 10.3390/w12082164 Authors: Katie Mattern Alyssa Lutgen Nathan Sienkiewicz Grant Jiang Jinjun Kan Marc Peipoch Shreeram Inamdar While stream restorations are increasingly being adopted to mitigate sediment and nutrient inputs and to meet water quality regulatory targets, less information...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2165: Influence of Water Stress Levels on the Yield and Lycopene Content of Tomato Water doi: 10.3390/w12082165 Authors: Sándor Takács Zoltán Pék Dániel Csányi Hussein G. Daood Péter Szuvandzsiev Gábor Palotás Lajos Helyes Good water supply practice provides benefits such as water and energy conservation but also alters the quality of yield. These effects of irrigation on yield quantity and quality are widely researched in the case of many plants....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2166: Efficiency of the Drawdown Flushing and Partition Desilting of a Reservoir in Taiwan Water doi: 10.3390/w12082166 Authors: Hsiao-Wen Wang Bing-Shiou Tsai Charnsmorn Hwang Guan-Wei Chen Wei-Cheng Kuo Sedimentation limits the benefits of storage reservoirs, especially in areas with higher sediment yields, such as Agongdian Reservoir in southern Taiwan. Although drawdown flushing is a known strategy that releases large amounts of fine sediment into...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2162: An Empirical Study on the Ecological Economy of the Huai River in China Water doi: 10.3390/w12082162 Authors: Chunmei Zhang Chengxiang Wang Guangxiong Mao Min Wang Wei-Ling Hsu The Huai River is an important flood control and discharge river in the middle and east of China, and the development of ecological economy with regional advantages is significant for the protection and improvement of the resources and environment of the basin. On the basis...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2161: Joint Estimation of Hydraulic and Biochemical Parameters for Reactive Transport Modelling with a Modified ILUES Algorithm Water doi: 10.3390/w12082161 Authors: Ruicheng Zhang Nianqing Zhou Xuemin Xia Guoxian Zhao Simin Jiang Multicomponent reactive transport modeling is a powerful tool for the comprehensive analysis of coupled hydraulic and biochemical processes. The performance of the simulation model depends on the accuracy of related model parameters...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2163: Assessing Potable Water Quality and Identifying Areas of Waterborne Diarrheal and Fluorosis Health Risks Using Spatial Interpolation in Peshawar, Pakistan Water doi: 10.3390/w12082163 Authors: Mahmood Ahmad Arshad Jamal Xiao-Wei Tang Mohammed A. Al-Sughaiyer Hassan M. Al-Ahmadi Feezan Ahmad Waterborne diseases have become one of the major public health concerns worldwide. This study is aimed to investigate and develop spatial distribution mapping...
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