Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 664: Analytical Techniques for the Assessment of Drug-Lipid Interactions and the Active Substance Distribution in Liquid Dispersions of Solid Lipid Microparticles (SLM) Produced de novo and Reconstituted from Spray-Dried Powders Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070664 Authors: Eliza Wolska Małgorzata Sznitowska Katarzyna Krzemińska Maria Ferreira Monteiro Solid lipid microparticles (SLM) can be presented as liquid suspension or spray-dried...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 666: Optimized Polyethylene Glycolylated Polymer–Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles as a Potential Breast Cancer Treatment Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070666 Authors: Salam Massadeh Mustafa E Omer Asmaa Alterawi Rizwan Ali Fayez H Alanazi Fares Almutairi Wejdan Almotairi Faris F Alobaidi Khulud Alhelal Mansour S Almutairi Abdulaziz Almalik Aiman A. Obaidat Manal Alaamery Alaa Eldeen Yassin Purpose: The aim of...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 894: Distinct Responses to Light in Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070894 Authors: Rita Teresa Teixeira The development of almost every living organism is, to some extent, regulated by light. When discussing light regulation on biological systems, one is referring to the sun that has long been positioned in the center of the solar system. Through light regulation, all life forms have evolved around the presence of the sun. As soon our planet started to develop...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 895: Feeding Behavior and Virus-Transmission Ability of Insect Vectors Exposed to Systemic Insecticides Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070895 Authors: Garzo Moreno Plaza Fereres The majority of plant viruses depend on Hemipteran vectors for their survival and spread. Effective management of these insect vectors is crucial to minimize the spread of vector-borne diseases, and to reduce crop damage. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 896: Glycine Betaine Accumulation, Significance and Interests for Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070896 Authors: Shafaqat Ali Zohaib Abbas Mahmoud F. Seleiman Muhammad Rizwan İlkay YAVAŞ Bushra Ahmed Alhammad Ashwag Shami Mirza Hasanuzzaman Dimitris Kalderis Unexpected biomagnifications and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (HMs) in the surrounding environment has become a predicament for all living organisms together...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 359: Roasting a Pig in Front of a Mosque: How Pork Matters in Pegida’s Anti-Islam Protest in Eindhoven Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070359 Authors: Margaretha A. van Es This article provides an analysis of a public protest by the far-right group Pegida-Netherlands, where the participants attempted to demonstratively eat pork near a mosque in Eindhoven on 26 May 2019. This led to fierce responses: hundreds of young Muslim counter-protesters prevented the Pegida...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 358: The “Conversion” of Anthony Obinna to Mormonism: Elective Affinities, Socio-Economic Factors, and Religious Change in Postcolonial Southeastern Nigeria Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070358 Authors: David Dmitri Hurlbut This article analyzes the “conversion” of Anthony Uzodimma Obinna, an Igbo schoolteacher from the town of Aboh Mbaise in Imo State, and his extended family to Mormonism in southeastern Nigeria between the 1960s and the 1980s,...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 123: “The Theater of the Mind”: The Effect of Radio Exposure on TV Advertising Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070123 Authors: Vincenzo Russo Riccardo Valesi Anna Gallo Rita Laureanti Margherita Zito Contemporary society requires communication strategies that integrate different media channels in order to improve advertising performance. Currently, there are not many scientific research studies of the various mass media, comparing the results...
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Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 51: Before #MeToo: Violence against Women Social Media Work, Bystander Intervention, and Social Change Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10030051 Authors: Jordan Fairbairn High-profile, social-media-fueled movements such as #MeToo have captured broader public attention in recent years and sparked widespread discussion of violence against women (VAW). However, online prevention work was underway in the years leading up to #MeToo, as the emergence and proliferation of...
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Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 203-220: Multivariate Mixed Response Model with Pairwise Composite-Likelihood Method Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3030016 Authors: Hao Bai Yuan Zhong Xin Gao Wei Xu In clinical research, study outcomes usually consist of various patients’ information corresponding to the treatment. To have a better understanding of teh effects of different treatments, one often needs to analyze multiple clinical outcomes simultaneously, while the data are usually mixed...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 389: A Vaccine Displaying a Trimeric Influenza-A HA Stem Protein on Capsid-Like Particles Elicits Potent and Long-Lasting Protection in Mice Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030389 Authors: Thrane Aves Uddbäck Janitzek Han Yang Ward Theander Nielsen Salanti Thomsen Christensen Sander Due to constant antigenic drift and shift, current influenza-A vaccines need to be redesigned and administered annually. A universal...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 388: Overexpression of VviPGIP1 and NtCAD14 in Tobacco Screened Using Glycan Microarrays Reveals Cell Wall Reorganisation in the Absence of Fungal Infection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030388 Authors: Florent Weiller Lorenz Gerber Johan Trygg Jonatan U. Fangel William G.T. Willats Azeddine Driouich Melané A. Vivier John P. Moore The expression of Vitis vinifera polygalacturonase inhibiting protein 1 (VviPGIP1) in Nicotiana tabacum has been...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 386: Rapid Quantification of SARS-CoV-2-Neutralizing Antibodies Using Propagation-Defective Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Pseudotypes Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030386 Authors: Ferdinand Zettl Toni Luise Meister Tanja Vollmer Bastian Fischer Jörg Steinmann Adalbert Krawczyk Philip V’kovski Daniel Todt Eike Steinmann Stephanie Pfaender Gert Zimmer Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2, a new member of the...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 387: Impact of the 13-Valent Conjugated Pneumococcal Vaccine on the Direct Costs of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Requiring Hospital Admission in Children Aged < 5 Years: A Prospective Study Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030387 Authors: Hernández Navas Aznar-Lou Ciruela García-García Moraga-Llop Muñoz-Almagro Codina Sevilla González-Peris Esteva Planes Izquierdo Martínez-Osorio Campins Uriona Salleras...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 762: Cocirculation of Swine H1N1 Influenza A Virus Lineages in Germany Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070762 Authors: Zell Groth Krumhbolz Lange Philipps Dürrwald The genome analysis of 328 H1N1 swine influenza virus isolates collected in a 13-year long-term swine influenza surveillance in Germany is reported. Viral genomes were sequenced with the Illumina next-generation sequencing technique and conventional Sanger methods. Phylogenetic analyses...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 760: An Assessment of Secondary Clinical Disease, Milk Production and Quality, and the Impact on Reproduction in Holstein Heifers and Cows from a Single Large Commercial Herd Persistently Infected with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Type 2 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070760 Authors: Natália Sobreira Basqueira Jean Silva Ramos Fabricio Dias Torres Liria Hiromi Okuda David John Hurley Christopher C. L. Chase Anny Raissa Carolini Gomes Viviani Gomes The...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 761: Low Host Abundance and High Temperature Determine Switching from Lytic to Lysogenic Cycles in Planktonic Microbial Communities in a Tropical Sea (Red Sea) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070761 Authors: Ruba Abdulrahman Ashy Susana Agustí The lytic and lysogenic life cycles of marine phages are influenced by environmental conditions such as solar radiation, temperature, and host abundance. Temperature can regulate phage infection, but its role is difficult to...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2015: Optimization of H2 Production through Minimization of CO2 Emissions by Mixed Cultures of Purple Phototrophic Bacteria in Aqueous Samples Water doi: 10.3390/w12072015 Authors: I.A. Vasiliadou J.A. Melero R. Molina D. Puyol F. Martinez One of the current challenges in the treatment of wastewater is the recovery and/or transformation of their resources into high value-added products, such as biohydrogen. The aim of the present study was to optimize...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2013: Modeling the Efficacy of Three Types of Artificial Timber Reefs in Mitsu Bay, Japan Water doi: 10.3390/w12072013 Authors: Alam Yamamoto Umino Nakahara Hiraoka With the aim of simultaneously improving fishery production and utilizing forestry and oyster fishery wastes, three types of artificial timber reefs (ATRs)—constructed from simple timbers, timbers with oyster shells from local oyster farms, and timbers with leaves/branches...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2014: Selective Inhibition on Growth and Photosynthesis of Harmful Cyanobacteria (Microcystis aeruginosa) by Water Soluble Substances of Dendranthema indicum Flowers Water doi: 10.3390/w12072014 Authors: Yunni Gao Fang Zhang Jing Wu Hui Yang Jing Dong Man Zhang Xuejun Li Harmful cyanobacterial blooms become serious environmental issues in various waterbodies, including aquaculture ponds, which inherently need a high biomass and healthy composition...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2012: Reduction of Nutrient Leaching Potential in Coarse-Textured Soil by Using Biochar Water doi: 10.3390/w12072012 Authors: Kuo Lee Jien Background: Loss of nutrients and organic carbon (OC) through leaching or erosion may degrade soil and water quality, which in turn could lead to food insecurity. Adding biochar to soil can effectively improve soil stability, therefore, evaluating the effects of biochar on OC and nutrient retention and leaching is critical....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2011: Hydropower Potential in the Alps under Climate Change Scenarios. The Chavonne Plant, Val D’Aosta Water doi: 10.3390/w12072011 Authors: Tommaso Duratorre Giovanni Martino Bombelli Giovanni Menduni Daniele Bocchiola Present and prospective climate change will likely affect the hydrological cycle in sensitive areas, such as the Alps, thus impacting water-based activities. A most representative example is hydropower production, i.e., exploitation of water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2009: Monitoring the Drainage Efficiency of Infiltration Trenches in Fractured and Karstified Limestone via Time-Lapse Hydrogeophysical Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w12072009 Authors: De Carlo Caputo Masciale Vurro Portoghese In the test site of Castellana Grotte (Southern Italy), since 2016, around 2300 m3d−1 of tertiary treated wastewater has been alternatively spread in nine infiltration trenches, dug into fractured and karstified limestone....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2008: Reservoir-Induced Hydrological Alterations Using Ecologically Related Hydrologic Metrics: Case Study in the Beijiang River, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12072008 Authors: Du Wu Wang Li Chen Anthropogenic activities have a tremendous impact on water ecosystems worldwide, especially in China. To quantitatively evaluate the hydrological alteration connected with aquatic lives and river ecological risks, we took the Beijiang River located in South...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2007: Operational Performances and Enzymatic Activities for Eutrophic Water Treatment by Vertical-Flow and Horizontal-Flow Constructed Wetlands Water doi: 10.3390/w12072007 Authors: Qijun Ni Tao Wang Jialin Liao Wansheng Shi Zhenxing Huang Hengfeng Miao Peng Wu Wenquan Ruan In this study, pilot-scale vertical-flow constructed wetland (VFCW) and horizontal-flow constructed wetland (HFCW) were constructed to treat eutrophic water, and dissolved...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2010: Do CFSv2 Seasonal Forecasts Help Improve the Forecast of Meteorological Drought over Mainland China? Water doi: 10.3390/w12072010 Authors: Yang Lang Lifeng Luo Aizhong Ye Qingyun Duan Seasonal forecasts from dynamical models are expected to be useful for drought predictions in many regions. This study investigated the usefulness of the Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) in improving meteorological drought prediction in China based on its 25-year...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2005: Investigating Tradeoffs of Green to Grey Stormwater Infrastructure Using a Planning-Level Decision Support Tool Water doi: 10.3390/w12072005 Authors: Elizabeth M. Gallo Colin D. Bell Chelsea L. Panos Steven M. Smith Terri S. Hogue Integrated decision support tools are needed to investigate the tradeoffs of stormwater control measures (SCMs) and determine the optimal suite of SCMs based on the needs of watersheds. In this study, an urbanized watershed...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2006: An Analysis of the Cost of Water Supply Linked to the Tourism Industry. An Application to the Case of the Island of Ibiza in Spain Water doi: 10.3390/w12072006 Authors: Daniel María González Pérez José María Martín Martín José Manuel Guaita Martínez Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández Tourist activity has a number of impacts on the destinations in which it takes place, among which are the environmental ones. A particular problem is the increase in water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2004: Hydrochemical and Isotopic Assessment of Groundwater in the Goda Mountains Range System. Republic of Djibouti (Horn of Africa) Water doi: 10.3390/w12072004 Authors: Ibrahim M. Ahmed Mohamed Jalludin Moumtaz Razack The hydrogeological system of the Goda Mountains Range (GMR) in the Republic of Djibouti (Horn of Africa), hosted by volcanic and sedimentary formations, is the only water resource in the Tadjourah region for more than 85,000 inhabitants. Water...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2003: Simulation of Soil Water Evaporation during Freeze–Thaw Periods under Different Straw Mulch Thickness Conditions Water doi: 10.3390/w12072003 Authors: Junfeng Chen Yizhao Wei Xiping Zhao Jing Xue Shuyuan Xu Qi Du Straw mulching is an effective agricultural technology to reduce soil water loss in arid and semi-arid areas. Herein, the soil temperature and soil water content of bare land (LD) and 5 cm (JG5), 10 cm (JG10), 15 cm (JG15), 20 cm (JG20)...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2002: The Role of Nanofluids and Renewable Energy in the Development of Sustainable Desalination Systems: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12072002 Authors: Tejvir Singh Muataz Ali Atieh Tareq Al-Ansari Abdul Wahab Mohammad Gordon McKay Desalination accounts for 1% of the total global water consumption and is an energy-intensive process, with the majority of operational expenses attributed to energy consumption. Moreover, at present, a significant portion...
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