Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1678: Facile Synthesis of Ultrastable Fluorescent Copper Nanoclusters and Their Cellular Imaging Application Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091678 Authors: Wei Yan Jianqiao Zhang Muhammad Abbas Yulian Li Syed Zajif Hussain Shazia Mumtaz Zhengwei Song Irshad Hussain Bien Tan Copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs) are generally formed by several to dozens of atoms. Because of wide range of raw materials and cheap prices, Cu NCs have attracted...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1672: Constructing a Sr2+-Substituted Surface Hydroxyapatite Hexagon-Like Microarray on 3D-Plotted Hydroxyapatite Scaffold to Regulate Osteogenic Differentiation Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091672 Authors: Yingqi Wei Huichang Gao Lijing Hao Xuetao Shi Yingjun Wang Surface topography and chemical characteristics can regulate stem cell proliferation and differentiation, and decrease the bone-healing time. However, the synergetic function of...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1677: Memristive Devices from CuO Nanoparticles Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091677 Authors: Pundalik D. Walke Abu ul Hassan Sarwar Rana Shavkat U. Yuldashev Verjesh Kumar Magotra Dong Jin Lee Shovkat Abdullaev Tae Won Kang Hee Chang Jeon Memristive systems can provide a novel strategy to conquer the von Neumann bottleneck by evaluating information where data are located in situ. To meet the rising of artificial neural network (ANN)...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1673: Facile One-Step Fabrication of Phthalocyanine–Graphene–Bacterial–Cellulose Nanocomposite with Superior Catalytic Performance Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091673 Authors: Qiulin Hong Shiliang Chen It is generally accepted that the convenient fabrication of a metal phthalocyanine-based heterogeneous catalyst with superior catalytic activity is crucial for its application. Herein, a novel and versatile ultrasonic-assisted biosynthesis approach...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1675: Gadolinium Oxide Nanoparticles Induce Toxicity in Human Endothelial HUVECs via Lipid Peroxidation, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Autophagy Modulation Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091675 Authors: Mohd Javed Akhtar Maqusood Ahamed Hisham Alhadlaq In spite of the potential preclinical advantage of Gd2O3 nanoparticles (designated here as GO NPs) over gadolinium-based compounds in MRI, recent concerns of gadolinium deposits in various tissues...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1674: Trastuzumab: More Than a Guide in HER2-Positive Cancer Nanomedicine Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091674 Authors: Celia Nieto Milena A. Vega Eva M. Martín del Valle HER2 overexpression, which occurs in a fifth of diagnosed breast cancers as well as in other types of solid tumors, has been traditionally linked to greater aggressiveness. Nevertheless, the clinical introduction of trastuzumab has helped to improve HER2-positive patients’...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1676: Low-Temperature Processed TiOx Electron Transport Layer for Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091676 Authors: Md. Shahiduzzaman Daiki Kuwahara Masahiro Nakano Makoto Karakawa Kohshin Takahashi Jean-Michel Nunzi Tetsuya Taima The most frequently used n-type electron transport layer (ETL) in high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is based on titanium oxide (TiO2) films, involving a high-temperature...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1670: Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Multiscale Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Unidirectional Composites with Different Dimensional Carbon Nanofillers Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091670 Authors: Yu Liu Dong-Dong Zhang Guang-Yuan Cui Rui-Ying Luo Dong-Lin Zhao Ammonia modified graphene-carbon nanotubes/continuous carbon fiber reinforced epoxy unidirectional multiscale composites (AMGNS-MWCNT/CFEP) were prepared by adding ammonia modified graphene...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1671: Advances in Gold Nanoparticle-Based Combined Cancer Therapy Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091671 Authors: Kyle Bromma Devika B. Chithrani According to the global cancer observatory (GLOBOCAN), there are approximately 18 million new cancer cases per year worldwide. Cancer therapies are largely limited to surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. In radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the maximum tolerated dose is presently being used to treat cancer...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 1669: CuCrO2 Nanoparticles Incorporated into PTAA as a Hole Transport Layer for 85 °C and Light Stabilities in Perovskite Solar Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10091669 Authors: Bumjin Gil Jinhyun Kim Alan Jiwan Yun Kimin Park Jaemin Cho Minjun Park Byungwoo Park High-mobility inorganic CuCrO2 nanoparticles are co-utilized with conventional poly(bis(4-phenyl)(2,5,6-trimethylphenyl)amine) (PTAA) as a hole transport layer (HTL) for perovskite...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 118: The Influence of β-1,3-1,6-Glucans on Rabies Vaccination Titers in Cats Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030118 Authors: John Byrne Darryn Knobel Susan M. Moore Stephanie Gatrell Patrick Butaye β-glucans have been shown to stimulate the immune system in several animal species. The aim of this study was to evaluate the immune stimulation capacity of a fully formulated diet with β-1,3-1,6-glucans in cats, by assessing...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 543: Improving the Efficiency of Photodynamic Chemotherapy in Root Canals against Enterococcus faecalis In Vitro Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9090543 Authors: Christian Tennert Yoana Zinovieva Kalin Shishkov Lamprini Karygianni Makus Jörg Altenburger Richard J Wierichs Ali Al-Ahmad The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) on Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) biofilms in root canals using...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 542: Evaluation of Disulfiram Drug Combinations and Identification of Other More Effective Combinations against Stationary Phase Borrelia burgdorferi Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9090542 Authors: Hector S. Alvarez-Manzo Yumin Zhang Wanliang Shi Ying Zhang Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in USA, and 10–20% of patients will develop persistent symptoms despite treatment (“post-treatment...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 541: Strategies for Optimizing the Production of Proteins and Peptides with Multiple Disulfide Bonds Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9090541 Authors: Yunqi Ma Chang-Joo Lee Jang-Su Park Bacteria can produce recombinant proteins quickly and cost effectively. However, their physiological properties limit their use for the production of proteins in their native form, especially polypeptides that are subjected to major post-translational modifications....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2400: Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation Products in Simulating Streamflow in a Humid Tropical Catchment of India Using a Semi-Distributed Hydrological Model Water doi: 10.3390/w12092400 Authors: Thalli Mani Sharannya Nadhir Al-Ansari Surajit Deb Barma Amai Mahesha Precipitation obtained from rain gauges is an essential input for hydrological modelling. It is often sparse in highly topographically varying terrain, exhibiting a certain amount of uncertainty...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2399: Comparative Analysis of Reliability Indices and Hydraulic Measures for Water Distribution Network Performance Evaluation Water doi: 10.3390/w12092399 Authors: Gimoon Jeong Doosun Kang The performance of water distribution networks (WDNs) can be quantified by several types of hydraulic measure. In design and operation of a WDN, sufficient consideration should be given to system performance, and it would be inefficient to separately consider individual characteristics...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2401: Bed Roughness Effects on the Turbulence Characteristics of Flows through Emergent Rigid Vegetation Water doi: 10.3390/w12092401 Authors: Nadia Penna Francesco Coscarella Antonino D’Ippolito Roberto Gaudio During floods, the riparian vegetation in a watercourse significantly changes the velocity distribution and the turbulence structures of the flow. However, a certain influence on them is always exerted by the bed sediments. The aim of the present...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2398: An Integrative Framework for Stakeholder Engagement Using the Basin Futures Platform Water doi: 10.3390/w12092398 Authors: Jackie O’Sullivan Carmel Pollino Peter Taylor Ashmita Sengupta Amit Parashar Water resources are under growing pressures globally, and better basin planning is crucial to alleviate current and future water scarcity issues. Communicating the complex interconnections and needs of natural and human systems is a significant research...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2397: An Overland Flood Model for Geographical Information Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12092397 Authors: Ceyhun Ozcelik Yuri Gorokhovich A variety of flood models and commercial flood simulation software are provided in the literature, with different accuracies and precisions changing from coarse to fine, depending on model structure and detailed descriptions of basin and hydrologic properties. These models generally focus on river processes, taking overland...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2389: Optimization of the Biomonitoring Technique with the Aquatic Moss Fontinalis antipyretica Hedw.: Selection of Shoot Segment Length for Determining Trace Element Concentrations Water doi: 10.3390/w12092389 Authors: María Dolores Vázquez Carlos Real Rubén Villares Bryophytes, including Fontinalis antipyretica Hedw., are widely used for biomonitoring aquatic environments. However, some methodological aspects, such as the fraction of shoot analysed, have...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2393: Use of the Life Cycle Methodology to Calculate Energy Consumption of Urban Water Cycle: A Case Study of Ordos City Water doi: 10.3390/w12092393 Authors: Luming Zhou Xinghua Xie Shiqiang Wu Water resources and energy constitute two broad categories of resources required for social and economic development. The water-energy nexus has become a focus of research in recent years. Although water resources are closely related to energy systems, the processes...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2395: A Cost Efficiency Analysis of Flood Proofing Measures for Hydraulic Risk Mitigation in an Urbanized Riverine Area Water doi: 10.3390/w12092395 Authors: Ugo Ventimiglia Angela Candela Giuseppe Tito Aronica Non-structural measures for flood risk mitigation are often more economically accessible, easier to implement, and are highly effective, especially in view of the pursuit of risk resilience objectives. Among the non-structural measures, more importance...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2394: Long-Lead-Time Prediction of Storm Surge Using Artificial Neural Networks and Effective Typhoon Parameters: Revisit and Deeper Insight Water doi: 10.3390/w12092394 Authors: Wei-Ting Chao Chih-Chieh Young Tai-Wen Hsu Wen-Cheng Liu Chian-Yi Liu Storm surge induced by severe typhoons has caused many catastrophic tragedies to coastal communities over past decades. Accurate and efficient prediction/assessment of storm surge is still an important task...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2396: A Nonlinear Creep Damage Model Considering the Effect of Dry-Wet Cycles of Rocks on Reservoir Bank Slopes Water doi: 10.3390/w12092396 Authors: Xingang Wang Baoqin Lian Wenkai Feng Water has a crucial effect on the time-dependent behavior of rocks. The long-term cyclical fluctuations of reservoir water level lead to dry–wet (DW) cycles of rocks on reservoir bank slopes, making this influential factor more complex. To deeply understand the time-dependent...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2391: Variation Characteristics of Stable Isotopes in Precipitation and Response to Regional Climate Conditions during Pre-monsoon, Monsoon and Post-monsoon Periods in the Tianshui Area Water doi: 10.3390/w12092391 Authors: Xin Zhou Fenli Chen Xixi Wu Rui Qian Xueyuan Liu Shenghui Wang The stable isotopes in precipitation provide a new understanding for the mechanism study of water cycles in the Loess Plateau. However, there has never been an introduction...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2390: New Data on the Biology and Fisheries of the Threatened Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) (Decapoda, Achelata, Palinuridae) from the North-West Aegean Sea, Greece Water doi: 10.3390/w12092390 Authors: Thodoros E. Kampouris Drosos Koutsoubas Debora Milenkova Georgios Economidis Stylianos Tamvakidis Ioannis E. Batjakas The European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas is a vulnerable species that inhabits and is harvested in the Mediterranean Sea...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2392: River Water Quality of the Selenga-Baikal Basin: Part II—Metal Partitioning under Different Hydroclimatic Conditions Water doi: 10.3390/w12092392 Authors: Nikolay Kasimov Galina Shinkareva Mikhail Lychagin Sergey Chalov Margarita Pashkina Josefin Thorslund Jerker Jarsjö The partitioning of metals and metalloids between their dissolved and suspended forms in river systems largely governs their mobility and bioavailability. However, most of...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2388: Infiltration Law of Water in Undisturbed Loess and Backfill Water doi: 10.3390/w12092388 Authors: Xifeng Meng Hongjian Liao Jiwen Zhang Loess has the characteristics of complex structure and reduced mechanical strength after encountering water. In Chinese loess areas, irrigation, water storage, and rainfall affect the stability of the original loess structure and cause damage to the foundation. This paper analyzes the results of in situ water immersion...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2387: Tidally Forced Saltwater Intrusions might Impact the Quality of Drinking Water, the Valdivia River (40° S), Chile Estuary Case Water doi: 10.3390/w12092387 Authors: José Garcés-Vargas Wolfgang Schneider Andre Pinochet Andrea Piñones Francisco Olguin Daniel Brieva Yongshan Wan The Valdivia River estuary (VRE) located in south-central Chile is known as one of the largest estuarine ecosystems on the Pacific coast. This research aims to determine...
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Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 93: “Cemetery=Civilization”: Circus Wols, World War II, and the Collapse of Humanism Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9030093 Authors: Iveta Slavkova Circus Wols is a multimedia spectacle conceived by Wols during World War II at the Camp des Milles where he was interned between May and October 1940. As a German citizen, the artist was considered an enemy of France and Circus helped him bear the harsh conditions of his imprisonment. Wols envisioned a show of high intellectual...
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Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 92: Martha Rosler’s Protest Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9030092 Authors: Stephanie Schwartz This essay reconsiders the photomontages that Martha Rosler began making in the late 1960s to protest the war in Vietnam. Typically understood as a means of protest against the spatial mechanics of domination—against the mediated production of the difference between the home front and the war front or the “here” and “there” that drives...
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MPs, Vol. 3, Pages 61: Optimization of a Method for the Simultaneous Extraction of Polar and Non-Polar Oxylipin Metabolites, DNA, RNA, Small RNA, and Protein from a Single Small Tissue Sample Methods and Protocols doi: 10.3390/mps3030061 Authors: Yu Hasegawa Yurika Otoki Shannon McClorry Laurynne C. Coates Rachel L. Lombardi Ameer Y. Taha Carolyn M. Slupsky A more comprehensive picture of tissue biology can be obtained through the application and integration of multiple...
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JoF, Vol. 6, Pages 151: The Role of RodA-Conserved Cysteine Residues in the Aspergillus fumigatus Conidial Surface Organization Journal of Fungi doi: 10.3390/jof6030151 Authors: Valsecchi Stephen-Victor Wong Karnam Sunde Guijarro Rodríguez de Francisco Krüger Kniemeyer Brown Willment Latgé Brakhage Bayry Aimanianda Immune inertness of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia is attributed to its surface rodlet-layer made up of RodAp, characterized...
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JoF, Vol. 6, Pages 150: The Relationship between Fungal Diversity and Invasibility of a Foliar Niche—The Case of Ash Dieback Journal of Fungi doi: 10.3390/jof6030150 Authors: Ahto Agan Rein Drenkhan Kalev Adamson Leho Tedersoo Halvor Solheim Isabella Børja Iryna Matsiakh Volkmar Timmermann Nina Elisabeth Nagy Ari Mikko Hietala European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is threatened by the invasive ascomycete Hymenoscyphus fraxineus originating from Asia. Ash leaf tissues...
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JoF, Vol. 6, Pages 149: Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Plants Growing in Central Andean Precordillera of Chile with Antifungal Activity against Botrytis cinerea Journal of Fungi doi: 10.3390/jof6030149 Authors: Araceli Vidal Rodolfo Parada Leonora Mendoza Milena Cotoras Botrytis cinerea is an important phytopathogenic fungus affecting the fruit production around the world. This fungus is controlled mainly by using synthetic fungicides, but many resistant isolates have been selected...
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Proteomes, Vol. 8, Pages 22: Diurnal Differences in Human Muscle Isometric Force In Vivo Are Associated with Differential Phosphorylation of Sarcomeric M-Band Proteins Proteomes doi: 10.3390/proteomes8030022 Authors: Zulezwan Ab Malik Kelly A. Bowden Davies Elliott C. R. Hall Jennifer Barrett Samuel A. Pullinger Robert M. Erskine Sam O. Shepherd Zafar Iqbal Ben J. Edwards Jatin G. Burniston We investigated whether diurnal differences in muscle force output...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 1302: Compartmentalized Replication of SARS-Cov-2 in Upper vs. Lower Respiratory Tract Assessed by Whole Genome Quasispecies Analysis Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091302 Authors: Martina Rueca Barbara Bartolini Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber Antonio Piralla Fausto Baldanti Emanuela Giombini Francesco Messina Luisa Marchioni Giuseppe Ippolito Antonino Di Caro Maria Rosaria Capobianchi We report whole-genome and intra-host...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 1303: Regulation of Chitin-Dependent Growth and Natural Competence in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091303 Authors: Anusuya Debnath Tamaki Mizuno Shin-ichi Miyoshi Vibrios can degrade chitin surfaces to soluble N-acetyl glucosamine oligosaccharides (GlcNAcn) that can be utilized as a carbon source and also induce a state of natural genetic competence. In this study, we characterized chitin-dependent growth and natural...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 1300: Candida albicans Virulence Factors and Pathogenicity for Endodontic Infections Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8091300 Authors: Yeon-Jee Yoo A Reum Kim Hiran Perinpanayagam Seung Hyun Han Kee-Yeon Kum Candida albicans (C. albicans) is the fungus most frequently isolated from endodontic root canal infections. Although recognized by dental pulp and periradicular tissue cells that elicit immune responses, it eludes host defenses...
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