Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 873-893: A Procedure for Complete Census Estimation of Rooftop Photovoltaic Potential in Urban Areas Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3030045 Authors: Andrea Pinna Luca Massidda Rooftop photovoltaic solar systems can be an essential tool to support the energy transition of Europe. The assessment of solar power generation potential in urban areas, necessary for smart grid planning, requires the processing of data of different types, such as building...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 142: Group Asylum, Sovereignty, and the Ethics of Care Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9080142 Authors: Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Cecilia Coronado-Angulo It is assumed that the states have the right to control their borders and decide whom they want to exclude, isolate, ban, or impose restrictions on. Although it seems that the problematic notion of “sovereignty” gives the state the right to make these kinds of decisions, there...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 517: Varying Protein Levels Influence Metabolomics and the Gut Microbiome in Healthy Adult Dogs Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080517 Authors: Eden Ephraim Chun-Yen Cochrane Dennis E. Jewell The optimal ranges of protein for healthy adult dogs are not known. This study evaluated the impact of long-term consumption of foods containing low, medium, and high levels of protein on serum, urine, and fecal metabolites, and gut microbiome in beagles. Following maintenance...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 516: Quorum Sensing and Toxin Production in Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis: Pathogenesis and Paradox Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080516 Authors: Casey E. Butrico James E. Cassat Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen capable of infecting nearly every vertebrate organ. Among these tissues, invasive infection of bone (osteomyelitis) is particularly common and induces high morbidity. Treatment of osteomyelitis is notoriously difficult and often...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 452: A Novel Rhoptry Protein as Candidate Vaccine against Eimeria tenella Infection Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030452 Authors: Xingju Song Xu Yang Taotao Zhang Jing Liu Qun Liu Eimeria tenella (E. tenella) is a highly pathogenic and prevalent species of Eimeria that infects chickens, and it causes a considerable disease burden worldwide. The secreted proteins and surface antigens of E. tenella at the sporozoite stage play an essential role in the...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 451: Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus: A Quest for Better Vaccines against a Virus on the Rise Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030451 Authors: Mareike Kubinski Jana Beicht Thomas Gerlach Asisa Volz Gerd Sutter Guus F. Rimmelzwaan Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), a member of the family Flaviviridae, is one of the most important tick-transmitted viruses in Europe and Asia. Being a neurotropic virus, TBEV causes infection of the central nervous system,...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 110: Manure as a Potential Hotspot for Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination by Horizontal Gene Transfer Events Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030110 Authors: Tiago Lima Sara Domingues Gabriela Jorge Da Silva The increasing demand for animal-derived foods has led to intensive and large-scale livestock production with the consequent formation of large amounts of manure. Livestock manure is widely used in agricultural practices as soil fertilizer...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 883: A Single Mutation in the VP1 Gene of Enterovirus 71 Enhances Viral Binding to Heparan Sulfate and Impairs Viral Pathogenicity in Mice Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080883 Authors: Xianliang Ke Yuan Zhang Yan Liu Yuanjiu Miao Caishang Zheng Dan Luo Jianhong Sun Qinxue Hu Yi Xu Hanzhong Wang Zhenhua Zheng Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the major causative pathogen of human hand, foot, and mouth disease (hHFMD) and has evolved to use various...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 881: Femtoplankton: What’s New? Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080881 Authors: Jonathan Colombet Maxime Fuster Hermine Billard Télesphore Sime-Ngando Since the discovery of high abundances of virus-like particles in aquatic environment, emergence of new analytical methods in microscopy and molecular biology has allowed significant advances in the characterization of the femtoplankton, i.e., floating entities filterable on a 0.2 µm pore size filter....
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 880: Of Mice and Men: The Coronavirus MHV and Mouse Models as a Translational Approach to Understand SARS-CoV-2 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080880 Authors: Robert W. Körner Mohamed Majjouti Miguel A. Alejandre Alcazar Esther Mahabir The fatal acute respiratory coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020,...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 882: Modelling West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus Pathogenicity in Human Neural Stem Cells Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080882 Authors: Silvia Riccetti Alessandro Sinigaglia Giovanna Desole Norbert Nowotny Marta Trevisan Luisa Barzon West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are genetically related neurotropic mosquito-borne flaviviruses, which frequently co-circulate in nature. Despite USUV seeming to be less pathogenic for humans than WNV, the clinical...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2271: Flood Evacuation Routes Based on Spatiotemporal Inundation Risk Assessment Water doi: 10.3390/w12082271 Authors: Yoon Ha Lee Hyun Il Kim Kun Yeun Han Won Hwa Hong For flood risk assessment, it is necessary to quantify the uncertainty of spatiotemporal changes in floods by analyzing space and time simultaneously. This study designed and tested a methodology for the designation of evacuation routes that takes into account spatial and temporal inundation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2270: The Role of Topography on the Shape of Unit Hydrographs in Small and Medium Sized Watersheds through a Physical Model Water doi: 10.3390/w12082270 Authors: Alicia A. Del Rio Aldo I. Ramirez Mauricio A. Sanchez This study intends to establish the main relations between topographic characteristics of the watershed and the main parameters of the unit hydrograph measured at the outlet. It looks to remove the subjectivity found in traditional synthetic methods...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2269: Hydrochemical and Stable Isotope Characteristics of Lake Water and Groundwater in the Beiluhe Basin, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Water doi: 10.3390/w12082269 Authors: Jinlong Li Wei Wang Dahao Wang Jiaqi Li Jie Dong Thermokarst lakes are a ubiquitous landscape feature that impact the thermal state, hydrological process, ecological environment, and engineering stability of the permafrost. This study established the hydrochemistry and stable isotope (δ18O...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2266: Determination of Volatile Fuel Oxygenates in Water by Gas Chromatography–Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry: Effect of Automated Sample Preparation Techniques Water doi: 10.3390/w12082266 Authors: Kai Zhu Yucan Liu Qing Sun Min Zhao Lihua Huang Considering the adverse effects of gasoline additives and aromatic compounds on the quality of the water supply and the ecological environment of the water, a methodology, with short chromatographic separation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2268: Individual Rainfall Change Based on Observed Hourly Precipitation Records on the Chinese Loess Plateau from 1983 to 2012 Water doi: 10.3390/w12082268 Authors: Wenbin Ding Fei Wang Kai Jin Jianqiao Han Qiang Yu Qingfu Ren Shangyu Shi The magnitude and spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation are the main drivers of hydrologic and agricultural processes in soil moisture, runoff generation, soil erosion, vegetation growth and agriculture...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2267: Experimental Study on the Effect of Heat-Retaining and Diversion Facilities on Thermal Discharge from a Power Plant Water doi: 10.3390/w12082267 Authors: Ruixia Hao Liyuan Qiao Lijuan Han Chun Tian In order to reduce the influence of thermal discharge from the power plant on the surrounding water environment and the operation efficiency of the power plant, a distorted physical model was presented and applied to Huadian Kemen Power Plant for studying...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2265: Effects of Cyanobacteria on Phosphorus Cycling and Other Aquatic Organisms in Simulated Eutrophic Ecosystems Water doi: 10.3390/w12082265 Authors: Peng Gu Qi Li Hao Zhang Xin Luo Weizhen Zhang Zheng Zheng Xingzhang Luo Cyanobacterial blooms caused by eutrophication in Lake Taihu have led to ecological threats to freshwater ecosystems. A pilot scale experiment was implemented to investigate the relationship between cyanobacteria and other...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2264: A Novel Humidification Technique Used in Water Desalination Systems Based on the Humidification–Dehumidification Process: Experimentally and Theoretically Water doi: 10.3390/w12082264 Authors: Ahmed E. Tourab Ana María Blanco-Marigorta Aly M. Elharidi María José Suárez-López In this paper, an experimental and theoretical investigation is performed on a novel water desalination system based on a humidification–dehumidification technique using...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2262: Evolution of Main Water Cycle Fluxes in the Karst Mountain Region of Southwest China Water doi: 10.3390/w12082262 Authors: Huan Liu Yangwen Jia Cunwen Niu Peng Hu Junkai Du Huidong Su Qinghui Zeng Distributed hydrological simulation in karst regions has always been a challenging task because of their unique hydrogeological characteristics. The karst mountain region of southwest China (KMRSC), one of the largest continuous karst areas in the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2263: Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Meteorological Factors on Reference Evapotranspiration Changes in Beijing, 1958–2017 Water doi: 10.3390/w12082263 Authors: Wenhui Liu Baozhong Zhang Songjun Han The effects of meteorological factors on reference evapotranspiration (ET0) are variable on different time scales, although research tends to focus only on certain time scales. Therefore, using the meteorological data from 1958 to 2017 of Beijing, China,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2261: The Impact of Human Interventions and Changes in Climate on the Hydro-Chemical Composition of Techirghiol Lake (Romania) Water doi: 10.3390/w12082261 Authors: Carmen Maftei Constantin Buta Ionela Carazeanu Popovici The aim of this study is to establish the potential effect of changes in climate and anthropic interventions made over time on the hydro-chemical properties of the Techirghiol Lake. Located in the littoral region of the Black Sea, Techirghiol...
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