Browsing Journal Articles, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) by Title
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A Brief History of Long Memory: Hurst, Mandelbrot and the Road to ARFIMA, 1951–1980
(MDPI, 2017-08-23)Long memory plays an important role in many fields by determining the behaviour and predictability of systems; for instance, climate, hydrology, finance, networks and DNA sequencing. In particular, it is important to test ... -
Broccoli Fluorets: Split Aptamers as a User-Friendly Fluorescent Toolkit for Dynamic RNA Nanotechnology
(MDPI, 2018-12-02)RNA aptamers selected to bind fluorophores and activate their fluorescence offer a simple and modular way to visualize native RNAs in cells. Split aptamers which are inactive until the halves are brought within close ... -
Brown Rice Vinegar as an Olfactory Field Attractant for Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) and Zaprionus indianus Gupta (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Cherimoya in Maui, Hawaii, with Implications for Attractant Specificity between Species and Estimation of Relative Abundance
(MDPI, 2019-03-20)Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) is an agricultural pest that has been observed co-infesting soft-skinned fruits with Zaprionus indianus Gupta. The characterization of olfactory preferences by species is a ... -
The Capacity to Endure: Following Nature’s Lead
(MDPI, 2013-06-06)Many businesses today are striving to improve their environmental sustainability for a variety of reasons, ranging from consumer demand for greener products to potential cost-savings. For many business decision-makers who ... -
Capturing the Biologic Onset of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Impact on Translational and Clinical Science
(MDPI, 2019-06-06)While much progress has been made in the last two decades in the treatment and the management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)—both ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD)—as of today these ... -
Cellular Composition and Differentiation Signaling in Chicken Small Intestinal Epithelium
(MDPI, 2019-10-27)The small intestine plays an important role for animals to digest and absorb nutrients. The epithelial lining of the intestine develops from the embryonic endoderm of the embryo. The mature intestinal epithelium is composed ... -
Certain Malvaceae Plants Have a Unique Accumulation of myo-Inositol 1,2,4,5,6-Pentakisphosphate
(MDPI, 2015-05-29)Methods used to quantify inositol phosphates in seeds lack the sensitivity and specificity necessary to accurately detect the lower concentrations of these compounds contained in the leaves of many plants. In order to ... -
CH4 Adsorption Probability on GaN(0001) and (000−1) during Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy and Its Relationship to Carbon Contamination in the Films
(MDPI, 2019-03-23)Suppression of carbon contamination in GaN films grown using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) is a crucial issue in its application to high power and high frequency electronic devices. To know how to reduce the C ... -
Changes in RNA Splicing in Developing Soybean (Glycine max) Embryos
(MDPI, 2013-11-21)Developing soybean seeds accumulate oils, proteins, and carbohydrates that are used as oxidizable substrates providing metabolic precursors and energy during seed germination. The accumulation of these storage compounds ... -
Changes in the Healthy Beverage Index in Response to an Intervention Targeting a Reduction in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption as Compared to an Intervention Targeting Improvements in Physical Activity: Results from the Talking Health Trial
(Mdpi Ag, 2015-12-04)The recently developed Healthy Beverage Index (HBI) was designed to evaluate overall beverage intake quality (including total fluid consumption and beverage calories), yet no known intervention studies have assessed ... -
Characteristics of Logging Businesses across Virginia’s Diverse Physiographic Regions
(MDPI, 2017-11-28)Logging businesses play an important role in implementing forest management plans and delivering the raw material needed by forest products mills. Understanding the characteristics of the logging workforce can help forest ... -
Characterization of Bitumen Micro-Mechanical Behaviors Using AFM, Phase Dynamics Theory and MD Simulation
(MDPI, 2017-02-21)Fundamental understanding of micro-mechanical behaviors in bitumen, including phase separation, micro-friction, micro-abrasion, etc., can help the pavement engineers better understand the bitumen mechanical performances ... -
Characterization of Breakfast Cereals Available in the Mexican Market: Sodium and Sugar Content
(MDPI, 2017-08-16)Preschool Mexican children consume 7% of their total energy intake from processed breakfast cereals. This study characterized the nutritional quality and labelling (claims and Guideline Daily Amount (GDA)) of the packaged ... -
Characterization of the Ornithine Hydroxylation Step in Albachelin Biosynthesis
(MDPI, 2017-10-01)N-Hydroxylating monooxygenases (NMOs) are involved in siderophore biosynthesis. Siderophores are high affinity iron chelators composed of catechol and hydroxamate functional groups that are synthesized and secreted ... -
Characterizations of Rapid Sintered Nanosilver Joint for Attaching Power Chips
(MDPI, 2016-07-12)Sintering of nanosilver paste has been extensively studied as a lead-free die-attach solution for bonding semiconductor power chips, such as the power insulated gated bipolar transistor (IGBT). However, for the traditional ... -
Characterizing Permethrin and Etofenprox Resistance in Two Common Laboratory Strains of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae)
(MDPI, 2018-10-22)Anopheles gambiae Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) is the most prolific malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa, where widespread insecticide resistance has been reported. An. gambiae laboratory strains are commonly ... -
Characterizing the Phenotypic Responses of Escherichia coli to Multiple 4-Carbon Alcohols with Raman Spectroscopy
(MDPI, 2016-01-25)The phenotypic responses of E. coli cells exposed to 1.2% (v/v) of 1-butanol, 2-butanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol, and 1,4-butanediol were studied in near real-time using Raman spectroscopy. A ... -
Chemical Data Assimilation-An Overview
(MDPI, 2011-08-29)Chemical data assimilation is the process by which models use measurements to produce an optimal representation of the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Leveraging advances in algorithms and increases in the available ... -
Chemical Mechanism Solvers in Air Quality Models
(MDPI AG, 2011-09-01)The solution of chemical kinetics is one of the most computationally intensive tasks in atmospheric chemical transport simulations. Due to the stiff nature of the system, implicit time stepping algorithms which repeatedly ... -
Choice Architecture as a Way to Encourage a Whole Systems Design Perspective for More Sustainable Infrastructure
(MDPI, 2016-12-30)Across fields, more sustainable and resilient outcomes are being realized through a whole systems design perspective, which guides decision-makers to consider the entire system affected including interdependent physical ...