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A Preliminary Study on the Efficacy of Essential Oils Against <i>Trichoderma longibrachiatum</i> Isolated from an Archival Document in Italy

Benedetta Paolino, Maria Cristina Sorrentino, Severina Pacifico, Maria Carmen Garrigos et al. • Heritage (2025)

In this study, a historically significant journal subject to fungal colonization was used as a case study for experimenting with a fumigation treatment using essential oils. The experiments were carried out both in vitro and in vivo directl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/heritage8060187

Modeling antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV: a cross-sectional study at Pantang Hospital, Ghana

Eric Nyarko, Irene A. Kretchy, Grace Lovia Allotey-Babington, Adwoa Oforiwaa Kwakye et al. • BMC Infectious Diseases (2026)

Abstract Background Poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to undermine HIV treatment outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana. Objective This study aimed to quantify ART treatment adherence among people living with...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13836-z

Ozonation, electrochemical, and biological methods for the remediation of malachite green dye wastewaters: A mini review

Peter Olusakin Oladoye, Timothy Oladiran Ajiboye, Wycliffe Chisutia Wanyonyi, Elizabeth Oyinkansola Omotola et al. • Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment (2023)

The extensive usage of malachite green (MG) dyes in the fish and dye industries cause serious water pollution, leading to catastrophic effects on living organisms and the environment. In addressing the challenges of health risks related to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.scenv.2023.100033

The Power of Environmental Observatories for Advancing Multidisciplinary Research, Outreach, and Decision Support: The Case of the Minnesota River Basin

K. B. Gran, C. Dolph, A. Baker, M. Bevis et al. • Water Resources Research (2019)

Abstract Observatory‐scale data collection efforts allow unprecedented opportunities for integrative, multidisciplinary investigations in large, complex watersheds, which can affect management decisions and policy. Through the National Scie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1029/2018WR024211

Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Appraisal of Groundwater Quality in Yisr River Catchment, Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia, by Using the GIS, WQI, and Statistical Techniques

Abebaw Demelash, Abunu Atlabachew, Muralitharan Jothimani, Abel Abebe • Journal of Chemistry (2023)

Groundwater is a primary drinking, agricultural, domestic, and nondomestic water source in Ethiopia’s Yisr River watershed of the Blue Nile River basin. There has been no systematic investigation of the hydrogeochemical properties of ground...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2023/8199000

Air pollution mapping and variability over five European cities

Karine Sartelet, Jules Kerckhoffs, Eleni Athanasopoulou, Lya Lugon et al. • Environment International (2025)

Mapping urban pollution is essential for assessing population exposure and addressing associated health impacts. High urban concentrations are due to the proximity of sources such as traffic or residential heating, and to urban density with...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109474

Acute exposure to copper oxide nanoparticles impairs testicular function and sperm quality in adult male albino rats

Lamiaa Hassan, Ibrahem M. A. Hasan, Zeinab Al-Amgad, Hassan Ahmed • SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences (2024)

Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) are metallic nanoparticles fulfilling several functions such as good conductivity, catalyst, used in sensors and energy storage devices, and antibacterial characteristics. However, the cytotoxicity and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/SVU.2023.226884.1288

Melatonin Regulates Lipid Metabolism in Porcine Cumulus–Oocyte Complexes via the Melatonin Receptor 2

Jun-Xue Jin, Jing-Tao Sun, Chao-Qian Jiang, Hong-Di Cui et al. • Antioxidants (2022)

Previous studies suggest that the inclusion of melatonin (MTn) in in vitro maturation protocols improves the developmental competence of oocytes by scavenging reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the molecular mechanisms integrating mela...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/antiox11040687

Differential Remodelling of Endometrial Extracellular Matrix in the Non-Pregnant Uterus of <i>Lagostomus maximus</i> as a Potential Mechanism Underlying Embryonic Death

Francisco Acuña, Gisela Soledad Gualdoni, Francisco Rivollier, Camila Barril et al. • Animals (2025)

During development, the remodelling of fibrillar components of the uterine extracellular matrix (ECM), mediated by the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs), plays an essential role in embryonic survival. Prev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/ani15040542

The formation of nitro-aromatic compounds under high NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> and anthropogenic VOC conditions in urban Beijing, China

Y. Wang, M. Hu, M. Hu, Y. Wang et al. • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2019)

Nitro-aromatic compounds (NACs), as important contributors to the light absorption by brown carbon, have been widely observed in various ambient atmospheres; however, their formation in the urban atmosphere was little studied. In this work,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-7649-2019

Mechanism for rapid growth of organic–inorganic halide perovskite crystals

Pabitra K. Nayak, David T. Moore, Bernard Wenger, Simantini Nayak et al. • Nature Communications (2016)

Single crystals of lead halide perovskites exhibit good optoelectronic properties. Here, the authors study and deduce the mechanism for crystallisation and show how controlling dissolution of colloids through varying the acidity and tempera...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13303

Visionary figures in the field of electrochemistry who revolutionized voltammetry

Rubin Gulaboski • Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2024)

Understanding energetics and electron behavior has been pivotal in elucidating numerous fundamental phenomena, including electricity, corrosion, respiration, energy generation in biological systems, intermolecular interactions within living...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20450/mjcce.2024.2847

Correlating single-molecule rupture mechanics with cell population adhesion by yeast display

Mariana Sá Santos, Haipei Liu, Valentin Schittny, Rosario Vanella et al. • Biophysical Reports (2022)

Here, we present a method based on yeast surface display that allows for direct comparison between population-level cell adhesion strength and single-molecule receptor-ligand rupture mechanics. We developed a high-throughput yeast adhesion ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.bpr.2021.100035

Implications of climate change on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity

Divya Nimma, Okram Ricky Devi, Bibek Laishram, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh et al. • Desalination and Water Treatment (2025)

Global warming is a phenomenon whereby the planet's exposure to the sun's radiation worsens from the high emission of gasses believed to trap heat within the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading greenhouse gas majorly responsible...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dwt.2024.100889

Raw diffraction data preservation and reuse: overview, update on practicalities and metadata requirements

Loes M. J. Kroon-Batenburg, John R. Helliwell, Brian McMahon, Thomas C. Terwilliger • IUCrJ (2017)

A topical review is presented of the rapidly developing interest in and storage options for the preservation and reuse of raw data within the scientific domain of the IUCr and its Commissions, each of which operates within a great diversity...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1107/S2052252516018315

CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

Zhen-Jia Zhang, Qiang Gao, Xiao-Dong Fang, Zhi-Hang Ding et al. • eLife (2020)

Carbon catabolite repression 4 (CCR4) is a conserved mRNA deadenylase regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. However, regulation of CCR4 in virus infections is less understood. Here, we characterized a pro-viral role of CCR4 in rep...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7554/eLife.53753

Untargeted metabolomic profiling of Pseudocnella sykion from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using 1H-NMR and UPLC-QTOF-HR-MS

Cassandra Upton, Gerhard Prinsloo, Paul Anton Steenkamp, Moses Okpeku • Frontiers in Marine Science (2025)

IntroductionSea cucumbers are ecologically and economically significant marine invertebrates, yet the metabolic diversity and bioactive potential of noncommercialized, endemic species remains poorly understood.MethodsThis study presents the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1609951

Evaluation of Population and Hybrid Varieties of Winter Rye in the Conditions of Eastern Siberia

Anatolii V. Pomortsev, Nikolay V. Dorofeev, Svetlana Yu. Zorina, Natalia B. Katysheva et al. • Agronomy (2023)

Winter rye has a high adaptive capacity to abiotic and biotic stressors compared to other winter crops (wheat, triticale, barley, and oats). High resistance of winter rye to adverse environmental factors and a wide range of its uses increas...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13051431

Brassinosteroid-lipid membrane interaction under low and high temperature stress in model systems

Elżbieta Rudolphi-Szydło, Barbara Dyba, Anna Janeczko, Dariusz Latowski et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2022)

Abstract Background In earlier studies [1], we indicated that applying brassinosteroids (BRs) to lipids that had been isolated from plants altered the physicochemical properties of the monolayers. A continuation of these dependencies using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03619-4

Study on Three Sarcocapnos Species as Potential Sources of Bioactive Compounds: Relation between Phenolic Content and Bioactivity by Multivariate Analysis

María del Pilar Fernández-Poyatos, Gökhan Zengin, Carlos Salazar-Mendías, Antonio Ruiz-Medina et al. • Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry (2020)

In this work, we report the phenolic composition and bioactivity of the aerial parts of three species of Sarcocapnos (S. enneaphylla, S. pulcherrima, and S. saetabensis) to study their potential as sources of bioactive compounds to revalori...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2020/8885169