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  • Adsorption performance of modified fly ash for copper ion removal from aqueous solution 
    Buema, Gabriela; Harja, Maria; Lupu, Nicoleta; Chiriac, Horia; Forminte, Loredana; Ciobanu, Gabriela; Bucur, Daniel; Bucur, Roxana-Dana (MDPI, 2021-01-16)
    The initial characteristics of Romanian fly ash from the CET II Holboca power plant show the feasibility of its application for the production of a new material with applicability in environmental decontamination. The ...
  • Adulteration of natural honey and the nutritional effect 
    Radu, Steluța; Cojocaru, Elena; Cojocaru, Cristi; Lupu, Diana-Elena (Mattioli 1885, 2021-10-07)
    Council Directive 2001/110 / EC (1) defines honey as the sweet natural substance produced by Apis mellifera bees. Honey contains especially different types of sugars, especially fructose and glucose, as well as other ...
  • Alternative winemaking techniques to improve the content of phenolic and aromatic compounds in wines 
    Dumitriu Gabur, Georgiana-Diana; Teodosiu, Carmen; Gabur, Iulian; Cotea, Valeriu V.; Peinado, Rafael Andres; López de Lerma, Nieves (MDPI, 2021-03-11)
    In this study, a complete physical–chemical analysis was performed for Feteasca neagra wine, aged with oak staves. Red wine samples were taken from grape varieties grown in Northeast Romania and produced during 2013 ...
  • Antibacterial Polysiloxane Polymers and Coatings for Cochlear Implants 
    Cozma, Vlad; Roșca, Irina; Rădulescu, Luminița; Mârțu, Marius-Cristian; Năstasă, Valentin; Varganici, Cristian-Dragoș; Ursu, Elena-Laura; Doroftei, Florica; Pinteala, Mariana; Racles, Carmen (MDPI, 2021-08-12)
    Within this study, new materials were synthesized and characterized based on polysiloxane modified with different ratios of N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) and crosslinked via UV-assisted thiol-ene addition, in order to obtain ...
  • Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Canine Isolates from a Multicentric Study in Romania 
    Dégi, János; Ciocan Moțco, Oana-Alexandra; Dégi, Diana-Maria; Suici, Tiana; Mareș, Mihai; Imre, Kálmán; Cristina, Romeo-Teodor (MDPI, 2021-07-12)
    Treating infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is increasingly difficult due to high antibiotic resistance, materialized through the presence of multiple resistance strains, as well as due to rapid development of ...
  • Apiaceae essential oils: boosters of terbinafine activity against dermatophytes and potent anti-inflammatory effectors 
    Trifan, Adriana; Luca, Simon-Vlad; Bostănaru, Andra-Cristina; Brebu, Mihai; Jităreanu, Alexandra; Cristina, Romeo-Teodor; Skalicka Woźniak, Krystyna; Granica, Sebastian; Czerwińska, Monika; Kruk, Aleksandra; Greige Gerges, Hélène; Sieniawska, Elwira; Mareș, Mihai (MDPI, 2021-11-04)
    Dermatophyte infections represent an important public health concern, affecting up to 25% of the world’s population. Trichophyton rubrum and T. mentagrophytes are the predominant dermatophytes in cutaneous infections, ...
  • Application of novel microorganism-based formulations as alternative to the use of iron chelates in strawberry cultivation 
    Puglisi, Ivana; Brida, Sergio; Stoleru, Vasile; Torino, Valentina; Sellitto, Vincenzo Michele; Baglieri, Andrea (MDPI, 2021-03-06)
    The strawberry is a low-growing, herbaceous perennial plant, sensitive to iron deficiency. The iron deficiency represents a nutritional disorder, leading to a decreased content of photosynthetic pigments, which determines ...
  • Assessment of Andean lupin (Lupinus mutabilis) genotypes for improved frost tolerance 
    Simioniuc, Dănuț-Petru; Simioniuc, Violeta; Țopa, Denis-Constantin; Van den Berg, Merlijn; Prins, Udo; Bebeli, Penelope J.; Gabur, Iulian (MDPI, 2021-02-13)
    Spring frost poses a challenge for all major crops and, in the case of Lupinus mutabilis (Andean lupin) can cause severe damage or even total loss of the crop. Within the LIBBIO project consortium, we conducted a series ...
  • Assessment of the effects of Si addition to a new TiMoZrTa system 
    Spătaru, Mihaela-Claudia; Cojocaru, Florina-Daniela; Sandu, Andrei-Victor; Solcan, Carmen; Duceac, Ioana-Alexandra; Bălțatu, Mădălina-Simona; Voiculescu, Ionelia; Geantă, Victor; Vizureanu, Petrică (MDPI, 2021-12-10)
    Ti-based alloys are widely used in medical applications. When implant devices are used to reconstruct disordered bone, prevent bone resorption and enhance good bone remodeling, the Young’s modulus of implants should be ...
  • The behavior of dairy consumers in short food supply chains during covid-19 pandemic in Suceava area, Romania 
    Brumă, Ioan-Sebastian; Vasiliu, Codrin-Dinu; Rodino, Steliana; Butu, Marian; Tanasă, Lucian; Doboș, Sebastian; Butu, Alina; Coca, Oana; Ștefan, Gavril (MDPI, 2021-03-11)
    In Romania, there is an emerging market of dairy products delivered through short food supply chains. Although this distribution system has existed since the communist period, and even though more than three decades have ...
  • Calcium carbonate-carboxymethyl chitosan hybrid materials 
    Fortună, Maria-Emiliana; Ungureanu, Elena; Jităreanu, Carmenica-Doina (MDPI, 2021-06-16)
    In the present work, precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) and carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) were prepared to obtain new hybrid materials used in papermaking. In the first step, oc‐ curred the precipitation of CaCO3 in ...
  • Climate changes in recent decades, the evolution of the drought phenomenon and their influence on vineyardsin North-Eastern Romania 
    Zaldea, Gabi; Nechita, Ancuța; Damian, Doina; Ghiur, Andreea; Cotea, Valeriu V. (AcademicPres Cluj-Napoca, 2021-12-15)
    Unfavourable trends have been identified in the evolution of climate factors (temperatures, precipitation, etc.) over the past years, with a direct impact on the vegetative and productive potential of the vine. This calls ...
  • Concentric double hollow grid cathode discharges. Spectral investigations and phenomenological approach 
    Konrad Soare, C.T.; Enescu, F.; Dimitriu, Dan-Gheorghe; Dobromir, M.; Teodorescu Soare, Eugen-Gabriel; Mazzanti, F.; Irimiciuc, Ștefan-Andrei; Ioniță, C.; Schrittwieser, Roman (IOP Publishing, 2021-08-19)
    A discharge plasma is created by simultaneously biasing two concentric spherical grids with axisymmetric orifices. In this geometry, space charge structures in the form of multiple quasi-spherical luminous plasma bodies ...
  • Cortisol and Oxytocin Could Predict Covert Aggression in Some Psychotic Patients 
    Popescu, Elena-Rodica; Semeniuc, Suzana; Hrițcu, Luminița-Diana; Horhogea, Cristina-Elena; Spătaru, Mihaela-Claudia; Truș, Constantin; Dobrin, Romeo-Petru; Chiriță, Vasile; Chiriță, Roxana (MDPI, 2021-07-27)
    Background: The covert or indirect type of aggression has a risk of converting in violent acts and, considering that, it is very important to identify it in order to apply effective preventive measures. In cases of psychotic ...
  • Design, synthesis, and preliminary evaluation for Ti-Mo-Zr-Ta-Si alloys for potential implant applications 
    Bălțatu, Mădălina-Simona; Spătaru, Mihaela-Claudia; Vereștiuc, Liliana; Balan, Vera; Solcan, Carmen; Sandu, Andrei-Victor; Geantă, Victor; Voiculescu, Ionelia; Vizureanu, Petrică (MDPI, 2021-11-11)
    Considering the future trends of biomaterials, current studies are focused on the corrosion resistance and the mechanical properties of new materials that need to be considered in the process of strengthening alloys with ...
  • Development and characterisation of microporous biomimetic scaffolds loaded with magnetic nanoparticles as bone repairing material 
    Cojocaru, Florina-Daniela; Balan, Vera; Tanase, Constantin-Edi; Popa, Ionel-Marcel; Butnaru, Maria; Bredețean, Ovidiu; Mareș, Mihai; Năstasă, Valentin; Pașca, Aurelian-Sorin; Vereștiuc, Liliana (Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l., 2020-11-30)
    Fine-tuning of the scaffolds structural features for bone tissue engineering can be an efficient approach to regulate the specific response of the osteoblasts. Here, we loaded magnetic nanoparticles aka superparamagnetic iron ...
  • Dissection of quantitative blackleg resistance reveals novel variants of resistance gene Rlm9 in Elite Brassica napus 
    Vollrath, Paul; Chawla, Harmeet S.; Alnajar, Dima; Gabur, Iulian; Lee, HueyTyng; Weber, Sven; Ehrig, Lennard; Koopmann, Birger; Snowdon, Rod J.; Obermeier, Christian (University of Western Australia, 2021-11-18)
    Blackleg is one of the major fungal diseases in oilseed rape/canola worldwide. Most commercial cultivars carry R gene-mediated qualitative resistances that confer a high level of race-specific protection against Leptosphaeria ...
  • Effect of different winemaking conditions on organic acids compounds of white wines 
    Scutarașu, Elena-Cristina; Teliban, Iulian-Valentin; Zamfir, Cătălin-Ioan; Luchian, Camelia-Elena; Colibaba, Lucia-Cintia; Niculaua, Marius; Cotea, Valeriu V. (MDPI, 2021-10-25)
    Organic acids represent naturally occurring compounds that are found in many types of food and beverages, with important functions in defining products’ final quality. Their proportions in wine are dependent on grape ...
  • The effect of myco‐biocontrol based formulates on yield, physiology and secondary products of organically grown basil 
    Teliban, Gabriel-Ciprian; Burducea, Marian; Zheljazkov, Valtcho D.; Dincheva, Ivayla; Badjakov, Ilian; Munteanu, Neculai; Mihalache, Gabriela; Cojocaru, Alexandru; Popa, Lorena-Diana; Stoleru, Vasile (MDPI, 2021-02-23)
    The development of organic farming as a result of increasing consumer preference for organic food has led to the development and registration of new pest‐control products for certified organic production. In this study, ...
  • Effects of development stage and sodium salts on the antioxidant properties of white cabbage microgreens 
    Patraș, Antoanela (MDPI, 2021-02-28)
    Microgreens, considered “superfood”, are easy to cultivate and very rich in health promoting compounds, as antioxidants. White cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) microgreens contain high quantities of phenolics, ...