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  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,411 Views
11 Pages

10 June 2022

Molybdenum cofactor (Moco) biosynthesis requires iron, copper, and ATP. The Moco-containing enzyme sulfite oxidase catalyzes terminal oxidation in oxidative cysteine catabolism, and another Moco-containing enzyme, xanthine dehydrogenase, functions in...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,941 Views
7 Pages

Proteins Structure Models in the Evaluation of Novel Variant (C.472_477del) in the MOCS2 Gene

  • Aleksandra Jezela-Stanek,
  • Witold Blaz,
  • Artur Gora,
  • Malgorzata Bochenska,
  • Katarzyna Kusmierska and
  • Jolanta Sykut-Cegielska

14 October 2020

(1) Background: Molybdenum cofactor deficiency type B (MOCODB, #252160) is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder characterized by intractable seizures of neonatal-onset, muscular spasticity, accompanying with hypouricemia, elevated urinary su...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2,325 Views
7 Pages

Live Birth of a Healthy Child in a Couple with Identical mtDNA Carrying a Pathogenic c.471_477delTTTAAAAinsG Variant in the MOCS2 Gene

  • Maria Tofilo,
  • Natalia Voronova,
  • Leila Nigmatullina,
  • Elena Kuznetsova,
  • Valeria Timonina,
  • Bogdan Efimenko,
  • Oybek Turgunkhujaev,
  • Svetlana Avdeichik,
  • Muhammad Ansar and
  • Ilya Mazunin
  • + 2 authors

15 March 2023

Molybdenum cofactor deficiency type B (MOCODB; #252160) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that has only been described in 37 affected patients. In this report, we describe the presence of an in-frame homozygous variant (c.471_477delTTTAAAA...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
4,918 Views
11 Pages

Carbon Dioxide Uptake by MOC-Based Materials

  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Filip Antončík,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Zbyšek Pavlík and
  • David Sedmidubský

26 March 2020

In this work, carbon dioxide uptake by magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) based materials is described. Both thermodynamically stable magnesium oxychloride phases with stoichiometry 3Mg(OH)2∙MgCl2∙8H2O (Phase 3) and 5Mg(OH)2∙MgCl2∙8H2O (Phase 5) were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,100 Views
16 Pages

MOC Composites for Construction: Improvement in Water Resistance by Addition of Nanodopants and Polyphenol

  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Adéla Jiříčková,
  • David Sedmidubský,
  • Martina Záleská,
  • Adam Pivák,
  • Milena Pavlíková and
  • Zbyšek Pavlík

1 November 2023

The topic of modification of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) using specific functional additives is very much pronounced in the research of alternative building materials. This study deals with the co-doping of MOC by 1D and 2D carbon nanomaterial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
586 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2025

The one-step method in reactor physics has become one of the important research directions in recent two decades. Based on the open-source OpenMOC code, the following work was carried out. Firstly, the global–local resonance method with multi-g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,609 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2022

The building industry is known as one of the biggest consumers of natural resources and an important producer of CO2 emissions. The biggest greenhouse gas emissions are recorded in the production of cement and metallic building materials. The purpose...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
812 Views
13 Pages

MOC31 for the Diagnosis of Metastatic Carcinoma and Mesothelial Lesions in Effusion Fluid—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Alex H. Lin,
  • Matthew Hsu,
  • Joanna K. M. Ng,
  • Sahar J. Farahani,
  • Renald Meçani,
  • Jana Nano,
  • Joshua J. X. Li,
  • Philippe Vielh and
  • Taulant Muka

23 October 2025

Background/Objectives: MOC31 immunostain identifies carcinoma cells and is often used in effusion fluid cytology. This systematic review and meta-analysis aim to detail the diagnostic performance of MOC31 with subgroup analysis for different types of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,597 Views
13 Pages

Low-Carbon Composite Based on MOC, Silica Sand and Ground Porcelain Insulator Waste

  • Adam Pivák,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Martina Záleská,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Ondřej Jankovský and
  • Zbyšek Pavlík

13 July 2020

Magnesium oxychloride cement-based composites (MOC) with silica sand/porcelain waste blended fillers were designed and tested. The objective of the presented research was to design and test low carbon, eco-friendly and viable alternatives to Portland...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,312 Views
21 Pages

20 September 2025

Water hammer is a critical transient phenomenon in pumping systems, occurring when a sudden change in flow velocity generates pressure waves propagating along the pipeline. This study focuses on the dynamic response of a long rising pipeline subjecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,368 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2021

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of input parameters to output results when using the method of characteristics (MOC) for hydraulic transient simulations. Based on a gravity flow water delivery project, we selected six main p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,306 Views
15 Pages

Research on the Corrosion Behavior of Mo/C276 Coating Deposited by HVOF Method in Deep-Sea Cold Seep Environments

  • Pu Zhang,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Wentao Hu,
  • Yongjun Wang,
  • Xiaofei Wu,
  • Zhengwei Zhang,
  • Zhihao Ren,
  • Xu Zhai,
  • Xian Zeng and
  • Minggang Tang

6 February 2025

In this study, the Mo/C276 coating was deposited on Q690E steel by high velocity oxy-fuel spraying (HVOF), and the coating was treated with an organosilicon sealer. Further, the corrosion behaviors of the coating in the simulated deep-sea cold spring...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,941 Views
24 Pages

5 April 2024

Magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC), an alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC), has attracted increasing research interest for its excellent mechanical properties and its green and sustainable attributes. The poor water resistance of MOC limite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,853 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2022

The processes of HTHP well fracturing, oil drive, and gas recovery are accompanied by the non-stationary flow of medium in the tubing, which may lead to periodic vibration and cause the failure and fatigue of the tubing, thread leakage, and bending d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,242 Views
20 Pages

Molybdenum Cofactor Deficiency in Humans

  • Lena Johannes,
  • Chun-Yu Fu and
  • Günter Schwarz

14 October 2022

Molybdenum cofactor (Moco) deficiency (MoCD) is characterized by neonatal-onset myoclonic epileptic encephalopathy and dystonia with cerebral MRI changes similar to hypoxic–ischemic lesions. The molecular cause of the disease is the loss of sul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,864 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2023

(1) Background. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a quantitative analysis of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI of mucinous ovarian cancer (MOC). It also aims to differentiate be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,649 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2022

The application of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) is promising, but its poor water resistance seriously hinders its development and application. In this paper, we describe a new type of MOC with excellent water resistance, prepared using fly ash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,096 Views
21 Pages

Environmental Assessment of Magnesium Oxychloride Cement Samples: A Case Study in Europe

  • Gediminas Kastiukas,
  • Shaoqin Ruan,
  • Cise Unluer,
  • Shuang Liang and
  • Xiangming Zhou

6 December 2019

This study is the first in the literature to systematically assess the environmental impacts of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) samples, which are regarded as a more eco-friendly construction material than Portland cement. The environmental impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,138 Views
14 Pages

20 July 2020

The influence of salinity on the single and binary sorption of Ni and Zn onto iron oxide- and manganese oxide-coated sand (IOCS and MOCS) was investigated at pH = 5. The single sorption experimental data were fitted to Freundlich, Langmuir, Dubinin&n...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,936 Views
12 Pages

Thermal Stability and Kinetics of Formation of Magnesium Oxychloride Phase 3Mg(OH)2∙MgCl2∙8H2O

  • Michal Lojka,
  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Adéla Jiříčková,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Filip Antončík,
  • David Sedmidubský,
  • Zbyšek Pavlík and
  • Milena Pavlíková

7 February 2020

In this paper, magnesium oxychloride cement with stoichiometry 3Mg(OH)2∙MgCl2∙8H2O (MOC 3-1-8) was prepared and characterized. The phase composition and kinetics of formation were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Rietveld analysis of obtained d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,394 Views
15 Pages

Tumor Membrane Vesicle Vaccine Augments the Efficacy of Anti-PD1 Antibody in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Resistant Squamous Cell Carcinoma Models of Head and Neck Cancer

  • Ramireddy Bommireddy,
  • Luis E. Munoz,
  • Anita Kumari,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Yijian Fan,
  • Lenore Monterroza,
  • Christopher D. Pack,
  • Sampath Ramachandiran,
  • Shaker J.C. Reddy and
  • Periasamy Selvaraj
  • + 4 authors

14 April 2020

Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) immunotherapy improved the survival of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients. However, more than 80% of the patients are still resistant to this therapy. To test whether the efficacy of ICI therapy c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,366 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Evacuation Planning

  • Tomé Sicuaio,
  • Olive Niyomubyeyi,
  • Andrey Shyndyapin,
  • Petter Pilesjö and
  • Ali Mansourian

22 February 2022

Proper emergency evacuation planning is a key to ensuring the safety and efficiency of resources allocation in disaster events. An efficient evacuation plan can save human lives and avoid other effects of disasters. To develop effective evacuation pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
2,690 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2024

Magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) is often recognized as an eco-friendly cement and has found widespread application in various sectors. However, research on its resistance against elevated temperatures including fire is very limited. This paper tho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,805 Views
12 Pages

5 January 2023

Microstructure evolution and precipitation behaviors before and after tension at elevated temperature of Nb and Nb-Mo microalloyed fire-resistant steels were investigated by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, physical–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,526 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2024

In order to obtain the good match between yield strength and low-temperature toughness, the short-time partial austenitization (SPA) process was employed for V/Mo-bearing 0.22C–5.24Mn steel. The initial microstructure after intercritical temper...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,514 Views
21 Pages

23 June 2023

This paper proposes a selection strategy for determining the optimal capacity and location of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) device under intermittent output variations of renewable energy sources using a multi-objective cuckoo search (MO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,735 Views
14 Pages

MOC-Diatomite Composites Filled with Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Martina Záleská,
  • Adam Pivák,
  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Filip Antončík and
  • Zbyšek Pavlík

15 August 2021

The studies focusing on magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) composites have recently become fairly widespread because of MOC’s excellent mechanical properties and environmental sustainability. Numerous fillers, admixtures and nano-dopants were studied...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,837 Views
39 Pages

5 June 2021

Here, recent developments in the key numerical approaches to water hammer modelling are summarized and critiqued. This paper summarizes one-dimensional modelling using the finite difference method (FDM), the method of characteristics (MOC), and espec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,786 Views
17 Pages

This electrophysiological study investigated the role of the medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferents in listening in noise. Both ears of eleven normal-hearing adult participants were tested. The physiological tests consisted of transient-evoked otoacous...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
5,006 Views
15 Pages

Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal Stability of Magnesium Oxychloride 5Mg(OH)2∙MgCl2∙8H2O

  • Adéla Jiříčková,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Filip Antončík,
  • David Sedmidubský,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Martina Záleská,
  • Zbyšek Pavlík and
  • Ondřej Jankovský

2 March 2020

Today, low-energy and low-carbon footprint alternatives to Portland cement are searched because of huge CO2 emissions coming from Portland clinker calcination. Because of some superior properties of magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) and the lower ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,286 Views
15 Pages

Experimental Analysis of MOC Composite with a Waste-Expanded Polypropylene-Based Aggregate

  • Martina Záleská,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Adam Pivák and
  • Zbyšek Pavlík

31 May 2018

Polypropylene (PP) is one of the most widely produced types of plastic worldwide, but its recycling is limited. This work presents a study of the utilization of expanded polypropylene (EPP) waste in a magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) composite usab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,119 Views
11 Pages

Metallic–Organic Cages (MOCs) with Heterometallic Character: Flexibility-Enhancing MOFs

  • Sergio Posada-Pérez,
  • Jordi Poater,
  • Naeimeh Bahri-Laleh and
  • Albert Poater

1 February 2023

The dichotomy between metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and metal–organic cages (MOCs) opens up the research spectrum of two fields which, despite having similarities, both have their advantages and disadvantages. Due to the fact that they...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,874 Views
14 Pages

MOC Doped with Graphene Nanoplatelets: The Influence of the Mixture Preparation Technology on Its Properties

  • Martina Záleská,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Adam Pivák,
  • Šimon Marušiak,
  • Ondřej Jankovský,
  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Filip Antončík and
  • Zbyšek Pavlík

16 March 2021

The ongoing tendency to create environmentally friendly building materials is nowadays connected with the use of reactive magnesia-based composites. The aim of the presented research was to develop an ecologically sustainable composite material based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,326 Views
30 Pages

Mechanical Interaction in Pressurized Pipe Systems: Experiments and Numerical Models

  • Mariana Simão,
  • Jesus Mora-Rodriguez and
  • Helena M. Ramos

11 November 2015

The dynamic interaction between the unsteady flow occurrence and the resulting vibration of the pipe are analyzed based on experiments and numerical models. Waterhammer, structural dynamic and fluid–structure interaction (FSI) are the main subjects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,811 Views
12 Pages

4 June 2024

In this paper, a unitary method for the solution of transient cavitating flow in viscoelastic pipes is proposed in the framework of the method of characteristics (MOC) and a Z-mirror numerical scheme (MOC-Z model). Assuming a standard form of the con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,636 Views
14 Pages

In the stage of aircraft development and airworthiness verification, it is necessary to master the influence of lithium-ion battery (LIB) thermal runaway (TR) propagation. In this paper, the battery TR propagation behavior under different trigger pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,630 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2024

The heterogeneity of natural rocks complicates the study of carbon sequestration within these materials and raises concerns about the reproducibility of experimental results. Consequently, identifying appropriate rock-like materials has become critic...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,237 Views
12 Pages

18 March 2023

OpenMOC-HEX, a neutron transport calculation code with hexagonal modular ray tracing, has the capability of domain decomposition parallelism based on an MPI parallel programming model. In this paper, the optimization of inter-node communication was s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,590 Views
19 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Dust Storm Activity in Chryse Planitia Using MGS-MOC Observations from Mars Years 24–28

  • Bo Li,
  • Zongyu Yue,
  • Shaojie Qu,
  • Peiwen Yao,
  • Xiaohui Fu,
  • Zongcheng Ling and
  • Shengbo Chen

12 November 2021

Dust storms, observed in all seasons, are among the most momentous of Mars’ atmospheric activities. The Entry–Descent–Landing (EDL) activity of a Martian landing mission is influenced by local atmospheric conditions, especially the probability of dus...

  • Review
  • Open Access
99 Citations
16,972 Views
16 Pages

Mucinous ovarian cancer (MOC) is a rare subtype of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC). Whereas all EOC subtypes are addressed in the same way, MOC is a distinct entity. Appreciating the pathological features and genomic profile of MOC may result in t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,402 Views
29 Pages

Molecular Bases of Mechanisms Accounting for Drug Resistance in Gastric Adenocarcinoma

  • Jose J. G. Marin,
  • Laura Perez-Silva,
  • Rocio I. R. Macias,
  • Maitane Asensio,
  • Ana Peleteiro-Vigil,
  • Anabel Sanchez-Martin,
  • Candela Cives-Losada,
  • Paula Sanchon-Sanchez,
  • Beatriz Sanchez De Blas and
  • Elisa Lozano
  • + 2 authors

30 July 2020

Gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) is the most common histological type of gastric cancer, the fifth according to the frequency and the third among the deadliest cancers. GAC high mortality is due to a combination of factors, such as silent evolution, late...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,157 Views
12 Pages

4 August 2020

In this work, magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) was used to realize the resource use of foundry dust (FD). Portland cement (PC)-based superhydrophobic coating was prepared on the surface of FD/MOC composite to improve the water resistance of the com...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,190 Views
14 Pages

Update on Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Mucinous Ovarian Cancer

  • Fulvio Borella,
  • Marco Mitidieri,
  • Stefano Cosma,
  • Chiara Benedetto,
  • Luca Bertero,
  • Stefano Fucina,
  • Isabelle Ray-Coquard,
  • Annalisa Carapezzi and
  • Domenico Ferraioli

12 February 2023

This review includes state-of-the-art prognostic and predictive factors of mucinous ovarian cancer (MOC), a rare tumor. Clinical, pathological, and molecular features and treatment options according to prognosis are comprehensively discussed. Differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,806 Views
16 Pages

Hemp Biocomposite Boards Using Improved Magnesium Oxychloride Cement

  • Jelizaveta Zorica,
  • Maris Sinka,
  • Genadijs Sahmenko,
  • Laura Vitola,
  • Aleksandrs Korjakins and
  • Diana Bajare

5 October 2022

The share of bio-based materials in modern construction needs to grow more rapidly due to increasingly stringent environmental requirements as a direct result of the climate emergency. This research aims to expand the use of hemp concrete in construc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,970 Views
12 Pages

Fast Setting Binders for Application in 3D Printing of Bio-Based Building Materials

  • Maris Sinka,
  • Jelizaveta Zorica,
  • Diana Bajare,
  • Genadijs Sahmenko and
  • Aleksandrs Korjakins

24 October 2020

The construction industry is one of the largest emitters of CO2 because the production of traditional building materials is highly energy-intensive and uses considerable amounts of raw materials. This research aims to decrease the negative environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,343 Views
33 Pages

This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the design of a methane oxidation catalyst aftertreatment system specifically tailored for the Wärtsilä W31DF natural gas engine which has been converted to a reactivity-controlled comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,583 Views
11 Pages

Magnesium Oxybromides MOB-318 and MOB-518: Brominated Analogues of Magnesium Oxychlorides

  • Anna-Marie Lauermannová,
  • Michal Lojka,
  • Filip Antončík,
  • David Sedmidubský,
  • Milena Pavlíková,
  • Zbyšek Pavlík and
  • Ondřej Jankovský

11 June 2020

The search for environmentally sustainable building materials is currently experiencing significant expansion. It is increasingly important to find new materials or reintroduce those that have been set aside to find a good replacement for Portland ce...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
55 Citations
18,524 Views
19 Pages

On 4 August 2011, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) submitted an unprecedented, scientific, groundbreaking environmental assessment report (EAR) on Ogoniland to the Nigerian government. This was the outcome of a 14-month intensive evaluation...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,250 Views
22 Pages

Maximum-Thrust Nozzle Based on Height Constraints

  • Bowen Huang,
  • Jinglei Xu and
  • Kaikai Yu

21 November 2023

Compared to conventional aircraft, hypersonic aircraft place a greater emphasis on the integration of aircraft and engines to meet their high-performance requirements. The design challenges of the nozzle are evident in the requirement of a significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,876 Views
25 Pages

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) have revolutionised e-learning by creating personalised, adaptive, and secure environments. However, challenges such as privacy, bias, and data limitations persist. E-FedCloud aims to...

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