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Remote Sensing of Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Other Vegetation Parameters
(2019)
Monitoring of vegetation structure and functioning is critical to modeling terrestrial ecosystems and energy cycles. In particular, leaf area index (LAI) is an important structural property of vegetation used in many land ...
Remote Sensing Technology Applications in Forestry and REDD+
(2020)
Advances in close-range and remote sensing technologies are driving innovations in forest resource assessments and monitoring on varying scales. Data acquired with airborne and spaceborne platforms provide high(er) spatial ...
Removal of Organic Pollution in Water Environment
(2019)
The development of civilization entails a growing demand for consumer goods. A side effect of the production and use of these materials is the production of solid waste and wastewater. Municipal and industrial wastewater ...
Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration (ET)
(2019)
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a critical component of the water and energy balances, and the number of remote sensing-based ET products and estimation methods has increased in recent years. Various aspects of remote sensing ...
Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions
(2019)
This Special Issue gathers papers reporting recent advances in the remote sensing of cold regions. It includes contributions presenting improvements in modeling microwave emissions from snow, assessment of satellite-based ...
Recent Advances in Mechanics of Non-Newtonian Fluids
(2020)
Non-Newtonian (non-linear) fluids are common in nature, for example, in mud and honey, but also in many chemical, biological, food, pharmaceutical, and personal care processing industries. This Special Issue of Fluids is ...
Recent Advances in Novel Materials for Future Spintronics
(2019)
As we all know, electrons carry both charge and spin. The processing of information in conventional electronic devices is based only on the charge of electrons. Spin electronics, or spintronics, uses the spin of electrons, ...
Recent Advances in Omega-3: Health Benefits, Sources, Products and Bioavailability
(2014)
The joint symposium of The Omega-3 Centre and the Australasian Section American Oil Chemists Society; Recent Advances in Omega-3: Health Benefits, Sources, Products and Bioavailability, was held November 7, 2013 in Newcastle, ...
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Growth Monitoring
(2016)
This special issue book gathers sixteen papers focusing on the application of remote sensing techniques to crop growth monitoring. The studies feature multi-scale and multi-source remotely sensed data, a combination of ...
Recent Trends in Phosphate Mining and Beneficiation and Related Waste Management
(2020)
The extraction of apatite minerals is becoming more and more crucial with the depletion of high-grade ores. At the same time, many streams of waste are continuously being produced by the phosphate industry, including ...
Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges
(2019)
Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to ...
Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing
(2019)
This Special Issue gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of remote sensing of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and the use of satellite SSS in oceanography. It includes contributions presenting improvements in ...
Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar
(2019)
Changes in sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea ...
Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals from Remote Sensing
(2019)
This book covers topics ranging from a detailed error analysis of SSTs to new applications employed, for example, in the study of the El Niño–La Niña Southern Oscillation, lake temperatures, and coral bleaching. New ...
Seedling Production and Field Performance of Seedlings
(2019)
Rapid establishment of seedlings in forest regeneration or afforestation sites after planting is a prerequisite for a successful reforestation. Seedling survival after outplanting can be improved by using high-quality ...
Selective Laser Melting: Materials and Applications
(2020)
Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the manufacturing processes that warrants the attention of industrialists, researchers, and scientists. AM has the ability to fabricate materials to produce parts with complex shapes ...
Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx
(2018)
The most efficient process to reduce NOx emissions from lean exhaust gases, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with ammonia, has undergone tremendous development over the past decades. Originally only applied in stationary ...
Self-Assembled Bio-Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
(2020)
Biomolecular self-assembly provides a green, facile, and highly effective method to synthesize various functional nanomaterials that have exhibited considerable potential in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, ...
Sentiment Analysis for Social Media
(2020)
Sentiment analysis is a branch of natural language processing concerned with the study of the intensity of the emotions expressed in a piece of text. The automated analysis of the multitude of messages delivered through ...
Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources
(2020)
This multidisciplinary book covers a wide range of topics addressing critical challenges for advancing the understanding and management of shale oil and shale gas resources. Both fundamental and practical issues are ...
Shape Memory Alloys 2017
(2018)
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have special property of the shape memory effect. After thermal treatment above the martensitic transition temperature, the alloys come back to the original shape when the alloys heat again after ...
Silicon-Based Nanomaterials: Technology and Applications
(2019)
Silicon has been proven to be remarkably resilient as a commercial electronic material. The microelectronics industry has harnessed nanotechnology to continually push the performance limits of silicon devices and integrated ...
SIPMO 2019
(2020)
The biennial Congress of the Italian Society of Oral Pathology and Medicine (SIPMO) is an International meeting dedicated to the growing diagnostic challenges in the oral pathology and medicine field. The III International ...
Smart Textiles Production: Overview of Materials, Sensor and Production Technologies for Industrial Smart Textiles
(2019)
The research field of smart textiles is currently witnessing a rapidly growing number of applications integrating intelligent functions in textile substrates. With an increasing amount of new developed product prototypes, ...
Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems
(2019)
With the advent of disruptive digital technologies, companies are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Advanced manufacturing systems are of paramount importance in making key enabling technologies and new ...
Soil Water Conservation. Dynamics and Impact
(2019)
Human needs like food and clean water are directly related to good maintenance of healthy and productive soils. A good understanding of human impact on the natural environment is therefore necessary to preserve and manage ...
Sol-Gel Chemistry Applied to Materials Science
(2019)
Sol–gel technology is a contemporary advancement in science that requires taking a multidisciplinary approach with regard to its various applications. This book highlights some applications of the sol–gel technology, ...
Recent Advances and Perspectives in Deoxynivalenol Research
(2017)
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by molds. Although the primary role of these toxins is thought to be related to the colonisation of the environment by the fungi—mycotoxins are able to kill other micro-organisms ...
Reducing Dietary Sodium and Improving Human Health
(2018)
This Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Reducing Dietary Sodium and Improving Human Health”, welcomes the submission of manuscripts either describing original research or reviewing scientific literature related to salt ...
Regulatory microRNA
(2019)
This book includes updated information about microRNA regulation, for example, in the fields of circular RNAs, multiomics analysis, biomarkers and oncogenes. The variety of topics included in this book reaffirms the extent ...
Renewable Energy in Marine Environment
(2020)
The effects of human-caused global warming are obvious, requiring new strategies and approaches. The concept of business-as-usual is now no longer beneficial. Extraction of renewable energy in marine environments represents ...
Renewable Polymers: Processing and Chemical Modifications
(2020)
The utilization of bio-resourced macromolecules for polymer applications has been the subject of increasing interest, mainly for sustainability and functionality reasons. This Special Issue of Processes brings together ...
Recent Progress in Bunyavirus Research
(2017)
The Bunyaviridae is the largest family of RNA viruses, with over 350 isolates worldwide distributed into five genera (i.e., Hantavirus, Orthobunyavirus, Nairovirus, Tospovirus, and Phlebovirus). Many of these viruses are ...
Recent Developments of Nanofluids
(2018)
Over the past two decades, there has been increased attention in the research of nanofluid due to its widely expanded domain in many industrial and technological applications. Major advances in the modeling of key topics ...
Science, Characterization and Technology of Joining and Welding
(2020)
As the Guest Editor of this Special Issue entitled ""Science, Characterization, and Technology of Joining and Welding"" of Metals, I am pleased to have this book published by MDPI. Joining, including welding, soldering, ...
Side Channel Attacks
(2019)
This Special Issue provides an opportunity for researchers in the area of side-channel attacks (SCAs) to highlight the most recent exciting technologies. The research papers published in this Special Issue represent recent ...
Small Scale Deformation using Advanced Nanoindentation Techniques
(2019)
Small scale mechanical deformations have gained a significant interest over the past few decades, driven by the advances in integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems. One of the most powerful and versatile ...
Social Safety and Security
(2020)
Social safety in social environments entails the sense of feeling safe with other people. Thus, social safety and security are very important to our life. Although research in this area has made significant progress in the ...
Solar Radiation, Modelling and Remote Sensing
(2019)
Accurate solar radiation knowledge and its characterization on the Earth’s surface are of high interest in many aspects of environmental and engineering sciences. Modeling of solar irradiance from satellite imagery has ...
Solar Energy Applications in Houses, Smart Cities and Microgrids
(2020)
Five papers were selected for this Special Issue, with three relating to solar energy applications in houses, smart cities, and microgrids; one studying the relationship between the smart city model and the concept of ...
Sound and Music Computing
(2018)
Sound and music computing is a young and highly multidisciplinary research field. It combines scientific, technological, and artistic methods to produce, model, and understand audio and sonic arts with the help of computers. ...
Regional Cooperation for the Sustainable Development and Management in Northeast Asia
(2018)
This Special Issue consists of selected papers from the Sustainable Asia Conference 2017, annual international conference which was held in Nanjing, China, from 23–28 June, 2017. SAC is one of the leading international ...
Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition
(2019)
This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious ...
Religious Environmental Activism in Asia: Case Studies in Spiritual Ecology
(2020)
Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. ...
Recent Development of Electrospinning for Drug Delivery
(2020)
Several promising techniques have been developed to overcome the poor solubility and/or membrane permeability properties of new drug candidates, including different fiber formation methods. Electrospinning is one of the ...
Recent Developments in Cointegration
(2018)
The Cointegrated VAR model allows the user to study both long-run and short-run effects in the same model. It describes an economic system where variables have been pushed away from long-run equilibria by exogenous shocks ...
Recent Developments in Smart Healthcare
(2018)
Medicine is undergoing a sector-wide transformation thanks to the advances in computing and networking technologies. Healthcare is changing from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive and personalized, from disease ...
Seaweeds Secondary Metabolites: Successes in and/or Probable Therapeutic Applications
(2020)
Seaweeds are recognized as highly nutritious, and their use in gastronomy is increasing. Their health benefits and their potential to prevent several diseases have also been established. In this Special Issue several health ...
Short-Term Load Forecasting by Artificial Intelligent Technologies
(2019)
In last few decades, short-term load forecasting (STLF) has been one of the most important research issues for achieving higher efficiency and reliability in power system operation, to facilitate the minimization of its ...
Short Rotation Woody Crop Production Systems for Ecosystem Services and Phytotechnologies
(2019)
While international efforts in the development of short rotation woody crops (SRWCs) have historically focused on the production of biomass for bioenergy, biofuels, and bioproducts, research and deployment over the past ...
Siloxane-Based Polymers
(2019)
This book, a collection of 12 original contributions and 4 reviews, provides a selection of the most recent advances in the preparation, characterization, and applications of polymeric nanocomposites comprising nanoparticles. ...
Silver Nano/microparticles: Modification and Applications
(2019)
Nano/micro-size particles are widely applied in various fields. Among the various particles, silver particles are considered among the most prominent nanomaterials in the biomedical and industrial sectors because of their ...
Soft Material-Enabled Electronics for Medicine, Healthcare, and Human-Machine Interfaces
(2020)
Soft material-enabled electronics offer distinct advantage, over conventional rigid and bulky devices, for numerous wearable and implantable applications. Soft materials allow for seamless integration with skin and tissues ...
Soft and Hard Tissue Regeneration
(2020)
This special issue entitled “Soft and hard tissue regeneration” will cover both periodontal and implant therapies. Regenerative periodontal treatment goal is to restore functional periodontal support offering a valuable ...
Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma
(2014)
Soft tissue and bone sarcomas disproportionately affect children, adolescents, and young adults. Although considered a rare disease, sarcomas continue to have a devastating effect on these patients and their loved ones, ...
Solution Models based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information
(2019)
This Special Issue covers symmetry and asymmetry phenomena occurring in real-life problems. We invited authors to submit their theoretical or experimental research presenting engineering and economic problem solution models ...
Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development
(2019)
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and other private governance instruments (e.g., Fair Trade, Forest Stewardship Council, Fair Wear Foundation, GLOBALGAP) are increasingly regulating global production processes and ...
Recent Advances in HTLV Research 2015
(2017)
The human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) were both discovered over three decades ago and infect millions people worldwide. HTLV-1 is associated with the adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) in ...
Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit
(2019)
Devastating seismic events occurring all over the world keep raising the awareness of the scientific, technical and political communities to the need of identifying assets at risk and developing more effective and ...
Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide
(2019)
Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide features ten articles about recent developments in the interaction of Religion and Politics in various countries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and both North and South America. ...
Religion and Family Life
(2019)
There has been increased interest among scholars in recent decades focused on the intersection of family and religion. Yet, there is still much that is not well-understood in this area. This aim of this special issue is ...
Religion and the New Technologies
(2017)
In April 2000, Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems published a controversial article entitled "Why the Future Does not Need Us." Joy called for a moratorium on research in three new technological ...
Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, and Identity
(2017)
This Special Issue is both experimental and comparative. It appropriates diverse disciplinary idioms from the distinctive fields our authors inhabit to focus on the ever-recurrent theme of the individual and the study of ...
Religion and Violence
(2016)
Renal Cell Carcinoma
(2020)
Renal cancer is a health problem of major concern worldwide. Although tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune check-point blockade treatments, alone or in combination, are giving promising results, failures are quite frequent ...
Repetitive DNA Sequences
(2020)
Repetitive DNA is ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes, and, in many species, comprises the bulk of the genome. Repeats include transposable elements that can self-mobilize and disperse around the genome, and tandemly-repeated ...
Replication-Competent Reporter-Expressing Viruses
(2016)
Recombinant viruses expressing reporter fluorescent or bioluminescent proteins are an excellent option to evaluate the dynamics of viral infection progression in both cultured cells and/or validated animal models of viral ...
Recent Changes in Drug Abuse Scenario: The Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Phenomenon
(2019)
In parallel with a decrease/stabilization in the use of internationally controlled drugs, the market of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continues increasing, year after year, with the Internet playing a pivotal role ...
Recent Advances in Water Management: Saving, Treatment and Reuse
(2018)
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Recent Advances in Water Management: Saving, Treatment and Reuse that was published in Water
Recent CMV Research
(2014)
I am very pleased with this Viruses Special Issue. Of particular interest to families and caregivers affected by CMV diseases are several papers: addressing prevention of CMV infection of trophoblast cells (Zydek et al., ...
Scalable Interactive Visualization
(2018)
Data available in today’s information society is ever growing in size and complexity—i.e., unstructured, multidimensional, uncertain, etc.—making it impossible to survey and understand this data. Traditionally, most of ...
Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
(2018)
Currently, at the dawn of 5G networks, and the era of the Internet-of-Things, wireless and mobile networking is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. In this landscape, security and privacy turn into decisive factors. That is, ...
Selected Papers from the 2018 41st International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)
(2019)
This Special Issue contains a series of excellent research works on telecommunications and signal processing, selected from the 2018 41st International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) which was ...
Selected Papers from the 15th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference
(2019)
The 15th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference provides a venue for commercial, academic, and government scientists and engineers from around the world to present and discuss the latest results and techniques in applied ...
Selected Papers from the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management
(2019)
This collection represents successful invited submissions from the papers presented at the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management held in Beijing, China, 22–24 September 2017. With over 500 participants, ...
Selected Papers from the 9th World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography
(2020)
Industrial process tomography (IPT) is becoming an important tool for Industry 4.0. It consists of multidimensional sensor technologies and methods that aim to provide unparalleled internal information on industrial processes ...
Selected Papers from the 9th Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology on Micromachines
(2019)
This Special Issue presents selected papers from the 8th
Selected Papers from the 8th Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology on Micromachines
(2019)
This Special Issue presents selected papers from the 8th
Selected Papers from the 1st International Online Conference on Nanomaterials
(2020)
This book compiles selected papers from the Proceedings of the 1st International Online Conference on Nanomaterials, held 1–15 September, 2018 on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and ...
Selected Papers from the 5th International Symposium on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Moulds: Challenges and Perspectives
(2017)
The MYTOX association research platform, MYTOX "Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Moulds" was established in 2007 and consists of more than 50 researchers from 12 research laboratories in the Ghent University Association. MYTOX ...
Selected Papers from the 14th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference
(2017)
The 14th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference provided a venue for commercial, academic, and government scientists and engineers from around the world to present and discuss the latest results and techniques in applied ...
Sensors in Agriculture
(2019)
Agriculture requires technical solutions for increasing production while lessening environmental impact by reducing the application of agro-chemicals and increasing the use of environmentally friendly management practices. ...
Sensors in Agriculture
(2019)
Agriculture requires technical solutions for increasing production while lessening environmental impact by reducing the application of agro-chemicals and increasing the use of environmentally friendly management practices. ...
Sensors for Ultrasonic NDT in Harsh Environments
(2020)
In this Special Issue of Sensors, seven peer-reviewed manuscripts appear on the topic of ultrasonic transducer design and operation in harsh environments: elevated temperature, high gamma and neutron radiation fields, or ...
Sensors and Techniques for 3D Object Modeling in Underwater Environments
(2016)
Water covers approximately 71% of the planet’s surface and human activities have been relying on it since remote times. Many traces of these exist under the “zero level” and will continue to exist in the future. Measuring, ...
Sensors for Fluid Leak Detection
(2015)
Fluid leak detection represents a problem that has attracted the interest of researchers, but not exclusively because in industries and services leaks are frequently common. Indeed, in water or gas supplies, chemical or ...
Snake Venom Metalloproteinases
(2017)
This special edition of Toxins will cover recent developments in snake venom metalloproteinase structure, function and clinical implications. It will include a historical retrospective of the discovery of Snake Venom ...
Solid-Phase Microextraction
(2020)
This book covers the most recent research activities and achievements regarding to the solid phase microextraction (SPME) technique. It is a powerful sample preparation tool that addresses the new challenges of analytical ...
Real-Time Embedded Systems
(2019)
Real-time and networked embedded systems are important bidirectional bridges between the physical and the information worlds. Embedded intelligence is increasingly pervading industry, infrastructure, and public and private ...
Real-Time Optimization
(2017)
Process optimization is the method of choice for improving the performance of industrial processes, while enforcing the satisfaction of safety and quality constraints. Long considered as an appealing tool but only applicable ...
Reinventing Healthy Communities: Implications for Individual and Societal Well-Being
(2016)
Contemporary views of “livable communities” maintain that density and diversity are good for cities. Healthy communities are more pedestrian-friendly and less automobile-centric. Mixed use zoning keeps a flow of people ...
Religion, Ritual and Ritualistic Objects
(2019)
This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By ...
Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision. Common Ground
(2019)
Religion, Welfare, and Social Service Provision: Common Ground delves deeply into the partnerships forged between religious communities, government agencies and nonprofits to deliver social services to the needy. These ...
Religions and Psychotherapies
(2014)
The birth of modern psychotherapies—along with the birth of psychology as a science on one side and with psychoanalysis, other depth-psychological treatments and behavioral therapies in addition to medical treatments of ...
Recent Advances in Hydro- and Biohydrometallurgy
(2019)
This Special Issue of Minerals presents recent, select studies that highlight advances in the fields of hydro- and biohydrometallurgy. It aims to attract the interest of readers and especially of young scientists and ...
Sediment Transport in Coastal Waters
(2019)
The interface of 440,000 km long coastline in the world is subject to global change, with an increasing human pressure (land use, buildings, sand mining, dredging) and increasing population. Improving our knowledge on ...
Selected Problems in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
(2019)
Fluid flow and heat transfer processes play an important role in many areas of science and engineering, from the planetary scale (e.g., influencing weather and climate) to the microscopic scales of enhancing heat transfer ...
Sensors and Actuators in Smart Cities
(2018)
Cities across the globe are installing sensors and actuators to become more sustainable, safe, efficient, and greener, with the hope of improving urban life. This book examines how sensors and actuators enable smart cities ...
