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Vegetation Dynamics Revealed by Remote Sensing and Its Feedback to Regional and Global Climate
(2022)
This book focuses on some significant progress in vegetation dynamics and their response to climate change revealed by remote sensing data. The development of satellite remote sensing and its derived products offer fantastic ...
Energy Supply within Sustainable Agricultural Production: Challenges, Policies and Mechanisms
(2022)
Providing the security of a broad-based energy and slowing the speed of climate change are the main challenges today of the basic of legal framework to stimulate the development of alternative energy sources. Energy from ...
Recent Advances in the Synthesis, Functionalization and Applications of Pyrazole-Type Compounds I
(2022)
Pyrazoles and their reduced form, pyrazolines, are considered privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry, owing to their noteworthy biological activities, physicochemical properties and occurrence in many low-molecular-weight ...
Electric Vehicle Efficient Power and Propulsion Systems
(2022)
Vehicle electrification has been identified as one of the main technology trends in this second decade of the 21st century. Nearly 10% of global car sales in 2021 were electric, and this figure would be 50% by 2030 to ...
Genetics of Prader-Willi syndrome
(2022)
Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex genomic imprinting disorder associated with a spectrum of medical, cognitive, behavioural, and psychiatric problems and is also the most common cause of life-threatening obesity ...
Environmental Technology Applications in the Retrofitting of Residential Buildings
(2022)
The impact of buildings on the environment is nothing short of devastating. In recent years, much attention has been given to creating an environmentally friendly built environment. Nonetheless, it has been levied on new ...
Advanced Underground Space Technology
(2022)
The recent development of underground space technology makes underground space a potential and feasible solution to climate change, energy shortages, the growing population, and the demands on urban space. Advances in ...
Fungal Biofilms 2020
(2022)
Fungal infections are an important and increasing global threat, carrying not only high morbidity and mortality rates, but also high healthcare costs. Without an effective response, it is predicted that 10 million people ...
Preparation of Novel Nanomaterial and Its Application in Food Industry
(2022)
Nanotechnology has offered a wide range of opportunities for the development and application of structures, materials, or systems with new properties in the food industry in recent years. The developed nanomaterials could ...
Industry 4.0—from Smart Factory to Cognitive Cyberphysical Production System and Cloud Manufacturing
(2022)
This book focuses on recent developments in new industrial platforms, with Industry 4.0 on its way to becoming Industry 5.0. The book covers smart decision support systems for green and sustainable machining, microscale ...
Phototrophic Bacteria
(2022)
Microorganisms is pleased to publish this book, which reprints papers that appeared in a Special Issue on “Phototrophic Bacteria”, with Guest Editors Robert Blankenship and Matthew Sattley. This Special Issue included ...
Effects of Diagenetic Alterations on Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Water Aquifers
(2022)
Reservoir quality (porosity and permeability) and heterogeneity in carbonate and siliciclastic hydrocarbon reservoirs and groundwater aquifers are significantly constrained by diagenetic processes, such as biological, ...
EPR Effect-Based Tumor Targeted Nanomedicine
(2022)
I am honored to undertake the work for Guest Editor for this Special Issue of EPR Effect-Based Tumor Targeted Nanomedicine for the Journal of Personalized Medicine. It has already been 35 years since we published the concept ...
Bayesian Predictive Inference and Related Asymptotics—Festschrift for Eugenio Regazzini's 75th Birthday
(2022)
Bayesian predictive inference is at the core of the mathematical theory of inductive reasoning. Nowadays, this field has become very attractive especially for its connections with algorithmic probability, machine learning ...
Celebrated Econometricians: Katarina Juselius and Søren Johansen
(2022)
This Special Issue collects contributions related to advances in the theory and practice of Econometrics induced by the research of Katarina Juselius and Søren Johansen, whom this Special Issue aims to celebrate. The papers ...
Diseases of the Salivary Glands—Part II
(2022)
The year 2021 saw the publication of the Special Issue “"Diseases of the Salivary Glands" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/Salivary_Glands), Part I, covering recent and novel advancements as well as future ...
Symmetry in Human Evolution, from Biology to Behaviours
(2022)
Our knowledge of human evolution has made particular progress recently, due to the discovery of new fossils, the use of new methods and multidisciplinary approaches. Moreover, studies on the departure from symmetry, including ...
Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Healthcare
(2022)
This compendium describes the multimodal interventions in the field of integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine, which combines biological, behavioral, social, and environmental domains rather than merely ...
Teachers Matter Improving Recruitment, Retention and Development of Teachers
(2022)
This book highlights the global concern about the teaching workforce, from recruitment and retention of teachers to the development and quality of teachers in schools. The collection of papers in this book is international ...
New Insights into Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurodegenerative Disorders
(2022)
Neurodegenerative disorders encompass a broad range of sporadic and/or familial debilitating conditions characterized by the progressive dysfunction and loss of selective neuronal populations, determining different clinical ...
Vehicle and Traffic Safety
(2022)
The book is devoted to contemporary issues regarding the safety of motor vehicles and road traffic. It presents the achievements of scientists, specialists, and industry representatives in the following selected areas of ...
Ecology and Conservation of Freshwater Fishes Biodiversity
(2022)
Freshwater fishes are the most diverse vertebrate group, with almost 36,000 species described so far, and more species are being discovered all the time, evenly distributed between marine and freshwater habitats. Freshwater ...
Pressure Perturbation Approach in Biochemistry and Structural Biology. In memoriam of Dr. Gaston Hui Bon Hoa
(2022)
This Special Issue focuses on the effects of hydrostatic pressure on biological systems and the use of these effects for exploring the structure, function, and molecular dynamics of biological macromolecules and their ...
Advances in Bearing Lubrication and Thermal Sciences
(2022)
This reprint focuses on the hot issue of bearing lubrication and thermal analysis, and brings together many cutting-edge studies, such as bearing multi-body dynamics, bearing tribology, new lubrication and heat dissipation ...
Feature Papers of Forecasting 2021
(2022)
This book focuses on fundamental and applied research on forecasting methods and analyses on how forecasting can affect a great number of fields, spanning from Computer Science, Engineering, and Economics and Business to ...
Physical Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Technologies
(2022)
The book focuses on the diagnosis, evaluation, and assistance of gait disorders; all the papers have been contributed by research groups related to assistive robotics, instrumentations, and augmentative devices.
Family Risk and Protective Factors and Child Development
(2022)
This reprint is devoted to understanding the unique and combined effects of family risk and protective factors on child development across multiple dimensions of functioning (e.g., physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, ...
Natural Products: Therapeutic Properties and Beyond II
(2022)
Bioactive compounds have a range of chemical structures and biological activities. Recently, new advances regarding natural compounds were achieved, leading to their application in several areas related to human therapies. ...
Light Alloys and High-Temperature Alloys
(2022)
Light alloys and high-temperature alloys are widely used as key engineering materials in both the civil and military industries due to their excellent comprehensive properties and performance. Over recent decades, huge ...
Transnational and Transdisciplinary Lessons of COVID 19 From the Perspective of Risk and Management
(2022)
Rarely has scientific research been as solicited as societies struggle to cope with the coronavirus. The questions raised by COVID-19 are germane to the medical and the social sciences. From an international relations ...
Micro-/Nano-Fiber Sensors and Optical Integration Devices
(2022)
The development of micro/nanofiber sensors and associated integrated systems is a major project spanning photonics, engineering, and materials science, and has become a key academic research trend. During the development ...
Alternative Sources of Energy Modeling, Automation, Optimal Planning and Operation
(2022)
An economic development model analyzes the adoption of alternative strategy capable of leveraging the economy, based essentially on RES. The combination of wind turbine, PV installation with new technology battery energy ...
Advanced Welding Technology in Metals
(2022)
Welding is widely used by both academia and industry to create similar and dissimilar joints aiming to create a complex shape structure and to couple the mechanical properties of different materials into a single monolithic ...
Targeting the Microbiome for Disease Diagnosis and Therapy
(2022)
Background: The gut microbiota is emerging as a pivotal player in the pathogenesis of many non-communicable diseases. Thus, it has been proposed as a new diagnostic and therapeutic target.Aim and scope: This Special Issue ...
Horses and Risk
(2022)
The risk of physical accident or injury to humans from horses is well understood. Now, there is increasing awareness of negative impacts on the physical and mental wellbeing of horses from living in fundamentally human ...
Traumatic Brain Injury
(2022)
As many of you already know, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing public health problem of substantial proportions. More than 50 million TBIs occur internationally each year. Across all ages, TBI represents 30–40% of ...
Fuzzy Decision Making and Soft Computing Applications
(2022)
This Special Issue collects original research articles discussing cutting-edge work as well as perspectives on future directions in the whole range of theoretical and practical aspects in these research areas: i) Theory ...
Various Adsorbents for Water Purification Processes
(2022)
The development of effective treatment methods or the synthesis of new effective adsorbents capable of selective sorption of toxic substances is now of great importance. This reprint contains articles focused on wastewater ...
Recent Advances in Carbon/Graphite Coatings
(2022)
This Special Issue collects papers devoted to organic coatings based on polymers, graphene, and their combinations. These systems have great potentialities in the development of advanced materials for functional applications. ...
New Trends in Cognitive Ageing and Mild Cognitive Impairment
(2022)
This book focuses on the process of cognitive ageing, considering the increase in cognitive impairment associated with the aging of the population and the related care impact. Special attention is given to cognitive health ...
Appropriate Wisdom, Technology, and Management toward Environmental Sustainability for Development
(2022)
The protection and maintenance of environmental resources for future generations require responsible interaction between humans and the environment in order to avoid wasting natural resources. According to an ancient Native ...
New Indicators for the Assessment and Prevention of Noise Nuisance
(2022)
This Special Issue was launched to promote a subject that is deserving of more attention: the study of new metrics, indicators or evaluation methods for noise exposure, and the relationship of noise with annoyance or other ...
Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Spinal Cord Injury
(2022)
The present Special Issue is dedicated to presenting current research topics in DCM and SCI in an attempt to bridge gaps in knowledge for both of the two main forms of SCI. The issue consists of fourteen studies, of which ...
Postharvest Handling of Horticultural Crops
(2022)
The postharvest handling of horticultural produce is of major importance because fresh fruit and vegetables are highly perishable. It is estimated that 30% of produced horticultural commodities are lost in processes between ...
Classification of Lymphomas and Hematological Neoplasia in the Era of Genomic Research
(2022)
This Special Issue contains review articles focusing on several lymphoma entities included in the current WHO classification. The aim of the book is to guide the readers in understanding the evolution of lymphoma classification. ...
The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering
(2022)
The Second International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, ICAME-22, was held on 25th August, 2022 at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Capital University of Science and Technology. All articles ...
Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructures 2nd Volume
(2022)
The second volume of the book contains the manuscripts that were accepted for publication in the MDPI Special Topic "Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure" after a rigorous peer-review process. Authors from academia, ...
Plant Cell Wall Plasticity under Stress Situations
(2022)
This reprint is focused on recent novel research related to the role of plant cell walls under biotic and abiotic stresses, which was published in the Special Issue “Plant Cell Wall Plasticity under Stress Situations” of ...
New Advances in Kidney Transplantation
(2022)
This Special Issue in renal transplantation covers a variety of clinical and research areas in kidney transplantation. The recent decade is associated with an ongoing shortage of organs for transplantation with efforts to ...
Ischemic Heart Disease in the Context of Different Comorbidities
(2022)
Ischemic heart disease is a cardiovascular condition with very high prevalence worldwide and a major source of morbidity and mortality, especially in the geriatric population. The management of coronary artery disease is ...
Recent Research of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
(2022)
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a very common median nerve compression neuropathy at wrist level. It causes unplesant symptoms to patient as well as a financial burden for society. Conservative treatment helps with mild ...
Economic Factors of the Development of Agricultural Markets and Rural Areas
(2022)
The agri-market is one of the core sectors of the economy, responsible for producing goods and the fulfilment of nutritional needs. It includes agriculture, which produces food, and the food industry, which involves ...
Unlocking Sacred Landscapes
(2022)
This Special Issue is the third and final volume in a trilogy of collective peer-reviewed works of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes research network. It encompasses various approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts ...
Recent Advances and Applications of Machine Learning in Metal Forming Processes
(2022)
Machine learning (ML) technologies are emerging in Mechanical Engineering, driven by the increasing availability of datasets, coupled with the exponential growth in computer performance. In fact, there has been a growing ...
COVID-19 and Environment: Impacts of a Global Pandemic
(2022)
This is a reprint of the MDPI IJERPH Special Issue entitled "COVID-19 and Environment: Impacts of a Global Pandemic". The reprint consists of 17 papers with different topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental ...
Integrated STEM and STEM Partnerships: Teaching and Learning
(2022)
The overall focus of this Special Issue is on educational spaces relating to integrated STEM and interdisciplinary partnerships that might occur in integrated STEM spaces. These educational spaces include formal and informal ...
Quantitative PET and SPECT
(2022)
Since the introduction of personalized medicine, the primary focus of imaging has moved from detection and diagnosis to tissue characterization, the determination of prognosis, prediction of treatment efficacy, and measurement ...
Genetics of Hearing Impairment
(2022)
The inner ear is a complex machinery at the cellular and molecular levels. Many different genes and proteins play roles in the development and maintenance of its structure and function, through participating in diverse ...
Energy Consumption in a Smart City
(2022)
A Smart City is the perfect environment to study and exploit the interactions between actors because its architecture already integrates vaious elements to collect data and connect to its citizens. Furthermore, the ...
Fungal Pigments 2021
(2022)
New edition of the reprint Fungal pigments: Chapters titles: PART 1. Investigation on various chemical classes of fungal pigments: Genomic Analysis and Assessment of Melanin Synthesis in Amorphotheca resinae by Jeong-Joo ...