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Parenting in the 21st Century
(2022)
In this Special Issue, we present a collection of articles that cover the unique opportunities and challenges of parenting in the 21st century. We have identified three themes across the articles: managing stress; support ...
Modeling and Optimal Operation of Hydraulic, Wind and Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems
(2022)
The transition to 100% renewable energy in the future is one of the most important ways of achieving "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" and of reducing the adverse effects of climate change. In this process, the safe, ...
Global Art Market in the Aftermath of COVID-19
(2022)
Although the global art market has often been resilient to international economic and political events, it has recently faced some of its biggest challenges under the influence of COVID-19. Among others, the pandemic and ...
Open Innovation in Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(2022)
This book unveils the importance of micro, small, medium, and large firms for fostering open innovation, using methodological designs based on both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Several dimensions of the inbound ...
Collaborative Networks, Decision Systems, Web Applications and Services for Supporting Engineering and Production Management
(2022)
This book focused on fundamental and applied research on collaborative and intelligent networks and decision systems and services for supporting engineering and production management, along with other kinds of problems and ...
Frontiers of Asset Pricing
(2022)
This book is comprised of articles published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management entitled "Frontiers in Asset Pricing" with Guest Editors Professor James W. Kolari and Professor Seppo Pynnonen. ...
Recent Advances in Coatings of Implant and Dental Biomaterials
(2022)
Knowledge, new concepts, and theoretical and experimental studies on coatings of implant and bone surfaces have been explained. Recent advancements in coating methods and materials for surface coating have both been ...
Yellow River Basin Management under Pressure
(2022)
Ecological protection and high-quality development in the basin of the Yellow River, known as China’s “Mother River” and “the cradle of Chinese civilization”, have been receiving increasing attention because of the important ...
2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand
(2022)
The annual scientific conference of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand was held virtually on the 2nd and 3rd December 2021. The aim of the annual conference is to foster discussion and disseminate the results of ...
Religion and Folk Belief in Chinese Literature and Theatre
(2022)
This edited volume offers a historical, textual and ethnoanthropological exploration of the meaning and value of religion and ritual and their form and function in relation to Chinese literature and theatre. The term ...
Integral Transformation, Operational Calculus and Their Applications
(2022)
The importance and usefulness of subjects and topics involving integral transformations and operational calculus are becoming widely recognized, not only in the mathematical sciences but also in the physical, biological, ...
Critical Child Protection Studies
(2022)
Up until the latter years of the twentieth century, there was very little critical analysis of child protection policies and practices. The core assumption was that it was concerns about child abuse and neglect that provided ...
Current Research on HIV Drug Resistance
(2022)
HIV drug resistance is an unavoidable challenge for HIV/AIDS professionals, and it has long been a major obstacle hindering the global effort to contain HIV/AIDS. Pathogens journal launched a topical collection in 2021 ...
Fighting Fake News
(2022)
The book focuses on how different generations perceive fake news, including young and middle-age groups of people, multiple age groups, university students and adults in general, elementary students, children, and adolescents. ...
Humanistic Approaches to Medical Practice
(2022)
Medical practice is a mixture of science and art, technique and humanism. The importance of human beings is more obvious in medicine than in any other field. At the center of medical care is the patient, and at its base ...
Functional Biodegradable Nanocomposites
(2022)
Concern around environmental issues facing society has grown significantly in recent years. Reduction in damages resulting from both industrial and domestic waste has become a key topic as a means to address environmental ...
Dam Safety. Overtopping and Geostructural Risks
(2022)
This reprintshows recent advances in dam safety related to overtopping and the prevention, detection, and risk assessment of geostructural risks. Related to overtopping, the issues treated are: the throughflow and failure ...
New Trends on Vanadium Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Medicinal Chemistry
(2022)
The recognition of the exceptional chemical and biological properties of vanadium compounds has led, in recent decades, to extensive research exploring their chemistry, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry. Due to the ...
Integrated Applications of Geo-Information in Environmental Monitoring
(2022)
This book focuses on fundamental and applied research on geo-information technology, notably optical and radar remote sensing and algorithm improvements, and their applications in environmental monitoring. This Special ...
Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-Size Materials and Structures
(2022)
For this reprint, we intend to cover theoretical as well as experimental works performed on small scale to predict the material properties and characteristics of any advanced and metamaterials. New studies on mechanics of ...
Cornerstones in Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry
(2022)
A collection of essential research articles and scientific reviews covering some of the most pertinent and topical areas of study that currently constitute Inorganic Chemistry in the early 21st century.
Polymers Enhancing Bioavailability in Drug Delivery
(2022)
This Special Issue provides an update on the state of the art and current trends in polymeric drug-delivery systems specifically designed for improving drug bioavailability. The multiple contributions received further ...
Fundamentals of SARS-CoV-2 Biosensors
(2022)
COVID-19 diagnostic strategies based on advanced techniques are currently essential topics of interest, with crucial roles in scientific research. This book integrates fundamental concepts and critical analyses that explore ...
Green Low-Carbon Technology for Metalliferous Minerals
(2022)
Metalliferous minerals play a central role in the global economy. They will continue to provide the raw materials we need for industrial processes. Significant challenges will likely emerge if the climate-driven green and ...
Secure and Sustainable Energy System
(2022)
This special issue aims to contribute to the climate actions which called for the need to address Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, keeping global warming to well below 2°C through various means, including accelerating ...
New Perspectives in Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury
(2022)
There has been increased focus on evaluating the scientific knowledge base within the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation. TBI rehabilitation comprises several phases, from acute medical care to post-acute ...
Applications of Crystal Plasticity in Forming Technologies
(2022)
In this Special Issue, we have gathered work on simulations of polycrystalline metals and alloys at various length scales to model multiscale localization phenomena such as slip bands, cracks, and twins. The series highlights ...
Dedication to Professor Michael Tribelsky
(2022)
Professor Tribelsky's accomplishments are highly appreciated by the international community. The best indications of this are the high citation rates of his publications, and the numerous awards and titles he has received. ...
Extraction and Fractionation Processes of Functional Components in Food Engineering
(2022)
This Special Issue on the "Extraction and Fractionation Processes of Functional Components in Food Engineering" aims to bring together novel advances in the development and application of innovative processing strategies ...
Challenges and Advances in Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Lung Diseases
(2022)
The Special Issue of the journal Diagnostics entitled “Challenges and Advances in Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Lung Diseases” encompasses research articles, case presentations, and literature reviews concerning the ...
Land Use Change from Non-urban to Urban Areas
(2022)
This reprint is related to land-use change and non-urban and urban relationships at all spatiotemporal scales and also focuses on land-use planning and regulatory strategies for a sustainable future. Spatiotemporal dynamics, ...
The 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development
(2022)
The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) was held virtually on September 20-21, 2021, with the conference theme “Research for Impact: A Sustainable and Inclusive Planet.” ICSD provides a forum for ...
Transcriptome and Genome Analyses Applied to Aquaculture Research
(2022)
Aquaculture is an important economic activity for food production all around the world that has experienced an exponential growth during the last few decades. However, several weaknesses and bottlenecks still need to be ...
Advances in Molecular Breeding of Vegetable Crops
(2022)
Vegetable crops provide valuable minerals and vitamins that are indispensible for human health. Scientists have been working on the genetics of vegetable crops, deciphering the molecular bases of agronomically important ...
Plant Therapeutics
(2022)
This Special Issue provides recent advances in the use of plants for therapeutic purposes. This Special Issue collected the plants, including leaf, fruit, and others. This Special Issue's targets were crude plant extract ...
Plant Responses to Stress and Environmental Stimulus
(2022)
Plants respond to diverse environmental stimuli such as light, nutrients, temperature, and oxygen, which shape their growth and fate. When these stimuli are suboptimal for adequate plant growth, they cause stress. This ...
Quantitative Assessment of Environmental/Human Health Risks
(2022)
This book focuses on the quantitative assessment of environmental and human health risks which are usually evaluated by the ecological risk assessment which is the process for evaluating how likely it is that the environment ...
Gifted Education, Creativity and Leadership Development
(2022)
In these uncertain and challenging times, we need to help gifted students find their purpose and work toward finding a passion in their work and life. These new perspectives are both brilliant and practical and represent ...
Intelligent Computing for Big Data
(2022)
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to further develop current big data research. The Special Issue on ‘Intelligent Computing for Big Data’ highlighted a number of recent studies related to the ...
Recent Advances in Nanomagnetism
(2022)
The Special Issue on Recent Advances in Nanomagnetism is a compilation of articles, addressing various aspects of magnetic properties and behaviour in low dimensional magnetic materials. One contribution addresses the novel ...
Applied (Meta)-Heuristic in Intelligent Systems
(2022)
Engineering and business problems are becoming increasingly difficult to solve due to the new economics triggered by big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. Exact algorithms and heuristics are ...
Wearable Sensors Applied in Movement Analysis
(2022)
Recent advances in electronics have led to sensors whose sizes and weights are such that they can be placed on living systems without impairing their natural motion and habits. They may be worn on the body as accessories ...
Oxidative Stress and Inflammation
(2022)
In the biochemical reactions that take place within all living beings, species called free radicals are generated. Denham Harman, in his study on the origin and evolution of life (Harman, 2001), proposes that these species ...
Marine Glycomics
(2022)
Marine creatures are rich sources of glycoconjugate-containing glycans and have diversified structures. The advance of genomics has provided a valuable clue for their production and developments. This information will ...
Bio-Based Polymeric Films
(2022)
These days, massive consumer demands for short-term single-use plastic materials have produced huge plastic waste, which in turn has created tremendous environmental pollution. Biodegradable polymers or biopolymers can be ...
Advancement in the Fluid Dynamics Research of Reversible Pump-Turbine
(2022)
Pumped storage technology is a large-scale, efficient, flexible and clean energy storage technology. The core of it is the design of pumped storage units, which involves the operation and flow characteristics of vane ...
Physical Activity, Nutritional Status, Physical Fitness
(2022)
Physical activity, nutritional status, and fitness are important predictors of public health and the well-being of society as a whole. They influence the preparedness to perform official duties and tasks in some professional ...
Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Jamaica
(2022)
News media shape public opinion on social issues such as child sexual abuse (CSA), using particular language to foreground, marginalize or legitimize certain viewpoints. Given the prevalence of CSA and the impact of violence ...
Biological Mechanisms Underlying Physical Fitness and Sports Performance
(2022)
The concept of mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings. It may refer to a philosophical thesis about the nature of life and biology, to the internal workings of a machine-like structure, or to the causal explanation ...
Sample Preparation-Quo Vadis
(2022)
Sample preparation is and will always be the most important step in chemical analysis. Numerous techniques, methods, methodologies, and approaches are published in the literature offering a wide range of analytical tools ...
Remote Sensing for Precision Nitrogen Management
(2022)
This book focuses on the fundamental and applied research of the non-destructive estimation and diagnosis of crop leaf and plant nitrogen status and in-season nitrogen management strategies based on leaf sensors, proximal ...
Global Understanding of Accretion and Ejection around Black Holes
(2022)
Accretion-ejection around compact objects, mainly around black holes, both in low mass, supermassive, and intermediate-mass, are rich and has been studied exhaustively. However, the subject is expanding and growing rapidly ...
Training for Optimal Sports Performance and Health
(2022)
In this book, the emphasis is on various training interventions. Types of exercises that can help improve performance in athletes and health in people facing poor movement diseases.Also, we have presented a variety of ...
Mineralogical Approaches to Archaeological Materials
(2022)
Archaeometry is based on the necessary interdisciplinary relationship between diverse branches of the natural and social sciences. This relationship is essential in archaeology, since, from physical materials (objects), ...
Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography
(2022)
Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” sets out to be the first extensive collection of data on royal iconography from the Middles Ages (476–1492). In particular, it aims to collect entries about the most important ...
Parasitic Weeds
(2022)
The parasitic lifestyle in plants has always been the subject of curiosity of scientists, but during the last decade, our understanding of parasitic plant–host interactions has greatly evolved due to rapid advances in ...
Advanced Materials for Oral Application
(2022)
This book consists of one editorial, 12 original research articles and two review papers from scientists across the world, with expertise in materials for dental application. The main subjects covered are: biomaterials and ...
Emerging and Advanced Green Energy Technologies for Sustainable and Resilient Future Grid
(2022)
This reprint presents various aspects of the future grid, which is the next generation of the electrical grid and will enable the smart integration of conventional, renewable, and distributed power generation, energy ...
How to Manage Migratory Pests and Potential Food Crises
(2022)
Locusts are a threat to agriculture and livelihoods in many countries globally. The economic, social, and environmental consequences of these highly migratory pests are so substantial that they are treated as a national ...
Advances in Fundamental Physics
(2022)
This Special Issue celebrates the opening of a new section of the journal Foundation: Physical Sciences. Theoretical and experimental studies related to various areas of fundamental physics are presented in this Special ...