Publications
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Bainite and Martensite: Developments and Challenges
(2020)
The microstructures of both martensite and bainite, although sharing some common features, depict a plethora of subtle differences that made them unique when studied in further detail. Tailoring the final properties of a ...
Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies
(2015)
The title for this special issue was devised as a direct challenge to the prevailing solutionist and instrumental approaches to the application of digital technologies to medicine and public health. In formulating the idea ...
Charisma, Medieval and Modern
(2014)
What is striking about this collection is that all the writers testify to one fact—the extraordinary fruitfulness of Max Weber's idea of charisma. Proof of the capaciousness of the Weberian idea of charisma is its diffusion ...
Ceramic Conductors
(2019)
This Special Issue of Crystals contains papers focusing on various properties of conducting ceramics. Multiple aspects of both the research and application of this group of materials have been addressed. Conducting ceramics ...
Advances in Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Related Computational Methods
(2020)
In the last few decades, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has distinguished itself as one of the most rapidly advancing spectroscopic techniques. Mainly known as an analytical tool useful for sample characterization and ...
Advances in Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, Theoretical Modelling, and Applications
(2020)
This book focuses on recent advances in the synthesis of nanoparticles, their characterization, and their applications in different fields such as catalysis, photonics, magnetism, and nanomedicine. Nanoparticles receive a ...
Advances in Multi-Sensor Information Fusion: Theory and Applications 2017
(2018)
The information fusion technique can integrate a large amount of data and knowledge representing the same real-world object and obtain a consistent, accurate and useful representation of that object. The data may be ...
Advances in Mucoadhesive Polymers and Formulations for Transmucosal Drug Delivery
(2020)
Mucoadhesive polymers are widely used in the design of dosage forms for transmucosal drug delivery to the eye, respiratory, gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts. These routes of drug administration offer a number of ...
Afforestation and Reforestation: Drivers, Dynamics, and Impacts
(2019)
Afforestation/reforestation (or forestation) has been implemented worldwide as an effective measure towards sustainable ecosystem services and addresses global environmental problems such as climate change. The conversion ...
Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
(2019)
This book examines the relevance of artistic practices in the current debate about the integration of de facto refugees in Europe, and also in the actual integration of refugee artists into the social fabric and the artistic ...
Assessment and Governance of Sustainable Soil Management
(2020)
The role of soils for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is multifarious. Soils are the essential basis for food and biomass provision in support of food security (SDG 2) and energy security (SDG 7). Soil carbon ...
Assessing the Performance of Passive Houses in Mediterranean Climate Regions
(2020)
This book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory work of Carnot. Carnot invented his famous cycle and generalized the ...
Berry Antioxidants in Health and Disease
(2017)
During the last decade, a high volume of work has been published on the health-promoting effects of berries (e.g., blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, etc.) that are rich in antioxidant phytochemicals, polyphenols. ...
Berry Crop Production and Protection
(2019)
Berry crops include, but are not limited to, the genera: Fragaria (strawberry, Rosaceae), Ribes (currant and gooseberry, Grossulariaceae), Rubus (brambles: raspberry and blackberry; Rosaceae), Vaccinium (blueberry, cranberry ...
Calibration/Validation of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometers and Applications
(2017)
In a new era of global awareness and globalization, what’s happening around the world in real-time such as hurricanes, volcanic eruption, fires, drought, pollution, and other environmental and climate challenges are becoming ...
Anthropometry, Body Composition and Resting Energy Expenditure in Human
(2019)
Data on nutritional status of human populations are periodically needed, as well as their relationships with anthropometry, body composition, body image and energy expenditure, and also with health lifestyle outcomes. All ...
Advances in Hard-to-Cut Materials: Manufacturing, Properties, Process Mechanics and Evaluation of Surface Integrity
(2020)
The rapid growth of modern industry has resulted in a growing demand for construction materials with excellent operational properties. However, the improved features of these materials can significantly hinder their ...
Advances in Heterocatalysis by Nanomaterials
(2020)
Heterogeneous catalysis played, plays, and will continue to play, a major key role in industrial processes for large-scale synthesis of commodity chemicals of global importance, and in catalytic systems that possess a ...
Advances in Hydro-Meteorological Monitoring
(2018)
Basin hydrology is related to the soil–atmosphere interaction driven by several blended processes constrained by the space–time variability of precipitation and soil moisture, along with overland flow and flood routing in ...
Advancing Earth Surface Representation via Enhanced Use of Earth Observations in Monitoring and Forecasting Applications
(2019)
The representation of the Earth's surface in global monitoring and forecasting applications is moving towards capturing more of the relevant processes, while maintaining elevated computational efficiency and therefore a ...