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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 ...
Recent Advances in Urban Ventilation Assessment and Flow Modelling
(2019)
This book contains twenty-one original papers and one review paper published by internationally recognized experts in the Atmosphere Special Issue ""Recent Advances in Urban Ventilation Assessment and Flow Modelling"", ...
Recent Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment with Emphasis in Membrane Treatment Operations
(2019)
The present Special Issue brings together recent research findings from renowned scientists in the field of water treatment and assembled contributions on advanced technologies applied to the treatment of wastewater and ...
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
Risk Analysis and Portfolio Modelling
(2019)
Financial Risk Measurement is a challenging task, because both the types of risk and the techniques evolve very quickly. This book collects a number of novel contributions to the measurement of financial risk, which address ...
The Role of Pregnancy Nutrition in Maternal and Offspring Health
(2019)
In pregnancy, maternal nutrition sustains and nourishes the developing child. Imbalances in either the direction of nutritional excess or deficiency can have adverse consequences for child health. In addition, more research ...
Regulation of Chemokine- Receptor Interactions and Functions
(2018)
A hallmark of inflammation is the accumulation of leukocytes, which can serve to remove pathogens and necrotic tissue, but may also damage healthy tissue and exacerbate the inflammatory response. Our understanding of ...
Regulation by non-coding RNAs
(2014)
Regulatory non-protein-coding RNA genes and their transcripts were first found and characterized in bacteria but encompass all biological kingdoms. The complexity of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in terms of number and types ...
Regulation by non-coding RNAs
(2014)
Regulatory non-protein-coding RNA genes and their transcripts were first found and characterized in bacteria but encompass all biological kingdoms. The complexity of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in terms of number and types ...
Remote Sensing of Precipitation: Volume 1
(2019)
Precipitation is a well-recognized pillar in global water and energy balances. An accurate and timely understanding of its characteristics at the global, regional, and local scales is indispensable for a clearer understanding ...
Remote Sensing of Precipitation: Volume 2
(2019)
Precipitation is a well-recognized pillar in global water and energy balances. An accurate and timely understanding of its characteristics at the global, regional, and local scales is indispensable for a clearer understanding ...
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 ...
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pollution
(2017)
This book edited by Drs. Yang Liu from Emory University, Jun Wang from the University of Iowa, and Omar Torres from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center recompiles the results of recently documented research work on Atmospheric ...
Research and Development Progress in 3D Cadastral Systems
(2019)
The increasing complexity of infrastructures and densely built-up areas requires a proper registration of the legal status (private and public), which can only be provided to a limited extent by the existing 2D cadastral ...
Resilience and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructures under Extreme Loads
(2019)
There are many regions worldwide which are susceptible to extreme loads such as earthquakes. These can cause loss of life and adverse impacts on civil infrastructures, the environment, and communities. A series of methods ...
Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System
(2018)
The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands ...
Power Quality in Microgrids Based on Distributed Generators
(2019)
This book comprises ten articles covering different aspects of power quality issues in microgrids and distributed generation (DG) systems, including 1) Detection and estimation of power quality; 2) Modeling; 3) Harmonic ...
Power Transformer Diagnostics, Monitoring and Design Features
(2019)
Power transformers are key components in electric power distribution and transmission systems, and it is essential that they function properly for many years. With increasing age, there are potential risks of extremely ...
PPARs in Cellular and Whole Body Energy Metabolism
(2019)
At no other time in its history has humankind been as concerned about good health. Lifestyle habits are promoted as indispensable allies for the daily prevention against so-called metabolic diseases. Paradoxically, the ...
Scientific and Engineering Progress on Aluminum-Based Light-Weight Materials: Research Reports from the German Collaborative Research Center 692
(2018)
Aluminum-based light-weight materials offer great potential for novel engineering applications, particularly when they are optimized to exhibit high strength and yet provide sufficient reliability. The last decade has thus ...
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 ...
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 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 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 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., ...
The Role and Meaning of Religion for Korean Society
(2019)
This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: ...
Role of DNA Methyltransferases in the Epigenome
(2020)
DNA methylation, a modification found in most species, regulates chromatin functions in conjunction with other epigenome modifications, such as histone post-translational modifications and non-coding RNAs. In mammals, DNA ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religion and Art: Rethinking Aesthetic and Auratic Experiences in 'Post-Secular' Times
(2019)
How can we think of the “aura” of (sacred) contexts and (sacred) works? How to think of individual and collective (esthetic/religious) experiences? What to make of the manipulative dimension of (religious and esthetic) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Ribosome Inactivating Toxins
(2019)
Ribosome inactivating proteins (RIPs) form a vast family of hundreds of toxins from plants, fungi, algae and bacteria. RIP activities have also been detected in animal tissues. They target a single adenine of a ribosomal ...
Road Vehicles Surroundings Supervision: On-Board Sensors and Communications
(2019)
This Special Issue presents a selection of current solutions for vehicle surroundings perception systems. This perception is essential for many advanced driver application systems and autonomous driving, and there are ...
The Role of Halo Substructure in Gamma-Ray Dark Matter Searches
(2020)
An important, open research topic today is to understand the relevance that dark matter halo substructure may have for dark matter searches. In the standard cosmological model, halo substructure or subhalos are predicted ...
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 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 Crime: Theory, Research, and Practice
(2018)
This volume contains contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion and crime, which includes data-driven (quantitative and qualitative), conceptual, review, and policy-oriented papers.
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)
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. ...
Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East
(2019)
This special issue includes 11 articles from the Inaugural Conference of the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It offers theoretical and methodological reflections, and covers various religions in ...