Publications
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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 ...
Research of Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutics in Arthritis
(2019)
Arthritis has a high prevalence globally and includes over 100 different types, the most common of which are rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and inflammatory arthritis. The exact etiology of ...
Practice and Innovations in Sustainable Transport
(2020)
The book continues with an experimental analysis conducted to obtain accurate and complete information about electric vehicles in different traffic situations and road conditions. For the experimental analysis in this ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 SDEWES 2017: The 12th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
(2019)
EU energy policy is more and more promoting a resilient, efficient and sustainable energy system. Several agreements have been signed in the last few months that set ambitious goals in terms of energy efficiency and emission ...
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 IEEE ICKII 2018
(2019)
Electronic engineering and design innovation are both academic and practical engineering fields that involve systematic technological materialization through scientific principles and engineering designs. Technological ...
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 ...
Self-Organizing Nanovectors for Drug Delivery
(2020)
Nanomedicine represents one of the most investigated areas in the last two decades in the field of pharmaceutics. Several nanovectors have been developed and a growing number of products have been approved. It is well known ...
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 ...
Roles of NF-κB in Cancer and Their Therapeutic Approaches
(2018)
Although mortality rates have declined in recent years, the majority of cancers are still difficult to treat and the medical need for better cancer treatment is evident. The current anticancer armamentarium includes many ...
Smart Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
(2019)
Smart sensors are technologies designed to facilitate the monitoring operations. For instance, power consumption can be minimized through on-board processing and smart interrogation algorithms, and state detection enhanced ...
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 ...
Smart Nanovesicles for Drug Targeting and Delivery
(2019)
Nanovesicles are highly-promising systems for the delivery and/or targeting of drugs, biomolecules and contrast agents. Despite the fact that initial studies in this area were performed on phospholipid vesicles, there is ...
Social Ecology State of the Art and Future Prospects
(2017)
The book ‘Social Ecology. State of the Art and Future Prospects’ is published by ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main and the Vienna Institute of Social Ecology (SEC). Both institutes have ...
Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Human-Nature Relations
(2020)
Sustainable interdisciplinarity focuses on human–nature relations and a multitude of contemporary overlapping research between society and the environment. A variety of disciplines have played a large part in better ...
Sustainable Human Resource Management
(2019)
The concept of sustainability is important for companies both in the case of SMEs and worldwide multinational companies. Some key factors to help a company achieve its sustainability objectives are based on human resource ...
Sustainable Governance in Northeast Asia: Challenges for Innovation Frontier
(2018)
This special edition is based on the annual conference of Sustainable Asia Conference (http://abf.inha.ac.kr/). The purpose of the conference is to work together for our future challenges. Every year more than 50 papers ...
Sharing Cities Shaping Cities
(2019)
The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments ...
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 ...
State-of-the-art Laser Gas Sensing Technologies
(2020)
Trace gas sensing technologies are widely used in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, life science, medical diagnostics, and planetary exploration. On the one hand, laser sources have developed greatly due ...
State-of-the-Art Materials Science in Belgium 2017
(2018)
ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms. Belgium is a small country. The days of mining minerals and ...
State-Of-The- Art Sensors Technology in France 2016
(2018)
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art sensors technology in France. It includes research articles that consolidate our understanding of the state-of-the-art in this area and also ...
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 ...
Roles and Functions of ROS and RNS in Cellular Physiology and Pathology
(2020)
Our common knowledge on oxidative stress has evolved substantially over the years and has been mostly focused on the fundamental chemical reactions and the most relevant chemical species involved in the human pathophysiology ...
Safety, Quality and Processing of Fruits and Vegetables
(2020)
Nowadays, one of the main objectives of the fruit and vegetable industry is to develop innovative novel products with high quality, safety, and optimal nutritional characteristics in order to respond, with efficiency, to ...
Safety and Microbiological Quality
(2019)
The safety and microbiological quality of fermented foods covers complementary aspects of such products. Food fermentation is primary intended to improve food preservation, thereby modifying food properties. However, the ...
Salinity Tolerance in Plants
(2019)
Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic stresses because most crop plants are susceptible to salinity to different degrees. According to the FAO, about 800 million Has of land are affected by salinity worldwide. ...
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 ...
Smart and Functional Polymers
(2019)
This book is based on the Special Issue of the journal Molecules on “Smart and Functional Polymers”. The collected research and review articles focus on the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional polymers, ...
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 ...
Smart Energy Management for Smart Grids
(2020)
This book is a contribution from the authors, to share solutions for a better and sustainable power grid. Renewable energy, smart grid security and smart energy management are the main topics discussed in this book.
Smart Coatings on Fibers and Textiles
(2020)
Smart textiles are the textiles that are sensitive to any environmental conditions and can respond accordingly. Using passive and active coatings to generate high sensitivity to textiles is among the most recent research ...
Smart machines, Remote Sensing, Precision Farming, Processes, Mechatronic, Materials and Policies for Safety and Health Aspects
(2018)
The introduction of "smart machines" for agricultural operations will allow several advantages, such as an increase in their efficiencies, a reduction in environmental impacts and a reduction of work injuries. There are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sport, Spirituality, and Religion: New Intersections
(2019)
The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective ...
Stem Cell and Biologic Scaffold Engineering
(2019)
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is a rapidly evolving research field which effectively combines stem cells and biologic scaffolds in order to replace damaged tissues. Biologic scaffolds can be produced through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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 ...
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 ...
Sacramental Theology: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives: Theory and Practice from Multiple Perspectives
(2019)
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, sacramental theology has evolved as a discipline advancing comprehensive theories of sacraments and sacramentality as integral to the Christian faith while also studying ...