Publications
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One Health and Zoonoses
(2019)
The One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and their ecosystems are interconnected, and that a coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach is necessary to fully ...
Metal Plasticity and Fatigue at High Temperature
(2020)
In several industrial fields (such as automotive, steelmaking, aerospace, and fire protection systems) metals need to withstand a combination of cyclic loadings and high temperatures. In this condition, they usually exhibit ...
Metal Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Application
(2020)
Metal–organic frameworks are among the most promising novel materials. The concept of MOFs was first introduced in 1990. They were actually initially used in catalysis, gas separation, membranes, electrochemical sensors. ...
Metal Complexes Containing Boron Based Ligands
(2019)
Boron-based compounds have been utilized as ligands within transition metal complexes for many decades. The diversity of such compounds in terms of varying functional groups is truly exceptional. Boron compounds are of ...
Metal Halide Perovskite Crystals: Growth Techniques, Properties and Emerging Applications
(2019)
In recent years, metal halide perovskites have emerged as a rising star among semiconductor materials owing to their low cost, solution processability, and fascinating combination of material properties enabling a broad ...
Metal Metabolism in Animals
(2018)
Through evolution of life, animals have adapted to the ubiquitous presence of metals in the biosphere. They utilize the more frequent ones as essential constituents of their biochemical machinery. In fact, about 40% of all ...
Methods and Concepts for Designing and Validating Smart Grid Systems
(2019)
Energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies are key contributors to curtailing the emission of greenhouse gases that continue to cause global warming. The efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions also strongly affect ...
Methods in Computational Biology
(2019)
Modern biology is rapidly becoming a study of large sets of data. Understanding these data sets is a major challenge for most life sciences, including the medical, environmental, and bioprocess fields. Computational biology ...
Microbial Biofilms in Healthcare: Formation, Prevention and Treatment
(2020)
Biofilms are ubiquitous and their presence in industry can lead to production losses. However, nowhere do biofilms impact human health and welfare as much as those that are found contaminating the healthcare environment, ...
Multilevel Converters: Analysis, Modulation, Topologies, and Applications
(2019)
This book is a collection of scientific papers concerning multilevel inverters examined from different points of view. Many applications are considered, such as renewable energy interface, power conditioning systems, ...
Multifunctional Oxide-Based Materials: From Synthesis to Application
(2019)
The book deals with novel aspects and perspectives in metal oxide and hybrid material fabrication.
Nanomaterials for Environmental Purification and Energy Conversion
(2020)
The Special Issue, “Nanomaterials for Environmental Purification and Energy Conversion”, describes the significant and increasing role of nanomaterials in catalysis. It is believed that the most important factor for future ...
Nanoparticle-Reinforced Polymers
(2019)
This book, a collection of 12 original contributions and 4 reviews, provides a selection of the most recent advances in the preparation, characterization, and applications of polymeric nanocomposites comprising nanoparticles. ...
Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications
(2019)
This book is a special collection of articles dedicated to the preparation and characterization of nanoporous materials, such as zeolitic-type materials, mesoporous silica (SBA-15, MCM-41, and KIT-6), mesoporous metallic ...
Nanomaterials in Liquid Crystals
(2018)
The dispersion of nanomaterials in liquid crystals, both of the thermotropic and the lyotropic kind, has attracted much interest over recent years. This is in part related to the success of liquid crystals in several ...
Nanoparticles for Catalysis
(2017)
The present book is aimed at illustrating the width of applications of metal nanoparticles in catalysis. It covers aspects such as metal nanoparticles preparation using natural biomolecules to the catalytic, photocatalytic ...
Mixed Matrix Membranes
(2019)
Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) have attracted a large amount of interest in research laboratories worldwide in recent decades, motivated by the gap between a growing interest in developing novel mixed matrix membranes by ...
Modeling, Design and Optimization of Multiphase Systems in Minerals Processing
(2020)
Mineral processing deals with complex particle systems with two-, three- and more phases. The modeling and understanding of these systems are a challenge for research groups and a need for the industrial sector. This Special ...
Molecular Basis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Implications of Natriuretic Peptides
(2019)
The natriuretic peptides (NPs) family includes a class of hormones and their receptors needed for the physiological control of cardiovascular functions. The discovery of NPs provided a fundamental contribution into our ...
The Molecular and Cellular Basis for Parkinson's Disease
(2019)
The focus on dopamine-sensitive motor symptoms, in association with the improvement of motor complications in the heterogeneous disease entity Parkinson's disease, has led to a certain standstill in research. This Special ...
The Molecular Aspect of Natural Secondary Metabolite Products in Health and Disease
(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. [Natural secondary metabolite products, which are isolated ...
Neural Microelectrodes: Design and Applications
(2019)
Neural electrodes enable the recording and stimulation of bioelectrical activity in the nervous system. This technology provides neuroscientists with the means to probe the functionality of neural circuitry in both health ...
Mass Spectrometric Proteomics
(2019)
As suggested by the title of this Special Issue, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry plays a pivotal role in the field of proteomics. Indeed, the research and review articles published in the Issue clearly evidence ...
Mass Spectrometry Application in Biology
(2014)
Mass spectrometry (MS) has become a vital tool for scientist in exploring how biological systems function and how therapeutic drug intervention (both small molecules and biologics) impact these systems. The application of ...
Nutrigenetics
(2018)
Precision Medicine, understood as “the emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person” is currently one of the ...
Nutrients Intake and Hypertension
(2020)
Hypertension is a major health problem worldwide, increasing cardiovascular (CV) risk and mortality. Together with pharmacological treatments, non-pharmacological approaches, such as nutrient intake modifications, play an ...
Nutrition and Chronic Conditions
(2019)
The effects of nutrition in chronic conditions, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, and inflammatory bowel disease continue to generate interest among researchers. This stems from the fact that diet ...
Nutrients, Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
(2018)
Foodborne disease like salmonellosis and toxoplasmosis are amongst the most significant causes of hospitalization in the U.S. and globally. Gastrointestinal infections alter gut microbiomes and increase permeability to ...
Nutrients in Infancy
(2017)
Infants are not just small adults; they have a complex set of nutrient requirements and interactions to account for the high metabolic rate, growth, immunological and cognitive development, etc. Each year there are 138 ...
Nutrition and Diet Factors in Type 2 Diabetes
(2018)
We are experiencing a worldwide epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes mellitus has become a major public health burden. Approximately seven million people develop diabetes in both developed and developing countries every year, ...
Nutrition and Cancer
(2018)
The development and treatment of cancer presents a complex interaction between tumor and host. Provision of nutrients not only enables the maintenance of nutritional status, but also provides substrates and signals for ...
Nutrition and Celiac Disease
(2014)
During its 2.5 million years of evolution, the human species has evolved through major dramatic changes, mainly dictated by natural elements and, most importantly, by food availability. The diet of hunters and gatherers, ...
Nutrition and Allergic Diseases
(2018)
The purpose of this Special Issue, “Nutrition and Allergic Diseases”, is to provide an overview of the role of nutrition in allergy. The prevalence of asthma, rhinitis, and food allergy has increased tremendously over the ...
New Advances on Zika Virus Research
(2019)
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne member of the Flaviviridae family that historically has been associated with mild febrile illness. However, the recent outbreaks in Brazil in 2015 and its rapid spread throughout South ...
New Industry 4.0 Advances in Industrial IoT and Visual Computing for Manufacturing Processes
(2020)
Modern factories are experiencing rapid digital transformation supported by emerging technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of things (IIOT), industrial big data and cloud technologies, deep learning and deep ...
New Research in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Major Depression
(2019)
Major depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) are now recognized among the most frequent psychiatric disorders, affecting 16–17% and 2–3% of the general population, respectively. They are commonly characterized ...
Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries
(2016)
This book contains twenty papers focusing on research investigations in the field of nickel/metal hydride (Ni/MH) batteries in 2016. These papers summarize the joint efforts in Ni/MH battery research from BASF, Wayne State ...
Nonlinear Dynamics and Entropy of Complex Systems with Hidden and Self-excited Attractors
(2019)
In recent years, entropy has been used as a measure of the degree of chaos in dynamical systems. Thus, it is important to study entropy in nonlinear systems. Moreover, there has been increasing interest in the last few ...