Publications
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Sustainable Energy Systems Planning, Integration and Management
(2020)
Energy systems worldwide are undergoing major transformation as a consequence of the transition towards the widespread use of clean and sustainable energy sources. Basically, this involves massive changes in technical and ...
Sustainable Energy Systems: From Primary to End-Use
(2019)
This book focuses on sustainable energy systems. While several innovative and alternative concepts are presented, the topics of energy policy, life cycle assessment, thermal energy, and renewable energy also play a major ...
Sustainable Directions in Tourism
(2019)
Within the framework of tourism companies and tourist destinations, the question of sustainability is gaining importance. Tourists are increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability criteria, awarding greater value ...
Sustainable Freight Transport
(2018)
This Special Issue of Sustainability reports on recent research aiming to make the freight transport sector more sustainable. The sector faces significant challenges in different domains of sustainability, including the ...
Sustainable Drainage Systems
(2015)
Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene
(2019)
This Special Issue looks forward as well as backward to best analyze the forest conservation challenges of the Caribbean. This is made possible by 75 years of research and applications by the United States Department of ...
Tsunami Science and Engineering II
(2019)
Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 T?hoku Tsunami in Japan, serve as tragic reminders that such waves pose a major natural hazard. Landslide-tsunamis, including the 1958 Lituya Bay ...
Two-Dimensional Electronics and Optoelectronics
(2017)
The discovery of monolayer graphene led to a Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded in 2010. This has stimulated further research on a wide variety of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. The coupling of metallic graphene, ...
Two-Dimensional Electronics - Prospects and Challenges
(2016)
During the past 10 years, two-dimensional materials have found incredible attention in the scientific community. The first two-dimensional material studied in detail was graphene, and many groups explored its potential for ...
Ultrasound B-mode Imaging: Beamforming and Image Formation Techniques
(2019)
Ultrasound medical imaging stands out among the other diagnostic imaging modalities for its patient-friendliness, high temporal resolution, low cost, and absence of ionizing radiation. On the other hand, it may still suffer ...
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
(2020)
The propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in solids is an important area of scientific inquiry, primarily due to their practical applications for nondestructive characterization of materials, such as nondestructive ...
Ultrasonic Cavitation Treatment of Metallic Alloys
(2020)
This Special Issue scrutinizes the use of ultrasonic-cavitation melt treatment in technology of high-quality metallic alloys with improved mechanical properties, and assesses the driving mechanisms of cavitation-induced ...
Ultrasound Elastography
(2019)
The comparison between methods, evaluation of portal hypertension and many other questions are still open issues in liver elastography. New elastographic applications are under evaluation and close to being used in clinical ...
Unconventional Anticancer Metallodrugs and Strategies to Improve their Pharmacological Profile
(2019)
For the past 40 years, metal-based drugs have been widely used for the treatment of cancer. Cisplatin and follow-up drugs carboplatin (ParaplatinTM) and oxaliplatin (EloxatinTM) have been the gold standard for metallodrugs ...
Uncertainty Quantification Techniques in Statistics
(2020)
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is a mainstream research topic in applied mathematics and statistics. To identify UQ problems, diverse modern techniques for large and complex data analyses have been developed in applied ...
Understanding and Managing Emerald Ash Borer Impacts on Ash Forests
(2018)
The emerald ash borer (EAB) is rapidly spreading throughout Eastern North America and devastating ecosystems where ash is a component tree. This rapid and sustained loss of ash trees has already resulted in ecological ...
Understanding Muslim Mobilities and Gender
(2018)
Complex dynamics emerge around im/mobility that are related to social relations, identifications and power in many parts of the contemporary world. The manifold ways in which Muslims engage the possibilities of mobile lives ...
Systems Analytics and Integration of Big Omics Data
(2020)
A “genotype"" is essentially an organism's full hereditary information which is obtained from its parents. A ""phenotype"" is an organism's actual observed physical and behavioral properties. These may include traits such ...
Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet
(2018)
The issues facing humanity have become increasingly complex due to the fact they are embedded in a global web of ecological, economic, social, cultural and political processes that are dynamically interlinked. The capacity ...
Targets, Tracers and Translation – Novel Radiopharmaceuticals Boost Nuclear Medicine
(2019)
This is the fourth Special Issue in Pharmaceuticals within the last six years dealing with aspects of radiopharmaceutical sciences. It demonstrates the significant interest and increasing relevance to ameliorate nuclear ...
Teaching Methods in Science Subjects Promoting Sustainability
(2017)
In this book, conventional and new methods through which sustainability can be promoted in mathematics and science subjects are described and discussed. The aim of the book is to support teachers and teacher educators in ...
Teaching the Reformations
(2017)
In October 2016, Samford University hosted Teaching the Reformations, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the rich intellectual traditions of the Protestant and Catholic reformations more effectively in ...
Superhydrophobic Coatings for Corrosion and Tribology
(2019)
Superhydrophobic surfaces, with a water contact angle >150°, have attracted both academic and industrial interest due to their wide range of applications, such as water proofing, anti-fogging, antifouling, anti-icing, ...
Surfaces and Interfaces for Renewable Energy
(2020)
Environmental problems derived from the massive use of conventional energy resources are one of the main issues that our society has been facing in recent decades. Renewable energies (and particularly solar energy) have ...
Surgery for Spine Disease and Intractable Pain
(2020)
This book describes the diagnosis and surgical treatment approaches for a number of common and rare painful conditions affecting the brain and spine.
Sustainability of Fossil Fuels
(2019)
The energy and fuel industries represent an extensive field for the development and implementation of solutions aimed at improving the technological, environmental, and economic performance of technological cycles. In ...
Sustainability of Young Companies–Contemporary Trends and Challenges
(2019)
Ensuring the sustainability of early stage companies and increasing awareness of the need for balancing targets against different stakeholder groups among young companies are not well developed. Young companies, in the ...
Sustainability through the Lens of Environmental Sociology
(2018)
Our planet is undergoing radical environmental and social changes. Sustainability has now been put into question by, for example, our consumption patterns, loss of biodiversity, depletion of resources, and exploitative ...
Sustainability in Construction Engineering
(2018)
The concept of sustainability has been expanding to all areas of economic activity, including construction. The Special Issue “Sustainability in Construction Engineering” provided a possibility for researchers to disseminate ...
Sustainable Cultural Management
(2019)
The connections between culture and sustainability have been in the public agenda since the 20th century. However, whilst global sustainability programmes at international institutional levels are yet to recognise the role ...
Sustainable Development and Higher Education Institutions: Acting with a purpose
(2020)
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a unique role and responsibility for the future and for driving the development of a sustainable society. HEIs are charged with the task of fostering sustainability in the leaders ...
Sustainable Cropping Systems
(2020)
Global crop production must substantially increase to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. This is constrained by the availability of nutrients, water, and land. There is also an urgent need to reduce the negative ...
Sustainable Consumer Behavior
(2017)
Sustainability may be achieved through many different agents and institutions in society, including governments, new technologies, industries, and markets. In addition to these agents, consumers and households play a crucial ...
Tribological Performance of Artificial Joints
(2019)
Joint replacement is a very successful medical treatment. However, the survivorship of the implants could be adversely affected due to the loss of materials in the form of particles or ions as the bearing surfaces articulate ...
Trust Management: Key Factor of the Sustainable Organizations Embedded in Network
(2019)
Nowadays, trust is an important determinant in the development of modern organizations. Not only is it becoming an increasingly important element of relationships between entities, but, above all, it positively influences ...
TRP Channels in Health and Disease
(2019)
Almost 25 years ago, the first mammalian transient receptor potential (TRP) channel was cloned and published. TRP channels now represent an extended family of 28 members fulfilling multiple roles in the living organism. ...
The Tumor Microenvironment of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
(2019)
The Special Issue on high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and the contribution of the tumor microenviroment (TME) consists of reviews contributed by leaders in the OC field. As HGSOC metastases have a highly complex ...
Tumour Viruses
(2016)
Current worldwide estimates suggest that approxiamtely 11% of all cancers are caused by viral infections. At present, there are eight viruses that have a strong association with cancer development namely, human papillomavirus, ...
Turbulence in River and Maritime Hydraulics
(2019)
Understanding of the role of turbulence in controlling transport processes is of paramount importance for the preservation and protection of aquatic ecosystems, the minimization of the deleterious consequences of anthropogenic ...
Turbulence: Numerical Analysis, Modelling and Simulation
(2018)
The problem of accurate and reliable simulation of turbulent flows is a central and intractable challenge that crosses disciplinary boundaries. As the needs for accuracy increase and the applications expand beyond flows ...
UAV or Drones for Remote Sensing Applications
(2018)
The rapid development and growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, have resulted in an increasing uptake of ...
UAV or Drones for Remote Sensing Applications
(2018)
The rapid development and growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, have resulted in an increasing uptake of ...
UAV‐Based Remote Sensing Volume 1
(2018)
Active technological development has fuelled rapid growth in the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms being deployed around the globe. Novel UAV platforms, UAV-based sensors, robotic sensing and imaging ...
UAV‐Based Remote Sensing Volume 2
(2018)
ctive technological development has fuelled rapid growth in the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms being deployed around the globe. Novel UAV platforms, UAV-based sensors, robotic sensing and imaging techniques, ...
Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging
(2018)
Among medical imaging modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound imaging stands out due to its temporal resolution. Owing to the nature of medical ultrasound imaging, it ...
Ultrafine-Grained Metals
(2017)
Ultrafine-grained metallic materials produced by severe plastic deformation methods are at the cutting edge of modern materials science. UFG-metals exhibit outstanding properties which make them very interesting for ...
Understanding Game-based Approaches for Improving Sustainable Water Governance: The Potential of Serious Games to Solve Water Problems
(2020)
The sustainable governance of water resources relies on processes of multi-stakeholder collaborations and interactions that facilitate knowledge co-creation and social learning. Governance systems are often fragmented, ...
Tea in Health and Disease
(2019)
Tea, made from the leaves of the Camellia senenisis plant, is the second most consumed beverage worldwide after water. Accumulating evidence from cellular, animal, epidemiological and clinical studies have linked tea ...
Teaching Augustine
(2015)
In October 2014, more than fifty scholars gathered at Samford University for Augustine Across the Curriculum, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach Augustine more effectively in undergraduate core and general ...
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Nanomedicine
(2019)
[This book focus on the most recent advances related to the design and processing methods of different nanobiomaterials, films, and fibers; surface functionalization strategies, including biological performance assessment ...
Titanium Alloys 2017
(2018)
Titanium is a good example of a material that is globally recognized for its outstanding properties, making it desirable for a range of industries. Titanium and its alloys are utilized in a wide range of industries, including ...
Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis
(2019)
Although the seminal work of Fujishima et al. dates back to 1971, TiO2 still remains the most diffused and studied semiconductor, employed in photo-oxidation processes for cleantech (i.e., polluted water and air treatment), ...
Tools, Methodologies and Techniques Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains
(2020)
Supply chains are currently globalized and companies operate internationally owing to the fact that raw materials, production processes, and the consumption of the final products are carried out in different countries. ...
Topics in Sports Finance
(2019)
Sports economics is a relatively new field of research that is experiencing rapid growth in the economics literature. The importance of the sports industry to economies coupled with the availability of financial and ...
Topological Groups. Advances, Surveys, and Open Questions
(2019)
Following the tremendous reception of our first volume on topological groups called ""Topological Groups: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"", we now present our second volume. Like the first volume, this collection contains ...
Topological Groups: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
(2016)
In 1900, David Hilbert asked whether each locally euclidean topological group admits a Lie group structure. This was the fifth of his famous 23 questions which foreshadowed much of the mathematical creativity of the twentieth ...
Tourism Destination Management
(2019)
This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that make them up have to be oriented towards achieving a common ...