Publications
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Water Soluble Polymers
(2018)
This book on water soluble polymers (WSP) contains contributions that deal with this extremely popular area of scientific investigation in polymer science and engineering, both in academic and industrial environments. The ...
Water Resource Variability and Climate Change
(2016)
Climate change affects global and regional water cycling, as well as surficial and subsurface water availability. These changes have increased the vulnerabilities of ecosystems and of human society. Understanding how climate ...
Water Resources Assessment and Management in Drylands
(2016)
Drylands are fragile environments and, therefore, highly susceptible to environmental changes. They cover nearly 50% of the world’s land surface and are increasingly being reclaimed by a growing population for food production ...
Wetlands for the Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water
(2018)
Agricultural drainage, such as runoffs from farmlands and wineries, are contaminated waters. Their management is monitored by environmental protection authorities who set targets of volume or pollutant reductions. Due to ...
Visual Sensors
(2020)
Visual sensors are able to capture a large quantity of information from the environment around them. A wide variety of visual systems can be found, from the classical monocular systems to omnidirectional, RGB-D, and more ...
X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
(2018)
X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) deliver intense, coherent, femtosecond laser pulses in the X-ray range. The XFELs are opening two new research fields. One is to study ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in ...
Zoonotic Diseases and One Health
(2020)
Humans are part of an ecosystem, and understanding our relationship with the environment and with other organisms is a prerequisite to living together sustainably. Zoonotic diseases, which are spread between animals and ...
Unit Roots and Structural Breaks
(2018)
This book deals with problems related to unit roots and structural change, and the interplay between the two. The research agenda dealing with these topics have proved to be of importance to devise procedures that are ...
War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy
(2020)
This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the “enemy” within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the ...
Welfare of Cultured and Experimental Fishes
(2019)
Welfare is a multidimensional concept that can be described as the state of an animal as it copes with the environment. Captive environments can impact farmed animals at different levels, especially fishes, considering ...
Wind Turbine Aerodynamics
(2019)
Wind turbine aerodynamics is one of the central subjects of wind turbine technology. To reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE), the size of a single wind turbine has been increased to 12 MW at present, with further ...
Wind Turbine Power Optimization Technology
(2020)
Wind turbines are one of the most promising renewable energy technologies, and this motivates fertile research activity about developments in power optimization. This topic covers a wide range of aspects, from the research ...
Wind Turbines
(2019)
This issue is a continuation of the previous successful Special Issue “Wind Turbines 2013”. Similarly, this issue also focuses on recent advances in the wind energy sector on a wide range of topics, including: wind resource ...
Wounded: Studies in Literary and Cinematic Trauma
(2018)
We live in an era of traumatic discourse. The wound (trauma is the Greek word for “wound”) speaks multiple languages. Often the trauma registered is political—the trauma of war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other nations ...
Wound Repair and Regeneration
(2018)
Wounds are a largely unrecognized, spiraling epidemic that affect millions of people world-wide. They are complex and involve temporal and spatial involvement of many different cell types and tissue processes. Recent ...
Teenage Reproductive Health: Pregnancy, Contraception, Unsafe Abortion, Fertility
(2018)
Maternal mortality is still globally high and reducing it is a top priority. Teenage pregnancies have more complications and are also unwanted in many cases. This contributes to the high maternal mortality with both obstetric ...
Very High Resolution (VHR) Satellite Imagery: Processing and Applications
(2019)
Recently, growing interest in the use of remote sensing imagery has appeared to provide synoptic maps of water quality parameters in coastal and inner water ecosystems;, monitoring of complex land ecosystems for biodiversity ...
Viral Interactions with Host RNA Decay Pathways
(2017)
Eukaryotes have evolved a wide variety of RNA decay pathways to maintain cellular homeostasis, carry out programs of gene expression, and respond to changing environmental conditions. Individual RNA turnover mechanisms can ...
Viral Infection and Apoptosis
(2018)
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that enables the removal of damaged, infected, or otherwise unwanted cells in a controlled manner. Apoptosis can be initiated by multiple independent pathways that ultimately ...
Viticulture and Winemaking under Climate Change
(2019)
The importance of viticulture and the winemaking socio-economic sector is acknowledged worldwide. The most renowned winemaking regions show very specific environmental characteristics, where climate usually plays a central ...
Yeast Biotechnology 2.0
(2019)
Yeasts are truly fascinating microorganisms. Due to their diverse and dynamic activities, they have been used for the production of many interesting products, such as beer, wine, bread, biofuels, and biopharmaceuticals. ...
Yeast Biotechnology
(2017)
Yeasts are truly fascinating microorganisms. Due to their diverse and dynamic activities, they have been used for the production of many interesting products, such as beer, wine, bread, biofuels, and biopharmaceuticals. ...
Use of Meta-Heuristic Techniques in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling
Each year, extreme floods, which appear to be occurring more frequently in recent years (owing to climate change), lead to enormous economic damage and human suffering around the world. It is therefore imperative to be ...
Volcanic Plumes.Impacts on the Atmosphere and Insights into Volcanic Processes
(2019)
Volcanoes release plumes of gas and ash to the atmosphere during episodes of passive and explosive behavior. These ejecta have important implications for the chemistry and composition of the troposphere and stratosphere, ...
Volatile Organic Compounds in Environment
(2017)
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released from both static and mobile sources (e.g., industrial, transport, household, fossil fuels use, and many other sources). They are emitted into the atmosphere, taken up by plants, ...
Ocean Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar
(2018)
The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface, 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earth’s water. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can image the ocean surface in all weather conditions and day or night. ...
Urban Deformation Monitoring using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and SAR tomography
(2019)
This book focuses on remote sensing for urban deformation monitoring. In particular, it highlights how deformation monitoring in urban areas can be carried out using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) and Synthetic ...
Urban Land and Sustainable Development
(2017)
According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia ...
Urban Inequality
(2018)
After the impact of the 2007 crisis and post-crisis austerity policies, cities are being reconfigured under the auspices of inequality. The objective of this book is to study inequality in the city at different scales and ...
Urban Land Systems: An Ecosystems Perspective
(2018)
Global urbanization creates challenges towards sustainability and human well-being. Urban areas are dependent on the ecosystems beyond the city limits but also benefit from the internal urban green places. An understanding ...
Urban and Periurban Forest Diversity and Ecosystem Service
(2017)
Recent special issues in various journals have focused on “urban ecosystem services”. There is also an increasing amount of studies on “urban ecology”, “urban tree management”, “arboriculture”, “urban biodiversity”, and ...
Technological Eco-Innovations for the Quality Control and the Decontamination of Polluted Waters and Soils
(2020)
The Special Issue “Technological Eco-Innovations for the Quality Control and the Decontamination of Polluted Waters and Soils” deals with the most recent research activities carried out at lab and field scale on eco-sustainable ...
Walkable Neighborhoods: The Link between Public Health, Urban Design, and Transportation
(2020)
It is now widely recognized that individual-based motivational interventions alone are not sufficient to address the global pandemic of physical inactivity (lack of exercise and too much sitting time). There has been a ...
Wearable Wireless Devices
(2020)
With the growing interest in the use of technology in daily life, the potential for using wearable wireless devices across multiple segments, e.g., healthcare, sports, child monitoring, military, emergency, consumer ...
Wearable Technologies
(2019)
In the future, wearable technology will revolutionize the way we live. The current trend is to augment ordinary wearable objects – e.g. watches, glasses, bracelets, and clothing – with advanced information and communication ...
Wildland Fire, Forest Dynamics, and Their Interactions
(2018)
Wildland fire is an important, pervasive, and a sometimes-destructive ecological process in many forest ecosystems across the globe. In some cases, wildland fire maintains and reinforces forest dynamics. This is common, ...
XoveTIC 2019: The 2nd XoveTIC Conference (XoveTIC 2019) A Coruña, Spain, 5–6 September 2019
(2019)
This issue of Proceedings gathers papers presented at XOVETIC2019 (A Coruña, Spain, 5-6 September 2019), a conference with the main goal of bringing together young researchers working in big data, artificial intelligence, ...
XoveTIC 2018
(2018)
[This issue of Proceedings gathers papers presented at XOVETIC2018 (A Coruña, Spain, 27–28 September 2018), a conference with the main goal of bringing together young researchers working in big data, artificial intelligence, ...
Egg Consumption and Human Health
(2018)
The purpose of this Special Issue, “Egg Consumption and Human Health,” is two-fold: 1) to address the lack of effect of eggs in increasing heart disease risk (this discussion will be based on what is known from epidemiological ...
Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications
(2019)
The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect to the countryside surrounding ...
Urban Water Cycle Modelling and Management
(2018)
Many major cities of the world face challenges arising from growing and urbanizing populations, a changing climate, and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. Existing centralized water services, operating ...
Venom and Toxin as Targeted Therapy
(2019)
Targeted therapy has developed significantly in the last one and half decades, prescribing specific medications for treatment of particular diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. One of the most exciting ...
Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics
(2019)
This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once ...
Water Intake, Body Water Regulation and Health
(2020)
The purpose of this Special Issue, “Water Intake, Body Water Regulation, and Health”, is to present novel reviews and experimental data regarding hydration physiology and its implication in overall health. Water has ...
Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management
(2017)
This Special Issue of Water will focus on the relationship of water governance practices and stakeholder engagement approaches to the development, evaluation, and adoption of solutions to water management challenges. It ...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technologies
(2018)
This edited volume is a collection of 12 publications from esteemed research groups around the globe. The articles belong to the following broad categories: biological treatment process parameters, sludge management and ...
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Based Micro/Nano Devices
(2019)
While group IV or III-V based device technologies have reached their technical limitations (e.g., limited detection wavelength range or low power handling capability), wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors which have band-gaps ...
Widening International Entrepreneurship Research
(2020)
Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich ...
Visible Light Communication and Positioning
(2019)
In recent years, wireless communications have significantly evolved due to the advanced technology of smartphones;, portable devices; and the rapid growth of Internet of Things, e-Health, and intelligent transportation ...
Wound Care
(2015)
Wounds and the many associated problems have challenged health care providers for centuries and today, despite the wealth of knowledge available, neither the incidence nor prevalence of wounds is reducing. Furthermore, in ...
Youth Studies and Generations: Values, Practices and Discourses on Generations
(2020)
There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation “X”, “Y” or “Z”) as well as multiple categories ...
Youth, Emerging Adults, Faith, and Giving
(2018)
This is a book about young people—youth and emerging adults. The contributors investigate the religious and spiritual lives of young people, especially as they relate to inclinations to do good for others. This edited ...
Young Talents in Polymer Science
(2017)
Polymers aims to compile the current trends and research directions of internationally renowned and successful young polymer scientists in one dedicated Special Issue. The idea for this Special Issue has arisen from the ...
Zinc Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis and Characterization
(2018)
The summary should be 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. [Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a wide band gap ...
Advances in Aquatic Invertebrate Stem Cell Research
(2022)
This publication is based upon work from COST Action ’16203 MARISTEM Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications’, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and ...
Transitioning to Responsible Consumption and Production
(2020)
Responsible Consumption and Production, the twelfth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12), calls for significant change in how we view both production and consumption norms. It is predicted that, at the current rate of ...
Toxoplasmosis
(2023)
Scientific motivation to publish this book comes from the increased interest in the study of toxoplasmosis, showed all over the world. Though the Toxoplasma gondii infection was first discovered in 1908, toxoplasmosis ...
Lithium-Ion Cells: Materials and Applications
(2024)
A large quantity of articles and books have been published on the designated topics. However, most of the literary sources describe the results of scientific articles on the synthesis and study of perspective materials; ...
Biodeterioration of Cultural Heritage
(2023)
Fungi-induced stains on paper are one of the most challenging forms of biodeterioration to study and to prevent; this is because they involve living organisms, and the ways in which fungi respond to changes in the environment ...
Higher Education and Innovation
(2021)
This book highlights the design of an educational module for an innovative intensive program. The theme is very relevant in the contemporary approach to teaching activities. In fact, thanks to the didactic design, it is ...