Publications
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Advanced Approaches Applied to Materials Development and Design Predictions
(2020)
This thematic issue on advanced simulation tools applied to materials development and design predictions gathers selected extended papers related to power generation systems, presented at the XIX International Colloquium ...
Advanced Applications for Smart Energy Systems Considering Grid-Interactive Demand Response
(2019)
This book covers applied research on smart energy systems, smart grids, smart energy homes, smart energy products and services, and the advanced applications thereof, in the context of demand response and grid interactions. ...
Advance of Polymers Applied to Biomedical Applications: Cell Scaffolds
(2018)
Since Langer’s seminal work, polymers have been on every corner of tissue engineering. The roles of bioresorbable polymers, as a scaffold, are not merely structural, providing three-dimensional (3D) homing sites to cells, ...
Advanced Asphalt Materials and Paving Technologies
(2018)
There has been significant research progress in the area of pavement materials and paving technologies in the past decade. This includes the use of warm mix asphalt technologies, rubber asphalt, bio asphalt, nanomaterial ...
Electrochemical and Corrosion Behavior of Metallic Glasses
(2021)
Metallic glasses are multi-component metallic alloys with disordered atomic distribution
unlike their crystalline counterparts with long range periodicity in arrangement of atoms.
Metallic glasses of different compositions ...
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being
(2022)
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being addresses critical issues of health in the context of sustainability, which need to be tackled in order to achieve Agenda 2030. Acknowledging the dramatic improvements that have ...
Under Construction
(2021)
While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect ...
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy
(2022)
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is a collective volume which combines original contributions and review papers that address the question how the transition to clean and affordable energy can be governed. It ...
Towards Sustainable Global Food Systems
(2019)
environment; food; agriculture; policy; global food systems
Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions
(2023)
The theme is related to “Large Parks on Post-industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions”, which is expounded in the fields of landscape architecture, landscape ecology and urban planning. A worldwide ...
Advanced Memristor Modeling
(2019)
The investigation of new memory schemes, neural networks, computer systems and many other improved electronic devices is very important for future generations of electronic circuits and for their widespread application in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exercise Prescription in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2022)
This book has been reviewed by two (or more) external single-blind reviewers. The opinions expressed in the book do not reflect the view of the publisher. ...read more Keywords: cardiac rehabilitation, exercise prescription, ...
Advanced Memristor Modeling
(2019)
The investigation of new memory schemes, neural networks, computer systems and many other improved electronic devices is very important for future generations of electronic circuits and for their widespread application in ...
Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation
(2021)
Transitioning is a key concept for innovative management in several domains, particularly the challenges emerging from climate change. Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation will, thus, contribute to an understanding ...
Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation
(2021)
Transitioning is a key concept for innovative management in several domains, particularly the challenges emerging from climate change. Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation will, thus, contribute to an understanding ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Life below Water
(2022)
The ocean plays a central role in the life and development of human kind. Besides space for navigation and trade (roughly 10 billion tons of commodities are transported across the oceans each year), the provision of ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Life below Water
(2022)
The ocean plays a central role in the life and development of human kind. Besides space for navigation and trade (roughly 10 billion tons of commodities are transported across the oceans each year), the provision of ...
Fighting Fake Facts
(2023)
Scientific methods, known for their systematic and rigorous approaches, have yielded countless discoveries and essential technologies that enhance our lives, fostering ease, productivity, and comfort. Yet, many of these ...
Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions
(2023)
The theme is related to “Large Parks on Post-industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions”, which is expounded in the fields of landscape architecture, landscape ecology and urban planning. A worldwide ...
Towards Sustainable Global Food Systems
(2019)
environment; food; agriculture; policy; global food systems
Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(2023)
In the past, sustainability was the doctrine of economics, which assumes a quality of lifeat the level allowed by the current development of civilisation. A sustainable economy(including industry) should balance economic ...
Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Jamaica
(2022)
News media shape public opinion on social issues such as child sexual abuse (CSA), using particular language to foreground, marginalize or legitimize certain viewpoints. Given the prevalence of CSA and the impact of violence ...
Advanced Memristor Modeling
(2019)
The investigation of new memory schemes, neural networks, computer systems and many other improved electronic devices is very important for future generations of electronic circuits and for their widespread application in ...
The Ocean of Heroes
(2022)
The Śrīḍākārṇavamahāyoginītantrarāja (abbreviated to Ḍākārṇava, “Ocean of Ḍākas or Heroes”) is one of the last scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition in South Asia. It was composed in the eastern area of ...
Optimization Problems in Transportation and Logistics
(2024)
This educational guide will help students and practitioners seeking to understand the fundamentals and practice of linear programming. The exercises contained within demonstrate how to solve classical optimization problems ...
Transitioning to No Poverty
(2021)
Transitioning to No Poverty is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Transitioning to No Poverty
(2021)
Transitioning to No Poverty is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Grey Systems Theory in Business Management: Applying Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Methods
(2025)
This book is dedicated to addressing the central challenge of making informed business decisions within an environment characterized by uncertainty, employing Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methodologies. Chapter ...
Theory of Vibrating Lifting Tools of Sugar Beet Harvesters
(2022)
The cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets (roots and haulm) is one of the most labour and energy consuming work processes in the agricultural industry. The improvement of the qualitative indicators of the sugar beet ...
Transitioning to Strong Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals
(2020)
Transitioning to Strong Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals is an edited volume dedicated to current developments regarding SDG 17 “Partnerships for the Goals”. This goal contains preconditions and systemic ...
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 ...
Secret Signs of Heroines and Heroes
(2024)
Buddhist tantras in early medieval India and Nepal include many discourses on “secret signs” (chomā, mudrā, and equivalents), which a male practitioner and his female partner, or a male or female practitioner alone, use ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century
(2022)
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations
(2023)
Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping, and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, ...