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 ...