Publications
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Dietary Protein and Muscle in Aging People
(2019)
This Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Dietary Proteins and Muscle in Aging People”, welcomes the submission of manuscripts either reporting original research or reviewing the scientific literature. Manuscripts should ...
Dietary Supplements
(2018)
We invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Dietary Supplements”. The purpose of this Special Issue is to advance dietary supplement science by presenting commissioned overviews on four nutrients ...
Dietary Zn and Human Health
(2018)
• Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient that contributes to the proper functioning of over 300 enzymes and multiple biochemical and structural processes in the body. Zinc functions in the regulation of an extensive variety ...
Dietary Pattern and Health
(2017)
Topics have a clear focus on overall dietary patterns and health outcomes. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: * Dietary patterns and chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular ...
Dietary Pattern and Health
(2017)
Topics have a clear focus on overall dietary patterns and health outcomes. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: * Dietary patterns and chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular ...
Discontinuous Fiber Composites
(2019)
Discontinuous fiber-reinforced polymers have gained importance in the transportation industries due to their outstanding material properties, lower manufacturing costs and superior lightweight characteristics. One of the ...
District Heating and Cooling Networks
(2020)
Conventional thermal power generating plants reject a large amount of energy every year. If this rejected heat were to be used through district heating networks, given prior energy valorisation, there would be a noticeable ...
Disturbance Effects on Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Forest Ecosystems
(2020)
Forest ecosystems are often disturbed by agents such as harvesting, fire, wind, insects and diseases, and acid deposition, with differing intensities and frequencies. Such disturbances can markedly affect the amount, form, ...
Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Geoscientific Ground Investigations for Archaeological and Heritage Research
(2019)
This book collects 15 papers written by renowned scholars from across the globe that showcase the forefront research in Earth observation (EO), remote sensing (RS), and geoscientific ground investigations to study ...
Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa
(2016)
Reliable access to water, managing the spatial and temporal variability of water availability, ensuring the quality of freshwater and responding to climatological changes in the hydrological cycle are prerequisites for the ...
Earth Observations for Geohazards
(2017)
Earth Observations (EO) encompasses different types of sensors (e.g., SAR, LiDAR, Optical and multispectral) and platforms (e.g., satellites, aircraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and enables us to monitor and model ...
Earth Observations for Geohazards
(2017)
Earth Observations (EO) encompasses different types of sensors (e.g., SAR, LiDAR, Optical and multispectral) and platforms (e.g., satellites, aircraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and enables us to monitor and model ...
Ecological Management of Pine Forests
(2019)
Natural pine forests characterize many landscapes preserved over time, either as a result of a specific forest management practice or a disturbance. In the event of a lack of management over a long period of time, these ...
Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems
(2016)
Today, sustainability of a healthy freshwater ecosystem and its associated ecosystem services are hot issues with ever-growing attention placed upon them. We are increasingly recognizing that they are crucial for the ...
Climate Variability and Climate Change Impacts on Land Surface, Hydrological Processes and Water Management
(2019)
During the last several decades, Earth´s climate has undergone significant changes due to anthropogenic global warming, and feedbacks to the water cycle. Therefore, persistent efforts are required to improve our understanding ...
Customer Loyalty and Brand Management
(2019)
Loyalty is one of the main assets of a brand. In today’s markets, achieving and maintaining loyal customers has become an increasingly complex challenge for brands due to the widespread acceptance and adoption of diverse ...
Cutting-Edge Technologies for Renewable Energy Production and Storage
(2020)
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are dramatically influencing the environment, and research is strongly committed to proposing alternatives, mainly based on renewable energy sources. Low GHG electricity production ...
Diet and Immune Function
(2020)
Supporting initiation, development and resolution of appropriate immune responses is key to survival. Many nutrients and dietary components have been purported to have a role in supporting optimal immune function. This is ...
Diet in Brain Health and Neurological Disorders: Risk Factors and Treatments
(2019)
The role of nutrition in health and disease has been appreciated from time immemorial. Around 400 B.C., Hippocrates wrote “Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” In the 12th century, the great philosopher and ...
Diet and Metabolic Dysfunction
(2017)
The purpose of these books is to have an updated systematic overview examining, in detail, the functional role of different diets and dietary components in maintaining glucose homeostasis and preventing long-term complications. ...
Diet and Metabolic Dysfunction
(2017)
The purpose of these books is to have an updated systematic overview examining, in detail, the functional role of different diets and dietary components in maintaining glucose homeostasis and preventing long-term complications. ...
Dinophysis Toxins: Distribution, Fate in Shellfish and Impacts
(2019)
Several species of Dinophysis produce one or two groups of lipophilic toxins: okadaic acid (OA) and its derivatives; or the dinophysistoxins (DTXs) (also known as diarrhetic shellfish poisons or DSP toxins) and pectenotoxins ...
Circular Economy, Ethical Funds, and Engineering Projects
(2020)
This special issue provides a collection of 15 papers with modern theories and applications for circular economy, engineering projects, entrepreneurship models, and investor decisions. After the commencing review on ...
Circulating Tumor Cells: Finding Rare Events for A Huge Knowledge of Cancer Dissemination
(2020)
The analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as a real-time liquid biopsy approach can be used to obtain new insights into metastasis biology, and as companion diagnostics to improve the stratification of therapies and ...
Development of CMOS-MEMS/NEMS Devices
(2019)
Micro and nano-electro-mechanical system (M/NEMS) devices constitute key technological building blocks to enable increased additional functionalities within Integrated Circuits (ICs) in the More-Than-Moore era, as described ...
Drug Delivery Technology Development in Canada
(2019)
Canada continues to have a rich history of ground-breaking research in drug delivery within academic institutions, pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology community.
Diagnosis of Dementia and Cognitive Impairment
(2019)
In this special issue of Diagnostics, expert contributors have produced up-to-date research studies and reviews on various topics related to the diagnosis of dementia and cognitive impairment. The methods of the assessments ...
Early Life Nutrition and Future Health
(2020)
Inequity starts before birth and is programmed in part by nutritional exposures. If these exposures occur around the time of conception, during pregnancy, and/or in infancy or childhood (all critical periods of development) ...
Earth Observation Data Cubes
(2020)
Satellite Earth observation (EO) data have already exceeded the petabyte scale and are increasingly freely and openly available from different data providers. This poses a number of issues in terms of volume (e.g., data ...
Civil Engineering and Symmetry
(2019)
A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and maintenance. Operational ...
Claim Models: Granular Forms and Machine Learning Forms
(2020)
This collection of articles addresses the most modern forms of loss reserving methodology: granular models and machine learning models. New methodologies come with questions about their applicability. These questions are ...
Document Image Processing
(2018)
Document Image Processing allows systems like OCR, writer identification, writer recognition, check processing, historical document processing, etc., to extract useful information from document images. What we call a ...
Current Strategies to Improve the Nutritional and Physical Quality of Baked Goods
(2020)
The lifestyle of humans is rapidly changing, and, correspondingly, their needs and the current and future megatrends of the food market. It is worth mentioning (1) the preference for natural, simple, and flexible diets ...
Current Strategies for the Biochemical Diagnosis and Monitoring of Mitochondrial Disease
(2018)
Mitochondrial disease constitutes a complex and heterogeneous group of disorders resulting from a defect in mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) enzyme activity. In view of the dual regulation of the MRC, exercised by ...
Current Studies in the Sociology of Religion
(2015)
The study of religion as an academic discipline is a rather recent development in colleges anduniversities in the United States and abroad. Although French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote extensively about the role of ...
Differential Geometry
(2019)
The present book contains 14 papers published in the Special Issue “Differential Geometry” of the journal Mathematics. They represent a selection of the 30 submissions. This book covers a variety of both classical and ...
Drug Metabolism, Pharmacokinetics and Bioanalysis
(2019)
Drug metabolism/pharmacokinetics and drug interaction studies have been extensively carried out in order to secure the druggability and safety of new chemical entities throughout the development of new drugs. Recently, ...
Dynamical Models of Biology and Medicine
(2019)
Mathematical and computational modeling approaches in biological and medical research are experiencing rapid growth globally. This Special Issue Book intends to scratch the surface of this exciting phenomenon. The subject ...
Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean 2018
(2019)
This book contains various works presented at the Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean (DDays LAC) 2018. Since its beginnings, a key goal of the DDays LAC has been to promote cross-fertilization of ideas from ...
Dynamical Systems
(2014)
Complex systems are pervasive in many areas of science integrated in our daily lives. Examples include financial markets, highway transportation networks, telecommunication networks, world and country economies, social ...