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A Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Merlin G. Butler's Retirement: Unlocking Genetic MysteriesAuthor: David E. GodlerPublisher: Mdpi AGPublication Date: Jan 16, 2025Number of Pages: 200...

This Special Issue critically reviews the history of global conservation and use efforts that have been undertaken over the past 70 years to curb genetic erosion of our crop plant gene pools for the...

Ninety percent of lives claimed by injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries. This special issue, A Million Person Household Survey: Understanding the Burden of Injuries in Bangladesh, aims...

This comprehensive reprint, authored by leading experts in the field, investigates the different aspects of the developments in neuro-oncology, including diagnostic tools, imaging, treatment, and...

The following commemorative Special Issue on bioactive compounds from the ocean is in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Proksch on his 70th birthday. Prof. Dr. Proksch is an internationally recognized...

Certain families of materials have been strongly investigated in the last decades. Among them, layered materials, as Layered Double Hydroxides (LDH) and clays, have received intense attention. A lot...

This Special Issue is dedicated to Professor Reinhard Schlickeiser on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Reinhard Schlickeiser's internationally well-recognized work, comprising several hundred...

This Topic in memory of Academician Duzheng Ye (1916-2013) was written on the tenth anniversary of Professor Ye's passing. It comprises 31 original research manuscripts and reviews spanning...

Professor Yingguo Zhu, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, devoted his whole life (1939-2017) with tremendous enthusiasm to breeding hybrid rice. He studied and worked at Wuhan...

The purpose of this Special Issue is to pay tribute to the significant contributions made by Professor Feng Qi in these fields and to provide some important recent advances in theory, methods, and...

Emotionally intelligent people are thought to be more skilled in recognizing, thinking about, using, and managing emotions. Enthusiasm for this construct has given rise to a mixed body of findings,...

Plant responses to environmental factors are extraordinarily complex. They can be observed at various levels of plant organization, ranging from changes in the intensity of basic biochemical...

This Special Issue sheds light on the remarkable resilience of plants as they confront a wide array of abiotic stresses, such as drought, extreme temperatures, high salinity, waterlogging, and...

Explore "About an Important Phenomenon-Water Hammer", a groundbreaking Special Issue featuring insights from leading experts. When pressurized pipe flow is disrupted, water hammer-a once overlooked...

The development of renewable energy sources will help alleviate the twin problems of energy appetite and environmental pollution. Among such renewable sources, biofuels standout. Biodiesel is at the...

The present Special Issue intends to explore new directions in the field of acoustics and ultrasonics. The interest includes, but is not limited to, the use of acoustic technology for condition...

Measurements of surrounding noise are essential to understand the harmful effects of anthropogenic origin in urban environments as the associated pollution may have deleterious consequences on human...

Acoustic sensors have been utilized commercially for more than 60 years. Acoustic sensing technologies have been studied extensively and the information, transmission, reception, transformation,...

This reprint is a compilation of the contributions in the Special Issue "Acoustics, Soundscapes, and Sounds as Intangible Heritage". It gathers original research articles dealing with the acoustic...

Acousto-optic technologies have increasingly attracted the attention of scientists and engineers. Acousto-optic interactions have become the flexible basis of compact and robust devices for the...

This reprint combines 11 quality review and research articles on active and intelligent food packaging polymers. We anticipate that the contributions gathered within this Special Issue not only...

This Reprint aims to provide the latest information on the synthesis and physicochemical and biological properties of different active biomedical materials, namely ceramics, polymers, nanoparticles,...

Active flow control (AFC) utilizes local active perturbations to induce changes in global flow behavior that result in aero/hydrodynamic performance improvement. It has been a vibrant research area...

The recent regulatory changes, together with the increasing awareness of the variety of sources of uncertainty that affect the activities of insurance and pension funds, have generated increasing...

Ultra-Precision Engineering (UPE) is a comprehensive field that concerns the design, manufacture and measurement of ultra-precision components and systems. With the progress of new solutions to UPE,...

This book focuses on the investigation, development, and modernization of acupuncture in basic research settings as well as in clinical applications. The book contains 13 chapters reporting the...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is marked by severe inflammation and poor gas exchange, poses a significant challenge. ARDS research has advanced in the past ten years as we have...

Additive Manufacturing (AM), often known as 3D printing, is a vast discipline with a wide range of applications and approaches, all of which provide unique contributions to the development of this...

Advanced composites, e.g., continuous, or discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites, nanocomposites, etc., are attracting increasing attention in industrial applications due to excellent performance,...

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, utilizes a layer-by-layer deposition process, offering numerous advantages over traditional manufacturing methods such as enhanced geometric...