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Smart cities represent a great advance in terms of sustainability, energy efficiency and being able to respond to the needs of enterprises, institutions and inhabitants. In this sense, smart grids...

The field of reprogramming somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) has moved very quickly, from bench to bedside in just eight years since its first discovery. The best example of...

Iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) are global problems that affect more than 2 billion people, accounting for significant mortality annually worldwide. Children, girls, and women...

With the aging of the population, the incidence rate and number of elderly nervous system diseases have increased sharply. This event has brought huge problems to society. Despite significant efforts...

Is Online Technology the Hope in Uncertain Times for Higher Education?Author: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 28, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

This reprint examines the panorama of contemporary Islamic revivalism in the modern world. Constituted by methodologically and ideologically a wide variety of revivalist movements, Islamic revivalism...

This Issue focuses on processes related to the research of natural products dereived from plants (Bauhinia forficata, Placolobium vietnamense, Tamarix chinensis, Peperomia obtusifolia, Cymbidium...

This special issue memorial volume is dedicated to the late Professor Jean Cleymans, who made a visible contribution to high-energy nuclear physics and the search for the primordial matter of quarks...

Primary and secondary osteoarthritis, post-traumatic and oncological sequelae, severe joint malalignments and articular avascular necrosis have always represented challenging management problems for...

This reprint encompasses karst ecosystem quality, ecosystem services, climate change, ecological restoration, vegetation dynamics, land management, and the element biogeochemical cycle. These are...

The development of kernel methods and hybrid evolutionary algorithms (HEAs) to support experts in energy forecasting is of great importance to improving the accuracy of the actions derived from an...

This reprint of a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine includes a submission-motivating editorial, eleven clinical research papers (including a meta-analysis), six narrative reviews and...

Kinase Inhibitor for Cancer TherapyAuthor: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 372581290XISBN-13: 9783725812905

Kinematics and Robot Design VI, KaRD2023Author: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3725812071ISBN-13: 9783725812073

In recent decades, knee arthroplasty has been one of the most evolving branches of orthopaedic surgery. Very few historical surgical techniques, biomaterials, implantation philosophies, and...

The implementation of label-free sensing of biological and chemical agents allows one to investigate the underlying physical and chemical characteristics and interactions of target analytes while...

Currently, the diagnosis of infectious diseases largely depends on conventional phenotypic tools. However, typically, these tools are heavily based on culturing and are susceptible to bias...

Good land administration and spatial enablement help to improve people's living conditions in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. They protect people's land rights (including of individuals,...

The world we live in is rapidly changing, and these changes have huge negative environmental, social and economic impacts. In response to the challenges of our time (climate change, environmental...

This reprint focuses on land use change processes and their driving mechanisms, ecological risks and eco-environmental effects. The spatio-temporal pattern changes and key driving factors of...

Recent studies argue that we are facing a silent and not so novel socio-environmental crisis. This reprint is based on the evidence and confirms the need to continue the evaluation and research in...

As the world's highest and largest plateau, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is referred to as 'the Asian Water Tower' and 'the Third Pole of the World'. A better understanding of the water and energy cycles...

Landscape architecture and design research is becoming increasingly popular due to rapid urbanization and its impacts on the urban and periurban environment. The constant mitigation and sprawl of...

Landscape architecture, traditionally seen as a blend of art and science, is evolving rapidly due to data and technological advancements. This Special Issue reprints 10 groundbreaking articles from...

At the end of the 20th century, documents such as the World Heritage Guidelines or the European Landscape Convention proposed new and challenging ways of conceptualizing landscape assessment and...

In this Special Issue, we collected manuscripts focusing on sustainability; study cases and opinion papers about initiatives, definitions, policies, programs, and ideas; traditional knowledge and new...

The term "landsenses" is derived from "landsenses ecology", a recently emerging scientific discipline grounded in ecological principles and an analytical framework encompassing natural elements,...

Laser-based additive manufacturing (LAM) represents one of the most forward-thinking transformations in how we conceive, design, and bring to life engineered solutions. By fusing digital design with...

Tribology grapples with diverse challenges, seeking to minimize friction and wear, and to advance the energy efficiency and sustainability of machinery. Laser surface engineering emerges as a highly...

The improvement of fabrication resolutions is an eternal challenge for miniaturizing and enhancing the integration degrees of devices. Laser processing is one of the most widely used techniques in...