MDPI AG

Modernization in the agriculture sector is important to ensure food security and poverty alleviation, which are the primary themes of UN-SDGs. There are many challenges in developing advanced...

Modernization in the agriculture sector is important to ensure food security and poverty alleviation, which are the primary themes of UN-SDGs. There are many challenges in developing advanced...

The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse fields; healthcare is no exception. In fact, AI is at the forefront of...

This book collects the papers in the special issue "Airborne Laser Scanning" in Remote Sensing (Nov. 2016) and several other selected papers published in the same journal in the past few years. Our...

This reprint provides the most recent advancements and trends in the analysis of cultural heritage samples, including archaeological and bio-archaeological samples, confirming the growing public and...

Advances in Anatomy and Its HistoryAuthor: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3725812470ISBN-13: 9783725812479

Bearings are currently the most widely used mechanical component. In the process of high-speed and heavy-load operation, friction and heat generate between the rolling elements, cages, and rings. At...

Among the strategies for reducing the negative effects on the environment affected by the uncontrolled consumption and low potential for the recovery of conventional plastics, the synthesis of new...

Rapid growth in algorithms and computing power over recent years has spurred the emergence of machine learning and image processing techniques as new tools, which are rapidly entering every aspect of...

Brassica crops include vegetable, oil, ornamental and condimental crops. Many of these, such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage and rapeseed, are important crops cultivated globally. Brassica species are...

Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for more than 10 million deaths each year and an even larger number of patients who are diagnosed with this disease and have to undergo...

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is regarded as a vital and potentially effective technology used to mitigate anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The captured CO2 can be transformed into...

Advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies (CCUS)Author: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Today, interventional treatment and clinical management of cardiac arrhythmias represent a continuous challenge. This is mainly due to the widening of indications for implantable electronic devices...

Catalyst deactivation, the loss over time of catalytic activity and/or selectivity, is a problem of great and continuing concern in the practice of industrial catalytic processes. Costs to industry...

The aim of the Special Issue entitled "Advances in Cement Composite Materials" was to present current trends and advances in cement composite materials not only based on ordinary Portland cement...

Land degradation, exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanization, poses significant threats to socio-economic development. There is an urgent need to explore land degradation and its associated...

Chromatographic analyses are traditional analytic techniques that can be implemented for the analysis of various complex samples. They include gas chromatography, high-performance liquid...

This is a groundbreaking reprint that explores the cutting-edge applications of computational intelligence (CI) in geotechnical and geological engineering. This comprehensive volume draws from the...

Crystals are indispensable in technology, nature, and our daily lives. For example, cooking uses many kinds of crystallized products, such as salt, sugar, and fat crystals; electronic devices contain...

This Special Issue compiles recent research studies, findings, and accomplishments pertaining to the advanced planning, construction, monitoring, maintenance, and administration of railway...

Advancements in contact mechanics play an important role in the design of modern mechanical and bio-medical systems, enhancing their efficiency, power density, and reliability. They lay the...

The rapid and unprecedented spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused millions of deaths worldwide...

The sixteen papers in this Special Issue cover various aspects of cyber security and will appeal to those involved in cyber security research, practitioners, students contemplating a career in cyber...

Advances in Dam-Break Modeling for Flood Hazard Mitigation : Theory, Numerical Models, and Applications in Hydraulic EngineeringAuthor: NAPublisher: MDPI AGPublication Date: May 30, 2024Number of...

deep learning; neural network; image enhancement; visual quality assessment; image classification; visual understandingThis Topical Collection focuses on fundamental and applied research on deep...

The safety of engineering structures under natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, wind, fire and tsunamis) is a subject of great interest to researchers, and is important for protecting human life and...

The aim of this reprint is to highlight the significance of difference equations and their applications in applied mathematics. Difference equations provide a robust and widely recognized framework...

Madagascar is characterized by high levels of endemicity. This is particularly visible among amphibians and reptiles, which both showing conspicuous diversity and a great number of species...

Despite their significance, root physiology and root function remain relatively underexplored in plant science research. Soil microorganisms, including mycorrhizae and bacteria, exert profound...