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Soilless Culture Systems (SCSs) have expanded globally into protected and open-field horticulture. However, it is crucial to ensure the sustainability of this system in order to address resource...

Rapid advances in technologies around the globe necessitate the development of new materials, nanostructures, and multicomponent composites with specific chemical and physical properties that can...

Solid state batteries with solid electrolytes are considered to be the next generation of energy storage devices. However, several challenges remain, such as insufficient ionic conductivity at room...

Solid-state lasers offer unique qualities in terms of flexibility, robustness, efficiency, and wavelength diversity. For these reasons, they are nowadays irreplaceable tools in many scientific and...

According to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (contribution of WG III on mitigation), historical cumulative net CO2 emissions between 1850 and 2019 amount...

Solvent polarity and hydrogen-bonding character play important roles in determining the magnitude of the solute-solvent interactions that control chemical reaction rates and equilibrium...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses chronic idiopathic relapsing and remitting gastrointestinal autoimmune diseases characterized by chronic inflammatory disorders of complex etiology,...

Sound and music computing is a young and highly multidisciplinary research field. It combines scientific, technological, and artistic methods to produce, model, and understand audio and sonic arts...

This reprint focuses on applications of different Space Geodetic Techniques on Earth exploration and geodetic research. The topics range from the classical estimation of Earth observation at high...

Electromagnetic field-assisted sintering techniques have increasingly attracted attention of scientists and technologists. Spark-plasma sintering (SPS) and other field-assisted powder consolidation...

This special issue compiles some of the latest state-of-the-art research works in the area of spatial audio and it serves as a good reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and to...

Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management play a pivotal role in striking a balance between enhancing the quality of life for communities and addressing environmental protection and natural resource...

Amid the growing challenges posed by climate change, securing global food security has never been more critical. This imperative is at the heart of the United Nations' "Zero Hunger" SDG. This reprint...

Historically, the notion of entropy emerged in conceptually very distinct contexts. This book deals with the connection between entropy, probability, and fractional dynamics as they appeared, for...

A Special Issue dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), compiling research and...

Pharmaceutics is very pleased to be hosting a Special Issue in honor of Dr. Marie-H?l?ne Metz-Boutigue, acknowledging her influential scientific contributions to research on Antimicrobial Peptides...

This Special Issue of the journal Axioms pays tribute to Professor Hong-Kun Xu's significant contributions and details recent important advances in theory, methods, and applications of nonlinear...

This Special Issue will consist of selected papers from the Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) 2014, an international conference which was held in Nanchang, China, from April 23-25, 2014. SAC 2014 is...

This Special Issue will provide a snapshot of the state of the art in metals, alloy coatings, and films produced through several techniques, including PVD, CVD, MOCVD, electrodeposition, electroless,...

It is time consuming and costly to detect new molecules of some special proteins. These special proteins include cytokines, enzymes, cell-penetrating peptides, anticancer peptides, cancer lectins,...

In science and engineering, differential equations play an important role in all models and systems. This topic is very special due to the variety of classes for differential equations, and the fact...

The spectra of ionized atoms continue to play an important role in understanding a wide variety of plasmas. The relatively new discipline of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is being used...

Spectral detection technology has always been a research hotspot in the field of precision measurement. It can not only obtain the spectral characteristics of the measured object, but also obtain the...

Line-shape analysis is one of the most important tools for diagnostics of both laboratory and space plasmas. Its reliable implementation requires sufficiently accurate calculations, which imply the...

The spin-crossover (SCO) phenomenon originates from the intrinsic bistability of the d-electron configuration, created by the competition between ligand-field splitting and spin-pairing energies in a...

Spinal cord injury is a catastrophic injury affecting all body functions and imposing significant life-long impairment. Advances in spinal cord injury rehabilitation are required to ensure optimal...

Diagnosis and treatment of spinal infections are complex clinical problems requiring multidisciplinary approach. Spinal infections can be classified according to the anatomical location involved...

Primarily as a response to increasing flood, impacts, the Chinese Central Government launched a program to implement the Sponge City Concept in selected pilot cities across China in 2013. As a...

The use of sport as an empirical setting to study different organizational and economic phenomena is continuously increasing (Day et al., 2012; Kahn, 2000; Wolfe et al., 2005). Specifically, in the...

Several factors have been identified as interfering with the success, rehabilitation, and fitness of athletes from childhood to adulthood, as well as in para-sport, and special populations, according...