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The term "weed" is rather subjective, as we are the ones who decide what plants are called weeds, and the term usually carries a negative connotation. However, there is a reason why weeds grow in...

This reprint, Welding and Joining of Metallic Materials: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties, presents a comprehensive collection of ten research articles focused on recent advancements in...

The present reprint presents information to update the state of the art in professional and recreational, male and female athletes of different sports (e.g., soccer, speed skating, triathlon,...

Agricultural drainage, such as runoffs from farmlands and wineries, are contaminated waters. Their management is monitored by environmental protection authorities who set targets of volume or...

RNA viruses have a rapid pace of evolutionary change. Mutations in RNA viral genomes occur at a pace that greatly exceeds that observed in other organisms and determine much of their evolutionary...

This special issue primarily focuses on the application of deep learning methods in the field of drones. In areas such as drone control, communication and image processing, techniques based on deep...

There are about 30,000 plant species that are considered edible, but at present, very few of them are crops grown or cultivated on a commercially significant scale. On the other hand, there are...

Wildland fire is an important, pervasive, and a sometimes-destructive ecological process in many forest ecosystems across the globe. In some cases, wildland fire maintains and reinforces forest...

Human activities, particularly habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain, and climate change, are considered responsible for the current biodiversity crisis. Wildlife conservation and...

The utilization of marine renewable energy, such as wind and wave energy resources, has become a global trend. Wind energy, wave energy, and especially wind-wave combinations are becoming more...

Wine has a complex matrix with many volatile compounds present, which evolves over time. These volatile compounds are important to wine quality as they contribute to the aroma and varietal...

ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms. Our lives are being transformed by the...

In this Special Issue, seven original research articles, two review articles, and one protocol show the impact of female researchers in the field of analytical science. Analytical methods are...

Wood Modification: Optimisation and Characterisation of Modified TimbersAuthor: Morwenna SpearPublisher: Mdpi AGPublication Date: Jan 14, 2025Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Woven together like finely crafted fabric, world Christianity, history, and culture are always tightly interlaced. Historians realise that all Christians exist in a dynamic web of cultural and...

Wounds are a largely unrecognized, spiraling epidemic that affect millions of people world-wide. They are complex and involve temporal and spatial involvement of many different cell types and tissue...

We live in an era of traumatic discourse. The wound (trauma is the Greek word for "wound") speaks multiple languages. Often the trauma registered is political--the trauma of war in Syria,...

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) deliver intense, coherent, femtosecond laser pulses in the X-ray range. The XFELs are opening two new research fields. One is to study ultrafast electronic and...

This issue of Proceedings gathers papers presented at XOVETIC2018 (A Coru?a, Spain, 27-28 September 2018), a conference with the main goal of bringing together young researchers working in big data,...

The XXXI JIEE-2023 was a space for collaboration between the academic community and the energy, telecommunications, and automation sectors, where the EPN shows the technological advances and...

ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms.[Yeasts are truly fascinating...

Yeasts are truly fascinating microorganisms. Due to their diverse and dynamic activities, they have been used to produce many interesting products, such as beer, wine, bread, biofuels and...

Yeasts are truly fascinating microorganisms. Due to their diverse and dynamic activities, they have been used to produce many interesting products, such as beer, wine, bread, biofuels, and...

This Special Issue brings together the latest research on fermentation processes, with a focus on yeast, biofuels, and value-added products. As the demand for sustainable energy sources continues to...

This Special Issue includes twenty original contributions focused on Yellow River basin management under pressure. Considering the unique regional characteristics of the Yellow River in China, the...

Polymers aims to compile the current trends and research directions of internationally renowned and successful young polymer scientists in one dedicated Special Issue. The idea for this Special Issue...

The zebrafish model organism is an important tool used to study normal developmental biology, genetic diseases and the influences of environmental toxins. New biotechnologies are being applied to the...

The earth is experiencing the adverse effect of climate change. In response to growing global warming issues and the constant increase of energy prices, house-builders and housing manufacturers today...

The term zeolite is based on Greek words for "to boil" and "stone" and it is already known since more than 250 years. At that time, the Swedish mineralogist A.F. Cronstedt (1722-1765) observed the...

Zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicates possessing a 3D network structure. They are widely considered to have been the leading materials of the last few decades in the fields of chemical...