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In an era where technology shapes every facet of our lives, "Tech Pulse: Life in the Fast Lane of Innovation" delves into the exhilarating world of modern innovation. This insightful book takes you on a journey through the history and future of technological advancements,...

Certainly, here's a book description for "Food Security and Biodiversity: The Impact of Agriculture on Biodiversity and the Need for Sustainable Food Production."---In a world grappling with the dual imperatives of feeding a growing global population and safeguarding our precious biodiversity, "Food Security and...

Chapter 1 - Basics of R, Chapter 2 - Data Types in R, Chapter 3 - Data Preparation. Chapter 4 - Graphics using R, Chapter 5 - Statistical Analysis Using R, Chapter 6 - Data Mining Using R, Chapter 7 - Case Studies. Huge...

This book covers all the features of java server pages required for software professionals aswell as engineering students. An easy to learn approach has been adopted throughout.Special attention has been paid to make the material comprehensive, concise and practical.Simple and lucid language has been...

Programming and software applications have become a part of modern life and this book is written to suit the beginners interested in learning computer programming. Starting from theelementary aspects related to computers, the basic concepts and the programmingintricacies are presented in a unique, reader-friendly...

In "Wired Destinies: The Personal Journeys Behind Global Startups," you'll embark on a captivating exploration of the entrepreneurial spirit that drives some of the most innovative and influential startups of our time. This book delves into the personal stories of founders, shedding light on...

In today's digital age, technology plays a vital role in almost every aspect of our lives. From communication and education to healthcare and entertainment, technology has revolutionized the way we live and work. However, just like any other tool, it can be used for...

Video game programming with Unity and Mugen involves mastering specific tools and languages to create unique interactive experiences. Unity, a leading platform, facilitates the creation of 2D and 3D games through its graphics engine and its wide range of resources and assets. It requires...

Beyond the Circuit: Human Stories from Tech GiantsIn the high-octane world of technology, where innovation and progress seem to be the only constants, there lies a deeply human narrative often overshadowed by the sheen of digital marvels. "Beyond the Circuit: Human Stories from Tech...

Bioactive materials have a wide range of applications, and bioactive materials with antibacterial properties, in particular, have attracted significant medical interest. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria due to the uncontrolled, immoderate, and multiple use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics is a serious threat to...

This Special Issue reprint provides an overview of object detection in images and videos, with a focus on addressing the resource constraints of lightweight vision sensors. Object detection has long been a key research area in computer vision. It is now gaining increasing attention...

The shift towards a sustainable and circular economy is one of today's most pressing challenges. Growing global demand for materials, along with concerns about environmental impact and resource depletion, has fueled interest in innovative polymeric materials that support sustainability, recyclability, and advanced functionality. Given...

This volume compiles advanced research on unconventional reservoir engineering, addressing hydraulic fracturing, CO2 utilization, and data-driven modeling. Integrating experiments, simulations, and machine learning (ML), it offers solutions to optimize hydrocarbon recovery and sustainability. Key themes include the following: (1) fracture mechanics, exploring fracture propagation...

The study of mechanical tribology and surface technology has become a critical focus in industrial research. This reprint highlights cutting-edge advancements in lubrication, sealing, friction, and surface engineering, compiling empirical studies and theoretical analyses on topics such as floating ring seals, circumferential graphite seals,...

The global population is continuously growing, increasing the demand for food production. While agricultural innovations support this goal, food safety is often overlooked. Additionally, the nutritional value of food changes during storage, highlighting the need for efficient contaminant monitoring and sensitive detection techniques to...

Providing clean water is essential for life sustainability, achievable through effective prevention, control measures, and efficient wastewater technologies. Despite significant knowledge, the field still faces challenges with emerging contaminants, improving conventional technology efficiency, and advancing innovative technologies to large-scale applications. This reprint includes 13...

This Special Issue highlights the rapid advancements and ongoing challenges in the field of millimeter-wave and terahertz technologies, including sources, devices, systems, and applications. With increasing global interest, these technologies have evolved from lab-based experiments to industrial applications, including non-destructive inspection, security scanning, and...

Composite materials lie at the forefront of multi- and interdisciplinary research, uniting experts in materials science, polymer and inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanics, nanotechnology, and beyond. Polymer-based composites, in particular, offer a unique blend of mechanical strength, lightweight design, optical versatility, and cost-effective processing,...

Interest in functional materials is rapidly growing, owing to their potential uses across a broad range of fundamental and applied areas of application such as in electronic and optoelectronic devices. A large variety of platforms based on functional materials have been used to demonstrate...

This reprint aims to immerse the reader in the latest surface defect detection methods of industrial automation. From distribution-preserving under-sampling to semi-supervised inspection, with the use of swin transformer techniques, we aim to elucidate the application potential of these advanced technologies. In this reprint,...

In view of the relevant contributions that polymers and polymeric materials may make in the conservation of the aquatic environment-namely, through their use in wastewater treatment-a Special Issue (SI) entitled "Polymeric Materials for Wastewater Treatment Applications" aimed to publish original research and review papers...

This Special Issue emphasizes the functional importance of topography in exhaustive surface exploration. Since the precision of small-scale surface data evaluation depends on the accuracy of the topography analysis, a comprehensive description of the measured roughness details influences the final rate of surface performances....

As climate change intensifies, reducing CO2 emissions from transportation has become a global priority. This Special Issue, CO2 Emissions from Vehicles (Volume II), presents cutting-edge research on strategies to mitigate emissions from the transport sector. Covering a wide spectrum of topics-including engine advancements, after-treatment...

The Second Volume of this Special Issue focuses on new trends and progress in the hot and cold plastic deformation of metals and alloys and all new developments in the relationships between their structure and mechanical properties. All aspects related to plastic deformation from...

This reprint is dedicated to Professor Jiro Tsuji, who passed away on April 1st, 2022. He pioneered the discovery of transition metal-catalyzed reactions and showed the general idea of developing these reactions in organic synthesis. Well-known reactions include several types of Pd-catalyzed reactions, e.g.,...

This reprint focuses on various types of surface topography descriptions. Since the detailed analysis of surface topography influences many material layer property evaluations, its proper study rely on both data collection and processing. Many errors occur not only when the measuring instrument is forwarding...

Navigation is one of the main challenges in robotics. Different technologies and strategies are involved, such as sensing, positioning, mapping, approaching, tracking, formation, control, communication, human interfaces, and learning. The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to the state-of-the-art and current applications...

Plasmonic properties of noble metals (NMs) have been used to activate wide-band-gap semiconductors. Although plasmonic properties were observed more than a century ago, scientifically explained, ca., 40 years ago, and have been commercially used in many fields, the examination of their application for photocatalysis...

The interconnections between graph theory and algebraic structure theory have always led to innovative solutions to problems in both areas, as well as new research topics in Mathematics and other scientific fields. This reprint aims to gather a variety of novel theoretical aspects and...

This Special Issue presents cutting-edge research in blockchain security, privacy, confidentiality, and trust mechanisms. The collection encompasses ten peer-reviewed papers that address critical challenges in blockchain technology implementation. The contributions span theoretical foundations and practical applications, including post-quantum cryptographic solutions, smart contract vulnerability detection,...

The following Special Issue on Healthy, Digital, and Sustainable Buildings and Cities features 16 papers that collectively explore enhancing built and urban environments through a focus on health, technology, and sustainability. Topics include biophilic design, strategies to reduce indoor air pollution, and the Smart...

This Special Issue focuses on various synthesis methods of intermetallics, ceramics and composite materials in the form of both protective coatings and bulk materials. The coatings have been produced by D-gun, APS, arc and cold spraying of Fe-Al powders and by sintering of a...

The aim of this reprint is to emphasize the crucial role of mineral chemistry in understanding the crystallization parameters (temperature, pressure, and oxygen fugacity) during the petrological evolution of granitic magmas. Contributions from leading experts in the field offer fresh perspectives and in-depth analyses,...

Crystallization generally describes the general material processing when a solid phase nucleates within the liquid or solid matrix. During the manufacturing phase, crystallization of metallic materials includes the new solid phase formation and growth during solidification as well as the subsequent phase transformations. This...

This reprint offers updated studies on functional membranes for strategic areas such as water cleaning and reuse, environmental remediation, drug delivery, energy recovery, and CO2 capture, but also the recycling of bio-based and ecofriendly materials for membrane manufacturing and purification processes that impact important...

Dear Colleagues, Many structural metal materials work under the coupling condition of the load and corrosion environment. Therefore, it is necessary to study the corrosion and mechanical behavior of metal structural materials. The corrosion behaviors of metals under the coupling condition of the mechanics...

This Special Issue, Failure Characteristics of Deep Rocks, presents a focused collection of research on rock failure mechanisms in deep geological environments. As engineering projects like mining, tunneling, geothermal energy extraction, and carbon storage push deeper, challenges involving high stresses, elevated temperatures, and complex...

This Special Issue explores the growing interest in biodegradable polymers and textiles, and their diverse applications, with a focus on sustainable materials developed from renewable resources. These polymers, derived from waste materials and bioresources like food, agricultural waste, starch, and cellulose, are engineered to...

This Special Issue, titled "Recent Advances in Electromagnetic Devices", explores the latest developments in the field of electromagnetic technology, focusing on innovations in design, materials, and applications. A central theme of this Special Issue is the optimization of device efficiency, miniaturization, and integration with...

Today, industrial processes are subject to continuous review to minimize the emission of pollutants, as well as purify the effluents that are produced. Likewise, a continuous review of the raw materials used is necessary to make them more sustainable. This is the objective of...

The aim of this special issue is to showcase significant advancements in biosensors, emphasizing the innovative use of nanomaterials and aptasensors for bio-detection and food safety. This Special Issue presents diverse studies, including optical differential sensing platforms, PCR-independent RNA detection biosensors, and cancer biomarker...

This reprint provides an in-depth exploration of polymeric materials for energy generation and storage. Each chapter includes a comprehensive discussion of fabrication techniques, investigations, and the energy efficiencies of polymer-derived composites or systems. The reprint also introduces several novel techniques and polymer materials that...

This reprint reflects the collective expertise of contributors from diverse disciplines and regions, emphasizing the interconnected nature of transportation issues. It serves as a resource to inspire innovative thinking and collaboration in addressing pressing safety and operational concerns.As transportation systems face increasing demands for...

This Special Issue highlights the growing importance of intelligent data analysis and its profound applications in addressing the challenges of the big data era. As a key driver of innovation and progress across diverse sectors, intelligent data analysis requires robust research and implementation to...

What steps can we take to address the increasing problem of water pollution when traditional treatment methods do not work? This reprint presents an innovative solution-advanced oxidation catalysts (AOCs). Created to tackle persistent pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and microplastics, AOCs have become important...

The development of artificial intelligence technology can enhance the capability of autonomous unmanned systems and form intelligent autonomous unmanned systems (iAUSs). In this issue, including 10 papers, intelligent technologies applied to air/ground/underground traffic and so on are discussed. In the field of UAV application,...

The reprint includes articles originally published in the journal Energies as part of the Special Issue entitled "Assessment and Analysis of Waste Treatment and Environmental Management." It comprises one editorial and eleven high-quality papers addressing diverse aspects of waste management and environmental protection. The...

The security technology of new information technologies in scenarios such as smart life, smart cities, smart networks, etc., and the promotion and enhancement of the development of network security are mainly included here. New-generation network attacks and defense technology, new secure cryptographic algorithms, data...

Wellbore integrity is a key issue surrounding the life of oil and gas drilling, production, and abandonment. It focuses on advanced techniques applied to well integrity testing and assessment to achieve safe and efficient production. With the development of digitalization and intelligence in the...

This Special Issue focuses on the friction characteristics of bearings, carefully compiling 16 cutting-edge research studies. Through a research path combining experiments and simulations, this Special Issue explores the lubrication mechanism, performance optimization, and fault diagnosis of bearings under different working conditions. The papers...