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Large Language Models: How Machines Learn Human Language is an educational guide that explores one of the most important technologies shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Written in clear, accessible language, this book helps students, educators, and curious learners understand how AI systems such...

Electric vehicles (EVs) have become increasingly popular due to their environmental benefits and potential for cost savings. However, the integration of EVs into the smart grid presents new challenges, including the need for charging infrastructure, communication protocols, and strategies to mitigate the impact of...

The spine is the primary structural component of the human musculoskeletal system, playing a primary role in enabling the movement of the torso, maintaining an upright posture, and transferring loads between the upper and lower body. To fulfil these functions, it must endure a...

This reprint highlights the growing importance of floating systems, as offshore engineering continues to expand into deeper waters and more challenging marine environments. Floating structures, used across applications such as renewable energy, transportation, coastal protection, and aquaculture, present significant engineering challenges due to their...

Asish GhoshDynamic Systems for EveryoneUnderstanding How Our World WorksWhat do climate change, traffic jams, economic shifts, and everyday decisions have in common? They are all systemic issues-interconnected, constantly evolving, and often misunderstood.Dynamic Systems for Everyone offers an accessible introduction to systems thinking for curious...

The world is at an inflection point. In an era marked by intense geopolitical competition and rapid technological advancements, understanding and navigating the complex interplay of business, politics, security and technology has never been more essential. Global in scope and evidence-based, Tech-Gemony illuminates how...

QUANTUM LEAP Quantum Leap is a comprehensive guide to one of the most revolutionary technologies of our time quantum computing. With engaging explanations, Dr. Mesole makes complex concepts like qubits, superposition, and entanglement accessible to readers without requiring a physics background. The book sets...

The Special Issue, entitled 'AI-Driven Sustainable Power Grids: Enhancing Cybersecurity, Operation and Control of Conventional, Modern and Renewable-Based Energy Systems', addresses the urgent transformation of global energy systems toward sustainable, reliable, and intelligent infrastructures. Growing energy demand, environmental concerns, and greenhouse gas reduction commitments...

Energy is one of the most pressing global challenges. Hydrogen, as an energy carrier with the highest gravimetric energy density, offers significant potential for energy storage and delivery. Moreover, it is a clean fuel, producing only water upon use. Currently, the most widely adopted...

Urban areas around the world are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, particularly to heat waves, which have a significant impact on the well-being and health of urban populations due to increasing thermal discomfort. This Special Issue focuses on improving climate resilience in urban environments...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are playing an increasingly central role in advancing smart, efficient, and sustainable agricultural systems. As modern agriculture faces growing challenges related to food security, climate variability, resource efficiency, and environmental impact, AI-enabled methods are emerging as essential tools...

This Reprint spotlights safe ship maneuvering, efficient navigation and intelligent management-the core of maritime transport's safe, green and efficient development. It compiles cutting-edge tech-driven research to reshape intelligent shipping, delivering key insights into the field's latest advances. Focusing on maritime safety, it builds an...

With the continuous development of social civilization and the gradual improvement in the level of road engineering construction, humans have more pressing demands for road service function, green construction and guaranteed safety. Asphalt is the world's most commonly used material in the construction of...

Synopsis: This thesis explores the implications of artificial intelligence [AI] for global security, with a particular focus on its effects on warfare and international peacekeeping operations. As AI technologies advance, their integration into military strategies and security frameworks presents both transformative opportunities and significant...

This Special Issue Reprint, "Sensors Fusion in Digital Healthcare Applications", presents a collection of ten original research articles and one comprehensive systematic review exploring the transformative potential of integrating multimodal sensor data with advanced artificial intelligence. The contributions showcase the breadth of this rapidly...

This Reprint collects selected contributions from the Special Issue dedicated to innovative and functionalized polymers, offering an updated overview of recent advances in polymer science and engineering. In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in the development of natural and synthetic polymers with...

Cutting-edge research on polymer gels is characterized by interdisciplinary integration, combining insights from materials science, chemistry, engineering, and biology to address complex real-world challenges. Key advancements include the development of multifunctional gels with synergistic properties (e.g., self-healing, high stretchability, and sensitivity), the optimization of...

"Recent Advances in 3D Printing Technologies in Bioengineering" is a reprint of a Special Issue in the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, which contains research articles in the field of Additive Manufacturing for Bioengineering by research experts on this topic from industry and...

This reprint focuses on the "Effect of Admixtures on the Microstructure and Properties of Cementitious Materials", brings together recent advancements aimed at addressing these challenges through sustainable material innovation. The collected works cover the development of diverse admixtures, including industrial byproducts, nanomaterials, and bio-based...

This Reprint collects high-quality contributions addressing research advances in hybrid renewable energy systems in buildings, focusing on innovative solutions and supporting the energy transition towards a more sustainable built environment. As buildings account for a significant share of energy consumption and environmental impact, sustainability...

This Special Issue of Molecules, entitled "Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Polymer-Based Materials", presents fifteen peer-reviewed contributions that highlight recent advances in polymer science and engineering. The collection includes one editorial, three review articles and eleven original research papers authored by 67 researchers from...

This Special Issue brings together recent advances in understanding and managing the geological and hydrodynamic environments that shape estuarine, coastal, offshore, and deep-sea engineering. As marine resource development expands and projects such as offshore wind farms and deep-sea mineral extraction move into more complex...

This Reprint, titled "Energy Storage and Electric Power Systems: Theory, Methods, and Applications", provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies driving the global transition toward carbon neutrality. As power systems increasingly integrate intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar, the stability of the grid...

This Reprint presents ten contributions on recent advances in intelligent vehicular networks and transport systems, addressing data management, security, privacy, and communication in high mobility environments. Topics include geocast routing for highways, enhanced vehicular network simulations, cyber-physical platforms for intelligent vehicles, and UAV-assisted mobile...

In today's world, near-Earth space constitutes an increasingly congested and contested theater of economic, political, and military activities for a growing number of space-faring nations. Consequently, the significance of actionable situational awareness cannot be overstated. Radar, renowned for its versatility and precision, is an...

The Special Issue "Numerical Optimization and Algorithms (3rd Edition)", hosted by the MDPI journal Algorithms, provides a crucial forum for the latest advancements in computational mathematics. As science and engineering problems grow increasingly complex, this edition focuses on the urgent need for robust solvers...

The prediction of large-scale behavior using finer scale theory is a key goal of modern natural sciences and is of particular importance for numerous engineering applications. Problems in multiscale modeling are often interdisciplinary in nature. Recent major progress in this area is due to...

This Reprint presents a carefully curated selection of peer-reviewed articles from the Special Issue Applied Machine Learning III, published in Applied Sciences. The featured contributions reflect the current state of machine learning research, with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and practical deployment across...

Sweet Earth Energy(April 5, 2026)A real technology that could make oil, coal, nuclear, and solar power obsolete.This book follows one man and an AI as they build a device based on principles hidden by Tesla and Ed Leedskalnin. What starts as a small experimental...

This volume comprises the fifth collection of papers submitted by the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of the journal Mathematical and Computational Applications (MCA), as well as outstanding scholars working in the core research fields of MCA. This collection typifies the most insightful and influential...

This Reprint of a Special Issue on "Adaptive and Nonlinear Control of Robotics" brings together nine original research contributions exploring state-of-the-art control strategies for robotic systems operating under nonlinear dynamics, uncertain parameters, reconfiguration, or complex physical constraints. The platforms considered in this work-including cable-driven...

In congenital blindness (CB), tactile and auditory information can be reinterpreted by the brain to compensate for visual information through mechanisms of brain plasticity triggered by training. Visual deprivation does not cause a cognitive spatial deficit since blind people are able to acquire spatial...

The collection includes 15 original papers covering silver nanoparticles loaded on polyethylene terephthalate films, binary grafting onto PDMS films for the load and release of ciprofloxacin, the sorption of total petroleum hydrocarbons in microplastics, the synthesis of PMMA microspheres with tunable diameters, crosslinked chitosan...

This Special Issue, 'Liquid Crystals and Other Partially Disordered Molecular Systems' (Materials, MDPI), collates the latest advances in research on the molecular order, phase behavior and functional properties of complex soft matter systems. The collection includes works devoted to studying the structural and dielectric...

This Special Issue offers insights into research on recent advances in smart grids, including, but not limited to the integration of renewable energy resources, enhancement of energy efficiency, decentralization of electric energy generation, and distribution through small-to-medium-scale electric infrastructures.Author: Adel MerabetISBN-10: 3725872260ISBN-13: 9783725872268Publisher: Mdpi...

This Reprint presents recent research on the global clean energy transition, with a focus on technologies and systems that support sustainable development, improved energy efficiency, and reduced environmental impact. It brings together contributions on energy harvesting, conversion and storage, smart and green transport, energy-efficient...

The Reprint contains eight papers devoted to the topic of sound-absorbing materials. These papers analyze the sound absorption of new materials, both in terms of raw materials and their structure and form. The presented research indicates the potential for using rubber granulate from automotive...

The Special Issue titled "Tribology for Lightweighting" defines an integrated research program linking friction, wear, and lubrication to the engineering of lighter and more efficient mobility systems. It includes studies on operational contacts and manufacturing routes for advanced high-strength steels and aluminum, together with...

This Reprint presents a collection of cutting-edge research and review articles focusing on the integration of machine learning and deep learning theories for intelligent fault diagnosis in industrial and engineering systems. With the rapid advancement of computational intelligence, data-driven fault diagnosis has become a...

This Topic focuses on wastewater collection and transport (e.g., drainage system, sewer pipeline, harmful gas, corrosion, water quality, hydrodynamics, or sediment), wastewater treatment (e.g., separation, biodegradation, sedimentation, or adsorption), and wastewater resource (e.g., anaerobic fermentation or wastewater reuse). We recommend this Reprint to relevant...

The digital transformation of the energy sector has intensified with the rising global demand for intelligent, data-driven, and computationally efficient techniques to bolster the reliability, safety, and adaptability of modern electricity infrastructure. This Special Issue (SI), entitled "Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence...

This Reprint brings together fifteen contributions showcasing recent advances in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. The collected studies highlight progress in robotics, perception, machine learning, sensor fusion, human-machine interaction, optimization, and data-driven control. The papers cover a wide range of applications, from mobile and...

This Reprint contains all of the articles that were accepted and published in the Special Issue of Mathematics titled "Modeling and Optimization of Complex Engineering Systems under Uncertainties". It offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in reliability engineering and...

In developing regions, traditional architecture embodies centuries of human ingenuity, reflecting a profound understanding of local environmental dynamics, cultural traditions, and community needs through dwellings and settlements that harmonize with their natural surroundings. Yet, as rapid urbanization and modernization reshape these landscapes, such time-honored...

The process of rapid urbanization has effectively promoted the development of the construction industry. Growing demands for integrating humanization, diversification, and intelligence have received much attention. Intelligent construction, driven by the emerging technology of artificial intelligence, has become a core force in overcoming industry...

This Reprint explores the contribution of interior design towards the building of a sustainable environment. New paradigms in the field of the sustainable environment set new challenges for designers and define new research areas. The studies presented inspire actions aimed at inclusive design and...

This Special Issue showcases the latest developments in Space Telescopes and Payloads with a collection of seventeen papers. Hamish Reid et al present the SPARK solar space mission concept. Daniel F. Ryan et al present LISSAN, a next generation γ-ray spectroscopic imaging instrument. Ariadna...

This Reprint presents a curated collection of peer reviewed articles from the Special Issue Advanced Topology Optimization: Methods and Applications published in the journal Computation. It provides an up-to-date overview of recent progress in topology optimization, a computational design methodology that determines optimal material...

In the race to adopt increasingly autonomous AI systems, most organizations are moving faster than their structural foundations can support. Execution accelerates. Governance lags. Compliance reacts. Strategy fragments.The result is not innovation-it is compounding instability.In this follow-up to The Empty Room, Sean Pan introduces...

Between 70 and 95 percent of new products fail to meet their commercial objectives. The root cause is rarely poor execution. It is a failure of framing: the wrong approach chosen at the outset, built on assumptions that were never examined.The Product Development Process:...