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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The integration of information technologies with industry has marked the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution and promoted the development of industrial engineering. However, the depletion of resources and industrial waste caused by increasing amounts of industrial production pose a huge threat to nature. The application of sustainable supply chains in industrial engineering and management is one of the ways to balance the economy, society and environment. Therefore, it is a key concern for us to explore the construction of sustainable supply chains in industrial engineering and management. Moreover, to understand the impact of low-carbon, sustainable and recycled supply chains on industrial engineering, we need more in-depth investigations.This Special Issue aims to solicit original research and review articles discussing sustainable supply chain decision-making in industrial engineering and management to improve the sustainability of enterprise operations. Moreover, this Special Issue also shows mixed methods (e.g., modeling plus a case study) and rigorous quantitative/qualitative empirical studies of sustainable supply chains.
    Keywords: coordination degree model ; logistics industry ; digital economy ; industrial integration ; regional IEE system ; multimodel decision ; coupling coordination ; decision support methods ; online retailer ; consumer purchase behavior ; return strategy ; return insurance ; supply chain management ; real-time ; home delivery ; business modeling ; e-commerce ; time window ; lightweight ; carbon emissions ; low carbon benefits ; optimization design ; wheel hub ; subsidy policy ; remanufacturing industry ; donation strategy ; prisoner’s dilemma ; water-efficient products ; quality improvement ; DMAIC ; smart water closets ; carbon abatement ; cost sharing ; capital constraint ; environmental externality ; innovative products ; remanufacturing ; differential game ; bass model ; strategic emerging industries ; industrial structure ; employment effect ; artificial intelligence hardware ; data classification ; deep learning ; emission control ; industrial manufacturing ; bilateral matching decision making ; interval-valued hesitant fuzzy information ; bidirectional projection technology ; organizational quality-specific immunity ; automotive supply chain disruption ; supply chain resilience ; disruption risk ; bibliometric analysis ; co-citation analysis ; NGU ; self-attention ; CNN ; silver prediction ; data-driven ; composite systems ; synergy ; sustainability ; blockchain ; collection channel ; recycling strategies ; uncertain demand ; game theory ; federated learning ; intelligent manufacturing ; sustainable energy ; low-carbon strategy ; livestreaming marketing mode ; consumer low-carbon preference ; level of low-carbon promotion effort ; power structures ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Implementing sustainable development is central to achieving global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating anthropogenic environmental impacts. As defined by the UN 2030 Agenda and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable development requires a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, which is not without its challenges. Indeed, studies tracking global progress toward meeting the 2030 SDG targets emphasize the importance of implementing sustainable solutions, with several SDG targets described as 'off track.' Therefore, there is an urgent need to address the challenges of an interdisciplinary, unified, and practical approach to sustainable implementation. In this context, this Reprint brings together 15 selected papers presented during the 2022 SDEWES Conference. These papers cover a broad range of topics, from circular governance models to education related to sustainable practices, as well as the impacts of current legislative frameworks targeting energy efficiency, built environment energy performance, bio-based industrial applications, transport and sustainable energy services, and production, supply, and infrastructure maintenance strategies. This Reprint provides an interdisciplinary and holistic perspective on sustainable development solutions, with several papers highlighting the interrelations between various fields and aspects of sustainability.
    Keywords: combined heat and power ; hospitality ; feasibility ; sensitivity analysis ; simple payback ; energy performance certificate ; CO2 ; multi-apartment buildings ; heating ; energy consumption ; cooling ; performance-based retrofit ; decision support ; building performance simulation ; parametric analysis ; multiple-criteria decision analysis ; residential buildings ; in-line inspection ; smart pig ; sensor ; oil ; natural gas ; pipeline ; environment ; biorefinery ; organosolv ; lignin ; pre-treatment ; higher education ; competencies development ; STEM education ; sustainability ; colloidal particles ; Pickering emulsion ; rheological behaviour ; ESCO business models ; aggregator business models ; energy services for buildings ; energy performance contract ; Pay-for-Performance contract ; energy efficiency in buildings ; demand response ; demand side flexibility ; residential sector ; governance ; circular economy ; circular territories ; index ; circularity ; thermal transmittance ; thermal resistance ; finite element method ; heat flux sensor ; in situ monitoring ; concrete masonry unit ; hydrogen ; water ; wastewater ; electrolysis ; water scarcity ; wastewater treatment plants ; desalination ; Jordan ; system dynamics ; thermal comfort ; Minha Casa Minha Vida ; natural ventilation ; bioclimatic architecture ; social housing ; energy poverty ; battery electric vehicles ; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ; hybrid electric vehicles ; CO2 emissions ; Hofstede ; advertising ; sustainability integration ; Middle East ; supply chain management ; responsible logistics ; education for SDGs ; natural gas pipelines ; nondestructive testing (NDT) ; in-line inspection robot ; wireless communication ; antenna ; circular waveguide ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: The Special Issue entitled “Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering” is devoted to the publication of the latest research, field works, and laboratory investigations in the area of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. This Special Issue has published novel contributions in different areas of geotechnical and geomechanical engineering such as slope and embankment, tunneling and underground space technologies, pile and foundation, rock mechanics and rock blasting, excavation and leveling projects, ground improvement techniques, unsaturated soil, practical issues in soft soil, mining technology, geo-environmental engineering, new laboratory testing, applied geology for construction, and novel geotechnical construction methods. The focus of this reprint is on the development of computational methods for solving problems in the fields of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering.
    Keywords: strength prediction ; brittle rock ; grain-structure representation ; micro-properties ; bonded block models ; Voronoi tessellation ; structure-type rockburst ; evolution mechanism ; particle flow code ; flat-joint model ; pre-grouting ; soft coal mass ; coal-grout structure ; shear behavior ; quality improvement ; rock strength ; tensile behaviour ; neuro-fuzzy ; regression ; non-destructive tests ; paste filling ; slicing mining ; false roof stability ; optimal false roof thickness ; tree-based techniques ; feature selection ; pile bearing capacity ; gradient boosted tree ; random forest ; in situ stress ; rock blasting ; crack propagation ; model test ; rheological deformation ; key stratum ; roadway groups ; roadway deformation ; surrounding rock control ; triaxial creep experiment ; cyclic loading and unloading ; elasto-visco-plastic strain ; irrecoverable strain ; tertiary creep stage ; nonlinear creep damage model ; high-altitude slope ; BP neural network ; freeze-thaw cycle ; geological conditions ; mining method ; soft broken complex ore body ; improved AHP ; comprehensive evaluation index ; blasting ; back-break ; SVM ; metaheuristic algorithms ; moth–flame optimization ; whale optimization algorithm ; tilted strata ; roadway ; nonuniform deformation ; physical simulation ; HFDEM ; numerical method ; rock fracture ; strain rate ; mining engineering ; backfill mining ; high-concentration backfill ; elastic modulus ; K-fold cross-validation ; mining ; rock engineering ; sensitivity analysis ; XGBoost ; limit equilibrium method (LEM) ; limit analysis ; accuracy ; slope stability ; homogenous slopes ; error accuracy classification chart ; physical and mechanical responses ; Egyptian granodiorite ; thermal damage threshold ; microstructure ; thermal constructions ; rock slope analysis ; limited analysis method ; numerical methods ; combined/hybrid finite–discrete element method ; FDEM ; non-renewable ; clean coal technology ; waste of resources ; “110 construction method” ; collapse settlement control ; moisture content ; dry–wet cycles ; cyclic loading ; injury mechanism ; acoustic emission RA-AF ; thermal effect prediction model ; uniaxial compressive strength ; static Young’s modulus ; artificial neural network ; multilinear regression ; rock mass ; hydraulic conductivity ; sustainability ; rock mechanics ; geotechnical engineering ; geomechanical engineering ; mining technology ; natural stones ; temperature ; fire ; thermal effect ; point load strength ; porosity ; color ; gloss ; automated mineral identification ; LBP ; classification ; texture feature ; liquefaction potential ; prediction ; Bayesian optimization ; support vector machines ; optimization ; Hoek–Brown criterion ; Mohr failure envelope ; Balmer’s equation ; limit equilibrium analysis ; modified Bishop approach ; active earth pressure ; unsaturated narrow backfill ; interlayer shear stress ; arching effect ; thin-layer element method ; tunnel excavation ; cut blasting method ; LLB method ; uncharged hole ; numerical simulation ; spectrum index ; water content ; hyperspectral information ; V-type firing pattern ; collision fragmentation ; RSA ; ANN ; coupled stress-hydro effect ; uniaxial loading ; infrared radiation ; warning threshold ; non-destructive monitoring ; alteration ; tunnel ; stress field ; deformation field ; plastic zone ; flyrock ; weathering index (WI) ; equilibrium optimizer (EO) ; particle swarm optimization (PSO) ; extreme learning machine (ELM) ; artificial neural network (ANN) ; high-water material ; seawater ; water-cement ratio ; strength ; mining method optimization ; difficult-to-mine complicated orebody ; multiple attribute decision making ; Pythagorean fuzzy sets and TOPSIS method ; mechanized upward horizontal layering method ; plateau alluvial-lacustrine deposits ; round gravelly soil ; large scale direct shear test ; shear strength parameters ; Erbil ; geotechnical characterization ; GIS ; ANFIS ; differential evolution ; firefly algorithm ; frozen rock mass blasting ; ice-filled crack ; explosion stress wave propagation ; attenuation factor ; UCS ; intelligent and statistical methods ; sedimentary rocks ; modulus of deformation ; RMR ; in situ testing ; modelling ; instrumentation ; failure risk ; element failure probability ; spatial variability ; stochastic groundwater level ; upper bound method ; rock joints ; shear strength ; scale effects ; normal stress ; JRC ; PFC simulation ; water inrush ; precursor ; strain energy ; normalized ; sustainable mine ; blast-induced flyrock ; LSSVM ; prediction models ; salt cavern ; underground gas storage ; continuum-discrete coupled method ; thermal-mechanical coupling ; thermal damage ; marble strength ; direct and indirect methods ; correlations analysis ; artificial intelligence techniques ; performance indicators ; resonant column test ; torsional simple shear test ; damping ratio ; steady-state vibration ; free vibration decay ; bibliometric analysis ; pile foundation ; sustainable structure ; VOS viewer ; Web of Science ; red clay ; desiccation cracking mechanism ; digital image correlation technology ; strain ; displacement ; mineral carbonation ; comminution energy ; stress–strain relationship ; elastic properties ; radial distribution function ; crown deformation ; underground caverns ; parametric study ; multiple linear regression ; twin tunnels ; 3D numerical analysis ; surface settlement ; field measurement ; geotechnical and geological conditions ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: Agricultural practices, industrial manufacturing, and household consumption are just a few of the activities that contribute to the production of food waste biomass. Modern environmental theories, like the circular economy, are thought to be the impulse behind the implementation of zero-waste policies. The huge percentage of such residual biomass has significant potential to be used as a raw material to produce novel products and specialty feedstock through biorefining procedures, even though the high volume of waste originating from the food industry raises serious concerns regarding both economic and environmental aspects. Given that many plant parts that are rejected during fruit and vegetable processing (e.g., leaves, branches, peels, roots, stems, and seeds) carry a sizable load of phytochemicals, including polyphenols, the recovery of valuable secondary metabolites from waste plant tissues is an appealing prospect in this regard. This specific group of substances exhibits a wide range of chemical compositions with diverse biological characteristics and functions, including antioxidant and antibacterial activities as well as chemoprotective effects against cancer and other degenerative diseases.
    Keywords: oyster shell waste ; washing method ; sodium chloride ; impurities ; particle size ; anaerobic digestion ; agricultural inputs ; biochemical methane potential ; biodegradability ; lignocellulosic biomasses ; manures ; agriculture ; agricultural waste management ; allelopathic effect ; invasive species ; phytoremediation ; rice straw ; rice bran ; rice husk ; agricultural waste ; valorization ; circular economy ; biomass ; bioeconomy ; kinetics ; lignocellulosic biomass ; mechanical pretreatment ; methane potential ; twin-screw extrusion ; fruit and vegetable ; biowaste ; synergies ; matchmaking ; platform ; industrial symbiosis ; waste management ; sustainability ; green building ; recycle ; food waste ; lightweight concrete ; lime concrete ; fruit shells ; coarse aggregate replacement ; sugarcane bagasse ; pentose liquor ; dark fermentation ; biohydrogen ; organic acids ; biorefinery ; fungi ; laccase ; microcosm ; homogenisation ; hemicellulose ; cellulose ; fibre ; conventional limestone ; waste brown eggshells ; polylactic acid ; mechanical properties ; bio-composite ; Aspergillus niger ; ellagitannins ; phenolic compounds ; punica granatum ; saccharomyces cerevisiae ; solid-state fermentation ; limonene ; alpha-pinene ; biotransformation ; terpene ; flavouring agent ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: This Special Issue delves into the strides made, challenges encountered, and research imperatives within the realm of Industrie 4.0 from both a scientific and practical standpoint. This publication features the voices of Industrie 4.0 pioneers Henning Kagermann and Wolfgang Wahlster, as well as leaders in research and industrial application of smart manufacturing concepts.
    Keywords: Industrie 4.0 ; intelligent manufacturing ; smart factories ; industrial artificial intelligence ; digital twins ; zero-defect manufacturing ; digital ecosystems ; China Manufacturing 2025 ; Industrial Internet ; Cloud Manufacturing ; digitalization ; small-medium enterprises ; new business models ; data democratization ; fourth industrial revolution ; smart manufacturing ; smart factory ; digital transformation ; industry ; sustainability ; sovereignty ; interoperability ; mass customization ; Industry 4.0 ; skills ; competencies ; bibliometric analysis ; survey ; Hungary ; maturity model ; transformation ; methodology ; Industry 4.0 strategy ; socio-technical system ; business transformation ; industrial implementation ; mergers and acquisitions ; knowledge management ; networking ; process management ; informational change ; scarce data ; machine learning ; information fusion ; development of work ; sociotechnical systems approach ; human-oriented work design ; D-SI ; DCC ; digital signature ; calibration ; servitization ; digital factory transformation ; smart services ; IoT ; AI ; internal services ; remote work ; COVID-19 ; investment ; n/a ; digital twin ; digital manufacturing ; multi-agent systems ; data architecture ; Logistics 4.0 ; digital transformation strategy ; urban planning and city operation ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJM Management & management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: We are very excited to introduce this Special Issue of Nutrients, “Advances in Legumes for Human Nutrition”. Recently, legumes have contributed to a sustainable and increased food supply for the rapidly growing global population due to climate change. Legume seeds that are intact or milled into flour offer a complex array of macro- and micronutrients and phytochemicals for human nutrition. Additionally, they can be fractionated into their component proteins, starches, lipids and dietary fibre as health- and techno-functional food ingredients. These ingredients are in great demand by the food industry, for example, in the manufacture of vegetarian and vegan dairy products and meat analogues with good nutritional profiles. However, the issues, such as micronutrient availability, antinutrients and allergenicity, still require solutions for the maximum uptake of legumes by humans. We invited manuscripts that address any aspect of this broad topic, including the impact of innovative food technologies on the nutritional value of legumes and those focusing on nutritional properties of seeds from underutilised members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family.
    Keywords: α-amylase inhibitor ; biofortification ; lectins ; nutritional enhancement ; phytic acid ; predicted glycemic index ; sensory analysis ; temporal dominance sensation ; legumes ; fermented beans ; extruded snacks ; spices ; antioxidant activity ; lupin ; health outcomes ; type 2 diabetes ; cardiovascular disease ; obesity ; legume proteins ; nutraceuticals ; structural properties ; bioactive peptides ; in vivo digestibility ; health effects ; Lupin ; processing ; lupin kernel fibre ; food ingredient ; composition ; techno-functionality ; health benefits ; consumer acceptability ; coronary heart disease ; health care cost ; cost-of-illness analysis ; nutrition economics ; dietary guidelines ; consumption ; sustainability ; chronic disease ; Setaria italica L. ; Cicer arietinum L. ; Hibiscus sabdariffa L. ; chickpea flour ; foxtail millet flour ; minerals ; organic acids ; pregelatinization ; sensory evaluation ; nutritional values ; in vitro bioaccessibility ; benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) ; lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTSs) ; voiding symptoms ; soy ; soy food ; isoflavones ; prostate smooth muscle contraction ; faba proteins ; enzymatic hydrolysis ; UHT processing ; emulsion ; phenolic compounds ; in vitro digestion ; colonic fermentation ; cotyledon cells ; in vitro starch digestion ; legume structure ; low glycaemic index ; navy beans ; protein matrix ; beans ; fiber ; pulses ; carbohydrate ; fat ; protein ; NHANES ; waist ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCV Food & society
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: Taking into account the increasing general concern related to the necessity of reducing CO2 emissions, a very important aspect of this topic refers to the green energy sector. In this vein, the present Special Issue is focused on the area of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). This Special Issue contains valuable works related to ORE.
    Keywords: Romanian nearshore ; EEZ ; ERA5 ; water depth ; energy resources ; offshore wind turbines ; offshore wind ; technical analysis ; economic analysis ; Philippines ; European seas ; sea state conditions ; wind climate ; wave climate ; statistical analysis ; solar farm siting ; assessment criteria ; entropy weight method ; AHP ; TOPSIS ; wave power ; wave energy converters (WECs) ; Galician coast ; SWAN ; wave-energy converter array ; interconnected model ; model predictive control ; hardware-in-the-loop ; wave energy converter (WEC) ; heaving point-absorber WEC ; WEC array ; WECfarm ; physical modelling ; real-time control ; MATLAB-Simulink ; heaving point absorber WEC ; system identification (SID) ; solar radiation ; marine renewable energy ; floating solar panels (FPV) ; sustainability ; wave energy converter ; floating flapping-panel ; slope ; hydrodynamic performance ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: This reprint contains articles published as part of the Special Issue of "Sustainable Tourism: Ways to Counteract the Negative Effects of Overtourism at Tourist Attractions and Destinations" in the journal Sustainability in the "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage" section. It contains 13 articles presenting research on various aspects of overtourism: the attitudes of city dwellers towards overtourism, e.g., Krakow and Wrocław; the effects of tourism development in regions of natural value, e.g., the Tatra National Park; and areas adjacent to tourist routes. It looked at night-time tourism and the sharing economy, as well as how business models can be used to manage sustainable tourism. The phenomenon of overtourism in Tunisia, Brazil, and South Korea is described. The articles published in 2020 are very popular. They have been viewed by several thousand researchers and have been cited 300 times by other authors.
    Keywords: health resorts ; management ; Poland ; investment gaps ; overtourism ; investment attractiveness ; sustainability ; Kraków ; Doxey index ; attitudes ; residents ; service providers ; life form ; dispersal mode ; semi-natural habitats ; trampling ; vascular plants ; tourist experiences ; ecological awareness ; protected areas ; Tatra National Park ; TripAdvisor ; conflict management ; social conflict ; conflict analysis ; circle of conflict ; urban tourism ; tourism-phobia ; tourism in cities ; tourist gentrification ; impact of tourism ; experience economy ; sustainable tourism ; Wrocław city ; subjective well-being ; festivals ; tourism consequences ; tourism area life cycle model ; tourism carrying capacity ; tourism intensity index ; tourism density index ; over-tourism ; temporal distribution ; willingness to pay ; choice experiment ; tourism management and development ; UNESCO World Heritage site ; sustainable development ; Social Capital Theory ; sharing economy ; collaborative economy ; tourism ; gentrification ; tourism impact ; non-mega sports events ; sports tourism ; quality of life of hosts ; social impact of sports events ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: This reprint includes 23 research articles and 1 review accepted and published by MDPI in the Special Issue entitled "Recent Advances and Applications in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)", comprising 7 articles in Economies, 6 articles in Mathematics, 10 articles in Sustainability and 1 article in Data. The covered topics include the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change on food security or the tourism sector, the critical factors affecting the implementation of corporate governance, consumers' perspectives and behaviors toward corporate social responsibility, consumers’ ethnocentrism and country of origin, the differentiation strategy and export performance in emerging countries, the influence of agricultural development on alleviating rural poverty, leadership and employee performance, the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and business performance, the role of commitment in an extended theory of planned behavior, major shifts in sustainable consumer behavior, an empirical evaluation of customers' adoption of drone food delivery services, European citizens' happiness, the mediation of corporate social responsibility between information and communication technologies adoption and SMEs performance, students’ satisfaction about blended learning, etc. This reprint is expected to benefit those working in the area of PLS-SEM, regardless of their field of study (economics, finance, marketing, education, etc.). Applications involving higher-order constructs, mediating variables, multigroup analysis, and the latest advances in applied methodology are detailed in this reprint.
    Keywords: PLS-SEM ; structural equations ; economics ; finance ; healthcare ; sustainability ; environment ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: The effort of the Editors has received global attention. Indebtedness is due to Saha and Asif and coworkers from Canada, Joseph and Mahapatra and coworkers from Poland and India, Ramirez-Montoya and coworkers from Spain and Mexico, Mota-Panizio and coworkers from Portugal and Brazil, Izquierdo and Lopez-Coca and coworkers from Spain, Vinitnantharat and coworkers from Thailand and the UK, Roy and Fini and coworkers from India and the USA, Lawson and Luyima and coworkers from Ghana and South Korea, Fouad El Mansouri and coworkers from Morocco and Spain, and Man Zhang and Yaning Zhang and coworkers from China for the 10 scholarly research papers dealing with the synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of new carbon materials. The applications are mainly centered around environmental remediation owing to the intensity of the problem and comprise of water decontamination and the removal of heavy metals and organic compounds like tannic acid from contaminated sources. The use of biochar in agriculture for preventing nitrogen leaching for soil has also been included. Unconventional carbon-related materials like rice husk ash and carbon steel slag were also used for exotic applications.
    Keywords: polymers ; biocompatible ; biodegradable ; compostable ; sustainable ; market dynamics ; research trends ; graphene ; graphene-like materials ; carbon ; biomass pyrolysis ; microwave pyrolysis ; OMWW ; adsorption ; carbon steel slag ; tannic acid ; biochar ; dry matter accumulation ; leaching of nitrogen ; nitrogen uptake ; tropical sandy soils ; sustainability ; carbon footprint ; rice husk ash ; lime ; silica ; asphalt ; concrete ; roadways ; fractionation ; heavy metal removal ; isotherm ; modified biochar ; WIEC ; carbonization ; pretreatment ; activation ; carbonaceous material ; hydrothermal carbon ; Castanea sativa ; biomass residues ; residue valorization ; per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ; water decontamination ; porous carbon monolith ; whey ; biomass carbon ; mechanical properties ; C ; H ; N ; corn straw ; microwave heating ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry::PNK Inorganic chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: Although they play a key role in ecosystem functioning and human life, plants are generally overlooked by policymakers and humans in general. In addition, in recent years, we have been witnessing an increase in biologists unable to recognize even common plants, and the number of plant experts (i.e., botanists) able to identify plants is decreasing. In light of these considerations, the Special Issue "Floristic Studies in the Light of Biodiversity Knowledge and Conservation” was launched in the journal Plants, and eight research articles, two reviews, and an editorial were published in it. It has been possible to publish research from different countries, underlining that the knowledge of the flora of a territory is essential to slow down the effects of anthropic pressure on biodiversity and likewise essential for most of the research activities of modern botany.
    Keywords: correlation ; ecology ; essential oils ; Lamiaceae ; vegetation ; species composition ; richness ; urban areas ; anthropogenic impact ; climate ; anthropogenic habitats ; Caucasus ; Himantoglossum formosum ; human-made habitats ; Orchidaceae ; salep harvesting ; Transcaucasia ; kapok ; Ceiba ; fiber ; sustainability ; Malvaceae ; silk-cotton ; phenotypic plasticity ; mangrove grass ; salt marshes ; coastal habitat ; biodiversity ; bryophytes ; generalist plants ; grassland specialists ; historical monuments ; invasive alien plants ; kurgans ; lichens ; native plants ; alien status ; biological records ; Europe ; Latium ; Mediterranean flora ; Rome ; urban biodiversity ; endemism ; floristic research ; herbaria ; lectotype ; nomenclature ; taxonomy ; halophytes ; edible wild species ; coastal areas ; Salicornia ; Arthrocaulon macrostachyum ; Soda inermis ; Cakile maritima ; Crithmum maritimum ; Reichardia picroides ; Silene vulgaris subsp. tenoreana ; Allium commutatum ; Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima ; Capparis spinosa ; Italy ; IUCN ; morphology ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany & plant sciences
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: The complexity of production processes is on the rise due to evolving technology and changing lifestyles. This complexity can stem from factors within the production system or be influenced by characteristics or events external to the system. This reprint aims to conduct rigorous research focused on the application of data-driven decision-making algorithms to address diverse challenges within complex production systems.
    Keywords: global value chain ; inter-country input-output table ; the Belt and Road Initiative ; Collaborative Opportunity Index ; Collaborative Threat Index ; asynchronous dynamic policy ; energy-efficient data center ; Markov decision process ; RG-factorization ; sensitivity-based optimization ; uncertainty modeling ; emergency logistics ; location-allocation ; sustainability ; uncertainty theory ; dual circulation ; port logistics ; Ningbo-Zhoushan Port ; entropy weight ; COPRAS ; digital platforms ; regulation ; antitrust ; game theory ; algorithm ; predictive maintenance ; multistage machine ; sensorisation ; decision-making ; mean time to failure ; system ; robotic assembly line balancing ; energy consumption ; cross-station task ; mixed integer liner programming ; simulated annealing ; objective weights of criteria ; MPSI method ; multi-criteria decision-making method ; MARA method ; support system selection ; underground mining ; multi-source fuzzy data ; normalization method ; membership function ; Gaussian-shaped fuzzy inference ; complex systems ; graph partition ; graph neural networks ; ordinary differential equation ; dynamics ; manufacturing scenario ; inter-firm social network ; ambidexterity and green innovation capability ; simulation ; environmental regulation ; data driven decision-making ; strategic interaction ; spatial spillover ; Fermatean fuzzy set ; BWM ; green supplier selection ; power Heronian mean ; EDAS ; industrial production system ; flow structure ; synergy theory ; collaborative management ; system dynamics ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJM Management & management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The reprint, titled ”Sustainable Biopolymer-Based Composites: Processing, Characterization, and Application”, is composed of 32 scientific works of scholars that contributed their own expertise passion, and science to expand the boundaries of knowledge by addressing new challenges. The topic of new biopolymer-based composite materials is addressed from several aspects, from the development to characterization and application, in several fields of scientific interest.
    Keywords: biopolymer-treated soil ; Xanthan Gum ; Guar Gum ; soil strength ; durability ; cyclic wetting-drying ; biodegradability ; carbon nanotubes ; graphene ; life cycle analysis ; nanocomposites ; packaging ; remediation ; starch ; aging ; coarse wool fibre ; hybrid composites ; natural rubber ; PALF ; sisal fibre ; mulch films ; biopolymers ; SDGs ; plastic pollution ; polymers ; microfluidics ; lab-on-chip ; biomedical engineering ; drug carrier ; artificial cell ; 3D bioprinting ; hydrogel films ; gelatin ; antimicrobial activity ; food packaging ; TGA ; biocomposites ; renewable sources ; wood waste ; waste valorization ; primerless-wet bonding ; resin adhesive system ; hybrid layer ; tensile bond strength ; micro-seal ; luting resin ; dental prosthesis ; fixed prosthodontics ; bioplastics ; conventional polymers ; renewable resources ; LCA ; fish collagen ; fish industry waste ; collagen extraction ; nano collagen ; sustainability ; poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) ; cellulose nanofiber ; bionanocomposite ; melt-extrusion processing ; optimization ; response surface methodology ; acrylonitrile butadiene rubber ; fish scale ; bis(triethoxysilylpropyl)tetrasulfide ; composite ; compatibilizer ; collagen biopolymer ; unicornfish bone ; acid extraction ; characterization ; biocompatible ; biodegradable ; scaffolds ; tissue engineering ; lignin biopolymer ; erosion ; triaxial test ; wetting and drying cycles ; silt ; green macroalga ; red sea ; Chaetomorpha linum ; cellulose nanocrystals ; green silver nanoparticles ; bio-nanocomposite films ; optical properties ; Torenia fournieri ; zinc oxide nanoparticle ; smart packaging sensors ; wound healing ; biodegradable plastic ; circular economy ; pineapple ; tensile strength ; silver nanoparticles ; green synthesis ; Piper betle L. leaf ; pig lining leather ; antibacterial activity ; antifungal activity ; polylactic acid (PLA) ; spent coffee grounds (SCG) ; rheological properties ; mechanical properties ; chitosan ; nanofiber ; preparation ; applications ; wound dressing ; acetylation ; flour ; physicochemical properties ; modification ; wound dressings ; hydrogel ; honey ; natural polymer ; synthetic polymer ; PLA ; biodegradation ; sports equipment manufacturing ; arrowroot starch ; heat-moisture treatment ; octenylsuccinilation ; dual-modification ; functional properties ; glabridin ; 3-O-Ethyl-L-ascorbic acid ; tranexamic acid ; microneedles ; pigmentation ; multifunctional drug ; hydrophilic bioplastics ; gum Arabic ; polyvinyl alcohol ; casting of poly-(methyl methacrylate) ; dehydration ; phosphorus pentoxide ; peeling ; microbial biodegradation ; green composites ; stem fiber ; crystallinity ; thermal behavior ; reinforcement material ; pineapple leaf fiber ; flax ; poly(butylene succinate) ; unidirectional composites ; microstructure ; sustainable materials ; epoxy resin ; Schiff base ; epoxidized soybean oil ; epoxy vitrimer ; reprocessability ; recyclability ; agroindustrial wastes ; biomaterials ; cellulose ; lignocellulosic biomass ; polylactic acid ; coir fiber ; bamboo leaf fiber ; annealing ; biocomposite ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TD Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies::TDC Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Description: References to community interests appear from time to time in scholarly writings in the field of international relations and international law. The concept of community interests refers to interests protected by international law binding either all or a group of states and go beyond the delimitation of a sovereign sphere of influence. In the literature, there are existing examples of research, such as in books and journal articles, that consider the various manifestations of what has been described as “community interests” in many areas regulated by international law, including natural resources, global markets, human rights, and the use of force, and observe how law has evolved from a legal system based on more or less specific consent and aimed at promoting the particular interests of states, to one that is more generally oriented towards collectively protecting common interests and values. However, this topic has not been thoroughly researched, meaning that there is a huge gap in the existing literature, particularly in the context of ocean governance and sustainability. This Special Issue attempts to fill this gap, so as to attract more studies on this important topic in academia.
    Keywords: China ; Marine Environment Protection Law (MEPL) ; daily penalty system (DPS) ; realistic obstacles ; future proposals ; maritime dispute ; international conciliation ; continental shelf ; system effects ; Arctic governance ; Arctic sustainable development ; international law ; China’s role ; Arctic cooperation ; globalization ; international fisheries law ; international fisheries organisations ; fish products ; high seas fisheries ; precautionary approaches ; International Seabed Authority ; deep seabed mining ; exploitation regulations ; multi-subject participation ; environmental impact assessment ; environmental management and monitoring plans ; regional environmental management plan ; marine economy ; sustainability ; indicator system ; Yangtze River Delta ; entropy value method ; maritime security ; human security ; sustainable development ; ocean community ; positive-sum mentality ; South China Sea ; illegal ; unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing ; maritime Silk Road ; Agreement of Port State Measures (PSMA) ; Anthropocene era ; UNCLOS ; marine environmental protection ; anthropogenic underwater noise ; ocean governance ; marine pollution ; high-seas MPAs ; BBNJ Agreement ; sustainable management ; sustainable fishing ; SDG 14 ; traditional fishing rights ; law of the sea ; policy exit ; international law of climate action ; international investment protection ; linguistic entanglements in the law ; offshore wind energy ; ocean renewable energy ; coastal states ; debt relief ; state responsibility ; climate debt ; sovereign debt ; renewable energy transition ; economic sustainability ; environmental sustainability ; heavily indebted poor countries ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::L Law
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Special Issue entitled “Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering” is devoted to the publication of the latest research, field works, and laboratory investigations in the area of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. This Special Issue has published novel contributions in different areas of geotechnical and geomechanical engineering such as slope and embankment, tunneling and underground space technologies, pile and foundation, rock mechanics and rock blasting, excavation and leveling projects, ground improvement techniques, unsaturated soil, practical issues in soft soil, mining technology, geo-environmental engineering, new laboratory testing, applied geology for construction, and novel geotechnical construction methods. The focus of this reprint is on the development of computational methods for solving problems in the fields of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering.
    Keywords: strength prediction ; brittle rock ; grain-structure representation ; micro-properties ; bonded block models ; Voronoi tessellation ; structure-type rockburst ; evolution mechanism ; particle flow code ; flat-joint model ; pre-grouting ; soft coal mass ; coal-grout structure ; shear behavior ; quality improvement ; rock strength ; tensile behaviour ; neuro-fuzzy ; regression ; non-destructive tests ; paste filling ; slicing mining ; false roof stability ; optimal false roof thickness ; tree-based techniques ; feature selection ; pile bearing capacity ; gradient boosted tree ; random forest ; in situ stress ; rock blasting ; crack propagation ; model test ; rheological deformation ; key stratum ; roadway groups ; roadway deformation ; surrounding rock control ; triaxial creep experiment ; cyclic loading and unloading ; elasto-visco-plastic strain ; irrecoverable strain ; tertiary creep stage ; nonlinear creep damage model ; high-altitude slope ; BP neural network ; freeze-thaw cycle ; geological conditions ; mining method ; soft broken complex ore body ; improved AHP ; comprehensive evaluation index ; blasting ; back-break ; SVM ; metaheuristic algorithms ; moth–flame optimization ; whale optimization algorithm ; tilted strata ; roadway ; nonuniform deformation ; physical simulation ; HFDEM ; numerical method ; rock fracture ; strain rate ; mining engineering ; backfill mining ; high-concentration backfill ; elastic modulus ; K-fold cross-validation ; mining ; rock engineering ; sensitivity analysis ; XGBoost ; limit equilibrium method (LEM) ; limit analysis ; accuracy ; slope stability ; homogenous slopes ; error accuracy classification chart ; physical and mechanical responses ; Egyptian granodiorite ; thermal damage threshold ; microstructure ; thermal constructions ; rock slope analysis ; limited analysis method ; numerical methods ; combined/hybrid finite–discrete element method ; FDEM ; non-renewable ; clean coal technology ; waste of resources ; “110 construction method” ; collapse settlement control ; moisture content ; dry–wet cycles ; cyclic loading ; injury mechanism ; acoustic emission RA-AF ; thermal effect prediction model ; uniaxial compressive strength ; static Young’s modulus ; artificial neural network ; multilinear regression ; rock mass ; hydraulic conductivity ; sustainability ; rock mechanics ; geotechnical engineering ; geomechanical engineering ; mining technology ; natural stones ; temperature ; fire ; thermal effect ; point load strength ; porosity ; color ; gloss ; automated mineral identification ; LBP ; classification ; texture feature ; liquefaction potential ; prediction ; Bayesian optimization ; support vector machines ; optimization ; Hoek–Brown criterion ; Mohr failure envelope ; Balmer’s equation ; limit equilibrium analysis ; modified Bishop approach ; active earth pressure ; unsaturated narrow backfill ; interlayer shear stress ; arching effect ; thin-layer element method ; tunnel excavation ; cut blasting method ; LLB method ; uncharged hole ; numerical simulation ; spectrum index ; water content ; hyperspectral information ; V-type firing pattern ; collision fragmentation ; RSA ; ANN ; coupled stress-hydro effect ; uniaxial loading ; infrared radiation ; warning threshold ; non-destructive monitoring ; alteration ; tunnel ; stress field ; deformation field ; plastic zone ; flyrock ; weathering index (WI) ; equilibrium optimizer (EO) ; particle swarm optimization (PSO) ; extreme learning machine (ELM) ; artificial neural network (ANN) ; high-water material ; seawater ; water-cement ratio ; strength ; mining method optimization ; difficult-to-mine complicated orebody ; multiple attribute decision making ; Pythagorean fuzzy sets and TOPSIS method ; mechanized upward horizontal layering method ; plateau alluvial-lacustrine deposits ; round gravelly soil ; large scale direct shear test ; shear strength parameters ; Erbil ; geotechnical characterization ; GIS ; ANFIS ; differential evolution ; firefly algorithm ; frozen rock mass blasting ; ice-filled crack ; explosion stress wave propagation ; attenuation factor ; UCS ; intelligent and statistical methods ; sedimentary rocks ; modulus of deformation ; RMR ; in situ testing ; modelling ; instrumentation ; failure risk ; element failure probability ; spatial variability ; stochastic groundwater level ; upper bound method ; rock joints ; shear strength ; scale effects ; normal stress ; JRC ; PFC simulation ; water inrush ; precursor ; strain energy ; normalized ; sustainable mine ; blast-induced flyrock ; LSSVM ; prediction models ; salt cavern ; underground gas storage ; continuum-discrete coupled method ; thermal-mechanical coupling ; thermal damage ; marble strength ; direct and indirect methods ; correlations analysis ; artificial intelligence techniques ; performance indicators ; resonant column test ; torsional simple shear test ; damping ratio ; steady-state vibration ; free vibration decay ; bibliometric analysis ; pile foundation ; sustainable structure ; VOS viewer ; Web of Science ; red clay ; desiccation cracking mechanism ; digital image correlation technology ; strain ; displacement ; mineral carbonation ; comminution energy ; stress–strain relationship ; elastic properties ; radial distribution function ; crown deformation ; underground caverns ; parametric study ; multiple linear regression ; twin tunnels ; 3D numerical analysis ; surface settlement ; field measurement ; geotechnical and geological conditions ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: The purpose of this Special Issue was to collect and present research results and experiences on energy supply in the Visegrad Group countries. This research considers both macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects. It was important to determine how the V4 countries deal with energy management, how they have undergone or are undergoing energy transformation and in what direction they are heading. The articles concerned aspects of the energy balance in the V4 countries compared to the EU, including the production of renewable energy, as well as changes in its individual sectors (transport and food production). The energy efficiency of low-emission vehicles in public transport and goods deliveries are also discussed, as well as the energy efficiency of farms and energy storage facilities and the impact of the energy sector on the quality of the environment.
    Keywords: energy supplies ; energy security ; energy market ; EU countries ; Hellwig’s method ; sustainability strategies ; sustainable development ; Visegrád Group ; sustainable strategic management ; the renewable energy sector ; energy use ; structures ; food production systems ; Visegrad Group ; energy mix ; renewables ; energy in transport ; energetic efficiency ; energy sources ; economic growth ; developing and developed countries ; energy sector ; environmental quality ; renewable energy sources (RES) ; nuclear energy ; southeastern Poland ; sustainability ; renewable energy sources ; European Union ; cluster analysis ; Visegrad Group countries ; fuels ; cointegration ; Granger causality ; electricity prices ; households ; directions of price changes ; biogas energy ; solar energy ; hybrid biogas plant ; renewable energy ; circular economy ; off-grid systems ; energy efficiency ; social and economic aspects of energy ; economic efficiency ; low emissions ; zero emissions ; e-commerce ; last mile ; parcel lockers ; efficiency of logistics processes ; economies of scale ; simulation of logistics processes ; COVID-19 ; BESS management ; price arbitration ; shift load ; microgrid ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: This reprint addresses the relationship between education and sustainability from various perspectives. The main issues discussed in the 12 collected papers are concerned with (1) the quality of education, (2) SDG policy and implementation, (3) education and societal development, (4) students’ learning, and (5) global experience.
    Keywords: bridging academics ; regional sustainability ; knowledge diffusion ; public–private partnership ; multi-node knowledge link model ; stakeholders ; paradox of Chinese learners ; learning concept ; virtue model ; mind model ; Confucian culture ; mindset intervention ; interaction ; iterative process ; persuasive ; stealthy ; education for sustainable development ; China ; education policy ; sustainable development ; ESD ; SDGs ; sustainability ; higher education ; indicators ; rankings ; assessment ; university rankings ; green universities ; green campus ; education ; learning ; educational innovation ecosystem ; education sustainability ; university-industry collaboration ; Chinese higher education ; digital age ; talents cultivation ; information literacy ; online learning process ; innovation performance ; nature education ; urban residents ; perception ; survey ; sustainable growth ; social-emotional skills ; self-management skills ; solution-focused ; Kids’Skills method ; education partnership assistance ; common prosperity ; balanced and sustainable development ; capacity building ; professional learning communities in interdisciplinary subjects ; teachers’ professional development ; teacher learning ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: The World Health Organization recommends the consumption of plant foods instead of animal-origin foods due to their high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol. Consumption of plant products has led to research on the beneficial properties of their components beyond basic nutrients. Vegetable-derived peptides have shown multifunctional effects related to chronic diseases, attracting interest from the food, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries. This reprint highlights studies on various vegetable extracts, such as chestnut, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, and Protium heptaphyllum gum resin, which have demonstrated antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol-regulating properties. Specific compounds derived from plants, such as methyl p-coumarate and lupin protein hydrolysate, have shown effectiveness in reducing inflammation and anxiety, respectively. A vegetable extract of rosemary has been studied for its potential to treat osteogenesis imperfecta. Moreover, this repprint reviews Lycium barbarum berries, essential oils from Annonaceae species, antioxidant compounds, phytosterols, and natural compounds for the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis was discussed. Overall, these studies suggest that vegetable-derived bioactive compounds could serve as new nutraceuticals to prevent and treat a wide range of chronic diseases.
    Keywords: hypercholesterolemia ; gene expression ; HMGCR ; PCSK9 ; PPARα ; enzymatic activity ; molecular docking ; statin ; monacolin ; breu branco ; seed storage proteins ; peptides ; anti-inflammatory ; antioxidant ; trypsin inhibitors ; quinoa ; amaranth ; buckwheat ; in vitro gastro-intestinal digestion ; natural products ; Brazilian species ; essential oil ; applications ; phytosterols ; neurodegeneration ; Alzheimer’s disease ; blood brain barrier ; obesity ; oxidative stress ; dyslipidemia ; diabetes ; enzyme-assisted extraction ; plant material ; phenolic compounds ; oligosaccharides ; prebiotic ; nanocellulose ; nanofibers ; fermentation ; sustainability ; cancer ; drug delivery ; oral mucositis ; treatment ; lupin ; protein hydrolysates ; anxiety ; ApoE−/− ; functional foods ; peptidomics ; rosemary extract ; collagen type I ; unfolded protein response ; autophagy ; proteasome ; skin fibroblasts ; apoptosis ; osteogenesis imperfecta ; asthma ; methyl p-coumarate ; Th2 cytokines ; eosinophil ; NF-κB ; Castanea sativa shells ; Subcritical Water Extraction (SWE) ; antimicrobial activity ; goji berries ; pro-healthy effects ; phenolics ; biological properties ; functional ingredients ; in vitro cultures ; Ruta montana ; coumarins ; alkaloids ; antibiofilm formation ; antibacterial activity ; antioxidant activity ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCV Food & society
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    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Description: The sustainable management of water cycles is crucial in the context of climate change and global warming. It involves managing global, regional, and local water cycles, as well as urban, agricultural, and industrial water cycles, to conserve water resources and their relationships with energy, food, microclimates, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and anthropogenic activities. Hydrological modeling is indispensable for achieving this goal, as it is essential for water resources management and the mitigation of natural disasters. In recent decades, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in hydrology and water resources management has led to notable advances. In the face of hydro-geo-meteorological uncertainty, AI approaches have proven to be powerful tools for accurately modeling complex, nonlinear hydrological processes and effectively utilizing various digital and imaging data sources, such as ground gauges, remote sensing tools, and in situ Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The thirteen research papers published in this Special Issue make significant contributions to long- and short-term hydrological modeling and water resources management under changing environments using AI techniques coupled with various analytics tools. These contributions, which cover hydrological forecasting, microclimate control, and climate adaptation, can promote hydrology research and direct policy making toward sustainable and integrated water resources management.
    Keywords: ANN ; roadside IoT sensors ; simulations of the gridded rainstorms ; 2D inundation simulation and real-time error correction ; weather types and features ; meteorological feature extraction ; artificial neural network ; self-organizing map (SOM) ; urban agriculture ; resource utilization efficiency ; urban northern Taiwan ; machine learning ; random forest ; regression analysis ; support vector machine ; threshold rainfall ; threshold runoff ; XGBoost ; stochastic rainfall generator ; Huff rainfall curve ; copula ; GeoAI ; artificial intelligence ; hydrological ; hydraulic ; fluvial ; water quality ; geomorphic ; modeling ; anomaly detection ; deep reinforcement learning ; telemetry water level ; time series ; ensemble ; multi-model ensemble ; precipitation ; forecasting ; persian gulf ; deep learning ; dam inflow ; RNN ; LSTM ; GRU ; hyperparameter ; rainfall time series ; artificial neural networks ; Multiple Linear Regression ; Chania ; CNN ; ELM ; temporary rivers ; hydrological extremes ; multivariate stochastic model ; autoregressive model ; Markov model ; daily temperature ; temperature generator ; Bayesian neural network ; forecasting uncertainty ; multi-step ahead forecasting ; probabilistic streamflow forecasting ; variational inference ; smart microclimate-control system (SMCS) ; system dynamics ; water–energy–food nexus ; agricultural resilience ; hydroinformatics ; hydrological modeling ; early warning ; uncertainty ; sustainability
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: We invite you to read the Special Issue on innovation for sustainable business. It is a collection of 7 articles published in a Special Issue of Sustainability MDPI in 2021-2022. Many of the articles in this reprint are related to leadership. In the context of sustainable development, issues such as dynamic capabilities, CSR, succession management and innovative projects were addressed. Sustainable innovation is also considered from other perspectives. One of them is the topic of introducing sustainable innovations to new ventures. In addition, drivers and impacts of eco-innovation were also examined. There was also research in the area of ​​live commerce, which includes the perspective of consumer behavior.
    Keywords: dynamic capabilities ; eco-innovation ; leadership ; corporate social responsibility ; the attitude of future managers towards CSR ; ethical aspects of companies’ operations ; sustainability ; green technologies ; environmental innovation ; industry ; Brazil ; capability ; organization ; survival ; workforce ; live commerce ; hunger marketing ; perceived trust ; perceived value ; impulse buying behavior ; Sustainable Industry 4.0 ; innovative projects ; interdisciplinarity ; project team competencies ; sustainable innovation ; knowledge search ; organizational learning ; strategic flexibility ; new ventures ; QCA ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This reprint focuses on the position of sustainability in engineering and points to the multidimensionality of the issue. Architecture, civil and engineering issues are main themes of discussion, with special attention to research and design. Attention is focused on four thematic groups: energy (including energy harvesting), economy (including building circularity), pro-health activities, and design.
    Keywords: CFD ; mechanical ventilation ; industrial buildings ; thermal comfort ; air quality ; natural environment ; construction sector ; steel ; sustainable development ; cradle-to-gate with options ; Life Cycle Assessment ; life cycle costs ; maintenance costs ; warranty period ; number of use cycles ; building circularity assessment ; material flow model ; building circularity material passport ; building circularity calculation method ; adaption ; landscape pattern ; local microclimate ; comprehensive analysis ; morphological parameters ; space syntax ; façade configuration ; visual perception ; built heritage ; Kaunas ; cultural sustainability ; PV system ; social acceptability ; system dynamics ; CO2 emissions ; feed-in-tariffs ; subsidy policy ; water management ; housing environment quality ; multi-family settlements ; Bio-Morpheme ; greenery ; automated design ; plant selector ; sustainability ; algorithmic design ; landscape design ; BIM ; green BIM ; city breathability ; urban ventilation ; urban air quality management ; blue-green infrastructure ; integrated urban planning ; economic analysis ; marketplace regeneration ; optimisation ; spatial analysis ; urban design ; vibration ; energy harvesting ; green gardens ; multifunctionality ; plus-energy building ; thermal stack ; solar energy ; integrated design ; prefabricated rural housing ; PEST ; entropy weighted TOPSIS ; implementation potential ; Chongqing ; n/a ; urban planning ; building layout ; energy demand ; climate ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: This reprint includes papers from different research fields, reflecting the sectional talks presented at the 9th edition of the Scientific Conference of the Doctoral Schools from the “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, which took place in June 2021. The objective of the 2021 Conference was to bring together perspectives and challenges in doctoral research in a common forum and to provide a platform enabling doctoral researchers to meet and share state-of-the-art developments in their fields. It consists of 16 papers presented at the 9th edition of the Scientific Conference of the Doctoral Schools from the “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, in several fields such as: mechanical and industrial engineering, food science and biotechnology, electrical/electronic engineering, systems engineering and information technologies, chemistry, electrochemistry, and economic models and strategies.
    Keywords: incremental pumps ; profiling of generating tools ; helical surfaces ; Romania ; coastal area ; wind energy ; measurements ; IEC classes ; wind turbines ; mass tourism ; management model ; Constanta ; PESTEL ; Black Sea ; sustainability ; eggplant peels ; bioactive compounds ; hydrogels ; anthocyanins ; beetroot peel ; betalains ; polyphenols ; CCD-RSM ; optimal control ; metaheuristic algorithms ; evolutionary algorithms ; simulation ; ventilation on ships ; HVAC requirements ; COVID-19 ; spread the disease ; airborne transmission ; HEPA filtration ; UV disinfection ; heat recovery ; L-tryptophan ; polypyrrole ; sensor ; amino acid ; cyclic voltammetry ; chronoamperometry ; atorvastatin ; carbon nanotubes ; gold nanoparticles ; Hippophae rhamnoides L. ; carotenoids ; flavonoids ; antioxidant activity ; microencapsulation ; modulation ; electromagnetic disturbances ; electromagnetic compatibility ; military ship ; communication systems ; navigation conditions ; Danube River ; management tool ; quality function deployment ; house of quality ; enwrapping surfaces ; profiling ; geometrical methods ; tower ; wind turbine ; load ; offshore wind ; marine renewable energy ; living labs ; design thinking ; coastal zone ; integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) ; Romanian coastal zone ; Black Sea basin ; wind parameters ; historical data ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: This reprint presents groundbreaking discoveries, practical techniques, and rigorous analyses related to the cultivation, preparation, and exploitation of mycelium composites. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including functional modifications of mycelium with inorganic particles, modifying and assessing the mechanical properties of mycelium composites, strategies for improving the flexural behaviour of composites, beehives from fungal materials, bio-welding and reinforcement of composites, bioreactors for fungal production, co-production of composites by fungi and bacteria, growing large-scale mycelium structures, sound absorption by composites, and the geometrical parameterisation of fungi. This informative compendium of techniques, methods, and insights on growing fungal material appeals to readers from all walks of life, from high school pupils to university professors, from mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers to chemists, from craft practitioners to industrial producers of fungal materials, and from biologists to architects and artists.
    Keywords: mycelium-based composites ; additive manufacturing ; bio-based materials ; circular construction ; digital fabrication ; mycelium ; bio-composites ; bio-fabrication ; ultrasonic welding ; wood printing ; robotic fabrication ; reinforced composites ; natural fiber reinforced polymers ; NFRP ; growing materials ; rattan ; lightweight structure ; architecture ; structural design ; computational design ; subtractive manufacturing ; circular economy ; compressive structures ; compressive strength ; digital image correlation ; masonry ; growth ; mechanical properties ; materials science ; mycelium-based composite ; biomaterials ; natural composites ; bacterial cellulose ; biocompatibility ; knitted fabric ; material tinkering ; lignocellulosic fibers ; natural fiber reinforcement ; mechanical characteristics ; manufacturing variables ; nanoclay ; fungal fruiting bodies ; parametric design thinking ; plasticity ; linearity ; non-linearity ; biohybrid architecture ; bio fabrication ; living architecture ; beehive ; 3D printing ; mycelium materials ; symbiosis ; multispecies architecture ; healthy materials ; binding capacity ; bio-adhesives ; building biomaterials ; fungal mycelium ; mechanical performance ; acoustic materials ; sound absorption ; fungal architecture ; myceliated material ; living material ; sustainability ; biotechnology ; compression ; bending ; waste upcycling ; mycoremediation ; myco-materials ; myco-fabrication ; sustainable buildings ; sustainable structures ; architectural design ; material ethics ; modular chain bioreactor ; solid-state fermentation ; mycelium production ; Ganoderma lucidum ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: This reprint focusses on Smartness, a multidisciplinary topic, which is examined from four perspectives: Sensors, IoT, and Data Generation; Data and Information Processing; Actuation; and Digital Systems and Infrastructure. We see smartness in the way sensing is embedded in a system, the way data and information are processed, how a system interacts internally and with its environment, and whether a system is ubiquitous or limited by space (cloud-based or edge-enabled). This reprint contains a total of 14 chapters, which are grouped according to their areas of application: mobility and transportation, healthcare, industrial environments, and other urban infrastructures. This book covers a range of topics, including mobility; healthcare; image analysis; permeable pavements; solid-waste management; sensor node and gateway architectures; cloud, fog, and edge computing; air-quality monitoring; thermal anomalies and smart helmets in industrial environments; smart airports; smart districts; smart travel choices; sensor cities; artificially intelligent cities; platform urbanism; and more.
    Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI) ; artificially intelligent city ; artificially intelligence commons ; smart city ; smart urban technology ; urban informatics ; sustainable urban development ; climate change ; pandemics ; natural disasters ; sensor city ; City 4.0 ; smart urbanism ; smart governance ; disruptive urban transition ; Internet-of-Things (IoT) ; technology giants ; sensors ; transit ; bus ; transfer ; smart card ; spatial analysis ; mode choice ; internet of everything (IoE) ; 6th generation (6G) networks ; artificial intelligence ; Distributed AI as a Service (DAIaaS) ; fog computing ; edge computing ; cloud computing ; smart airport ; smart districts ; PPE ; OHS ; risk detection ; naive Bayes ; support vector machine ; convolutional neural network ; deep learning ; microcontroller ; edge-fog-cloud computing ; Internet of Things ; robotics ; autonomous driving ; image registration ; smart sensor ; real time big data ; land-use ; air quality ; particulate matter (PM10 PM2.5) ; Intelligent Transportation Systems ; functional requirements ; machine learning ; model actionability ; model evaluation ; cloud server ; customized sensor node ; customized gateway ; FLoRa simulation ; LoRa range radio ; solid waste management ; smart cities ; big data ; event detection ; road traffic ; distributed machine learning ; automatic labeling ; social media ; data analytics ; social media analytics ; Arabic tweets ; 3D microstructure reconstruction ; permeable pavement ; generative adversarial networks ; tiny AI ; tiny ML ; distributed AI as a service (DAIaaS) ; skin disease diagnosis ; healthcare ; smart societies ; smart healthcare ; reference architecture ; TensorFlow ; visually impaired ; smart mobility ; LiDAR ; ultrasonic ; obstacle detection ; obstacle recognition ; assistive tools ; green computing ; sustainability ; Arduino Uno ; smart app ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Buildings are important consumers of energy; in fact, they represent 30–45% of the global energy use and one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions, as well as contributing to the urban heat-island effect. In consequence, the correct design and execution of buildings, use of new materials that reduce energy demand, and efficient use of renewable energy are all necessary to reduce the impacts that occur during their life-cycle. This book shows some examples, focused on improving the energy-efficiency of buildings, in accordance with circular economy policies and life-cycle phases, including design, construction and use. The editor wishes to thank all the authors for contributing to this book, as well as to the assistance of MDPI’s editorial office.
    Keywords: climate-oriented ; buildings ; building construction ; climate zones ; climate change ; bibliometric ; climate zone ; building ; energy demand ; building resilience ; air quality ; air pollution ; SUNSPACE ; PM removal ; azure chemistry ; circular economy ; sustainability ; SDG 11 ; SDG 12 ; buying intention ; energy-efficient home appliances ; green self-identity ; theory of planned behavior ; waste glass ; light reflectance ; building material coatings ; soda–lime–silica glass ; lead–silica glass ; cool surface ; cool material ; cool roof ; urban heat island ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: After almost two decades of continuous development in bio, circular, and green economy, the time is ripe for the assessment of the major achievements and challenges that private and public enterprises face today to further enhance these global sustainability concepts. Due to the central role of political incentives for the development and implementation of environmentally friendly and sustainable practices, the present book project focuses on the nexus between public policies, institutions, quality of public sector management, and patterns of interaction between government and private businesses in backing bio, green, and circular economy practices and eco-innovation. In addition, the project also accommodates surveys that elaborate on the differences between the implementation of new organizational forms and scientific innovations in technologically advanced and developing settings.
    Keywords: energy demand ; renewable energy ; biomass ; energy policies ; organizational factors ; healthcare waste management practices ; public hospitals ; Libya ; consumers ; cluster analysis ; sustainable consumption ; mass media ; social media ; green hydrogen ; green hydrogen value chain ; developing countries ; renewable energy sources ; hydrogen strategy ; scaling ; upscaling ; scaling innovation ; innovation diffusion ; innovation ; systematic literature review ; garbage sorting ; urban garbage disposal ; rural garbage disposal ; willingness ; family life ; neighbourhood ; COVID-19 ; Pakistan economy ; economic scale ; Keynesian theory ; mitigation ; economic revival measures ; innovations ; renewable power ; rebound effect ; low-carbon economy ; carbon pricing policy ; border carbon tax ; Sino–US trade friction ; export grab effect ; firm innovation ; GDP prediction ; feature selection ; deep learning ; temporal convolutional network ; organizational sustainability ; social and economic sustainability ; knowledge sharing ; organizational agility ; organizational behavior ; sustainable organizations ; economic sustainability ; consumer experience ; sustainable commerce ; online consumer behaviour ; e-commerce platform ; online purchase intention ; online customer engagement ; energy security ; energy policy ; energy resources ; sustainability ; bibliometrics ; circular business model ; open business model ; sharing economy ; circular economy ; peer-to-peer ; electricity trading ; green product ; green consumer behavior ; environmental responsibility ; environmental concern ; green purchasing decisions ; green business ; consumption dimension ; production dimension ; financial dimension ; technological dimension ; fundraising campaigns ; social networking sites ; NPO ; humanitarian response ; Kuwait ; Bahrain ; Guatemala ; forest ; property rights ; community concession ; entrepreneurship ; forest sustainability ; economic development ; free-market environmentalism ; Latin America ; consumption coupons ; purchase probability ; inventory optimization ; minimum-cost maximum-flow ; bioeconomy ; green growth ; eco-innovation ; environmental Kuznets curve ; EKC ; environmental economics and policy ; ecological economics ; resource management ; sustainable development ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: This reprint discusses the relation between nonviolence and religion by adopting Mohandas K. Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha as a starting point and by also discussing nonviolent hermeneutics of holy scriptures with a special emphasis on interpretations of the Qur’an. The first part consists of chapters that directly deal with Gandhi’s concept of nonviolence and how it influenced later faith-based peace activists. By reading Gandhi’s active nonviolence through the lens of Judith Butler’s recent work on nonviolence, it engages with contemporary discussions about violence and nonviolence and also reflects on how nonviolence relates to gender. It also looks at how Gandhi related to different religions and further broadens the usual focus on physical violence by addressing economic violence and environmental degradation. Gandhi’s view of Judaism and Zionism is critically discussed in one chapter. The second part comprises contributions that study the use of holy scriptures in relation to (non)violence, its problems, its boundaries and its inspiration. Religious authoritative texts play a major role in the continuation and legitimation of connected belief systems. Again, Gandhi’s own nonviolent hermeneutics of holy scriptures are investigated and his interpretation of the biblical figure of Daniel is especially discussed. Three contributions deal with the interpretation of the Qur’an and its potential for nonviolence. A concluding chapter provides a range of hermeneutic guidelines for an Islamic theology of nonviolence.
    Keywords: Gandhi ; interreligious theology ; Judaism ; Zionism ; satyagraha ; nonviolent resistance ; Butler ; performativity ; relational ontology ; sustainability ; nonviolence ; Catholic social thought ; alternative development ; liberation theology ; religions ; suffering ; tradition ; swaraj ; M.K. Gandhi ; R. Girard ; mimetic rivalry ; Sermon on the Mount ; spiral of violence ; detachment ; religion ; fear of death ; conscientious objection ; Christianity ; conscription ; pacifism ; holy disobedience ; nationalism ; conservativism ; political theology ; Yoram Hazony ; family ; liberal democracy ; Qur’an ; violence ; God-consciousness ; hermeneutics ; scriptures ; Bhagavad Gita ; Bible ; Paul ; history of reception ; Jawdat Saʿid ; Syria ; Islam ; Abel ; Cain ; Islamic theology ; Tafsīr ; Qurʾānic exegesis ; Islamic reform ; modernity ; history ; Chenoweth ; gender ; creative transgressions ; revolution ; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible ; Daniel ; Socrates ; apocalypses ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: The papers published in this Special Issue report on recent studies investigating the exploitation of by-products produced by the food industry. The topics investigated include the extraction setups used for valuable food waste by-products and their applications as adjuncts to food preparation; the appropriate selection of solvents and extraction processes; and the interactions between extracted fractions and supplementary foods. The papers evaluate a wide variety of foodstuffs and provide results regarding the extension their shelf-lives and activities as functional foods.
    Keywords: by-product ; rheological properties ; optimization ; melting profile ; antioxidant activity ; mayonnaise ; olive mill wastewater ; oxidative stability ; phenolic extract ; pork ; fatty acid ; amino acid ; mineral ; meat ; sustainability ; spent biomass ; prebiotic potential ; enzymatic digestion ; biorefinery ; circular economy ; by-products ; ovine scotta ; bioactive peptides ; bromelain ; pancreatin ; dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibition ; ovine second whey cheese ; enzymatic hydrolysis ; wasted bread ; bioprocessing ; lactic acid bacteria ; soil amendment ; byproducts ; vegetable oil industry ; phenolics ; flavonoids ; photochemiluminescence ; cold-pressed oil by-product ; gum ; thixotropic behavior ; low-fat vegan mayonnaise ; thickeners ; gelling agents ; tomato pomace ; lycopene ; β-carotene ; extraction ; food by-products ; deep eutectic solvents ; non-thermal drying ; stilbene ; vine shoots ; viticulture waste ; trans-resveratrol ; ε-viniferin ; Italian varieties ; no-waste ; omega-3 ; smart sensors ; reuse ; fish oil industry ; recovery ; chemometrics ; lipid profile ; aquafaba ; cold-pressed oils ; confocal laser scanning microscopy ; egg replacement ; physicochemical properties ; radical scavenging activity ; vegan mayonnaise ; Amberlite resin ; hazelnut skin ; polyphenols ; Pinot noir pomace ; solid–liquid extraction ; valorization ; fatty acids ; derivatization ; cranberry pomace ; dietary fiber ; technological properties ; kiwi byproducts ; probiotic ; prebiotic ; Lactobacillus casei ; ingredients ; functional foods ; microbial spoilage ; lipidic oxidation ; antioxidant ; predictive microbiology ; food preservation ; food safety ; sustainable strategy ; by-product reuse ; kinetic parameters ; Olea europaea ; waste reuse ; inulin ; high polymerization degree ; functional pasta ; glycemic index ; prebiotics growth ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-02
    Description: The sustainable development of our planet depends on the use of energy. The increasing world population inevitably causes an increase in the demand for energy, which, on the one hand, threatens us with the potential to encounter a shortage of energy supply, and, on the other hand, causes the deterioration of the environment. Therefore, our task is to reduce this demand through different innovative solutions (i.e., both technological and social). Social marketing and economic policies can also play their role by affecting the behavior of households and companies and by causing behavioral change oriented to energy stewardship, with an overall switch to renewable energy resources. This reprint provides a platform for the exchange of a wide range of ideas, which, ultimately, would facilitate driving societies toward long-term energy efficiency.
    Keywords: natural resources ; globalization ; energy ; nonparametric causality in quantiles ; energy security ; power market ; near-zero emission technologies ; oxy-fuel combustion cycles ; emission rights sales mechanism ; economic assessment ; Oil Companies ; innovations ; investments in R&amp ; D ; forecasting the Innovation activities ; industry 4.0 ; Agenda 2030 ; sustainable human development ; measuring development ; energy sustainability ; indirect measurement ; composed indexes ; forecasting ; linear regression ; planning ; polynomial regression ; power supply ; green building ; housing projects management ; sustainable construction ; renewable energy sources ; real estate developers ; deviation ; energy dependence ; energy efficiency management ; energy saving ; cost ; risk limit ; energy industry ; energy supply ; energy intensity ; energy efficiency ; energy industry risks ; dilemma ; development ; Kazakhstan ; energy transitions ; Latin America ; power system ; sustainability ; economic growth ; pollution ; renewable energy ; oil and gas industry ; investments ; rating ; competitiveness ; financial analysis ; risk ; profitability ; merchandising technologies ; correlation ; scenario ; social development ; optimization ; investment ; financial portfolio ; financial leverage ; integral rating ; industry rating ; high-tech company ; decision-making ; minimax ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: This reprint explores the challenges faced by Europe as it transitions to renewable energy sources to reduce carbon emissions and enhance energy security. With 10 articles covering various countries and sectors, the book delves into issues such as solar and wind energy intermittency, the role of energy policies, and the integration of energy grids and markets. The collection also includes studies on the impact of energy policies on residential energy efficiency, the use of financial incentives for eco-friendly housing, and the benefits of district heating. The reprint aims to provide policymakers, academics, and practitioners with valuable insights into the current state of renewable energy in Europe and the policies and actions that can be taken to achieve a sustainable energy future.
    Keywords: energy efficiency ; econometrics ; EPCs ; incentive policies ; Portugal ; natural gas ; carbon dioxide emissions ; economic growth ; consumption of renewables ; renewable energy ; energy transition ; energy security ; energy policies ; electricity prices ; biofuel ; levelized cost of heat ; heat supply ; thermal energy ; delivery costs ; environmental tax rates ; solid fuel boiler ; clean technologies ; financial development ; pollutant emission ; renewable energy consumption ; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) ; coal supply ; model of production type ; flow representation ; domestic production and imports ; district heating ; combined heat and power ; review ; energy policy ; eco-friendly houses ; energy economics ; Lisbon ; sustainability ; statistical analysis ; sustainable development ; green investment ; green growth ; green energy ; electromobility ; development conditions ; market sectors ; data analysis ; statistical methods ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Water resource management includes the consideration of all disciplines of hydrology and water sources. Water supplies are allocated and diverted to cover the water needs of a range of agricultural, municipal, industrial, hydro-electrical, and ecological water uses. These water uses are, usually, very competitive, as the available water resources are limited and it is not possible to cover the total water needs in a basin, requiring the setting of water use priorities to best serve societal and ecological needs. To manage the water resources and waterworks may, sometimes, lead to confrontational deliberations and negotiations. As a result, water resource management is one of the world’s greatest challenges due to competition for limited resources, regional disparities in water supply and affluence, mounting global water demand, aquifer depletion, and pollution- and climate-change-induced water stress. Proper policy and governance for sustainable water resource management is essential and require new fresh ideas, innovation, and international cooperation. This book includes seven papers by invited renowned researchers and engineers to cover issues of water resource management, governance, and policy. These issues include the following topics: Integrated water resource management; Water resource systems and water availability; National and international water policy, institutional arrangements, and water law; Water conflict resolution, public participation, and decision making; Water resource management, policy and governance in socially and environmentally sensitive areas and regions.
    Keywords: water allocation ; planning ; river/reservoir systems ; water availability modeling ; global change ; integrated assessment modelling ; system dynamics simulation ; water resources management ; water supply ; climate change ; earth system ; feedback ; conflicts ; environmental flows ; small-scale hydropower projects ; institutional change ; nestedness ; governance mode ; legal pluralism ; mulberry-dyke-fish pond ecosystem ; spatial evolution analysis ; remote sensing ; Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area ; prolonged drought ; scarcity ; indicators ; transboundary river basins ; Iberian Peninsula ; climate crisis ; water adaptation ; Greece ; Koronia lake ; sustainability ; Mygdonia Basin ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Due to its low adaptability to climate change, the MENA region has become a "hot spot". Water scarcity, extreme heat, drought, and crop failure will worsen as the region becomes more urbanized and industrialized. Both water and food scarcity are made worse by civil wars, terrorism, and political and social unrest. It is unclear how climate change will affect the MENA water–food–energy nexus. All of these concerns need to be empirically evaluated and quantified for a full climate change assessment in the region. Policymakers in the MENA region need to be aware of this interconnection between population growth, rapid urbanization, food safety, climate change, and the global goal of lowering greenhouse gas emissions (as planned in COP27). Researchers from a wide range of disciplines have come together in this SI to investigate the connections between water, food, energy, and climate in the region. By assessing the impacts of climate change on hydrological processes, natural disasters, water supply, energy production and demand, and environmental impacts in the region, this SI will aid in implementation of sustainable solutions to these challenges across multiple spatial scales.
    Keywords: drought ; flood ; standard precipitation index ; rainfall anomaly index ; soil conservation service-curve number ; high-heat devices ; electronics cooling ; thermal management ; CFD ; heat transfer enhancement ; microchannels ; inserts ; greenhouse gases ; geospatial analysis ; remote sensing ; Arabian Peninsula ; climate change ; rainwater harvesting ; arid areas ; metrologic analysis ; hydrologic modeling ; AHP ; decolorization ; direct red-81 ; graphene ; methylene blue ; nitrate reductases ; operating parameters ; zero-valent iron ; water pricing ; urban infrastructure ; multi-block pricing ; externality costing ; single-block pricing ; urban warming ; urban bias ; land surface temperature ; MODIS ; GAIA dataset ; Mann–Kendall test ; Theil–Sen estimator ; CO2 absorption ; MEA ; membrane contactor ; porosity ; pore size ; natural convection ; melting PCM ; enthalpy-porosity method ; mushy zone parameter ; adsorption ; membrane ; adsorptive membrane ; activated carbon ; dye removal ; hybrid membrane ; solar concentrator ; thermal ; helical rotating shaft ; active methods ; GIS ; Nile Delta region ; modified DRASTIC-LU ; groundwater vulnerability ; geospatial technique ; energy hub ; cogeneration systems ; Archimedes optimization algorithm ; sustainable ; emissions ; water management ; irrigation water requirements ; CROPWAT model ; numerical simulation ; turbulent flow ; plate heat exchanger ; sand and dust storms ; hydrology ; surface and ground water changes ; spatial-temporal analysis ; Middle East ; assessment ; protection structures ; inundation ; hazards ; shoreline changes ; Nile Delta ; modeling ; biogas ; methane ; landfill of Mohammedia ; upgrading ; gold nanoparticles ; instant nanosynthesis ; urchin-shaped nanogold ; green capping agent ; biocompatible nanogold ; groundwater salinization ; ion ratios ; stable isotopes ; seawater mixing index (SMI) ; northwest coast ; weighted overlay model ; analytical hierarchical process (ahp) ; thematic layers ; biochar ; croplands and rangelands ; carbon sequestration ; organic manures ; aquaculture ; sustainability ; Egypt ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In order to build a promising future, health and sustainability must be interelated. Marine, forestry, agriculture, and food systems are important sources of bioproducts used in health applications. To explore the potential of such sources for the development of natural products capable of biological activities, it is necessary to develop new technologically sustainable strategies. Despite the range of natural compounds already available, there is a need to identify bioactive molecules (e.g., polysaccharides, proteins and peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and polyphenols) from different natural sources with positive health properties, including antihypertensive, antidiabetic, anti-obesity, antimicrobial, anti-atherosclerotic, antioxidant, antithrombotic, immune-modulatory, relaxing, and satiety-inducing effects. The Second Edition of this Special Issue aimed to identify and gather works on the latest varied sources of bioproducts, the biological and functional activities of these bioactive compounds, their mechanisms of action, and the methods used for extraction and purification, without losing our focus on alignment with the concept of green technology.
    Keywords: Lavandula coronopifolia ; Culex pipiens ; larvicidal ; antibiofilm formation ; LC-MS/MS ; molecular networking ; valonea tannin ; hydrolysable tannin ; tyrosinase ; enzyme binding ; enzyme inhibition ; inhibition mechanism ; grape by-products ; ohmic heating ; conventional methods ; biological properties ; phenolic compounds ; anthocyanins ; antimicrobial ; antioxidant activity ; honey ; wound-healing ; antioxidant ; hydrogels ; dermal repair ; hydrogel ; jackfruit seeds flour ; functional properties ; dietary fiber ; prebiotic ; anticancer activity ; bacteriophage ; endolysin ; enzybiotics ; biopreservation ; anti-hypertensive ; proteins ; sustainability ; marine species ; marine hydrolysates ; gastrointestinal health ; natural anti-inflammatory ; natural antioxidant ; natural anti-cancer ; nutraceutical ; watercress ; ADME ; apoptosis ; Bursatella leachii ink ; caspase ; target prediction ; TP53 ; liver cancer ; HIF-1α ; hypoxia ; metastasis ; angiogenesis ; cancer stem cells ; natural compounds ; synthetic drugs ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TC Biochemical engineering::TCB Biotechnology
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    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Description: This reprint is the result of a Special Issue, which took place in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) during 2022-2023. The general topic of the reprint discusses the different uses, protection and promotion of food, always from a broad perspective, through 15 innovative research papers, from both qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches.
    Keywords: health ; values and preferences ; red meat ; processed meat ; cross-sectional study ; mixed methods ; explanatory sequential ; survey ; food consumption ; well-being ; dietary patterns ; sustainable consumption ; consumer behaviour ; food well-being ; subjective well-being ; social influence ; food choice ; climate-friendly eating ; social media ; political consumerism ; children’s health ; functional diversity ; commensality ; self-esteem ; shame ; loneliness ; aquaculture ; food heritage ; carp ; consumer preferences of Young Adult Populations ; marketing place ; sustainability ; consumer attitudes ; organic food ; consumer behavior ; sustainable food ; food surveys ; food change ; food policies ; sociology of food ; obesity ; edible insects ; alternative proteins ; planetary health ; systematic review ; gastronomic routes ; Iberian ham ; olive oil ; wine ; Córdoba ; ARIMA ; food ; gastronomic tourism ; social media data ; outdoor dining environment preference ; rural restaurants ; human-oriented ; rural sustainable development ; food label ; consumer purchase intention ; attitude ; food delivery app ; online food delivery ; online-to-offline (O2O) ; COVID-19 ; post-pandemic ; thematic review ; food preferences ; entomophagy ; nutrition surveys ; food neophobia ; cultural domains ; pile sorts ; food risk ; trust ; distrust ; pregnancy ; breastfeeding ; prehabilitation ; ERAS ; endometrial cancer ; surgery ; protein supplementation ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCV Food & society
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: This Special Issue on MNEs, sustainability, and innovation contains a collection of 13 papers that address several subjects that are on related themes. The authors of these contributions study the boundaries of the previous literature on these relevant topics by providing insightful findings and review, as well as proposals for future research ideas in various contexts. For this Special Issue, we invited both conceptual and (qualitative and quantitative) empirical articles, as well as literature reviews and meta-analysis articles from a range of fields; these included not only business and management, but also sociology, political science, psychology, economics, and economic geography, among others.
    Keywords: multinational ; enterprise ; foreign ; direct ; investment ; sustainability ; innovation ; sustainable ; international ; business ; practices ; corporate ; social ; and ; environmental ; responsibility ; human ; resources ; emerging ; frontier ; markets ; advanced ; markets/countries ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-20
    Description: The focus of this reprint is on environmental planning and modeling. It examines articles on green consumption, biodiversity, and household waste recycling, as well as presenting a review of the trend in publications on household waste recycling. A number of country-based applications are presented and models are used to show how multiple perspectives can be considered in policy making. This reprint will be of special interest to researchers and readers involved in sustainability management. Further, although some chapters present models to solve sustainability problems, they also share policy and decision-making frameworks for applying such models.
    Keywords: bibliometric analysis ; bibliometrix ; household recycling ; research trends ; science mapping ; waste management ; analytic hierarchy process (AHP) ; ecosystem management ; expert opinion ; environmental planning and modeling ; rights-based tool ; multi-criteria decision making ; optimisation ; sustainability ; SWAT model ; water quality ; hydrology ; fertilizer application ; Songkhla Lake Basin ; green consumption ; environmental change ; environmental regulation ; social welfare ; APEX ; open-source software ; QGIS ; QAPEX ; best management practice ; LDC ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-20
    Description: This book highlights the latest research findings on sustainability within the context of consumer behaviour. It brings together the collaborative work of researchers from Finland, Denmark, USA, the Netherland, Mexico, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and China to improve our understanding on consumer behaviour and its relationship with sustainable resource consumption. The thirteen chapters in this book focus on different aspects of consumer behaviour and sustainability, including purchase intentions towards recycled products, environment fit hospitality experiences, purchase intentions of recycling items, consumer loyalty, electric vehicle market consumption, consumption of the educational products, revisit intention, online complaint behaviour, consumer and CSR, eco-friendly behaviour, brand trust and social media consumer communication.
    Keywords: recreationist-environment fit ; guests’ satisfaction ; revisit intention ; guest’ pro-environmental behavior ; green-hotel ; electric vehicle ; theory of planned behavior ; unified theory of acceptance and use of technology ; perceived risk ; intention to use ; religious tourism ; 100 religious attractions ; destination marketing ; consumer behavior ; emotion ; information ; social media ; sustainability practices ; cotton apparel ; sustainable fashion ; dispositional optimism ; explanatory optimism ; eco-friendly tourist behavior ; positive psychology ; green consumer behavior ; customer satisfaction ; online consumer complaining behavior ; hospitality ; cultural differences ; TripAdvisor ; Vietnam ; destination image ; destination regeneration ; consumer ; recycled products ; purchase intention ; VBN theory ; structural equation modeling ; SmartPLS ; corporate social responsibility ; community-based CSR ; community perspectives ; hotel ; legitimacy theory ; entrepreneurial self-efficacy ; perceived lecturers’ entrepreneurial competency ; perceived social support ; entrepreneurial attitude orientation ; flow experience ; loyalty ; GTTT ; electric vehicles ; fashion consciousness ; leadership consciousness ; environmental consciousness ; price consciousness ; interpersonal influence ; market disruption ; luxury ; pre-owned ; purchasing behavior ; second-hand ; sustainability ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: This Special Issue aims to highlight how plant breeding could contribute to strengthening sustainability in field crop production by integrating the application of modern technologies and tools. This Reprint contains eleven articles focusing on the most recent topic of plant breeding.
    Keywords: target-site resistance ; ahas ; als ; Triazolopyrimidine herbicide ; Lolium rigidum ; winter cereals ; CO2 enrichment ; drought stress ; WUE ; climate change ; Helianthus ; sunflower ; morphological ; sustainable ; glyphosate ; pesticide ; residue ; pollution ; weed control ; organic plant production ; barley ; Pyrenophora teres f. teres ; net blotch disease ; biotic stress ; superoxide dismutase ; antioxidant enzyme ; cereals ; water shortage ; carbon dioxide ; root development ; Triticum aestivum L. ; wheat ; seed germination ; seedling development ; germination time ; low-temperature stress ; leaf discolouration ; seedling stage ; SSR markers ; near-isogenic line ; rice (Oryza sativa L.) ; pepper ; general defence response ; tissue retention ; hypersensitivity response ; resistance breeding ; Agrobacterium-mediated transformation ; functional genomics ; Solanum lycopersicum L. ; Micro-Tom ; DsRed fluorescence ; Agrobacterium rhizogenes ; soil salinity stress ; adaptation ; environmental share ; interaction ; plant breeding ; sustainability ; pepper breeding ; bacterial spot resistance ; Xanthomonas hortorum pv. gardneri ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Biocatalysis is a sustainable alternative for the chemical industry in manufacturing, monitoring, and waste management. Biocatalytic processes perform with isolated enzymes or whole cells as biocatalysts. Whole-cell biocatalysts offer some unique advantages of cascade reactions catalyzed by multienzymes as well as a single bioredox reaction with cofactor regeneration in a single strain. Therefore, whole-cell biocatalysts are widely applied for biosynthesis/biotransformation to produce value-added chemicals as well as the complete mineralization of organic pollutants.Biological catalytic processing using whole-cell biocatalysts includes biocatalyst engineering, bio-reaction engineering, and downstream processing. In addition to the traditional screening of microbial strains and immobilized whole-cell biocatalysts, modern genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology make tailored whole-cell biocatalysts possible. At the same time, some integrated processes have successfully been applied in the catalytic processing using living whole-cell biocatalysts, such as harnessing biocompatible chemistry to interface with the microbial metabolism as well as using various separation techniques for in situ product removal.This reprint on “Microbial Biocatalysis” provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments of catalyst discovery, catalyst modification, and process intensification for whole cell catalysis in fermentation, biotransformation or biodegradation processes.
    Keywords: C058 ; mycelium biofloc ; extracellular polymeric substances ; microcosmic structure ; microflora composition ; acetophenone tolerance ; whole-cell catalyst ; directed evolution ; (R)-1-phenylethanol ; short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase ; trans-cinnamic acid ; p-coumaric acid ; phenylalanine ammonia-lyase ; whole-cell biotransformation ; phenol ; metabolites ; whole genome sequencing ; xenobiotics ; atrazine ; Arthrobacter sp. ST11 ; biodegradation ; nonaqueous-phase liquid ; cadmium ; α-ketoglutaric acid biosynthesis ; Yarrowia lipolytica ; glycerol ; rapeseed oil ; culture conditions optimization ; rabeprazole ; sulfide ; biotransformation ; Cunninghamella blakesleeana 3.970 ; O-demethylation rabeprazole sulfide ; microbial transformation ; phytosterols ; Pickering emulsion ; phase inversion ; plant oil ; α-amylase ; starch hydrolysis ; marine enzymes ; Persian Gulf ; Streptomyces noursei ; nysfungin ; nystatin A1 ; nystatin A3 ; polyfungin B ; UV mutagenesis ; DHEA ; C7-hydroxylation ; Gibberella sp. ; Absidia coerulea ; biopolymers ; aerobic composting ; sustainability ; depolymerization ; enzymes ; nitrilase ; cell immobilization ; nicotinic acid ; reaction optimization ; semi-continuous packed-bed bioreactor ; diclofenac ; immobilization ; toxicity ; sewage treatment ; laccase ; multifunctional enzymes ; secondary metabolic ; synthases ; post-modifying enzymes ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TC Biochemical engineering::TCB Biotechnology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The digital economy has significantly impacted countries throughout the world by contributing to the growth of the economy and the further progress of societies. Recent developments demonstrate that the information and innovation-driven era triggered integration of traditional activities and digital technologies. Moreover, the rise of innovation has been accelerating in emerging industries such as cleantech, the new generation of information technology, biotechnology, and high-end equipment manufacturing. The estimations provided by the World Economic Forum predict that “new value creation over the next decade will be based on digitally enabled platform business models”. Therefore, organizations must change the traditional approaches adopted and capture value in the context of digital disruptions. These tendencies raise a number of management challenges that need to be solved by the efforts of the scientific community. Therefore, this Special Issue provides the platform for a fruitful discussion and the development of relevant theories.
    Keywords: leadership behaviors ; e-training ; employment security ; stress management ; employee performance ; teaching staff ; digitalisation ; hospital ; optimisation of resources ; equipment/facilities ; COVID-19 ; benefits ; savings ; leadership styles ; high-involvement human resource management practices ; small and medium enterprises ; digital era ; active learning ; growth mindset ; self-efficacy ; engagement of employees ; adaptive performance ; innovation management ; digital entrepreneurship ; creative industries ; tourism ; creative entrepreneurship ; research agenda ; e-government ; digital management ; e-leadership ; technologies ; municipalities ; stablecoins ; risks in business economics and finance ; digital trading and investment platforms ; economic sanctions ; digital currencies ; customer loyalty ; perceived service quality ; relational benefits ; relationship quality ; sustainability ; bibliometric analysis ; Scopus ; digital transformation ; labor market ; labor productivity ; unemployment ; Saudi Arabia ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This reprint covers the latest developments in the field of eco-polymeric materials and natural polymer processing and utilization, highlighting cutting-edge research focusing on the processing of advanced polymers and their composites. It demonstrates that the field of eco-polymeric materials and natural polymers is still gaining increased attention. Innovative approaches as well as advanced applications of eco-polymeric materials and natural polymers in different fields, such as energy, environment, biomedical, biomaterial, and engineering, are reported in this reprint.
    Keywords: outdoor wood mats-based engineering composite ; wood-degrading fungi ; decay resistance ; durability ; nanohydrogels ; citral ; sustained-release ; mechanism ; bamboo ; anti-mould ; rosin modification ; round bamboo culm ; visual characteristics ; eye tracking ; surfactant ; urea-formaldehyde resin ; laminated bamboo veneer ; gluability ; wood–plastic composites ; heat transfer modeling ; sweet sorghum ; high-density polyethylene ; hot-pressing ; fibrovascular bundle ; salacca frond ; modified orientation board ; citric acid ; Aquilaria crassna wood ; natural rubber ; antifungal ; lignin ; proteins ; compression performance ; load–displacement curves ; digital image correlation (DIC) ; failure mode ; coupling agent ; interfacial bonding ; oriented strand–thermoplastic composites ; wood veneer–thermoplastic composites ; cross-laminated timber ; stability coefficient ; axial compression ; timber structures ; slenderness ratio ; Chinese pine wood ; pine needles ; bamboo culms ; bamboo leaves ; industrial hemp hurd ; CMC ; DS ; mechanical properties ; TG ; XRD ; FTIR ; chitosan ; tartaric acid ; nanocrystal ; self-assembly ; evaporation ; dehydration of crystallization ; biopolymers ; sustainability ; emergy accounting ; polyhydoxyalkanoates ; slaughterhouse residues ; poly(lactic acid) ; impact modifier ; polymer blends ; properties ; multilayered bamboo fiber ; topochemistry ; microscopic imaging ; gradient micromechanics ; core–shell structure ; hydrogel ; double load ; response surface ; acidic treatment ; colour ; mould-resistant ; starch ; Phyllostachys pubescens ; fibre ; lignification ; micro-morphological regions of cell wall ; syringyl lignin ; guaiacyl lignin ; visible-light spectrophotometry ; electrochemical method ; moisture content ; shrinkage strain ; wood water loss ; konjac glucomannan ; oxidized hyaluronic acid ; hydrogels ; tung oil ; thermal treatment ; color ; cellulose fibers ; adsorption ; Cr(VI) ; sulfhydryl-modified ; water resistance ; bamboo scrimber composite ; bonding interface ; polymer soil consolidation agent ; preparation conditions ; consolidated adhesive film ; compressive strength ; seedling transplanting ; chemical change ; thermal property ; delignification ; pyrolysis ; bamboo microstructure ; shear performance ; test methods ; moso bamboo ; fracture behavior ; shearing characteristics ; transparent bamboo ; optical properties ; functionalization and application ; glycerin ; sodium alginate ; tensile strength ; elongation at break ; poplar ; cell walls ; cross-linking modification ; wood properties ; egg white hydrogel ; dual cross-linking ; metal ions ; secondary structure ; biocompatibility ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TG Mechanical engineering and materials::TGM Materials science
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-02
    Description: This reprint examines regulatory, pricing and reimbursement issues related to the market access and uptake of off-patent biologics, biosimilars, next-generation biologics and competing innovative medicines in European countries.
    Keywords: infliximab ; etanercept ; TNFα inhibitors ; biologics ; biosimilars ; Germany ; policies ; incentives ; uptake ; market dynamics ; biosimilar market ; biosimilar/supply and distribution ; biosimilar sustainability ; Delphi technique ; pricing ; reimbursement ; utilization ; biosimilar ; biological ; information ; education ; communication ; patient ; Europe ; adalimumab ; biosimilarity assessment ; quality attributes (QAs) ; potentially critical quality attributes (pCQAs) ; European public assessment reports (EPARs) ; clinical governance ; Spain ; barriers ; regulatory ; review ; approval ; clinical ; queries ; regulatory science ; budget impact analysis ; savings ; pharmaceutical spending ; cost containment ; reference biological ; competitive market ; Belgium ; trastuzumab ; intravenous ; subcutaneous ; HER2-positive breast cancer ; drug costs ; healthcare costs ; cost simulation ; tender ; procurement ; off-patent ; award criteria ; switching ; interchangeability ; sustainability ; competition ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KND Manufacturing industries::KNDP Pharmaceutical industries
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: This book highlights the role of research in Ecosystem Services and Land Use Changes in Asia. The contributions include case studies that explore the impacts of direct and indirect drivers affecting provision of ecosystem services in Asian countries, including China, India, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Findings from these empirical studies contribute to developing sustainability in Asia at both local and regional scales.
    Keywords: coast ; Odisha ; Brahmani River ; climate resilience ; water management ; water quality ; hydrological simulation ; management plan ; water-energy nexus ; spatial water variability ; climate change ; thermal power plant ; Ganges River basin ; 3Rs program ; landscape sustainability ; municipal solid waste ; pig farming ; resource circulation ; resource use efficiency ; urban–rural nexus ; zero-waste lifestyle ; herder ; rangeland degradation ; perception ; traditional rangeland management practices ; Mongolia ; expansion of impervious surface ; underground space development ; deep soil excavation ; SOC loss in deep soil ; urban renovation ; Guangzhou city ; ecological sensitivity ; ecosystem service values ; CA-Markov model ; urban expansion ; Three Gorges Reservoir area ; land use ; ecosystem services ; InVEST ; topographic index ; ecosystem pattern ; wetland ecosystem ; urban wetland ; wetland ecosystem services ; Muthurajawela Marsh ; Negombo Lagoon ; sustainability ; land change modeling ; scenario modeling ; wind erosion prevention service ; revised wind erosion equation ; geo-detector ; food-energy-water security ; nexus ; weighted mean method ; indicator framework ; circulating ecological sphere ; Nagpur ; land use change ; ecosystem service value ; patch-general land use simulation (PLUS) model ; Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration ; heat stress ; WBGT index ; humidex index ; public perceptions ; payment for watershed ecosystem services ; willingness to pay ; willingness to accept ; public participation ; village tank cascade system ; land use systems ; ecosystem services mapping ; ecosystem services trade-offs ; ecosystem services-based ecological restoration ; land-use change ; hotspot analysis ; Geodetector ; central Yunnan urban agglomeration ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and environmental changes adversely impact agricultural productivity. This Special Issue explores opportunities and challenges towards achieving more sustainable food systems. Essential changes required in food systems are highlighted, such as more effective food distribution, the avoidance or valorisation of food waste, and less meat consumption. How to actually achieve these required changes across food value chains is also presented. This Special Issue supports solution-oriented approaches towards addressing one of most complex challenges of this century. The reader is invited to study the publications included in this Special Issue in detail.
    Keywords: consumer attitudes ; meat avoiders ; meat reducers ; environmental concerns ; global warming ; climate change ; sustainability ; ecology ; planetary health ; food security ; land ; land use consolidation ; land-use planning ; land tenure ; rural development ; Rwanda ; tenure responsive ; tenure responsive land-use planning ; tenure security ; demographic correlates ; food access ; household ; food insecurity experience scale ; Zanzibar ; sub-Saharan Africa ; vulnerability of food systems ; food neophobia ; environmental concern ; global environmental change ; behavior change ; willingness to pay (WTP) ; organic foods ; China ; Bibliometrics ; food rescue ; convention center ; greenhouse gas emissions ; landfill diversion ; anaerobic digestion ; codigestion ; food waste ; organic waste ; energy and resource recovery ; food waste disposal ; loss aversion ; dead hogs ; policy evaluation ; hog production ; chilli pepper ; organic manure ; application rate ; elevated temperature ; rain-shelter plastic house ; greenhouse ; field ; maize ; agrobiodiversity ; traditional food systems ; local knowledge ; cultural practices ; sustainable agriculture ; supply chain coordination ; supply chain sustainability ; livestock industry ; guanxi ; trust ; dynamic environment ; repeated purchase intention ; agricultural food system ; food policy ; food system sustainability ; urban agriculture ; local development ; food governance ; stakeholder engagement ; food systems ; global food regimes ; innovation ; political–economy ; social–ecological systems ; transformation ; regime shifts ; resilience ; sustainability in the food sector ; food supply chains ; food insecurity ; food waste and loss ; innovation and change ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: The aim of this reprint is to provide more awareness of the use of biobased polymers and biomaterials in numerous aspects of our daily-used items. This reprint presents recent progress in the preparation of biobased composite materials utilizing biopolymers and biomaterials for potential multifaceted applications.
    Keywords: biopolymers ; intelligent food packaging ; bioactive natural compounds ; biodegradable ; shelf-life ; sustainability ; alginate ; drug delivery system ; formulations ; administration route ; controlled release ; wound healing ; extraction methods ; biopolymer blend electrolyte ; EIS and FTIR ; ion transport parameters ; complex permittivity ; LSV and TNM measurements ; chitosan ; natural polymer ; biomedical applications ; drug delivery ; tissue engineering ; gelatine hydrogel ; laccase detection ; inhibitor screening ; substrate specificity screening ; storage stability ; microbial cultivation ; hydrogel dressings ; licorice root extract ; silver nanoparticles ; wettability ; cytotoxicity ; tensile strength ; sorption ability ; natural gums ; polysaccharides ; edible polymers ; coating and film ; active packaging ; curcumin nanoemulsion ; cheese ; ultrasound ; SEM ; self-life and sensory analysis ; biomimetic materials ; bone defect ; chemical elements ; polymers ; phosphate adsorption ; zeolite ; ZrO ; Fe3O4 ; Box–Behnken design ; mechanical stability ; oxygen delivery ; cardioplegic solution ; α-cyclodextrin ; cyclic nigerosyl-nigerose ; nanosponges ; prolonged release ; hypothermia ; organ transplantation ; organ explantation ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The provision of affordable housing for low-income households is a very complex issue that has long been debated in many countries around the world. Social housing (SH) is one of the tools for achieving fairness, social sustainability, and economic feasibility, and it is interrelated with politics, ethics, and economics, as well as the environment, architecture, and technology. In other words, national and local policies, as well as public and private financial resources, are all needed to provide SH.SH also involves social and urban transformations and is, consequently, linked to urban planning and redevelopment projects, real estate market dynamics, and cooperation between public and private stakeholders. Furthermore, decision-making on SH policies and projects has to be supported by assessments of economic feasibility and social and environmental sustainability.This volume presents studies on various topics to recompose the multi-faceted subjects of social housing within a unified framework.
    Keywords: real estate appraisal ; capital gain ; financial feasibility ; economic sustainability ; public–private partnership ; risk assessment ; social housing ; urban regeneration ; urban rent ; affordable prices ; discounted cash flow analysis ; road infrastructures ; social sustainability ; mass appraisal ; Regional Strategic Intervention Programs ; multi-criteria analysis ; stakeholder analysis ; NAIADE method ; public housing neighborhoods ; project-induced effects ; assessment framework ; multi-criteria decision-making model ; housing affordability ; housing policy ; affordable housing ; Malaysia ; young adults ; renters ; housing costs ; parental supports ; discriminant analysis ; regression analysis ; independent living ; Nigeria ; strategies ; housing tenure ; low-income earners ; sustainability ; critical junctures ; housing delivery ; public-private partnership ; Vision 2030 ; Saudi Arabia ; affordable rent ; cluster analysis ; social fairness ; community acceptance ; housing accessibility ; India ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The sustainable development of agriculture is not only dependent on economics and policy but also relies on decisions to increase sustainability through either (1) specialization (e.g., sustainable intensification) or (2) diversification (e.g., ecological intensification). Understanding the historical context of the region being evaluated is critical to selecting ideal development strategies. Depending on the emphasis on either specialization or diversification, sustainable development can follow different pathways. Specialization during agricultural development is typically concentrated in specific geographic areas with comparative advantages in terms of agricultural production. However, tradeoffs to agricultural specialization include greater reliance on purchased external inputs, greater dependence on government support, and international and interregional interdependence. Addressing the economic and environmental challenges of specialized agricultural production requires a focus on detailed models and field experiments to help balance productivity with reduced environmental impacts. Diversification can incorporate both enterprise diversification as well as ecological intensification strategies, such as integrating livestock and agroforestry with crops. Despite the promises of maintaining the diversity of small shareholders in the developing world, challenges remain. Regional case studies can be used to inspire and implement diversified agricultural systems for the creation of more sustainable future food systems around the world.
    Keywords: consumers’ food preference ; contingent valuation ; purchasing power ; market prospects ; rural economy ; sustainability ; agricultural development ; agricultural economic cycle ; agricultural policies ; binary outcome models ; off-farm ; rural development ; principal component analysis ; wage employment ; child health ; commercialization potential ; conservation status ; livelihood ; policy ; sustainable ; agricultural mechanization ; structural equation model (SEM) ; partial least square (PLS) ; affecting factors ; agri-food supply chain ; almond nuts ; export demand ; retaliatory tariff policy ; feed brand loyalty ; switching behavior of egg producers ; egg-producing farmers ; logistic regression ; edible beans ; planting behavior ; high quality ; multilevel model ; determinants ; China ; “Belt and Road” ; agriculture products ; trade structure ; social networks ; QAP ; content-based analysis ; media coverage ; spatiotemporal distribution ; sustainability trade-offs ; Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy ; industry chain ; government grants ; technological innovation in agricultural enterprises ; R&D investment ; fast growing tree plantations ; inherently nutrient-poor soil ; improved germplasms ; increased stand wood biomass ; healthier soils ; sustainable development goals ; diversity indexes ; cultivars ; livestock breeds ; Maine ; climate change ; farm irrigation facilities ; agriculture total factor productivity (TFP) ; technical advancement ; roadside vegetation ; reduced mowing ; pollinators ; ecotypic seed ; native plant material ; human food ; Opuntia stricta ; organic production ; non-conventional vegetable ; soluble solids ; agrometeorological modeling ; multiple linear regression ; statistical model ; sugarcane ; yield prediction ; agricultural frontier ; Brazil ; land conversion ; land use ; southern Amazon ; supervised classification ; Teles Pires River ; territorial dynamics ; agricultural education ; agricultural producers ; agricultural professionals ; education and learning processes ; questionnaires ; rural extension ; environmental impact ; soil conservation ; water erosion prediction ; watershed ; WEPP parameters ; Amazon ; beef ; deforestation ; environmental impacts ; greenhouse gases ; livestock intensification strategies ; Cerrado-Amazon ; crops ; geoprocessing ; GIS ; mapping ; rainfall simulator ; satellite images ; soil erosion ; ecological forest ranger ; policy satisfaction ; fuzzy set ; qualitative comparative analysis ; influencing factors ; Amazonia ; Google Earth Engine ; hydro-sedimentology ; reflectance ; satellite imagery ; available water capacity ; hydraulic conductivity ; pore distribution curve ; retention curve ; soil texture ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The provision of affordable housing for low-income households is a very complex issue that has long been debated in many countries around the world. Social housing (SH) is one of the tools for achieving fairness, social sustainability, and economic feasibility, and it is interrelated with politics, ethics, and economics, as well as the environment, architecture, and technology. In other words, national and local policies, as well as public and private financial resources, are all needed to provide SH.SH also involves social and urban transformations and is, consequently, linked to urban planning and redevelopment projects, real estate market dynamics, and cooperation between public and private stakeholders. Furthermore, decision-making on SH policies and projects has to be supported by assessments of economic feasibility and social and environmental sustainability.This volume presents studies on various topics to recompose the multi-faceted subjects of social housing within a unified framework.
    Keywords: real estate appraisal ; capital gain ; financial feasibility ; economic sustainability ; public–private partnership ; risk assessment ; social housing ; urban regeneration ; urban rent ; affordable prices ; discounted cash flow analysis ; road infrastructures ; social sustainability ; mass appraisal ; Regional Strategic Intervention Programs ; multi-criteria analysis ; stakeholder analysis ; NAIADE method ; public housing neighborhoods ; project-induced effects ; assessment framework ; multi-criteria decision-making model ; housing affordability ; housing policy ; affordable housing ; Malaysia ; young adults ; renters ; housing costs ; parental supports ; discriminant analysis ; regression analysis ; independent living ; Nigeria ; strategies ; housing tenure ; low-income earners ; sustainability ; critical junctures ; housing delivery ; public-private partnership ; Vision 2030 ; Saudi Arabia ; affordable rent ; cluster analysis ; social fairness ; community acceptance ; housing accessibility ; India ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: This reprint is devoted to fundamental and applied research in the field of implementing the principles of the circular economy in energy transition, and it substantiates the need for its transformation in the context of sustainable development. Of particular interest are promising areas for the use of secondary energy resources in the economy to create closed production cycles. Specific technologies are considered, and their environmental and economic assessments of scenarios for the introduction of low-carbon technologies in the circular economy, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through the introduction of a circular economy, and the development of regional cooperation are given. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of using eco-innovations for the national transition to decarbonization in the integrated European energy system, Green intellectual capital as a support for corporate environmental development, a sustainable value chain for the industrial consumption of biocomposites, and various options for programs to reduce CO2 emissions.
    Keywords: My Electricity ; photovoltaic (PV) ; LCA ; carbon dioxide emission ; grants ; Poland ; renewable energy ; renewable energy source (RES) ; solar photovoltaic ; self-consumption ; COVID-19 ; energy consumption ; sustainable industrial consumption ; sustainable value chain ; biocomposite ; sustainable packaging ; COVID-19 pandemic influence ; consumer behavior ; green marketing scale ; scale development ; scale validation ; internal marketing ; external marketing ; strategy ; tactics ; operations ; clean technology ; experience circular economy ; rational use ; resource consumption ; sharing model ; green intellectual capital ; green human capital ; green organizational capital ; green relational capital ; environmental development ; sustainable development ; ecology ; innovative development ; decarbonisation ; energy efficiency ; “green” transition ; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) ; factor analysis (FA) ; circular economy (CE) ; sustainability ; sustainable development indicators (SDI) ; European Union (EU) ; circular economy ; European green deal ; industrial symbiosis ; transformation ; green organization ; performance evaluation ; sustainable development goals ; resources ; value chain ; management functions ; sustainability-oriented innovation ; conceptual framework ; energy transition ; energy systems modelling ; islands ; life cycle assessment ; low-carbon heating ; responsible consumption ; green purchase ; purchase intention ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The growing population is forcing us to look for new, more effective solutions to various problems. The rising demand for power, water supply and waste management, pedestrian safety, the efficient use of electric vehicles, traffic jams, commuting, the identification of all road users and prediction of their travel paths, and increasing air and noise levels are the most pressing issues in today’s cities. Advance planning is a feature of green development that reduces dependence on vehicles associated with an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The development of eco-friendly cities includes the development and application of new efficient solutions and technologies, such as efficient transport management, emission control and pollution control, energy efficiency and the usage of renewable energy, resource efficiency, etc., which would ensure a better quality of life of the growing population.
    Keywords: waste management ; sustainability ; eco-friendly city ; design thinking ; infectious waste ; resource efficiency ; communication technology ; beacon ; large-scale ; unmanned vehicle ; ad hoc network ; hybrid routing protocol ; air pollution ; drone ; land survey ; visual recognition algorithm ; fast R-CNN ; dust sensors ; microcontroller ; VMD ; LSTM ; coal thickness ; seismic attribute ; distributed manufacturing ; rescheduling ; memetic algorithm ; arrhythmia ; driving restrictions ; adaptive digital filter ; noninvasive method ; heart rate ; spherical microphone array ; sound source identification ; functional delay and sum beamforming ; denoising ; performance enhancement ; eco-friendly networks ; wireless sensor network ; energy efficiency ; low-power networks ; Markov model ; log-normal fading ; excavator ; typical working condition ; load ; operating data ; energy flow ; mathematic model ; cardiovascular system ; seismography ; modeling ; loader ; bucket fill factor ; material surface three-dimensional information ; regression prediction ; RecurDyn ; EDEM ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNB Energy industries and utilities
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: Achieving success along the entire production and supply chain of a dairy sector depends explicitly on adopting a sustainable 'state of the art' approach. In this regard, understanding key sustainability indicators and challenges with a holistic approach is vital. Appropriate design, application of novel technologies, implementation of life cycle analysis, upgradation and optimization of the entire production line are some of the key factors to be measured. In addition, it is vital that due consideration is given to demands of the producers, consumers, and dependent industries. Nevertheless, concern for the environment, social security and economy of the region should not be ignored. Precise planning ('on-farm' and 'off-farm') assumes importance especially when circular economy strategies needs to be considered. With these as background, this book is focused towards identifying present opportunities and overcoming future sustainability challenges in the global dairy sector.
    Keywords: dairy ; water ; review ; modelling ; water footprint ; agriculture ; feed additive ; methane mitigation ; enteric emissions ; greenhouse gas ; climate change ; LCA ; environmental impacts ; intensification ; technical efficiency ; four-component model ; endogeneity ; input distance function ; meta-frontier ; stochastic frontier analysis ; dairy processing industry ; European Union ; proanthocyanidins ; condensed tannins ; secondary plant metabolites ; methane ; ruminants ; farm ; organization ; governance ; adoption ; agroecology ; practices ; regulation ; Brazil ; ammonia emissions ; dairy cow ; flushing ; freestall barn ; scraping ; heat pump ; dairy farming ; water heater ; ASHP ; ASHPWH ; usable water ; emissions ; sustainability ; farm type ; sustainable management ; small-/medium-scale animal farms ; food science ; customer experience design ; food well-being ; food psychology ; hedonia ; eudaimonia ; meaningful consumption ; artisan products ; local food ; profit cows ; economic sustainability ; knowledge transfer ; production disease ; production disease economics ; emission factor ; enteric fermentation ; gross energy ; milking cows ; dairy industry ; supply chain management ; safety failure factors ; interpretive structural modeling ; MICMAC analysis ; agro-livestock sector ; GHG emissions ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: The externalization of animals’ genetic potential is determined by a number of external factors, of which feeding plays a major role. Animals’ nourishment is one of the most important levers to ensure the efficiency of animal production due to both the high share of feed costs in the total cost of products and the influence this has on the growth, reproduction, and health of animals as well as the quality of products obtained from these. This field is one of the most dynamic in the field of husbandry sciences due to the takeover and permanent use of numerous results obtained from research on energy metabolism and nutrients related to the composition of feed and its influence on animal products. This is also due to the great advances in genetics, which create new types of animals with increasing productive potential, but also with different food requirements. This Special Issue collated innovative papers on animal nutrition, physiology, chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, reproduction, and breeding technologies. The articles covered a wide range of topics related to feed quality, the influence of food on the production level, the quality of production, and also on animals’ health.
    Keywords: carcass yield ; commercial cuts ; low cost ; neutral detergent fiber ; non-fiber carbohydrate ; Yucca schidigera ; antimicrobial ; secondary metabolites ; sustainability ; pollution ; production ; food animals ; Ajuga iva ; chemical composition ; nutritive value ; unconventional feeds ; phenolic ; growing conditions ; dairy buffaloes ; farming environment ; reproductive and productive performances ; feeding trial ; mozzarella cheese ; sensory properties ; alternative feed ; degradability ; fractions ; ram ; sperm quality ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; apparent digestibility ; honey ; quality ; phenolic content ; flavonoid content ; Pearson’s correlation ; female camels ; milk ; minerals ; heavy metals ; winter ; total mixed ration ; paddlefish ; meat quality ; fatty acids ; biological value ; body condition score ; ewes ; reproductive traits ; flushing ; animal production ; genetic diversity ; grey cattle ; mitochondrial DNA ; Podolian cattle ; European catfish ; somatometry ; corporal indice ; flesh yield ; nutritional quality ; lactation ; manganese ; reproductive performance ; sows ; AP monitoring ; IoT ; AP estimation ; decision support ; livestock farming ; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ; meat ; chicken ; duck ; turkey ; phenols ; flavonoids ; FTIR ; rearing system ; birds’ welfare condition ; biochemical analysis ; productive parameters ; food and feed safety ; yeasts and molds ; Salmonella spp. ; Escherichia coli ; Clostridium perfringens ; rabbit ; hare ; lipid health indices ; water-holding capacity ; cooking loss ; egg weight ; shell weight ; fractional reduction ; deletion method ; reproduction ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Description: Plants under natural conditions often face multiple stresses, including drought, salinity, temperature extremes, submergence stress, bacteria, viruses, fungi, insects, etc. These biotic and abiotic stresses negatively influence plant growth and productivity. Various approaches have recently been used to overcome stresses in plants. It is necessary to evaluate and explore how diverse molecular techniques can be applied to different biological studies to improve biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. This will help reduce production losses and increase crop tolerance to various stresses. It is now the time to make a difference by developing plants that can withstand biotic and abiotic stresses.
    Keywords: antioxidants ; drought ; oxidative stress ; pearl millet ; redox implications ; ROS ; chlorophyll fluorescence efficiency ; photosynthetic responses ; enzyme activity ; sugarcane ; smut ; circadian clock ; reactive oxygen species ; Al-induced PCD ; photoperiodism ; peanut ; phylogenetic ; virus-induced gene silencing ; transgenic lines ; physiological and biochemical analysis ; Glycine max L. ; PR proteins ; chitinase ; genome-wide ; plant stresses ; crop residues ; profitability ; soil fertility ; soil biology ; allelopathy ; heat shock protein 20 ; maize ; abiotic stress ; yeast-one-hybrid ; abiotic stresses ; cotton ; hormones ; signaling pathway ; WRKY ; papaya (Carica papaya) ; brassicales ; late embryogenesis abundant protein ; orthogroup ; expression profile ; artificial light ; auxins ; chicory ; callus cells ; inulin ; plant growth regulators ; milk thistle ; secondary metabolites ; ecotypes ; salinity ; growth attributes ; biotic stress ; phenolic compounds ; seaweed ; Dendrobium catenatum ; lipase ; multi-omics ; expression pattern ; gene family ; bio-fertilizer ; ionic homeostasis ; organic amendments ; vermicompost ; cold stress ; PKS5 ; stomatal aperture ; microbiota ; natural farming ; physical factors ; physiological changes ; signal transduction and stressed conditions ; Rhizobium leguminosarum ; PGPR ; Triticum aestivum L. ; cadmium stress ; tolerance ; ascorbate ; glutathione ; malondialdehyde ; chlorophylls ; disease gradient ; disease outbreak ; Puccinia ; wheat stripe rust ; plant epidemic ; dispersal ecology ; alternative plant vitrification solution ; ammonium-free medium ; cytotoxicity ; droplet-vitrification ; endangered species ; liquid overlay ; regrowth medium ; within-plant phenotypic plasticity ; combined stresses ; additive ; antagonistic and synergic effects ; VOCs ; potassium ; soybean ; water logging ; yield ; non-thermal plasma ; plant defense ; glucosinolates ; nitriles ; RNA sequencing ; Arabidopsis thaliana ; Bt toxins ; Cry1Ah1 transgenic poplar ; ecology ; environment ; rhizosphere ; candidate genes ; drought tolerance ; crop improvement ; climate change ; adaptation ; Chenopodium quinoa Willd. ; genotypes ; Sahara ; Algeria ; chitosan ; pathogen ; sustainable ; plant protection ; tomato ; melatonin ; photosynthesis ; climate changes ; antioxidant system ; Malus seedlings ; NaCl treatments ; membrane damage ; osmotic regulation ; archives ; botanical collection ; Greece ; landscape ; pre-rebellion period ; wheat ; priming ; Aspergillus niger ; qRT-PCR ; wilting ; TLP ; β-1,3-glucanase ; biostimulants ; biofertilizers ; soil microorganisms ; phytostimulator ; jewel sweet potato ; shoot tip ; axillary bud ; different MS salts concentration ; micropropagation ; plant performance ; C4 species ; heterozygosity ; transient soil salinity ; soil layers ; desertification ; arid regoins ; total flavonoid ; phenolics ; antioxidant activity ; centella ; Na+ content ; molecular markers ; MAS ; oilseeds ; SSRs ; molecular breeding ; dehydration-responsive element binding (DREB) transcription factors ; gene expression ; mosses ; stress tolerance ; common centaury ; salinity stress ; antioxidative protection ; sodium nitroprusside ; proteomic analysis ; drought stress ; sorghum ; RNS ; RSS ; signaling ; post-translational modification ; microorganisms ; stressful conditions ; sustainability ; nutrition ; Brassicaceae ; Cicer arietinum L. ; chlorophyll a fluorescence transient ; physiological and biochemical traits ; high temperature ; chocolate spot disease ; Botrytis fabae ; faba bean ; antioxidant enzymes ; protein banding and anatomy ; actinobacteria ; Streptomyces tuirus ; chilli fruit rot ; Colletotrichum scovillei ; Colletotrichum truncatum ; Fusarium oxysporum ; liquid bio-formulation ; corn smut ; fungus infection ; MDA ; proline ; quality ; halophytes ; Tripolium pannonicum ; hydrogen peroxide ; cell wall extensibility ; cell wall polysaccharide ; coleoptile ; growth inhibition ; lead (Pb) ; rice ; Bactrocera oleae ; spinosad ; kaolin ; organic oliviculture ; chlorophyll fluorescence ; leaf gas exchange ; physiological traits ; BAG (Bcl-2-associated anthanogene) family proteins ; molecular chaperone ; metabolomics ; metabolic responses ; metabolites variation ; surveillance ; Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus ; comprehensive control ; distribution ; screen house ; Copper hyperaccumulation ; stress mitigation ; EDTA and IAA ; sunflower ; Fusarium wilt ; conventional breeding ; molecular makers ; QTLs ; genomics ; transcriptomics ; metabolomics and proteomics ; bread wheat ; AMF ; zinc ; growth parameters ; osmolyte ; osmoprotector ; ionic attributes ; PGPBs ; growth-promoting fungi ; crop productivity ; plant tolerance ; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi ; aerobic rice ; soil enzymes ; phosphorus utilization ; P-deficient ; plant growth promotion ; chickpea ; selection indices ; drought tolerant genotypes ; abiotic and biotic stress ; CRISPR ; mega nucleases ; TALEN ; ZFN ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; 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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: Understanding the interconnection between energy, the environment, and the economy is critical in contemporary society. The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth, and the environment has garnered significant attention from researchers and policymakers alike, and understanding the underlying causal connection between energy and the economy is crucial for modeling effective environmental and growth policies. Moreover, the emergence of new energy and environmental policies would create a plethora of further research opportunities in this evolving climate regime. For instance, several countries prioritize projects focused on energy efficiency, as they are considered low-risk, no-regret options that may yield economic benefits. In a nutshell, this Special Issue aims to address a gap in the existing literature by providing an in-depth analysis of the interplay between energy, the environment, and the economy, emphasizing the exploration of the potential environmental impacts of energy consumption and economic growth.
    Keywords: economic growth and the environment ; renewable energy sources ; sustainability ; energy problems ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: Consumer interest in plant-based diets has been rapidly increasing in the past decade. Non-dairy and non-meat alternatives have gone mainstream. New products are appearing in the marketplace continually. The marketplace has been driven recently by millennials and flexitarians. Food companies have focused on providing nutritious food products that satisfy the demand for alternative items that look and taste like their animal counterparts. The marketplace wants products that improve human and planetary health worldwide. Questions have arisen as to how nutritionally sound and healthy are these products. How sustainable are these plant-based diets? How significantly do they alter traditional dietary patterns? What impact do they have on food security? Do these plant-based meat and dairy alternatives help lessen environmental degradation? Are the new products considered ultra-processed foods? What are the barriers and motivations that drive people to switch to a plant-based diet? Will plant-based diets help in the goal to greatly diminish malnutrition and over-nutrition (leading to obesity) around the world? These questions challenge scientists to provide meaningful answers through their ongoing research. Some of these issues are discussed in this reprint, based upon the latest research.
    Keywords: planetary health ; Paris agreement ; linear programming ; nutrition ; greenhouse gas emission ; alternative diets ; sustainability ; flexitarian ; vegetarian ; vegan ; plant-based meat alternatives ; nutrient intakes ; dairy alternative ; dairy substitute ; cheese analogues ; vegan cheese ; vegetarian cheese ; plant-based alternatives ; pregnancy ; nutritional requirements ; food production system ; environment ; diet ; meat replacement ; non-meat protein source ; environmental sustainability ; consumer preference ; food choice ; non-dairy yogurt alternatives ; plant-based yogurts ; nutrient composition ; fortification ; calcium ; vitamin D ; vitamin B12 ; protein ; sugar ; plant-based diets ; microbiome ; CV disease ; diabetes ; bone health ; life cycle ; pea proteins ; plant proteins ; sarcopenia ; skeletal muscle ; protein digestibility ; muscle protein metabolism ; chronic kidney disease ; implementation ; barriers ; enablers ; cross-sectional survey ; qualitative research ; food waste ; global warming ; vegetarian meals ; hospital setting ; plant based ; public health ; pregnancy complications ; preterm delivery ; small for gestational age ; preeclampsia ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: PART 1. Functional Textiles: Photochromic Textiles Based upon Aqueous Blends of Oxygen-Deficient WO3-x and TiO2 Nanocrystals. 50/60 Hz Power Grid Noise as a Skin Contact Measure of Textile ECG Electrodes. Characterizing Steam Penetration through Thermal Protective Fabric Materials. Stretchable Textile Yarn Based on UHF RFID Helical Tag. Fibers and Textiles for Personal Protective Equipment. Textile-Based Sound Sensors (TSS). High-Performance and Functional Fiber Materials. Geotextiles—A Versatile Tool for Environmental Sensitive Applications in Geotechnical Engineering. Review of Fiber- or Yarn-Based Wearable Resistive Strain Sensors. Wearable Actuators: An Overview. Bacterial Secondary Metabolites as Biopigments for Textile Dyeing. PART 2: Process and Modelling. Loop Order Analysis of Weft-Knitted Textiles. New Geometrical Modelling for 2D Fabric and 2.5D Interlock Composites. Meso-Macro Simulations of the Forming of 3D Non-Crimp Woven Fabrics. Continuous Yarn Electrospinning. A Review on Tough Soft Composites at Different Length Scales. Textile Branch and Main Breakthroughs of the Czech Republic in the Field of Textile Machinery. Recent Efforts in Modeling and Simulation of Textiles. PART 3: Control. A Comparison of Two Different Light Booths for Measuring Color Difference of Metameric Pairs. Effect of Textile Characteristics on the AR-Glass Fabric Efficiency. Dielectric Properties of Textile Materials. PART 4: Consumers and Behavior. Development of a Consumer-Based Quality Scale for Artisan Textiles. Organic Cotton Clothing Purchase Behavior. A Review on Textile Recycling Practices and Challenges.
    Keywords: smart textiles ; wearable ; fiber actuators ; soft exoskeleton ; haptic action ; textile modeling ; homogenization ; beam-based model ; buckling ; folding ; spacer fabrics ; organic cotton ; clothing ; consumer behavior ; Theory of Reasoned Action ; alkali-resistant glass textile ; weaving ; epoxy coating ; filament diameters ; roving fineness ; fabric efficiency ; textile-reinforced concrete ; TRC ; fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix ; FRCM ; textile development ; human and civilization factors ; clothing and technical textiles ; open end spinning ; jet looms ; perpendicularly layered nonwovens ; needleless electrospinning ; textiles ; quality ; artisan ; fabrics ; women in textiles ; soft composite ; mechanical property ; toughness ; toughening mechanism ; fabrication ; application ; helical RFID tag ; helical antenna ; RFID ; textile yarn ; light booth ; metameric pairs ; visual assessment ; gray scale ; standard deviation ; CAM02-UCS ; color difference formula ; thermal protective fabrics ; steam exposure ; fabric properties ; heat and mass transfer ; burn injuries ; textile materials ; complex relative permittivity ; effective medium approximation ; dielectric mixture theory ; electromagnetics ; dielectric characterization ; resistive strain sensor ; fiber-based sensor ; yarn-based sensor ; interconnection ; forming simulation ; multi-scale analyses ; RVE ; hyperelasticity ; thick reinforcements ; nanofibers ; PAN ; cellulose acetate ; biopolymers ; spider silk ; silk fibroin ; 2D fabric ; 2.5D ; interlock composite ; compliance matrix ; textile waste ; reuse and recycling ; municipal solid waste ; composting ; sustainability ; geotextiles ; natural fibers ; synthetic fibers ; geo-engineering ; environmental applications ; high-performance fibers ; functional textiles ; metallized textiles ; inorganic fibers ; Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) ; Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) ; microbial pigments ; bacterial pigments ; textile ; fibers ; dyeing ; electrocardiogram (ECG) ; Arduino ; electrodes ; conductive coating ; conductive yarn ; sensor ; knitted textiles ; topological modeling ; contact neighborhood ; loop order analysis ; precedence rule ; visualization ; e-textiles ; textile-based sound sensors ; sound monitoring ; smart building ; personal protective equipment ; protective clothing ; special textile structures ; smart textile ; photochromism ; inorganic nanoparticles ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KND Manufacturing industries
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The recovery of solid waste is a challenge and an opportunity for companies, thanks to the ongoing awareness of sustainability and technological advances. The end-of-waste criteria constitute a European strategic goal that promotes recycling in order to ensure a high level of environmental protection by means of reducing the quantity of waste destined for disposal. This Special Issue promotes the knowledge regarding technological methods for solid waste recovery. Articles investigate innovative processing methods with the goal of valorizing solid waste from different civil and industrial activities. Topics includes studies on construction and building, mining, plastics, and WEEE, referring to the treatment techniques used and, where appropriate, the critical raw materials that can be valorized. The recovery processes of critical raw materials can be very energy-intensive, affecting environmental and soil factors. Case studies on sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient techniques for the purpose of a more competitive economy were also very welcomed. The environmental impact and safety measures, especially for dangerous waste, should be taken into account in the description of their processing and management.
    Keywords: cathode ray tube ; lead recovery ; lead leaching and electrodeposition ; environmental assessment ; phosphate cements ; calcined dolomite ; quartz sand ; calcined magnesite ; temperature ; K-struvite ; industrial waste ; chromium ; high-performance concrete ; ultra-high-performance concrete ; fibers ; mechanical strength ; alkali-activated cement ; geopolymers ; building materials ; PET ; compressive strength ; water absorption ; WPCBs dismantling ; metals dissolution ; copper recovery ; economic assessment ; process modeling and simulation ; low-temperature processing ; WEEE (waste of electric and electronic equipment) recycling ; materials separation ; process characterization ; SEM/EDS ; torrefaction ; solid fuel ; waste to carbon ; circular economy ; biodegradable materials ; calorific value ; methane fermentation ; biogas ; biomethane ; biochar ; pyrolysis ; hydrothermal carbonization ; biochemical methane potential ; biogas production kinetics ; industrial wastes ; arc furnace slag ; ceramic sludge ; β-wollastonite ; parawollastonite ; porous ceramics ; waste management ; sustainability development ; apple pomace ; active compounds ; extraction ; renewable energy ; anticorrosion agents ; biopolymers ; PCB ; recycling ; metal recovery ; mechanical pre-treatment ; production waste ; rock wool ; glass wool ; loss on ignition ; pollutants washout ; geopolymer ; waste slurry ; flocculation ; solidification ; pipe jacking ; air flow rate ; composting ; municipal solid waste ; monitoring ; optimization ; spatial distributions ; crystallization ; glass–ceramics ; diopside ; anorthite ; by-pass cement ; aluminum dross ; thermodynamic analysis ; kinetics ; hemp stalk ; bio-insulating material ; sustainability ; sound absorbing properties ; thermal absorption properties ; green composite material ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: This Special Issue focuses on feeding and feed technology advances and challenges in aquaculture. These are of particular interest since aquaculture and fisheries are considered crucial sources of animal protein in human diets, providing around 17% of global edible animal protein. Special attention is given to alternative sources of fish meal and how substitutions can influence the metabolism, immune response, and disease resistance of the targeted species. Moreover, the impact of plant extracts on growth performances, physiological responses, immunity, and intestinal health is addressed.
    Keywords: Pacific bluefin tuna ; squid meal ; krill meal ; heat treatment ; growth performance ; dietary protein ; glycolipid metabolism ; immune response ; Streptococcus agalactiae ; high temperature ; Macleaya cordata extract ; serum lipid ; antioxidant ability ; intestinal microbiota ; intestinal health ; Anguilla rostrata ; feed additives ; immune gene expressions ; antioxidant defensive system ; Spirulina ; digestive enzymes ; hepatic enzymes ; gene expression ; aquaculture ; cyanobacteria ; Bangladesh ; children ; dry fish ; malnutrition ; minerals ; nutrients ; protein ; vitamins ; women ; whitebait ; larval diet ; formulated feed ; PUFA ; HUFA ; herbal medicines ; growth ; striped catfish ; immunity ; largemouth bass ; pompano ; amberjack ; red drum ; algal oil ; olive flounder ; fish meal replacement ; meat meal ; regression analysis ; innate immune response ; Lamiaceae ; fish ; health ; antioxidant ; nutrition ; Litopenaeus vannamei ; Yarrowia lipolytica ; Haematococcus pluvialis ; astaxanthin ; pigmentation deposit ; antioxidation ; Ctenopharyngodon idellus ; Phragmites australis ; serum biochemistry ; immune-related factors ; immune gene ; alternative protein source ; essential amino acid ; insect meal ; protein replacement ; T. tinca ; whole-body composition ; feed ; insects ; innovation ; sustainability ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAF Fisheries and related industries
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: Weeds are the most important biological factor that affects yield in herbaceous and perennial crops. Nowadays, following the recommendations of government institutions and public opinion, there is an urgent need to search for sustainable weed management practices that have a low impact on the environment and on the health of living organisms. This reprint, established after closing the Special Issue “Sustainable Weed Management” edited by Dr. Alessia Restuccia and Dr. Aurelio Scavo, is a collection of papers (17 research articles and 1 review) related to the recent advancements in sustainable weed control methods and to the biotic and abiotic factors affecting weed adaptation.
    Keywords: cover crop ; weed management ; seed bank ; weed associations ; species richness ; multivariate analysis ; sustainability ; crop competition ; cultural management ; rainfall ; rain-fed agriculture ; seed production ; weed suppression ; weed density ; alternative weed management ; buffalobur ; crop and herbicide rotation ; herbicide efficacy ; surfactant ; terpenes ; mechanism of action ; germination inhibitors ; crops ; allelopathy ; phytochemicals ; P. hysterophorus ; germination ; growth ; herbicide resistance ; resistance mechanisms ; NTSR mechanisms ; TSR mechanisms ; metabolism ; organic ; no-till ; agroecology ; competition ; dispersal ; landscape ; oilseed rape ; sustainable weed management ; growth curve ; plant traits ; elevation gradient ; climate change ; invasive plant species ; Ophraella communa ; invasive species management ; contact herbicide ; pelargonic acid ; esterified seed oil ; foliar penetration ; adjuvant ; tank-mix partner ; non-chemical weed management ; rare weeds ; weed control ; winter wheat ; Chinese elm ; woody weed ; chemical control ; stem implantation ; Olea europaea L. ; Mediterranean basin ; agroecological practices ; minimum tillage ; zero tillage ; pollinating and predatory insects ; agroforestry ; intercropping ; consociation ; weeds ; barley ; false seedbed ; cropping system ; bioherbicides ; compost processing ; coniferous volatiles ; Pinus densiflora ; Pinus koraiensis ; thermal resistance ; durum wheat ; seed germination ; polyphenols ; flavonoids ; Portulaca oleracea ; Stellaria media ; rice ; cultural methods ; herbicides ; impacts ; soil microorganisms ; soil enzymes ; Triticum durum ; soil seedbank ; species diversity ; weed communities ; old landraces ; multivariate statistics ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany & plant sciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The bioeconomy—using renewable bio-resources from the soil and sea to produce food, materials and energy—supports the achievement of sustainable development goals. Its scope is very broad as it involves primary production sectors (agriculture) and sectors that use these resources (manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco). This Special Issue, “Prospects and Challenges of Bioeconomy Sustainability Assessment”, includes an Editorial, thirteen articles, ten reviews and one perspective with international authors. All papers are highly innovative and support the goals of a sustainable world.
    Keywords: AHP ; bioeconomy ; biomethane ; energy community ; Italy ; point scale ; stakeholders’ engagement ; sustainability ; agrarian extractivism ; cheap food ; food regime ; Latin America ; social-ecological transformation ; soy ; environmental awareness ; behavior change ; SWOT analysis ; qualitative analysis ; education for sustainable development ; green movement ; environmentalism ; environmental science ; environmental education ; communication ; stakeholders ; reporting ; bibliometric review ; sustainability reporting ; sustainability performance ; indicators ; multi-criteria decision analysis ; policy implications ; Sustainable Development Goals ; carbon capture and storage ; aqueous bases ; reactor design ; chemical absorption ; FTIR ; absorption capacity ; in-line measurements ; 3D-printed reactors ; digital innovation hub ; value proposition canvas ; ecosystem sustainability ; digital transformation ; model-based design ; cyber-physical system ; collaboration platform ; microbial bioremediation ; cost of bioremediation ; bioremediation industry ; COD solubilization ; chemo sonic pretreatment ; biohydrogen ; specific energy ; biomass ; biotechnology ; agro-ecology ; territorial development ; cluster analysis ; bioplastic ; lactic acid ; PLA ; poly(lactic acid) ; cellulose ; lignocellulose ; cow manure ; circular economy ; bioeconomy education ; bioeconomy learning ; higher education ; vocational education and training ; n/a ; interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets ; distance measure ; closeness coefficient ; barriers ; MADA ; biofuel sector ; sustainable agriculture ; multi-criteria decision making ; TOPSIS ; social LCA ; life-cycle costing ; bioenergy ; biorefinery ; industry 4.0 ; agri-food supply chain ; agri-food 4.0 supply chain ; agri-food 4.0 ; supply chain 4.0 ; food waste management ; water management ; agriculture 4.0 ; LAC region ; bibliometric analysis ; biofuels ; R software ; sustainable supply chain management ; sustainable development ; social responsibility ; environmental issues ; water quality ; pollutant ; surface water ; monitoring ; Pakistan ; drinking water ; 2030 Agenda ; natural resources ; participation ; microorganisms ; energy ; biocatalysis ; biotransformation ; industrial applications ; circular bioeconomy ; greenhouse gas ; biomass production ; second-generation bio-fuels ; environment ; climate change ; pigs ; soya bean ; grass ; protein ; biogas ; lignin ; straw ; heating ; NaOH ; pretreatment ; sustainalist ; sustainable revolution ; SDG ; quality of life ; sustainalism ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: Our era is characterized by two major phenomena. On the one hand, we are confronted by climate and environmental crises constituted by, among others, changing weather patterns, loss of biodiversity and natural wildlife, and ecosystem degradation. On the other hand, we are experiencing an ongoing technological evolution culminating in the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The popular notion of “AI for Sustainability” constitutes an attempt to connect these two phenomena in a beneficial way by using AI to alleviate climate and environmental worries. AI is increasingly being used in the analysis, mitigation, and prevention of the climate and environmental crises and their effects. Much less attention has been paid to the idea of the “Sustainability of AI”, which focusses on the materiality of AI technologies themselves. Indeed, what are the hidden costs of AI? Although we use AI in combatting the climate and environmental crises, does it not have its own contributions to these crises? And, if so, how do we account for these contributions? The Special Issue is the first attempt to address the topic of “Sustainable AI” from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors that contributed to this issue come from diverse fields such as philosophy, ethics, sociology, law, and engineering. The included papers represent the first steps in understanding what it means to tackle the climate and environmental crises with AI while refraining from aggravating these crises.
    Keywords: artificial intelligence ; Sustainable Development Goals ; ESG ; CSR ; reporting ; disclosure ; sustainability ; sustainable AI ; greenwashing ; unfair commercial practices ; AI Act ; digitalization ; sustainable digitalization ; sustainable development ; SDGs ; Assessment Framework ; mindful ; digital age ; digitainability ; digital technologies ; qualitative research ; environmental impact ; carboncentric ; technocentric ; surrogate-based optimisation ; surrogate model ; sequential model-based optimisation ; Bayesian optimisation ; Green AI ; machine learning ; intergenerational justice ; future generations ; policy-making ; explainability ; transparency ; AI ; AI governance ; ethics ; ethical AI ; differential privacy ; AI certification ; ethics of AI ; AI ethics ; checklist ethics ; ethics of carefulness ; ethics of desirability ; climate justice ; infrastructure ; climate change ; nudging ; digital nudging ; libertarian paternalism ; autonomy ; carbon footprint ; LCA ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This is a reprint of the Special Issue “Urban-Rural-Partnerships: Sustainable and Resilient” in Land, which, based on the URP2020 objectives, invited original contributions dealing with interactions in regional systems, particularly between urban and rural actors, institutions and projects to tackle great societal challenges. The 16 contributions published included conceptual and methodological papers, as well as case studies dedicated to striking examples and providing transferable knowledge and solutions. The guest editors hope that the contributions will stimulate learning processes on various levels, i.e. cross- and transdisciplinary as well as from the local level to entire regions to the broader European and international levels, in order to foster an understanding of integrated regional and urban–rural development.
    Keywords: creativity ; creative actors ; criteria matrix ; regional development ; Slovakia ; sustainable wellbeing ; rural–urban relations ; land management ; local government ; governance ; policy ; case studies ; Europe ; biodiversity offsets ; offset implementation ; production-integrated compensation ; nature conservation ; landscape planning ; agri-environmental policy ; urban–rural continuum ; transdisciplinarity ; deep participation ; co-production ; co-creation ; co-design ; sustainability ; unequal power relations ; New Leipzig Charter ; URP2020 conference ; urban–rural income gap ; spatial pattern ; driving mechanism ; China ; livelihood resilience ; migration ; urbanization ; extreme events ; India ; online business ; online shopping ; spatial diffusion model ; innovation diffusion hypothesis ; efficiency hypothesis ; regional inequality ; rural land tenure ; resilience ; circular migration ; rural-urban migrants ; Beijing ; urban village ; nature-based solutions (NBS) ; green infrastructure ; urban planning ; airshed ; watershed ; natureshed ; peopleshed ; rural–urban fringe ; social and biophysical scales ; agri-food systems ; collective action ; cooperation ; pooling ; urban-rural interlinkages ; short food-supply chains ; regional food systems ; hybrid organizations ; commercial area ; land use governance ; city-regional governance ; goal conflict ; cross-impact balances CIB ; policy mix ; policy design ; policy coherence ; urban and regional development ; structural change ; coal mining ; evidence-based planning ; real-life laboratory ; Service of General interest ; Rhenish coal-mining area ; equal living conditions ; climate change ; climate impact assessment ; scenario corridors ; heat stress ; intermunicipal cooperation ; urban–rural partnership ; sanitation ; faecal sludge management ; wastewater management ; local governance ; local government partnership ; actor-network theory ; just transition ; development strategy ; monoindustrial urban area ; Jiu Valley ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: This reprint covers the following topics in the field of smart grids: 1. Optimal dg location and sizing to minimize losses and improve the voltage profile using garra rufa optimization. 2. Solar and wind energy forecasting for the green and intelligent migration of traditional energy sources. 3. Optimized micro-grid’s operation with electrical-vehicle-based hybridized sustainable algorithm. 4. The detection of nontechnical losses in smart meters using a MLP-GRU deep model and augmenting data via theft attacks. 5. A hybrid deep-learning-based model for the detection of electricity losses using big data in power systems. 6. Load frequency control and automatic voltage regulation in a multi-area interconnected power system using nature-inspired computation-based control methodology. 7. Line overload alleviations in wind energy integrated power systems using automatic generation control. 8. Electric price and load forecasting using a CNN-based ensembler in a smart grid. 9. Day-ahead energy forecasting in a smart grid considering the demand response and microgrids. 10. A dragonfly optimization algorithm for extracting the maximum power of grid-interfaced pv systems. 11. An economic load dispatch problem with multiple fuels and valve point effects using a hybrid genetic–artificial fish swarm algorithm. 12. Incentive-based dynamic pricing in a smart grid.
    Keywords: demand side management ; demand response ; load scheduling ; real time pricing ; genetic algorithm ; dynamic incentives ; artificial fish swarm algorithm ; economic load dispatch ; hybrid genetic–artificial fish swarm algorithm ; multi-objective optimization ; sustainable power generating system ; photovoltaic (PV) ; partial shading ; maximum power point tracking (MPPT) ; dragonfly optimization algorithm (DOA) ; adaptive cuckoo search optimization (ACSO) ; fruit fly optimization algorithm combined with general regression neural network (FFO-GRNN) ; improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) ; voltage source inverter (VSI) ; total harmonic distortion (THD) ; energy optimization ; day ahead energy prediction ; artificial neural network ; renewable energy sources ; microgrid ; smart grid ; electricity price forecasting ; energy management ; electricity load forecasting ; convolutional neural network ; corona virus herd immunity optimization ; sustainable cities ; requirement-gathering tool ; qualitative comparison ; requirement engineering ; software engineering ; requirement-management tools ; automatic generation control ; wind energy ; transmission line security ; dispatch strategies ; Pakistan power system ; PI-PD controller ; load frequency control ; automatic voltage regulator ; nature-inspired optimization ; multi-area interconnected power system ; class imbalance ; gated recurrent units ; electricity theft detection ; non-technical losses ; smart grids ; deep learning ; GRU ; healthcare ; MLP ; PRECON ; smart cities ; smart meters ; sustainable society ; electric vehicles ; flexible load ; optimization ; renewable energy ; forecasting ; machine learning ; energy efficiency ; sustainability ; low carbon emission ; distribution generation ; Garra Rufa ptimization ; PSO ; GA ; power system ; urban sustainability ; local growth ; regional cities ; cultural heritage ; real estate ; intelligent regions ; innovation systems ; circular economy ; regional policies ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: Twenty interesting studies on, among others, risks towards firm performance, financial risk and financial uncertainties, risk consequences for European countries’ businesses and economies from the Russia and Ukraine conflict, the effects of adopting enterprise risk management on the performance and risks of European publicly listed insurance firms, the management of financial risks while performing international commercial transactions, market liquidity and its dimensions, benchmarking as a way of finding risk factors in business performance, the effect of risk disclosure for trade credit, risk perception, accounting, and resilience in public sector organizations, and psychological effects from potential unexpected environmental disasters on investors. Although disasters are associated with risk, investors tend to have a different perspective depending on the source of the disaster. More specifically, if a country is facing a natural disaster, where no one can be blamed, the foreign investors who may hold a country’s bonds will continue to trust the country due to the “innocence” of the country. On the other hand, when a firm causes a technological disaster, such as a nuclear power plant explosion, investors, if this corporation is publicly traded, will “punish” the firm by selling its shares at any price to avoid a bigger loss.
    Keywords: na-tech ; systematic risk ; market reaction ; unexpected events ; investing ; banking ; clearinghouses ; systemic risk ; derisking ; drivers and implications of derisking ; risk management ; antimoney laundering (AML) ; combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) ; financial services ; Malta ; small EU state ; proportionality ; conditional value-at-risk ; CVaR ; CVaR regression ; drawdown ; conditional drawdown-at-risk ; fund style classification ; resilience capacity ; cut-back management ; crisis ; Plato ; fairness ; commercial transactions ; international trade ; game theory ; risk disclosure ; trade credit ; content analysis ; Tunisian listed companies ; benchmarking ; best value ; business ; data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; performance ; risk factors ; microblogging data ; data mining ; investor sentiments ; asset pricing ; market liquidity ; liquidity dimensions ; option pricing ; utility indifference pricing ; transaction costs ; Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation ; penalty methods ; finite difference approximation ; financial risk ; financial institutions ; international commerce ; profiteering ; non-fraudulent currency ; classical Athens ; risk ; bonds ; equities ; hedge funds ; forecasting ; GARCH ; value at risk ; enterprise risk management ; firm characteristics ; firm performance ; firm risk ; insurance firms ; COVID-19 ; helping behavior ; in-group identity ; risk perception ; severity of a local pandemic ; financial ; non-stationary ; time-series ; copula ; dependence ; univariate ; bivariate ; war in Ukraine ; Europe ; consequences ; economy ; companies ; embargo ; institutional volatility ; institutional rigidity ; political and social change ; regime risks ; Sparta ; Athens ; transformational change ; nonprofits ; NDIS Implementation Framework ; business models ; sustainability ; energy crisis risks ; nuclear energy ; renewable energy ; greenhouse gases emissions ; nuclear accidents ; nuclear weapons ; nuclear waste management ; capabilities ; reputation risk ; mediation model ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy ; thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WC Antiques, vintage and collectables::WCF Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: The business model concept has gained a prominent position both in academia and among practitioners during the past 30+ years. The aim of this Special Issue of Systems is to contribute to a stronger theoretical basis for the business model concept. This includes a focus on the systemic character of business models and the systems approaches that this entails. Another important aspect is to allocate more attention to innovations of business models. The business models that emerged with e-commerce and e-business as such were in themselves innovations. However, innovations of business models have received too little attention. Most of the business models analyzed and discussed in the business model literature have been rather static instead of dynamic. This is the reason why this Special Issue of Systems, entitled ‘Business Model—the Perspective of Systems Thinking and Innovation’, has been developed.
    Keywords: digital business models ; digital economy ; network effects ; digital business model innovation ; digital innovation ; systems thinking ; Rich Picture ; complexity ; Netflix ; port supply chain ; blockchain ; smart contract ; probabilistic model checking ; luxury hotel ; COVID-19 ; marketing ; human resource ; efficiency ; TRIZ ; decision making ; social commerce ; e-commerce ; social media ; business model ; network steam ; business model innovation ; blitz canvas ; process-driven business models ; business model canvas ; lean startups ; adaptability ; ecological fitness ; entropy ; environment ; growth ; stability ; start-ups ; survival ; synchronous ; sustainability ; system design thinking ; system innovation ; designer ; open system approach ; product innovation ; attention allocation ; strategic attentions ; external information sources ; absorptive capacity ; organizational learning ; service design ; digital technology ; experience innovation ; cultural heritage ; supply chain system ; data sharing ; access control ; system verification ; supply chain ; data ownership ; data asset trading ; block chain ; demand-side economies of scope ; economies of scale ; Big Tech corporations ; business models ; system dynamics ; agriculture value chain ; farmers behavior ; fresh products production ; incumbents ; innovation management ; exploration ; renewal ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: Natural hazard events and technological accidents are separate causes of environmental impacts. Natural hazards are physical phenomena active in geological times, whereas technological hazards result from actions or facilities created by humans. In our time, combined natural and man-made hazards have been induced. Overpopulation and urban development in areas prone to natural hazards increase the impact of natural disasters worldwide. Additionally, urban areas are frequently characterized by intense industrial activity and rapid, poorly planned growth that threatens the environment and degrades the quality of life. Therefore, proper urban planning is crucial to minimize fatalities and reduce the environmental and economic impacts that accompany both natural and technological hazardous events.
    Keywords: landslide monitoring ; early warning ; emergency management ; dissemination ; urbanized areas ; benefit evaluation ; gray correlation method ; soil erosion ; soil physical properties ; earthquake fatalities ; deep learning ; random forest ; feature importance ; structure type ; flash flood ; driving factor ; sensitivity analysis ; subregion of landcover ; Yunnan Province ; flood risk ; Bayesian networks ; integrated index for flood risk assessment ; WSN ; pipeline leakage ; human-induced sinkhole ; leakage detection ; sewer pipeline ; sensors ; highway waterfall ice ; ground water ; mathematical model ; formation mechanism ; natural hazards ; multi-agent system ; emergency relief ; public participation ; contamination indices ; geo-accumulation factor ; heavy metals ; GIS ; hazard ; social vulnerability ; hydrological and hydrodynamic model ; analytic hierarchy process ; fuzzy Delphi ; Athens metropolitan area ; urban fires ; analytical hierarchy process ; flooding ; structural vulnerability ; seismicity ; Wastewater Treatment Plants ; sustainability ; Ioannina polje ; soil quality ; agricultural soil ; aircraft emissions ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The construction industry makes a significant contribution to the global economy. Effective management of construction projects is essential to ensuring timely completion that meets quality standards within a project’s prescribed scope and budget. Furthermore, assuring sustainability is crucial to reducing the impact of construction on the environment. The construction industry is also affected by globalization and increasing susceptibility to disasters highlighting the need for health and safety and resilience in the industry, especially after global pandemics and natural disasters. Digitalization and industrialization pave the way to the solution or mitigation of numerous issues in the construction industry by transforming business operations, improving productivity and safety, ensuring quality and compliance to standards, increasing sustainability, among other measures. It is imperative for project managers and other construction stakeholders to be digitally oriented. This reprint comprises of a collection of cutting-edge research articles in construction and project management that explores advances in digital, sustainable, and industrialized construction solutions for prevalent issues in construction and project management and investigates the needs of health and safety and resilience in the construction industry.
    Keywords: digitalization ; industrialization ; health and safety ; construction project management ; sustainability ; resilience ; globalization ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materials
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: This reprint focuses on the key concepts and contemporary issues related to corporate governance, social responsibility, innovation, and sustainable business development goals. It highlights the importance of integrating these principles into the operations of modern businesses. The reprint aims to explore these concepts, providing theoretical foundations, practical frameworks, and real-world examples to inspire responsible, innovative, and sustainable business practices.
    Keywords: stock split reform ; ownership characteristics ; state ownership ; concentrated ownership ; financial performance ; China ; corporate sustainability ; concept of corporate sustainability ; definition of corporate sustainability ; sustainable development ; CSR ; cost of capital ; ESG disclosure ; firm risk ; cash holdings ; government ownership ; generalized method of moments ; Islamic religiosity ; individual responsibility ; managers ; Egypt ; ESG rating ; corporate green innovation ; institutional environment ; redundant organizational resources ; corporate governance ; disclosure ; FinTech ; sustainability ; coercive isomorphism ; 17 UN sustainable development goals ; sustainability reporting ; legitimacy theory ; stakeholder theory ; voluntary disclosure theory ; Vietnam ; mandatory disclosure ; difference-in-differences ; CSR performance ; institutional investors ; TMT experience heterogeneity ; innovation quality ; partner diversity ; TMT technological participation ; environmental corporate social responsibility ; shared vision capability ; resource slack ; green innovation performance ; green development ; resource-based theory ; environmental degradation ; defense burden ; panel ARDL ; panel NARDL ; panel causality ; corporate social responsibility ; innovation input ; tendency score-matching ; quantile regression ; bank debt ; innovation ; overborrowing ; uncertainty of economic policy ; self-interest behavior of executives ; board of directors ; Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) ; digital transformation ; enterprise resource planning (ERP) ; environmental impacts ; information systems ; corporate reporting ; disclosure obligations ; non-financial disclosure ; non-financial reporting ; SDGs ; corporate citizenship ; ESG ; text mining ; correlated topic modeling ; knowledge exchange ; global business ; SMEs ; green innovation ; environmental protection background ; media attention ; board independence ; net zero ; climate change ; enterprises ; grey literature ; greenhouse gases ; emissions ; anti-corruption disclosure ; corporate reporting quality ; UK Bribery Act 2010 ; extractive industry ; board CSR orientation ; board CSR strategy ; global reporting initiative ; country–cultural dimensions ; Europe ; transformational leadership ; external social capital ; ESG performance ; organizational innovation ; organisation culture ; combating bribery ; non-financial performance ; emerging economy ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTX Information technology industries
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: The aim of this reprint devoted to the topic “Polymers and the Environment” was to pursue environmentally friendly objectives for polymer-based materials under a two-fold perspective, applied and academic. In the 1980s, the first global environmental crisis occurred with an emphasis on the role of plastics in big cities’ massive solid waste streams. It was apparent then (and now) that the best environmental management practices required solid scientific and technical knowledge. Moreover, once at the end of their useful life, these plastics become involved in their materials (polymers and additives) into a circular economy strategy conjugated with the non-steady scenarios of the other key sectors of the economy, industry, society, and policy. Thus, linking tandem polymers and the environment has led, 40 years later, to a wide polymer research field devoted to continuously improving the environmental performance of polymer and polymer-based materials. This strategy comprises all the steps in the polymer management chain, from the raw materials to the polymers, many of which come from classical and renewable sources (the so-called bioplastics). Additionally, there is a need to improve the processability, ultimate properties, and performance by employing friendly environment additives; the recyclability of the materials; and the development of innovative and disruptive processes allowing better mechanical and energy recovery, including chemical recycling. This reprint includes approaches related to this frontrunner polymer science and technology area.
    Keywords: viscoelasticity ; material parametrization ; WLF coefficients ; pole–zero formulation ; fractional model ; circular economy ; upcycling ; sustainability ; polyblends ; rPP ; PA66 ; rPET-O ; recycling ; polypropylene ; stabilization additive ; rheological properties ; thermal properties ; mechanical properties ; bio-based ; thermosetting ; thermoplastic ; nanocomposites ; lignin nanoparticles ; mixed plastic packaging waste ; recycled plastics ; compression moulding ; mechanical testing ; fracture surface ; mixed polyethylenes ; polymer flooding ; alkali–polymer flooding ; chemically enhanced oil recovery ; incremental oil recovery ; PLA ; cellulose ; yerba mate ; kombucha ; food packaging ; biochar particles ; sustainable materials ; polymers ; biopolymers ; asphalts ; bio-based plastics ; plant growth ; seed germination ; terrestrial ecosystem ; PBAT ; biodegradable polymers ; blends ; shape memory polymers ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The production and development of the built environment relates strongly to the fields of architecture and urban planning. The built environment experiences severe impacts from disasters that have become more frequent and intense around the world due to climate change and other human actions, requiring research on architectural design and urban planning that contributes to resilience. On the other hand, the built environment itself causes environmental impacts through the consumption of energy, land-use change and pressure on ecosystems, among a variety of other factors. Thus, research-informed policies, practices, and strategies relating to the built environment are necessary, requiring innovative and forward-thinking visions for a resilient and sustainable future. The built environment is multifold, with its manifestation determined by economic levels, political systems, demography, and natural resources. Therefore, contextual approaches and solutions in architecture and urban planning are essential to produce a diverse range of research findings. This publication serves as a platform to assemble such recent and innovative research findings relating to resilience and sustainability in the architecture and urban planning fields, and through an open access mode, disseminate this knowledge widely at a time when the world is facing critical challenges posed by disasters and environmental transformation.
    Keywords: social housing ; renovation works ; energy efficiency improvement ; Cappuccinelli Social Housing district ; Trapani ; disaster mitigation ; disaster-risk reduction ; disaster recovery ; design ; architecture ; design thinking ; energy performance gap ; occupant behavior ; residential buildings ; energy efficiency ; sustainability ; resilience ; cyclones ; self-recovery ; shelter ; Vanuatu ; Town Camps ; First Nation communities ; topological mapping ; community infrastructure ; PPGIS ; minimalism ; architectural design ; COVID-19 pandemic ; construction industry ; health and safety ; communication ; construction projects ; Elemental ; Villa Verde ; incremental housing ; adaptation ; urban planning ; tsunami ; Sri Lanka ; multi-hazard ; urban regeneration ; urban renewal ; urban analysis ; urban evaluation ; parameters ; neighborhood evaluation ; climate change ; CMIP6 ; extreme precipitation ; Gandaki Province ; GIS ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Discover the latest advancements in waste management and environmental sustainability with "Waste Treatment and Environmental Sustainability: Current Trends, Challenges, and Management Strategies". This comprehensive reprint features research and review articles that delve into the pressing issues of waste treatment and offer innovative solutions for a more sustainable future. Improper waste management poses significant risks to the environment and human health. Traditional methods have proven inadequate, driving the need for alternative approaches. This reprint explores sustainable practices such as bioremediation, phytoremediation, and green technologies that reduce waste generation and optimize resource utilization. The Special Issue included in the reprint presents 11 articles covering diverse topics such as predicting O3 levels, COVID-19's impact on household waste, reverse logistics, data analytics in waste management, and the role of biochar in phytoremediation. These articles provide valuable insights and directions for future research. "Waste Treatment and Environmental Sustainability" is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers passionate about waste management and environmental preservation. Explore the latest research findings and discover innovative strategies to create a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable world.
    Keywords: sensor-based sorting ; robot sorting ; data analytics ; maturity model ; recycling ; waste treatment ; waste management ; phototrophic microorganisms ; cryoimmobilization ; poly(vinylalcohol) cryogel ; cryoconservation ; wastewater treatment ; microalgal inoculum ; long-term storage ; bioretention ; cumulative evaporation ; evaporation ; evaporation rate ; environmental factor ; sponge city ; municipal waste ; packaging ; logistics processes ; reverse logistics ; biochar ; remediation ; fertilizer ; contaminated soil ; heavy metals ; and soil fertility index ; air quality modeling ; ozone ; multiple linear regression ; artificial neural network ; municipal solid waste ; life cycle assessment ; global warming potential ; anaerobic digestion ; landfill ; NEV ; waste power batteries ; consumer environmental protection responsibility awareness ; recycling strategy ; reverse supply chain ; cyanide ; biodegradation ; Aerococcus viridans ; response surface methodology ; advanced oxidation process ; vinasse management ; ZnO ; ZnO-NPs ; effluent quality ; COVID-19 ; sustainability ; consumption ; behaviour ; Latin America ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Existing competitiveness between companies in the global market requires a high degree of proactivity, with an aim of reducing costs, increasing quality, and providing the market with innovative products that are in line with the natural evolution of customer demands. The concepts of the Toyota Production System, which have led to the adoption of lean manufacturing, have helped industrial managers to implement tools and practices that eliminate or substantially reduce wastes that normally exist in conventional production lines. However, the need for successive increase in flexibility necessitates a more favorable evolution with technological advancements in the programming of equipment and devices, along with the use of robotics and the integration of information throughout the product manufacturing cycle using the IoT or powerful networks. This concept, usually referred to as Industry 4.0, is in line with the principles of lean manufacturing, although it can only be supported by a true technological revolution involving remote programming of machines, integration of manufacturing processes, and real-time control of the work performed through an entire production cycle. This Special Issue showcases important contributions in the area of lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0, with innovative concepts that will certainly enthuse and strengthen readers’ knowledge.
    Keywords: OEE ; KPIs ; action research ; lean ; operation process ; performance ; agroindustry ; lean manufacturing ; single minute exchange of die ; reduce setup time ; productivity gain ; shipbuilding ; sales ; lean management ; value stream mapping ; improvement ; yarn winding ; reels ; yarn coil extraction ; robotic manipulator ; robotic arm ; order release ; backlog sequencing ; re-entrant flow shop ; simulation ; Industry 4.0 ; medical device ; Medtech ; regulatory compliance ; engineering change management ; product lifecycle management ; Regulatory 4.0 ; Lean 4.0 ; determinants ; industry 4.0 ; logistics 4.0 ; ISM ; fuzzy MICMAC ; lean–green ; sustainability ; competitive priority ; operations strategy ; supplier ; milkrun ; in-plant logistics ; flexible assembly ; high-mix low-volume ; smart and sustainable manufacturing system ; dynamic lean 4.0 tools ; quality management ; Industry 5.0 ; data science ; social sustainability open data ; open-source tools ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: This Special Issue highlights how zoos, aquariums, and botanical gardens have partnered with organizations and agencies to address local and regional conservation issues through research and education projects, rehabilitation programs, policymaking efforts, and other types of activities. Understanding how such partnerships are developed and maintained, the challenges encountered, and success stories (as well as unsuccessful ones) were of interest. Hopefully, the stories shared and lessons learned will guide other organizations in their local and regional conservation efforts.
    Keywords: botanical gardens ; conservation ; collaboration ; natural resource management ; outreach ; science communication ; endangered species ; pollinator ; conservation horticulture ; seed banking ; conservation partnerships ; amphibian ; translocation ; release ; head-starting ; reintroduction ; breeding ; New England cottontail ; ex situ breeding ; rattlesnake ; head-start ; Conservation ; zoo ; aquarium ; southern sea otter ; surrogacy ; wildlife rehabilitation ; zoos ; local native species ; regional conservation ; local wildlife ; collaborative partnership ; habitat restoration ; pollinator garden ; community engagement ; n/a ; headstarting ; land management ; rehabilitation ; sustainability ; bison ; butterfly ; ex situ conservation ; government agency ; in situ conservation ; native mussels ; turtles ; zoos and aquariums ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-14
    Description: The construction industry is growing rapidly and time has changed the construction methods used. The traditional way of construction is becoming obsolete and technology is taking over. In this case, sustainable construction is the future and the new norm in the construction industry. Although there are various opportunities in this sector, there are also some challenges that exist and hinder productivity. Hence, this reprint covers the opportunities and challenges in sustainable construction.
    Keywords: thin film ; organic solar cell ; efficiency ; DBR ; temperature ; life cycle ; impact assessment ; recycled material ; geopolymer concrete ; sustainability ; workforce diversity ; technical skills ; motivation ; psychosocial ; construction worker ; productivity ; BIM ; post-disaster reconstruction ; construction industry ; scientometric analysis ; visualization ; PRISMA ; review ; RWL ; time series ; RHR ; seasonality ; prediction ; ANN ; SARIMA ; wastewater ; oil palm leaves activated carbon ; chemical activation ; COD ; adsorption ; green technology ; marble dust ; air pollution ; health hazards ; environmental pollution ; econometric analysis ; construction sector ; sustainable construction ; circular economy ; forecasting ; causal loop diagram ; construction management ; resilient supply chain ; sustainable supply chain ; supply chain management ; systems thinking ; forecasting models ; energy consumption ; smart buildings ; machine learning ; LSTM technique ; GIS ; PCA ; groundwater quality ; health risk ; solid waste ; error management climate ; psychological capital ; job stress ; aeronautical industry ; structural equation modeling ; IR 4.0 ; health and safety ; AHP ; barriers ; small contractors ; SEM ; Malaysia ; economy ; eco-materials ; energy ; environmental impact ; lean construction ; pollution ; prefabricated construction ; mediation analysis ; trust ; satisfaction ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This reprint details some of the latest developments and the science of durum wheat products outlining the latest research in durum milling innovations, role of durum wheat oil and wheat germ in product stability, available rheological methods to assess semolina, role of processing variables on pasta quality and drying behavior of bulgur. The impact of functional food design on human health and some examples where pasta glycaemic index has been surveyed and products made using waste streams, such as brown algae, tiger nut flour, carrot waste, and other approached to new durum product design such as high amylose durum wheat and soft durum wheat.
    Keywords: dietary fiber ; hydrocolloids ; food texture ; cooking properties ; pasta ; glycemic index ; enrichment ; carbohydrate ; ingredient ; database ; formulation ; quality ; durum wheat ; semolina ; gluten quality ; protein network ; rheology ; kernel size ; genotype ; milling quality ; semolina quality ; pasta color ; health benefits ; functional pasta ; functional food ; pasta making ; hydration ; extrusion ; drying ; cooking quality ; couscous ; manufacturing processes ; domestic preparation ; history ; wheat germ ; stabilization ; lipid oxidation ; oil quality ; bulgur ; wholegrain ; yellow berry ; phytochemical ; carotenoids ; nutritional quality ; freeze-drying ; spray-drying ; durum wheat pasta ; biscuits ; durum wheat oil ; by-products ; tocotrienols ; tocopherols ; induction time ; oxidation ; sensory properties ; volatile compounds ; grain hardness ; D-genome glutenin subunits ; dough strength ; waxy ; amylose ; semolina milling ; granulations ; digitalization ; sustainability ; flat bread ; acidic composition ; texture profile analysis ; sensorial properties ; artisanal pasta ; Pivot profile ; sensory analysis ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TC Biochemical engineering::TCB Biotechnology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: This reprint explores the complex relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth. The reprint contains 14 papers covering a wide range of topics related to energy use efficiency in various countries and economic sectors. The articles include studies on adopting renewable energy sources, the impact of battery electric vehicles on greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, the influence of philanthropy on eco-efficiency, and the impact of energy efficiency regulations on energy poverty. This reprint also includes studies on the race to zero emissions in MINT economies, the competitiveness of the cultural industry and its impact on Chinese economic growth, and the impact of education levels on the energy–growth–environment nexus. This reprint serves as a call to action for all stakeholders to contribute to the global energy transition by identifying and analyzing the effects of renewable energy consumption on economic growth. It inspires policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to embrace sustainable energy practices and support the development of measures that foster green growth. Therefore, this reprint provides important insights into energy use efficiency theories, methods, and diverse applications, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the future of energy and its impact on the global economy.
    Keywords: wood pellets ; diffusion of innovation ; forest products business ; energy policy ; qualitative interviews ; industry leaders ; wood economy ; residential heating technology ; battery electric vehicles ; greenhouse gas emissions ; energy consumption ; method of moments quantile regression ; European Union ; economic complexity ; export quality ; ecological footprint ; club convergence ; panel quantile regression ; environmental quality ; corruption ; income level ; renewable energy ; Africa ; financial deepening ; financial development ; sustainable energy supply ; domestic investment ; autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) ; institutional quality ; natural resources ; economic growth ; China ; CCO2 emissions ; disintegrated trade ; MINT nations ; foreign direct investment ; bilateral trade ; panel ARDL model ; carbon dioxide emissions ; energy efficiency ; industrial structure ; energy consumption structure ; fsQCA ; Chinese economic growth ; competitiveness index ; cultural industry ; panel regression models ; eco-efficiency ; philanthropy ; DEA ; Stochastic Frontier ; carbon emissions ; education ; environmental pollution ; CO2 emissions ; human capital ; investment ; sustainability ; econometrics ; empirical ; energy economics ; energy poverty ; energy regulation ; Lisbon ; policies ; Portugal ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy
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    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Description: Today, more than ever, the world needs to be considered a finite and limited system, characterised by scarce resources and as a place where restocking is not possible in an infinite way. As such, careful resource management needs to be planned and set by the concurrent actions of heterogeneous stakeholders, from policymakers up to academics and practitioners, to effectively implement the Circular Economy. This reprint highlights new opportunities and challenges for the Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Performance Management, focusing on technological advancements and management initiatives, including public-private partnerships between stakeholders.
    Keywords: circular economy ; circular manufacturing ; theoretical framework ; information and data management ; systematic literature review ; industrial sustainability ; Industry 4.0 ; sustainability ; performance indicators ; small and medium enterprises ; new adopters ; manufacturing sector ; sustainable entrepreneurial performance ; dynamic capabilities ; opportunity recognition ; knowledge sharing behavior ; innovative capacity ; absorptive capacity ; corporate performance ; enterprise environmental-protection investment ; industry competition ; industry/services strategies ; manager/executive/technicians’ perceptions ; circular bioeconomy ; floating treatment wetland ; phytoremediation ; tannery wastewater ; tropical wetlands ; Typha latifolia ; circular economy innovation ; business model innovation ; government incentives ; SMEs performance ; digital servitization ; digital technologies ; digital supply chain ; automotive industry ; social network analysis ; digitalization ; small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ; topic modeling ; latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) ; triple bottom line of sustainability ; lean manufacturing ; green manufacturing ; competitive priorities ; decision areas ; strategic business performance ; organizational flexibility ; high performance work system ; manufacturing organizations ; readiness assessment ; product lifecycle ; manufacturing ; KPI ; developing country ; nurture ; product–service system ; rebound effect ; dematerialisation ; system dynamics ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJC Business strategy ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJM Management & management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas
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    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Description: This Special Issue contains selected papers from works presented at the 12th EASN (European Aeronautics Science Network) International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space for Opening New Horizons, which was held from the 18th until the 21st of October 2022, in Barcelona, with physical participation. About 470 participants contributed to a high-level scientific gathering providing some of the latest research results on the topic, as well as some of the latest relevant technological advancements. Twenty interesting papers, which cover a wide range of topics including characterization, analysis and design, as well as numerical simulation, are contained in this Special Issue.
    Keywords: parachute harness ; opening load ; limit load ; human factors ; air traffic management ; air traffic controllers ; subjective workload assessment ; air traffic control events ; simulation platform ; taskload ; real-time simulations ; air traffic management and airports ; air traffic control ; arrival manager ; controller support system ; severe weather visualization ; nowcasting ; weather research and forecasting ; flame propagation ; nanosecond plasma discharges ; lean burning ; ZDPlaskin ; CHEMKIN ; carbon fibre-reinforced plastics ; energy absorption ; impact ; optimisation ; simulation ; three-point bending test ; optimization ; multi-objective ; multi-point ; Kriging ; metamodel ; surrogate ; intake ; aerodynamics ; CFD ; mesh morphing ; achievement scalarizing function ; FUTPRINT50 ; sustainable aviation ; zero emissions ; hybrid-electric propulsion ; liquid hydrogen ; fuel-cell technology ; electric green taxiing system ; wingtip propulsion ; superconducting materials ; green approaches ; FMS ; AMAN ; CDA ; negotiation process ; on-ground energy supply ; hybrid-electric aircraft ; airport infrastructure ; conceptual design in aerospace ; Advanced Morphological Approach ; structured expert judgment elicitation ; ATFCM Regulations ; machine learning ; air traffic ; historical data ; explainability ; EMA ; prognostics ; PHM ; model-based ; metaheuristic ; MEA ; FDI ; reusable launch vehicle ; thermal protection system ; integrated thermal protection system ; ablative material ; ceramic matrix composite ; phase change material ; lattice structure ; additive manufacturing ; titanium ; powder metallurgy ; aerospace ; dual scale microstructure ; flight control actuators ; iron bird ; actuators ; holistic MCDM tool ; circular aviation ; sustainability ; CFRP recycling ; aviation ; sensitivity analysis ; AHP ; WSM ; data normalization ; aircraft design ; distributed propulsion ; hybrid-electric flight ; critical loss of thrust ; vertical stabilizer ; eVTOL ; multirotor aerial vehicle ; sizing ; hybrid energy storage ; battery ; hydrogen fuel cell ; supercapacitor ; self-healing efficiency ; functionalization reaction ; epoxy resin ; mechanical properties ; 17-4PH stainless steel ; 3D printing ; laser powder bed fusion ; printing orientation ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-02
    Description: This reprint collects works which stimulate and spread the latest knowledge on energy in construction and building materials, providing the basis for new ideas on various topics for young investigators as well as leading experts in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. The collection features fifteen research papers and one review study. The main research aim covers the topic of thermal energy storage in construction and building components.
    Keywords: energy sustainability ; thermal insulation ; rapeseed ; woodchips ; bio-waste ; thermal transmittance ; un/steady conditions ; VOC emission ; electrical conductive concrete ; multifunctional composite ; conductive filler ; graphene nanoplatelets ; dielectric properties ; electric properties ; glass in building ; insulating glass units ; heat loss in buildings ; climatic loads ; hemp–lime composite ; thermal conductivity ; low-energy buildings ; specific energy absorption ; natural fiber ; thermal-energy storage ; enthalpy method ; apparent calorific capacity method ; recycled brick aggregates ; meso-scale ; PCMs ; paraffin waxes ; Stefan Problem ; coal bottom ash ; unit weight ; compressive strength ; ultrasonic velocity ; thermal-energy storage (TES) ; phase change materials (PCMs) ; latent enthalpy ; melting temperature ; differential scanning calorimetry ; IEA method ; multilayered walls ; building envelopes ; non-linear optimization ; genetic algorithms ; drying and wetting ; hygrothermal performance ; Polyisocyanurate board ; moisture content ; thermal performance ; vapor permeability ; energy efficiency ; cement-lime mortar ; experimental characterization ; climatic conditions ; heat flux ; extruded polystyrene ; pyrolysis ; kinetic model ; thermal degradation ; reaction mechanism ; AHP ; carbon fibres ; conductivity ; geopolymers ; LCA ; sustainability ; thermal storage ; energy saving with materials ; energy storage ; thermal diffusivity ; lime mortar ; iron (III) oxide ; phase change material ; melting ; latent heat thermal energy storage ; Taguchi method ; optimization ; double skin ; environmental profile ; material passport ; kinetic façade ; wooden façade ; paraffin ; fatty acid ; hydrate salts ; butyl stearate ; encapsulation ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: Environmental quality is crucial to our health, economy, lives, and for future generations. However, during the last few years, we have faced several serious challenges, which include, but are not limited to, climate change, unsustainable consumption and production, as well as various forms of pollution. These challenges are of global concerns for the sustainable development of human beings. This reprint has collected review and research papers aimed at a wide range of environmental topics: water and wastewater treatment and management, soil degradation and conservation, pollution control, the environmental impact of technologies, air quality and the indoor environment, and advanced environmental materials. Analytical methods developed for the determination of environmental pollutants were also welcomed. Papers dealing in the synthesis of adsorbents for the solid-phase extraction of environmental pollutants also fell within the scope of this Special Issue. Contributions describing novel and significant knowledge, scientific results, and advanced applications in the field of environmental sciences and technology were also welcomed. This reprint provides an integrated view of the trends in solving the problems associated with the achievement of sustainability in environmental technology.
    Keywords: hydrothermal activation treatment ; recycling technology ; heavy metal ; ion exchange ; attached growth process ; biological treatment ; biofilm ; membrane fouling ; rotating biological contactors ; wastewater treatment ; image processing ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; feature recognition ; image segmentation ; color space ; floods ; sediment ; biomass ; protein source ; Eisenia foetida ; vermicomposting ; organic waste ; cultivation media ; water treatment ; solar disinfection ; pre-treatment ; mechanism ; SODIS system ; alginate beads ; C. oleofaciens ; immobilisation ; green microalgae ; POME treatment ; post-treatment ; coagulation–adsorption ; membrane ; organic matter ; peat water ; ultrafiltration ; polysulfone ; sustainability ; effluent treatment ; dyes ; bioremediation ; bacteria ; wastewater ; textile ; consortium ; BES ; bioreactor ; Solanum incanum ; isotherm ; adsorption ; methylene blue ; exothermic ; heavy metals ; Kerian River ; pollution ; anthropogenic activities ; water quality ; banana peel biochar ; reactive black 5 ; kinetic ; phytotoxicity ; tomato ; energy consumption ; greenhouse gas emissions ; energy efficiency ; elevator ; buildings ; solar distiller ; water temperature ; pathogens removal ; rural areas ; sun-tracking system ; cost-effective water production ; water scarcity ; SARS-CoV-2 ; heavy metal phytostabilization ; bioaccumulation and translocation factors ; vegetation ; coal fly and bottom ash landfill ; interaction of plant species and location ; hybrid models ; air pollution modelling ; feature selection ; wrapper method ; artificial neural network ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Description: This Special Issue on MNEs, sustainability, and innovation contains a collection of 13 papers that address several subjects that are on related themes. The authors of these contributions study the boundaries of the previous literature on these relevant topics by providing insightful findings and review, as well as proposals for future research ideas in various contexts. For this Special Issue, we invited both conceptual and (qualitative and quantitative) empirical articles, as well as literature reviews and meta-analysis articles from a range of fields; these included not only business and management, but also sociology, political science, psychology, economics, and economic geography, among others.
    Keywords: multinational ; enterprise ; foreign ; direct ; investment ; sustainability ; innovation ; sustainable ; international ; business ; practices ; corporate ; social ; and ; environmental ; responsibility ; human ; resources ; emerging ; frontier ; markets ; advanced ; markets/countries ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: The agri-food supply chain (AFSC) is undoubtedly a chain that must be transformed to adjust to the needs and requirements of the new era, following the COVID-19 pandemic. New challenges and prospects and the sustainability of the AFSC are already emerging, with the scientific community obliged to come up with answers and solutions to global food consumption issues. Scientific research concerning different aspects of the AFSC with selected topics, including technologies, new foods, consumers’ perceptions, socioeconomic and environmental issues of conservation and sustainability, eco-innovation solutions, and green transformative pathways in the agri-food sector are included in this Special Issue. Emphasis is placed on the end users—the consumers—who need healthy, sustainable, value-added, economic food produced within the new global environmental, political, and social conditions which are currently, and for a long time have been, under a major transformation. The papers included in this Special Issue give practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to existing drawbacks of the supply chain, thus providing useful knowledge to readers or researchers interested in these specific subject matters. This is the second Special Issue of a series of Special Issues that we initiated a year ago as a follow-up to the changes and progress of the AFSC, and we will continue this, with more Special Issues on the way, highlighting more and more scientific achievements in selected subject areas of the chain to our respected global readers.
    Keywords: grape skin ; wine making by-products ; phenolics ; antiradical activity ; antioxidant activity ; antiplatelet activity ; Greek oregano ; essential oils ; geographical differentiation ; chemometrics ; rice farming ; contract farming ; modern distributors ; multinomial treatment effects ; conditional quantile regression ; unconditional quantile regression ; knowledge ; edible insects ; factor analysis ; cluster analysis ; sustainable food ; nutritional value ; food consumption ; food choice motives (FCM) ; convenience ; health ; sensory appeal ; nutritional quality ; ethical concern ; weight control ; mood and stress ; familiarity ; price ; sustainable ; vegetable oil ; heterogeneous catalysis ; questionnaire survey ; post-COVID-19 era ; Greek semi-hard and hard cheese ; Ladotyri cheese of Mytilene ; consumer’s purchase and consumption of cheese ; quality cheese ; food choice motives ; food ; gastric mucosa repair ; sericin ; lactoferrin ; inulin ; sodium bicarbonate ; global economy II ; food safety ; food hazards ; plants ; RASFF ; distance learning ; mobile learning ; professional learning ; beekeeping ; survey ; farmers ; plant-based alternatives ; cultured meat ; animal-free dairy ; consumer attitudes ; insects ; animal feed ; insect meal ; sustainability ; consumer acceptance ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
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    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Description: Polyphenols are natural phytochemicals recognized as one of the largest and most widespread classes of plant constituents occurring throughout the plant kingdom. Over the years, polyphenols have attracted the attention of the scientific community due to their potential health-promoting effects. Owing to their several interesting properties, polyphenols have aroused considerable interest, shedding light on their chemistry, reactivity, biological properties and their beneficial effects on both plants and humans. As a result of these investigations, a huge number of research works have been reported on polyphenols. However, despite the voluminous literature studying polyphenols and their impact on human health, there are still many issues waiting to be explored in order to explain and elucidate the positive effects of polyphenols on human health. This Special Issue was intended to gather up-to-date knowledge related to the cutting-edge research in the broad scientific area of polyphenols, providing an opportunity to show the latest advances in the exploration of polyphenols and their health beneficial effects. The special issue was a great success with more than 50 published manuscripts covering various aspects related to polyphenols and their role in human health. We are confident that this Special Issue will be of great interest to the scientific community, and will contribute to the improvement of knowledge regarding the area of polyphenols, leading to a better understanding of their role in human health.
    Keywords: polyphenolic curcumin ; cisplatin ; combination therapy ; breast cancer ; apoptosis ; gemini surfactant nanoparticles ; Mucuna pruriens seed ; neuroprotective activity ; Parkinson’s disease ; anti-acetylcholinesterase activity ; L-dopa ; Mitrephora sirikitiae ; anti-inflammation ; lignans ; polyphenols ; mRNA expression ; cytokines ; gemini curcumin ; colorectal cancer ; RNA sequencing ; PPI network ; differentially expressed genes ; Ericaceae ; LC–DAD/ESI–MS ; phenolic compounds ; flavonoids ; antioxidant activity ; Artemia salina Leach ; resveratrol ; hexavalent chromium ; 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine adduct repair ; endogenous antioxidant system ; antigenotoxic ; Opuntia sp. ; prickly pear ; inflammation ; ginseng leaf ; far-infrared irradiation ; ginsenosides ; antioxidants ; health benefits ; polysaccharides ; freeze-drying ; spray-drying ; antidiabetic ; Averrhoa carambola L. ; dihydrochalcone ; flavone glycosides ; obesity ; Oxalidaceae ; type 2 diabetes ; Alchemilla viridiflora Rothm. ; SARS-CoV-2 ; COVID-19 ; spike glycoprotein ; neuropilin-1 ; in vitro ; in silico ; Origanum compactum ; HPLC-PDA-ESI/MS ; antibacterial activity ; bioactive compounds ; nutraceuticals ; phenols ; pomegranate peels ; phytochemical ; wistin ; NADES ; total polyphenolic content ; enzyme inhibition ; functional food ; natural medicine ; Alzheimer cholinesterase inhibitors ; Maqui ; platelets ; phenolic compounds and cardiovascular ; phenolic acids ; sinapic acid ; ACE inhibition ; hypertension ; endothelial dysfunction ; Graminex pollen ; hydroalcoholic extract ; oxidative stress ; gene expression ; TRPV1 ; pterostilbene ; antioxidant ; bioavailability ; cancer ; diabetes ; Nrf2 ; Rosmarinus officinalis ; chemical analysis ; glioblastoma ; rhabdomyosarcoma ; red onion ; phytochemicals ; H9c2 rat cardiomyoblast ; primary human fibroblasts ; blood disorder ; haemoglobin ; natural product ; nutraceutical ; nutritional disease ; lichens ; neuroprotection ; cetrarioid clade ; grape polyphenols ; sarcopenia ; skeletal muscle ; clinical trial ; R. conduplicans ; lichen ; secondary metabolites ; DNA damage ; α-glucosidase inhibition ; adlay ; adlay testa ; antiglycation ; phenolic acid ; grape pomace ; anti-inflammatory ; curcumin ; poly(glycerol sebacate) ; nanoparticles ; drug delivery system ; human cervical cancer ; baicalein ; mangiferin ; quercetin ; diabetes mellitus ; peripheral artery disease ; cardiovascular diseases ; Cyperus esculentus ; tiger nut ; metabolomics ; UHPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS/MS ; foodomics ; scopolamine ; memory impairments ; phenol compounds ; polydatin ; 3-O-β-d-resveratrol-glucopyranoside ; cervical cancer ; lung cancer ; ovarian cancer ; nanosuspension ; antioxidant properties ; LPS-induced inflammation ; NO-scavenging activity ; mountain tea ; Lamiaceae ; iridoids ; phenylethanoids ; ultrasound-assisted extraction ; melittoside ; ajugoside ; verbascoside ; ferulic acid ; apoptosis and cell cycle arrest ; anti-angiogenesis ; anti-metastasis ; synergism ; Cymbopogon schoenanthus ; hyaluronidase ; acetylcholinesterase ; neurodegeneration ; skin ; hair ; human health ; immobilized PTP1B ; drug screening ; cell surface display ; salvianolic acid B ; traditional Chinese medicine ; Salicornia ; extraction technologies ; agro-industrial by-products ; biological activity ; circular economy ; health effects ; re-integration ; waste management ; blood orange peels ; infrared-assisted extraction ; optimization ; Aflatoxin B1 ; Achillea millefolium ; bioaccessibility ; Caco-2 absorption ; in vitro digestion ; sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 ; human oral squamous cell carcinoma ; autophagy ; epidermal fatty acid-binding protein ; lentil hull ; enzymatic hydrolysis ; microwave-assisted extraction ; oligosaccharides ; Alocasia gigantea ; hepatocellular carcinoma ; histopathology ; UHPLC–DAD–ESI–MS/MS ; Salvianolic acid B ; matrix metalloproteinase 9 ; gelatinase B ; MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells ; TIMP-1 ; agri-food wastes ; sustainability ; polyphenols bioavailability ; polyphenols activity ; cosmeceuticals ; nano-delivery ; health ; Lithocarpus litseifolius ; trilobatin ; phloridzin ; phloretin ; metabolic pathway ; bioactivity ; honey ; functional beverage ; characterization ; alcoholic beverage ; fermented beverage ; functional foods ; beneficial effects ; biological treatment ; bioreactors ; water ; aerobic granular sludge ; conventional active ted sludge ; biofilter ; photobioreactor ; membrane bioreactor ; bio-electrochemical systems ; chitosan ; Indian borage ; biotic elicitor ; insect-based foods ; Folin–Ciocalteu method ; phenols and flavonoids ; polyphenols bioactivity ; cereal ; pre-harvest sprouting ; antiradical capacity ; antitumor activity ; bee products ; phenylamides ; multivariate statistical analysis ; Juniperus sabina ; cupressuflavone ; intranasal ; pharmacokinetic ; motor coordination ; oregano ; box–behnken ; phenolics ; HPLC-PDA analysis ; UPLC-Q-TOF MS ; olive pomace ; PBMC ; immune gene expression ; HPLC-DAD ; metabolome ; phenolic bioaccessibility ; propolis ; total phenolic compounds ; antioxidant capacity ; UHPLC-DAD-ESI-MS ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: During the last several decades, the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) have increasingly been recognized for their role in local, regional, national and supranational economies; as drivers of economic growth, development and regeneration; and for their social and cultural impact on well-being, place-making, inclusion, sustainability, diversity and culture. On the other hand, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the fragility and precarity of an industry dominated by micro-businesses and freelance and informal work practices, as well as having few tangible assets, calling into question the sustainability of economic models based on a high level of precarity in labor practices. This has led to some efforts (by governments and public bodies) to protect the industry from the pandemic’s impact. At the same time, lockdowns have also highlighted the importance of creative activity in maintaining individual well-being and community resilience as well as the innovative potential of the industry.In this context, this Special Issue addresses the broader research field of CCIs and its various subsectors, from media, arts, design, and more, as well as its role in developing pathways towards sustainability, resilience and recovery. This Special issue presents original research and the latest advances in both theoretical and practical approaches.
    Keywords: cultural creative industries (CCIs) ; copyright ; creative economy ; China ; makerspaces ; heterotopia ; culture of innovation ; maker culture ; green innovation ; Welsh audiovisual industry ; green innovation frameworks ; creative industries ; cultural industries ; philharmonic orchestra ; regional economic impact ; urban economy ; economic geography ; Germany ; Triple Bottom Line ; Quintuple Bottom Line ; five Ps ; circular economy ; doughnut economics ; craft ; design ; sustainability ; Anthropocene ; cultural governance ; cultural policy ; regional development ; cultural impact assessment ; cultural mapping methodologies ; co-design process ; UNESCO creative city designation ; cultural and creative industries in Portugal ; layering perspectives ; creative production of space ; qualitative content analysis ; sustainable communities ; SDGs ; community ; print newspapers ; entrepreneurship ; EDI ; discrimination ; firm attributes ; underrepresentation of minorities ; intercultural dialogue ; creative hubs ; intercultural communication ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-14
    Description: This reprint contributes to the debate on the Ecological Transition and Circular Economy from a multidimensional perspective. Research from several scientific fields has been developed, providing a comprehensive picture of the complexity of the circular transition. Indeed, the reprint highlights how creating a functioning circular economy requires combining different knowledge, skills, perspectives and approaches to shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns successfully. Special attention is given to the multiple dimensions of circular economy applications, with articles focused on different circular economy application levels, such as processes, companies, supply chains, and cities. Furthermore, the reprint explores in detail how a circular economy becomes applied to the energy, construction and agri-food sectors that are particularly committed to this circular transition.
    Keywords: sustainable asset lifecycle ; circular economy ; design for deconstruction ; barriers ; sustainable approach ; critical literature review ; energy transition ; knowledge economy (knowledge-based economy) ; Industry 4.0 ; transformation of mining in Poland ; municipal waste ; waste sorting ; waste management ; waste recovery ; municipal waste charging ; waste disposal ; resource use ; greenhouse ; industries ; textual analysis ; biogas ; anaerobic digestion ; manure ; greenhouse gases ; methane ; nitrous oxide ; environmental impacts ; energy sustainability ; green energy ; carbon emissions ; cost of energy ; energy portfolio ; resource availability ; carbon emission rights allocation ; ZSG-DEA ; China’s power sector ; YREB ; spatiotemporal differentiation ; cultural evolution ; linguistic ecology ; neutral model ; selection and drift ; economic concepts ; ecological concepts ; perceived consumer effectiveness ; towel reuse ; willingness to sacrifice ; environmental consciousness ; environmental knowledge ; circular economy for food ; sustainable food supply chains ; systemic approach ; multi-stakeholder approach ; public food policy ; local agri-food system ; food waste management ; urban sustainability ; circular cities ; indicators ; ecological footprint ; renewable energy ; augmented ARDL ; dynamic ARDL ; frequency domain causality ; export ; India ; climate change ; forest vulnerability ; Himalaya ; sustainability reporting ; disclosure ; sustainability ; stakeholder theory ; methods ; evaluating metrics ; supply chains ; socio-biodiversity ; bioeconomy ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: This book explores sustainable urban development, addressing the challenges and opportunities encountered in the 21st century. It addresses topics such as resilience, blockchain architecture, and green roofs, offering insights into urban challenges and opportunities. The research provides innovative strategies and best practices for sustainable, equitable, and resilient urban communities. The collection emphasizes stakeholder integration, community engagement, and the importance of addressing specific challenges faced by vulnerable populations. As a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students, this publication aims to foster informed conversations about the future of urban planning and design, and inspire further research and dialogue on sustainable urban development, paving the way for more sustainable urban communities worldwide.
    Keywords: green buildings ; occupant well-being ; healthy buildings ; occupant-orientation ; indoor environment conditions ; residential property ; public transportation ; metro ; rail ; flat ; resource-based city ; green land use efficiency (GLUE) ; carbon emissions ; the Yellow River Basin (YRB) ; multimodal data ; attention mechanisms ; data fusion ; urban planning ; energy consumption ; building energy ; spatial autocorrelation ; multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) ; prefabricated construction ; digital green innovation management ; venture capital ; project partners ; transfer of development rights (TDR) ; land registry ; land management ; preservation of buildings ; historic buildings ; development restriction ; development loss ; floor area ; Turkey ; sustainable urban planning ; digital legislation and policy ; rural digitalization reform ; digital technology ; energy conservation ; extraversion ; green hotel ; past behaviour ; personality traits ; pro-environmental management ; city–county consolidation ; market competition ; earnings management ; urbanization development ; sustainable urban development ; urban resilience ; influencing factors ; Chengdu–Chongqing urban agglomeration ; urban rail transit (URT) ; PPP ; value creation ; grounded theory ; smart home ; secure architecture ; blockchain ; storage efficiency ; IoT ; climate change ; GHG mitigation ; public policy ; enabler networks ; net-zero roadmap ; developing countries ; social network analysis ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 response policy ; operational restrictions on facilities ; Night-Time Economy (NTE) ; Night-Time Economic Vitality (NTEV) ; credit-card sales ; PLS-SEM (partial least square structural equation modeling) ; formative measurement model ; superblocks urbanism ; gulf urbanization ; street connectivity and efficiency ; walkability ; sustainable urban development policy and practice ; urban vulnerabilities ; vulnerable communities ; multidisciplinary approach ; disciplinary boundaries ; design workshops ; research by design ; Design for Vulnerables ; Krebs cycle design ; generative urban design ; evidence-based design decision-making ; activity-based model ; transit-oriented development ; amenity accessibility ; green roofs ; sustainable urban planning and design ; urban development ; public perception ; urban policy and governance ; Saudi Arabia ; post-occupancy evaluation ; semantic differential method ; sports parks ; real estate enterprise ; digitalization ; operations management ; barriers ; FTA–DEMATEL–ISM ; sustainability ; heritage redevelopment ; participatory design ; public engagement ; community value ; social value ; Faro Convention ; HUL ; heritage ; cognitive mapping ; urban regeneration ; text mining ; keyword network analysis ; students’ participation ; social network service ; stakeholder ; Korea ; industrial building renovation ; brownfield buildings ; conflicts ; stakeholders ; n/a ; innovation district ; user preferences ; user-centric planning ; decision makers’ perspectives ; urban policy ; Kelvin Grove Urban Village ; Diamantina Knowledge Precinct ; Brisbane Technology Park ; Brisbane ; Australia ; sustainable development ; Central Taiwan Science Park ; green infrastructure ; residents’ opinions ; urban ecosystem ; environmental education ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) an unprecedented global pandemic. Nearly every country across the globe is struggling to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to limit its health, societal and economic consequences. As a response to that, with almost immediate effect, students, teachers and workers in general and across the globe were thrown into a new scenario of online work and education. In the midst of this emotional climate laden with fear, uncertainty, sadness and anxiety, millions of students all over the world were confined to their homes and the entire educational community had to adapt to a distance education model. The same occured with workers of different disciplines; they have to balance work and life in the same place. Therefore, homes suddenly became schools, universities and workplaces all at the same time. Against this backdrop, this Special Issue focuses on the study, evaluation and analysis of the opportunities the pandemic offers in three related aspects: first, for building an education for sustainable development. Second, for creating decent working conditions. Finally, to enhance health and well-being both at the workplace and at home. Authors from a range of disciplines, such as education, psychology, management, social sciences and other areas related to sustainable development, have contributed with differrent manuscripts. They address the challenges of studying, working and living in times of uncertainty in order to build sustainable development in those areas from theoretical and applied research.
    Keywords: distance learning systems (DLS) ; higher education institutions (HEI) ; work from home (WFH) ; human resource management (HRM) ; COVID-19 ; principal component analysis (PCA) ; emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) ; educational consequences ; parents’ perspectives ; Portugal ; preschool education ; basic education ; secondary education ; digital learning ; sustainable education ; systematic literature review ; university education ; representations ; COVID-19 pandemic ; undergraduate students ; online education ; thematic analysis ; education for sustainable development ; mindfulness ; resilience ; academic performance ; education ; medical ; online learning ; motivation ; classroom education ; pandemic management ; schools closed ; health education ; apprenticeship ; digitization ; distance learning ; school development ; academic dropout ; higher education ; SARS-CoV-2 ; pandemic ; digital competency ; technological resources ; primary education ; post-doctoral researcher ; China ; post-doctoral system ; world-class universities ; internationalization ; teaching ; higher education academy (HEA) ; learning ; STEM ; sustainability ; systematic review ; annotated bibliography ; cultural difference ; group ; post-traumatic stress disorder ; psychological distress ; sleep problems ; internet gaming disorder ; medical education ; medical training ; work life ; Peruvian physicians ; depression ; anxiety ; stress ; burnout ; health-related quality of life ; healthcare professionals ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This Special Issue is dedicated to Dr. Patricia Somers (22 April 1949–10 March 2023). Pat was a proud mother, feminist educator, devoted colleague, and beloved mentor for her students. Above all, she advocated for the underserved and minoritized, including investing time in her students who were up against considerable institutional odds. Pat was also a driving force for social justice in the United States, Brazil, and across the world, as her scholarship prioritized giving voice to the voiceless and advocating for racial and gender equity. As an editorial team, we honor and celebrate Dr. Somers' vibrant and impactful life with this Special Issue, in the hopes that future generations of educators follow her lead and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Rest in peace and in power, Pat. We will miss you always.
    Keywords: education attainment ; education inequality ; education policy ; education statistics ; &nbsp ; economic globalization ; future of tertiary education ; neoliberal ; social action ; social capital ; sustainability ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: This Special Issue, “Sustainability in Maritime Transport: Advances, Solutions and Pending Tasks”, provides an up-to-date overview of the use of new technologies to develop more sustainable maritime transport based on new combustibles, working procedures and related industries, all of which are in agreement with the technical limitations indicated by safety on board.
    Keywords: truck congestion problem ; truck appointment system ; cooperation model ; scheduling of truck arrivals ; short sea shipping ; cold ironing ; on-shore power supply ; LNG ; port sustainability ; efficient transport ; riverine communities ; sustainable cities ; renewable energy ; environment ; northern sea route ; resilience assessment ; Bayesian network ; fuzzy theory ; tug ; bollard pull ; tons of steering pull ; escort towing ; ship-handling towing ; mathematical model ; marine scrubber ; muffler ; FEA ; experimental test ; transmission loss ; liquefied hydrogen ; batteries ; high-speed ferry ; safety ; hazard identification ; quantitative risk assessments ; cruise ships ; navigation ; sustainability ; marine environment ; the Adriatic Sea ; suffocation on ships ; human-related hazardous events ; complex network ; HFACS ; maritime transport routes ; safety of navigation ; maritime transport ; design of waterways ; marine simulation ; full-mission ship simulator ; maritime traffic engineering ; safe maneuvering area ; safe operation of the ship ; navigational risk ; computerized maintenance management systems ; planned maintenance ; database ; benefits ; quality ; fuel gas supply system ; life cycle analysis ; ship draught ; depth of port channels and basins ; ship maneuverability at low depths ; energy consumption ; emissions generated by ships ; social systems ; situational systems ; marine accidents ; Ishikawa diagram ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-02
    Description: The Covid-19 pandemic is having an undeniable impact on all the statements of society. Regarding teaching and learning activities, most educational institutions suspended in-person instruction and moved to remote learning during the lockdown of March and April 2020. Although nowadays many countries have progressively re-opened their educational systems, blended learning is a common practice aimed to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 disease. This disruption has supposed an unprecedented acceleration to the digitalization of teaching and learning. Teaching professionals have been forced to develop their digital competence in a short amount of time, getting mastery in the management of information, the creation of audiovisual contents, and the use of technology to keep their students connected. This Special Issue presents contributions regarding the adoption of distance learning strategies, experiences, or lessons learned in this domain.
    Keywords: collaborative learning ; cooperative competence ; virtual learning ; educational technology ; game-based learning ; relational coordination ; mobile games ; scaffolding strategy ; students’ utilization ; sustainability ; TAM and TUT ; COVID-19 ; convolution neural network ; COVID-19 epidemic ; class loyalty ; decision-making ; digital storytelling ; online participation ; group ; sociality ; digital competence ; soft skills ; university teachers ; TAM ; collaboration ; breakout groups ; translation ; L2 learners ; KSA ; teaching learning center (TLC) ; competence ; pandemic ; computer-mediated communication ; teacher–student relation ; E-learning ; social presence theory ; mobile learning ; distance learning ; Saudi Arabia ; e-learning ; administrators ; proper implementations ; well-structured questionnaires ; un-professionalism ; graded reading ; reading websites/applications ; technology ; EFL ; spring 2020 ; school closures ; Austria ; secondary school teachers ; will–skill–tool model ; digital media implementation ; post-pandemic ; learning media ; behavior intention ; mathematics education ; predictive validity ; general education ; learning algorithms ; online learning ; face-to-face learning ; cross-curricular integration ; music art ; visual art ; remote teaching ; ICT ; interdisciplinary assignments ; elementary education ; learning process ; music subjects ; visual art subjects ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: Among the strategies for reducing the negative effects on the environment effected by the uncontrolled consumption and low potential for the recovery of conventional plastics, the synthesis of new biodegradable and recyclable plastics represents one of the most promising methods for minimizing the negative effects of conventional non-biodegradable plastics. The spectrum of existing biodegradable materials is still very narrow; thus, to achieve greater applicability, research is being carried out on biodegradable polymer mixtures, the synthesis of new polymers, and the incorporation of new stabilizers for thermal degradation, alongside the use of other additives such as antibacterials or new and more sustainable plasticizers. Some studies analyze direct applications, such as shape memory foams, new cartilage implants, drug release, etc.The reader can find several studies on the degradation of biodegradable polymers under composting conditions; however, novel bacteria that degrade polymers considered non-biodegradable in other, unusual conditions (such as conditions of high salinity) are also presented.
    Keywords: rice husk waste ; polybutylenes adipate-Co-terephthalate (PBAT) ; polybutylene succinate (PBS) ; eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), esophageal drug delivery systems ; drug-eluting string ; 3D printing ; photopolymerizable resins ; Drug loading strategies ; steroids ; fluticasone ; bamboo fiber ; cellulose nanofiber ; adhesion ; multiscale hybridization ; fibrous composite ; oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) ; microcrystalline cellulose ; nano-bentonite ; bio-composites ; tensile properties ; modified PU film ; protein adsorption ; antibacterial ; hyaluronic acid (HA) ; polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) ; liposomes ; dexketoprofen ; biocompatibility ; hot plate test ; rats ; polyethylene glycol ; polylactic acid ; starch mixture ; hydrolytic degradation ; biodegradation ; almond shell ; starch thermoplastic polymer ; biodegradable ; biocomposite ; recycling ; reprocessing cycle ; injection molding ; natural filler ; PLA ; epoxidized chia seed oil (ECO) ; plasticizers ; migration ; disintegration ; poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate ; PBAT ; gum rosin ; biodegradable polymers ; barrier properties ; biomaterials ; bioplastics ; mechanical performance ; barrier performance ; processability ; TMDCs-WS2 ; PLLA ; PVDF ; nanomaterials ; morphology ; crystallization ; dynamic-mechanical properties ; photodegradation ; biodegradable polymer ; poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) ; Zn-Ti LDH ; PHBV ; rheological characterization ; plastics processing ; Flory–Huggins ; free energy of mixing ; glass transition temperature ; group contribution ; molecular weight ; miscibility prediction ; simulation ; solubility parameter ; biodegradable packaging ; biopolymer ; starch ; storage conditions ; thermal properties ; physicochemical properties ; maleinized hemp seed oil ; maleinized Brazil nut seed oil ; bio-plasticizers ; absorbency ; commercial biopolymer additive (CBA) ; micro/nanofibrillated cellulose (CMF) ; softness ; strength ; tissue paper materials ; antioxidant ; antioxidant polymers ; lignin polymers ; graft polymers ; dopamine ; polydopamine ; inulin ; quercetin ; limonene ; vitamins ; polycaprolactone (PCL) ; polyesters ; hydrophobic-hydrophilic balance (HHB) ; nanoparticle formulation ; nanoparticle crystallinity ; FLAP antagonist ; BRP-187 ; polylactide ; biofoam ; hydrolysis ; degradation ; drug ; controlled release ; polysaccharide ; probiotics ; biosensor ; laser-induced graphene ; polyimide ; glucose ; enzyme ; mesenchymal stem cells ; polymers ; matrix ; stiffness ; osteoblasts ; differentiation ; cartilage defect ; knee ; Kartigen® ; chondrocyte precursors ; stem cell therapy ; silica ; composites ; thermal stability ; toughness ; biodegradability ; 3D printing applications ; non-viral vectors ; gold nanoparticles ; mesoporous silica nanoparticles ; carbon nanotubes ; nanoparticle size distribution ; cellulose nanocrystals ; negative staining ; cryo-TEM ADF-STEM ; electron tomography ; coffee-ring effect ; fractionation ; vinyl addition polymerization ; ring-opening polymerization (ROP) ; bromolactide ; methylenelactide ; poly(methylenelactide) ; poly(methylenelactide-g-L-lactide) ; 3D scaffolds ; biomaterial engineering ; tissue engineering ; polymeric foams ; surface functionalization ; protein nanoparticles ; cell growth ; compressed fluids ; Freon R134a ; polystyrene ; comparison ; gut microbes ; insect larvae ; MXene ; composite membrane ; hydrophilicity ; antibacterial properties ; coagulation ; hydroxyapatite ; WS2 nanotubes ; mechanical properties ; PA ; bioblend ; kinetic models ; reaction mechanisms ; random scission ; shape memory polymers ; polyurethanes ; oxidation ; biostable ; foams ; additive manufacturing ; surface roughness ; FFF ; ANFIS ; modeling ; desirability ; filaments ; antimicrobial ; fused filament fabrication (FFF) ; fused deposition modelling (FDM) ; Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) ; starch-based bioplastic ; chitosan ; co-polymer ; reinforcement ; biosynthesized polyesters ; polyhydroxyalkanoates ; seawater ; residual toxicity assessment ; thermochromic printing inks ; UV stability ; polycaprolactone ; nanoparticles ; TiO2 ; ZnO ; poly (lactic acid) ; Kraft lignin ; tannin ; multifunctionality of PLA composites ; surface mechanical properties ; antioxidant/antibacterial activity ; poly-β-hydroxybutyrate ; plasticizer ; imagery analysis ; Actinomucor elegans ; materials testing ; resin based dental materials ; monomer ; bisphenol A ; elution ; leaching ; adipate ; effective plasticizer ; environmentally friendly ; esterification ; polyvinyl chloride ; technological ; sustainability ; levoglucosenone ; oxa-Michael addition ; cross-linkable polymers ; renewable polyesters ; biosurfactants ; thermostability ; emulsion stability ; rheology ; PHA extraction ; chemical digestion ; design of experiments ; polymer properties ; micro-pollutants ; landfill ; soil biota ; polyethylene ; polyester ; FucoPol ; response surface methodology ; oil-in-water emulsions ; texture ; poly(lactic acid) ; biocomposites ; mineral filler ; calcium sulfate ; natural gypsum ; anhydrite II ; melt–mixing ; thermal and mechanical properties ; Vicat softening temperature ; injection molding and extrusion ; technical applications ; keratin ; feather ; poultry waste ; nonwovens ; electrocardiography ; electromyography ; PEDOT:PSS ; degradability ; polymer electrode ; phytopathogenic fungi ; polysaccharides ; plant protection ; antifungal coatings ; seed coating ; seed treatments ; field applications ; pre-harvest treatments ; post-harvest treatments ; edible coatings ; Poly(L–lactic acid) ; Poly(D–lactic acid) ; stereocomplex ; magnesium hydroxide ; biodegradable vascular scaffold ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Description: Polymer-processing techniques are of the utmost importance for producing polymeric parts. They must produce parts with the desired qualities, which are usually related to mechanical performance, dimensional conformity, and appearance. Aiming to maximize the overall efficiency of the polymer-processing techniques, advanced modeling codes along with experimental measurements are needed to simulate and optimize the processes. Thus, this reprint exploits the digital transformation of the plastics industry, both through the creation of more robust and accurate modeling tools and the development of cutting-edge experimental techniques. Furthermore, it addresses advanced topics, such as crystallization during the solidification processes, prediction of fiber orientation in the cases of short and long fiber composites, prediction of the foaming process (such as microcellular foaming), and flow instabilities by including viscoelastic constitutive equations.
    Keywords: polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cell ; molecular dynamics simulations ; side chain ; penetration ; injection molding ; thermoplastic composites ; mold heating ; mold temperature control ; melt filling ; thin wall injection molding ; suspensions ; micro-polar fluids ; yield stress ; extrusion ; extrudate swell ; interface tracking ; least-squares volume-to-point interpolation ; consistent PISO ; finite volume method ; OpenFOAM ; poly(ether ether ketone) ; thermo–mechanical response ; constitutive modeling ; polymer processing ; elongational flow ; vane extruder ; eccentric rotor extruder ; numerical simulation ; warpage ; prediction ; crystallinity ; multi-layer structure ; simulation ; annocatacin B ; ND1 subunit ; mitochondrial respiratory complex I ; MRC-I ; MD ; Hirshfeld charges ; MM/PBSA ; poly(lactic acid) ; urea ; melt blending ; slow-release fertilizer ; leakage flow ; modeling and simulation ; sheet die design ; manufacturing process design ; coat-hanger die ; modeling ; rheology ; constant shear-rate die ; non-Newtonian fluids ; poly (3-hydroxybutyric-co-3-hydroxyvaleric acid) (PHBV) ; flax ; hemp ; short fibers ; properties ; lithium-ion ; high energy pouch cell ; state of charge ; electrolyte ; load position ; motor core ; iron sheet ; computer-aided engineering tools ; gluing ; machine learning ; multilayer perceptron ; neural network ; regression ; plasticizing ; polymers ; basic settings ; data-based ; model ; quality ; conformal cooling ; sustainability ; industrial design ; manufacturing ; degree of assembly ; a family mold system ; CAE-DOE optimization ; green channels ; temperature maps ; finite difference methods ; meshless interpolation ; numerical solution ; polymer flows ; viscoelastic flows ; plastic optical barrel ; roundness ; concentricity ; Taguchi method ; RGD peptide (1FUV) ; ab initio molecular dynamics ; total bond order ; partial charge ; dielectric function ; suspension ; rodlike particles ; micropolar fluids ; anisotropy ; hysteresis ; fiber reinforced polymer composites ; lead nanoparticles ; shielding ; attenuation coefficient ; empirical derivation ; PEG-PCL ; non-isothermal crystallization ; flash differential scanning calorimeter ; polymer blends ; microstructure ; multiscale simulation ; hybrid injection molding ; continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics ; finite element analysis (fem) ; FDM ; Taguchi ; multilateral ; CAE ; transfer learning ; LDPE ; triangular-loop shear ; trapezoidal-loop shear ; time-dependent viscoelastic property ; Rivlin–Sawyers equation ; fillers ; rubber compounds ; viscoelasticity ; thixotropy ; structure ; tailings flocculation ; seawater ; calcium and magnesium removal ; lime ; sodium carbonate ; FEM ; pipe die ; polymer melt ; Herschel–Bulkley fluids ; free-surfaces ; conformal cooling channel ; rapid tooling technology ; mold material ; cooling medium ; polymer solution ; Giesekus ; eXtended Pom-Pom ; visualization ; analytical solution ; deep learning ; stacked learning ; Oldroyd-B fluid ; Giesekus fluid ; sphere drag coefficient ; plastic pallet ; flatness ; sequential valve gate system ; molding flow analysis ; particle settling ; dilute polymeric solutions ; Oldroyd-B model ; microfluidic rheometry ; drag coefficient ; hydraulic fracturing ; polyethylene recycling ; artificial engineering ; polymer extrusion ; mold additive manufacturing ; polymer molds ; subtractive manufacturing ; mold characterization ; rapid tooling ; thermal homogenisation ; pre-distribution ; heat pipe ; blown film extrusion ; CFD ; n/a ; pyrolysis ; mixed polymers ; thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) ; artificial neural networks (ANN) ; polypropylene ; glass fiber ; fiber reinforced ; fiber shortening ; compound ; SIGMA ; dynamic image analysis ; Monte Carlo ; nanoporous matter ; proton ; transport behavior ; GEANT4 code ; boundary layer ; Herschel–Bulkley fluid ; Carbopol ; cement ; bacterial cellulose ; plasma treatment ; magnetron sputtering ; silver nanoparticles ; antimicrobial activity ; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ; fully implicit coupled solver ; viscoelastic flow ; log-conformation tensor approach ; non-isothermal effects ; Phan-Thien-Tanner constitutive equation ; semi-analytical method ; solvent viscosity contribution ; pipe flow ; channel flow ; Au nanoparticles ; plasmonics ; polymer matrix ; nanocomposite ; thermal annealing ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: Dietary habits differ from person to person and usually are determined by cultural habits and traditions that determine lifestyles linked to the socio-demographic characteristics associated with ethnicity. It is known that dietary habits, lifestyle and socio-demographic factors impact human health. Eating disorders, increasing consumption of less-healthy foods, lack of exercise, genetic predisposition, along with other factors, increase risk of diseases such as dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and various mental disorders. This reprint entitled “Dietary Influence on Nutritional Epidemiology, Public Health and Our Lifestyle”, addresses the associations between some dietary patterns, lifestyle and socio-demographic factors, analyzed either separately or in combination, with the risk and management of cardiovascular diseases and mental health problems, such as depression and dementia. This reprint includes nine original articles and one systematic review.
    Keywords: fatty acids ; postprandial state ; chylomicron ; olive oil ; dendritic cells ; myeloid lineage ; triglyceride-rich lipoprotein ; early-onset dementia ; dietary habits ; MIND diet ; DASH diet ; Mediterranean diet ; risk ; prevention ; DNA methylation ; epigenetics ; Adventist Health Study-2 ; vegetarian diet ; linear regression ; permutation ; healthy eating index ; depression ; NHANES ; diet pattern ; DGA ; nutrition ; Roma ; Hungary ; health ; dietary patterns ; dietary indicators ; sustainability ; dietary recall ; high-density lipoprotein ; lipidome ; proteome ; exposome ; diet ; lifestyle ; demographics ; cardiovascular disease ; cholesterol ; triglycerides ; blood pressure ; glycemic control ; adlay ; hypertension ; ACE ; ET-1 ; eating disorder ; all-cause mortality ; epidemiology ; hazard ratio ; general population ; Canada ; daily total intake of dietary nutrients ; RGCS ; HbA1c ; odds ratio ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In recent years, we have been witnessing the exponential proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), networks of physical devices, vehicles, appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and connectivity that enables these objects to connect and exchange data. Enabling the introduction of highly efficient IoT, wireless sensing and network technologies will reduce the need for traditional processes that are currently be carried out manually, thus freeing up the precious resources of dwindling working staff, to do more meaningful and human-centered work. This reprint aims to bring together innovative developments in areas related to IoT, wireless sensing and networking. The aspects covered include software-defined network (SDN)-based IoT networks, artificial intelligence (AI) for IoT, industrial IoT, smart sensors, optimization of energy efficiency for IoT, and wireless sensor networks, IoT applications for agriculture, smart cities, healthcare, localization and environment monitoring.
    Keywords: lawful interception ; hybrid SDN ; intercept access point ; minimum vertex cover ; text detection ; natural scene ; feature fusion ; soil water content ; sensor networks ; distributed sensing ; IoT measurements ; Precision Agriculture ; moisture sensor ; wireless communication ; LoRa ; LoRaWAN™ ; indoor localisation ; fingerprinting ; landmark ; wearable device ; inertial measurement device ; motion mode detection ; body shadowing compensation ; nearest neighbour ; label-free biosensor ; machine learning ; support vector machine ; artificial neural network ; principal component analysis ; Green IoT ; IIoT ; edge computing ; AI ; edge AI ; sustainability ; digital transition ; digital circular economy ; Industry 5.0 ; direction-of-arrival estimation ; geometric algebra ; ESPRIT algorithm ; electromagnetic vector-sensor array ; hardware security ; electromagnetic sensing ; real time ; cybersecurity ; anomaly detection ; the Internet of Things ; deep learning ; blockchain ; 5G/6G ; URLLC ; tactile Internet ; industrial IoT ; network emulator ; robotic simulator ; virtual testbed ; wireless power transfer ; energy harvesting ; power conversion efficiency ; single diode rectifier ; voltage doubler ; harmonic balance method ; autonomous sensor node ; wireless sensor network ; multi-tone signal ; full-wave simulations of PCB ; millimeter wave ; new radio ; unmanned aerial vehicles ; LoS blockage ; closed-from approximation ; rooftop deployments ; coverage path planning ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; cell decomposition ; decomposition methods ; energy-aware approaches ; energy optimal path ; multi-robot systems ; multi-UAV ; smart cities ; Internet of Things (IoT) ; sensors ; 6G ; wireless communications ; resilience ; climate change ; connectivity ; data ; wireless systems ; mobile sensors ; D2D ; technological development ; Internet of things ; LoRaWAN ; reliability ; downlink ; safety ; IoT ; LPWAN ; proximal soil sensor device ; conventional communication methods ; ultralow power consumption ; long-distance transmission ; economic value ; inventoried sensor devices ; digital twin ; LSTM model ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNB Energy industries and utilities
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Polymer-processing techniques are of the utmost importance for producing polymeric parts. They must produce parts with the desired qualities, which are usually related to mechanical performance, dimensional conformity, and appearance. Aiming to maximize the overall efficiency of the polymer-processing techniques, advanced modeling codes along with experimental measurements are needed to simulate and optimize the processes. Thus, this reprint exploits the digital transformation of the plastics industry, both through the creation of more robust and accurate modeling tools and the development of cutting-edge experimental techniques. Furthermore, it addresses advanced topics, such as crystallization during the solidification processes, prediction of fiber orientation in the cases of short and long fiber composites, prediction of the foaming process (such as microcellular foaming), and flow instabilities by including viscoelastic constitutive equations.
    Keywords: polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cell ; molecular dynamics simulations ; side chain ; penetration ; injection molding ; thermoplastic composites ; mold heating ; mold temperature control ; melt filling ; thin wall injection molding ; suspensions ; micro-polar fluids ; yield stress ; extrusion ; extrudate swell ; interface tracking ; least-squares volume-to-point interpolation ; consistent PISO ; finite volume method ; OpenFOAM ; poly(ether ether ketone) ; thermo–mechanical response ; constitutive modeling ; polymer processing ; elongational flow ; vane extruder ; eccentric rotor extruder ; numerical simulation ; warpage ; prediction ; crystallinity ; multi-layer structure ; simulation ; annocatacin B ; ND1 subunit ; mitochondrial respiratory complex I ; MRC-I ; MD ; Hirshfeld charges ; MM/PBSA ; poly(lactic acid) ; urea ; melt blending ; slow-release fertilizer ; leakage flow ; modeling and simulation ; sheet die design ; manufacturing process design ; coat-hanger die ; modeling ; rheology ; constant shear-rate die ; non-Newtonian fluids ; poly (3-hydroxybutyric-co-3-hydroxyvaleric acid) (PHBV) ; flax ; hemp ; short fibers ; properties ; lithium-ion ; high energy pouch cell ; state of charge ; electrolyte ; load position ; motor core ; iron sheet ; computer-aided engineering tools ; gluing ; machine learning ; multilayer perceptron ; neural network ; regression ; plasticizing ; polymers ; basic settings ; data-based ; model ; quality ; conformal cooling ; sustainability ; industrial design ; manufacturing ; degree of assembly ; a family mold system ; CAE-DOE optimization ; green channels ; temperature maps ; finite difference methods ; meshless interpolation ; numerical solution ; polymer flows ; viscoelastic flows ; plastic optical barrel ; roundness ; concentricity ; Taguchi method ; RGD peptide (1FUV) ; ab initio molecular dynamics ; total bond order ; partial charge ; dielectric function ; suspension ; rodlike particles ; micropolar fluids ; anisotropy ; hysteresis ; fiber reinforced polymer composites ; lead nanoparticles ; shielding ; attenuation coefficient ; empirical derivation ; PEG-PCL ; non-isothermal crystallization ; flash differential scanning calorimeter ; polymer blends ; microstructure ; multiscale simulation ; hybrid injection molding ; continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics ; finite element analysis (fem) ; FDM ; Taguchi ; multilateral ; CAE ; transfer learning ; LDPE ; triangular-loop shear ; trapezoidal-loop shear ; time-dependent viscoelastic property ; Rivlin–Sawyers equation ; fillers ; rubber compounds ; viscoelasticity ; thixotropy ; structure ; tailings flocculation ; seawater ; calcium and magnesium removal ; lime ; sodium carbonate ; FEM ; pipe die ; polymer melt ; Herschel–Bulkley fluids ; free-surfaces ; conformal cooling channel ; rapid tooling technology ; mold material ; cooling medium ; polymer solution ; Giesekus ; eXtended Pom-Pom ; visualization ; analytical solution ; deep learning ; stacked learning ; Oldroyd-B fluid ; Giesekus fluid ; sphere drag coefficient ; plastic pallet ; flatness ; sequential valve gate system ; molding flow analysis ; particle settling ; dilute polymeric solutions ; Oldroyd-B model ; microfluidic rheometry ; drag coefficient ; hydraulic fracturing ; polyethylene recycling ; artificial engineering ; polymer extrusion ; mold additive manufacturing ; polymer molds ; subtractive manufacturing ; mold characterization ; rapid tooling ; thermal homogenisation ; pre-distribution ; heat pipe ; blown film extrusion ; CFD ; n/a ; pyrolysis ; mixed polymers ; thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) ; artificial neural networks (ANN) ; polypropylene ; glass fiber ; fiber reinforced ; fiber shortening ; compound ; SIGMA ; dynamic image analysis ; Monte Carlo ; nanoporous matter ; proton ; transport behavior ; GEANT4 code ; boundary layer ; Herschel–Bulkley fluid ; Carbopol ; cement ; bacterial cellulose ; plasma treatment ; magnetron sputtering ; silver nanoparticles ; antimicrobial activity ; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ; fully implicit coupled solver ; viscoelastic flow ; log-conformation tensor approach ; non-isothermal effects ; Phan-Thien-Tanner constitutive equation ; semi-analytical method ; solvent viscosity contribution ; pipe flow ; channel flow ; Au nanoparticles ; plasmonics ; polymer matrix ; nanocomposite ; thermal annealing ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: The purpose of the Special Issue was to collect the results of research and experience on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the energy sector and the energy market, broadly understood, that were visible after a year. In particular, the impact of COVID-19 on the energy sector in the EU, including Poland, and the US was examined. The topics concerned various issues, e.g., the situation of energy companies, including those listed on the stock exchange, mining companies, and those dealing with renewable energy. The topics related to the development of electromobility, managerial competences, energy expenditure of local government units, sustainable development of energy, and energy poverty during a pandemic were also discussed.
    Keywords: energy manager ; competences ; labor market ; energy industry ; COVID-19 ; decarbonizing transport ; energy efficiency ; electrify transport ; zero-emissions vehicles ; sustainable transport ; electric car charging points ; novel coronavirus pandemic ; alternative energy ; stock market sectors ; stock market companies ; energy ; energy company ; efficiency ; financial analysis ; pandemic ; environmental protection ; environmental problems ; greenhouse gas ; particulate matter (PM) ; renewable energy ; corruption ; electromobility ; companies in the Transport-Shipping-Logistics Sector ; pandemic-COVID-19 ; development ; self-government units ; energy consumption ; monitoring ; energy consumption effectiveness ; sustainable energy development ; households ; OPEC ; crude price ; volatility ; storage crisis ; futures ; shale ; electric vehicles market and policy ; electric vehicles ; purchase intention ; e-mobility ; consumers preferences ; consumer decision making ; social values ; delay discounting ; cultural factors ; economic factors ; machine learning methods ; sustainability ; energy poverty ; economic uncertainty ; energy policy ; policy measures ; reducing energy intensity ; ranking of countries’ energy intensity ; multi-criteria analysis ; sectors of the economy ; economic effects of the pandemic ; social effects of the pandemic ; countries of Western Europe ; countries of Central and Eastern Europe ; mining sector ; initiatives and adaptation measures ; economic situation ; COVID-19 pandemic ; fossil fuel energy ; carbon dioxide emissions ; nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model ; frequency domain causality test ; Markow switching regression ; photovoltaics ; pandemics ; changes in energetic balance due to COVID-19 ; renewable sources of energy during pandemics ; United States ; energy sector ; fossil fuel ; emissions ; expenditures ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This reprint covers various aspects of sustainable urbanisation. It includes empirical evidence, theoretical insights, and practical recommendations in order to inform and inspire sustainable urban strategies. The ten original research studies presented in this reprint explore topics such as green buildings, rail transportation, land-use efficiency, energy consumption, innovation management, heritage preservation, digital technologies, and behaviour change. The interdisciplinary and international scope of the issue reflects the complexity and diversity of the challenges and opportunities encountered when striving for urban sustainability. This Special Issue aimed to provide researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students with a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective on sustainable urban development.
    Keywords: green buildings ; occupant well-being ; healthy buildings ; occupant-orientation ; indoor environment conditions ; residential property ; public transportation ; metro ; rail ; flat ; resource-based city ; green land use efficiency (GLUE) ; carbon emissions ; the Yellow River Basin (YRB) ; multimodal data ; attention mechanisms ; data fusion ; urban planning ; energy consumption ; building energy ; spatial autocorrelation ; multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) ; prefabricated construction ; digital green innovation management ; venture capital ; project partners ; transfer of development rights (TDR) ; land registry ; land management ; preservation of buildings ; historic buildings ; development restriction ; development loss ; floor area ; Turkey ; sustainable urban planning ; digital legislation and policy ; rural digitalization reform ; digital technology ; energy conservation ; extraversion ; green hotel ; past behaviour ; personality traits ; pro-environmental management ; city–county consolidation ; market competition ; earnings management ; urbanization development ; sustainable urban development ; urban resilience ; influencing factors ; Chengdu–Chongqing urban agglomeration ; urban rail transit (URT) ; PPP ; value creation ; grounded theory ; smart home ; secure architecture ; blockchain ; storage efficiency ; IoT ; climate change ; GHG mitigation ; public policy ; enabler networks ; net-zero roadmap ; developing countries ; social network analysis ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 response policy ; operational restrictions on facilities ; Night-Time Economy (NTE) ; Night-Time Economic Vitality (NTEV) ; credit-card sales ; PLS-SEM (partial least square structural equation modeling) ; formative measurement model ; superblocks urbanism ; gulf urbanization ; street connectivity and efficiency ; walkability ; sustainable urban development policy and practice ; urban vulnerabilities ; vulnerable communities ; multidisciplinary approach ; disciplinary boundaries ; design workshops ; research by design ; Design for Vulnerables ; Krebs cycle design ; generative urban design ; evidence-based design decision-making ; activity-based model ; transit-oriented development ; amenity accessibility ; green roofs ; sustainable urban planning and design ; urban development ; public perception ; urban policy and governance ; Saudi Arabia ; post-occupancy evaluation ; semantic differential method ; sports parks ; real estate enterprise ; digitalization ; operations management ; barriers ; FTA–DEMATEL–ISM ; sustainability ; heritage redevelopment ; participatory design ; public engagement ; community value ; social value ; Faro Convention ; HUL ; heritage ; cognitive mapping ; urban regeneration ; text mining ; keyword network analysis ; students’ participation ; social network service ; stakeholder ; Korea ; industrial building renovation ; brownfield buildings ; conflicts ; stakeholders ; n/a ; innovation district ; user preferences ; user-centric planning ; decision makers’ perspectives ; urban policy ; Kelvin Grove Urban Village ; Diamantina Knowledge Precinct ; Brisbane Technology Park ; Brisbane ; Australia ; sustainable development ; Central Taiwan Science Park ; green infrastructure ; residents’ opinions ; urban ecosystem ; environmental education ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: Fruit- and vegetable-based products (F&Vs) have been conventionally processed using thermal techniques such as pasteurization, scalding, and/and drying, ensuring microbial safety and/or enzyme deactivation. Although thermal treatments are the most cost-effective tools, they could also reduce bioactive compounds, nutrients, and even sensory attributes. Nowadays, non-thermal food-processing technologies such as UV light and high-pressure processing have been proposed to develop food products with extended shelf life and preserved/encouraged bioactive compounds, while preserving the sensory properties. This reprint addresses the existing knowledge gaps of novel thermal and non-thermal techniques in the production of F&Vs and their derivatives. This reprint focuses on the effect of thermal and non-thermal treatments (light stresses, high hydrostatic pressure, pulse electric fields, oscillating magnetic fields, cold plasma, ultrasound, drying, etc.) on shelf-life, key bioactive compound changes (antioxidants, nutraceuticals, flavonoids, and non-flavonoids), enzymatic antioxidant systems, and non-enzymatic antioxidant systems of fruit- and vegetable-based products. Apart from an editorial written by the guest editors, the Special Issue consists of 13 papers that cover a range of subjects: thermal and non-thermal treatments on whole fruits (n = 4); thermal and non-thermal treatments on fruit and vegetable byproducts (n = 3); and, thermal and non-thermal treatments on fruit-based beverages and purées (n = 6).
    Keywords: carotenoids ; phenolic compounds ; puree ; juice ; bioaccessibility ; pulsed electric fields ; carrot ; microstructure ; quality attributes ; orange juice ; nisin-assisted thermosonication ; microbial and enzyme inactivation ; sensory quality ; bioactive properties ; Aronia melanocarpa L. ; by-products ; sustainability ; inulin ; trehalose ; polyphenols ; HMF ; unsupervised chemometric analysis ; high hydrostatic pressure ; thermal pasteurization ; anthocyanin ; vitamin C ; flavanones ; high-pressure processing ; potatoes ; polyphenol oxidase ; antioxidant activity ; smoothies ; juices ; elicitors ; abiotic stresses ; nutraceuticals ; health-promoting compounds ; garlic ; ageing process ; bioactive compounds ; organoleptic properties ; HPLC-MS/MS analysis ; controlled abiotic stresses ; elicitation ; functional foods ; whole fruits and vegetables ; stress-induced biosynthesis ; secondary metabolites ; innovative technologies ; non-thermal technologies ; apple ; strawberry ; food processing ; thermal processing ; stability ; storage ; ozonisation ; antioxidants ; table grape ; wine grape ; wine ; zero waste ; green technologies ; circular economy ; UV ; UVB ; UVC ; UV illumination ; photochemical treatments ; abiotic stress ; phytochemicals ; quality ; food safety ; Punica granatum ; phenolics ; encapsulation ; green-technology ; minimally processed ; food losses ; clean label ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: We invite you to read the Special Issue on innovation for sustainable business. It is a collection of 7 articles published in a Special Issue of Sustainability MDPI in 2021-2022. Many of the articles in this reprint are related to leadership. In the context of sustainable development, issues such as dynamic capabilities, CSR, succession management and innovative projects were addressed. Sustainable innovation is also considered from other perspectives. One of them is the topic of introducing sustainable innovations to new ventures. In addition, drivers and impacts of eco-innovation were also examined. There was also research in the area of ​​live commerce, which includes the perspective of consumer behavior.
    Keywords: dynamic capabilities ; eco-innovation ; leadership ; corporate social responsibility ; the attitude of future managers towards CSR ; ethical aspects of companies’ operations ; sustainability ; green technologies ; environmental innovation ; industry ; Brazil ; capability ; organization ; survival ; workforce ; live commerce ; hunger marketing ; perceived trust ; perceived value ; impulse buying behavior ; Sustainable Industry 4.0 ; innovative projects ; interdisciplinarity ; project team competencies ; sustainable innovation ; knowledge search ; organizational learning ; strategic flexibility ; new ventures ; QCA ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-20
    Description: Blockchain technology is becoming one of the most powerful future technologies in supporting logistics processes and applications. It has the potential to destroy and reorganize traditional logistics structures. Both researchers and practitioners all over the world continuously report on novel blockchain-based projects, possibilities, and innovative solutions with better logistic service levels and lower costs. The idea of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the status quo in research and possibilities to effectively implement blockchain-based solutions in business practice. This Special Issue reprint contained well-prepared research reports regarding recent advances in blockchain technology around logistics processes to provide insights into realized maturity.
    Keywords: blockchain technology ; food supply chain ; potentials ; challenges ; systematic literature review ; bibliometric analysis ; supply chain ; logistics ; freight transportation ; distributed ledger technology ; maritime transportation ; international trade ; blockchain ; distributed ledger ; regional label ecosystem ; traceability ; trucking ; collaboration ; trustee ; transportation control towers ; Blockchain Technology ; Smart Contracts ; Supply Chain Management ; DLT ; Blockchain ; IoT ; smart contract ; New Silk Road ; international logistics networks ; supply chains ; supply chain management ; bibliometrics ; network analysis ; tracking ; tracing ; value proposition assessment ; agrifood supply chain ; adoption barriers ; survey ; qualitative interviews ; product lifecycle management ; product development ; decentralization ; production system ; circular economy ; coffee ; ecological embeddedness ; sustainability ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues
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