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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are dramatically influencing the environment, and research is strongly committed to proposing alternatives, mainly based on renewable energy sources. Low GHG electricity production from renewables is well established but issues of grid balancing are limiting their application. Energy storage is a key topic for the further deployment of renewable energy production. Besides batteries and other types of electrical storage, electrofuels and bioderived fuels may offer suitable alternatives in some specific scenarios. This Special Issue includes contributions on the energy conversion technologies and use, energy storage, technologies integration, e-fuels, and pilot and large-scale applications.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; PV ; GHG savings ; lithium-ion battery (LIB) ; probability prediction ; decarbonization ; supercapacitor (SC) ; least squares support vector machine ; EV fleet forecasts ; alternative maritime power (AMP) ; Markov chain ; feasibility study ; D funding ; hybrid power system ; numerical analysis ; ship structure ; optimal sizing ; cellulosic ethanol ; electric vehicles EV ; biofuel ; green ship ; R&amp ; bulk carrier ; molten carbonate fuel cell system ; sparse Gaussian process regression ; power-to-gas ; combination method ; charging infrastructure ; jet fuel ; flow characteristics ; hybrid refinery ; LNG-fueled ship ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue contains one review and five original articles, all of which address cutting-edge research in the field of water and environmental virology. The review article by Gerba and Betancourt summarizes the current status and future needs for the development of virus detection methods in water reuse systems, especially focusing on methods to assess the infectivity of enteric viruses. Original papers cover a variety of research topics, such as an environmental monitoring survey of group A rotaviruses in sewage and oysters in Japan, the occurrence and genetic diversity of noroviruses and rotaviruses in a wastewater reclamation system in China, the detection of viruses and their indicators in tanker water and its sources in Nepal, integrated culture next-generation sequencing to identify the diversity of F-specific RNA coliphages in wastewater, and the development of a portable collection and detection method for viruses from ambient air and its application to a wastewater treatment plant.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; reuse ; aerosols ; viral indicator ; wastewater treatment ; microbial contamination ; index virus ; real-time PCR ; tanker water ; virus ; wastewater reclamation ; pathogenic virus ; infectivity ; chlorination ; molecular methods ; wastewater ; next-generation sequencing ; fecal source tracking ; oyster ; fecal-source marker ; viral contamination ; cell culture ; pathogenic microorganisms ; rotavirus ; ultraviolet disinfection ; F-specific RNA bacteriophage strain ; sewage ; waterborne gastroenteritis viruses ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The practical importance of economic valuation information can hardly be overstated. Coastal and marine resource policy planning and management benefit from complete information on the impact of policy decisions.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; internet survey ; open access ; contingent valuation method ; coastal management ; tourism ; Thailand ; marine ; wetlands ; harmful algae blooms ; environmental valuation ; quota ; cyanobacteria ; estuarine and coastal ecosystems ; wealth accounting ; seawater quality ; economic analysis ; remote sensing ; ecosystem restoration ; coastal ecosystems ; random utility model ; contingent behavior ; public policy ; habitat–fishery linkages ; Barbados ; coastal ecosystem services valuation ; fishery ; mangroves ; ecosystem services valuation ; coral reefs valuation ; recreational boating ; regulated open access ; non-market value ; economic valuation ; ecosystem services ; coastal ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Ice crystals are the most ubiquitous material found in the cryosphere environment of the Earth, in the planetary system, and also in our daily lives. In recent years, ice crystals have increased in importance as one of the key materials for finding solutions to settle various environmental concerns at a global scale. Furthermore, ice crystals are unique materials which are potentially extremely useful in various applications, for example, within the food sciences, medical sciences, and other fields. In dealing with these interesting subjects, research on ice crystals has been more actively pursued in recent years. The Special Issue “Ice Crystals” presents a wide varieties of topics related to ice crystals. It can be considered as a status report reviewing the recent research on ice crystals and serves to provide readers with information on the latest developments concerning ice crystals.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; coarsening kinetics ; antifreeze protein ; microstructure ; ice crystals ; decomposition ; formation ; cryo-photo microscopy ; cryoprotective agent ; ice cream ; reformation ; tomography ; deformation ; clathrate hydrate ; Negative thermal expansivity ; tetrahydrofuran ; ice crystal ; pressure ; molecular dynamics ; Grüneisen parameter ; modelling ; ab initio calculation ; freezing ; nanoscale pores ; quasi-liquid layer ; electron paramagnetic resonance ; potential of mean force ; gas hydrate ; spin labeling ; pre-decomposition pressure ; mW model ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Emergent quantum mechanics explores the possibility of an ontology for quantum mechanics. The resurgence of interest in ""deeper-level"" theories for quantum phenomena challenges the standard, textbook interpretation. The book presents expert views that critically evaluate the significance—for 21st century physics—of ontological quantum mechanics, an approach that David Bohm helped pioneer. The possibility of a deterministic quantum theory was first introduced with the original de Broglie-Bohm theory, which has also been developed as Bohmian mechanics. The wide range of perspectives that were contributed to this book on the occasion of David Bohm’s centennial celebration provide ample evidence for the physical consistency of ontological quantum mechanics. The book addresses deeper-level questions such as the following: Is reality intrinsically random or fundamentally interconnected? Is the universe local or nonlocal? Might a radically new conception of reality include a form of quantum causality or quantum ontology? What is the role of the experimenter agent? As the book demonstrates, the advancement of ‘quantum ontology’—as a scientific concept—marks a clear break with classical reality. The search for quantum reality entails unconventional causal structures and non-classical ontology, which can be fully consistent with the known record of quantum observations in the laboratory.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; non-locality ; ultraviolet divergence ; constraints ; Kilmister equation ; bohmian mechanics ; epistemic agent ; Bohmian mechanics ; relational space ; Feynman paths ; Langevin equation ; quantum causality ; emergent quantum gravity ; quantum ontology ; interpretations ; emergent quantum state ; undecidable dynamics ; molecule interference ; emergent quantum mechanics ; no-hidden-variables theorems ; mind–body problem ; physical ontology ; quantum foundations ; matter-wave optics ; conscious agent ; diffusion constant ; Bell theorem ; Burgers equation ; objective non-signaling constraint ; self-referential dynamics ; Bell inequality ; interpretation ; photochemistry ; Born rule statistics ; sub-quantum dynamics ; dynamical chaos ; weak measurement ; p-adic metric ; Levi-Civita connection ; David Bohm ; H-theorem ; the causal arrow of time ; strong coupling ; vortical dynamics ; fundamental irreversibility ; magnetic deflectometry ; quantum thermodynamics ; de Broglie–Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics ; wavefunction nodes ; stochastic quantum dynamics ; entropic gravity ; metrology ; Schrödinger equation ; gauge freedom ; Monte Carlo simulations ; micro-constituents ; nonequilibrium thermodynamics ; Bell’s theorem ; emergent space-time ; spin ; quantum field theory ; time-symmetry ; Gaussian-like solutions ; Hamiltonian ; number theory ; fractional velocity ; ergodicity ; fractal geometry ; atomic metastable states ; operator thermodynamic functions ; Canonical Presentation ; Retrocausation ; interpretations of quantum mechanics ; Bohm theory ; quantum mechanics ; zero-point field ; conspiracy ; pilot wave ; quantum holism ; toy-models ; curvature tensor ; Aharonov–Bohm effect ; computational irreducibility ; Stochastic Electrodynamics ; diffraction ; retrocausality ; resonances in quantum systems ; stochastic differential equations ; Bianchi identity ; past of the photon ; commutator ; relational interpretation of quantum mechanics ; free will ; nomology ; trajectories ; primitive ontology ; Mach–Zehnder interferometer ; weak values ; singular limit ; interior-boundary condition ; Poincaré recurrence ; quantum inaccessibility ; symplectic camel ; surrealistic trajectories ; observables ; Stern-Gerlach ; decoherence ; quantum non-equilibrium ; generalized Lagrangian paths ; superdeterminism ; black hole thermodynamics ; nonlocality ; measurement problem ; entropy and time evolution ; bouncing oil droplets ; spontaneous state reduction ; quantum theory ; many interacting worlds ; complex entropy. ; Turing incomputability ; iterant ; space-time fluctuations ; quantum potential ; ontological quantum mechanics ; photon trajectory ; Dove prism ; the Friedrichs model ; contextuality ; discrete calculus ; transition probability amplitude ; gravity ; pilot-wave theory ; matter-waves ; de Broglie-Bohm theory ; covariant quantum gravity ; atom-surface scattering ; de Broglie–Bohm theory ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The book continues with an experimental analysis conducted to obtain accurate and complete information about electric vehicles in different traffic situations and road conditions. For the experimental analysis in this study, three different electric vehicles from the Edinburgh College leasing program were equipped and tracked to obtain over 50 GPS and energy consumption data for short distance journeys in the Edinburgh area and long-range tests between Edinburgh and Bristol. In the following section, an adaptive and robust square root cubature Kalman filter based on variational Bayesian approximation and Huber’s M-estimation is proposed to accurately estimate state of charge (SOC), which is vital for safe operation and efficient management of lithium-ion batteries. A coupled-inductor DC-DC converter with a high voltage gain is proposed in the following section to match the voltage of a fuel cell stack to a DC link bus. Finally, the book presents a review of the different approaches that have been proposed by various authors to mitigate the impact of electric buses and electric taxis on the future smart grid.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; adaptive ; electric vehicle ; state of charge (SOC) ; high voltage gain ; lithium-ion battery ; climate change ; ssustainable transport ; driving cycle ; smart grid ; robust ; battery powered vehicle ; Huber’s M-estimation ; electric taxi ; public transportation ; sustainable development ; DC-DC converter ; square root cubature Kalman filter (SRCKF) ; coupled inductor ; fuel cell vehicles ; charging approaches ; ripple minimization current ; variational Bayesian approximation ; electric propulsion ; electric bus ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Accurate solar radiation knowledge and its characterization on the Earth’s surface are of high interest in many aspects of environmental and engineering sciences. Modeling of solar irradiance from satellite imagery has become the most widely used method for retrieving solar irradiance information under total sky conditions, particularly in the solar energy community. Solar radiation modeling, forecasting, and characterization continue to be broad areas of study, research, and development in the scientific community. This Special Issue contains a small sample of the current activities in this field. Both the environmental and climatology community, as the solar energy world, share a great interest in improving modeling tools and capabilities for obtaining more reliable and accurate knowledge of solar irradiance components worldwide. The work presented in this Special Issue also remarks on the significant role that remote sensing technologies play in retrieving and forecasting solar radiation information.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; PAR ; motion vector field ; radiative transfer ; global horizontal irradiance ; evapotranspiration ; HRV ; Kato bands ; understory light condition ; California Delta ; validation ; aerosol impact ; remote sensing ; solar radiation ; nowcasting ; India ; cloud categories ; Clouds and the Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) ; brightness temperature ; Himawari-8/Advanced Meteorological Imager (Himawari-8/AHI) ; water vapor ; clear sky index ; water resource management ; broadband albedo at the top of the atmosphere (TOA albedo) ; data fusion ; solar energy ; shortwave radiation ; AMESIS ; satellite-derived dataset ; insolation ; solar variability ; subcanopy light regime ; clustering analysis ; solar energy systems ; forest canopy ; radiance ; MSG ; GOES satellites ; radiation model ; solar radiation trends ; clear sky ; downward shortwave radiation ; reflected shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere (RSR) ; SEVIRI ; photosynthetically active radiation ; surface solar radiation ; solar irradiance ; earth observation ; high turbidity ; Geostationary Korea Multi-Purse Satellite/Advanced Meteorological Imager (GK-2A/AMI) ; Solis scheme ; solar radiation forecasting ; surface energy balance ; light attenuation ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of remote sensing of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and the use of satellite SSS in oceanography. It includes contributions presenting improvements in empirical or theoretical radiative transfer models; mitigation techniques of external interference such as RFI and land contamination; comparisons and validation of remote sensing products with in situ observations; retrieval techniques for improved coastal SSS monitoring, high latitude SSS and the assessment of ocean interactions with the cryosphere; and data fusion techniques combining SSS with sea surface temperature (SST). New instrument technology for the future of SSS remote sensing is also presented.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; satellite salinity ; one-dimensional (1D) aperture synthesis radiometer ; smos ; Gulf of Maine ; retrieval errors ; Aquarius ; combined active/passive SSS retrieval algorithm ; ocean surface roughness ; upwelling ; salt transport ; quality assessment ; sea ice ; SMOS ; microwave radiometry ; Arctic Gateways ; Aquarius satellite ; validation ; sea surface temperature ; water transport ; forward model ; river discharge ; sea surface salinity ; remote sensing ; retrieval algorithm ; Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM) ; SMAP ; microwave remote sensing ; alboran sea ; surface velocity ; Arctic Ocean ; sea surface salinity (SSS) ; coastal ; brightness temperature (TB) ; interferometric microwave imager (IMI) ; Scotian Shelf ; MICAP ; different instrument configurations ; bias characteristics ; mediterranean sea ; Gulf of Mexico ; calibration ; retroflections ; Arctic ocean ; salinity ; Sea Surface Salinity ; Arctic rivers ; Argo ; data processing ; aquarius ; ocean salinity ; Aquarius Validation Data System (AVDS) ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Rapid establishment of seedlings in forest regeneration or afforestation sites after planting is a prerequisite for a successful reforestation. Seedling survival after outplanting can be improved by using high-quality seedling material. Seedling quality consists of several features, such as genetic source, morphological properties, nutritional status, stress resistance, and vitality of the seedlings. Field performance of the seedlings is a complex process which can be affected by many nursery and silvicultural practices. Nursery cultural practices strongly affect seedling quality, which is generally at its highest level during the growth period at the nursery. Afterwards, when the seedlings are transported from the nursery to the planting site (including seedling storage, handling, shipping, and planting practices), the quality of seedlings can only remain the same or decline. To ensure successful regeneration, it is important to produce seedlings that retain their high quality until planting, and to establish them quickly in the forest regeneration site.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; container parameters ; forest regeneration material ; physiological attributes ; somatic embryogenesis ; Quercus rubra ; antioxidant enzymes ; nursery production ; shortleaf pine ; historical perspective ; maturation ; Appalachia ; bulk density ; Quercus robur L. ; rabbit ; western larch ; Picea abies L. Karst. ; sessile oak ; climate change ; physiological quality ; nursery culture ; Fennoscandia ; pedunculate oak ; elk ; seeds ; survival ; small mammal ; loblolly pine ; Norway spruce ; white oak ; growing media ; germination ; morphological attributes ; embling production ; mechanization ; browse ; contractor ; field performance ; reforestation ; white-tailed deer ; forest biotechnology ; cultural practice ; hybridization ; nutrients ; silviculture ; black locust ; scarification index ; seedling quality ; tree planting machine ; seed size ; herbicide ; artificial regeneration ; restoration ecology ; porosity ; northern red oak ; cryopreservation ; leaf senescence ; tree seedling ; Douglas fir ; Quercus ; growth ; mine reclamation ; forestry ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: One last comment concerns the fundamental contributions of Fourier analysis to quantum physics: Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; self-electrorefining ; hedyphane group ; structural combinatorics ; CuFe2O4 ; Kamchatka ; Raman ; El Dragón ; apatite supergroup ; borate ; ariegilatite ; oyonite ; Tuscany ; gahnite ; magnesioferrite ; Szklary pegmatite ; aurihydrargyrumite ; Au6Hg5 phase ; Trentino ; Peru ; Germany ; cerromojonite ; sulfosalt ; pyrometamorphism ; Bellerberg volcano ; manganese ; gold ; spinel supergroup ; selenium ; CuAl2O4 ; clinokurchatovite ; sharyginite ; Poland ; copper ; kurchatovite ; copper oxide ; antimony ; nabimusaite group ; laachite ; lead ; thermaerogenite ; intercalated hexagonal antiperovskite ; placer ; Lower Silesia ; Eldfell ; Tolbachik volcano ; structural complexity ; nöggerathite-(Ce) ; Val di Fiemme ; Oyon district ; sanidinite ; cuprospinel ; sulfate ; fumarole sublimate ; Cretaio ; polymorphism ; polytypism ; tiberiobardiite ; fiemmeite ; stacking faults ; CO3-group ; Hatrurim Complex ; least-action principle ; phosphorus ; Laacher See ; new oxalate mineral ; Japan ; verneite ; alkaline volcanic rock ; arsenic ; Raman spectroscopy ; single-crystal investigation ; Rusinovite ; Eifel ; Lima department ; Italy ; barioferrite ; configurational entropy ; Hekla ; mercury ; Bolivia ; parafiniukite ; aluminofluoride ; new mineral ; Shadil-Khokh volcano ; Vesuvius ; bournonite group ; Ehime ; calcium ; lillianite homologous series ; chalcophyllite group ; sou?ekite ; silicate ; pyrometamorphic rocks ; crystal structure ; zirconolite ; bismuth ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: In the last decades, inedible lignocellulosic biomasses have attracted significant attention for being abundant resources that are not in competition with agricultural land or food production and, therefore, can be used as starting renewable material for the production of a wide variety of platform chemicals. The three main components of lignocellulosic biomasses are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, complex biopolymers that can be converted into a pool of platform molecules including sugars, polyols, alchols, ketons, ethers, acids and aromatics. Various technologies have been explored for their one-pot conversion into chemicals, fuels and materials. However, in order to develop new catalytic processes for the selective production of desired products, a complete understanding of the molecular aspects of the basic chemistry and reactivity of biomass derived molecules is still crucial. This Special Issue reports on recent progress and advances in the catalytic valorization of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin model molecules promoted by novel heterogeneous systems for the production of energy, fuels and chemicals.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; hemicellulose ; catalytic transfer hydrogenolysis reactions ; furfural ; ZSM-5 ; syngas ; renewable aromatics ; Diels–Alder ; lignin ; hydroisomerization ; levulinic acid ; bio-oil upgrade ; metal ferrites ; aromatic ethers ; hierarchical zeolites ; Chilean natural zeolites ; bioethanol ; renewable p-xylene ; desilication ; dimethylfuran ; GC/MS characterization ; biomass ; H-donor molecules ; heterogeneous catalysis ; polyols ; Brønsted acids sites ; spinels ; solketal ; glycerol ; chemical-loop reforming ; zeolite ; cellulose ; insulating oils ; hydrogenolysis ; lignocellulosic biomasses ; bio-insulating oil ; glycidol ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Witnessing the rise of nationalism, nativism, and xenophobia in many countries, theories of transculturalism arose, in part, out of the concern that multi- and intercultural identity models have not set themselves sufficiently apart from their own culturalist baggage, thus leaving their doors open to strong nationalistic and ethnocentric orientations. But how can we—how can literature—imagine transcultural communities? This volume attempts to examine whether transculturalism—with its questioning of the dominance of group identity and its return to the individual as a privileged site for cultural multiplicity—can offer guideposts for conceptualizing ‘individual’ diversity without underplaying the role of class, religion, and community. Several contributions to the volume view some of the ‘cosmopolitan’ genealogies of transculturalism cautiously, such as elitist individualism and utopianism, teleologically structured conceptualizations of humanism, and an indiscriminating belief in the ascendency of human universals. Nevertheless, highlighting particular understandings of transculturalism in interpretations of significant literary texts from the Middle Ages to the 21st century amounts, once again and by no small measure, to a political decision—one that historically has often been prompted by a search for commonalities as a basis for the design of universal human rights, international law, transnational structures, and global education.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Transculturalism ; Commonality ; Transnationalism ; Cultural Memory ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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  • 13
    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities. Unless water management and water governance processes are significantly improved within the next decade or so, cities are likely to face serious and prolonged water insecurity, urban floods, and/or heat stress, which may result in social instability and, ultimately, massive migration. Aging water infrastructure, one of the most expensive infrastructures in cities, is a relevant challenge in order to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13: climate action. The choice of good governance arrangements has important consequences for economic performance, for the well-being of citizens, and for the quality of life in urban areas. The better governance arrangements work in coordinating policies across jurisdictions and policy fields, the better the outcomes. Rapidly-changing global conditions will make future water governance more complex than ever before in human history, and expectations are that water governance and water management will change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 100 years. In this Special Issue of Water, the focus will be on practical concepts and tools for water management and water governance, with a focus on cities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; flood resilience ; flood risk ; Cape Town ; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ; sustainable development goals ; urban planning ; coordination ; IHP ; storm water management ; stakeholder involvement ; flood risk management ; water management sustainability ; Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) ; climate change ; urban water cycle ; wastewater management ; water policy ; governance capacity ; greenhouse gas emissions ; intergovernmental ; Urban Water Management Programme ; indicators ; sustainability ; city networks ; water sensitive cities ; water scarcity ; ICLEI ; flood damage assessment ; stakeholder participation ; SuDS ; climate change mitigation ; social network analysis ; water ecology ; SDGs ; urban resilience ; design rainfall event ; cost of inaction ; rainwater harvesting ; co-design ; UNESCO ; rainfall-runoff ; storm water control measure ; decentralized water reclamation with resource recovery ; baseline assessment ; City Blueprint Approach ; urban water management ; urban landscape ; governance strategies ; science and technology ; drinking water ; Integrated Water Resources Management ; resilience ; Sponge City ; stormwater reservoir ; use-attainment ; sustainability assessment ; water security ; Water-Energy-Food Nexus ; water management ; water supply ; Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) ; urban drainage ; lifecycle analysis ; social infrastructure ; urban pluvial flooding ; assessment framework ; footprint ; climate change adaptation ; infrastructure ; total cost of ownership ; water governance ; flood control ; water-reuse ; governance ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Rivers are an excellent witness of the dynamics affecting Earth’s surface due to their sedimentary products and morphological expression, which may be considered as fluvial archives. Until now, the focus has been on evaluating the general impact of individual external factors. However, the importance of the specific environmental characteristics of these factors has become increasingly recognized, as highlighted in recent case studies. For example, the effects of regional climate, differentiated topography and vegetation, and frozen ground appear to play an essential role in the evolution of the fluvial system. Integration of such environmental conditions in the processes that were active within the complex fluvial system will open new perspectives in our progressive understanding of the evolution of landscape form, ecology, sediment fluxes, and hydrology of the system within the framework of the external drivers such as tectonics, general climate, and human activity. This is an appealing challenge that we wish to address in the present Special Issue under the aegis of the Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG).
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; Tisa ; dikes ; OSL dating ; last glacial ; legacy sediments ; fluvial archives ; western Iberia ; fire ; river engineering ; uplift ; crustal properties ; craton ; fluvial evolution ; OSL-dating ; local conditions ; Pannonian Basin ; deforestation ; eastern Australia ; tectonic impact ; Holocene ; optically stimulated luminescence ; paleo-fluvial ; environmental change ; terrace development ; vegetation-induced sedimentary structures ; alluvial fan ; FLAG ; dams ; agriculture ; fluvial forcing ; domestication ; archaeology ; terrace ; sedimentary basins ; Anthropocene ; Late Pleistocene ; fluvial facies ; optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating ; OSL ; climate ; channel entrenchment ; grain-size analysis ; river terraces ; Tisza ; extrinsic controls ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Micro-power domestic organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems and the selection of the expander and the working fluid are presented, analyzed thoroughly, and numerically evaluated. A promising decentralized hybrid PV-SOFC system is investigated for providing useful energy supply to commercial buildings, capable of power and heat generation at a lower cost. A hybrid solar-combined cycle power plant integrated with a packed-bed thermal energy storage system with a novel recycling configuration enables robust control of collector temperature and net power during times of high solar activity. An automated hybrid (solar and biomass) power plant for thermal energy production for indoor space heating loads coverage is presented. A comprehensive and up-to-date literature review is presented of non-iterative methods for the extraction of the single diode model parameters of photovoltaic modules. A prototype custom built two-speed gearbox with a single stage transmission electric vehicle achieves significant reductions in the overall energy consumption. Two new fuzzy models are presented of high concentrator photovoltaics using the high-accuracy Takagi–Sugeno–Kang approach and the ease of interpreting the Mamdani linguistic rules. Finally, the impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the primary frequency regulation is studied and the effects of PHEVs in non-interconnected isolated power systems with significant renewable energy source (RES) penetration are demonstrated through simulations of the isolated power system of Cyprus Island.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; concentrated solar power ; artificial neural network ; ad hoc data-driven generation ; simulation ; hybrid system ; multi-vane expander ; scheduled charging ; decentralized system ; transmission ; review ; electric vehicle ; heating and cooling loads ; fuzzy rule-based systems ; energy consumption ; maximum power prediction ; photovoltaic (PV) ; 2-speed ; single-diode model ; explicit ; primary frequency control (PFC) ; gear change ; high concentrator photovoltaic modules ; experimental analysis ; adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system ; CVT ; ORC ; working fluid ; Lambert W function ; analytical ; hybridization ; vehicle-to-grid (V2G) ; thermal energy storage ; biomass-solar combi systems ; five parameters ; numerical analysis ; isolated power system dynamic simulation ; renewable energy systems modeling ; parameters extraction ; solar collectors’ simulation ; photovoltaic ; aggregator ; control ; solid oxide fuel cells ; battery storage ; thermoeconomic modeling ; combined-heat-and-power ; buildings energy performance upgrade ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Volcanoes release plumes of gas and ash to the atmosphere during episodes of passive and explosive behavior. These ejecta have important implications for the chemistry and composition of the troposphere and stratosphere, with the capacity to alter Earth's radiation budget and climate system over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Volcanogenic sulphur dioxide reacts to form sulphate aerosols, which increase global albedo, e.g., by reducing surface temperatures, in addition to perturbing the formation processes and optical properties of clouds. Released halogen species can also deplete stratospheric and tropospheric ozone. Volcanic degassing, furthermore, played a key role in the formation of Earth’s atmosphere, and volcanic plumes can affect air quality, pose hazards to aviation and human health, as well as damage ecosystems. The chemical compositions and emission rates of volcanic plumes are also monitored via a range of direct-sampling and remote-sensing instrumentation, in order to gain insights into subterranean processes, in the respect of the magmatic bodies these volatiles exsolve from. Given the significant role these gases play in driving volcanic activity, e.g., via pressurisation, the study of volcanic plumes is proving to be an increasingly fruitful means of improving our understanding of volcanic systems, potentially in concert with observations from geophysics and contributions from fluid dynamical modelling of conduit dynamics.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; radioactive disequilibria 210Pb-210Bi-210Po ; volcanic geochemistry ; radiative transfer ; spherical-cap bubble ; plume ; satellite remote sensing ; portable photometry ; puffing ; Holuhraun ; interdisciplinary volcanology ; gas slug ; atmospheric remote sensing ; analysis software ; gases ; image processing ; remote sensing ; SEVIRI data ; oxygen and sulfur multi-isotopes ; nonlinear spectral unmixing ; UV cameras ; ultraviolet cameras ; cloud height ; atmospheric chemistry ; Python 2.7 ; degassing processes ; volcanic plumes ; fissure eruption ; radiative forcing ; basaltic volcanism ; volcanic plume top height ; O3 ; eruption start and duration ; Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) ; volcanic emissions ; volcanology ; volcanic CO2 flux ; volcanic aerosols ; 2011–2015 Etna lava fountains ; SO2 ; reactive halogen ; nonlinear PCA ; gas ; Etna volcano ; geochemical modelling ; BrO ; volcanic sulfate aerosols ; volcanic gases ; SSA ; hyperspectral remote sensing ; time averaged discharge rate ; eruption monitoring ; Bárðarbunga ; strombolian ; aerosol optical properties ; Mount Etna ; Taylor bubble ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Through reading this book, you will obtain information on: (1) the main problems in air separation and natural gas treatment by membrane separation and how to solve them; (2) processes involving membranes and new membrane materials for the more economical utilization of bio-resources; (3) energy selection and membrane development for more expedient and stable harnessing of the natural osmosis phenomenon; (4) many excellent contributions about catalytic membrane bioreactors; (5) how to fine-tune the arrangement of aquaporins (i.e., proteins identified in biological cells) to achieve superior water treatment efficiency.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; membrane ; draw solutes ; regeneration ; steam explosion ; wastewater treatment ; lignin ; hydrogen ; supported ionic liquid membranes ; chlorine resistance ; photocatalytic membrane ; thin-film composite ; photocatalytic membrane reactors ; single-sites ; pore modification ; polyimide ; separation ; dynamic membrane filtration ; microalgae ; structural stability ; energy ; fine chemistry ; pre-reforming ; costs ; fractionation ; carbon dioxide ; glucose ; alkanes ; immobilization ; biomimetic ; aquaporins ; nanofiltration ; interfacial polymerization ; cell disruption ; gas separation ; steam reforming ; plasticization ; xylose ; forward osmosis ; zeolite membrane ; membrane separation ; dopamine ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue presents the work of 30 scientists from 11 countries. It confirms that the impacts of global change, resulting from both climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure, are huge on worldwide coastal areas (and critically so on some islands in the Pacific Ocean), with highly negative effects on coastal groundwater resources, which are widely affected by seawater intrusion. Some improved research methods are proposed in the contributions: using innovative hydrogeological, geophysical, and geochemical monitoring; assessing impacts of the changing environment on the coastal groundwater resources in terms of quantity and quality; and using modelling, especially to improve management approaches. The scientific research needed to face these challenges must continue to be deployed by different approaches based on the monitoring, modelling and management of groundwater resources. Novel and more efficient methods must be developed to keep up with the accelerating pace of global change.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; tide ; artificial neural network ; Gaza Strip ; groundwater resources ; seawater intrusion ; nutrient discharge ; freshwater resilience ; offshore geophysics ; atoll ; freshwater lens ; sea-level rise ; small islands ; sharp interface numerical modeling ; climate change ; recursive prediction ; saltwater intrusion ; Radon ; submarine groundwater discharge ; water resources management ; flooding ; groundwater storage ; fish ponds ; Tongatapu ; extraction ; monitoring ; modelling ; fresh groundwater volume ; numerical model ; atoll island ; MODFLOW/SEAWAT ; Nile Delta governorates ; arid and semi-arid regions ; time series model ; hydrogeology ; Libya ; sea level rise ; coastal aquifer ; sea–aquifer relations ; Tripoli ; freshwater-saltwater interface ; multi-layered coastal aquifer ; well salinization ; SGD model ; Nile Delta aquifer ; tidal signal ; geophysics ; groundwater ; cation exchange ; salinization ; SGD ; support vector machine ; direct prediction ; aquifer ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: In the Earth sciences, a transition is currently occurring in multiple fields towards an integrated Earth system approach, with applications including numerical weather prediction, hydrological forecasting, climate impact studies, ocean dynamics estimation and monitoring, and carbon cycle monitoring. These approaches rely on coupled modeling techniques using Earth system models that account for an increased level of complexity of the processes and interactions between atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and terrestrial surfaces. A crucial component of Earth system approaches is the development of coupled data assimilation of satellite observations to ensure consistent initialization at the interface between the different subsystems. Going towards strongly coupled data assimilation involving all Earth system components is a subject of active research. A lot of progress is being made in the ocean–atmosphere domain, but also over land. As atmospheric models now tend to address subkilometric scales, assimilating high spatial resolution satellite data in the land surface models used in atmospheric models is critical. This evolution is also challenging for hydrological modeling. This book gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of coupled data assimilation in Earth system models. It includes contributions presenting recent progress in ocean–atmosphere, land–atmosphere, and soil–vegetation data assimilation.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; land data assimilation system ; land data assimilation ; rainfall-runoff simulation ; 4D-Var data assimilation ; total water storage ; accuracy ; ocean–atmosphere assimilation ; precipitation ; Earth system models ; numerical weather prediction ; fluorescence ; GRACE ; MCA analysis ; weakly coupled data assimilation ; GPM IMERG ; atmospheric models ; rainfall correction ; remote sensing ; microwave remote sensing ; SMAP ; land surface modeling ; bending angle ; floods soil moisture ; vegetation ; GPSRO ; WRF ; merged CMORPH ; land surface model ; temperature ; 4D-Var ; data assimilation ; data-driven methods ; GSI ; radio occultation data ; rainfall ; soil moisture ; sea level anomaly ; total cloud cover ; land surface models ; Mediterranean basin ; interpolation ; sea surface height ; drought ; TRMM 3B42 ; analog data assimilation ; ocean models ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The representation of the Earth's surface in global monitoring and forecasting applications is moving towards capturing more of the relevant processes, while maintaining elevated computational efficiency and therefore a moderate complexity. These schemes are developed and continuously improved thanks to well instrumented field-sites that can observe coupled processes occurring at the surface–atmosphere interface (e.g., forest, grassland, cropland areas and diverse climate zones). Approaching global kilometer-scale resolutions, in situ observations alone cannot fulfil the modelling needs, and the use of satellite observation becomes essential to guide modelling innovation and to calibrate and validate new parameterization schemes that can support data assimilation applications. In this book, we review some of the recent contributions, highlighting how satellite data are used to inform Earth surface model development (vegetation state and seasonality, soil moisture conditions, surface temperature and turbulent fluxes, land-use change detection, agricultural indicators and irrigation) when moving towards global km-scale resolutions.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; direct and inverse methods ; absorption coefficient ; emissivity ; land-surface model ; n/a ; variational retrieval ; temporal autocorrelation ; Bayesian bias correction ; hyperspectral ; infrared ; BRDF ; satellite rainfall ; MCD43C1 ; penetration depth ; RTTOV ; earth-observations ; earth system modelling ; representative depth ; land ; Changjiang (Yangtze) estuary ; CDOM ; soil moisture ; surface ; Maqu network ; surface soil moisture ; MODIS ; soil effective temperature ; GOCI ; microwave remote sensing ; rain gauge ; QAA inversion ; broadband emissivity ; radiation ; surface parameters ; satellite data ; East Africa ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Understanding the origins of the Universe and how it works and evolves is the present mission of a large community of physicists. It calls for a large scale vision, involving general relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. Theoretical physics is presently at an important moment in its history. As predicted by Einstein, gravitational waves have been experimentally proven to exist. With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the set of interactions and elementary particles that is called the ""standard model"" (SM), is complete. Yet the Higgs boson itself, and how it breaks the electroweak symmetry, remains a fascinating subject requiring further studies and verification. Furthermore, several experimental facts are not accounted for by the SM: (i) the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, (ii) the nature and origin of dark matter, and (iii) the origin of neutrino masses; these have no unique, if any, explanation in the SM and yet will require answers from particle physics. We need to explore further both SM and its extensions. This is a subject of papers included in this book, which gives representation to the topics discussed during the Matter to the Deepest conference in 2019 in Poland (http://indico.if.us.edu.pl/event/5).
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; spacetime ; neutrinos ; gauge symmetry ; beyond Standard Model ; oscillons ; spectrum calculator ; theoretical physics ; lepton masses and mixing ; seesaw mechanism ; neutrino masses ; exotic R4 and cosmology ; W-boson ; axion stars ; radiative masses ; space topology changes ; QED ; exponentiation ; exotic K3 ; scalar sector ; particle physics ; extension of the standard model of particle interactions ; Bose stars ; family symmetry ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Berry crops include, but are not limited to, the genera: Fragaria (strawberry, Rosaceae), Ribes (currant and gooseberry, Grossulariaceae), Rubus (brambles: raspberry and blackberry; Rosaceae), Vaccinium (blueberry, cranberry and lingonberry; Ericaceae) and Vitis (grapes, Vitaceae). The significant role of these fruits in maintaining human health has increased their popularity and production, dramatically, across the world. This Special Issue of Agronomy covers berry crops in the areas of breeding, genetics, germplasm, production systems, propagation, plant and soil nutrition, pest and disease management, postharvest, health benefits, marketing and economics and other related areas. The aim will be to bring together a collection of valuable articles that will serve as a foundation of innovative ideas for production and protection of health-promoting berry crops in changed environment.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; ascorbic acid ; methyl anthranilate ; crispy ; fruit ; work-related musculoskeletal disorders ; abiotic stress ; frequency ; blueberry harvesting ; inflatable tubemen ; dB ; genome editing ; biomass ; Fragaria ; ethephon ; sound waves ; ergonomics intervention ; bird deterrent ; Michigan ; quantitative genetics ; Vaccinium ; ripening ; firmness ; chlormequat chloride ; cell wall ; fruit quality parameters ; molecular markers ; breeding ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The many technical and computational problems that appear to be constantly emerging in various branches of physics and engineering beg for a more detailed understanding of the fundamental mathematics that serves as the cornerstone of our way of understanding natural phenomena. The purpose of this Special Issue was to establish a brief collection of carefully selected articles authored by promising young scientists and the world's leading experts in pure and applied mathematics, highlighting the state-of-the-art of the various research lines focusing on the study of analytical and numerical mathematical methods for pure and applied sciences.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; Bessel function ; n/a ; Grünwald–Letnikov derivative ; tensor calculus ; biosorption ; differential equations ; Caputo fractional derivatives of a function with respect to another function ; gamma distribution ; Mittag-Leffler function ; fractional Laplacian ; heavy metals toxicity ; discrete Fourier Transform ; anomalous diffusion ; ultraparabolic equation ; layer potentials ; exterior algebra ; Laplace transform ; Riemann–Liouville derivative ; integral transforms ; fredholmian operators ; time delay ; Orthogonality ; multispecies biofilm ; macroeconomics ; central limit theorem ; DFT in polar coordinates ; Bessel-Riesz motion ; Schur decomposition ; generating operator ; Mittag–Leffler function ; Fourier Theory ; multidimensional DFT ; fractional calculus ; Mellin integral transform ; electromagnetism ; fractional differential equations ; relativistic diffusion equation ; distributed lag ; space-time fractional diffusion equation ; Maxwell equations ; power law ; discrete Hankel Transform ; matrix function ; polar coordinates ; exterior calculus ; method of characteristics ; stable distribution ; mathematical finance ; linear elastostatics ; ultradiffusion process ; probabilistic representation ; Keynesian model ; subordination principle ; Laplace integral transform ; fractional derivative ; differential forms ; fractional integral ; integral equations ; transmutation operator ; operational calculus of Mikusinski type ; Caputo derivative ; Abel-type integral ; free boundary value problem ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The Arctic zone of the Earth is a major source of mineral and other natural resources for the future development of science and technology. It contains a large supply of strategic mineral deposits, including rare earths, copper, phosphorus, niobium, platinum-group elements, and other critical metals. The continued melting of the sea ice due to climate change makes these resources more accessible than ever before. However, the mineral exploration in the Arctic has always been a challenge due to the climatic restrictions, remote location, and vulnerability of Arctic ecosystems. This book covers a broad range of topics related to the problem of Arctic mineral resources, including geological, geochemical, and mineralogical aspects of their occurrence and formation; chemical technologies; and environmental and economic problems related to mineral exploration. The contributions can be tentatively classified into four major types: geodynamics and metallogeny, mineralogy and petrology, mineralogy and crystallography, and mining and chemical technologies associated with the exploration of mineral deposits and the use of raw materials for manufacturing new products. The book can be of interest for all those interested in Arctic issues and especially in Arctic mineral resources and associated problems of mineralogy, geology, geochemistry, and technology.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; U mineralization ; n/a ; ivanyukite ; Kovdor phoscorite–carbonatite complex ; Precambrian ; Kovdor phoscorite-carbonatite complex ; hydrothermal deposits ; chalcopyrite ; cathodoluminescence ; PGE ; low-grade copper-nickel ore ; Northern Karelia ; diamond processing plants ; transformation mineral species ; batievaite-(Y) ; rock alteration ; Khibiny ; bacterial leaching ; cryomineralogenesis ; beryllium minerals ; Siberian craton ; apatite-nepheline deposit ; apatite ; gold ; hainite-(Y) ; Keivy alkaline province ; zircon ; niobium ; zeolite group minerals ; shkatulkalite ; zircon dating ; electrochemical separation ; hydrothermal synthesis ; pyrrhotite ; Breivikbotn ; crystal fractionation ; Sakharjok massif ; Palaeoproterozoic ; titanosilicate ; Pechenga structure ; LIP ; antigorite ; nepheline ; forsterite ; Arctic ; saponite-containing waters ; chemical composition ; Khibiny promising structures ; melteigite ; sulfuric-acidic decomposition ; petroleum potential ; mineralogy ; mafic intrusion ; Paleoproterozoic ; vuonnemite ; calcite ; garnet ; raw materials ; search of trend differences ; metallogeny ; Lovozero alkaline massif ; isotopes ; kimberlite ; phase diagram apatite-nepheline-diopside ; mineral data ; ore dressing tailings ; geochronology ; geodynamic evolution ; pyrochlore supergroup minerals ; pentlandite ; saponite product applications ; basic rocks ; Plume ; West-Pana intrusion ; Rb-Sr ; U-Pb ; heap leaching ; rinkite group minerals ; Arctic zone ; Ti-in-zircon geothermometry ; apatite-nepheline-titanite ore ; cobaltpentlandite ; silicocarbonatite ; Fennoscandian Shield ; titanium ; MHD-source “Khibiny” ; Fedorova-Pana Complex ; Northern Norway ; evolution of the composition ; trace elements ; oil ; vanadium mineralization ; geodynamics ; gas ; greenstone belt ; South Reef ; typochemistry ; mechanical activation ; alkali-activated binder ; Kola region ; hydrothermal veins ; Kola Peninsula ; macrocrysts ; titanyl sulfate ; alkaline rocks ; cryogenic treatment ; granite ; Yenisei-Khatanga basin ; crystal structure ; pegmatites ; conductive layers ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: For the 250th birthday of Joseph Fourier, born in 1768 in Auxerre, France, this MDPI Special Issue will explore modern topics related to Fourier Analysis and Heat Equation. Modern developments of Fourier analysis during the 20th century have explored generalizations of Fourier and Fourier–Plancherel formula for non-commutative harmonic analysis, applied to locally-compact, non-Abelian groups. In parallel, the theory of coherent states and wavelets has been generalized over Lie groups. One should add the developments, over the last 30 years, of the applications of harmonic analysis to the description of the fascinating world of aperiodic structures in condensed matter physics. The notions of model sets, introduced by Y. Meyer, and of almost periodic functions, have revealed themselves to be extremely fruitful in this domain of natural sciences. The name of Joseph Fourier is also inseparable from the study of the mathematics of heat. Modern research on heat equations explores the extension of the classical diffusion equation on Riemannian, sub-Riemannian manifolds, and Lie groups. In parallel, in geometric mechanics, Jean-Marie Souriau interpreted the temperature vector of Planck as a space-time vector, obtaining, in this way, a phenomenological model of continuous media, which presents some interesting properties. One last comment concerns the fundamental contributions of Fourier analysis to quantum physics: Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. The content of this Special Issue will highlight papers exploring non-commutative Fourier harmonic analysis, spectral properties of aperiodic order, the hypoelliptic heat equation, and the relativistic heat equation in the context of Information Theory and Geometric Science of Information.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; signal processing ; thermodynamics ; heat pulse experiments ; quantum mechanics ; variational formulation ; Wigner function ; nonholonomic constraints ; thermal expansion ; homogeneous spaces ; irreversible processes ; time-slicing ; affine group ; Fourier analysis ; non-equilibrium processes ; harmonic analysis on abstract space ; pseudo-temperature ; stochastic differential equations ; fourier transform ; Lie Groups ; higher order thermodynamics ; short-time propagators ; discrete thermodynamic systems ; metrics ; heat equation on manifolds and Lie Groups ; special functions ; poly-symplectic manifold ; non-Fourier heat conduction ; homogeneous manifold ; non-equivariant cohomology ; Souriau-Fisher metric ; Weyl quantization ; dynamical systems ; symplectization ; Weyl-Heisenberg group ; Guyer-Krumhansl equation ; rigged Hilbert spaces ; Lévy processes ; Born–Jordan quantization ; discrete multivariate sine transforms ; continuum thermodynamic systems ; interconnection ; rigid body motions ; covariant integral quantization ; cubature formulas ; Lie group machine learning ; nonequilibrium thermodynamics ; Van Vleck determinant ; Lie groups thermodynamics ; partial differential equations ; orthogonal polynomials ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The need to reduce the ecological footprint of water/land/air vehicles in this era of climate change requires pushing the limits regarding the development of lightweight structures and materials. This requires a thorough understanding of their thermomechanical behavior at several stages of the production chain. Moreover, during service, the response of lightweight alloys under the simultaneous influence of mechanical loads and temperature can determine the lifetime and performance of a multitude of structural components. The present Special Issue, comprising eight original research articles, is dedicated to disseminating current efforts around the globe aimed at advancing understanding of the thermomechanical behavior of structural lightweight alloys under processing or service conditions.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; microstructure ; strength ; X-ray diffraction ; 7003 alloy ; in situ synchrotron radiation diffraction ; 3D microstructure ; materials modelling ; zinc addition ; tensile test ; connectivity ; DSC ; in-situ tensile deformation ; wire fabrication ; magnesium alloys ; welding ; alloying ; AlMgSi alloy ; LPSO-phase ; mechanical properties ; Mg-Nd-Zn alloys ; thermomechanical treatment ; Cast Al-Si alloys ; EN AW-6082 ; 3D characterization ; damage ; dislocations ; dynamic recrystallization ; powder metallurgy ; aluminum welding ; recovery ; corrosion resistance ; recrystallisation ; numerical simulation ; second phases ; digital image correlation ; ECAP ; aluminum nanocomposites ; deformation behaviour ; thermo-mechanical analysis ; neodymium ; aluminium alloy ; TIG fillers ; electrical conductivity ; TEM ; synchrotron tomography ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The book presents a collection of papers focused on recent progress in key areas of photogrammetry for environmental research. Applications oriented to the understanding of natural phenomena and quantitative processes using dataset from photogrammetry (from satellite to unmanned aerial vehicle images) and terrestrial laser scanning, also by a diachronic approach, are reported. The book covers topics of interest of many disciplines from geography, geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnology, including landscape description and coastal studies. Mains issues faced by the book are related to applications on coastal monitoring, using multitemporal aerial images, and investigations on geomorphological hazard by the joint use of proximal photogrammetry, terrestrial and aerial laser scanning aimed to the reconstruction of detailed surface topography and successive 2D/3D numerical simulations for rock slope stability analyses. Results reported in the book bring into evidence the fundamental role of multitemporal surveys and reliable reconstruction of morphologies from photogrammetry and laser scanning as support to environmental researches.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; damage ; n/a ; plain area ; UAS ; photogrammetry ; geological hazard ; ZY3-02 ; UAV ; Remote sensing ; geohazards ; declassified satellite imagery ; TLS ; rock slope stability ; field work ; Pleiades ; georelief ; landslide mapping ; talus cones ; coastline ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; SfM photogrammetry ; beach monitoring ; LiDAR ; poplar plantation ; air photos ; canopy height ; remote sensing ; monitoring ; torrential rainfall ; SfM-MVS ; rockfall runout ; rockfall hazard ; SfM ; Lefkada Island ; slope stability ; coastal observatory ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book covers the technological progress and developments of a large-scale wind energy conversion system along with its future trends, with each chapter constituting a contribution by a different leader in the wind energy arena. Recent developments in wind energy conversion systems, system optimization, stability augmentation, power smoothing, and many other fascinating topics are included in this book. Chapters are supported through modeling, control, and simulation analysis. This book contains both technical and review articles.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; doubly-fed induction generator ; fault current limiters ; power system ; power smoothing ; fault characteristics ; prediction intervals ; wind forecast ; PI controller ; transmission line ; wake effect ; real fault cases ; reliability of electricity supplies ; load frequency control ; optimization ; reserve power ; battery energy storage system ; wind turbine allocation ; primary frequency control ; low voltage ride through (LVRT) ; de-loading ; fault ride-through ; fault diagnosis and isolation ; fractional order proportional-integral-differential controller ; multi-objective artificial bee colony algorithm ; Fault Ride Through (FRT) ; distance protection ; droop curve ; Distribution Static VAr Compensator(D-SVC) ; Distributed-Flexible AC Transmission system (D-FACTS) ; rotor inertia ; power wind turbine ; LPV observer ; doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) ; squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG) ; wind farm ; optimal control ; fuzzy logic controller (FLC) ; wind power forecasting ; wavelet neural network ; DFIG-based wind farm ; permanent magnet synchronous generator ; automatic generation control ; series dynamic braking resistor ; hardware-in-the-loop ; superconductor ; Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (D-STATCOM) ; control wind turbine ; kinetic energy storage ; multiple sensor faults ; large-scale wind farm ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Monitoring of vegetation structure and functioning is critical to modeling terrestrial ecosystems and energy cycles. In particular, leaf area index (LAI) is an important structural property of vegetation used in many land surface vegetation, climate, and crop production models. Canopy structure (LAI, fCover, plant height, and biomass) and biochemical parameters (leaf pigmentation and water content) directly influence the radiative transfer process of sunlight in vegetation, determining the amount of radiation measured by passive sensors in the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical remote sensing (RS) methods build relationships exploiting in situ measurements and/or as outputs of physical canopy radiative transfer models. The increased availability of passive (radar and LiDAR) RS data has fostered their use in many applications for the analysis of land surface properties and processes, thanks also to their insensitivity to weather conditions and the capability to exploit rich structural and textural information. Data fusion and multi-sensor integration techniques are pressing topics to fully exploit the information conveyed by both optical and microwave bands.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; artificial neural network ; downscaling ; simulation ; 3D point cloud ; European beech ; consistency ; adaptive threshold ; evaluation ; photosynthesis ; geographic information system ; P-band PolInSAR ; validation ; density-based clustering ; structure from motion (SfM) ; EPIC ; Tanzania ; signal attenuation ; trunk ; canopy closure ; REDD+ ; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ; forest ; recursive feature elimination ; Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR) ; aboveground biomass ; random forest ; uncertainty ; household survey ; spectral information ; forests biomass ; root biomass ; biomass ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; Brazilian Amazon ; VIIRS ; global positioning system ; LAI ; photochemical reflectance index (PRI) ; allometric scaling and resource limitation ; R690/R630 ; modelling aboveground biomass ; leaf area index ; forest degradation ; spectral analyses ; terrestrial laser scanning ; BAAPA ; leaf area index (LAI) ; stem volume estimation ; tomographic profiles ; polarization coherence tomography (PCT) ; canopy gap fraction ; automated classification ; HemiView ; remote sensing ; multisource remote sensing ; Pléiades imagery ; photogrammetric point cloud ; farm types ; terrestrial LiDAR ; altitude ; RapidEye ; forest aboveground biomass ; recovery ; southern U.S. forests ; NDVI ; machine-learning ; conifer forest ; satellite ; chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) ; tree heights ; phenology ; point cloud ; local maxima ; clumping index ; MODIS ; digital aerial photograph ; Mediterranean ; hemispherical sky-oriented photo ; managed temperate coniferous forests ; fixed tree window size ; drought ; GLAS ; smartphone-based method ; forest above ground biomass (AGB) ; forest inventory ; over and understory cover ; sampling design ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue reports research spanning from the analysis of indirect data, modeling, and laboratory and geological data confirming the intrinsic multidisciplinarity of gas hydrate studies. The study areas are (1) Arctic, (2) Brazil, (3) Chile, and (4) the Mediterranean region. The results furnished an important tessera of the knowledge about the relationship of a gas hydrate system with other complex natural phenomena such as climate change, slope stability and earthquakes, and human activities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; ocean acidification ; risk assessment ; modeling ; molecular composition ; ecosystem ; thermogenic gas ; Eastern Mediterranean ; temperature increase ; geohazards ; São Paulo Plateau ; geohazard ; hydrate dissociation ; climate change ; BSR ; thawing ; multidisciplinary ; clathrites ; earthquake ; modelling ; methane cycle ; permafrost ; global change ; methane ; biogenic gas ; salt migration ; subaqueous permafrost ; slope stability ; Chilean margin ; magnetic data ; mantellic source ; active margin ; Arctic shelf ; environmental impact ; Amazon fan ; methane emission ; seismic interpretation ; seep-carbonates ; Bouguer anomaly ; potential methods ; gravimetric data ; methane stability ; northern Apennines ; Santos Basin ; natural gas hydrate ; carbon dioxide ; blue growth ; gas seeps ; seepage ; Chile Triple Junction ; isotopic composition ; gas hydrates ; gas hydrate ; Miocene ; Levant Basin ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The last few years have been characterized by a tremendous development of quantum information and probability and their applications, including quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum random generators. In spite of the successful development of quantum technology, its foundational basis is still not concrete and contains a few sandy and shaky slices. Quantum random generators are one of the most promising outputs of the recent quantum information revolution. Therefore, it is very important to reconsider the foundational basis of this project, starting with the notion of irreducible quantum randomness. Quantum probabilities present a powerful tool to model uncertainty. Interpretations of quantum probability and foundational meaning of its basic tools, starting with the Born rule, are among the topics which will be covered by this issue. Recently, quantum probability has started to play an important role in a few areas of research outside quantum physics—in particular, quantum probabilistic treatment of problems of theory of decision making under uncertainty. Such studies are also among the topics of this issue.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; irreducible randomness ; quantum-like models for social stochasticity ; partially defined algebras ; indeterminism ; protocol ; Gram–Schmidt process ; three-qubit random states ; complementarity ; entanglement classes ; maximization of quantum conditional min-entropy ; random numbers ; quantum computation ; MMP hypergraphs ; quantum information theory ; quasigroups ; potentiality ; random number generators ; social energy ; social thermodynamics ; quantum dynamics ; probability ; entanglement ; quantum foundations ; quantum technology ; vacuum state ; quantum contextuality ; orthogonality ; quantum information ; correlations ; entanglement polytope ; causation ; quantum-like models ; operational approach ; reality ; Borel normality ; Bell inequalities ; Copenhagen interpretation ; social laser ; quantum entanglement ; algebra ; Bose–Einstein statistics ; realism ; epistemic operations ; quantum random number ; information interpretation of quantum theory ; viable cultures ; master equation for socio-information excitations ; entropy ; quantum logics ; qubits ; holistic semantics ; Bayesian inference ; uncertainty relations ; Bayes’ formula ; Kochen–Specker sets ; model selection ; quantum logic ; groups ; randomness ; Greechie diagrams ; causality ; indefiniteness ; probability representation ; algorithmic complexity ; resonator of social laser ; bandwagon effect ; contextuality ; quantum probability ; geometry ; social atom ; bit commitment ; anisotropic invariants ; quantum information field ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Wave energy has a higher potential than most of the available ocean energy resources; however, it fluctuates dramatically depending on geographical and temporal baselines. The complexity of wave energy is only exacerbated by that fact that the cycle of creation, transport, and disappearance of wave energy is influenced by a wide variety of factors. This Special Issue of Energies explores the latest developments in wave energy potential, behavior, and extraction. This Special Issue introduces 1) thorough reviews on the status of wave energy development, 2) novel technologies to extract wave energy including wave energy converter design, and 3) latest methodologies applied in analyzing wave energy potentials.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; efficiency improvement ; pontoon ; hydrodynamic optimization ; time domain ; power take-off ; hybrid system ; short-crested waves ; parks ; eigen-function expansion ; optimization ; linear potential flow theory ; capture width ratio ; wave energy converter ; potential flow theory ; OpenFOAM ; raft-type wave energy converter (WEC) ; survival ; wave energy converter (WEC) ; power take-off (PTO) ; oscillating water column ; multiple scattering ; wind power ; offshore oil platforms ; wave power ; wave energy converters (WEC) ; air chamber ; arrays ; Geographic Information Systems ; wave energy converters ; challenges ; power fluctuations ; frequency domain ; tsunami ; surrogate model ; design ; levelised cost of energy ; Gulf of Mexico ; extreme conditions ; Mediterranean Sea ; cost ; wave diffraction ; WaveWatch III ; meta-model ; wave energy ; friction ; station keeping ; extreme waves ; peak forces ; power capture ability ; point absorber ; linear damping ; multidirectional ; mooring ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Prototypical quantum optics models, such as the Jaynes–Cummings, Rabi, Tavis–Cummings, and Dicke models, are commonly analyzed with diverse techniques, including analytical exact solutions, mean-field theory, exact diagonalization, and so on. Analysis of these systems strongly depends on their symmetries, ranging, e.g., from a U(1) group in the Jaynes–Cummings model to a Z2 symmetry in the full-fledged quantum Rabi model. In recent years, novel regimes of light–matter interactions, namely, the ultrastrong and deep-strong coupling regimes, have been attracting an increasing amount of interest. The quantum Rabi and Dicke models in these exotic regimes present new features, such as collapses and revivals of the population, bounces of photon-number wave packets, as well as the breakdown of the rotating-wave approximation. Symmetries also play an important role in these regimes and will additionally change depending on whether the few- or many-qubit systems considered have associated inhomogeneous or equal couplings to the bosonic mode. Moreover, there is a growing interest in proposing and carrying out quantum simulations of these models in quantum platforms such as trapped ions, superconducting circuits, and quantum photonics. In this Special Issue Reprint, we have gathered a series of articles related to symmetry in quantum optics models, including the quantum Rabi model and its symmetries, Floquet topological quantum states in optically driven semiconductors, the spin–boson model as a simulator of non-Markovian multiphoton Jaynes–Cummings models, parity-assisted generation of nonclassical states of light in circuit quantum electrodynamics, and quasiprobability distribution functions from fractional Fourier transforms.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; microwave photons ; n/a ; circuit quantum electrodynamics ; fractional Fourier transform ; spin-boson model ; reconstruction of the wave function ; multiphoton processes ; quantum entanglement ; topological excitations ; Floquet ; light–matter interaction ; semiconductors ; quasiprobability distribution functions ; dynamical mean field theory ; global spectrum ; superconducting circuits ; Jaynes-Cummings model ; quantum Rabi model ; quantum simulation ; non-equilibrium ; stark-effect ; integrable systems ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The book (Special Issue) presents impressive new results related to a wide spectrum of occurrences of platinum-group minerals (PGM) and natural compounds enriched in platinum-group elements (PGE), which are associated with various complexes and deposits, such as Uralian-Alaskan-type complexes, layered intrusions and placers. The geographical locations of the involved deposits and complexes include, on a truly international scale, different areas of the Urals, Western and Eastern Sayans and Gornaya Shoria in Siberia, Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt in China, Northern Michigan, USA, South Africa and Zimbabwe, etc. Of particular interest is the first description of a new species of PGM, thalhammerite (approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association), which is a new species of palladium-silver sulfobismuthide discovered in the Noril’sk region of Russia. Additionally, comprehensive reviews, on compositional variations in Pt–Fe alloy minerals and processes of transformations of PGM in exogenic environments, are presented which will also attract attention from international readers.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; placers ; platinum group minerals ; ophiolite ; platinum ; Pd9Ag2Bi2S4 phase ; Ural Platinum belt ; PGE mineralization ; Svetloborsky massif ; palladium ; platinum group elements ; chromian spinel ; gabbro ; platinum-group elements ; platiniferous tetra-auricupride ; primary inclusions ; Bolshoy Khailyk placer ; Noril’sk region ; Urals ; Central Asian Orogenic Belt ; PGE alloys ; western Sayans ; ultramafic-mafic complexes ; primary ores ; schemes of substitution ; Sisim placer zone ; PGM ; Pt-for-Au substitution ; South Africa ; Alaskan-type complex. ; element substitutions ; Eastern Sayans ; Ural-Alaskan massif ; reflectance data ; Gornaya Shoria ; Lysanskiy complex ; Bushveld Complex ; thalhammerite ; Komsomolsky mine ; Russia ; gold ; Siberia ; placer system ; Talnakh deposit ; Alaskan-type complex ; ore mineralization ; magnetite ; Pt–Fe alloys ; Great Dyke ; platinum-group mineral ; X-ray-diffraction data ; micrometric inclusions ; compositional variations ; platinum-group minerals ; placer deposits ; Midcontinent ; allogenic ; chromitite ; Ti- and REE-rich inclusions ; Echo Lake ; oxide ores ; crystal structure ; Zimbabwe ; ophiolite complexes ; authigenic ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue of Crystals contains papers focusing on various properties of conducting ceramics. Multiple aspects of both the research and application of this group of materials have been addressed. Conducting ceramics are the wide group of mostly oxide materials which play crucial roles in various technical applications, especially in the context of the harvesting and storage of energy. Without ion-conducting oxides, such as yttria-stabilized zirconia, doped ceria devices such as solid oxide fuel cells would not exist, not to mention the wide group of other ion conductors which can be applied in batteries or even electrolyzers, besides fuel cells. The works published in this Special Issue tackle experimental results as well as general theoretical trends in the field of ceramic conductors, or electroceramics, as it is often referred to.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; ionic conductivity ; cation mixing ; aliovalent substitution ; substituted barium indate ; thermal expansion ; impregnation ; Cr substitution ; chemical expansion ; ball milling ; lanthanum orthoniobate ; perovskite oxides ; thermogravimetric analysis ; Hebb-Wagner measurements ; samarium-doped ceria (SDC) ; impedance spectroscopy ; hydration ; nanocrystalline ceramics ; binary fluorides ; Ni-Cr-ferrite ; solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) ; Mössbauer ; ceria ; current collector ; multifoil shape ; specific surface area of powders ; sol-gel ; molten salt synthesis ; Wulff shape ; relaxation experiments ; Ostwald ripening ; Solid Oxide Fuel Cells ; electronic conductivity ; proton ceramic fuel cells ; terbium orthoniobate ; water uptake ; high temperature proton conductors ; redox cycle ; metal foam ; protonic conductors ; protonic conductivity ; proton conductivity ; structure ; thin films ; e-beam physical vapor deposition ; TEC ; magnetic properties ; CTE ; coupled/decoupled ionic transport ; platelet morphology ; bismuth vanadate ; La-doped SrTiO3 ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Within the last decade, the high and continuing demand for precious and base metals, as well as critical elements, has prompted a global rush on a scale never before seen. This eventually resulted in the demand for considerable innovation and improvement in mineral deposit genetic modelling and ore formation regimes for the many different types of gold deposits, now recognized, and paralleled by the wide employment of exploration techniques and a rapid expansion of geological databases. This Special Issue will show case studies of porphyry polymetal systems, orogenic gold formations, water–rock reaction, ore-forming structure evolution, mineralogy and petrology of ore deposit, ore formation regime, geochronology and geochemistry of ore deposit, ore-forming evolution, mineral exploration and cutting-edge technology in ore deposit study.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; syenite ; petrogenesis ; North China Craton ; Hongyan deposit ; Yangshan gold belt ; mineral geo-thermometry ; water–rock interaction ; Pinglidian gold deposit ; lithospheric architecture ; Liaodong Peninsula ; visible gold ; Zhengchong gold deposit ; stable isotopes ; geochemistry ; ore shoots ; high fugacity ; Huangshaping ; zircon U-Pb dating ; orogenic gold deposit ; high-silica adakitic rocks (HSA) ; zircon U–Pb dating ; zircon geochronology ; middle–late Jurassic ; Rare-Earth Elements ; Tiantangshan tin polymetallic deposit ; whole-rock geochemistry ; fluid inclusions ; low Sr and high Yb A2-type granite ; W–Sn skarn ; Jiaodong area ; hydrous melts ; quartz vein ; hydrothermal alteration halo ; fluid inclusion ; archean basement ; H–O isotope ; Sizhuang gold deposit ; South China ; invisible gold ; granite petrogenesis ; Zaorendao gold deposit ; geostatistics ; SE China ; physicochemical condition of mineralization ; metallogenesis ; structural control ; constraints on mineralization ; Northwestern Yunnan Province ; ore-forming processes ; zircon Hf isotopes ; metallogenic rule ; rock geochemistry ; Shizhuyuan ; Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotopes ; immiscibility ; Jiaodong Peninsula ; Mo-polymetallic deposit ; Permian A-type granite ; precipitation mechanism ; Jiangnan orogenic belt ; Chishan alkaline complex ; A-type granite ; in situ study ; magmatic oxygen fugacity ; Jiaodong ; Liaoning Province ; oxidation state ; Re–Os dating ; Saima deposit ; C–H–O isotopes ; sericite ; gold deposition ; post-collisional slab break-off ; Hf-Nd isotopic mapping ; geochronology ; Sr–Nd isotopes ; Inner Mongolia ; Zaozigou deposit ; Pulang porphyry Cu (–Mo–Au) deposit ; Haoyaoerhudong gabbro ; trace element ; Cu-Au hydrothermal mineralization ; molybdenite Re-Os dating ; Hegenshan-Heihe suture zone ; Late Cretaceous ; Great Xing’an Range ; SW China ; Hongshan skarn deposit ; tin mineralization ; Xianghualing ; Hf isotopes ; post-collisional ; hydrothermal calcite ; molybdenite Re–Os dating ; LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb dating ; Sanshandao gold deposit ; China ; Lu–Hf isotopes ; orogenic-gold deposit ; garnet Sm–Nd dating ; paleo-Tethyan ocean closure ; Weilasituo Sn-polymetallic deposit ; West Qinling ; mantle branch ; formation temperature ; ore prospecting target ; Dongbulage ; niobium mineralization ; LA-ICP-MS ; quartz ; C–O isotopes ; acidity ; Beiya Au deposit ; ore-controlling structures ; U–Pb zircon age ; Koka deposit ; zircon U–Pb geochronology ; skarn mineralogy ; Phapon gold deposit ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue addresses the general problem of a proper match between the demands of energy users and the units for energy conversion and storage, by means of proper design and operation of the overall energy system configuration. The focus is either on systems including single plants or groups of plants, connected or not to one or more energy distribution networks. In both cases, the optimum design and operation involve decisions about thermodynamic processes, about the type, number, design parameters of components/plants, and storage capacities, and about mutual interconnections and the interconnections with the distribution grids. The problem is absolutely general, encompassing design and operation of energy systems for single houses, groups of houses, industries, industrial districts, municipal areas, regions and countries. The presented papers show that similar approaches can be used in different applications, although a general standard has not been achieved yet.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; techno-economic analysis ; mixed integer linear programming ; superstructure-free ; thermal power plants ; superstructure-based ; compressed natural gas (CNG) ; fleet of energy conversion and storage units ; oil palm ; spatial analysis ; optimization ; energy storage ; small-scale compressed-air energy storage (SS-CAES) ; distributed energy ; Mixed-Integer NonLinear/Linear Programming (MINLP/MILP) ; absorption refrigerator ; uncertainties ; electricity production ; design and operation optimization ; smart power systems ; IEEE-RTS ; smart energy systems ; exergy analysis ; palm oil residues ; intertemporal optimization ; supercritical CO2 ; thermo-electric ; integrated ship energy systems ; dynamic optimization ; sustainability ; mathematical programming ; cycle configuration ; palm oil mills ; energy systems ; advanced exergy-based analysis ; flowsheet synthesis ; solar energy ; reliability ; multi-energy systems ; uncertainty ; hourly distribution ; absorption technology ; Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) ; thermal energy storage ; optimization of energy systems design and operation ; price estimation ; value-added products ; district energy system ; electricity demand ; Violation Constraint-Handling (VCH) ; synthesis ; synthesis/design optimization ; liquefied natural gas (LNG) ; supply chains optimization ; rolling-horizon ; dynamic modelling ; renewable energy systems ; battery storage ; wave energy ; MONA ; operating cost ; combined heat and power ; multi-objective optimization ; gas supply chain ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Wood-based materials are CO2-neutral, renewable, and considered to be environmentally friendly. The huge variety of wood species and wood-based composites allows a wide scope of creative and esthetic alternatives to materials with higher environmental impacts during production, use and disposal. Quality of wood is influenced by the genetic and environmental factors. One of the emerging uses of wood are building and construction applications. Modern building and construction practices would not be possible without use of wood or wood-based composites. The use of composites enables using wood of lower quality for the production of materials with engineered properties for specific target applications. Even more, the utilization of such reinforcing particles as carbon nanotubes and nanocellulose enables development of a new generation of composites with even better properties. The positive aspect of decomposability of waste wood can turn into the opposite when wood or wood-based materials are exposed to weathering, moisture oscillations, different discolorations, and degrading organisms. Protective measures are therefore unavoidable for many outdoor applications. Resistance of wood against different aging factors is always a combined effect of toxic or inhibiting ingredients on the one hand, and of structural, anatomical, or chemical ways of excluding moisture on the other.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; neural network ; Pinus massoniana Lamb. ; intra-ring variation ; relative humidity ; ultimate state ; nondestructive assessment ; machinability ; stiffness ; wood based composites ; bamboo ; poplar seedlings ; thinning ; blue staining fungi ; tropical woods ; compression ; bending stiffness ; wooden windows ; ultrasonic wave velocity measurement ; glued lamella ; three-point bending ; wood properties ; technological and product innovations ; structural changes ; non-destructive testing ; hardwoods ; brittleness ; green larch ; root-collar diameter ; FTIR ; material preference ; cooling tower ; tensile modulus ; strength grading ; immigrants ; weight of a user ; density ; flexible chair ; predictive performance ; heat treatment ; modulus of elasticity ; orthotropic ; acoustic resonance ; building material ; CIEL*a*b* system ; deflection at the modulus of rupture ; marketing ; bamboo grid packing ; fungi ; minimal curve radius ; European hardwoods ; cyclic loading ; chemical composition ; laminated wood ; volume yield ; tensile strength ; artificial weathering ; glulam ; dynamic modulus of elasticity ; colour changes ; modulus of elasticity (MOE) ; coefficient of wood bendability ; urban housing ; Resistance to Impact Milling (RIM) ; nondestructive testing ; Coniophora puteana ; roughness ; brown rot ; wood ; phenol formaldehyde resin ; wood-processing industry performance ; elemental composition ; natural weathering ; longitudinal stress wave velocity ; mechanical properties ; aluminium reinforcements ; chemical changes ; colour change ; High-Energy Multiple Impact (HEMI)–test ; plantation timber ; fiber-managed hardwoods ; cooling packing ; wood mechanical properties ; flexural rigidity ; moisture content ; ultrasonic speed ; color ; elastic constants ; Douglas-fir ; mixed-effects hierarchical linear models ; wood impregnation ; dynamic strength ; microfibril angle ; silviculture ; low quality round wood ; Eucalyptus ; hybrid beams ; end-product-based fiber attribute determinates ; high frequency drying ; infrared spectroscopy ; building culture background ; lumber ; Euler-Bernoulli ; ultrasound ; cell-wall mechanics ; colour ; deflection at the limit of proportionality ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Interest in the study of life in hot environments, both with respect to the inhabiting microorganisms and the enzymes they produce, is currently very high. The biological mechanisms responsible for the resistance to high temperatures are not yet fully understood, whereas thermostability is a highly required feature for industrial applications. In this e-book, the invited authors provide diverse evidence contributing to the understanding of such mechanisms and the unlocking of the biotechnological potential of thermophiles and thermozymes.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; biotechnology ; enzyme structure ; thermophile ; thermophily ; cellulases ; enzyme activity ; Algeria ; Candida rugosa ; thermophilic ; RNA modification ; Thermus ; tRNA modification ; transposons ; mobilome ; hot spring ; evolvability ; molecular tunnels ; insertion sequence ; Vallitalea guaymasensis ; HGT ; tRNA methyltransferase ; metagenomics ; methylation ; Thermostable ; interfacial activation ; lipase ; ethanol ; xylanase ; archaea ; protease ; transposases ; thermophiles ; whole-genome sequence ; lignocellulosic biomass ; thermophilic proteins ; temperature ; Geobacillus ; enzyme thermostability ; dimerization ; inhibition ; pseudouridine ; Brevibacillus sp. OA30 ; protein stability ; structure ; protein engineering ; hydrothermal vent ; kinetic ; characterization ; syntrophy ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book gathers recent international research on the association between aggressive rainfall and soil loss and landscape degradation. Different contributions explore these complex relationships and highlight the importance of the spatial patterns of precipitation intensity on land flow under erosive storms, with the support of observational and modelling data. This is a large and multifaceted area of research of growing importance that outlines the challenge of protecting land from natural hazards. The increase in the number of high temporal resolution rainfall records together with the development of new modelling capabilities has opened up new opportunities for the use of large-scale planning and risk prevention methods. These new perspectives should no longer be considered as an independent research topic, but should, above all, support comprehensive land use planning, which is at the core of environmental decision-making and operations. Textbooks such as this one demonstrate the significance of how hydrological science can enable tangible progress in understanding the complexity of water management and its current and future challenges.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Mann–Kendall test ; GCMs ; morphological characteristics ; erosivity density ; splash distance ; erosion control ; Greece ; Tibetan Plateau ; mulching ; full-scale testing ; regional climate models ; spatial and temporal pattern ; simulated rainfall ; climate change ; Loess Plateau ; fractal dimension ; river basin ; runoff ; Central Asia ; erosive rainfall ; parsimonious modeling ; rainfall peak ; laboratory-scale testing ; raindrop energy ; sediment yield ; net soil erosion ; water quality ; quantile regression forests ; soil aggregate ; rainfall erosivity ; soil erosion ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: In the last few decades, natural fibers have received growing attention as an alternative to the synthetic fibers used in the reinforcement of polymeric composites, thanks to their specific properties, low price, health advantages, renewability, and recyclability. Furthermore, natural fibers have a CO2-neutral life cycle, in contrast to their synthetic counterparts. As is widely known, natural fibers also possess some drawbacks, e.g., a hydrophilic nature, low and variable mechanical properties, poor adhesion to polymeric matrices, high susceptibility to moisture absorption, low aging resistance, etc. This implies that their applications are limited to non-structural interior products. To overcome this problem, the hybridization of natural fibers with synthetic ones (i.e., glass, carbon, and basalt) or different natural fibers can be a solution. For this reason, extensive research concerning natural–synthetic and natural–natural hybrid composites has been done in the last years. In this context, this book aims to collect some interesting papers concerning the use of natural fibers together with synthetic ones with the aim of obtaining hybrid structures with good compromise between high properties (e.g., mechanical performances, thermal behavior, aging tolerance in humid or aggressive environments, and so on) and environment care.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; basalt fibers ; hybridization ; intraply flax/basalt hybrid ; jute ; composites ; natural fiber ; Unidirectional (UD) composites ; extrusion ; compression molding ; polyamide 11 ; flax fibres ; low-velocity impact ; interweaving flax-basalt fibers ; flax fibers ; flexural properties ; damage mechanisms ; mechanical properties ; hybrid bio-composite ; fabric ; renewable ; hybrid composites ; natural fibers ; polypropylene (PP) ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Public participation in forestry is a key issue in ensuring the democratization of decision-making processes, increasing the social acceptance of policies, and reducing conflicts between forest users. Public participation also provides an opportunity for the improvement of the quality of information, public debate, personal reflection, and professionalization, raising awareness. Participation in forestry implies the involvement of stakeholders (the interest group participation approach) and/or the involvement of people (the direct citizen participation approach) in the decision-making process. Since the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992), new norms and perspectives have emerged encouraging a bottom-up approach in forest governance. Consequently, several participatory techniques, methods, and tools for stakeholder involvement in forest governance have been developed and applied. These different experiences allow us to learn from failures and successes and contribute to knowledge improvement. The future challenges of participatory forestry deal with adaptation to changes in ecological, social, and economic contexts.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; forest planning ; green space quality assessment ; forest management practice ; forest degradation ; urban trees ; Slovenia ; participatory process ; transdisciplinary research ; deliberative-analytical process ; panarchy theory ; participatory forums ; climate change ; community forestry ; empathetic utility functions ; smallholder ; questionnaire survey ; British Columbia ; Ghana ; cocoa ; participatory ; entrepreneurial education ; Natura 2000 ; deforestation ; social assessment ; climate change mitigation ; stakeholder analysis ; social network analysis ; social forestry ; REDD+ ; photography ; participation ; interviews survey ; diffusion ; traditional knowledge ; forest carbon ; AI decision-making algorithms ; stakeholders ; participatory modeling ; innovative training ; stakeholders’ involvement ; appraisal ; slash-and-burn agriculture ; public opinion ; user participation ; public participation ; summer-winter ; forest multifunctionality ; preferences ; community-based forest management ; forest management ; urban woodland management ; national forest policy framework ; perceptions ; forest governance ; stakeholder engagement ; forest history ; role-playing games ; assessment of sustainability ; management program ; forestry training ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The book compiles scientific articles describing advances in nanomaterial synthesis and their application in water remediation. The publications treat diverse problems such as dye degradation, heavy metal ion, as well as radioactive element capture and sequestration. There are 10 original research articles and one review article. The latter proposes graphene/CNT and Prussian blue nanocomposites for radioactive 137-cesium extraction from aqueous media. All reports thoroughly characterize the nanomaterials post-synthesis and describe their catalytic, photocatalytic, or ion exchange activities in contaminated water. The dyes studied in the collection are azo dyes, i.e. methylene blue and orange, rhodamine B, phenolic dyes viz. bromophenol blue, and other dyes with sulfonyl groups. Extraction of radioactive elements, including cationic 137Cs+ and anionic 125I?, is also investigated. The omnipresence of ZnO nanoparticles in everyday products and their effects in wastewater are also evaluated. Layered double hydroxide are capable of capturing Ag ions, which then has a catalytic effect on dye degradation. The nanomaterials considered are varied, viz., graphene, CNT, Prussian blue, nanoporous carbon, layered double hydroxides, magnetite, ferrites, organic powders, polymer membranes, bacteria, and inorganic nanomaterials such as MnO and Ag. The book targets an interdisciplinary readership.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; LDHs ; magnetic photocatalyst ; n/a ; bioremediation ; membrane ; BiOCl ; BiVO4 ; degradation ; agglomeration ; solvent vapor annealing ; nanoporous carbon ; nanocomposite ; Prussian blue ; stability ; silver nanomaterials ; adsorption ; wastewater ; desalination ; ZnO nanoparticles ; film ; magnetic performance ; metal-organic frameworks ; 137Cs+ selectivity ; nanomixtures ; water remediation ; photocatalytic activity ; adsorption properties ; magnetic extraction ; RGO ; structural regularity ; photocatalytic mechanism ; wastewater treatment ; 137-Cesium ; photocatalyst ; magnetic nanoparticles ; graphene ; radioactive iodine ; carbon nanotubes ; doping modification ; electrospinning ; radioactive contamination ; Mn–Zn ferrite ; mixed wastewater ; manganese oxide ; host–guest interaction ; bromophenol blue ; Dy3+ ; organic pollutants ; dye ; beta-cyclodextrin polymer ; polydopamine ; interaction ; dye removal ; adsorption models ; RhB photodegradation ; hydrothermal method ; supercapacitor ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue “Atmospheric Conditions for Wind Energy Applications” hosts papers on aspects of remote sensing for atmospheric conditions for wind energy applications. Wind lidar technology is presented from a theoretical view on the coherent focused Doppler lidar principles. Furthermore, wind lidar for applied use for wind turbine control, wind farm wake, and gust characterizations is presented, as well as methods to reduce uncertainty when using lidar in complex terrain. Wind lidar observations are used to validate numerical model results. Wind Doppler lidar mounted on aircraft used for observing winds in hurricane conditions and Doppler radar on the ground used for very short-term wind forecasting are presented. For the offshore environment, floating lidar data processing is presented as well as an experiment with wind-profiling lidar on a ferry for model validation. Assessments of wind resources in the coastal zone using wind-profiling lidar and global wind maps using satellite data are presented..
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; complex flow ; Floating Lidar System (FLS) ; mesoscale ; wind energy resources ; variational analysis ; wind turbine ; wind sensing ; wind energy ; wind gusts ; wake ; wind structure ; complex terrain ; global ocean ; remote sensing forecasting ; detached eddy simulation ; five-minute ahead wind power forecasting ; tropical cyclones ; fetch effect ; aerosol ; vertical Light Detection and Ranging ; range gate length ; resource assessment ; field experiments ; remote sensing ; optical flow ; turbulence ; atmospheric boundary layer ; Doppler Wind Lidar ; offshore ; empirical equation ; Lidar ; WindSAT ; coastal wind measurement ; offshore wind speed forecasting ; Doppler wind lidar ; Doppler ; wind ; wind lidar ; cross-correlation ; QuikSCAT ; wind resource assessment ; detecting and tracking ; single-particle ; gust prediction ; NWP model ; velocity-azimuth-display algorithm ; lidar-assisted control (LAC) ; Doppler lidar ; motion estimation ; power performance testing ; lidar ; large-eddy simulations ; wind farm ; coherent Doppler lidar ; wake modeling ; probabilistic forecasting ; control ; NeoWins ; wind turbine controls ; impact prediction ; wind turbine wake ; Hazaki Oceanographical Research Station ; VAD ; virtual lidar ; Doppler radar ; IEA Wind Task 32 ; ASCAT ; wind atlas ; turbulence intensity ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book compiles selected papers from the Proceedings of the 1st International Online Conference on Nanomaterials, held 1–15 September, 2018 on sciforum.net, an online platform for hosting scholarly e-conferences and discussion groups. It targets a broad readership of physicists, chemists, materials scientists, biologists, environmentalists, and nanotechnologists, and provides interesting examples of the most recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanomaterials.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; graphene oxide ; n/a ; FTIR study ; XRD study ; hydrogel nanocomposites ; hybrid polymer composites ; functionalization degree ; carbon nanodots ; Caco-2 ; pseudo-crosslinking ; humidity ; branched polymers ; rotational rheology ; morphology ; nanoparticle transport ; iron oxide nanoparticles ; thermal stability ; functionalization ; quantum dots ; hydrophobicity ; optical properties ; Bragg stacks ; elastic modulus ; co-culture intestinal model ; optical sensing ; dispersion ; HT29-MTX ; hexamethylene diisocyanate ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Steel is a critical material in our societies and will remain an important one for a long time into the future. In the last two decades, the world steel industry has gone through drastic changes and this is predicted to continue in the future. The Asian countries (e.g. China, India) have been dominant in the production of steel creating global over-capacity, while the steel industry in the developed countries have made tremendous efforts to reinforce its global leadership in process technology and product development, and remain sustainable and competitive. The global steel industry is also facing various grand challenges in strict environmental regulation, new energy and materials sources, and ever-increasing customer requirements for high quality steel products, which has been addressed accordingly by the global iron and steel community. This Special Issue, “Ironmaking and Steelmaking”, released by the journal Metals, published 33 high quality articles from the international iron and steel community, covering the state-of-the-art of the ironmaking and steelmaking processes. This includes fundamental understanding, experimental investigation, pilot plant trials, industrial applications and big data utilization in the improvement and optimization of existing processes, and research and development in transformative technologies. It is hoped that the creation of this special issue as a scientific platform will help drive the iron and steel community to build a sustainable steel industry.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; artificial neural network ; n/a ; corrosion ; inclusion control ; steel-making ; simulation ; liquid steel ; phosphate capacity ; slag ; hydrogen ; TG analysis ; surface roughness ; iron sulfate ; shot peening ; refining kinetics ; iso-conversional method ; oxygen blast furnace ; Barkhausen noise ; gas flow rate ; ductile cast iron ; toughness ; self-reduction briquette ; Mg deoxidation ; phosphorus distribution ratio ; iron oxides ; phase analysis ; desiliconisation ; solid flow ; CaO/Al2O3 ratio ; surface depression ; carbothermal reduction ; rotary hearth furnace ; torrefied biomass ; hot metal pre-treatment ; inclusions ; microwaves ; ironmaking ; reactivity ; CaO–based slags ; high-aluminum iron ore ; oxides ; HPSR ; internal crack ; fluorapatite ; crystallization rate ; COREX ; liquid area ; Al addition ; Wilcox–Swailes coefficient ; plasma arc ; evaluation of coupling relationship ; penetration theory ; silicate crystals ; ionization degree ; pellet size ; prediction model ; continuous casting ; direct element method ; modified NPL model ; slag film ; volatile matter ; crystallite size ; Al-TRIP steel ; viscosity ; anosovite crystals ; slag formation ; CO2 emissions ; integrated steel plant ; flow pattern ; high-heat-input welding ; dephosphorisation ; copper stave ; direct reduction ; shrinkage ; Cr recovery ; chemical composition ; high speed steel ; material flow ; 33MnCrTiB ; gas-based reduction ; converter ; bio-coal ; flat steel ; sulfur distribution ratio ; cold experiment ; secondary refining process ; re-oxidation ; vaporization dephosphorization ; sulfide capacity ; electroslag cladding ; hydrogen attack ; oxygen steelmaking ; non-metallic inclusions ; cracks ; non-contact measurement ; energy consumption ; high-manganese iron ore ; non-metallic inclusion ; Ca deoxidation ; Ca-treatment ; compressive strength (CS) ; oil-pipeline steel ; thermal treatment ; carbon monoxide ; composite roll ; crystallization behaviors ; devolatilization ; carbon-saturated iron ; steelmaking factory ; slag crust ; combustion ; high heat input welding ; ore-carbon briquette ; activation energy ; flow velocity ; kinetics ; hydrogen plasma ; casting speed ; solid and gaseous oxygen ; hercynite ; low fluorine ; iron ore pellets ; fayalite ; heat-affected zone ; CO–CO2 atmosphere ; and nitrogen ; smelting reduction ; high-phosphorus iron ore ; iron oxide ; mold flux ; BaO ; intragranular acicular ferrite ; carbon composite pellet ; electrolytic extraction ; iron ore ; carbon dioxide ; agglomerate ; vanadium titano-magnetite ; emission spectrum ; static process model ; concentrate ; structure ; titanium slag ; bonding interface ; fork ; blast furnace ; reaction mechanism ; reduction ; synergistic reduction ; injection ; principal component analysis ; ultrafine particles exposure ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Future buildings require not only energy efficiency but also proper building automation and control system functionalities in order to respond to the needs of occupants and energy grids. These development paths require a focus on occupant needs such as good indoor climate, easy operability, and monitoring. Another area to be tackled is energy flexibility, which is needed to make buildings responsive to the price signals of electricity grids with increasing amounts of fluctuating renewable energy generation installed both in central grids and at building sites. This Special Issue is dedicated to HVAC systems, load shifting, indoor climate, and energy and ventilation performance analyses in buildings. All these topics are important for improving the energy performance of new and renovated buildings within the roadmap of low energy and nearly zero energy buildings. To improve energy performance and, at the same time, occupant comfort and wellbeing, new technical solutions are required. Occupancy patterns and recognition, intelligent building management, demand response and performance of heating, cooling and ventilation systems are some common keywords in the articles of this Special Issue contributing to future highly performing buildings with reliable operation.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; air handling unit configuration ; n/a ; predictive rule-based control ; indoor air quality ; end-use energy consumption ; occupancy ; simulation ; Random Tree (RT) ; multi-households ; detached house ; genetic algorithm ; Cloud Computing (CC) ; building performance simulation ; energy and HVAC-systems in buildings ; Linear Regression (LR) ; heating ; air pollutant ; validation ; energy ; Neural Network (NN) ; greenhouse gas emissions ; IBM SPSS ; building energy efficiency ; monitoring ; energy retrofit ; personalized ventilation ; occupancy density ; air distribution solutions ; prediction ; indoor air temperature gradient ; lighting electrical energy ; ventilation rate ; Intelligent Buildings (IB) ; solid oxide fuel cell cogeneration system ; energy piles ; environmental impact ; energy savings ; indoor environment quality ; Simulink® ; moisture conditions ; deep renovation ; heat pump ; KNX ; energy use ; device efficiency ; hourly CO2eq. intensity ; ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) ; office building ; floor slab heat loss ; Internet of Things (IoT) ; ice rinks ; fuzzy logic ; Photovoltaic system ; intelligent system management ; computer simulations ; thermal comfort ; LMS (Least Mean Squares) Adaptive filter (AF) ; national electricity grid ; energy flexibility ; multi-objective optimization ; Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) ; gateway ; demand response ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue gathers papers reporting recent advances in the remote sensing of cold regions. It includes contributions presenting improvements in modeling microwave emissions from snow, assessment of satellite-based sea ice concentration products, satellite monitoring of ice jam and glacier lake outburst floods, satellite mapping of snow depth and soil freeze/thaw states, near-nadir interferometric imaging of surface water bodies, and remote sensing-based assessment of high arctic lake environment and vegetation recovery from wildfire disturbances in Alaska. A comprehensive review is presented to summarize the achievements, challenges, and opportunities of cold land remote sensing.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Qinghai–Tibet Plateau ; n/a ; near-nadir SAR ; ice run ; RADARSAT-2 ; Tibetan Plateau ; wildfire ; northern high latitudes ; microwave radiometer experiment ; climate change ; Everest ; remote sensing ; frozen soil ; tundra ponds ; shipborne observation ; passive microwave ; microwave radiation response depth (MRRD) ; protected areas ; snow ; global change ; WALOMIS ; glacial lake ; Antarctica ; lake ; Arctic wetlands ; snow depth ; ground-based radiometer ; parameterized model ; sea ice concentration ; decomposition ; Athabasca River ; wetlands ; FY-3D/MWRI ; China ; regional algorithms ; Alaska ; aerial photographs ; Fort McMurray ; elevation ; L-band emission ; Frozen soil ; Arctic navigation ; Landsat ; cryosphere ; Tian Gong 2 ; MODIS ; desiccation ; supraglacial pond ; Himalaya ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Since their discovery in 1895, the detection of X-rays has had a strong impact on and various applications in several fields of science and human life. Impressive efforts have been made to develop new types of detectors and new techniques, aiming to obtain higher precision both in terms of energy and position. Depending on the applications, solid state detectors, microcalorimeters, and various types of spectrometers currently serve as the best options for spectroscopic and imaging detectors. Recent advancements in micron and meV precision have opened the door for groundbreaking applications in fundamental physics, medical science, astrophysics, cultural heritage, and several other fields. The aim of this Special Issue is to compile an overview, from different communities and research fields, of the most recent developments in X-ray detection and their possible impacts in various sectors, such as in exotic atom measurements, quantum physics studies, XRF, XES, EXAFS, plasma emission spectroscopy, monochromators, synchrotron radiation, telescopes, and space engineering. All the papers included in this Special Issue contribute to emphasizing the importance of X-ray detection in a very broad range of physics topics; most of these topics are covered by the published works, and several others are mentioned in the paper references, providing an interesting and very useful synopsis, from a variety of different communities and research fields, of the most recent developments in X-ray detection and their impact in fundamental research and societal applications.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; Compton camera ; and detectors ; X-ray detectors ; coherent imaging ; X-ray and ?-ray spectrometers ; magnetic multilayers ; X-ray diffraction ; X-ray spectroscopy ; XAS ; scintillation detector ; X-ray absorption ; XRF ; HAPG ; soft X-rays ; gratings ; von Hamos ; radiation detectors ; amylin ; synchrotron radiation ; high energy resolution fluorescence detection ; optical materials ; HOPG ; molybdenum ; Pyrolytic Graphite ; mosaic spread ; mirrors ; quantum foundations ; strong interaction ; Mössbauer spectroscopy ; multidisciplinarity ; Compton scattering ; Pauli exclusion principle ; free electron lasers ; X- and ?-ray instruments ; silicon photomultiplier ; kaonic atoms ; standing waves ; X- and ?-ray sources ; graphite crystals ; mosaicity ; X-ray source facilities ; rocking curve ; optical instruments and equipment ; photodetectors ; TM oxides ; X-ray reflectivity ; beamlines ; X-ray ; XAFS ; solid-state detectors ; underground experiment ; material investigation ; material science ; thin films ; X-ray Raman ; medical applications ; THz radiation ; X-ray absorption spectroscopy ; positron emission tomography ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The need for energy is increasing and but the production from conventional reservoirs is declining quickly. This requires an economically and technically feasible source of energy for the coming years. Among some alternative future energy solutions, the most reasonable source is from unconventional reservoirs. As the name “unconventional” implies, different and challenging approaches are required to characterize and develop these resources. This Special Issue covers some of the technical challenges for developing unconventional energy sources from shale gas/oil, tight gas sand, and coalbed methane.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; horizontal well ; shale gas ; shock loads ; pseudo-steady-state non-equilibrium sorption ; unsteady state non-equilibrium sorption ; porosity–permeability ; fractured-vuggy reservoirs ; flow channel ; pressure derivative ; total organic carbon (TOC) ; CO2 huff-n-puff ; flow behavior ; unconventional reservoirs ; semi-analytical model ; gravel pack ; optimization measures ; fractures ; lab tests under reservoir condition ; dual-porosity system ; unconventional ; gravity differentiation ; MICP ; perforation safety ; fracture penetration extent ; organic-rich shale ; stress-dependent permeability ; equilibrium sorption ; helium porosimetry ; numerical model ; original gas in-place ; shale alteration ; injection and production pattern ; adsorption and desorption isotherms ; low-pressure gas adsorption ; initial water saturation ; drilling fluid ; sorption hysteresis ; coalbed methane ; gas content ; capillary number ; reorientation fractures ; water flooding effect ; organic pores ; tight reservoir ; condensate recovery ; Langmuir pressure ; Klinkenberg slippage theory ; limestone and calcareous mudstone interbedding ; petrophysics ; tight gas sand ; numerical analysis ; northern Guizhou ; wettability ; peak pressure ; sand control ; water imbibition ; clay bound water ; carbon dioxide sequestration ; adsorption capacity ; gas compressibility factors ; convolutional neural network ; multi-stage fracturing horizontal wells ; fractured tight reservoir ; physical model ; tight gas reservoirs ; automatic classification ; NMR ; catalytic oxidation characteristics ; micro-CT image ; wellbore stability ; gas adsorption and desorption ; gas shale ; medium volatile bituminous coal ; hydraulic flow units ; GEM® ; petrophysical properties ; compositional 3D ; rock-water-CO2 interaction ; source-mixed gas ; residual gas distribution ; oxidation reaction pathway ; coal rank ; oil migration ; clay content ; perforated string ; TOC recovery ; Computer Modelling Group (CMG) ; capillary trapping ; pore size distribution ; adsorption ; tight reservoirs ; well interference ; gradation optimization ; shale gas condensate reservoir ; Niutitang formation ; pulse decay test ; well testing ; Langmuir model ; methane adsorption capacity ; pore structure ; and tight sand gas) ; ultra-deep well ; deepwater well ; orthogonal test ; high pressure and low flowrate ; theoretical model ; safety analysis ; transient pressure ; catalyst-activated low temperature oxidation ; reservoir simulation ; Langmuir volume ; air flooding ; petrography ; total organic carbon ; electrical resistivity ; diffusion coefficient ; equation of state ; porosity ; zeta potential ; gas permeability measurement ; co-exploitation ; nuclear magnetic resonance ; Changqing tight oil ; visual experiment ; tight oil reservoirs ; caprock integrity ; coal measure gases (coalbed gas ; NIST-Refprop ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Heterogeneous catalysis played, plays, and will continue to play, a major key role in industrial processes for large-scale synthesis of commodity chemicals of global importance, and in catalytic systems that possess a critical role in energy generation and environmental protection approaches. As a result of the ongoing progress in materials science, nanotechnology, and characterizations, great advances have been achieved in heterogeneous catalysis by nanomaterials. Efficient approaches and advanced methods for the design of nano-structured composite materials (up to atomic level), subject to specific nano-morphologies with enhanced metal–metal and metal–support interactions favorable for catalysis (that enable fine-tuning of the critical properties of the designed catalysts), provide optimized catalysts with outstanding performances in numerous eco-friendly and cost-effective applications. Accordingly, great progress has been achieved involving, for example, emissions control, waste treatment, photocatalytic, bio-refinery, CO2 utilization, and fuel cells applications, as well as hydrocarbon processing for H2, added-value chemicals, and liquid fuels production. The themed Special Issue has succeeded in collecting 10 high-quality contributions that cover recent research progress in the field for a variety of applications (e.g., environment, energy, added-value chemicals/organics synthesis, and bio-transformation) declaring the prospect and importance of nanomaterials in all the directions of heterogeneous catalysis.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; B-doped ; polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers ; porous carbon ; self-catalytic pyrolysis ; visible light ; heterostructure ; oxygen vacancies ; TiO2 nanotube ; thiadiazoles ; ethylidenethiosemicarbazides ; adsorption ; dimethoxymethane ; nano-biocatalyst ; heterogeneous catalysis ; bio-catalysis ; H2 evolution ; carbon cuboids ; trioxymethylene ; ?-glucosidase ; metal-organic frameworks ; Brønsted acid sites ; hybrid ; MXene ; oleuropein ; Rhodamine B ; antibiotics ; maleic anhydride ; oxygen evolution reaction ; photocatalyst ; 2-methyl-3-butennitrile ; halide perovskite ; zeolites ; electrospinning ; Rh ; Ti3C2Tx ; heterostructures ; hydroxytyrosol ; metal–organic frameworks ; photocatalysis ; Ni/ZrO2 ; the maximum included sphere ; functionalized olefin ; selective hydrogenation ; thiazoles ; oxidation ; visible-light ; red P ; chitosan-MgO nanocomposite ; ZnO ; g-C3N4/TiO2 ; hydroformylation ; steric constraint ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book presents the current views of leading physicists on the bizarre property of quantum theory: nonlocality. Einstein viewed this theory as “spooky action at a distance” which, together with randomness, resulted in him being unable to accept quantum theory. The contributions in the book describe, in detail, the bizarre aspects of nonlocality, such as Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen steering and quantum teleportation—a phenomenon which cannot be explained in the framework of classical physics, due its foundations in quantum entanglement. The contributions describe the role of nonlocality in the rapidly developing field of quantum information. Nonlocal quantum effects in various systems, from solid-state quantum devices to organic molecules in proteins, are discussed. The most surprising papers in this book challenge the concept of the nonlocality of Nature, and look for possible modifications, extensions, and new formulations—from retrocausality to novel types of multiple-world theories. These attempts have not yet been fully successful, but they provide hope for modifying quantum theory according to Einstein’s vision.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; Stern–Gerlach experiment ; channel entropy ; non-locality ; nonsignaling ; retro-causal channel ; communication complexity ; controlled-NOT ; Bell test ; quantum measurement ; quantum mechanics ; quantum transport ; semiconductor nanodevices ; optimization ; quantum correlation ; PR Box ; non-linear Schrödinger model ; retrocausality ; entanglement ; device-independent ; Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen argument ; quantum nonlocality ; parallel lives ; PR box ; nonlocal correlations ; hypothesis testing ; quantum bounds ; channel capacity ; Wigner-function simulations ; quantum correlations ; quantum ; pre- and post-selected systems ; local hidden variables ; density-matrix formalism ; collapse of the quantum state ; local polytope ; quantum teleportation of unknown qubit ; parity measurements ; uncertainty relations ; nonlocality ; hybrid entanglement ; selectivity filter ; p-value ; steering ; axioms for quantum theory ; no-signalling ; ion channels ; KS Box ; EPR steering ; local realism ; Non-contextuality inequality ; entropic uncertainty relation ; continuous-variable states ; nonlocal dissipation models ; Bell’s theorem ; tsallis entropy ; classical limit ; general entropies ; pigeonhole principle ; biological quantum decoherence ; discrete-variable states ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The Special Issue “Liquid Crystal Optical Devices” discusses recent developments in the rapidly advancing subject of liquid crystals (LCs).
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; liquid crystal lenses ; optical phased arrays ; gold nanoparticles ; adaptive-focus lenses ; dielectric anisotropy ; liquid-crystal waveguides ; volume gratings ; beam steering ; Mueller matrices ; nematic ; optical fiber device ; liquid crystals ; optoelectronics ; polarization-selective devices ; tapered optical fiber ; waveguides ; fast response time ; Pancharatnam?Berry phase ; optical modulation ; depolarization ; liquid crystal ; optical switching devices ; dual frequency nematic ; phase modulation ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; residential strategies ; Cabanyal ; urban sustainability ; foreign immigration ; eco-neighborhood ; neoliberal urban policy ; suburbanization ; urban growth ; housing vulnerability ; foreclosure ; spatial analysis ; housing market ; counter-urbanization ; urban sprawl ; Alicante ; educational level ; rurbanization ; post-crisis ; Suomi NPP VIIRS ; urban regeneration ; urban segregation ; Spanish city ; holiday home ; Barcelona ; vulnerable neighborhoods ; real estate bubble ; remote sensing ; night lights ; illegal urbanization ; urban inequality ; urbanization ; water ; sharing economies ; Uber ; land squandering ; socio-environmental vulnerability ; Madrid ; financialization ; housing bubble ; Extremadura ; urban conflicts ; urbanism ; social housing ; residential segregation ; Airbnb ; dispersed urbanism ; urban geography ; social-vulnerability ; medium-sized city ; school choice ; eviction ; urban vulnerability ; social crisis ; sustainable urban neighborhoods ; periurbanization ; periphery ; land uses ; qualitative methodology ; expansive city planning ; residential mobility ; consumption ; Spain ; urbanization process ; economic crisis ; medium-size cities ; neighbourhood effect ; social inequalities ; urban expansion ; Barcelona Metropolitan Region ; seasonality ; Valencia ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-02
    Description: This Special Issue is devoted to some serious problems that the Fractional Calculus (FC) is currently confronted with and aims at providing some answers to the questions like “What are the fractional integrals and derivatives?”, “What are their decisive mathematical properties?”, “What fractional operators make sense in applications and why?’’, etc. In particular, the “new fractional derivatives and integrals” and the models with these fractional order operators are critically addressed. The Special Issue contains both the surveys and the research contributions. A part of the articles deals with foundations of FC that are considered from the viewpoints of the pure and applied mathematics, and the system theory. Another part of the Special issue addresses the applications of the FC operators and the fractional differential equations. Several articles devoted to the numerical treatment of the FC operators and the fractional differential equations complete the Special Issue.
    Keywords: fractional derivatives ; fractional integrals ; fractional calculus ; fractional anti-derivatives ; fractional operators ; integral transforms ; convergent series ; fractional integral ; fractional derivative ; numerical approximation ; translation operator ; distributed lag ; time delay ; scaling ; dilation ; memory ; depreciation ; probability distribution ; fractional models ; fractional differentiation ; distributed time delay systems ; Volterra equation ; adsorption ; fractional differential equations ; numerical methods ; smoothness assumptions ; persistent memory ; initial values ; existence ; uniqueness ; Crank–Nicolson scheme ; weighted Shifted Grünwald–Letnikov approximation ; space fractional convection-diffusion model ; stability analysis ; convergence order ; Caputo–Fabrizio operator ; Atangana–Baleanu operator ; fractional falculus ; general fractional derivative ; general fractional integral ; Sonine condition ; fractional relaxation equation ; fractional diffusion equation ; Cauchy problem ; initial-boundary-value problem ; inverse problem ; fractional calculus operators ; special functions ; generalized hypergeometric functions ; integral transforms of special functions ; 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: 2023-12-20
    Description: In the last decades, there has been increasing interest in Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) and asbestos containing materials (ACMs) as a source of possible environmental risk. A crucial theme of interest related to environmental pollution is the enhanced mobilization of asbestos minerals affecting soils and rocks due to human activities (e.g., road construction, mining activity) in comparison with natural weathering processes. The volume has aimed to gather contributions and to compare results derived from various experiences of research groups regarding NOA minerals as a source of possible environmental risks for population. Case studies from various geological contexts are presented. Moreover, contributions presenting novel and classical approaches for ACM inertization and recycling, together with possible solutions for reducing asbestos exposure, has been also presented.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; n/a ; environmental monitoring ; asbestos ; polymorphs ; XRD ; grinding test ; asbestos’ minerals ; serpentinite soil ; image analysis ; asbestos-containing materials ; health hazard ; Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) ; melting process ; tremolite ; Southern Italy ; naturally occurring asbestos ; RD-UV-Vis spectroscopy ; thermal treatment ; morphology ; fibrous habitus ; texture ; recycling ; IR ; asbestiform and fibrous minerals ; chrysotile ; lizardite characterization ; edenite ; cleavage fragments ; rhino white marble of Namibia ; serpentinites ; serpentine varieties ; antigorite ; PCOM ; aggregates ; SEM ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The scientific advances in life sciences and engineering are constantly challenging, expanding, and redefining concepts related to the biocompatibility and safety of medical devices. New biomaterials, new products, and new testing regimes are being introduced to
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; bioplolymers ; static magnetic field ; serum amyloid A ; regeneration ; bone grafts ; osteoblast ; laser direct writing ; three-dimensional co-culture ; bioactive glass ; bone graft ; adipogenic mesenchymal stem cells ; composite ; review ; artificial bone substitute ; biofilm ; lactoferrin ; polymer composite ; flow cytometry ; haptoglobin ; zinc ; copper ions ; local drug delivery ; hydroxyapatite ; in vitro kinetic studies ; absorption ; angiogenesis ; in vitro testing ; carbonate apatite ; autogenous particulate dentin graft ; microfiber scaffold ; coating techniques ; dissolution rate ; serum protein fractions ; mesenchymal stem cells ; bone levels ; SEM ; silver ; demineralized bone matrix ; articular cartilage defect ; seashell ; surface modification ; single-walled carbon nanotubes ; dolomitic marble ; osteogenesis ; corrosion resistance ; contact lens ; porous SHS TiNi ; diamond nanoparticles ; pre-osteoblasts ; gentamicin ; mechanism ; point defects ; cell proliferation ; sodium alginate ; MSN ; laser radiation ; protein–polymer matrices ; crystallite size ; extracellular matrix mineralization ; adipose-derived stem cells ; cell adhesion and morphology ; bone infection ; titanium implants ; signaling pathways ; bone substitution ; plasma chemical oxidation ; tissue engineering ; C-reactive protein ; bone tissue engineering ; osteogenic differentiation ; smart dentin grinder ; in vivo testing ; in vitro study ; nanowelding ; image analysis ; superparamagnetic scaffold ; ?-tricalcium phosphate ; biopolymer ; antibacterial coating ; hydrogel sphere ; neck design ; Staphylococcus aureus ; biocompatibility ; CaCO3 derived-calcium phosphates ; dental implants ; colon cancer cells ; materials ; spaced TiO2 nanotubes ; drug delivery system ; polyethyleneimine ; hybrid dog ; fish gelatin ; in vitro model ; MC3T3-E1 ; cell membrane ; rheological similarity ; root canal sealer ; real-time live-cell imaging technology ; human teeth ; biocompatible metals ; peri-implantitis ; sheep ; cytotoxicity ; biomedical implant ; soft tissue dimensions ; ground teeth ; endothelial cell ; bioceramics ; modulated synthesis set-up ; microRNA ; tooth graft ; autologous graft ; 3D printing ; caries ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book contains twenty-one original papers and one review paper published by internationally recognized experts in the Atmosphere Special Issue ""Recent Advances in Urban Ventilation Assessment and Flow Modelling"", years 2017–2019. The Special Issue includes contributions on recent experimental and modelling works, techniques, and developments mainly tailored to the assessment of urban ventilation on flow and pollutant dispersion in cities. The study of ventilation is of critical importance, as it addresses the capacity with which a built urban structure is capable of replacing the polluted air with ambient fresh air. Here, ventilation is recognized as a transport process that improves local microclimate and air quality and closely relates to the term “breathability”. The efficiency with which street canyon ventilation occurs depends on the complex interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer flow and the local urban morphology.The individual contributions to this Issue are summarized and categorized into four broad topics: (1) outdoor ventilation efficiency and application/development of ventilation indices, (2) relationship between indoor and outdoor ventilation, (3) effects of urban morphology and obstacles to ventilation, and (4) ventilation modelling in realistic urban districts. The results and approaches presented and proposed will be of great interest to experimentalists and modelers, and may constitute a starting point for the improvement of numerical simulations of flow and pollutant dispersion in the urban environment, for the development of simulation tools, and for the implementation of mitigation strategies.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; natural ventilation hour ; concentration fluctuation ; n/a ; particle number concentration (PNC) ; passive ventilation ; air change rate per hour (ACH) ; traffic tidal flow ; urban air quality ; small open space ; flow and turbulence profiles ; nanoparticles ; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) ; validation ; air quality ; high emitting vehicles ; air change rate (ACH) ; pollutant dispersion ; sampling ; highly-reflective building envelope ; building arrangements ; residential building ; urban street canyon ; seasonal variation ; BEopt analysis ; Large Eddy Simulation (LES) ; residential wind environments ; CFD ; street-level ventilation ; Japan cities ; indoor-outdoor ; ventilation ; coherent structures ; inter-building effect ; outdoor ventilation ; hypothetical urban areas ; surrogate model ; ultrafine particles (UFP) ; building–tree grouping patterns ; aerodynamic and deposition ; numerical simulation ; street vegetation ; wind catcher ; urban air quality modelling ; thermal comfort ; on-road air quality ; pedestrian exposure ; street canyon ; mobile laboratory ; Natural Ventilation Potential (NVP) ; dispersion ; schematic urban environment ; air flow ; concentration decay method ; source apportionment ; urban planning ; Total Suspended Particles (TSP) ; natural ventilation ; optimisation ; mass concentration ; ventilation assessment ; road tunnel ; heat loss ; multiple linear regression ; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ; tree scenarios ; wind pressure coefficient ; vehicular pollution ; urban morphology ; wind environment ; the age of air ; wind tunnel ; building site coverage ; climate zone ; architectural intervention ; convective boundary layer ; ventilation system ; wind-tunnel dataset ; urban age of air ; building energy use ; non-uniform distribution of the pollution source ; urban layout ; pollutant removal ; space pattern ; PM2.5 ; data assimilation ; water channel experiment ; CFD simulation ; airflow network ; ventilation efficiency ; traffic composition ; wind enhancement ; intake fraction ; carbon dioxide concentration ; CFD model ; PM10 ; computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation ; ventilation effectiveness ; LES ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue is a collection of papers addressing the scientific use of data acquired in the course of the TerraSAR-X mission 10 years after launch. The articles deal with the mission itself, the accuracy of the products, with differential interferometry, and with applications in the domains cryosphere, oceans, wetlands, and urban areas.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; PS ; mussel beds ; community survey ; RADARSAT-2 ; ALOS-1 ; land subsidence ; TomoSAR ; wave breaking ; high resolution InSAR ; surface water monitoring ; ground control points ; review ; SLR ; orbit ; radar ranging ; validation ; multi-baseline ; satellite time series ; convolutional neural networks (CNN) ; POD ; internal calibration ; surface movement monitoring ; landslide monitoring ; classification ; monitoring ; synthetic aperture radar ; mission ; film slicks on the sea surface ; geodetic ; robust estimation ; processing ; coastal environments ; small-scale movements ; time-series ; TSX Staring spotlight ; zenith path delay ; satellite orbit ; ERS ; dual co-polarized microwave radar ; global ; SVM ; marine ; covariance matrix ; tsunami ; deep CNN ; slant path delay ; X-band ; segmentation ; radar mission ; long term performance monitoring ; stereo sar ; phase demodulation ; TanDEM-X ; SAR interferometry ; InSAR ; imaging geodesy ; estuarine ; radar ; support vector machine ; D-TomoSAR ; measurement pixels’ density ; lacustrine ; absolute localization accuracy ; riverine ; radargrammetry ; TerraSAR-X ; automated target recognition ; intertidal bedforms ; phase unwrapping ; DS ; wet snow ; Satellite Laser Ranging ; numerical weather prediction ; internal waves ; persistent scatterer interferometry ; antenna model verification ; multi-pass ; Wadden Sea ; PolSAR ; InSAR coherence ; PSI ; remote sensing ; earthquake ; pixel selection ; radiometric accuracy ; sustainability ; ground segment ; GIS ; small Arctic catchments ; flooded vegetation ; urban footprint ; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ; SAR applications ; super high-spatial resolution TerraSAR-X images ; Snow Cover Extent (SCE) ; stratified atmospheric delay ; SAR ; Andaman Sea ; vegetation ; NDVI ; atmospheric phase ; operations ; tidal gullies ; palustrine ; DSM blending ; Venice lagoon ; DInSAR ; satellite ; density map ; atmospheric propagation delay ; calibration targets ; damage assessment ; interferometry ; Landsat ; landslide ; geometric and radiometric calibration ; precise orbit determination ; habitat mapping ; LEO ; antenna pointing determination ; remote sensing data ; layover ; surface wind waves ; geolocation ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book collects the articles published in the Special Issue “Polymeric Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces and Bioapplications”. It shows the advances in polymeric materials, which have tremendous applications in agricultural films, food packaging, dental restoration, antimicrobial systems, and tissue engineering. These polymeric materials are presented as films, coatings, particles, fibers, hydrogels, or networks. The potential to modify and modulate their surfaces or their content by different techniques, such as click chemistry, ozonation, breath figures, wrinkle formation, or electrospray, are also explained, taking into account the relationship between the structure and properties in the final application. Moreover, new trends in the development of such materials are presented, using more environmental friendly and safe methods, which, at the same time, have a high impact on our society.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; Artificial muscle ; chitosan ; graphene oxide ; antifouling coatings ; tissue engineering ; biodegradable ; polymer cross-linking ; UV/ozone ; inmiscibility ; bioapplications ; antibacterial ; polypropylene ; degradation ; protein-repellent polymer ; micro- and nanopatterned films ; oral biofilms ; bio-based ; composite films ; stimuli-responsive materials/smart surfaces ; surface modification/functionalization ; caries inhibition ; superhydrophobic ; blends ; nanosecond laser surface modification ; biofouling ; degenerative disc disease ; surface-attached polymer network ; total disc replacement ; surface wettability ; bonding agents ; polydimethylsiloxane ; natural biofilms ; Electrical stimulation ; microparticles ; hemicelluloses ; superhydrophilic ; fossil ; surface segregation ; honeycomb ; prolonged drug release ; hydrogel ; conformational entropy ; Electroactive biomaterials ; antimicrobial ; ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene) ; intervertebral disc ; calcium chloride ; sustainable ; biodegradable polymers ; friction and wear ; Drug delivery ; alginate modification ; breath figures ; spinal fusion ; blends and (nano)composites ; composites ; antimicrobial polymer ; periodontal pathogens ; polymeric composites ; scaffolds ; corn stalk fiber ; worn surface morphology ; irradiance ; friction composite ; antimicrobial coatings ; gradient wrinkles ; porous surfaces ; Electrically conductive polymers ; oxygen barrier property ; food packaging ; spinal anatomy ; Smart composites ; recycling ; packaging ; hybrids ; bio-based polymers ; coatings ; poly(x-chlorostyrene) ; eco-friendly ; multidimensional scale analysis ; single-stranded conformation polymorphism ; Bioelectric effect ; spray drying ; herniated disc ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored. This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society. In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric? Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures? Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities? Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities? Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Airbnb and policy innovation ; n/a ; accessibility ; Airbnb and housing typologies ; informality ; Melbourne sharing economy ; bike sharing ; local communities ; Airbnb and planning ; Airbnb and domestic design ; mobility policy ; platform cooperativism ; urban regeneration ; Airbnb and governance ; emotions ; democratic quality ; sharing ; urban studies ; stress levels ; sharing platform ; digital participation ; social relations ; spatial agency ; critical autoethnography ; cohousing ; collaborative workplaces ; participation ; Bourdieu ; co-design ; coworking ; entrepreneurial action ; coworking spaces ; Melbourne Airbnb ; coworking business ; collaborative economy ; design-research ; sustainable mobility ; urban mobility ; architecture ; architectural and urban effects of Airbnb ; ageing ; physiological sensors ; GSR ; sharing economic ; social street ; matchmaking ; socio-spatial effects of Airbnb ; sharing economy ; urban ; galvanic skin response ; coproduction ; coworking space ; emotional layer ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Photoactivity represents the ability of a material, generally speaking a semiconductor, to become active when interacting with light. It can be declined in many ways, and several functionalities arising from this behavior of materials can be exploited, all leading to positive repercussions on our environment. There are several classes of effects of photoactivity, all of which have been deeply investigated in the last few decades, allowing to develop more and more efficient materials and devices. All of them share a common point, that is, the interaction of a material with light, although many different materials are taken into account depending on the effect desired—from elemental semiconductors like silicon, to more complex compounds like CdTe or GaAs, to metal oxides like TiO2 and ZnO. Given the broadness of the field, a huge number of works fall within this topic, and new areas of discovery are constantly explored. The special issue “Novel Photoactive Materials” has been proposed as a means to present recent developments in the field, and for this reason the articles included touch different aspects of photoactivity, from photocatalysis to photovoltaics to light emitting materials.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; photo-oxidation ; silver phosphate ; low power white-light LED irradiation ; artificial rain ; density functional theory (DFT) ; degradation ; photocatalytic ; hybrid nanomaterials ; band gap modification ; photodeposition ; perovskite solar cell ; titanium oxide ; titanium(IV) oxo-clusters ; photo-oxidative degradation ; confocal microscope ; composite materials ; 4-chlorophenol ; anodizing ; broadband spectra ; photoactivity ; durability ; bio-based substances ; photo Fenton ; crystallinity ; nanostructured materials ; hydrothermal ; TiO2 ; advanced oxidation processes ; charge dynamics ; mechanical property ; CH3〈/NH3〈/PbI3 ; metal-halides perovskites ; DFT calculations ; sol-gel ; caffeine ; CuxO-ZnO catalyst ; water-repellency ; photocatalysis ; stone protection ; surfactant ; photovoltaics ; photoluminescence ; hydrothermal synthesis ; UV ageing ; Fe/N-TiO2 ; visible-light ; rhodamine B ; alkylalkoxysilane ; electron transport material ; organometal ; magnetic materials ; titanium dioxide ; ZnO ; organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) ; toluene ; TiO2 nanoparticles ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Description: Hydrological processes in forested watersheds are influenced by environmental, physiological, and biometric factors such as precipitation, radiation, temperature, species type, leaf area, and extent and structure of forest ecosystems. Over the past two centuries, forest coverage and forest structures have been impacted globally by anthropogenic activities, for example, forest harvesting, and conversion of forested landscapes for plantations and urbanization. In addition, since the industrial revolution, climate change has resulted in profound impacts on forest ecosystems due to higher carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration or CO2 fertilization, warmer temperatures, changes in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and natural disturbances. As a result, hydrological processes in forested watersheds have been altered by these natural and anthropogenic factors and these changes are expected to accelerate due to future changing climatic conditions.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; East Asia ; climate variability ; metals ; woody litter ; extreme weather events ; frequency analysis ; relative contribution ; streamflow variability ; probability distribution ; trace metal ; climate change ; annual streamflow ; hydroclimatology ; forest disturbances ; river discharge ; climate warming ; Weihe River ; non-woody litter ; riparian forest ; low flow ; Central Asia ; canopy filtering ; flood ; SWAT ; Chu River ; annual water yield ; forest hydrology ; throughfall ; flow regimes ; Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana Fisch. et Mey.) ; tree rings ; forest floor ; reforestation ; land-use change ; low flows ; watershed management ; high flow ; forest disturbance ; subalpine forest ; gap-edge canopy ; human activities ; boreal forest ; Tianshan Mountains ; closed canopy ; groundwater level ; fruit tree planting ; hydrological model ; high flows ; cumulative effects ; reconstruction ; headwater stream ; partial least squares (PLS) regression ; streamflow ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Sustainable interdisciplinarity focuses on human–nature relations and a multitude of contemporary overlapping research between society and the environment. A variety of disciplines have played a large part in better understanding sustainable development since its high-profile emergence approximately a quarter of a century ago. At present, the forefront of sustainability research is an array of methods, techniques, and growing knowledge base that considers past, present, and future pathways. Specific multidisciplinary concentrations within the scope of societal changes, urban landscape transformations, international environmental comparative studies, as well as key theories and dynamics relating to sustainable performance are explored. Specializations in complex sustainability issues address international governance arrangements, rules, and organizations—both public and private—within the scope of four themes: sustainability, human geography, environment, and interdisciplinary societal studies. This book contains eleven thoroughly refereed contributions concerning pressing issues that interlink sustainable interdisciplinarity with the presented themes in terms of the human–nature interface.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; bike-share ; sustainable tourism and hospitality ; Cambodia ; interdisciplinary societal studies ; Fujian Province ; ecotourism ; spatial analysis ; urban spatial variables ; urban climate zones ; restoration ; interior components ; determinants ; Cheonggye Stream ; elderly people ; sustainability ; ridership ; Suseongdong Valley ; GIS ; collective forest ; concept of landscape ; community livelihood ; evidence-based design ; network analysis ; sustainable architectural design ; sociodemographic determinants ; human geography ; sustainable interior design ; participation ; income ; politics ; mathematical climate simulation modeling ; environmental contextualization ; community forest ; ideology ; air temperature ; Alzheimer ; dementia-friendly cities ; spatial statistical analysis ; sustainable water management ; adaptive reuse ; China ; healing gardens ; age-sensitive landscape design ; SES framework ; recycling ; bicycle-sharing systems ; GM food ; Korean culture ; urban climate ; sustainable tourism ; stakeholder collaboration ; food safety ; economics ; Czech Republic ; environment ; policy making ; performance ; culture ; regression ; nature reserve ; urban planning and design ; healthy public space design ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book is a special collection of articles dedicated to the preparation and characterization of nanoporous materials, such as zeolitic-type materials, mesoporous silica (SBA-15, MCM-41, and KIT-6), mesoporous metallic oxides, metal–organic framework structures (MOFs), and pillared clays, and their applications in adsorption, catalysis, and separation processes. This book presents a global vision of researchers from international universities, research centers, and industries working with nanoporous materials and shares the latest results on the synthesis and characterization of such materials, which have given rise to the special interest in their applications in basic and industrial processes.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; porous silicon ; ?-zeolite ; 4-trimethylimidazolium ; silica pillared clays ; oligomerization ; hydrofluoric media ; KIT-6 ; glass ; adsorption ; synthesis parameters ; seeds ; MCM-41 ; swelling ; liquid-gas interaction ; confined environment ; ionic liquid ; aluminosilicate ; self-focusing ; zeolite ; 3 ; niobium oxyhydroxide catalysts ; kaolin ; pillaring ; surface properties ; lamellar zeolite ; antibiotics adsorption ; diffusion ; TPA ; ?-diimine ; STW zeolite ; ethanol dehydration ; paraffins ; mesoporous silica ; metal organic framework ; epoxidation ; zeolites ; layered zeolite ; liquid outflow ; Z-scan ; heterogenized ; cationic dye adsorption ; 2-ethyl-1 ; third-order nonlinearity ; gas amount ; surfactant ; nickel ; cyclohexene ; zeolite A ; mesopores ; IGC ; cubic structure ; two-dimensional zeolites ; delaminating ; MWW ; copper removal ; MCM-22 ; hierarchical zeolite ; reaction mechanism ; metakaolin ; liquid/nanoporous material system ; degassing pretreatment ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Research on alternative energy harvesting technologies, conversion and storage systems with high efficiency, cost-effective and environmentally friendly systems, such as fuel cells, rechargeable metal-air batteries, unitized regenerative cells, and water electrolyzers has been stimulated by the global demand on energy. The conversion between oxygen and water plays a key step in the development of oxygen electrodes: oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), processes activated mostly by precious metals, like platinum. Their scarcity, their prohibitive cost, and declining activity greatly hamper large-scale applications. This issue reports on novel non-precious metal electrocatalysts based on the innovative design in chemical compositions, structure, and morphology, and supports for the oxygen reaction.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; n/a ; nitrogen sulfur co-doped carbon nanofibers ; layered double hydroxide ; three-dimensional ; water splitting ; non-precious metal ; metal–organic framework ; Co-bpdc/MWCNTs composites ; alkaline ; nanocarbon ; Fe-N-C catalyst ; cobalt-based electrocatalysts ; 2 ; non-precious metal catalyst ; 3 ; silver bismuthate ; 4 ; graphene-carbon nanotube aerogel ; 6-tri(2-pyridyl)-1 ; Co-bpdc ; binary nitrogen precursors ; g-C3N4 ; oxygen evolution reaction ; mesoporous NiO ; electrocatalyst ; nucleophilic attack ; 5-triazine ; cobalt and nitrogen co-doped ; fuel cells ; metal-free catalysts ; oxygen reduction reaction ; hydrogen evolution reaction ; heteroatom doping ; electrophilic Ni3+ and O? ; bacterial cellulose/poly(methylene blue) hybrids ; active site ; manganese dioxide ; electrocatalysis ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue is aimed at presenting the state of the art of the multidisciplinary science concerning all aspects of volcanic plumes, of relevance to the volcanology, climatology, atmospheric science, and remote sensing communities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; alginate ; gas diffusion method ; bubble-column scrubber ; X-ray diffraction ; phosphorylated chitin ; calcite ; calcium carbonate ; sedimentary model ; composite ; urease ; Amu Darya Basin ; sericin ; aragonite ; ammonia bicarbonate ; capture ; hydrogels ; bacterial extracellular secretion ; MICP ; carbonation ; SEM ; multi-wall carbon nanotubes ; micromechanics ; Lessonia nigrescens ; biomineralization ; Bacillus subtilis ; CO2 ; Sporosarcina pasteurii ; CaCO3 ; mass-transfer coefficient ; hierarchic structure ; main controlling factors ; carbon dioxide ; surface energy ; Callovian-Oxfordian ; contact angle ; potentiometric titration ; xanthan ; cement ; crystallization ; nacre ; reservoir ; electrocrystallization ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Borate crystals are attractive for different technological applications because of their favorable physical and chemical properties like stability and high transparency, both high thermal and non-linear optical coefficients, making them ideal active media for highly efficient solid state lasers. In this Special Issue, different aspects of multifunctional borate crystals are discussed, including ortho- and oxyorthoborates and compounds with condensed anions, as well as their nonlinear optical and laser properties and piezoelectric characteristics. For this reason, complex investigations of the phase relationships in multi-component borate melts, the study of crystal growth conditions of novel high-temperature borates, and the development of the “crystallization conditions, composition, structure, and properties” concept will provide a scientific basis for growth technologies of high performance electronic and optical devices and components with a variety of industrial, medical and many other applications. In the meantime, these relationships can help to estimate the affinity of synthetic borate materials with their natural prototypes and structural analogues.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; KABO ; ?-BiB3O6 ; Pockels cell ; X-ray diffraction (XRD) ; borate crystals ; rare-earth cations ; piezo-electric ringing ; planar optical waveguides ; rare-earth scandium borate ; Bi2ZnB2O7 ; crystallography ; YAl3(BO3)4 ; solid solution ; second harmonic generation ; thin film crystal growth ; multifunctional borate crystals ; optical activity ; electro-elastic properties ; optical rotatory dispersion ; epitaxial layer growth ; crystal chemistry ; inversion twin ; single crystal growth ; borates ; multifunctional materials ; NLO crystals ; rare earth spectroscopy ; luminescence ; frequency conversion ; beta barium borate ; huntite family ; crystal structure ; order–disorder ; YAB ; crystal growth ; optical material ; K2Al2B2O7 ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipped with high-resolution visible, multispectral, or thermal cameras to assess the state of ecosystems, the effect of disturbances, or the dynamics and changes within biological communities inter alia. We are now at a tipping point on the use of drones for these type of applications over natural areas. UAV missions are increasing but most of them are testing applicability. It is time now to move to frequent revisiting missions, aiding in the retrieval of important biophysical parameters in ecosystems or mapping species distributions. This Special Issue shows UAV applications contributing to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem status, threats, changes, and trends. It documents the enhancement of knowledge in ecological integrity parameters mapping, long-term ecological monitoring based on drones, mapping of alien species spread and distribution, upscaling ecological variables from drone to satellite images: methods and approaches, rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones, mapping albedo with UAVs, wildlife tracking, bird colony and chimpanzee nest mapping, habitat mapping and monitoring, and a review on drones for conservation in protected areas.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Pinus nigra ; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) ; biological conservation ; precision ; flight altitude ; accuracy ; multiscale approach ; low-cost UAV ; LTER ; small UAV ; ecological monitoring ; Sequoia ; long-term monitoring ; albedo ; image processing ; vegetation indices ; Tanzania ; ground-truth ; Sentinel-2 ; biodiversity threats ; field experiments ; effective management ; great apes ; drone ; ecological integrity ; multispectral ; rice crops ; conservation ; protected areas ; survey ; response surface ; aerial survey ; bird censuses ; multispectral mapping ; drones ; UAS ; hyperspectral ; UAV ; random forest ; Pinus sylvestris ; NDVI ; UAVs ; Parrot Sequoia ; supervised classification ; drone mapping ; RPAS ; greenness index ; image resolution ; Plegadis falcinellus ; Motus ; biodiversity ; Landsat 8 ; Sentinel ; boreal forest ; phenology ; LTSER ; western swamphen ; Parrot SEQUOIA ; native grassland ; forêt Montmorency ; drought ; forest regeneration ; radio-tracking ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Electrochemical energy storage is becoming essential for portable electronics, electrified transportation, integration of intermittent renewable energy into grids, and many other energy and power applications. The electrode materials and their structures, in addition to the electrolytes, play key roles in supporting a multitude of coupled physicochemical processes that include electronic, ionic, and diffusive transport in electrode and electrolyte phases, electrochemical reactions and material phase changes, as well as mechanical and thermal stresses, thus determining the storage energy density and power density, conversion efficiency, performance lifetime, and system cost and safety. Different material chemistries and multiscale porous structures are being investigated for high performance and low cost. The aim of this Special Issue is to report the recent advances in materials used in electrochemical energy storage that encompass supercapacitors and rechargeable batteries.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; lithium ion batteries ; microstructure ; zinc sulfide ; material index ; solid-state complexation method ; submicron powder ; X-ray diffraction ; vertical graphene ; garnet ; electrochemical energy storage ; biotemplate ; nanotubes ; cathode material ; Cr3+/Cr6+ redox pairs ; mechanical stability ; cathode materials ; supercapacitors ; electrochemical properties ; Co-doping ; elasto-plastic stress ; inductively-coupled plasma ; water ; voltage decay ; Mn3O4 ; thermal annealing ; parametric analysis ; solid-state batteries ; pulse power storage ; cycling performance ; energy storage and conversion ; anode material ; carbon nanostructures ; Li ion battery ; electrode materials ; Li2MoO3 ; lithium-ion conductivity ; lithium-ion batteries ; voltage attenuation ; methanol ; specific capacity ; lithium-ion battery ; sulfidation ; solid-state electrolyte ; lithium-rich layered oxide ; Li-rich layered oxide ; carbon microfibers ; specific capacitance ; nanostructure ; green synthesis route ; 0.5Li2MnO3·0.5LiMn0.8Ni0.1Co0.1O2 ; ZIF-67 ; co-precipitation method ; high-rate supercapacitor ; LiFePO4/C composite ; AC filtering ; sol–gel method ; electrochemical performance ; cross-linked carbon nanofiber ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Photovoltaic solar energy technology (PV) has been developing rapidly in the past decades, leading to a multi-billion-dollar global market. It is of paramount importance that PV systems function properly, which requires the generation of expected energy both for small-scale systems that consist of a few solar modules and for very large-scale systems containing millions of modules. This book increases the understanding of the issues relevant to PV system design and correlated performance; moreover, it contains research from scholars across the globe in the fields of data analysis and data mapping for the optimal performance of PV systems, faults analysis, various causes for energy loss, and design and integration issues. The chapters in this book demonstrate the importance of designing and properly monitoring photovoltaic systems in the field in order to ensure continued good performance.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; QC1-999 ; fault diagnosis ; modeling ; simulation ; fault tree analysis ; photovoltaic system ; Bartlett’s test ; metaheuristic ; population density ; spatial analyses ; AC parameters ; parameter estimation ; fiber reinforced polymeric plastic (FRP) ; Hartigan’s dip test ; energy ; image processing ; real data ; photovoltaic (PV) systems monitoring ; forecast ; photovoltaic plants ; system ; graphical malfunction detection ; defects ; STATCOM ; photo-generated current ; performance analysis ; photovoltaic module performance ; solar energy ; urban context ; thermal interaction ; underdamped oscillation ; reliability ; membership algorithm ; photovoltaic systems ; availability ; fuzzy logic controller ; ANOVA ; solar farm ; energy yield ; cluster analysis ; photovoltaics ; annual yield ; residential buildings ; PV array ; PV system ; dc-dc converter ; quasi-opposition based learning ; grid-connected ; performance ratio ; organic soiling ; vegetated/green roof ; conventional roof membrane ; UV-fluorescence imaging ; PV thermal performance ; PV systems ; failure mode and effect analysis ; ageing and degradation of PV-modules ; sheet molding compound FRP ; Jarque-Bera’s test ; Tukey’s test ; technical costs ; Kruskal-Wallis’ test ; improved cuckoo search algorithm ; PV energy performance ; pultruded FRP ; cracks ; maximum power point tracking (MPPT) ; structural design ; software development ; floating PV generation structure ; malfunction detection ; modules ; photovoltaic performance ; maximum power point ; GIS ; impedance spectroscopy ; floating PV systems (FPV) ; solar cells ; Renewable Energy ; loss analysis ; shade resilience ; Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) ; failure detection ; optimization problem ; failure rates ; FCM algorithm ; stability analysis ; reactive power support ; mooring system ; buck converter ; Mood’s Median test ; photovoltaic modeling ; module architecture ; PV module ; data analysis ; partial shading ; opposition-based learning ; silicon ; floating PV module (FPVM) ; electroluminescence ; urban compactness ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: ""Structural Control"" remains a crucial point that frequently lacks in any scientific and/or economic analysis of ore deposits, whatever their type and class. The case of lode deposits is exemplary, although also other deposits, like breccia pipe, stockwerk, massive sulphides, skarn, etc., can, surprisingly, be concerned. Several concepts like the gold-bearing shear zone have not proven valid during the last few decades in terms of our understanding of gold deposit and have been totally abandoned. Additionally, the relationships between magmatism, regional tectonic context, and mineralization remain uncertain and have been debated in several recent publications. This demonstrates that this issue is still relevant, and its solution may help in the distinction between intrusion-related and orogenic deposits. In this Special Issue, we particularly invite any case study of mineral deposits, in which it has been demonstrated that structural geology may have a significant role in the establishment of the deposit model of formation and/or on exploration and exploitation programs. Examples in which the structural model diverges from those described in the classical literature are particularly welcomed, including studies in which relationships with magmatism can be suspected and/or demonstrated. Indeed, all cases that illustrate concepts that differ from the classic ones and from theoretical models may represent significant contributions to this volume.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; shallow diagenesis ; arsenopyrite ; buffer-based analysis ; vein-filling ; textures ; hydrothermal breccia ; Pyrenean Axial Zone ; Tibet ; remobilization ; pull-apart ; spatial analysis ; tectonic control ; thrust fault ; silicic large igneous province ; hinge trap ; hydraulic breccia ; vein ; exploration ; mafic dikes ; Tiegelongnan ; orogenic gold mineralization ; porphyry ; base metal massive sulfide deposits ; overprinting ; deformation bands ; clay authigenesis ; fractal ; uranium deposits ; replacement ; sphalerite ; Tongling ; comb quartz ; strike-slip fault ; pre-existing structures ; preservation ; ignimbrite flare-ups ; dilational jogs ; Pb-Zn deposits ; deformation structure ; silicification ; SEDEX ; fault zones ; Verkhoyansk-Kolyma folded region ; decollement ; structural control ; IRGD ; Khangalas ore cluster ; infilling ; breccia ; late Variscan strike-slip faults ; data-driven model ; mineralization chronology ; shear zone ; epithermal ; structure ; Hajjar ; orogenic gold ; Kiggavik ; sulphide lenses ; Anti-Atlas ; ash-flow caldera ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extracted, or stones that have great significance in commercial terms but knowledge of their national and/or international heritage has not been well documented. In this collection of articles, we have tried to spread awareness of architectural heritage around the world, the natural stones that have been used in its construction, and the need to preserve historical quarries that once provided the source of such stones. Historical quarries are linked to regional culture and tradition. Because of the specific technical and aesthetical characteristics of heritage stones, which have lasted for centuries, these historical quarries should be preserved to be able to use the stones for the proper restoration of monuments and historical buildings to avoid negative actions that can be observed in many places in the restoration of buildings, which are some times part of World Heritage sites. The final intention of this book is to continuosly grow the interest on this fascinating subject of heritage stones.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Cheomseongdae ; building stones ; petrographic analysis ; the bay of Kotor ; quarry characterisation ; architectural heritage ; cultural heritage conservation ; ultrafast pulse laser ; archaeometry ; Sopo?ani ; marble deposits ; Guadeloupe ; architectural conservation ; multiscale roughness ; rocks characterization ; cultural stone ; restoration ; pyroclastic rock ; Duomo di Milano ; dolostone ; geological heritage ; historical and Archaeological sites ; modern principles of double-layered ventilated roofs ; heritage ; Bargiolina ; dynamic centrifuge test ; sustainability ; cultural heritage ; geoheritage ; market ; marble ; serpentinites ; Western Alps ; SEM-EDS ; Unesco World Heritage Site ; UNESCO World Heritage List ; Studenica ; kaolin ; Coimbra Formation ; eastern Caribbean ; dimension stone ; laser surface texturing ; 2016 Gyeongju Earthquake ; houses based on natural stone ; industrial minerals ; wettability properties ; fracturing pattern ; natural stone ; Gyeongju Historic Areas ; ancient seismic design technique ; Martinique ; quartzite ; site-specific ground response analysis ; stone architectural heritage ; French West Indies ; Sardinia ; quarrying ; quarries ; stone architecture heritage ; Candoglia marble ; UNESCO cultural heritage ; site characterisation ; hydrophobicity ; Chianocco marble ; conservation requirements ; management ; heritage stone ; isotopic analysis ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
    Language: English
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