Publications
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Electrochemical and Corrosion Behavior of Metallic Glasses
(2021)
Metallic glasses are multi-component metallic alloys with disordered atomic distribution
unlike their crystalline counterparts with long range periodicity in arrangement of atoms.
Metallic glasses of different compositions ...
Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
(2021)
Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this ...
Under Construction
(2021)
While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect ...
Transitioning to Responsible Consumption and Production
(2020)
Responsible Consumption and Production, the twelfth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12), calls for significant change in how we view both production and consumption norms. It is predicted that, at the current rate of ...
Transitioning to Strong Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals
(2020)
Transitioning to Strong Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals is an edited volume dedicated to current developments regarding SDG 17 “Partnerships for the Goals”. This goal contains preconditions and systemic ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Biodeterioration of Cultural Heritage
(2023)
Fungi-induced stains on paper are one of the most challenging forms of biodeterioration to study and to prevent; this is because they involve living organisms, and the ways in which fungi respond to changes in the environment ...
Optimization Problems in Transportation and Logistics
(2024)
This educational guide will help students and practitioners seeking to understand the fundamentals and practice of linear programming. The exercises contained within demonstrate how to solve classical optimization problems ...
Secret Signs of Heroines and Heroes
(2024)
Buddhist tantras in early medieval India and Nepal include many discourses on “secret signs” (chomā, mudrā, and equivalents), which a male practitioner and his female partner, or a male or female practitioner alone, use ...
Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions
(2023)
The theme is related to “Large Parks on Post-industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions”, which is expounded in the fields of landscape architecture, landscape ecology and urban planning. A worldwide ...
Toxoplasmosis
(2023)
Scientific motivation to publish this book comes from the increased interest in the study of toxoplasmosis, showed all over the world. Though the Toxoplasma gondii infection was first discovered in 1908, toxoplasmosis ...
Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Jamaica
(2022)
News media shape public opinion on social issues such as child sexual abuse (CSA), using particular language to foreground, marginalize or legitimize certain viewpoints. Given the prevalence of CSA and the impact of violence ...
Exercise Prescription in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2022)
This book has been reviewed by two (or more) external single-blind reviewers. The opinions expressed in the book do not reflect the view of the publisher. ...read more Keywords: cardiac rehabilitation, exercise prescription, ...
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being
(2022)
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being addresses critical issues of health in the context of sustainability, which need to be tackled in order to achieve Agenda 2030. Acknowledging the dramatic improvements that have ...
The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century
(2022)
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land
(2021)
Sustainable Life on Land, the fifteenth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15), calls for the protection, restoration and promotion of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. Among others, it requires societies ...
Transitioning to No Poverty
(2021)
Transitioning to No Poverty is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward ...
Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth
(2021)
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the private sector plays a key role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...
Transitioning to Gender Equality
(2021)
Gender Equality, the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), aims for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It thereby addresses all forms of violence, unpaid and unacknowledged ...
Theory of Vibrating Lifting Tools of Sugar Beet Harvesters
(2022)
The cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets (roots and haulm) is one of the most labour and energy consuming work processes in the agricultural industry. The improvement of the qualitative indicators of the sugar beet ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Life below Water
(2022)
The ocean plays a central role in the life and development of human kind. Besides space for navigation and trade (roughly 10 billion tons of commodities are transported across the oceans each year), the provision of ...
Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation
(2021)
Transitioning is a key concept for innovative management in several domains, particularly the challenges emerging from climate change. Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation will, thus, contribute to an understanding ...
Advances in Aquatic Invertebrate Stem Cell Research
(2022)
This publication is based upon work from COST Action ’16203 MARISTEM Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications’, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and ...
Transitioning to Climate Action
(2025)
Given all insight from climate science, it has become obvious that the only viable path forward is transitioning to an economy that lives off our planet’s regeneration, rather than its liquidation. We now need to start ...
Perspectives on Gender Equality
(2025)
This edited volume examines the current representations of gender equality from a global perspective, alongside the themes of human rights and human development, while searching for an answer to the following question: How ...
Sustainable Business, Management, and Economics
(2017)
In the globalised world of the 21st century, expectations associated with corporate responsibility and its derivatives, corporate responsiveness, corporate performance, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, and ...
Toward a Sustainable Agriculture
(2017)
Globally, the agri-food sector has a major role to play in ensuring food security and economic development, especially for lower-income countries. In the increasingly demanding context of environmental risk, exacerbated ...
Dysbiosis of the Evolved Intestinal Microbiome
(2025)
While it is clearly recognised that many non-communicable disorders are related to a disturbed microbiome (commonly called dysbiosis, a shortened term for microbiome failure: dysmicrobiosis), there is an absence of widely ...
Sustainable Logistics Services of Food Provisions on Merchant Ships
(2025)
In the context of the maritime industry, sustainable logistics for ship provisioning represents an underexplored yet critical area for innovation and development. Existing literature predominantly focuses on general logistics ...
The Ocean of Heroes
(2022)
The Śrīḍākārṇavamahāyoginītantrarāja (abbreviated to Ḍākārṇava, “Ocean of Ḍākas or Heroes”) is one of the last scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition in South Asia. It was composed in the eastern area of ...
Bionanotechnology to Save the Environment
(2019)
Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating atoms and molecules in the nanoscale thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. The world market for products that contain nanomaterials is expected to increase ...
Higher Education and Innovation
(2021)
This book highlights the design of an educational module for an innovative intensive program. The theme is very relevant in the contemporary approach to teaching activities. In fact, thanks to the didactic design, it is ...
Smart Textiles Production
(2019)
The research field of smart textiles is currently witnessing a rapidly growing number of applications integrating intelligent functions in textile substrates. With an increasing amount of new developed product prototypes, ...
Advanced Memristor Modeling
(2019)
The investigation of new memory schemes, neural networks, computer systems and many other improved electronic devices is very important for future generations of electronic circuits and for their widespread application in ...
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy
(2022)
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is a collective volume which combines original contributions and review papers that address the question how the transition to clean and affordable energy can be governed. It ...
Transitioning to Zero Hunger
(2023)
In 2015, the United Nations decided to establish the goal of achieving “zero hunger” in the world by 2030 through “outcome targets” such as eliminating hunger and improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, ...
Fighting Fake Facts
(2023)
Scientific methods, known for their systematic and rigorous approaches, have yielded countless discoveries and essential technologies that enhance our lives, fostering ease, productivity, and comfort. Yet, many of these ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(2023)
In the past, sustainability was the doctrine of economics, which assumes a quality of lifeat the level allowed by the current development of civilisation. A sustainable economy(including industry) should balance economic ...
DC/AC Converters
(2025)
This monograph presents a comprehensive and structured study of DC/AC converters, focusing on the fundamental types—current source inverters (CSIs), voltage source inverters (VSIs), and resonant inverters (RIs). The book ...
Lithium-Ion Cells: Materials and Applications
(2024)
A large quantity of articles and books have been published on the designated topics. However, most of the literary sources describe the results of scientific articles on the synthesis and study of perspective materials; ...
Grey Systems Theory in Business Management: Applying Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Methods
(2025)
This book is dedicated to addressing the central challenge of making informed business decisions within an environment characterized by uncertainty, employing Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methodologies. Chapter ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations
(2023)
Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping, and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, ...
Applied Mathematics in Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity
(2023)
This textbook, Applied Mathematics in Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, was authored to provide the reader with a solid mathematical background for studying “ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity” as a supplemental ...
Principles of Neurosurgery: A Concise Text
(2024)
Neurosurgery is a vast subspecialty in medical sciences. A brief textbook covering all aspects of neurosurgery is probably rare, especially for postgraduate students, undergraduate students as well as general physicians. ...
Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Therapy of Clinically Relevant Bacteria
(2025)
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health problem of major importance, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the current antibiotic armamentarium is not sufficient to face future challenges. The antibiotic ...