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Dear colleagues, The dual pressure from the environment and the energy crisis is motivating the development of carbon-emission-free transport systems, which cover many industry sectors, such as aviation, marine, rail, and road. Continuous operation with guaranteed safety and reliability of on-board energy storage systems (ESSs) plays a pivotal rol...

In recent years, along with some ground-breaking advances made by artificial intelligence (AI) in Go, chess, video games, computer vision, natural language processing, and the analysis and prediction of protein struc- tures, the inherent barriers of traditional disciplines are gradually being broken, and a cross-discipline wave is stead- ily underw...

Dear Colleagues, Recently, one of the most contentious environmental issues has been the investigation of microplastics’ (MPs’) detrimental consequences in natural and water resources worldwide. In this regard, it is critical to, firstly, track the ways in which MPs are considered as key anthropocentric pollutants in terms of ecological risk and t...

Chronic diseases continue to globally represent the top cause of death. Although their aetiology is diverse, anthropogens (including factors related to modern lifestyles or behaviours) are considered common risk factors for meta-inflammation and activation of the inflammatory-oxidative cascade involved in the development and progression of many chr...

Why different national governments have different policies regarding globalization? This is an important research topic of government and economics. In the paper, I analyze how different income groups have different attitudes towards globalization; and how such attitudes shape government policy. A standard example is that more openness in trade b...

We would like to invite you about potentially contributing to Research Topic “Atmospheric Pollution and Air Quality Studies” in the Sustainability Journal and we would appreciate your participation to publish your articles. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or would need an extension. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/susta...

Effects of forced oscillations (FOs) in well-damped power systems are relatively smaller than those of microgrids (MGs) in which the severity of the FOs may be intensified by converter interfaced generators (CIGs). According to the distinct system characteristics, the FOs in MGs will be challenging problems in future research topics. Without proper...

Metamaterials are a recent development in electromagnetics that have immense potential applications. Metamaterial absorbers are a class of metamaterial structures that can absorb all incident electromagnetic radiation. Terahertz metamaterial absorbers operate in the terahertz band. The terahertz band is not as thoroughly explored as the microwave a...

A few researchers have utilised leaderboards, a prevalent gamified element, in education to facilitate students' learning. Nevertheless, no existing review was identified to provide a comprehensive overview regarding the use of leaderboards within education. To address this gap, this systematic review examined the design, implementation, and effect...

Deadline extension to August to submit manuscripts on how various antimicrobial agents could act synergistically to overcome an antibiotic resistance mechanisms Led by Drs. Javier Garza Cervantes and Angel León-Buitimea See more 👉 https://fro.ntiers.in/RVmt

During the service life of a given structure, both the initial and long-term costs are added together to provide the total cost of the bridge, resulting in a complete bridge life-cycle cost analysis (BLCCA). Historically, BLCCA has been used to select maintenance strategies but not to perform a comprehensive life-cycle cost profile (LCCP) selection...

The OECD Halden Reactor Project (HRP) obtained a basic principles integral pressurised water reactor (iPWR) simulator in 2019. Three instances of the simulator were installed in the HRP Futurelab as a multi-unit small modular reactor (SMR) control room concept. A small study was conducted in 2019 to determine whether the basic principles simulator...

This timely book will guide researchers on how to apply qualitative research methods to explore English Medium Instruction (EMI) research topics such as classroom interaction, teachers’ and students’ perceptions on language and pedagogical challenges, and stakeholders’ views on the implementation of EMI. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of...

As popular actuators, sensors and transducers, piezoelectric materials generate electric charges when applied to forces, and inversely generate forces/displacements undergoing input voltages. Such direct and inverse piezoelectric effects exhibit high electromechanical conversion efficiency, nano-level resolutions and large blocking forces with a co...

Improper disposal of waste plastic has led to a growing number of environmental problems. Thermal pyrolysis is a promising method for valorizing waste plastic and obtaining value-added fuels. Waste plastic pyrolysis fuels are substitutes for fossil fuels. Operating conditions, e.g., temperature, residence time, heating rate, etc., have complex effe...

Photon Qudit: W swobodnej przestrzeni foton posiada dwa spinowe stopnie swobody, co oznacza że jest idealnym kubitem lotnym. Ze względu na charakter oddziaływania fotonu z materią źródła, modulatora i detektora, foton może teoretycznie łatwo przekazywać stan kwantowy kubitowi stacjonarnemu. Co umożliwia konkatenację kanału kwantowego. Kudit fotonow...

The field of dentistry is incredibly vast, with a seemingly endless array of research topics to choose from. In this book, author has compiled a list of 500+ research topics that are the most promising and relevant in today's dental landscape, with a particular focus on identifying knowledge and clinical gaps. The aim in creating this book is to p...

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has a pivotal role in smart manufacturing for strict requirements of human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. However, existing HRC development mainly undertakes either a human-dominant or robot-dominant manner, where human and robotic agents reactively perform operations by following pre-defined instruction...

Cell tracking is currently a powerful tool in a variety of biomedical research topics. Most cell tracking algorithms follow the tracking by detection paradigm. Detection is critical for subsequent tracking. Unfortunately, very accurate detection is not easy due to many factors like densely populated, low contrast, and possible impurities included....

Surface barriers to mass transfer in various nanoporous materials have been increasingly identified. These past few years especially, a significant impact on catalysis and separations has come to light. Broadly speaking, there are two types of barriers: internal barriers, which affect intraparticle diffusion, and external barriers, which determine...

Halal tourism is a rapidly expanding niche that is increasing at an alarming rate. The investigation of the needs, interests, and behavior of Muslim travelers is a professional priority. This is a general literature review aimed at illuminating how the practice and characteristics of halal tourism are described in the current literature. The study...

This study focuses on the performance analysis of the 3D printing process using cementitious material on equipment installed at the Structures Laboratory (LabEst-UnB) of the University of Brasilia. A research direction was defined for the 3D printing with the aim of identifying which steps need to be further developed and which improvements should...

Heart failure is not only a global problem but also significantly limits the life prospects of these patients. The epidemiology and presentation of heart failure are intensively researched topics in cardiology. The risk factors leading to heart failure are well known; however, the real challenge is to provide effective treatments. A vicious cycle d...

Lifelong learning offers a promising paradigm of building a generalist agent that learns and adapts over its lifespan. Unlike traditional lifelong learning problems in image and text domains, which primarily involve the transfer of declarative knowledge of entities and concepts, lifelong learning in decision-making (LLDM) also necessitates the tran...

Scholarly attention to social innovation has increased rapidly in recent years, but a broad picture to illustrate the structure of the field, tracing its evolution and identifying new research areas has been lacking. Thus, we conduct a three-step method to explore the trajectory of academic research on social innovation and identify potential resea...

This is the full ebook of our Research Topic on "Big Data and Machine Learning in Sociology", published in "Frontiers in Sociology". It contains 10 articles from several authors and our editorial. Further information on the Research Topic and the articles is available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/23160/big-data-and-machine-lea...

This research aims to build generative language models specialized for the legal domain. The manuscript presents the development of LexGPT models based on GPT-J models and pre-trained with Pile of Law. The foundation model built in this manuscript is the initial step for the development of future applications in the legal domain, such as further tr...

Agricultural businesses operate in a complex and dynamic environment, with many challenges and opportunities. It is therefore essential for these businesses to have a strategic plan. It is a critical process that helps businesses navigate in a complex and uncertain environment and achieve long-term goals and objectives. In this article, we have con...

Condition monitoring and failure prediction for wind turbines currently comprise a hot research topic. This follows from the fact that investments in the wind energy sector have increased dramatically due to the transition to renewable energy production. This paper reviews and implements several techniques from state-of-the-art research on conditio...

The purpose of this study is to find a picture of a stable financial system from the perspective of the Islamic economy. This type of research is literature research with qualitative methods using normative, historical, and phenomenological approaches. The normative approach is used to explain the concepts of Islamic economics. The historical appro...

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a popular research topic in human-computer interaction (HCI). As edge devices are rapidly springing up, applying SER to edge devices is promising for a huge number of HCI applications. Although deep learning has been investigated to improve the performance of SER by training complex models, the memory space...

Greetings to all! Congratulations for another successful publication of the Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This year marks the 42nd publication and I would like to commend the editorial team, spearheaded by Dr. José Florencio F. Lapeña Jr., and all the authors for their hard work and outstanding performance in this jour...

Non-enzymatic sensors with the capability of long-term stability and low cost are promising in glucose monitoring applications. Boronic acid (BA) derivatives offer a reversible and covalent binding mechanism for glucose recognition, which enables continuous glucose monitoring and responsive insulin release. To improve selectivity to glucose, a dibo...

Teaching the nation(s): A duoethnography on affect and citizenship in a content-based EAP program. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi. Contrary to many people's predictions, the concept of nation/national identity has returned to the forefront of the contemporary political scene. This article is part of a special issue of TESOL Quarterly focused on the t...

Multicenter studies in pediatric cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) improve statistical power and generalizability. However, a structured process for identifying important research topics has not been developed. We aimed to (1) develop a list of high priority knowledge gaps, and (2) pilot the use of a wiki survey to collect a large group of re...

Chinese scholars’ performance in international academic community and research on foreign archaeology has brought hot discussion about the internationalization of Chinese archaeology. Based on the databases of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and the Web of Science core collection (WoS), this paper collected archaeology-related pa...

This Research Topic, Inequalities in COVID-19 Healthcare and Research Affecting Women, presents a rich collection of articles from all over, including Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe. The Topic is a compilation of various articles addressing diverse topics such as gender gaps, violence against women, gender bias in research, post...

With the rapid development of China's social economy and the rise of agricultural industrialization, the problem of agricultural non-point source pollution is becoming increasingly prominent. Reducing nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in agricultural runoff is the key to control agricultural non-point source pollution, and it is also a hot research...

Implementing efficient solid waste management practices is paramount in safeguarding the long-term viability of our planet's natural resources and ecosystems. In addition, it represents a reasonable approach to future management decisions. This study aims to analyse the trend of solid waste management research publications in the Scopus and Web of...

Evidence-based practice provides the foundation for high quality patient care, and in the NHS, research is seen as vital to enable service transformation and improve outcomes. Research is one of the four pillars of enhanced and advanced clinical practice and is therefore a fundamental part of podiatric surgery services. In order to meet the UK heal...

Robotic Information Gathering (RIG) is a foundational research topic that answers how a robot (team) collects informative data to efficiently build an accurate model of an unknown target function under robot embodiment constraints. RIG has many applications, including but not limited to autonomous exploration and mapping, 3D reconstruction or inspe...

Although the concept of globalization gained momentum, especially in the 1980s, after the great economic crises, it is actually an old phenomenon. It has not only economic impact, but also political, cultural and social impacts. It is necessary to deal with the concept in question in a dynamic process. In this direction, the relationship and reflec...

To better solve the problems of water environment degradation and water shortage caused by urbanization, sponge cities have become a hot research topic. How to evaluate the effect of sponge facilities on runoff and pollution control and conduct benefit analysis is an urgent problem. In this paper, we simulate the runoff control, SS and COD control...

We investigate the 36-year history of research published in the journal Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA), to uncover trends over time in the research topics and themes covered as well as in authorship, co-authorship, and institutional affiliation. Our analysis includes three different approaches. First, we conduct a content analys...

Radioactive waste generated in nuclear energy utilization poses great environmental risks, and the safe disposal technology has become a hot research topic in the field of nuclear environmental security. Immobilization is a common radioactive waste disposal technique, and the leaching resistance of the solidified body is the key to safe disposal. I...

Sample size calculation for spatial transcriptomics is a novel and understudied research topic. Prior publications focused on powering spatial transcriptomics studies to detect specific cell populations or spatially variable expression patterns on tissue slides. However, power calculations for translational or clinical studies often relate to the d...

The digital mobilization of regional social and political interactions remains a relevant research topic. It provides obvious research innovations, new digital research algorithms, and non-trivial solutions, as well as an effective n-code measurement tool. Digital freedom means availability of network tools and services, where ordinary users can be...

Although numerous scientific publications present the efficacy of various pest control options and their role in an IPM program, there is a dearth of peer-reviewed publications that offer comprehensive solutions for various pests of a crop or a particular pest that attacks multiple crops before or after harvest. In this Research Topic, we invited r...

Background Motor development plays an important role in human development throughout the lifespans, from conception to death, and has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. However, valuable comprehensive reviews and literature analysis on this topic are still lacking. Here, this bibliometric study aimed to identify global motor d...

In this work, machine learning (ML) applications in lignocellulosic bioethanol production were reviewed. First, the pretreatment-hydrolysis-fermentation route, the most commonly studied alternative, was summarized. Next, a bibliometric analysis was performed to identify the current trends in the field; it was found that ML applications in the field...

The presentation "Tips and Tricks for Doctoral Students" gives prospective doctoral students in business administration helpful advice for their doctoral studies. It covers important topics such as choosing a research topic, working with your supervisor, time management and organisation, publications and conferences, networking and defending your t...

Editorial: Causative mechanism and potential pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in sepsis-associated encephalopathy. KEYWORDS sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE), special populations, immune imbalance, microbiota-gut-brain axis, Treg cell Editorial on the Research Topic Causative mechanism and potential pharmacological and non...

The idea of attending conferences in our specialty is defeated if the demands are not met. Hence, the authors have tried to sum up the feedback after attending such conferences to give future organizers an insight into the same and ways to rectify the pitfalls by giving guidelines to amend them.

Recently, it has been observed that people are shifting away from traditional news media sources towards trusting social networks to gather news information. Social networks have become the primary news source, although the validity and reliability of the information provided are uncertain. Memes are crucial content types that are very popular amon...

Different reproductive biotechnologies have been applied to sheep, such as cloning, which has been successfully applied in this species. In this context, the aim of the present study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on cloning applied to sheep reproduction, since the first report was published, to identify the m...

Point cloud sampling is a less explored research topic for this data representation. The most common sampling methods nowadays are still classical random sampling and farthest point sampling. With the development of neural networks, various methods have been proposed to sample point clouds in a task-based learning manner. However, these methods are...

Esports - games played competitively - comprise a major sector of the global games industry. Esports has been used as a testbed for game AI and game analytics for two decades. This article presents a multivocal literature mapping of available research that focuses strictly on the use of artificial intelligence approaches in Multiplayer Online Battl...

Sepsis remains a leading cause of human death and currently has no pathogenesis-specific therapy. Hampered progress is partly due to a lack of insight into deep mechanistic processes. In the last decade, deciphering the functions of small non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs) in sepsis pathogenesis became a dynamic research topic. To screen for new miRNA t...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents one of the fastest growing areas of knowledge, sectors and fields of action globally. This growth has allowed to mark different positions, where the most favorable ones are oriented to its unquestionable contribution to facilitate decision making in various fields of society, as well as other sectors that mar...

p>A quick, reliable, and accurate fault location approach is essential in underground power systems protection. Being the most optimistic research topic of electrical power systems, this article presents an optimized algorithm for fault location in multi-end underground cables using travelling waves. Existing algorithms based on wavelet theory have...

This study aimed to analyze bibliographies of journals, authors, and research topics on shadow education using the Scopus database. Bibliometric analysis focuses on the metadata of journals, authors, and topics, visualized, and analyzed to produce a road map, research trends, and future agenda. The data were obtained from 207 articles published on...

The writings in this volume were written between 2013 and 2022. Some of my favourite research topics appear here: the Hungarian Reformation, the early period of the Reformed Church, school history, Neo-Latin literature, peregrination, Hungarian-German intellectual relations. The volume begins with writings on the study of Hungarian and Transylvania...

The personalization of autonomous vehicles or advanced driver assistance systems has been a widely researched topic, with many proposals aiming to achieve human-like or driver-imitating methods. However, these approaches rely on an implicit assumption that all drivers prefer the vehicle to drive like themselves, which may not hold true for all driv...

In line with current approaches to competency-based learning, the purpose of active learning should respond to the students' ability to apply cognitive skills related to the search for, synthesis and critical analysis of information, and problem solving (creative thinking). By posing problems related to the students' previous experience and interes...

Background In recent years, new therapeutic options to overcome the mechanisms of tumor immune suppression be effective in the treatment of cutaneous melanoma. These approaches have also been applied in ocular melanoma. The aim of this study is to present the current status and research hotspots of immunotherapy for ocular melanoma from a bibliomet...

The growth in population and the higher need for aquatic products make the aquaculture industry the world’s fastest-growing food industry. With its rapid development, production is facing various challenges to achieve sustainability and cost-effectiveness. Some obstacles in production are related to the design of mariculture cages, automatization,...

Since authors intend to publish their academic research in reputable journals, promoting their research significance is pivotal to convincing journal gatekeepers for accepting their research articles (RAs). However, studies on research promotion within RAs are still limited, and none has comparatively studied this essential issue in English RAs pub...

If the construction of the ngVLA begins in 2026, its sensitivity is expected to match that of the VLA by late 2029. At that juncture it is anticipated that open-skies observing will cease on the VLA and commence on the ngVLA. We suggest that during 2026-2029 the VLA be held in a customized final configuration encompassing portions of its standard A...

Information retrieval systems help filter information, so that the process of finding suitable information becomes fast and precise, but there are ways to find more effectively and efficiently with Information retrieval systems using bibliometric methods with the VOSviewer application. The research objectives are to map the trends of research resul...

Organic-rich shales that were used to be the source of conventional petroleum reservoirs are nowadays acting as suppliers for commercial hydrocarbon production. Although a great deal of knowledge has been gained on these rocks in the past decades, how to identify the spatiotemporal distribution of high-quality shales yet remains to be decoded by pe...

In recent years, negative group delay circuits have attracted much attention due to their propagation characteristics and wide application prospects. In the history of human exploration, the exploration of the speed of light has never stopped. The theory of relativity points out that the speed of light in vacuum is the limit speed of signal propaga...

This book examines the problem of modern Chinese digital authoritarianism, as well as the key global process of modern development, covering various areas of public life. The characteristic features of the global and regional trends in the digitalization of society are identified and described, which modernize the task of adapting political regimes...

Background: In recent years, the impact of bacterial biofilms on traumatic wounds and the means to combat them have become a major research topic in the field of medicine. The eradication of biofilms formed by bacterial infections in wounds has always been a huge challenge. Herein, we developed a hydrogel with the active ingredient berberine hydroc...

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to analyze the Industry 5.0 concept and compare it with Industry 4.0. Design/methodology/approach: Critical literature analysis. Analysis of international literature from main databases and polish literature and legal acts connecting with researched topic. Findings: Industry 5.0 offers several benefits that make it...

The demand for energy has increased tremendously around the whole world due to rapid urbanization and booming industrialization. Energy is the major key to achieving an improved social life, but energy production and utilization processes are the main contributors to environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigation of the energy cri...

Citation: Peng, J.; Liu, H.; Tang, J.; Peng, C.; Yang, X.; Deng, M.; Xu, Y. Exploring Crowd Travel Demands Based on the Characteristics of Spatiotemporal Interaction between Urban Functional Zones. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2023, 12, 225. https:// Abstract: As a hot research topic in urban geography, spatiotemporal interaction analysis has been used t...