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Recent Development and Emerging Trends in Dental Implants submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: dental implants; oral cancer; reconstruction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)
Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Soil
edited by Wei Xiong, Zhuang Cheng and Mengmeng Wu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open
Keywords: granular soils; soil mechanics; mechanical behaviour; micro-structures and micro-morphologies; computational geomechanics; modelling and simulation of geomaterials; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Application of Molecular Biology in Parasitology submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open
Keywords: molecular diagnostics; parasitic infections; genotyping; molecular epidemiology; parasite detection; environmental parasitology; food safety; host– parasite interactions; genomics and transcriptomics; molecular techniques in parasitology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Disaster Prevention and Control of Underground and Tunnel Engineering
edited by Nengxiong Xu and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open
Keywords: underground space development; underground energy storage facility; poor geological conditions underground; conventional energy extraction; unconventional energy extraction; geotechnical problems; engineering geological issues
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Natural Products in Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open
Keywords: lncRNAs; autophagy; cancer; natural compounds; vitamins; antioxidants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Sustainable Recovery of Bioactive Compounds from Food Industry By-Products
edited by Gloria Domínguez-Rodríguez, and Stefania Pagliari
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced extractions; green chemistry; food by-products; sustainability; bioactive compounds; green solvents; human health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
New Insights into Construction Materials: Greener, Smarter and Stronger
edited by , Afroditi Ntziouni and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: functional properties; durability of building materials; (ultra) high-performance concrete materials and structures; multifunctional/smart concrete; green concrete; incorporation of recycled materials; nanotechnology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Their Applications
edited by Jianquan Wang, , Zhangchao Ma and Qu Wang
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open
Keywords: data driven; real-time reliable networks; AI empowerment; digital twin; green manufacturing; low-carbon technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
Novel Applications of Machine Learning and Bayesian Optimization, 2nd Edition
edited by Glenn Hawe and Aidan D. Meade
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; large language models; Bayesian optimization; applied sciences; healthcare; materials science; environmental science; predictive modelling; data-driven design; anomaly detection; classification; regression
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Advanced Design and Control Methods for Magnetic Levitation Systems
edited by Zhizhou Zhang and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: magnetic bearings; maglev train; magnetic levitation motor; magnetic levitation vibration isolation platform; magnetic levitation flywheel
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Advances in Applied Geophysics for Environmental Monitoring and Cultural Heritage submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open
Keywords: applied geophysics; cultural heritage preservation; environmental monitoring; non-invasive investigation techniques; geophysical data integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Biomechanics in Human and Animal Movement submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open
Keywords: human biomechanics; animal biomechanics; locomotion; gait analysis; motion capture; sports performance; injury prevention; rehabilitation; sensors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Data-Driven Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital twin; smart manufacturing; Industry 4.0; industrial engineering; data-driven modelling; predictive maintenance; cyber– physical systems; industrial IoT; process optimization; condition monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
Quality, Safety, and Functional Properties of Meat and Meat Products
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open
Keywords: meat quality; functional properties; food safety; meat processing; shelf-life extension; bioactive compounds in meat and meat products; sensory evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Enhancing Concrete Sustainability: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Greener Concrete
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open
Keywords: concrete; sustainability; innovative cements and supplementary cementitious materials for concrete; innovative concrete aggregates; self-healing concrete; circular economy; waste materials and by-products; sustainability assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
New Technologies for Water Quality: Treatment and Monitoring
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality; advanced treatment technologies; real-time monitoring; emerging contaminants; smart sensors; nanotechnology; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
Innovative Remote Sensing Technologies in Precision Agriculture submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence algorithms; yield estimation; biochemical and biophysical parameters estimation; soil condition monitoring; vegetation remote sensing product validation; commercial crops; grass; and other crops
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
Recent Advances in Functional Nanomaterials: Discovery, Characterization and Applications submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanostructures; density functional theory; synthesis; semiconductors; optical and solar cells materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
Advanced Dielectric Materials for Multifunctional Energy Storage Applications
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open
Keywords: structure– property relationships; multifunctionality; interface engineering; scalable processing methods for next-generation energy storage technologies and their practical integration into devices
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Application of Natural Components in Food Production, 2nd Edition submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open
Keywords: planetary diet; nutritional patterns; plants; human nutrition; diet-related diseases; food packaging; green chemistry; biopolymers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
Perspectives in Dynamic Modeling and Control: Applications to Structural Engineering
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-performance structures; dynamic modeling; structural control; non-linear models; structural thermodynamic control; active dynamic control
Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials: Recent Advances and Prospects
edited by Randall Scott Williamson
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: patient-specific treatments; bioprinting; surgical planning and training; drug delivery systems; advanced smart materials; auxetic structures; 4D; 5D; and 6D printing; regulartory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Innovative Biomechanical Methods for Practical Locomotive Assessments
edited by and Hiroaki Kawamoto
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomechanics; artificial intelligence; locomotive assessment; motion capture; knee osteoarthritis; fall risk; foot pressure; wearable sensors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
State-of-the-Art Earth Sciences and Geography in China
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 28 articles | Viewed by 55635 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Advances in Civil Infrastructures Engineering
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 18 articles | Viewed by 45589 | Submission Open
Keywords: airfields; artificial intelligence; bridges; buildings; climate changes; dams; decarbonization; environment; extreme events; geotechnics; materials; pavements; railways; research; resilience; roads; society; sustainability; sustainable development goals; transport infrastructures; tunnels
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
State-of-the-Art Agricultural Science and Technology in China
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 31982 | Submission Open
Keywords: crop production; crop protection; food sciences and food technology; agricultural statistics; agricultural biotechnology; protected agriculture; agricultural machinery; bioinformatics; farm structure; farm power and machinery; irrigation and drainage; engineering of land and water resources; aquaculture and fisheries; renewable energy; agro-industrial engineering; horticultural and greenhouse engineering; pre- and post-harvest engineering; environment and agricultural information technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
Measurement and Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 27508 | Submission Open
Keywords: radioactivity measuring; radioactivity sources; radiological monitoring; environmental and health impacts of radioactivity radioactive contamination
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
Multi-Objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications
edited by Douglas Alexandre Gomes Vieira and Lisboa Adriano Chaves
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19568 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-objective optimization; decision making; deterministic optimization; combinatorial optimization; linear optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Resource Utilization of Agricultural Wastes
edited by , Selma Etteieb and Moncef Chouaibi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18074 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial and agricultural residues; biotechnology; environmental chemistry; bioprocess engineering; bioenergy; bioplastics; biopolymers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
Applied Electronics and Functional Materials
edited by and Vitas Valincius
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14913 | Submission Open
Keywords: applied electronics; functional materials; interdisciplinary research; optoelectronics; sensors; energy harvesting; wearable technology; advanced fabrication techniques; hybrid materials; device integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing
edited by Asad Abdi and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14449 | Submission Open
Keywords: automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; sentiment analysis; machine translation; voice user interfaces; speech-to-text; text-to-speech; dialogue systems; conversational AI; spoken language understanding; language modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Feature Review Papers in ‘Transportation and Future Mobility’ Section
edited by David Fernández-Llorca, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 14435 | Submission Open
Keywords: transportation; traffic; future mobility
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Novel Insights into Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14132 | Submission Open
Keywords: rock mechanics; mechanical properties; deformation and fracture; constitutive model; laboratory test; theoretical analysis; numerical simulation; geotechnical engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Intelligent Logistics and Supply Chain Systems submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13303 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart logistics; E-supply chains; ICT systems; risk management; supply chain network design; green logistics; data analytics; demand forecasting; inventory management; innovation; lean and agile; TQM; sustainability; IoT; big data and robotics; planning and scheduling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
Empowering Interactions: Advancing Human-Centred AI for Transparent, Collaborative and Accessible Applications
edited by Ioannis Doumanis and Daphne Economou
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12713 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI transparency; human– AI collaboration; user experience optimization; public health AI applications; cognitive AI modelling; trust and security in AI; AI accessibility; AI in governance; child-friendly interface design; biometric AI analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Infrastructure Resilience Analysis
edited by Jianfeng Zhao, Henry Liu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11111 | Submission Open
Keywords: taxonomy; performance measures; frameworks; optimization approaches; risks and uncertainties; case studies; socio-economic impacts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Advances in Acoustic Emission Technique: Tests Interpretation and Numerical Simulations submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8426 | Submission Open
Keywords: structural health monitoring; damage; nondestructive testing; wave propagations; acoustic emission; fracture mechanics; numerical simulations; mechanics theory and modelling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
Cryptography in Data Protection and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
edited by and Chun-I Fan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7713 | Submission Open
Keywords: privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs); data protection; cryptographic protocols; multiparty computation; digital signatures; blockchain technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Recent Advances in Geochemistry
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7640 | Submission Open
Keywords: resource prospecting; element behavior and migration mechanism; ecological risk assessment; geo-health; source tracing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Advances in Powerplant Technologies for Decarbonization in Transportation and Industrial Sectors submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7582 | Submission Open
Keywords: decarbonized powertrains; fuel cells; batteries; hybridization; emission control; exhaust after-treatment systems; catalysts formulation; advanced combustion; low-carbon fuels; on-board diagnostics; CO2 capture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Earthquake Engineering: Geological Impacts and Disaster Assessment
edited by Abbas Abbaszadeh Shahri
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7551 | Submission Open
Keywords: earthquake engineering; geological impacts; disaster assessment; prediction model; computational approaches
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Communication Networks: From Technology, Methods to Applications submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7447 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical networks; wireless communication; 5G/6G technologies and applications; access; aggregation; and core networks; cloud computing; edge computing; data-center networking; network security; network optimization; machine learning and data analytics in networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Advanced Digital Design and Intelligent Manufacturing
edited by , and Ján Semjon
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7303 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced digital design; intelligent manufacturing; automation; robotics; Industry 4.0; 3D printing; sustainable manufacturing; digital twin; CNC machines; computer aided design (CAD)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Technologies and Applications submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7038 | Submission Open
Keywords: additive manufacturing; solid-state welding; impact welding processes; explosive welding; magnetic pulse welding; diffusion bonding; advanced fusion welding processes; powder metallurgy/sintering; machining; numerical modelling and simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Application of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics in Aerospace
edited by Yue Zhang and Zhenlong Wu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6316 | Submission Open
Keywords: supersonic flow; hypersonic flow; flow control; propulsion; shock wave; aerodynamics; scramjet; ramjet
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
Methods, Applications and Developments in Biomedical Informatics: 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5396 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; data mining/machine learning; clinical guidelines; decision support and therapy improvement; business process management/process mining; health data acquisition and analysis; healthcare information systems/knowledge representation/reasoning; medical imaging and pattern recognition; architectures and technologies for telehealth; medical signal and data processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
Advancing Public Transport and Urban Infrastructures for Micro-Mobility in Sustainable Cities
edited by , and Taku Fujiyama
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5287 | Submission Open
Keywords: equity; accessibility; and sustainability; service-level analysis; intermodality; and railway infrastructure; inclusive design and universal accessibility in public transport; crowd management and public space; spatial analysis of mobility and big data; the use of innovative technologies and methodologies; urban environment and mobility challenges; public policies in sustainable mobility; strategies for the promotion of public and non-motorized transport; the resilience of public transport systems and urban infrastructure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Deep Learning for Signal Processing Applications-2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5128 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning; signal processing; object detection; image reconstruction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Current Trends in Food Microbiology: Food Fermentation, Safety, and Production
edited by and Spyros Konteles
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5005 | Submission Open
Keywords: food microbiology; food fermentation; microbiome; pathogen detection; food safety; food preservation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
5th Anniversary of Aerospace Science and Engineering Section—Recent Advances in Aerospace submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4887 | Submission Open
Keywords: aircraft; engine; propulsion; aerodynamics; flight control; astrodynamics; space science; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
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