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Seismic Analysis and Design of Ocean and Underground Structures
edited by Xin Bao, and Piguang Wang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14710
Keywords: structural seismic analysis; ocean engineering; underground structure; offshore engineering; geotechnical engineering; seismic resilience of structures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
Emerging Medical Devices and Technologies
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12038
Keywords: medical device; medical technologies; regulatory medical device engineering; EU certifications; clinical trials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
Advanced Models and Algorithms for Recommender Systems
edited by Pavlos Kefalas
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10083
Keywords: recommender systems; personalization; scalability; interpretability; user privacy; cold-start problem; data heterogeneity; large language models in recommendations; deep learning in recommendations; graph neural networks; hybrid collaborative filtering; context-aware recommendations; sequential recommendations; multi-modal data integration; fairness and transparency in recommendations; real-world applications; artificial intelligence; machine learning; data science; information retrieval; algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
New Insights into Digital Rock Physics
edited by Hongyang Ni and Chengpeng Zhang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9828
Keywords: rock physics; reservoir characterization; image segmentation methods; multi-scale; pore structure; digital rock analysis; machine learning; macroscopic characterization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Advances in Cognitive Robotics and Control
edited by , Daniel Beßler and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9143
Keywords: cognitive architectures; human-robot interaction; perspective taking; cognitive robotics; artificial intelligence; situation awareness; human and social awareness; human intent/action recognition; human belief modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
New Advances in Laser Dental Science and Biophotonics submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9104
Keywords: optical coherence microscopy; biomedical imaging; biophotonics; photobiomodulation; dentistry; laser– tissue interactions; laser safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
Advances and Applications of Generative AI: Bridging Theory and Practice
edited by Samuel Cheng
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7917
Keywords: generative AI; generative models; AI technologies; applications of generative AI; generative AI systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Applications of Nanocarriers for Phytochemical Delivery
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7563
Keywords: pharmaceutical; phytochemicals; drug delivery; nanocarriers; phytochemical delivery; bioavailability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
Recent Advances in AI Convergence: Innovations at the Crossroads of Disciplines
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6876
Keywords: interdisciplinary artificial intelligence; AI-driven innovation; human– AI collaboration; domain-specific AI applications; AI convergence and integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Tuberculosis—a Millennial Disease in the Age of New Technologies
edited by Beatrice Mahler, Ioana Munteanu and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6002
Keywords: tuberculosis; public health intervention; technology; AI; diagnosis; treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
EV (Electric Vehicle) Energy Storage and Battery Management submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4142
Keywords: power electronics; energy storage systems; automotive electrification; renewable energy integration; wide-bandgap semiconductors; battery management; smart grids; sustainable technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Wireless Communication: Applications, Security and Reliability—2nd Edition
edited by , Tadeusz Wieckowski and Yevhen Yashchyshyn
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4004
Keywords: wireless communication; frequency allocation and assignment; cognitive radio; radio environment map; spectrum monitoring; sensing; channel acquisition; wideband waveforms; RF propagation; vehicular communications; platooning; spatial interpolation; inverse distance weighing; kriging; 5G; hybrid FSO/RF systems; UOWC (underwater optical wireless communication); optical transmission sources and detectors; reliability of radio communications; system availability; cryptography; cryptography; pseudo-random generators; cross-join method; cybersecurity; attack detection; graph analysis; attack graphs; risk assessment survivability; failover; high availability; efficient communications; AI; machine learning; post-quantum cryptography; SDN; NFV; cloud infrastructure; electromagnetic immunity; electromagnetic field; electromagnetic disturbance; techniques for measuring of electromagnetic immunity; immunity of IT devices on electromagnetic field; electromagnetic eavesdropping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Advanced Research on Integrated Circuits and Systems
edited by and Wenzhang Fang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3691
Keywords: logic devices; memory technologies; power elecronics; integrated circuits manufacturing; design for manufacturability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Reliability and Risk Analysis of Structures and Applications to Design and Optimization, 2nd Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3285
Keywords: structural reliability; risk analysis; reliability-based design and optimization; system reliability; complex systems; machine learning; data-driven uncertainty quantification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Advanced Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Photovoltaic Systems
edited by Alexandru-Ionel Constantin, Lucia Andreea El-Leathey, Paula Anghelita and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3020
Keywords: photovoltaic systems; monitoring system; fault detection; fault diagnosis; automatic supervision; online monitoring; real-time monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Food Quality and Characterization of Animal-Based, Plant-Based and Hybrid Products submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2428
Keywords: food quality assessment; plant-based foods; hybrid food products; animal-based foods; food sustainability; sensory evaluation; food processing innovations; consumer perception; nutritional characterization; alternative proteins
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Application of Software Engineering Techniques in Human-Computer Interactions
edited by Carlos Toxtli and Paige Rodeghero
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2343
Keywords: software engineering; human-computer interaction; user interface design; requirements engineering; user-centered design; interactive systems; software testing; agile development; design patterns; quality assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
X-ray Scattering Characterization in Materials Science
edited by Yoshiharu Sakurai
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2112
Keywords: small-/wide-angle X-ray Scattering; X-ray diffraction; X-ray total scattering; X-ray Raman scattering; resonance inelastic X-ray scattering; X-ray Compton scattering; energy materials; quantum materials; soft materials; disordered materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
Sustainable Nanomaterials for Biotechnological and Medical Applications: Current Developments submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1797
Keywords: sustainable nanomaterials; biotechnology; medicine; green synthesis; drug delivery; hyperthermia; bio-imaging; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; biosensors; environmental impact
(This special issue belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
Industrial Ecology: Sustainable Production and Environmental Solutions submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1704
Keywords: environmental impact assessment; life cycle analysis; waste minimization; water treatment; wastewater treatment; gas emission minimization; green technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
Software Engineering and Computer Science for Sustainable IoT Systems
edited by Luís Filipe dos Santos Gomes, and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1670
Keywords: Internet of Things; cyber– physical systems; embedded computing; sensor networks; energy-aware computing; distributed systems; real-time systems; sustainable IoT systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Sustainable and Low-Carbon Building Materials in Special Areas
edited by , , and Le Wang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1649
Keywords: concrete durability; sustainable materials; low-carbon building materials; low-carbon construction method; soil treatment; solid waste disposal
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Advances in Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics
edited by and Morris Riedel
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1421
Keywords: CFD; experiment; turbulent; machine learning; deep learning; Lattice Boltzmann; energy; AI-based model; simulation; prediction model; compressible; incompressible; fluid dynamics; high-performance computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Fluid Science and Technology)
Intelligent Vehicle Collaboration and Positioning
edited by Yang Li and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1396
Keywords: collaborative positioning; intelligent vehicle; vehicular networks; autonomous vehicles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Advances in Physiotherapy and Neurorehabilitation
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1240
Keywords: rehabilitation; neuromodulation; movement; recovery; exercise
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Mining-Induced Rock Strata Damage and Mine Disaster Control
edited by Yunjiang Sun, Gen Li and Guangchao Zhang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 802
Keywords: coal mining; rock strata failure and movement; mine disasters related to rock strata failure and movement; control theory and technology of overburden movement; complex stress field; key strata theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Backfill-Integrated Water-Conserving Green Mining Technology in Coal Mining
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 683
Keywords: mining; backfill; green mining technology; water-saving strategies; eco-friendly materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
Advanced Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 653
Keywords: targetted alpha therapy; radiotherapy; positron emission tomography; isotopes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
Food Contamination: Applications of Analytical Detection Methods
edited by , Agnieszka Anna Niklas and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 497
Keywords: food contact materials; food contaminants; pesticide residues; environmental contaminants; veterinary drugs residues; processing contaminants; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS); liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS); high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
PDE-Based Neural Operator Learning for Material Modeling, Fatigue, and Fracture Mechanics submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 476
Keywords: low-carbon learning; material modeling; neural operator learning; PDE-based learning; multi-phase material
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Advances of Edge Computing in Distributed Systems
edited by Ali Jalooli
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 409
Keywords: artificial intelligence at the edge; autonomous systems; blockchain in edge computing; quantum computing; distributed ledger technologies; edge– cloud integration; privacy-preserving computation; decentralized systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
New Challenges in Microbial Synthetic Biology Applications
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 393
Keywords: microorganisms; metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; bioproducts; bioremediation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
AirGuard: Advances in Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Control
edited by and Adam Gauci
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 361
Keywords: air quality; air pollution; modeling; monitoring campaigns; emission; dispersion; transboundary pollution; indoor air; ambient air; instrumentation; sensors; remote sensing; artificial intelligence; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
Thermal Performance and Energy Efficiency of Low-Embodied Carbon Building Envelopes
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 330
Keywords: embodied carbon; energy-efficient building envelope; biobased materials; optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Artificial Intelligence-Aided Technologies and Applications in Next-Generation Smart Networks
edited by Yuchao Chang, Wen Fang and Yi Zhong
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 309
Keywords: artificial intelligence for next-generation wireless networks; green intelligent communication and computing; distributed machine learning applications; image and video processing; speech and audio processing; autonomous driving; Internet-of-Things; big data; smart embedded system; optical wireless communication; wireless power transfer
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Next-Generation Concrete: Circular and Carbon-Conscious Solutions
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 118
Keywords: sustainable construction; green building; low-carbon materials; sustainable infrastructure; carbon footprint; life cycle assessment; eco-innovation; resilient materials; carbon sequestration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Recent Advances in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications in Chemistry and Materials Science
edited by and Lina Gao
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 102
Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance; structure analysis; chemistry and materials science; structure of organic compounds; structure of small drug molecules; materials science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
New Trends in the Structure Characterization of Food submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 57221 | Submission Open
Keywords: food materials and emerging technologies; ultrasound; microwave and infrared technologies; nutrients and components (biopolymers and secondary metabolites); dietary supplements and functional foods; agroindustrial waste; spectroscopy— Raman; IR; X-ray diffraction (XRD); microscopy techniques light microscopy (LM); confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM); scanning electron microscopy (SEM); transmission electron microscopy (TEM); atomic force microscopy (AFM); super-resolution microscopy saturated structured illumination microscopy (SSIM); stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED); photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM); fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM); stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Recent Advances in Pediatric Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
edited by and Mi Sun Kim
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 25623 | Submission Open
Keywords: pediatric dentistry; pediatric orthodontics; orthodontic treatment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)
Harnessing Microalgae and Seaweed for the Food Sector
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8018 | Submission Open
Keywords: seaweed; microalgae; algal biomass
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Probiotics, Prebiotics, Postbiotics: From Mechanisms to Applications
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7966 | Submission Open
Keywords: probiotics; prebiotics; postbiotics; gut microbiota modulation; health intervention; functional foods; metabolic detoxification; probiotic encapsulation; formulation stability; oxidative stress; personalized nutrition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
New Insights into Neurorehabilitation
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7250 | Submission Open
Keywords: telerehabilitation; non-invasive neuromodulation; motor imagery; action observation; cutting-edge neuromodulation techniques; TMS; TDCS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Neuroscience and Neural Engineering)
Structural Dynamics in Civil Engineering submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6974 | Submission Open
Keywords: modal analysis; spectrum analysis; dynamic response; structural health monitoring (SHM); finite element analysis (FEA); limit analysis; nonlinear behavior; failure mechanisms; machine learning (ML)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Computer Vision in Automatic Detection and Identification, 2nd Edition
edited by , and
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2113 | Submission Open
Keywords: detection and identification; image processing; object detection and segmentation; computer vision tools and applications; pattern recognition; digital image techniques; multispectral image-based detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
Advanced Satellite Image Processing for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring
edited by Nathalie dos Santos Guimarães and
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1733 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; crop monitoring; image processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
Remote Sensing Technologies in Hydrology and Water Resource Analysis submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open
Keywords: fluvial geomorphology; sediment transport; hydroacoustic methods (ADCP); streamflow and discharge modeling; UAV multispectral and hyperspectral imagery; object-based image analysis (OBIA); river planform change; artificial intelligence in remote sensing; water quality monitoring; hydrological modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
New Challenges in Environmental Microbiology and Food and Nutrition Science
edited by and Arjun Krishnan
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental microbiology; novel microbial technologies; food and nutrition science; gut microbiota and human health; functional foods; microbial fermentation and foods; probiotic products; plant-based food
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Advances in Audio Signal Processing submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1737 | Submission Open
Keywords: audio signal processing; artificial intelligence in audio; speech enhancement and recognition; environmental acoustics; multichannel; spatial audio analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
Solar Thermal Energy: Conversion, Storage, and Utilization submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 857 | Submission Open
Keywords: solar thermal; heat storage; PCM storage; energy efficiency; solar heat for industrial applications; industrial heat; solar ready buildings
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
Advanced Cleaning Technologies and Safety Innovations in the Food Industry submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 278 | Submission Open
Keywords: food safety; SSbD; life cycle assessment; cleaning technologies; sanitation innovations; antimicrobial coatings; smart sensors; predictive maintenance; machine learning in food safety; biofilm control; sustainable cleaning; nanotechnology in cleaning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
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