Editorial Material
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Bo Xiao, Hak-Keung Lam, Kazuo Tanaka, Jerry M. Mendel
Summary: The articles in this special section are dedicated to honoring the memory of Prof. Robert John, a pioneer in type-2 fuzzy sets and systems who passed away during the preparation of this issue.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS
(2021)
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Thermodynamics
Bidyut Baran Saha, Yoshinori Hamamoto
Summary: The International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP) was initiated in 2007 by Universidad Rovira I Virgili in Spain. The 5th meeting (ICP 2019) was held at Kyushu University in May 2019, featuring three keynote lectures, two-panel discussions, and 113 contributed papers. Selected papers were peer-reviewed and nine of them were published in a special issue of Applied Thermal Engineering.
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Microbiology
Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam
Summary: Fungal nanotechnology provides useful techniques for various fields such as molecular and cell biology, medicine, biotechnology, agriculture, veterinary physiology, and reproduction. It has potential applications in pathogen identification and treatment, and has shown impressive outcomes in animal and food systems. Myconanotechnology is a viable and environmentally friendly option for synthesizing green nanoparticles. These nanoparticles can be used in various industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, and medicine. Understanding the molecular biology and genetic components of fungal nanobiosynthetic processes is increasingly important.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ilko Ilev, David Nolte, Qiyin Fang, Giuliano Scarcelli, Yuji Matsuura, William Calhoun, Thomas Huser
Summary: Biophotonics is an emerging and rapidly growing field of advanced biomedical technologies that encompasses a wide range of applications, from laboratory research to clinical diagnostics, bioimaging, biosensing, and therapeutics.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2021)
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Genetics & Heredity
Tosso Leeb
Summary: Wolves were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, and thousands of generations of dog breeding have resulted in more than 350 recognized breeds with distinct morphological, behavioral, and disease predisposition differences. The domestication and breeding of dogs can be seen as a significant genetic experiment for humans, providing unique research opportunities. This special issue, titled Canine Genetics 2, focuses on the importance of canine genetics and includes reports on genetic diseases in dogs, as well as research on wild canids, genetic diversity, and canine morphology.
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Mathematics, Applied
Vyacheslav Grines, Andrei Morozov, Olga Pochinka
Summary: This paper investigates the homotopy types of orientation-preserving Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms on closed orientable surfaces. It is established that any Morse-Smale diffeomorphism is homotopic to either a periodic homeomorphism or an algebraically finite order homeomorphism. The author proposes an algorithm for recognizing the homotopy type of a non-gradient-like Morse-Smale diffeomorphism based on its heteroclinic intersection. It is proven that a Morse-Smale diffeomorphism is homotopic to a periodic homeomorphism if and only if the total intersection index over all homotopic annuli is equal to zero.
QUALITATIVE THEORY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Eva Belmont, Bertrand J. Guillou, Daniel C. Isaksen
Summary: We have shown that the stable homotopy groups of the C-2-equivariant sphere spectrum and the R-motivic sphere spectrum are isomorphic within a certain range, surpassing previous work by Dugger and the third author.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Weinan Lin
Summary: In this paper, we make a conjecture about the whole E-2 page of the May spectral sequence and prove it in a subalgebra. Our study shows that the E-2 page plays a crucial role in the study of Massey products in commutative DGAs.
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Andrea Gagna, Yonatan Harpaz, Edoardo Lanari
Summary: The study provides a definition and properties of the Gray tensor product in the setting of scaled simplicial sets, introduces the concept of oplax functor, and characterizes the Gray tensor product through a universal property. The results of this study offer a promising direction for comparing two concepts in different settings.
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fermin I. Milagro, Christian Carpene
Summary: This special issue of the journal showcases the advancements made by the CTPIOD consortium in the field of obesity and diabetes, focusing on prevention and novel treatments. The research in this issue covers various aspects including nutrition, pharmacology, and genetics.
JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Elena Blokhina
Summary: This Special Issue contains selected papers presented at the APCCAS and ICECS conferences, covering a range of research topics including analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronics, signal processing, power electronics, communication theory, sensors, circuit theory, and nonlinear circuits and systems.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Nir Cohen, Tatiana Fogelman, Henrik Lebuhn
Summary: This article discusses the importance of migration industries in understanding urban issues, emphasizing the three key analytical perspectives that the focus on migration industries can provide, and discussing the connection between urbanization of migration studies and migration industries.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paolo Emilio Ricci
Summary: This Special Issue includes 14 articles on the general subject area of Special Functions and Polynomials, written by scholars from different countries. The importance of this topic for its applications in various fields of mathematical, physical, chemical, engineering and statistical sciences is testified by other successful Special Issues in related topics.
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Business
Madeleine Rauch, Moritz Loock, Wolfgang H. Guettel
Summary: This introduction examines the relationship between heuristics, technological forecasting, and social change. It introduces five articles included in the Special Issue on 'Heuristics in Technological Forecasting and Social Change' and proposes directions for further research. The authors highlight important, yet unexplored research questions that could enhance the study of heuristics in the context of social and technological change.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Tim Verdonck, Bart Baesens, Maria Oskarsdottir, Seppe vanden Broucke
Summary: Feature engineering aims to improve the performance of machine learning models by cleverly adjusting data features while maintaining interpretability. It can be used with simple techniques or to enhance complex techniques by adjusting existing features or creating new meaningful ones.
