Special Issue “Salinization of Water Resources: Ongoing and Future Trends”

"Use of 3D Point Clouds in Geohazards" Special Issue: Current Challenges and Future Trends

The fast proliferation of new satellite, aerial and terrestrial remote sensing techniques has undoubtedly provided new technological and scientific opportunities to society during the last few decades. Driven by this impressive technological progress together with the development of innovative data treatment techniques and the progressive adaptation of these workflows by geoscientists, the way ...

Special Issue: Adolescent Pregnancy: Past, Present and Future Trends and Issues

The dramatic overall decrease in rates of pregnancies and births to American teenagers over the last few decades should be counted among contemporary success stories in systematic efforts to reduce bio-psychosocial risks to youth. Since the modern peak in 1991, fertility among all major racial and ethnic groups of teens has, with a few brief reversals, steadily and sharply declined: births by a...

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Introduction to the Special issue on "Future trends in robotics and autonomous techniques"

Robotics is an extremely dynamic field with thriving advancement in its technology. As research progresses in robotic systems, more and more aspects of vision based processing, GPS enabled services, Autonomous techniques, very far distance communication in robots, dynamic environment handling, mobility techniques, multi-agent control and coordination techniques , multi-robot communication and c...

Special issue on External Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine – current challenges and future trends

Quality assurance in the modern clinical laboratory is evidenced through the complementary processes of internal quality control and external quality assessment, also known as proficiency testing. By these processes and the achievement of accreditation to international (e.g. ISO) standards, the laboratory is able to demonstrate its competence to the users of its services, i.e. the clinicians an...