Challenges

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Volume 8, issue 2, 2017

Globalization, Inequality, Say’s Law, and Fiscal Globalism pp. 1-9

Gerasimos Soldatos

Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch pp. 1-22

Susan L. Prescott and Alan C. Logan

Influences of Pile Group Effects on Wave Forces on an Offshore Bridge Pile-Cap Foundation pp. 1-10

Baoshan Xiang, Bo Huang, Zhiying Yang, Bing Zhu and Ruitao Yin

Unaffiliated Researchers: A Preliminary Study pp. 1-5

ElHassan ElSabry

The Challenge of Behaviour Change and Health Promotion pp. 1-4

Glenn Laverack

Precision of a Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment Approach Used in Eco-Rating of Mobile Phones pp. 1-24

Anders S. G. Andrae and Mikko Samuli Vaija

Astrofood, Priorities and Pandemics: Reflections of an Ultra-Processed Breakfast Program and Contemporary Dysbiotic Drift pp. 1-24

Alan C. Logan and Susan L. Prescott

The Lack of Alignment among Environmental Research Infrastructures May Impede Scientific Opportunities pp. 1-8

Abad Chabbi and Henry W. Loescher

Taxonomies of Death by Suicide: A Review, with Proposals for Research and Policy, and a Challenge for Suicidology pp. 1-8

Christopher Bagley and Afroze Shahnaz

Embryogenesis Explained. By Natalie K. Gordon and Richard Gordon. World Scientific: Hackensack, NJ, USA, 2016; 784 pp.; SGD 281; ISBN: 978-981-4350-48-8 pp. 1-3

Palmiro Poltronieri

The Challenge of the ‘Art and Science’ of Health Promotion pp. 1-3

Glenn Laverack

Life Cycle Assessment of a Virtual Reality Device pp. 1-11

Anders S. G. Andrae

Challenges in Aquatic Physical Habitat Assessment: Improving Conservation and Restoration Decisions for Contemporary Watersheds pp. 1-11

Jason A. Hubbart, Elliott Kellner, Paul Kinder and Kirsten Stephan

Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies. By Glenn Laverack. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2017; 188 pp.; ISBN: 978-1-138-09317-1 pp. 1-2

Susan L. Prescott

A Tourism Financial Conditions Index for Tourism Finance pp. 1-17

Chia-Lin Chang, Hui-Kuang Hsu and Michael McAleer

An Extensive Method for Maintenance of Sterility in Mammalian Cell Culture Laboratory Routine pp. 1-6

Selcen Çelik-Uzuner and Uğur Uzuner

Diagnostics for Targeted NSCLC Therapy pp. 1-6

Verena Schildgen, Ilija Nenadic, Michael Brockmann and Oliver Schildgen

Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Consumers Time-Use Patterns pp. 1-15

Saptarshi Das, Ashok Sekar, Roger Chen, Hyung Chul Kim, Timothy J. Wallington and Eric Williams

Volume 8, issue 1, 2017

Ethics and the Potential Conflicts between Astrobiology, Planetary Protection, and Commercial Use of Space pp. 1-3

Erik Persson

Expert System for Bomb Factory Detection by Networks of Advance Sensors pp. 1-18

Carlotta Ferrari, Alessandro Ulrici and Francesco Saverio Romolo

Ionic Mobility and Phase Transitions in Perovskite Oxides for Energy Application pp. 1-18

Francesco Cordero, Floriana Craciun and Francesco Trequattrini

Electrochemical Sensor for Explosives Precursors’ Detection in Water pp. 1-11

Cloé Desmet, Agnes Degiuli, Carlotta Ferrari, Francesco Saverio Romolo, Loïc Blum and Christophe Marquette

Hydrogen Storage Technologies for Smart Grid Applications pp. 1-11

Stavros Lazarou and Sofoklis Makridis

Ice XVII as a Novel Material for Hydrogen Storage pp. 1-13

Leonardo Del Rosso, Milva Celli and Lorenzo Ulivi

About the Purification Route of Ionic Liquid Precursors pp. 1-17

Massimo De Francesco, Elisabetta Simonetti, Gianremo Gorgi and Giovanni Battista Appetecchi

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Challenges in 2016 pp. 1-2

Editorial Office

Case Studies of Energy Storage with Fuel Cells and Batteries for Stationary and Mobile Applications pp. 1-15

Nadia Belmonte, Carlo Luetto, Stefano Staulo, Paola Rizzi and Marcello Baricco

Tie-Up Cycles in Long-Term Mating. Part II: Fictional Narratives and the Social Cognition of Mating pp. 1-60

Lorenza Lucchi Basili and Pier Luigi Sacco

New Studies of the Physical Properties of Metallic Amorphous Membranes for Hydrogen Purification pp. 1-12

Oriele Palumbo, Francesco Trequattrini, Suchismita Sarker, Madhura Hulyakar, Narendra Pal, Dhanesh Chandra, Michael Dolan and Annalisa Paolone

ADP-Ribosylation Reactions in Animals, Plants, and Bacteria pp. 1-5

Palmiro Poltronieri

A Study of the Conformers of the (Nonafluorobutanesulfonyl)imide Ion by Means of Infrared Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Calculations pp. 1-10

Oriele Palumbo, Francesco Trequattrini, Giovanni Battista Appetecchi and Annalisa Paolone

Hydrides as High Capacity Anodes in Lithium Cells: An Italian “Futuro in Ricerca di Base FIRB-2010” Project pp. 1-22

Sergio Brutti, Stefania Panero, Annalisa Paolone, Sara Gatto, Daniele Meggiolaro, Francesco M. Vitucci, Jessica Manzi, David Munaò, Laura Silvestri, Luca Farina and Priscilla Reale

Volume 7, issue 2, 2016

Field Prototype of the ENEA Neutron Active Interrogation Device for the Detection of Dirty Bombs pp. 1-9

Nadia Cherubini, Alessandro Dodaro, Giada Gandolfo, Luigi Lepore, Giuseppe A. Marzo, Ermanno Piccinelli and Romolo Remetti

Validation of a Miniaturized Spectrometer for Trace Detection of Explosives by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy pp. 1-8

Salvatore Almaviva, Antonio Palucci, Sabina Botti, Adriana Puiu and Alessandro Rufoloni

Technical Problem Identification for the Failures of the Liberty Ships pp. 1-8

Wei Zhang

A Linear Bayesian Updating Model for Probabilistic Spatial Classification pp. 1-8

Xiang Huang and Zhizhong Wang

Putting Soil Security on the Policy Agenda: Need for a Familiar Framework pp. 1-11

David Oscar Yawson, Michael Osei Adu, Benjamin Ason, Frederick Ato Armah and Genesis Tambang Yengoh

Early Warning of Biological Threats via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: A Case Study of Bacillus Spores pp. 1-11

Antonia Lai, Salvatore Almaviva, Valeria Spizzichino and Domenico Luciani

Stand-Off Device for Plastic Debris Recognition in Post-Blast Scenarios pp. 1-12

Valeria Spizzichino, Luisa Caneve and Francesco Colao

Challenges in Specialty Coffee Processing and Quality Assurance pp. 1-22

Palmiro Poltronieri and Franca Rossi

Soft Energy Paths Revisited: Politics and Practice in Energy Technology Transitions pp. 1-10

Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee

Optimization of Plating Conditions for the Determination of Polonium Using Copper Foils pp. 1-10

Bolaji Benard Babatunde

Innovations in Detection of Deliberate or Accidental Contamination with Biological Agents in Environment and Foods pp. 1-5

Palmiro Poltronieri

Volume 7, issue 1, 2016

Flaws and Drawbacks in Present Regulation and the Need to Take Action and Support the Renewable Energies Policies in Italy pp. 1-4

Valeria Mezzolla

Alternative Energies and Fossil Fuels in the Bioeconomy Era: What is Needed in the Next Five Years for Real Change pp. 1-4

Palmiro Poltronieri

Fossil Fuels, Let’s Leave Them under Earth. Four Reasons to Vote “Yes” at the Italian Referendum on Drilling pp. 1-4

ASPO Italy Association for the Study of PeakOil And Gas

Bridging the Gap between Eco-Design and the Human Thinking System pp. 1-16

Mona Komeijani, Erinn G. Ryen and Callie W. Babbitt

Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental Management Using Petri-Net: The Case Study of a Community in Bandung, Indonesia pp. 1-26

Niken Prilandita, Benjamin McLellan and Tetsuo Tezuka

Tie-Up Cycles in Long-Term Mating. Part I: Theory pp. 1-43

Lorenza Lucchi Basili and Pier Luigi Sacco

Challenges in Creating Evidence in Environmental Health Risk Assessments: The Example of Second-Hand Smoke pp. 1-9

Florian Fischer

Practical Eco-Design and Eco-Innovation of Consumer Electronics—the Case of Mobile Phones pp. 1-19

Anders S. G. Andrae, Mengjun Xia, Jianli Zhang and Xiaoming Tang

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Challenges in 2015 pp. 1-2

Challenges Editorial Office

Policies Supporting Renewable Energies Uses: The Next Big Challenge pp. 1-2

Ferdinando Boero

Potential for Reuse of E-Plastics through Processing by Compression Molding pp. 1-17

William Mills and Robert A. Tatara

On Energy Resources, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, and Drilling. Challenges in Tackling Problems by Governments in Europe and USA pp. 1-3

Palmiro Poltronieri

Use of Bacteriocinogenic Cultures without Inhibiting Cheese Associated Nonstarter Lactic Acid Bacteria; A Trial with Lactobacillus plantarum pp. 1-11

Franca Rossi and Gianluca Veneri