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Design for Behavioural Change, Health, Wellbeing, and Sustainability Encouraging healthy living and promoting wellbeing at all ages are central to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and widening social inequalities, have highlighted the urgent need for integrative and ...

Still doing your stats in SPSS? Or need a refresher on your R programming?

Introduction to Bio-Medical Data Analysis with R is built for both. Written by Nhan Thi Ho, MD, PhD, whose research background spans Oxford, Princeton and Columbia, this new Open Access book from MDPI Books takes biomedical and clinical researchers from R fundamentals through the methods their work actually depends on: regression, survival analysis, longitudinal data (GEE, mixed models), clinical trial analysis and and and.

Every example is fully reproducible, code and output side by side.

Free to read. No paywall.

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Introduction to Bio-Medical Data Analysis with R This book includes a series of hands-on practical introductory guides to analyze bio-medical data using R, mainly for use by bio-medical students and researchers. It will provide readers with basic statistical programming skills in R, brought together with practical data analysis skills and applied ...

Android devices account for over 70% of the global smartphone market. The scale alone makes them a prime target for malware.

Recent AI-driven detection research, featured in our newest open-access reprint "Artificial Intelligence in Cyberspace Security," shows machine learning models now achieving 97.82% accuracy in malware detection and 96.09% in categorization, significantly outperforming traditional signature-based approaches.

As mobile threats evolve, so does the tooling to counter them. Worth a read for anyone working in security, ML, or applied AI research.

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Future Technologies for Data Management, Processing and Application This Reprint brings together eleven contributions that address this pathway from complementary perspectives. The papers examine data resource evaluation, knowledge graph reasoning, recommendation, secure data exchange, implicit authentication, multimodal speech processing, image distillation, adapti...

Climate finance keeps flowing to the countries least affected by climate change. The ones facing the worst of it get the smallest share.

This book takes that mismatch apart — finance, migration, and inequality, treated as one connected system instead of three separate problems.

Free to read. Open access.

🏆 Announcing the winners of our Early Career Researcher Prize!

Sponsored by four MDPI journals — Humanities, Philosophies MDPI, Publications MDPI, and Social Sciences MDPI — each selected one winning book proposal to receive a full waiver of Book Processing Charges and complete editorial and production support toward open-access publication with MDPI Books.

With a highly competitive field of applicants this year, our selection committees faced a genuinely difficult decision. Congratulations to all our winners and a sincere thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. We were impressed by the applications and hope to see many of you apply again in future competitions.

Swipe through to meet our winners 👉

Read the full announcement: https://www.mdpi.com/books/news/17492

📣 🌍 Unpacking the complex political landscape of Nigeria!

📚 🤝 Check out this brilliant Open Access Book published in collaboration with MDPI Books and the journal Social Sciences MDPI!

💡 📉 It is not just about security. This rigorous research dives into the socioeconomic implications and the heavy human costs of violence caused by armed groups.

🔍 🧠 Key takeaways explore:
✅ 💸 Economic reverberations across local markets
✅ 🏛️ The consequences of power contestation
✅ 🌱 Impacts on the broader African political economy

🗣️ 💭 What role do you think local communities play in rebuilding after institutional strain? Drop a comment!

👇 📖 Read the entire open access analysis for free: https://brnw.ch/21x3PCs

Thirty years. Four armed groups. One country.

Two Nigerian researchers spent five years in the field trying to understand why, interviewing the groups themselves, under conditions of personal risk.

What they found isn't four separate problems. It's one failure, playing out four different ways.

Free to read. Open access.

Your PhD thesis deserves a global audience.

MDPI Books publishes defended doctoral theses as open access books — with a permanent ISBN and DOI, hardback on Amazon, and indexing across major academic databases.

No external peer review required. Your institution already handled that.

Who can apply: → Defended within the last 5 years → Institutionally validated thesis → Any field, any institution worldwide

Publication starts from CHF 2,000.

Want to develop your thesis into a full peer-reviewed monograph instead? We offer that pathway too.

Find out more and submit your proposal: https://brnw.ch/21x3pUS

Enquiries: [email protected]

Choosing the right publication format can shape your research career. 📖

Journal articles move fast — perfect for staying at the cutting edge in STEM. Monographs go deep, giving humanities and social science researchers the space to explore complex questions over time.

Not sure which is right for you? Our latest blog breaks it all down, from peer review timelines to open access options.

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Monograph vs Journal Article: What is the Difference? When comparing monographs vs journal articles, there are key differences for authors interested in publishing to consider. But what are they?