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Habituation mechanisms and their impact on cognitive function
(2015)
Habituation describes the progressive decrease of the amplitude or frequency of a motor response to repeated sensory stimulation that is not caused by sensory receptor adaptation or motor fatigue. Habituation can occur in ...
Harvesting Plant and Microbial Biodiversity for Sustainably Enhanced Food Security
(2018)
The World population will reach 9 billion by 2050, with the majority of this growth occurring in developing countries. On the other hand, one in nine of the World's population suffers from chronic hunger, the vast majority ...
High-Intensity Exercise in Hypoxia - Beneficial Aspects and Potential Drawbacks
(2018)
In the past, ‘traditional’ moderate-intensity continuous training (60-75% peak heart rate) was the type of physical activity most frequently recommended for both athletes and clinical populations (cf. American College of ...
High-Level Adaptation and Aftereffects
(2017)
Aftereffects generally occur after a prolonged exposure (adaptation) to a first stimulus possessing one given property followed by presentation of a stimulus bearing a neutral value of that property. The aftereffect consists ...
Glial Cells: Managers of Neuro-immunity
(2016)
Immune responses within the brain are still scarcely explored. Nerve tissue damage is accompanied by the activation of glial cells, primarily microglia and astroglia, and such activation is responsible for the release of ...
Grappling with the Multifaceted World of the DNA Damage Response
(2017)
DNA damage is a major threat to genomic integrity and cell survival. It can arise both spontaneously and in response to exogenous agents. DNA damage can attack most parts of the DNA structure, ranging from minor and major ...
Fitness Costs and Benefits of Female Song
(2017)
Bird song, traditionally regarded as primarily a male trait, is in fact widespread among female songbirds and was probably present in the ancestor of modern songbirds (Odom et al 2014 Nature Communications). These recent ...
Gut Health: The New Paradigm in Animal Production?
(2016)
Gut health and specifically the gut microbiome-host interaction is currently a major research topic across the life sciences. In the case of animal sciences research into animal production and health, the gut has been a ...
Heart Rate Variability: Clinical Applications and Interaction between HRV and Heart Rate
(2015)
Over the last decades, assessment of heart rate variability (HRV) has increased in various fields of research. HRV describes changes in heartbeat intervals, which are caused by autonomic neural regulation, i.e. by the ...
Hemispheric Bases for Emotion and Memory
(2015)
It has become clear that the two halves of the cortex differ in their contributions to both affective and memory processes. Still, the exact nature of the interrelationships among hemispheric function, emotion, and memory ...
Hierarchical Object Representations in the Visual Cortex and Computer Vision
(2016)
Over the past 40 years, neurobiology and computational neuroscience has proved that deeper understanding of visual processes in humans and non-human primates can lead to important advancements in computational perception ...
Golgi Pathology in Neurodegenerative Diseases
(2016)
The Golgi apparatus is a central organelle that lies at the heart of the secretory pathway. It ensures post-translational protein modifications such as glycosylation and cleavage as well as protein sorting to neuronal axons ...
Flow and Transformations in Porous Media
(2017)
Fluid flow in transforming porous rocks, fracture networks, and granular media is a very active interdisciplinary research subject in Physics, Earth Sciences, and Engineering. Examples of natural and engineered processes ...
Harnessing Useful Rhizosphere Microorganisms for Pathogen and Pest Biocontrol
(2017)
Growing demographic trends require sustainable technologies to improve quality and yield of future food productions. However, there is uncertainty about plant protection strategies in many agro-ecosystems. Pests, diseases, ...
Harm and Benefit of Plant and Fungal Secondary Metabolites in Food Animal Production
(2018)
Livestock species are either herbivores or omnivores that are maintained largely on plant-based diets. We have long appreciated the importance of understanding dietary plants from both nutritional and agronomic perspectives. ...
Harnessing oncolytic virus-mediated immunity
(2015)
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) have emerged as a promising anticancer treatment. OVs selectively infect, replicate in, and kill tumor cells. Oncolytic viral therapy occurs in two phases: an initial phase where the virus mediates ...
Health Care Financing and Affordability in the Emerging Global Markets
(2016)
During the recent few decades, global economic growth has been driven largely by developing world economies. The ones with the most intensive pace of development were marked as “emerging“ markets led by so called BRICS and ...
Hemichannels; from the molecule to the function
(2015)
Coordinated cell interactions are required to accomplish several complex and dynamic tasks observed in several tissues. Cell function may be coordinated by cell-to-cell communication through gap junctions channels (GJCs). ...
Highly Mutable Animal RNA Viruses: Adaptation and Evolution
(2017)
Viruses are widely present in nature, and numerous viral species with a variety of unique characteristics have been identified so far. Even now, new emerging or re-emerging viruses are being found or re-found as novel viral ...
Global health issues of aflatoxins in food and agriculture: Challenges and opportunities
(2015)
Aflatoxins are a group of polyketide mycotoxins that are produced mainly by members of the genus Aspergillus. Production of these toxic secondary metabolites is closely related to fungal development (Keller et al., 2005; ...