Publications
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Cancer Care Delivery and Women's Health
(2017)
Cancer care delivery refers to the multiple layers of the health care system that interact to affect outcomes for patients with cancer and the quality of that care. The factors included in the care delivery system that ...
Cardiovascular Toxicities of Breast Cancer Treatment: Emerging Issues in Cardio-Oncology
(2016)
Cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the two most common causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The incidence of both cancer and cardiovascular disease increases with age. With increased life expectancy, the ...
Cardiac Remodeling: New Insights in Physiological and Pathological Adaptations
(2017)
The effective management of Cardiac remodeling(CR), remains a major challenge. Heart failure remains the leading cause of death in industrialized countries. Yet, despite the enormity of the problem, effective therapeutic ...
The Challenge of Protein Crops as a Sustainable Source of Food and Feed for the Future
(2017)
Grain legumes, together with quinoa and amaranth (pseudocereals) and other crops are attractive candidates to satisfy the growing demand for plant protein production worldwide for food and feed. Despite their high value, ...
Challenges and Opportunities for the EU Common Fisheries Policy Application in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
(2019)
The application of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the Mediterranean and Black Sea faces several challenges also because of large ecological, economic, political and institutional differences across the basin. The ...
Anthropogenic Impacts on the Microbial Ecology and Function of Aquatic Environments
(2016)
Aquatic ecosystems are currently experiencing unprecedented levels of impact from human activities including over-exploitation of resources, habitat destruction, pollution and the influence of climate change. The impacts ...
Auditory Efferent System: New Insights from Cortex to Cochlea
(2016)
The main function of the sensory systems is the transducing of external stimuli into bioelectrical signals, which are conducted through afferent pathways from sensory epithelia to the brain. However, it is known that ...
Autoimmuno-Anti-Tumour Immunity (AATI) - Understanding the Immune Responses against "Self" & "Altered-self"
(2017)
The brief description of tumours being “wounds that do not heal” by Dr Harold F. Dworak nearly three decades ago (N Engl J Med 1986) has provided not only a vivid illustration of neoplastic diseases in general but also, ...
Advances in Parasitic Weeds Research
(2018)
Parasitic weeds are severe constraint to agriculture and major crop production, and the efficacy of available means to control them is minimal. Control strategies have centred around agronomic practices, resistant varieties ...
Affective Sciences through the Chemical Senses
(2017)
In people's minds, smells, flavors and affective phenomena are perceived as closely linked. But is it genuinely the case? The scientific study of this question is a rapidly expanding field, both in healthy and in clinical ...
The Atmosphere over Mountainous Regions
(2016)
Mountainous regions occupy a significant fraction of the Earth’s continents and are characterized by specific meteorological phenomena operating on a wide range of scales. Being a home to large human populations, the impact ...
Balloon and Stent for Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke: A New Trend for Stroke Prevention and Management
(2015)
In recent years, intracranial endovascular use of Balloon and Stent has grown significantly. This issue will focus primarily on recent advances in the use of these methods today. This discussion will also highlight our ...
Ballroom Biology: Recent Insights into Honey Bee Waggle Dance Communications
(2016)
The honey bee waggle dance communication is a complex, unique, at times controversial, and ultimately fascinating behavior. In an elaborate figure-of-eight movement, a returning forager conveys the distance and direction ...
The CA3 region of the hippocampus: how is it? what is it for? how does it do it?
(2015)
The aim of this special topic is to bring together experts on the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating the wiring properties of the CA3 hippocampal microcircuit in both physiological and pathological conditions, ...
Aging, neurogenesis and neuroinflammation in hearing loss and protection
(2015)
Worldwide, 278 million people are estimated to have moderate to profound hearing loss. Age-related hearing loss, also known as presbyacusis, affects approximately half of the population over 60 years old, making it the ...
Aging and Mental Health
(2017)
People are progressively ageing all over the world, and it is estimated that the number of persons aged 60 or over will more than triple by 2100. This emerging population will experience an inevitable rise in dementia, ...
CD1- and MR1-restricted T Cells in Antimicrobial Immunity
(2016)
Cell-mediated immunity to extracellular and intracellular microbes has been traditionally linked to CD4+ and CD8+ T cells that recognize pathogen-derived peptides in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ...
The CB2 Cannabinoid System: A New Strategy in Neurodegenerative Disorder and Neuroinflammation
(2017)
The neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) or Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are the most common forms of dementia and no pharmacological treatments are to date available for these diseases. Indeed, the ...
Anatomy and Plasticity in Large-Scale Brain Models
(2017)
Supercomputing facilities are becoming increasingly available for simulating activity dynamics in large-scale neuronal networks. On today's most advanced supercomputers, networks with up to a billion of neurons can be ...
Advances in Legume Research
(2018)
Legumes crops have an extraordinary importance for the agriculture and the environment. In a world urgently requiring more sustainable agriculture, food security and healthier diets the demand for legume crops is on the ...
Advances in Virtual Agents and Affective Computing for the Understanding and Remediation of Social Cognitive Disorders
(2016)
Advances in modern sciences occur thanks to within-fields discoveries as well as confrontation of concepts and methods from separated, sometimes distant, domains of knowledge. For instance, the fields of psychology and ...
Biased Cognitions & Social Anxiety: Building a Global Framework for Integrating Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neural Processes
(2015)
Social anxiety (SA) is a common and incapacitating disorder that has been associated with seriously impaired career, academic, and general social functioning. Regarding epidemiological data, SA has a lifetime prevalence ...
Basic and applied research on deception and its detection
(2014)
Deception is a ubiquitous phenomenon in social interactions and has attracted a significant amount of research during the last decades. The majority of studies in this field focused on how deception modulates behavioral, ...
Basal ganglia: physiological, behavioral, and computational studies
(2015)
The basal ganglia has received much attention over the last two decades, as it has been implicated in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. Most of this research - in both animals and humans - attempt to understand ...
Behavioral and physiological bases of attentional biases: Paradigms, participants, and stimuli
(2015)
Attentional biases (ABs) play a prominent role in the development and maintenance of clinically relevant symptoms of, for example, anxiety and depression. In particular, increased attentional orienting and preoccupation ...
Behavioural and Ecological Consequences of Urban Life in Birds
(2018)
Urbanization is next to global warming the largest threat to biodiversity. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly evident that many bird species get locally extinct as a result of urban development. However, many bird species ...
Beyond Borders: Myotonic Dystrophies - A European Perception
(2019)
Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) are pleotropic multisystemic diseases. These dominantly transmitted repeat disorders affect multiple organs of the human body at all ages – from the newborns to the elderly. The present Research ...
Carotid Body: A New Target for Rescuing Neural Control of Cardiorespiratory Balance in Disease
(2016)
The carotid body (CB) is in charge of adjusting ventilatory and cardiovascular function during changes in arterial blood gases. Regardless this essential function, the CB has been implicated in the sensing of other ...
The causes and consequences of microbial community structure
(2015)
The causes and consequences of differences in microbial community structure, defined here as the relative proportions of rare and abundant organisms within a community, are poorly understood. Articles in "The Causes and ...
Central Nervous System Metastases in Lung Cancer Patients: From Prevention to Diagnosis and Treatment
(2019)
Approximately 40% of lung cancer patients will develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases during the course of their disease. Most of these are brain metastases, but up to 10% will develop leptomeningeal metastases. ...
Central control of autonomic functions in health and disease
(2015)
The field of autonomic neuroscience research concentrates on those neural pathways and processes that ultimately modulate parasympathetic and sympathetic output to alter peripheral organ function. In the following ebook, ...
Amyloid-beta clearance in Alzheimer's disease
(2015)
Strong evidence continues to accumulate indicating that amyloid-beta (Aß) is a central part of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis in spite of the negative evidence coming from failed clinical trials. Therefore, mechanisms ...
Autophagy in plants and algae
(2015)
Autophagy (also known as macroautophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process by which cytoplasmic components are nonselectively enclosed within a double-membrane vesicle known as the autophagosome and delivered to the ...
Advances in Research on Age in the Workplace and Retirement
(2018)
Shifts in the age composition of the workforce coupled with dynamic definitions of retirement represent important issues that influence work processes and, more generally, the experience of working across one’s career. For ...
Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction
(2015)
We intuitively believe that we are aware of the external world as it is. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. In fact, the capacity of our sensory system is too small to veridically perceive the world. To overcome ...
Avoidance: From Basic Science to Psychopathology
(2016)
Coping has a myriad of facets: knowledge concerning the circumstances of threats to emotional and physical well being, the ability to meet immediate needs to mitigate, the potential for recurrence, the ability to apply ...
Better Together: A Joined-Up Psychological Approach to Health, Well-Being, and Rehabilitation
(2016)
Health and well-being is best understood in terms of a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. But how ‘social’ is the biopsychosocial model when applied to mental health and rehabilitation? Psychology ...
Cell and molecular signaling, and transport pathways involved in growth factor control of synaptic development and function
(2015)
Brain derived neurotophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) signaling has been extensively studied for its roles in the central nervous system (CNS) ranging from cell survival, axonal and ...
Celebrating Twenty Years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology
(2017)
This e-book is dedicated to the celebration of 20 years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology. In 1996 groups from the School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo (FMRP-USP) and from the ...