Publications
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The Least Cost Path From Landscape Genetics to Landscape Genomics
(2018)
Ecosystems are the stage on which the play of evolution is acted, and ecosystems are complex, spatially structured and temporally varying. The purpose of this Research Topic is to explore critical challenges and opportunities ...
Low-dose antibiotics: current status and outlook for the future
(2014)
Antimicrobial therapy is a key factor in our success against pathogens poised to ravage at risk or infected individuals. However, we are currently at a watershed point as we face a growing crisis of antibiotic resistance ...
Limbic-Brainstem Roles in Perception, Cognition, Emotion and Behavior
(2018)
The brainstem-limbic regions, including the superior colliculus, pulvinar and amygdala, receive direct perceptual information as a rapid, coarse, subcortical sensory system bypassing early sensory cortical systems, and ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Healthy and Diseased Brain Networks
(2015)
An important aspect of neuroscience is to characterize the underlying connectivity patterns of the human brain (i.e., human connectomics). Over the past few years, researchers have demonstrated that by combining a variety ...
Magnetic Records of Extreme Geological Events
(2017)
Recent advances in environmental magnetism offer the opportunity to link the magnetic signature of marine and continental rocks to the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic settings that controlled their formation or ...
Mind the gap! Gap junction channels and their importance in pathogenesis
(2014)
"Cells live together, but die singly", this sentence wrote the German physiologist Theodor Engelmann in 1875 and although he had no particular knowledge of gap junction channels (their structure was discovered around 100 ...
Mind over brain, brain over mind: cognitive causes and consequences of controlling brain activity
(2015)
This Research Topic combines articles aiming to gain a better understanding on different factors that determine whether people are successful or not in controlling computerized devices with brain signals. Since decades, ...
Mind-Brain Plasticity and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Functions: What Techniques Have Been Proven Effective?
(2017)
Rehabilitation of cognitive functions is a primary goal in neurological and psychiatric settings. Cognitive treatments include individual and group exercises, as well as the use of computer programs and virtual reality. ...
Mega Quakes: Cascading Earthquake Hazards and Compounding Risks
(2018)
Large-scale earthquake hazards pose major threats to modern society, generating casualties, disrupting socioeconomic activities, and causing enormous economic loss across the world. Events, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean ...
Macromolecular Structure Underlying Recognition in Innate Immunity
(2018)
Immune molecules have evolved to distinguish “self “molecules from “non-self”, “altered self” and “danger” molecules. Recognition is mediated via interactions between pattern recognition receptor molecules (PPRs) and their ...
Macrophages Role in Integrating Tissue Signals and Biological Processes in Chronic Inflammation and Fibrosis
(2017)
Macrophages comprehend a heterogeneous mononuclear phagocytic population with wide range phenotypes and roles in homeostasis maintenance and diseases, such as infections, autoimmunity and cancer. Technology improvements ...
Large-Scale and Full-Scale Methods for Examining Wind Effects on Buildings
(2018)
Global economic losses due to severe weather events have grown dramatically over the past two decades. A large proportion of these losses are due to severe wind storms such as tropical cyclones and tornadoes, which can ...
Lipid Signalling In Plant Development And Responses To Environmental Stresses
(2016)
In response to environmental stresses, or during development, plant cells will produce lipids that will act as intracellular or intercellular mediators. Glycerophospholipid and/or sphingolipid second messengers resulting ...
Lipid Signaling in T Cell Development and Function
(2015)
Lipids are best known as energy storing molecules and core-components of cellular membranes, but can also act as mediators of cellular signaling. This is most prominently illustrated by the paramount importance of the ...
Linking Optical and Chemical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters
(2017)
A substantial increase in the number of studies using the optical properties (absorbance and fluorescence) of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as a proxy for its chemical properties in estuaries and the coastal and open ocean ...
Linking Ecosystem Function to Microbial Diversity
(2016)
Understanding the link between microbial diversity and ecosystem processes is a fundamental goal of microbial ecologists, yet we still have a rudimentary knowledge of how changes in diversity affect nutrient cycling and ...
Manual Asymmetries, Handedness and Motor Performance
(2016)
The performance of most tasks with one hand, typically the right, is a uniquely human characteristic. Not only do people prefer to use one hand rather than the other, but also they usually perform tasks faster and more ...
Minding Glial Cells in the Novel Understandings of Mental Illness
(2017)
Traditionally, abnormalities of neurons and neuronal networks including synaptic abnormalities and disturbance of neurotransmitters have dominantly been believed to be the main causes of psychiatric disorders. Recent ...
Machine Learning With Radiation Oncology Big Data
(2019)
Radiation oncology is uniquely positioned to harness the power of big data as vast amounts of data are generated at an unprecedented pace for individual patients in imaging studies and radiation treatments worldwide. The ...
The long and short of mental time travel - self-projection over time-scales large and small
(2015)
Researchers working in many fields of psychology and neuroscience are interested in the temporal structure of experience, as well as the experience of time, at scales of a few milliseconds up to a few seconds as well as ...