Publications
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Genomics in Aquaculture to Better Understand Species Biology and Accelerate Genetic Progress
(2016)
From a global perspective aquaculture is an activity related to food production with large potential for growth. Considering a continuously growing population, the efficiency and sustainability of this activity will be ...
Genomics Research on Non-Model Plant Pathogens: Delivering Novel Insights into Rust Fungus Biology
(2016)
Fungi of the order Pucciniales cause rust diseases on many plants including important crops and trees widely used in agriculture, forestry and bioenergy programs; these encompass gymnosperms and angiosperms, monocots and ...
The Evolving Telomeres
(2016)
What controls the different rates of evolution to give rise to conserved and divergent proteins and RNAs? How many trials until evolution can adapt to physiological changes? Every organism has arisen through multiple ...
Evolutionary Theory: Fringe or Central to Psychological Science
(2016)
The computational theory of mind, which views the brain as an information processor that operates on cognitive representations, is central to modern cognitive psychology and is the dominant perspective from which brain ...
Evolvability, Environments, Embodiment & Emergence in Robotics
(2018)
Embodied and evolving systems — biological or robotic — are interacting networks of structure, function, information, and behavior. Understanding these complex systems is the goal of the research presented in this book. ...
Executive Functions in Psychiatric Disorders
(2017)
Executive Functions comprise a range of neuropsychological processes related to intentional behavior and cognitive control. There are several theoretical models defining and explaining the concept of Executive Functions. ...
Exploring Cancer Metabolic Reprogramming Through Molecular Imaging
(2017)
The inclusion of oncogene-driven reprogramming of energy metabolism within the list of cancer hallmarks (Hanahan and Weinberg, Cell 2000, 2011) has provided major impetus to further investigate the existence of a much wider ...
Exploring Bacterial Colonies in Solid Foods or Model Foods Using Non-Destructive Techniques
(2016)
Bacteria are always present in foods, either as initial contamination or as technological agents. In solid foods, they are immobilized and develop as colonies. So far, there is a lack of knowledge about the bacteria in ...
Facing the Other: Novel Theories and Methods in Face Perception Research
(2016)
We rely heavily on faces during social interactions. Humans possess the ability to recognise thousands of people very quickly and accurately without effort. The serious social difficulties that follow abnormalities of the ...
Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis
(2016)
Dear Readers, If you are engaged in the treatment of patients with MS (pwMS), this e-book’s aim is to offer novel insights to improve on an understanding of one of the major problems of pwMS: fatigue. Although there is ...