Publications
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Ethylene: A Key Regulatory Molecule in Plants
(2017)
Ethylene is a simple gaseous phytohormone with multiple roles in regulation of metabolism at cellular, molecular, and whole plant level. It influences performance of plants under optimal and stressful environments by ...
Fetal Therapies and Maternal-Fetal Tolerance
(2016)
The ability to diagnose and treat genetic diseases before birth represents one of the foremost breakthroughs of modern medicine. While fetal surgery has advanced in the last several decades, the prospect of applying ...
From Is to Ought: The Place of Normative Models in the Study of Human Thought
(2016)
In the study of human thinking, two main research questions can be asked: “Descriptive Q: What is human thinking like? Normative Q: What ought human thinking be like?” For decades, these two questions have dominated the ...
From Ecology to Brain Development: Bridging Separate Evolutionary Paradigms
(2018)
The nervous system is the product of biological evolution and is shaped by the interplay between extrinsic factors determining the ecology of animals, and by intrinsic processes that dictate the developmental rules that ...
From Genes to Species: Novel Insights from Metagenomics
(2016)
The majority of microbes in many environments are considered “as yet uncultured” and were traditionally considered inaccessible for study through the microbiological gold standard of pure culture. The emergence of metagenomic ...
Frontiers in Brain Based Therapeutic Interventions and Biomarker Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(2016)
Developmental neuroscience research is on the cusp of unprecedented advances in the understanding of how variations in brain structure and function within neural circuits confer risk for symptoms of childhood psychiatric ...
Frontiers in Earth Science - Editor's Choice 2017
(2018)
2017 has been an exciting year for our innovative open access journal Frontiers in Earth Science: many new articles have been published and are now indexed in Web of Science (ESCI), new sections have opened for submissions ...
Functional Imaging in living Plants - Cell Biology meets Physiology
(2015)
The study of plant cell physiology is currently experiencing a profound transformation. Novel techniques allow dynamic in vivo imaging with subcellular resolution, covering a rapidly growing range of plant cell physiology. ...
Functional Characterization of Insect Chemoreceptors: Receptivity Range, Expression and Evolution
(2016)
Olfaction and taste are of critical importance to insects and other animals, since vital behaviours, including mate, food and host seeking, as well as predator and toxin avoidance, are guided by chemosensory cues. Mate and ...
Function of Renal Sympathetic Nerves
(2017)
Sympathetic overactivity is associated with the development of hypertension. Renal denervation (RDN) prevents or delays hypertension in a variety of animal models, which laid the groundwork for the introduction of RDN as ...
The Functional Organization of the Auditory System
(2017)
This eBook comprises s series of original research and review articles dealing with the anatomical, genetic, and physiological organization of the auditory system from humans to monkeys and mice.
The Future of Coral Reefs Subject to Rapid Climate Change: Lessons from Natural Extreme Environments
(2019)
Examination of corals and reef-associated organisms which endure in extreme coral reef environments is challenging our understanding of the conditions that organisms can survive under. By studying individuals naturally ...
Genetics and epigenetics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(2015)
Women drinking during pregnancy can result in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which may feature variable neurodevelopmental deficits, facial dysmorphology, growth retardation, and learning disabilities. Research ...
Genetics of Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance in Animal and Zoonotic Pathogens
(2018)
Development and spread of antimicrobial resistance is the result of an evolutionary process by which microorganisms adapt to antibiotics through several mechanisms including alteration of drug target by mutation and ...
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Processes in Cardiovascular Diseases
(2018)
It is long known that many cells can shed extracellular vesicles, small membrane-enclosed cell fragments. Although the existence of extracellular vesicles has been recognized for many years, researchers are only beginning ...
Face Perception across the Life-Span
(2017)
Face perception is a highly evolved visual skills in humans. This complex ability develops across the life-span, steeply rising in infancy, refining across childhood and adolescence, reaching highest levels in adulthood ...
Geomicrobes: Life in Terrestrial Deep Subsurface
(2017)
The deep subsurface is, in addition to space, one of the last unknown frontiers to human kind. A significant part of life on Earth resides in the deep subsurface, hiding great potential of microbial life of which we know ...
Ethanol, Its Active Metabolites, and Their Mechanisms of Action: Neurophysiological and Behavioral Effects
(2018)
Ethanol, the main psychopharmacologically active ingredient of alcoholic drinks, represents a paradigmatic example of a research subject intrinsically able to perpetually self-generate interdisciplinary cutting-edge ...
Fifty Shades of Grey: Exploring the Dark Sides of Leadership and Followership
(2019)
The scientific field of leadership and followership is fast evolving and has seen several interesting developments over recent years. The early heroic views of leadership are slowly turning into more nuanced perspectives, ...
From Brain to Body: The Impact of Nervous System Declines on Muscle Performance in Aging
(2015)
The deterioration of skeletal muscle performance (e.g., declines in muscle strength and motor performance) with advancing age has long been anecdotally recognized as Shakespeare pointed out nearly a half millennium ago in ...
From Consumer Experience to Affective Loyalty: Challenges and Prospects in the Psychology of Consumer Behavior 3.0
(2018)
This research topic for Frontiers in Psychology highlights some of the more relevant changes that have conditioned consumer behavior in recent years—among these, the paradigm shift in marketing is worth emphasizing. Today, ...
Genetic and Genome-Wide Insights into Microbes Studied for Bioenergy
(2017)
The global mandate for safer, cleaner and renewable energy has accelerated research on microbes that convert carbon sources to end-products serving as biofuels of the so-called first, second or third generation – e.g., ...
Executive Function(s): Conductor, Orchestra or Symphony? Towards a Trans-Disciplinary Unification of Theory and Practice Across Development, in Normal and Atypical Groups
(2018)
There are several theories of executive function(s) that tend to share some theoretical overlap yet are also conceptually distinct, each bolstered by empirical data (Norman and Shallice, 1986; Shallice & Burgess, 1991; ...
Executive Function and Education
(2018)
Executive function is an umbrella term for various cognitive processes that are central to goal-directed behavior, thoughts, and emotions. These processes are especially important in novel or demanding situations, which ...
Exploring Gender and Sex Differences in Behavioral Dyscontrol: from Drug Addiction to Impulse Control Disorders
(2016)
Males and females exhibit discrete attitudes and skills, experience dissimilar emotional and psychological needs, and react differently to peer pressure, lack of self-realization, or other personal and social expectations. ...
Eyeblink Conditioning in Psychiatric Conditions - State of the Field and Future Directions
(2017)
Eyeblink classical conditioning (EBC) is a model paradigm for associative (also termed Pavlovian) learning, one of the simplest and best understood forms of learning and memory. Because EBC paradigms are readily adapted ...
Eye movement-related brain activity during perceptual and cognitive processing
(2014)
The recording and analysis of electrical brain activity associated with eye movements has a history of several decades. While the early attempts were primarily focused on uncovering the brain mechanisms of eye movements, ...
From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work
(2016)
This Research Topic explores issues that are central to the continued relevance of organizational and vocational psychology, and equally central to the well-being of individuals and communities. The cohering theme of this ...
From Organizational Welfare to Business Success: Higher Performance in Healthy Organizational Environments
(2017)
This e-book provides insight into the link between employee health and productivity/performance, with a focus on how individuals, groups, or organizations can intervene in this relationship to improve both well-being and ...
The frontiers of clinical research on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Neuropsychiatry
(2015)
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation intervention that induces changes in cortical activity and excitability according to the parameters of stimulation. TDCS effects have been ...
Frontiers of Sulfur Metabolism in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Response
(2016)
Growing plants have a constitutive demand for sulfur to synthesize proteins, sulfolipids and other essential sulfur containing molecules for growth and development. The uptake and subsequent distribution of sulfate is ...
Frontiers in the Acquisition of Literacy
(2015)
Learning to read, and to spell are two of the most important cultural skills that must be acquired by children, and for that matter, anyone learning a second language. We are not born with an innate ability to read. A ...
Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Wasting, Regeneration and Stem Cells
(2016)
The search for knowledge on cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in skeletal muscle mass homeostasis and regeneration is an exciting scientific area and extremely important to develop therapeutic strategies for ...
Frontiers in Synaptic Plasticity: Dendritic Spines, Circuitries and Behavior
(2016)
The term “synaptic plasticity” is a broad concept, which is studied with a variety of experimental approaches. One focus is the impact of changes in synaptic, neuronal and glial morphology on brain circuitry and behavior. ...
Frontiers in the Pharmacological Manipulation of Intracellular cAMP Levels
(2016)
Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is a second messenger of paramount biological importance, involved in the regulation of a significant number of cellular functions through the cAMP-dependent intracellular signal ...
Genomics and Effectomics of the Crop Killer Xanthomonas
(2016)
Phytopathogenic bacteria of the Xanthomonas genus cause severe diseases on hundreds of host plants, including economically important crops, such as bean, cabbage, cassava, citrus, hemp, pepper, rice, sugarcane, tomato or ...
Genome-wide view on the physiology of vitamin D
(2014)
The main physiological actions of the biologically most active metabolite of vitamin D, 1a,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3(1a,25(OH)2D3), are calcium and phosphorus uptake and transport and thereby controlling bone formation. Other ...
Genomic Approaches for Improvement of Understudied Grasses
(2017)
Grasses are diverse, spanning native prairies to high-yielding grain cropping systems. They are valued for their beauty and useful for soil stabilization, pollution mitigation, biofuel production, nutritional value, and ...
Experimental models of early exposure to alcohol: a way to unravel the neurobiology of mental retardation
(2015)
Excessive alcohol drinking represents a major social and public health problem for several countries. Alcohol abuse during pregnancy leads to a complex syndrome referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), chiefly ...
Expression of emotion in music and vocal communication
(2014)
Two of the most important social skills in humans are the ability to determine the moods of those around us, and to use this to guide our behavior. To accomplish this, we make use of numerous cues. Among the most important ...
Fast Ionic Conductors and Solid-Solid Interfaces Designed for Next Generation Solid-State Batteries
(2018)
The EV Everywhere Grand Challenge requires a breakthrough in energy storage technology. State-of-the-art Li-ion technology is currently used in low volume production plug-in hybrid and niche high performance vehicles; ...
Feedforward and Feedback Processes in Vision
(2015)
The visual system consists of hierarchically organized distinct anatomical areas functionally specialized for processing different aspects of a visual object (Felleman & Van Essen, 1991). These visual areas are interconnected ...
Ethylene's Role in Plant Mineral Nutrition
(2016)
Terrestrial plants are sessile organisms that, differently from animals, can not move in searching of the nutrients and water they need. Instead, they have to change continuously their physiology and morphology to adapt ...
Filamentous Bacteriophage in Bio/Nano/Technology, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Ecology
(2017)
Filamentous phage (genus Inovirus) infect almost invariably Gram-negative bacteria. They are distinguished from all other bacteriophage not only by morphology, but also by the mode of their assembly, a secretion-like process ...
From soil to seed: micronutrient movement into and within the plant
(2014)
In all living organisms, essential micronutrients are cofactors of many ubiquitous proteins that participate in crucial metabolic pathways, but can also be toxic when present in excessive concentrations. In order to achieve ...
From Sex Differences in Neuroscience to a Neuroscience of Sex Differences: New Directions and Perspectives
(2015)
This research topic aims to integrate scattered findings on sex differences in neuroscience into a broader theory of how the human brain is shaped by sex and sex hormones in order to cause the great variety of sex differences ...
Function and Flexibility: Friend or Foe?
(2016)
Louis Sullivan (1856 - 1924) revolutionized architecture by designing the first skyscraper and he became famous by proclaiming that “form follows function”. When x-ray crystallographers visualized the structures of proteins ...
Game Changer - Next Generation Sequencing and its Impact on Food Microbiology
(2018)
Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) are revolutionizing the field of food microbiology. Microbial whole genome sequencing (WGS) can provide identification, characterization, and subtyping of pathogens ...
General Anesthesia: From Theory to Experiments
(2016)
General anesthesia is a standard medical procedure in today's hospital practice. Although in most cases the administration of anesthetics does not affect severely the patients health, side effects of anesthesia are well-known, ...
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 ...