Publications
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Digital Transformation of Animal Health Data: Proceedings of the AHEAD 2017 Workshop
(2018)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Co-operative Research Programme on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems sponsored the AHEAD 2017 workshop, bringing together ...
Dishonest Behavior: From Theory to Practice
(2016)
The rapidly growing field of behavioral ethics shows that dishonest acts are highly prevalent in all walks of life, from corruption among politicians through flagrant cases of doping in sports, to everyday slips and ...
DNA Replication Origins in Microbial Genomes
(2016)
DNA replication, a central event for cell proliferation, is the basis of biological inheritance. Complete and accurate DNA replication is integral to the maintenance of the genetic integrity of organisms. In all three ...
Circadian Rhythms and Metabolism
(2017)
One of the major breakthroughs of the last decade in the understanding of energy homeostasis is the identification of a reciprocal control between circadian rhythmicity and cellular metabolism. Circadian rhythmicity is a ...
Clearing the smokescreen: The current evidence on cannabis use
(2015)
Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit substance world-wide, with international estimates indicating that 2.8%-4.5% of the global population use cannabis each year. This prevalence rate has not changed substantially ...
Doubled haploidy in model and recalcitrant species
(2016)
Doubled haploids (DHs) are powerful tools to reduce the time and costs needed to produce pure lines to be used in breeding programs. DHs are also useful for genetic mapping of complex qualitative traits, to avoid transgenic ...
Ecophysiology of root systems-environment interaction
(2014)
There is a scarcity of detailed information regarding the ecophysiology of root systems and the way root system functioning is affected by both internal and external factors. Furthermore, global climate change is expected ...
Educational Neuroscience, Constructivist Learning, and the Mediation of Learning and Creativity in the 21st Century
(2015)
The advent of educational neuroscience, a transdisciplinary exercise emerging from cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology, is the examination of physiological processes that undermine, support, and enhance the ...
Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities
(2016)
Nowadays, not only psychologists are interested in the study of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Teachers, educator, managers, employers, and people, in general, pay attention to EI. For example, teachers would like to know ...
Emotion and Aging: Recent Evidence from Brain and Behavior
(2015)
Emotions play a central role in every human life, from the moment we are born until we die. They prepare the body for action, guide decisions, and highlight what should be noticed and remembered. Since emotions are central ...
Emotion and Behavior
(2016)
In this Research Topic, several groups of researchers from both social and biological psychology summarize their findings addressing the relation between emotion and behavior. The Reflective-Impulsive Model (RIM) (Strack ...
Enabling Technologies for Very Large-Scale Synaptic Electronics
(2018)
An important part of the colossal effort associated with the understanding of the brain involves using electronics hardware technology in order to reproduce biological behavior in ‘silico’. The idea revolves around leveraging ...
Enamel Research: Mechanisms and Characterization
(2016)
The rodent incisor is a good model system to study the molecular and cellular events that are involved in enamel biomineralization. Incisors in rodents continuously erupt during their lifespan, thus allowing the study of ...
Evolutionary Feedbacks Between Population Biology and Genome Architecture
(2018)
This eBook presents all 10 articles published under the Frontiers Research Topic "Evolutionary Feedbacks Between Population Biology and Genome Architecture", edited by Scott V. Edwards and Tariq Ezaz. With the rise of rapid ...
The Coevolution of IDO1 and AhR in the Emergence of Regulatory T Cells in Mammals
(2016)
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) is an ancestral enzyme that, initially confined to the regulation of tryptophan availability in local tissue microenvironments, is now considered to play a wider role that extends to ...
Coding Properties in Invertebrate Sensory Systems
(2017)
Animals rely on sensory input from their environment for survival and reproduction. Depending on the importance of a signal for a given species, accuracy of sensory coding might vary from pure detection up to precise coding ...
Emotional Modulation of the Synapse
(2015)
Highly emotional events tend to be well remembered. The adaptive value in this is clear – those events that have a bearing on survival should be stored for future use as long-term memories whereas memories of inconsequential ...
Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory
(2017)
Successful speaking and understanding requires mechanisms for reliably encoding structured linguistic representations in memory and for effectively accessing information in those representations later. Studying the time-course ...
Energy metabolism
(2014)
Energy metabolism is central to life and altered energy expenditure (EE) is often cited as a central mechanism responsible for development of the obese phenotype. Resting EE, EE of physical activity, cold induced thermogenesis ...
Energy metabolism and behavior in the corticotropin-releasing factor family of peptides
(2015)
Since Hans Selye's seminal work in the 1930s, there have been numerous advances with respect to our understanding of how the nervous and endocrine systems interact to help animals cope with stressors and how chronic stress ...
Evaluation of Building Resilience Under Earthquake Input Using Single, Double and Multiple Impulses
(2017)
This eBook is the third in a series of books on the critical earthquake response of elastic or elastic-plastic structures under near-fault or long-duration ground motions, and includes four original research papers which ...
Essential Pathways and Circuits of Autism Pathogenesis
(2016)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 in 68 children in the United states is afflicted with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), yet at this time, there is no cure for the disease. Autism is characterized ...
Emergent Public Health Issues in the US-Mexico Border Region
(2017)
US-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents as well as serves as a microcosm of migration health challenges facing an increasingly mobile and ...
Emergent neural computation from the interaction of different forms of plasticity
(2016)
From the propagation of neural activity through synapses, to the integration of signals in the dendritic arbor, and the processes determining action potential generation, virtually all aspects of neural processing are ...
Enzymes from Extreme Environments
(2016)
Enzymes are nature’s biocatalysts empowered with high catalytic power and remarkable substrate specificity. Enzymes perform a wide range of functions throughout nature, and guide the biochemistry of life with great precision. ...
CNS Recovery after Structural and/or Physiological/Psychological Damage
(2016)
There is an assumption that environmental threats could cause important damages in central nervous system. As a consequence, several forms of brain structural plasticity could be affected. The environmentally mediated risks ...
The Cognitive Thalamus
(2015)
Cognitive processing is commonly conceptualized as being restricted to the cerebral cortex. Accordingly, electrophysiology, neuroimaging and lesion studies involving human and animal subjects have almost exclusively focused ...
The cognitive, emotional and neural correlates of creativity
(2015)
Across species, humans have an unsurpassed capacity for creative thought and innovation. Human creativity is at the roots of extraordinary achievements in the arts and sciences, and enables individuals and their groups to ...
Emerging Approaches for Typing, Detection, Characterization, and Traceback of Escherichia coli, 2nd Edition
(2018)
Pathogenic Escherichia coli strains cause a large number of diseases in humans, including diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, urinary tract infections, and neonatal meningitis, while in animals they ...
Emerging Approaches for Typing, Detection, Characterization, and Traceback of Escherichia coli
(2017)
Pathogenic Escherichia coli strains cause a large number of diseases in humans, including diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, urinary tract infections, and neonatal meningitis, while in animals they ...
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response and Transcriptional Reprogramming
(2015)
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an intracellular organelle responsible for protein folding and assembly, lipid and sterol biosynthesis, and calcium storage. A number of biochemical, physiological, or pathological stimuli can ...
Evidence-Based Programming for Older Adults
(2015)
There is increased world-wide concern about the impact of multiple chronic conditions, especially among the rapidly aging population. Simultaneously, over the past decade there has been an emergence of state-wide and ...
Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries Among Older Adults
(2018)
Falls and fall-related injuries among older adults have emerged as serious global health concerns, which place a burden on individuals, their families, and greater society. As fall incidence rates increase alongside our ...
The Evolution and Development of the Antibody Repertoire
(2015)
Although at first glance mechanisms used to create the variable domains of immunoglobulin appear to be designed to generate diversity at random, closer inspection reveals striking evolutionary constraints on the sequence ...
Effects of Game and Game-like Training on Neurocognitive Plasticity
(2016)
Cognitive training is not always effective. This is also the case for the form of cognitive training that this Research Topic focuses on: prolonged performance on game-like cognitive tasks. The ultimate goal of this cognitive ...
The effect of hearing loss on neural processing
(2015)
Efficient auditory processing requires the rapid integration of transient sensory inputs. This is exemplified in human speech perception, in which long stretches of a complex acoustic signal are typically processed accurately ...
Effects of Climate Change Across Ocean Regions
(2018)
The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) highlighted that conditions within Earth’s ocean are changing more rapidly than any of the time during the past 65 million years, and as a consequence, major changes are occurring in ...
The Clinical and Ethical Practice of Neuromodulation - Deep Brain Stimulation and Beyond
(2018)
euromodulation is among the fastest-growing areas of medicine, involving many diverse specialties and affecting hundreds of thousands of patients with numerous disorders worldwide. It can briefly be described as the science ...
Clinical Application of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT): Cranium to Prostate
(2016)
Stereotactic radiosurgery is a relatively recent radiation technique initially developed using a frame-based system in 1949 by a Swedish neurosurgeon, Lars Leksell, for lesions not amendable to surgical resection. Radiosurgery ...
Emerging Technologies to Promote and Evaluate Physical Activity
(2014)
Increasingly, efforts to promote and measure physical activity are achieving greater precision, greater ease of use, and/or greater scope by incorporating emerging technologies. This is significant for physical activity ...