NFL Funds WSU Effort to Fix Injured Brains with New Nerve Cells

Five years ago, Czaja and WSU colleagues discovered by accident that a nerve center just outside the brain can recover from damage by inducing developing ste...

Science > Neuroscience > Neurogenesis

Keywords: Capsaicin, Neurogenesis, Nodose Ganglion

Posted by: Krzysztof Czaja

Posted on: 23 May 2013

The MUSIC Film English subtitles

This film introduces the MUSIC-project (Mitigation in Urban Context, Solutions for Innovative Cities). This Interreg-funded project is a co-operation between...

Science > Environmental Science > Environmental Geography

Posted by: Ulrich Leopold

Posted on: 23 May 2013

Gaute Einevoll og Human Brain Project

Gaute Einevoll and the Human Brain Project

Science > Ecology and Evolution > Anthrozoology

Keywords: Human Brain Project, Norway, FET Flagship, HBP, EU commission

Posted by: Human Brain Project (HBP)

Posted on: 23 May 2013

results of a finite element computation of laminated paperboard folding, after creasing.

The colours represent the opening of a number of delamination surfaces in the creasing zone.

Engineering > Mechanical and Industrial Engineering > Computational Mechanics

Posted by: Lars A.A. Beex

Posted on: 21 May 2013

Recursive exploration of paths in networks

Recursive algorithm to explore paths of any length in a graph. In this example, all the paths with a maximum length equal to 5 are explored at each step star...

Science > Neuroscience > Computational Neuroscience

Posted by: Fabrizio DE VICO FALLANI

Posted on: 20 May 2013

Cortical network dynamics during foot movements

Time-varying evolution of the cortical network during the preparation and the execution of a simple foot movement. 16 regions of interest are continuosly exc...

Engineering > Bioengineering and Biotechnology > Systems Biology

Posted by: Fabrizio DE VICO FALLANI

Posted on: 20 May 2013

peel3D

3D peel test with tri-variate NURBS cohesive elements.

Engineering > Aerospace and Automotive Engineering > Aerospace Structures and Materials

Keywords: peel test, 3D isogeometric analysis, MIGFEM, cohesive elements

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 18 May 2013

Peel test with isogeometric NURBS elements.

Large displacement delamination of a composite beam. Modeled using isogeometric interface elements.

Engineering > Aerospace and Automotive Engineering > Aerospace Structures and Materials

Keywords: peel test, isogeometric analysis, MIGFEM, IgA, cohesive elements

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 17 May 2013

(Part 2) It's all in the timing: How musicians communicate emotion

"It's All in the Timing" - Part 2 - with McGill psychology professor and best selling author Daniel Levitin. Find out how the music industry might react to h...

Science > Neuroscience > Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

Posted by: Daniel J. Levitin

Posted on: 16 May 2013

(Part 1) It's all in the timing: How musicians communicate emotion

"It's all in the Timing" is a 2-part video with best-selling author and McGill Psychology Professor Daniel J. Levitin. His latest research study looks at how...

Science > Neuroscience > Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

Posted by: Daniel J. Levitin

Posted on: 16 May 2013

THIS IS WATER

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. 

Society > Education

Posted by: Catriona Beatrix le Roux Loubser

Posted on: 15 May 2013

Babbage: open-access

Science

Keywords: Open access, scholarly publishing, Open Science, Academic Journals, Science Communication

Posted by: Gozde Zorlu

Posted on: 14 May 2013

Babbage: open-access

Video primer on open-access from the Economist, following an editorial published in the magazine last week (which featured Frontiers!):...

Science

Keywords: Open access, scholarly publishing, Academic Journals, Open Science, Science Communication

Posted by: Frontiers

Posted on: 14 May 2013

results of a finite element computation of laminated paperboard creasing.

The colours represent the opening of a number of delamination surfaces in the creasing zone.

Engineering > Mechanical and Industrial Engineering > Computational Mechanics

Posted by: Lars A.A. Beex

Posted on: 13 May 2013

results of a finite element computation of laminated creasing and folding.

The colours represent the amount of opening of a number of delamination surfaces in the creasing zone.

Engineering > Mechanical and Industrial Engineering > Computational Mechanics

Posted by: Lars A.A. Beex

Posted on: 13 May 2013

Monkey Math

Jessica Cantlon, lead author of a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, describes her research on how baboons can discriminate between different quantities of objects. Eight olive...

Science

Keywords: numerosity, Primates, baboons, Object-file, Analog magnitude

Posted by: Frontiers in Psychology Editorial Office

Posted on: 13 May 2013

Hybrid Multiscale Modeling

A hybrid computational multiscale code has been developed for the modeling of fracture of a notched beam under three point bending test. A coarse mesh finite...

Engineering > Bioengineering and Biotechnology > Biochemical Engineering

Keywords: multiscale methods, fracture mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, polycrystalline materials, 3 point bending, homogenization

Posted by: Ahmad Akbari R.

Posted on: 12 May 2013

Fracture in polycrystalline micro structure

Engineering > Mechanical and Industrial Engineering > Automotive Engineering

Keywords: Polycrystal, Fracture, Finite Element, cohesive interface element

Posted by: Ahmad Akbari R.

Posted on: 11 May 2013

Thermal stress wave propagation in a functionally graded material.

Meshless Petrov-Galerkin Method is used to model the thermal stress in a functionally graded material for a 2D domain.

Engineering > Bioengineering and Biotechnology > Biomaterials

Keywords: thermal stress, Wave propagation, meshless method, Functionally graded materials

Posted by: Ahmad Akbari R.

Posted on: 11 May 2013

lshapemultiple-delamination

Multiple delamination of a L-shaped composite laminate. Modeled with NURBS-based isogeometric cohesive elements.

Engineering > Aerospace and Automotive Engineering > Aerospace Structures and Materials

Keywords: multiple delamination of a L-shaped composite sample IGA MIGFEM isogeometric cohesive elements

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 11 May 2013

Isogeometric analysis of large deformation thin shells

Isogeometric analysis of large deformation of a free end cylinder thin shell. The code is free at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmcodes/.

Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering > Computing in Civil Engineering

Keywords: large deformation of thin shells IGA shells MIGFEM

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 11 May 2013

Continuum damage modeling of a concrete beam

Failure of a SEN beam modeled using a continuum damage model.

Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering > Computing in Civil Engineering

Keywords: fracture of a concrete beam with continuum damage theory

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 11 May 2013

multi delamination

multi-delamination of a composite beam. Modeled with high order Bspline cohesive interface elements. The paper is published in Composite Structures http://ww...

Engineering > Aerospace and Automotive Engineering > Aerospace Structures and Materials

Keywords: multiple delamination Bsplines finite elements

Posted by: Nguyen Vinh Phu

Posted on: 11 May 2013

Benefits of Open Access

BioMed Central's authors and editors discuss the benefits of open access publishing Watch this in Widescreen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkrdn_GrQo

Science > Ecology and Evolution > Anthrozoology

Posted by: Judyta Sorokowska

Posted on: 09 May 2013

l'Arbre de l'authenticite

Note the large amount of biomass in the branches relative to the stem diameter.

Science > Ecology and Evolution

Posted by: Koen Hufkens

Posted on: 08 May 2013