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Young Minds
16 Mar 2016
USA Science and Engineering Festival
Frontiers for Young Minds is proud to be an Official Partner of the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held April 16-17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. What is the universe made of? Why did dinosaurs go extinct? What do magic tricks and hip-hop have to with math? What will be the next medical breakthrough? What does baseball have to do with physics? Find out at the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo where more than 350,000 K-12 students and parents, over 5,000 teachers and over 3,000 STEM professionals will experience the largest celebration of STEM! Participants include more than 1,000 of the world’s leading professional scientific and engineering societies, universities, government agencies, high tech corporations and STEM outreach and community organizations. The two-day Expo is perfect for teens, children and their families, and anyone with a curious mind who is looking for a weekend of fun and discovery. Meet science celebrities like Grammy Award-winning alternative music band “They Might Be Giants!” and Bill Nye the Science Guy! On Thursday April 14, 2016 middle and high school students will have a chance to view presentations from the most inspiring STEM professionals at the 3rd X-STEM Extreme Symposium! And Sneak Peek […]
Environment
16 Mar 2016
Environmental Sciences in the 21st Century
We asked Martin Siegert what prompted the “Environmental Sciences in the 21st Century?” challenge to learn more about his goals for the field and his mission for the journal.
Frontiers news
14 Mar 2016
Actúaloop awards the most innovative ideas to social research networks
by Beatriz del Rincón Alonso, Over 30 ideas submitted and 69 participants, including students, PhD students, researchers and professors, is the result of the first edition of actúaloop. Actúaloop competition aims to stimulate innovation in social research networks and to promote ideas that improve the functionality of Loop research network while generating new and innovative applications for academic and publishing. It has the support and mentoring of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and of the Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers. This initiative is part of the activities carried out by Frontiers in collaboration with the Center for Support of Technological Innovation (CAIT) – UPM. In the first phase of the competition, a total of 31 ideas were submitted by 69 participants from UPM (including students, PhD students, researchers and professors). In its initial phase, actúaloop selected the three best ideas. The team for each idea received a prize of 1.000 euros. Another five ideas were recognized for their development. They too will move to the next stage of the competition. Two of the three winning ideas, Journal Advisor and Formalization of experimental protocols, came from the ETSI Informáticos (UPM). The other one, IDeM, came from the ETSI Telecomunicación (UPM). Awards Journal Advisor: Orientation visualization system for would-be authors to advise them in […]
Neuroscience
14 Mar 2016
Highlights from the Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity (WCNP)
by Jochen Meier, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Specialty Chief Editor Aloha: Thanks to the Frontiers Travel Award I am providing herewith an overview and some highlights of the Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity WCNP, Sunday January 31 – Friday February 05, Maui Hawaii. Janelle C. LeBoutillier and Ted L. Petit again did a great job and organized this conference which took place at the Sheraton Hotel Ka’anapali (see: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~wcnp/ ). It was an intriguing international conference with approximately 75 participants from all over the world. This post shall provide an overview of recent research highlights covering network, systems and behavioral neuroscience with particular focus on learning and memory, as well as cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural plasticity in health and disease. However, due to confidentiality issues this blog can unfortunately not be exhaustive, but all the contributions blogged here are authorized. Sunday – New Concepts The conference started out with the New Concepts Session on Sunday evening and covered heterogeneous topics. Michel Chopp was giving some exciting insights into exosome/miR therapy for neural injury after TBI, showing that the miRNA content of exosomes derived from MSCs promote neurovascular remodeling and recovery after TBI. Eric Dumont spoke about the role […]
Frontiers news
08 Mar 2016
Most viewed Psychology articles in February 2016
Providing Extrinsic Reward for Test Performance Undermines Long-Term Memory Acquisition Christof Kuhbandner*, Alp Aslan, Kathrin Emmerdinger and Kou Murayama Why is Cognitive Enhancement Deemed Unacceptable? The Role of Fairness, Deservingness, and Hollow Achievements Nadira S. Faber*, Julian Savulescu and Thomas Douglas Non-Instrumental Movement Inhibition (NIMI) Differentially Suppresses Head and Thigh Movements during Screenic Engagement: Dependence on Interaction Harry J. Witchel*, Carlos P Santos, James K. Ackah, Carina E. I. Westling and Nachiappan Chockalingam What Deters Crime? Comparing the Effectiveness of Legal, Social, and Internal Sanctions Across Countries Heather Mann*, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf and Juan Tafurt The Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Modulates Dialectical Self-Thinking Fei Wang, Kaiping Peng*, Yang Bai, Rui Li, Ying Zhu, Pei Sun, Hua Guo, Chun Yuan, Pia Rotshtein and Jie Sui* Duration Adaptation Occurs Across the Sub- and Supra-Second Systems Shuhei Shima, Yuki Murai, Yuki Hashimoto and Yuko Yotsumoto* How Early is Infants’ Attention to Objects and Actions Shaped by Culture? New Evidence from 24-Month-Olds Raised in the US and China Sandra R. Waxman*, Xiaolan Fu, Brock Ferguson, Kathleen Geraghty, Erin Leddon, Jing Liang and Min-Fang Zhao Booze, Bars, and Bystander Behavior: People who Consumed Alcohol Help Faster in the Presence of Others Marco van Bommel*, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Henk Elffers and Paul A. […]
Frontiers news
08 Mar 2016
Welcome to Prof Martin Siegert, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science
Frontiers in Environmental Science is delighted to announce Prof. Martin Siegert as our Field Chief Editor! Martin Siegert is Professor of Geosciences and co-Director of the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. He was formerly director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol, and Head of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading University, where he gained his degree in Geological Geophysics, and at Cambridge University, where he was awarded his PhD in the numerical modelling of large ice sheets, at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Siegert’s research interests are in the field of glaciology. He uses geophysical techniques to quantify the flow and form of ice sheets both now and in the past. Using airborne radar he has identified and located ~400 subglacial lakes, has discovered ancient preglacial surfaces hidden beneath the existing ice and has demonstrated how sub-ice water is generated and interacts with the flow of ice above. He leads the UK NERC Lake Ellsworth Consortium, which aims to directly measure and explore an ancient subglacial lake in West Antarctica, to search for life in its water and comprehend records of climate held in sediments. Siegert has appeared regularly on national TV […]
Frontiers news
07 Mar 2016
Most viewed Neurology articles in February 2016
A Prospective Pilot Investigation of Brain Volume, White Matter Hyperintensities, and Hemorrhagic Lesions after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Michael Jarrett, Roger Tam, Enedino Hernández-Torres, Nancy Martin, Warren Perera, Yinshan Zhao, Elham Shahinfard, Shiroy Dadachanji, Jack Taunton, David K. B. Li and Alexander Rauscher* Modeling the Presence of Myelin and Edema in the Brain Based on Multi-Parametric Quantitative MRI Marcel Warntjes*, Maria Engström, Anders Tisell and Peter Lundberg Autonomic Nervous System Responses to Concussion: Arterial Pulse Contour Analysis Michael F. La Fountaine*, Michita Toda, Anthony J. Testa and Vicci Hill-Lombardi Cellular High-Energy Cavitation Trauma – Description of a Novel In Vitro Trauma Model in Three Different Cell Types Yuli Cao, Mårten Risling, Elisabeth Malm, Anders Sondén, Magnus Frödin Bolling and Mattias K. Sköld* The Effect of Dopaminergic Medication on Beat-Based Auditory Timing in Parkinson’s Disease Daniel J. Cameron*, Kristen A. Pickett, Gammon M. Earhart and Jessica A. Grahn Cerebral Microcirculation during Experimental Normovolaemic Anemia Judith Bellapart*, Kylie Cuthbertson, Kimble Dunster, Sara Diab, David G. Platts, O. Christopher Raffel, Levon Gabrielian, Adrian Barnett, Jenifer Paratz, Rob Boots and John F. Fraser The Effect of Age on Improvements in Vestibulo-Ocular Reflexes and Balance Control after Acute Unilateral Peripheral Vestibular Loss Alja Scheltinga, Flurin […]
Frontiers news
07 Mar 2016
Interview with Specialty Chief Editor Joseph B. Stanford
Interview with Specialty Chief Editor Joseph B. Stanford Joseph B. Stanford is Professor and Director of the Office of Cooperative Reproductive Health, Division of Public Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator for five preconception cohort studies, and has served on national scientific advisory committees for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Professor Stanford is also a Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Public Health for the new section “Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health.” He has a clear and innovative vision of where he plans to take the section that involves crossing traditional boundaries so researchers can share insights. He says one of the things he loves about Public Health “is the confluence of biological, medical, and social sciences inherently needed to address the breadth and depth of the important research questions in the field.” Why did you join Frontiers in Public Health as Specialty Chief Editor? My professional training is in family medicine and public health. I’ve been in the field for over 20 years, working with […]
Frontiers news
06 Mar 2016
Most viewed Immunology articles in February 2016
Peracetic Acid Treatment Generates Potent Inactivated Oral Vaccines from a Broad Range of Culturable Bacterial Species Kathrin Moor, Sandra Y. Wotzka, Albulena Toska, Médéric Diard, Siegfried Hapfelmeier and Emma Slack* Cytokines Induce Faster Membrane Diffusion of MHC Class I and the Ly49A Receptor in a Subpopulation of Natural Killer Cells Sunitha Bagawath-Singh, Elina Staaf, Arie Jan Stoppelenburg, Thiemo Spielmann, Taku Kambayashi, Jerker Widengren and Sofia Johansson* Evidence for Resident Memory T Cells in Rasmussen Encephalitis Geoffrey C. Owens*, Julia W. Chang, My N. Huynh, Thabiso Chirwa, Harry V. Vinters and Gary W. Mathern B Cells Negatively Regulate the Establishment of CD49b+T-bet+ Resting Memory T Helper Cells in the Bone Marrow Shintaro Hojyo, Jana Sarkander, Christian Maenne, Mathias Mursell, Asami Hanazawa, David Zimmel, Jinfang Zhu, William E. Paul, Simon Fillatreau, Max Löhning, Andreas Radbruch and Koji Tokoyoda* Expression of TLR-7, MyD88, NF-kB, and INF-α in B Lymphocytes of Mayan Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Mexico Guillermo Valencia Pacheco*, Irene B. Novelo Noh, Rubi M.-H.Velasco Cardenas, Angelica V. Angulo Ramirez, Ricardo F. Lopez Viallanueva, Irma G. Quintal Ortiz, Ligia G. Alonso Salomon, Norma Pavia Ruz and Nubia A. Rivero Cardenas The Non-structural Protein 5 and Matrix Protein Are Antigenic Targets of T Cell Immunity to Genotype 1 Porcine Reproductive […]
Frontiers news
06 Mar 2016
Most viewed Oncology articles in February 2016
Plan Quality and Treatment Efficiency for Radiosurgery to Multiple Brain Metastases: Non-Coplanar RapidArc vs. Gamma Knife Haisong Liu, David W. Andrews, James J. Evans, Maria Werner-Wasik, Yan Yu, Adam Paul Dicker and Wenyin Shi* Validation of Claims Algorithms for Progression to Metastatic Cancer in Patients with Breast, Non-small Cell Lung, and Colorectal Cancer Beth L. Nordstrom*, Jason C. Simeone, Karen G. Malley, Kathy H. Fraeman, Zandra Klippel, Mark Durst, John H. Page and Hairong Xu Efficient Rejoining of DNA Double-Strand Breaks despite Increased Cell-Killing Effectiveness following Spread-Out Bragg Peak Carbon-Ion Irradiation Nicole B. Averbeck*, Jana Topsch, Michael Scholz, Wilma Kraft-Weyrather, Marco Durante and Gisela Taucher-Scholz Glycerophosphocholine and Glycerophosphoethanolamine Are Not the Main Sources of the In Vivo 31P MRS Phosphodiester Signals from Healthy Fibroglandular Breast Tissue at 7 T Wybe J. M. van der Kemp*, Bertine L. Stehouwer, Jurgen H. Runge, Jannie P. Wijnen, Aart J. Nederveen, Peter R. Luijten and Dennis W. J. Klomp Analysis of Prognostic Factors in High-Grade Osteosarcoma of the Extremities in Children: A 15-Year Single-Institution Experience Liliana Vasquez*, Fanny Tarrillo, Monica Oscanoa, Ivan Maza, Jenny Geronimo, Gloria Paredes, Jose María Silva and Luis Sialer A Delay from Diagnosis to Treatment Is Associated with a Decreased Overall […]
Frontiers news
05 Mar 2016
Most viewed Plant Science articles in February 2016
Identification of a 467 bp Promoter of Maize Phosphatidylinositol Synthase Gene (ZmPIS) Which Confers High-Level Gene Expression and Salinity or Osmotic Stress Inducibility in Transgenic Tobacco Hongli Zhang, Jiajia Hou, Pingping Jiang, Shoumei Qi, Changzheng Xu, Qiuxia He, Zhaohua Ding, Zhiwu Wang, Kewei Zhang and Kunpeng Li* MES Buffer Affects Arabidopsis Root Apex Zonation and Root Growth by Suppressing Superoxide Generation in Root Apex Tomoko Kagenishi, Ken Yokawa and Frantisek Baluska* The Poplar Rust-Induced Secreted Protein (RISP) Inhibits the Growth of the Leaf Rust Pathogen Melampsora larici-populina and Triggers Cell Culture Alkalinisation Benjamin Petre, Arnaud Hecker, Hugo Germain, Pascale Tsan, Jan Sklenar, Gervais Pelletier, Armand Séguin, Sébastien Duplessis and Nicolas Rouhier* Redirecting the Cyanobacterial Bicarbonate Transporters BicA and SbtA to the Chloroplast Envelope: Soluble and Membrane Cargos Need Different Chloroplast Targeting Signals in Plants. Vivien Rolland*, Murray R. Badger and G. Dean Price* A Compact Model for the Complex Plant Circadian Clock Joëlle De Caluwé, Qiying Xiao, Christian Hermans, Nathalie Verbruggen, Jean-Christophe Leloup and Didier Gonze* Analysis of Sensitive CO2 Pathways and Genes Related to Carbon Uptake and Accumulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through Genomic Scale Modeling and Experimental Validation Flavia V. Winck*, David O. Paez Melo, Diego M. Riaño-Pachón, Marina C. M. Martins, Camila Caldana and Andres F. González […]
Frontiers news
05 Mar 2016
Most viewed Genetics articles in February 2016
Estimating Effect Sizes and Expected Replication Probabilities from GWAS Summary Statistics Dominic Holland*, Yunpeng Wang, Wesley K. Thompson, Andrew Schork, Chi-Hua Chen, Min-Tzu Lo, Aree Witoelar, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis Consortium, Thomas Werge, Michael O’Donovan, Ole A. Andreassen and Anders M. Dale Identification of Metabolic Pathway Systems Sepideh Dolatshahi and Eberhard O. Voit* Structural and Dynamic Characterization of the C313Y Mutation in Myostatin Dimeric Protein, Responsible for the “Double Muscle” Phenotype in Piedmontese Cattle Silvia Bongiorni, Alessio Valentini and Giovanni Chillemi* Genomic-Based Optimum Contribution in Conservation and Genetic Improvement Programs with Antagonistic Fitness and Productivity Traits Enrique Sánchez-Molano*, Ricardo Pong-Wong and Georgios Banos Cellular Senescence as the Causal Nexus of Aging Naina Bhatia-Dey, Riya R. Kanherkar, Susan E. Stair, Evgeny O. Makarev and Antonei B. Csoka* Strategies for Integrated Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic, and Gene Expression Variation in Cancer: Addressing the Challenges Louise B. Thingholm*, Lars Andersen, Enes Makalic, Melissa C. Southey, Mads Thomassen and Lise Lotte Hansen Genetic Susceptibility to Vitiligo: GWAS Approaches for Identifying Vitiligo Susceptibility Genes and Loci Changbing Shen, Jing Gao, Yujun Sheng, Jinfa Dou, Fusheng Zhou, Xiaodong Zheng, Randy Ko, Xianfa Tang, Caihong Zhu, […]
Frontiers news
04 Mar 2016
Most viewed Neuroscience articles in February 2016
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neuronal Activity and Learning in Pilot Training Jaehoon Choe, Brian A. Coffman, Dylan T. Bergstedt, Matthias D. Ziegler and Matthew E. Phillips* Whole-Brain Mapping of Neuronal Activity in the Learned Helplessness Model of Depression Yongsoo Kim, Zinaida Perova, Martine M. Mirrione, Kith Pradhan, Fritz A. Henn, Stephen Shea, Pavel Osten and Bo Li* The Effects of Tai Chi Practice on Intermuscular Beta Coherence and the Rubber Hand Illusion Catherine E. Kerr*, Uday Agrawal and Sandeep Nayak The Development of Shared Liking of Representational but not Abstract Art in Primary School Children and Their Justifications for Liking Paul Rodway*, Julie Kirkham, Astrid Schepman, Jordana Lambert and Anastasia Locke Effective Connectivity within the Default Mode Network: Dynamic Causal Modeling of Resting-State fMRI Data Maksim G. Sharaev*, Viktoria V. Zavyalova, Vadim L. Ushakov, Sergey I. Kartashov and Boris M. Velichkovsky EMOTICOM: A Neuropsychological Test Battery to Evaluate Emotion, Motivation, Impulsivity, and Social Cognition Amy R. Bland, Jonathan P. Roiser, Mitul A. Mehta, Thea Schei, Heather Boland, Daniel K. Campbell-Meiklejohn, Richard A. Emsley, Marcus R. Munafo, Ian S. Penton-Voak, Ana Seara-Cardoso, Essi Viding, Valerie Voon, Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins and Rebecca Elliott* Fluoxetine Requires the Endfeet Protein Aquaporin-4 to Enhance Plasticity of Astrocyte Processes Barbara […]
Open science and peer review
04 Mar 2016
New Data Debunks Old Beliefs: Part 2
Our original New data debunks old beliefs blog post plotted the impact factors of 570 randomly selected journals indexed in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2015), against their publicly stated rejection rates. The goal was to understand the relationship between rejection rates and journal quality. Despite a widespread belief that high rejection rates secure high impact factors, no significant correlation was found. This study was preliminary, to start a discussion, because it suggests that such an entrenched belief may be wrong. This blog post is going one step further by removing what could be the main reason why we could not find any correlation: varying citation rates across academic fields. It is widely known that articles in some fields typically get more citations than in other fields. Perhaps a correlation would become evident once we removed this variable. In Figures 1-7 below, we normalized the impact factors by field, thus effectively removing this variable from the results (data accessible here). We have done this by calculating the ranking of each journal within its own Journal Citation Reports category (or field). As an example, a journal that has the 4th largest IF among 200 journals in its category will […]
Frontiers news
03 Mar 2016
Most viewed Physiology articles in February 2016
Robust Brain Hyperglycemia during General Anesthesia: Relationships with Metabolic Brain Inhibition and Vasodilation R. Aaron Bola and Eugene A. Kiyatkin* Overexpression of Striated Muscle Activator of Rho Signaling (STARS) Increases C2C12 Skeletal Muscle Cell Differentiation Marita A. Wallace, Paul A. Della Gatta, Bilal Ahmad Mir, Greg M. Kowalski, Joachim Kloehn, Malcom J. McConville, Aaron P. Russell and Severine Lamon* Exercise Decreases Lipogenic Gene Expression in Adipose Tissue and Alters Adipocyte Cellularity during Weight Regain After Weight Loss Erin D. Giles*, Amy J. Steig, Matthew R. Jackman, Janine A. HIggins, Ginger C. Johnson, Rachel C. Lindstrom and Paul S. MacLean* Cardiorespiratory Coordination after Training and Detraining. A Principal Component Analysis Approach Natàlia Balagué*, Jacob González, Casimiro Javierre, Robert Hristovski, Daniel Aragonés, Juan Alamo, Oscar Niño and Josep L. Ventura Benefits of Group Living Include Increased Feeding Efficiency and Lower Mass Loss during Desiccation in the Social and Inbreeding Spider Stegodyphus dumicola Bram Vanthournout, Michelle Greve, Anne Madsen, Jesper Bechsgaard, Johannes Overgaard and Trine Bilde* Mismatch Negativity Affects Muscle Fatigue during Repeated Contraction Trials of Different Durations Aleksander A. Aleksandrov, Veronika M. Knyazeva, Ludmila N. Stankevich, Elena S. Dmitrieva and Anna N. Shestakova* Heart Rate and Extracellular Sodium and Potassium Modulation of Gap Junction Mediated Conduction in Guinea […]