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01 Oct 2015

Most viewed Psychology articles in September 2015

Spontaneous recovery of effects of contrast adaptation without awareness Gaoxing Mei, Xue Dong, Bo Dong and Min Bao* Quantum structure of negation and conjunction in human thought Diederik Aerts, Sandro Sozzo* and Tomas Veloz The experience of premature birth for fathers: the application of the Clinical Interview for Parents of High-Risk Infants (CLIP) to an Italian sample Carla Candelori, Carmen Trumello, Alessandra Babore* Miri Keren and Roberta Romanelli Manipulating target size influences perceptions of success when learning a dart-throwing skill but does not impact retention Nicole T. Ong, Keith R. Lohse and Nicola J. Hodges* Adoptive parenting and attachment: association of the internal working models between adoptive mothers and their late-adopted children during adolescence Cecilia S. Pace*, Simona Di Folco, Viviana Guerriero, Alessandra Santona and Grazia Terrone Female social response to male sexual harassment in poeciliid fish: a comparison of six species Marco Dadda* Imitation by combination: preschool age children evidence summative imitation in a novel problem-solving task Francys Subiaul*, Edward Krajkowski, Elizabeth E. Price and Alexander Etz Brief quiet ego contemplation reduces oxidative stress and mind-wandering Heidi A. Wayment*, Ann F. Collier, Melissa Birkett, Tinna Traustadottir and Robert E. Till Effects of broken affordance on visual extinction Melanie Wulff* and Glyn W. Humphreys An object-identity probability cueing paradigm during grasping observation: […]

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30 Sep 2015

First e-book published in Environmental Science: “Circulation Weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate and environmental research”

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new eBook presenting cutting edge themes on weather systems: “Circulation Weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate and environmental research”, published under Frontiers in Environmental Science, hosted by: Alexandre M. Ramos, David Barriopedro, Emanuel Dutra. We hope this achievement serves as a stepping stone to inspire future research topics in our journal. You can take a look at the eBook here: http://fron.tiers.in/go/9XxBuW Research Topic webpage: http://fron.tiers.in/go/ddMyGa Topic Description: Classifications of circulation weather systems have a long history in meteorology and climatology. Starting with manual classifications over specific regions of the globe, these tools (generally called “catalogs of synoptic types”) were restricted mainly to weather forecasting and historical climate variability studies. In the last decades, the advance of computing resources and the availability of datasets have fostered the development of fast and objective methods that process large amount of data. In recent years numerous methods of circulation type classification have been designed, showing their usefulness on a wide range of applications in scientific domains related to weather, climate, and environment. This Research Topic highlights methodological advances in circulation weather types and also their applications to different research areas. The articles included in […]

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18 Sep 2015

An Interview with Beatrice Barco – Founder of The Bookfeeding Project

It is on a Thursday afternoon when I got the chance to speak with Beatrice Barco, founder of The Bookfeeding Project, a non-profit organization bringing education closer to children around the world and one of the charities that Frontiers recently supported through a fund-matching campaign. Originally Italian, Beatrice studied in Italy, China, and the UK. She has volunteered internationally for several organizations prior to establishing her own. Currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Beatrice works for Frontiers, an open-access publisher. Beba, when did you first have the idea of setting up a Not-For-Profit initiative? The Non-Profit initiative was actually a thought that arrived later. After founding the actual initiative and seeing that The Bookfeeding Project was working, thanks to European funds and a project called EVS (European Volunteering Service), I went to Tamil Nadu for seven months where I taught in a school linked to an orphanage/shelter home. I then realized that the school and its structure lacked a library and books. This is how I started to collect books and to refurnish the library. That was the beginning. Eventually things evolved. It started in 2011, when I first had the thought, and it then became real in 2012. I was very […]

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17 Sep 2015

Blue Butterfly – The Catalyst Theater Company and Frontiers

By Kate Gardner, Frontiers Editorial Project Specialist At Frontiers, we are dedicated to open science. We share a common belief that peer-reviewed scientific literature should be freely accessible worldwide and researchers should be appreciated for their contributions to science as authors, editors and reviewers. Research should be collaborative and empowered to catalyze change for the greater good. In tandem with open science, researchers now share a greater responsibility to communicate their results in a comprehensible manner – particularly when sharing information beyond the usual experts in the field. The Catalyst Theater Company, founded in 2012 at nearby University of Lausanne, is another manifestation of the open science movement. This group of scientists at UNIL and EPFL began practicing improv with the premise that brilliant ideas should be coupled with the ability to communicate them effectively. They have performed original and adapted plays including An Enemy of the People. In 2014, The Catalyst received an Agora grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Agora funding is awarded to projects that communicate current Swiss-based research to the public. This generous support allowed the Catalyst to collaborate with international theater professionals who helped create a new piece of theater called Blue Butterfly. During several experimental devising […]

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17 Sep 2015

Loop launches enhanced Author Impact Metrics

Loop, the Frontiers research network, has revamped and launched new “Author Impact Metrics”, which provide researchers with aggregated impact metrics across all of their publications, at a unified author level. The new enhancement to the impact pages is an inclusive approach that aggregates content from a number of external sources including Scopus, CrossRef, PubMed and PlosOne; and together with data from Frontiers and Loop, provide researchers a far more accurate measurement of their academic impact at an international scale. “Access to impact data from a single platform in an isolated space provides an unbalanced view. We strive to find new ways to break down the barriers between researchers, publishers and academic repositories and our ‘inclusive’ approach to all Loop features, including impact metrics, is another step in this direction,” said Kamila Markram, CEO and co-founder of Frontiers. Frontiers pioneered Article Level Impact Metrics and Journal Level Impact Metrics in 2008, based on new online measurements such as views and downloads for articles, and introduced Author Level Impact Metrics in 2011. With this release, researchers receive feedback on their overall performance via a new user-friendly interface attached directly to their Loop profile. Researchers with Loop profiles see a real-time view of: […]

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16 Sep 2015

Frontiers in Psychiatry welcomes Prof Stefan Borgwardt in his new role as Field Chief Editor

Frontiers in Psychiatry is pleased to announce Prof Stefan Borgwardt as the journal’s new Field Chief Editor. Stefan Borgwardt is professor at the University of Basel, and head of the Diagnostic and Crisis Intervention Centre at the Psychiatric University Hospital, UPK Basel, Switzerland. We asked about what prompted him to work as a psychiatrist and to learn more about his goals and mission for the journal:   Tell us a little about your research history. How did you end up doing what you are doing today? My passion for psychiatry has led me to devote my research to a better understanding of the links between psychopathology and behaviour – a field that has extremely important societal implications and promotes the care of individuals with behavioural disturbances. My interest in research has been already set in motion by my parents – both chemists. Furthermore, during my civil service I’ve started working with people with mental diseases – a field that fascinates me since. The 2-year research fellowship at King’s College London, United Kingdom, allowed me to collaborate with researchers from all over the World and with different background and expertise. It was inspiring to witness how our individual areas of expertise can influence research directions and contribute to a larger picture. Why did you decide to join […]

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10 Sep 2015

New Specialty Section Fundamental Astronomy now open for submissions

The Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences team is pleased to announce the launch of a new specialty section. The new section, Fundamental Astronomy, is led by Specialty Chief Editor Professor Sergei Kopeikin, from the University of Missouri, USA, and is now open for submissions. As part of the “Frontiers in” journal series, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences offers:  Interactive and collaborative review to ensure quality, rigor, and fairness World-class editorial boards for all specialty sections  Open Access for maximum visibility and discoverability Advanced article-level analytics and demographics to track reach and impact, including social media buzz Fast publication, with an average of 84 days from submission to publication Editors and reviewers disclosed on all published articles for maximum transparency Commenting systems enabled on all articles to boost post-publication feedback At present the editorial board Fundamental Astronomy is composed of the following Associate Editors: Alessandra Celletti, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Ludwig Combrinck, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa Thomas Marshall Eubanks, Asteroid Initiatives LLC, USA Agnes Fienga, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte, Observatoire de Paris, France Zinovy Malkin, Pulkovo Observatory, Russia Yi Xie, Nanjing University, China Fundamental astronomy is an essential branch of modern gravitational physics, which explores the fundamental structure of space and […]

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09 Sep 2015

Time has come for new goals in Nutrition Science

In just a little over a year, Frontiers in Nutrition has published 52 articles and has 17 specialty sections ranging from diabetes and gastrointestinal sciences to nutrigenomics and nutritional methodology.  The journal’s field chief editor is Dr. Johannes le Coutre, Head of Perception Physiology at the Nestlé Research Center, and his vision is the driving force behind a new Field Grand Challenge article entitled “Goals in Nutrition Science 2015-2020.” Read the paper. “With the definition of goals in Nutrition Science, we are taking a brave step and a leap of faith with regard to predicting the scope and direction of nutrition science over the next five years. The content of this editorial has been discussed, refined and evaluated with great care by the Frontiers in Nutrition editorial board. We feel the topics described represent the key opportunities, and also the biggest challenges in our field,” le Coutre writes in the article’s abstract. The challenge addresses eight categories in nutrition, with each category’s issue addressed by a different author specializing in that area. Passionate about nutrition, le Coutre see Frontiers in Nutrition as more than a journal, and has developed it to be a platform to unite those in the community dedicated to conducting fundamental science in the field of nutrition.  We asked him about what […]

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06 Sep 2015

Most viewed Psychology articles in August 2015

Building metamemorial knowledge over time: insights from eye tracking about the bases of feeling-of-knowing and confidence judgments Elizabeth F. Chua* and Lisa A. Solinger Infant manual performance during reaching and grasping for objects moving in depth Erik Domellöf*, Marianne Barbu-Roth, Louise Rönnqvist, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet and Jacqueline Fagard Examining age-related shared variance between face cognition, vision, and self-reported physical health: a test of the common cause hypothesis for social cognition Sally Olderbak*, Andrea Hildebrandt and Oliver Wilhelm Grounding grammatical categories: attention bias in hand space influences grammatical congruency judgment of Chinese nominal classifiers Marit Lobben* and Stefania D’Ascenzo Auditory stream segregation using amplitude modulated bandpass noise Yingjiu Nie* and Peggy B. Nelson Developmental differences in relations between parent-reported executive function and unitized and non-unitized memory representations during childhood Sarah L. Blankenship and Tracy Riggins* Improving spatial-simultaneous working memory in Down syndrome: effect of a training program led by parents instead of an expert Francesca Pulina, Barbara Carretti, Silvia Lanfranchi* and Irene C. Mammarella Default mode network alterations during implicit emotional faces processing in first-episode, treatment-naive major depression patients Huqing Shi, Xiang Wang, Jinyao Yi, Xiongzhao Zhu, Xiaocui Zhang, Juan Yang and Shuqiao Yao* Associations between musical abilities and precursors of reading in preschool aged children Franziska Degé*, Claudia Kubicek and Gudrun Schwarzer Feel like you […]

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06 Sep 2015

Most viewed Plant Science articles in August 2015

Leaf d15N as a physiological indicator of the responsiveness of N2-fixing alfalfa plants to elevated [CO2], temperature and low water availability Idoia Ariz, Cristina Cruz, Tome Neves, Juan J. Irigoyen, Carmen García, Salvador Nogués, Pedro M Aparicio-Tejo and Iker Aranjuelo* Combined endophytic inoculants enhance nickel phytoextraction from serpentine soil in the hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens Giovanna Visioli*, Teofilo Vamerali, Monica Mattarozzi, Lucia Dramis and Anna Maria Sanangelantoni Structural characterization of a mixed-linkage glucan deficient mutant reveals alteration in cellulose microfibril orientation in rice coleoptile mesophyll cell walls Andreia Michelle Smith-Moritz, Zhao Hao, Susana González Fernández-Niño, Jonatan Ulrik Fangel, Yves Verhertbruggen, Hoi-Ying N Holman, William G.T. Willats, Pamela C Ronald*, Henrik Scheller, Joshua L Heazlewood and Miguel Vega-Sanchez* Identification of B6T173 (ZmPrx35) as the prevailing peroxidase in highly insect-resistant maize (Zea mays, p84C3) kernels by activity-directed purification Laura Margarita López-Castillo, Janet Ana Isabel López-Arciniega, Armando Guerrero-Rangel, Silvia Valdés-Rodríguez, Luis Gabriel Brieba, Silverio García-Lara and Robert Winkler* Mineral accumulation in vegetative and reproductive tissues during seed development in Medicago truncatula Christina B. Garcia and Michael A. Grusak* Wheat genotypic variation in dynamic fluxes of WSC components in different stem segments under drought during grain filling Jingjuan Zhang, Wei Chen, Bernard Dell, Rudy Vergauwen, Xinmin Zhang, Jorge E. Mayer […]

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05 Sep 2015

Most viewed Physiology articles in August 2015

Functional aortic stiffness: role of CD4+ T lymphocytes Beenish A. Majeed, Lance S. Eberson, Supannikar Tawinwung, Nicolas Larmonier, Timothy W. Secomb and Douglas F. Larson* High-order finite element methods for cardiac monodomain simulations Kevin P. Vincent, Matthew J. Gonzales, Andrew K. Gillette, Christopher T. Villongco, Simone Pezzuto, Jeffrey H. Omens, Michael J. Holst and Andrew D. McCulloch* Dentin phosphophoryn in the matrix activates AKT and mTOR signaling pathway to promote preodontoblast survival and differentiation Anne George* and Asha Eapen Xylooligosaccharide supplementation alters gut bacteria in both healthy and prediabetic adults: a pilot study Jieping Yang*, Paula H. Summanen, Susanne M. Henning, Mark Hsu, Heiman Lam, Jianjun Huang, Chi-Hong Tseng, Scot E. Dowd, Sydney M. Finegold, David Heber and Zhaoping Li* Muscular coordination of biceps brachii and brachioradialis in elbow flexion with respect to hand position Tim Kleiber*, Leo Kunz and Catherine Disselhorst-Klug Towards the modeling of mucus draining from human lung: role of airways deformation on air-mucus interaction. Benjamin Mauroy*, Patrice Flaud, Dominique Pelca, Christian Fausser, Jacques Merckx and Barrett R. Mitchell Increment of body mass index is positively correlated with worsening of endothelium-dependent and independent changes in forearm blood flow Luiz G. Kraemer-Aguiar, Marcos L. De Miranda*, Daniel A. Bottino, Ronald de A. Lima, Maria das […]

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05 Sep 2015

Most viewed Oncology articles in August 2015

Immunotherapy of childhood Sarcomas Stephen S. Roberts*, Alexander J. Chou and Nai-Kong V. Cheung Epithelioid sarcoma: opportunities for biology-driven targeted therapy Jonathan Noujaim*, Khin Thway, Zia Bajwa, Ayeza Bajwa, Robert G. Maki, Robin L. Jones and Charles Keller* Key roles of hyaluronan and its CD44 receptor in the stemness and survival of cancer stem cells Theerawut Chanmee, Pawared Ontong, Koji Kimata and Naoki Itano* Multiple molecular pathways in melanomagenesis: characterization of therapeutic targets Giuseppe Palmieri*, MariaNeve Ombra, Maria Colombino, Milena Casula, MariaCristina Sini, Antonella Manca, Panagiotis Paliogiannis, Paolo Antonio Ascierto and Antonio Cossu Sunitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review of UK real world data Miriam Argyropulo-Palmer, Aaron Jenkins, Davinder Singh Theti*, James Larkin and David Montgomery A retrospective review of CyberKnife stereotactic body radiotherapy for adrenal tumors (primary and metastatic): Winthrop University Hospital experience Amishi Desai*, Hema Rai, Jonathan Haas, Matthew Witten, Seth Blacksburg and Jeffrey G. Schneider Possible Role of Aurora-C in Meiosis Kuo-Tai Yang, Chieh-Ju C. Tang and Tang K. Tang* Disseminated medulloblastoma in a child with germline BRCA2 6174delT mutation and without Fanconi anemia Jingying Xu, Ashley Sloane Margol, Anju Shukla, Xiuhai Ren, Jonathan L. Finlay, Mark D. Krieger, Floyd H. Gilles, Fergus J. Couch, Meraj Aziz, Eric T. […]

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04 Sep 2015

Most viewed Neuroscience articles in August 2015

Preservation of the optic radiations based on comparative analysis of diffusion tensor imaging tractography and anatomical dissection Roland P. Nooij*, Eelco W. Hoving, Arjen L. J. van Hulzen, Frans W. Cornelissen and Remco J. Renken Change in the coding of interaural time difference along the tonotopic axis of the chicken nucleus laminaris Nicolás Palanca-Castán* and Christine Köppl Lipidome of midbody released from neural stem and progenitor cells during mammalian cortical neurogenesis Yoko Arai, Julio L. Sampaio, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Andreas W. Ettinger, Christiane Haffner and Wieland B. Huttner* Myosin X regulates neuronal radial migration through interacting with N-cadherin Mingming Lai, Ye Guo, Jun Ma, Huali Yu, Dongdong Zhao, Wenqiang Fan, Xingda Ju, Muhammad A. Sheikh, Yousra S. Malik, Wencheng Xiong, Weixiang Guo* and Xiaojuan Zhu* The neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) alters hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission by modulation of the GABAergic system YuYing Huang, JunFang Chen, Ying Chen, YingHan Zhuang, Mu Sun* and Thomas Behnisch* Characterization of auditory synaptic inputs to gerbil perirhinal cortex Vibhakar C. Kotak*, Todd M. Mowery and Dan H. Sanes Early adversity disrupts the adult use of aversive prediction errors to reduce fear in uncertainty Kristina M. Wright, Alyssa DiLeo and Michael A. McDannald* Differential myelinated and unmyelinated sensory and autonomic skin nerve fiber involvement in patients with ophthalmic […]

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04 Sep 2015

Most viewed Neurology articles in August 2015

A prospective pilot trial for pallidal deep brain stimulation in Huntington´s disease Lars Wojtecki*, Stefan J. Groiss, Stefano Ferrea, Saskia Elben, Christian J. Hartmann, Stephen B. Dunnett, Anne Rosser, Carsten Saft, Martin Südmeyer, Christian Ohmann, Alfons Schnitzler and Jan Vesper for the Surgical Approaches Working Group of the European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN) Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the recognition of bodily emotions from point-light displays Sharona Vonck, Stephan Patrick Swinnen, Nicole Wenderoth and Kaat Alaerts* Force variability during dexterous manipulation in individuals with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease Na-hyeon Ko, Christopher M. Laine, Beth E. Fisher and Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas* Deficits in the activation of human oculomotor nuclei in chronic traumatic brain injury Christopher W. Tyler*, Lora T. Likova, Kristyo N. Mineff and Spero C. Nicholas Central nervous system and peripheral inflammatory processes in Alzheimer’s disease: biomarker profiling approach Constance Delaby*, Audrey Gabelle, David Blum, Susanna Schraen-Maschke, Amandine Moulinier, Justine Boulangien, Dany Severac, Luc Buee, Thierry Reme and Sylvain Lehmann Aberrant brain network efficiency in Parkinson’s disease patients with tremor: a multi-modality study Delong Zhang, Jinhui Wang, Xian Liu, Jun Chen and Bo Liu* Alteration of basal ganglia and right frontoparietal network in early drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease during heat pain stimuli and resting state […]