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Professor David Lentz leads specialty on Economic Geology in Frontiers in Earth Science Economic Geology makes advances in the sustainable exploration of ore, mineral and other earth materials freely available through our open-access online platform. In a changing world, economic geology is not only about supporting our current energy demands but also expanding research to support our energy needs of the future via the precious minerals required for battery development, satellite communications, and other smart technologies....

New study shows wild boar can be immunized against the most significant worldwide threat to the swine industry by a vaccine administered via their food; Frontiers in Veterinary Science New study shows wild boar can be immunized against the most significant worldwide threat to the swine industry by a vaccine administered via their food. — by Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, Frontiers science writer Wild boar can be immunized against African Swine Fever by a new vaccine delivered to the animals in their food....

A study in Frontiers in Built Environment assesses the best ways to build railway bridges that can withstand climate change impacts and extreme weather events. Engineering and maintaining railway bridges has always been difficult — climate change creates a whole new level of challenge. — By D. Rachael Bishop An unprecedented study published in Frontiers in Built Environment looks at the life cycle costs and carbon emissions of eight construction methods for train track transitions between railway bridges and the ground....

A new model shows how infusion of anti-inflammatory enzymes helps to prevent complications in cardiac surgery; Frontiers in Immunology The model shows that infusion of anti-inflammatory enzymes during cardiac surgery induces the body to produce more of its own, helping to prevent surgical complications. — by Universiteit van Amsterdam Researchers have managed to pinpoint the mechanisms behind the immune response triggered in patients undergoing open heart surgery. Led by Professor Peter Sloot of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the team’s research reveals that by administering supplementary enzymes, so-called alkaline phosphatases, to patients undergoing cardiac surgery, the latter can regain control over their own immune response....

Nord University (Nord universitet) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Nord University will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, the Nord University will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with Nord University. The journal must be registered in the Directory of Open Journals (DOAJ) and ranked as level 1 or 2 in NSD’s Database for Higher Education....

A study published in Frontiers in Neurology provides a new, accurate way to diagnose early-stage Parkinson’s disease through a simple drawing task. Researchers have developed an automated and affordable system to diagnose early-stage Parkinson’s disease through a simple drawing task. — By Conn Hastings A study published in Frontiers in Neurology provides a new way to accurately diagnose Parkinson’s disease. The researchers developed an automated system to measure pen speed and pressure during a simple spiral sketching task....

Interview with Tolulope Jolaade Adeogun on a new Research Topic in Frontiers in Sociology & Frontiers in Psychology Interview with Tolulope Jolaade Adeogun on a new Research Topic in Frontiers in Sociology — By Jasmine Walter, Frontiers Production Office How can there be a fair, successful government without equal and substantive representation from both genders? Present attempts by women’s organizations to influence the decision-making of governments include activism and affirmative action, however, they are not having the desired impact....

Is microbial biodiversity worldwide increasing or decreasing? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution The unknown direction and pace of change in microbial — including viral — biodiversity may have deep consequences for all life on Earth By Terry Collins, science writer / @terrycollinsTC With alarms sounding about the declining diversity of plants and animals, a related concern with equally profound implications is posed: is the variety of microbial life, including viruses, changing too — and if so, in which direction and how fast?...

Frontiers will host its second Data Services Workshop on 24 April 2018, in collaboration with the EU Horizon 2020 projects OpenMinTed and OpenUp and SwissCor Frontiers is pleased to host its second Data Services Workshop, to be held on 24 April 2018 at the Hotel Renaissance in Brussels. The meeting is organized in collaboration with the EU Horizon 2020 projects OpenMinTed and OpenUp, in which Frontiers is a full partner, and SwissCore, the Swiss contact office for European research, innovation and education in Brussels....

Research suggests feedback loop between greater executive function and healthy behavior — By Derek Miller, Science Writer — It should be obvious that those with greater self-control live a healthier lifestyle. After all, it takes self-control to exercise before work, or forego fried food for kale. But new research suggests living a healthier lifestyle could also increase executive function, which is the ability to exert self-control, set and meet goals, resist temptation and solve problems....

“Your research does not finish with your publication;” explained Alvaro Alonso from the team who created IDeM, the winner of the Actúaloop awards held on 23 June in Madrid. The awards celebrated the talent of six inspiring teams who created new applications to help researchers improve their work using the research network Loop‘s APIs. The teams all came from the Technical University of Madrid, who worked for nine months on the projects....

A certain herpes variant may have a role in the development of multiple sclerosis: Frontiers in Immunology — by Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method to separate between two different types of a common herpes virus (HHV-6) that has been linked to multiple sclerosis. By analyzing antibodies in the blood against the most divergent proteins of herpesvirus 6A and 6B, the researchers were able to show that MS-patients carry the herpesvirus 6A to a greater extent than healthy individuals....

New section open for submissions: Evolutionary Developmental Biology Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first new section to be included in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and will be led by Specialty Chief Editor Alessandro Minelli, professor of Zoology, University of Padova, Italy. As the journal grows, new sections will be launched to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the Ecology and Evolution fields. All sections have a dedicated editorial board of leading, specialist researchers....

Research suggests that gamification can boost soldier training, but only if we take individual differences into account; Frontiers in Psychology Research suggests that gamification can boost soldier training, but only if we take individual differences into account — by the US Army Research Laboratory Researchers recently demonstrated that people’s attitudes about avoiding negative outcomes versus achieving positive outcomes is related to how their performance changes in response to gamified feedback during simulation-based training exercises....

By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer New research reveals there is a stark difference between the gut bacteria of nectar-feeding bats foraging in conventional monoculture banana plantations and those bats who forage in their natural forest habitat or organic plantations. This is the first study to show an association between habitat alteration, sustainable agriculture and the gut microbiota of wildlife. Nectar-feeding bats foraging in intensively managed banana plantations in Costa Rica have a less diverse set of gut microbes in comparison to bats feeding in their natural forest habitat or organic plantations, reveals new research published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution....

Frontiers has won the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award in recognition of its innovative Open-Science platform that provides open-access academic publishing and research networking for scientists. The prestigious award, issued by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), acknowledges the best innovators in the scholarly publishing industry and Frontiers received the top Gold prize at the awards ceremony in London, UK, last week (Thursday, 11 September). Kamila Markram, co-Founder and CEO of Frontiers, has dedicated the award to the Frontiers community of 50,000 editors, 100,000 authors and over 160,000 researchers on the Frontiers Network, noting “their continued dedication and faith in the Frontiers Open-Science platform that is helping to transform scholarly publishing and the dissemination of articles in the Internet era....

Every year 1,900 new upper-limb amputations occur in Europe, maintaining a population of such disabled persons hovering around 90,000. What can assistive robotics, rehabilitation science and engineering do for these people? By Claudio Castellini , Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Picture the scene: one day you wake up in a hospital with no memory of what happened and you discover in horror that your left hand is no longer there....

Low caffeine doses worsened neophobia, anxiety-related behaviors and emotional and cognitive flexibility: Frontiers in Pharmacology A long-term, low dose of caffeine worsened neophobia (fear of everything new), anxiety-related behaviors, and emotional and cognitive flexibility — while providing only little benefit to learning and memory. — By Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona It is well known that memory problems are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. However, this dementia is also characterized by neuro-psychiatric symptoms, which may be strongly present already in the first stages of the disorder....

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....

Author: Thimedi Hetti I had a pleasure of speaking with Aliyah Griffith, PhD student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, about her journey into marine science, setbacks, and achievements. With the research shift more towards coral reef management, Aliyah is hoping to partner with Barbados to explore the techniques while also partnering with the American Museum of Natural History in New York to review some of the pieces from their 4000-piece coral fossil collection....