Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in January 2017. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute.
Various types of robots recently promoted to be sold to the general public hint that these robots may further influence our daily life.
Science:
- Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Schizophrenia: How Much Can Be Achieved and How?, hosted by Christina Andreou and Steffen Moritz
- Origin of Tropical Diversity: From Clades to Communities, hosted by James Edward Richardson and R. Toby Pennington
- Non-conventional Yeast in the Wine Industry, hosted by Albert Mas, Jose Manuel Guillamón and Gemma Beltran
- Hybrid Solutions for the Modelling of Complex Environmental Systems, hosted by Christian E. Vincenot, Stefano Mazzoleni and Lael Parrott
- Modeling Individual Differences in Perceptual Decision Making, hosted by Joseph W. Houpt, Cheng-Ta Yang and James T. Townsend
- Grappling with the Multifaceted World of the DNA Damage Response, hosted by Antonio Porro
- Harnessing Useful Rhizosphere Microorganisms for Pathogen and Pest Biocontrol, hosted by Aurelio Ciancio, Corné M.J. Pieterse and Jesús Mercado-Blanco
- Recent Advances in the Study of the Host-Fungus Interaction, hosted by Attila Gacser and Héctor M. Mora-Montes
- The Role of the Plasminogen Activating System in Neurobiology, hosted by Robert L. Medcalf and Daniel A. Lawrence
- Anatomy and Plasticity in Large-Scale Brain Models, hosted by Markus Butz, Wolfram Schenck and Arjen van Ooyen
- The Role of Microbial Communities in Tropical Ecosystems, hosted by Silvia Pajares, Brendan J.M. Bohannan and Valeria Souza
- Cognitive Event-Related Potentials in Psychopathology: New Experimental and Clinical Perspectives, hosted by Salvatore Campanella and Pierre Maurage
- Interplay between NO Signaling, ROS, and the Antioxidant System in Plants, hosted by Jeremy Astier, Gary Loake, Violeta Velikova and Frank Gaupels
- Beyond Reward: Insights from Love and Addiction, hosted by Xiaochu Zhang, Zhiling Zou and Andreas J. Fallgatter
- Perception-Cognition Interface and Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness, hosted by Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz
- Mechanical Signaling in Plants: From Perception to Consequences for Growth and Morphogenesis (Thigmomorphogenesis) and Ecological Significance, hosted by Catherine Coutand, Stephen J. Mitchell, Sara Puijalon and Gabrielle Monshausen
- Using Substances to Enhance Performance: A Psychology of Neuroenhancement, hosted by Wanja Wolff and Ralf Brand
- Mathematical and Statistics Anxiety: Educational, Social, Developmental and Cognitive Perspectives, hosted by Kinga Morsanyi, Irene Cristina Mammarella, Denes Szűcs, Carlo Tomasetto, Caterina Primi and Erin Anne Maloney
- Affective Sciences through the Chemical Senses, hosted by Géraldine Coppin, Valentina Parma and Bettina M. Pause
- Advances in Genomics and Epigenomics of Social Insects, hosted by Greg J. Hunt and Juergen R. Gadau
- Linking Optical and Chemical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters, hosted by Christopher L. Osburn and Thomas S. Bianchi
- Impact of Lipid Peroxidation on the Physiology and Pathophysiology of Cell Membranes, hosted by Angel Catalá and Mario Díaz
- Genetic and Genome-Wide Insights into Microbes Studied for Bioenergy, hosted by Katherine M. Pappas, Ed Louis, Nigel Minton, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay and Shane Yang
- Investigating Human Nature and Communication through Robots, hosted by Shuichi Nishio, Hideyuki Nakanishi and Tsutomu Fujinami
- How Can Secretomics Help Unravel the Secrets of Plant-Microbe Interactions?, hosted by Delphine Vincent, Kim Marilyn Plummer, Peter Solomon, Marc-Henri Lebrun, Dominique Job and Maryam Rafiqi
- Proteomics of Microbial Human Pathogens,hosted by Nelson C. Soares, Jonathan M. Blackburn and German Bou
- Plant Silicon Interactions between Organisms and the Implications for Ecosystems, hosted by Julia Cooke and Jane L. DeGabriel
Recent years have brought new insights to the understanding of Parkinson’s Disease, impact of exercise and sound displays in rehabilitation and movement facilitation.
Health:
- Tumor Hypoxia: Impact in Tumorigenesis, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapeutics, hosted by Christian R. Gomez
- Sound, Music and Movement in Parkinson’s Disease, hosted by Marta M. N. Bieńkiewicz and Cathy Craig
- Using Stress-Based Animal Models to Understand the Mechanisms Underlying Psychiatric and Somatic Disorders, hosted by Stefan O. Reber and David A. Slattery
- Vascular Inflammation in Systemic Autoimmunity, hosted by Giuseppe A. Ramirez, Cornelia Weyand, Augusto Vaglio and Angelo A. Manfredi
The recent discovery of small and long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has represented a major breakthrough in the life sciences.
Engineering:
- Bioinformatics of Non-Coding RNAs with Applications to Biomedicine: Recent Advances and Open Challenges, hosted by Carlo Maria Croce, Alfredo Ferro and Alessandro Laganà