Historically, in most organisms the nervous, immune, and the endocrine systems have been studied as independent components. However, during the last decades, growing evidence supports the notion that these are three parts of a unique system, the neuro-immune-endocrine system (Besedosky and Rey, 2007)
Energy has been a crucial element for human beings and sustainable development. The issues of global warming and non-green energy have yet to be resolved. This book is a collection of twelve articles that provide strong evidence for the success of artificial intelligence deployment in energy research, particularly research devoted to non-intrusive load monitoring, network, and grid, as well as …
Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) are pleotropic multisystemic diseases. These dominantly transmitted repeat disorders affect multiple organs of the human body at all ages—from the newborns to the elderly. DMs are highly inconsistent in terms of age at onset, severity of symptoms, and clinical patterns. Even within families, the onset and pattern of organ involvement remains enigmatic. Anticipat…
Kebanyakan orang dewasa mencoba untuk belajar bahasa kedua atau bahkan ketiga di beberapa titik dalam hidup mereka. Karena paparan bahasa adalah salah satu rejimen pelatihan kognitif paling intens yang dapat ditemui, tidak mengherankan bahwa penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa multibahasa dapat menyebabkan perubahan mendalam dalam otak atau 'neuroplastisitas'. Yang masih belum jelas ada…
The emergence of neuroimaging and neurophysiological techniques opened new opportunities to complement bedside assessment by improving diagnosis and prognosis of patients with DOC. This Research Topic, which includes 15 articles with 100 contributors, aims to give an overview on how neuroimaging research can improve diagnosis,
By using the term ‘ethics’ I refer to the philosophical reflection that subjects human behaviour to normative and evaluative assessments94 and elaborates criteria for the evaluation of moral behaviour.95 In other words, I shall consider ethics to be a discipline that conducts a methodical reflection of morality,96 aiming at the development and justification of criteria to be adopted in…
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human cond…
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
A Cape of Asia collects eighteen of Wesseling's finest essays on European History, clustered around three concerns: The Wider View, or the historical European perspective on globalization, migration and decolonization; Europe's Identity, reflecting the shift from Eurocentrism to Americanization and Europe's acceptance of Japan, China and India as new key players in the global economy; and Europ…
The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive into the East Baltic lexicon and peeling away the layers of prehistoric borrowings in the process. As well…