Editorial: Recent Advances in Borehole Geophysics in Unconventional Resources: Applications, Techniques and Challenges

Recent Advances in Borehole Geophysics in Unconventional Resources: Applications, Techniques and Challenges

More percentage of new productions in oil industry is from unconventional oil and gas such as oil shale, tar sand, laminated sand, tight oil (siltstone), tight gas, gas hydrate, and igneous rock, because the conventional oil and gas can no longer meet the need of the world. Researchers in response pay more attentions to the unconventional resources. Formation properties such as total organic ca...

Landform characterization using geophysics—Recent advances, applications, and emerging tools

Editorial: Recent Advances in Acidophile Microbiology: Fundamentals and Applications

Acidophilic microorganisms thrive in extremely low pH natural and man-made environments such as acidic lakes, some hydrothermal systems, acid sulfate soils, sulfidic regoliths and ores, as well as metal and coal mine-impacted environments. The most widely studied acidophiles, prokaryotes that oxidize reduced iron and/or sulfur, are able to catalyze the oxidative dissolution of metal sulfide min...

Recent Advances in Unconventional Density Waves

Unconventional density wave (UDW) has been speculated as a possible electronic ground state in excitonic insulator in 1968. Recent surge of interest in UDW is partly due to the proposal that the pseudogap phase in high Tc cuprate superconductors is d-wave density wave (d-DW). Here we review our recent works on UDW within the framework of mean field theory. In particular we have shown that many ...

Editorial: Bioinformatics of Non-Coding RNAs with Applications to Biomedicine: Recent Advances and Open Challenges

The recent advances in the functional characterization of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have represented a major breakthrough in the life sciences. Large-scale projects, such as ENCODE, have shown that the human genome is pervasively transcribed and that a large proportion of the mammalian transcriptome consists of ncRNA transcripts. ncRNA genes can be roughly classified into short ncRNAs (<...