Emerging Research Fronts

Field	Name	Description
Featured Front in: Agricultural Sciences	SOIL DEGRADATION DYNAMICS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS; PHYTOTOXIC ALLELOCHEMICALS; BENZOXAZINONE ALLELOCHEMICALS by Inge S. Fomsgaard	Exploitation of the allelopathic properties of wheat, rye, and maize.
Biology & Biochemistry	HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS TYPE I (HTLV-I) INFECTION; ADULT T-CELL LEUKEMIA (ATL); FIRST HUMAN RETROVIRUS; DISCOVERY; GENETIC INSTABILITY by Kuan-Teh Jeang	Recent findings on the functions of the viral Tax oncoprotein.
Chemistry	HYDROGEN BOND NETWORK REARRANGEMENTS; LIQUID WATER; VOLATILE LIQUID SURFACES; LIQUID MICROJETS; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY by Anders Nilsson & Lars G. M. Pettersson	Probing the molecular arrangement in the first coordination shell of liquid water.
Clinical Medicine	NEUROGENIC DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY; IDIOPATHIC DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY; BOTULINUM-A TOXIN INJECTIONS; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE; NEUROGENIC URINARY INCONTINENCE	The efficacy of botulinum-A toxin injections into the detrusor muscle in patients with spinal cord injury.
Computer Science	MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE AMBIENTS; RESOURCE ACCESS CONTROL; TYPED BEHAVIOURAL EQUIVALENCES; SYSTEMS	A calculus describing the movement of processes and devices.
Economics & Business	GROUP SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORKS; GROUP EFFECTIVENESS; WORKPLACE PERFORMANCE; INFORMAL SOCIALIZING TIES	Social networks and the workplace performance of individuals and groups.
Engineering	USING CLOUD POINT EXTRACTION; GRAPHITE FURNACE ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; METAL DETERMINATION USING SPECTROANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CLOUD-POINT EXTRACTION	Metal analysis based on an a priori phase separation in aqueous micellar solutions.
Environment/Ecology	PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM SP NOV; ENDANGERING CALIFORNIA; SUDDEN OAK DEATH; OREGON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS	A new canker disease in California, commonly known as sudden oak death, is shown to be caused by Phytophthora ramorum.
Geosciences	KILAUEA'S EARLY SUBMARINE HISTORY; EARLY KILAUEA MAGMAS; SUBMARINE HILINA BENCH; MAUNA LOA VOLCANO; GROWTH HISTORY	Broad perspectives on the early growth of the Kilauea Volcano and the long-term geometric evolution of its rift zones.
Immunology	RAG PROTEINS; V(D)J RECOMBINATION; REPAIR FACTORS; COMPLEXES; ENDS	A consideration of RAG protein biochemistry in the context of several bacterial transposition systems.
Materials Science	EFFICIENT DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; NANOCRYSTALLINE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS BASED; HIGHLY EFFICIENT ORGANIC-DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TIO2 SOLAR CELLS	The dye-sensitized solar cell provides a technically and economically credible alternative to present day p-n junction photovoltaic devices.
Mathematics	RATE-INDEPENDENT HYSTERESIS MODELS; RATE-INDEPENDENT MODEL; RATE-INDEPENDENT PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS USING; RATE-INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS; MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION MODEL by Alexander Mielke, Florian Theil, & Valery I. Levitas	A new description of slow processes in materials by using energetic arguments rather than differential equations.
Microbiology	ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHERNORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TYPE III EFFECTOR FAMILY; G PROTEIN MIMICRY FUNCTIONS	Enteropathogenic E. coli and enterohemorrhagic E. coli cause diarrhoeal diseases in man and sometimes death.
Molecular Biology & Genetics	EMBRYONIC DORSAL-VENTRAL SIGNALING; OPPOSITE EMBRYONIC POLES GENERATES; ESSENTIAL SIGNALING MOLECULE; THREE BMP ANTAGONISTS; SPEMANN'S ORGANIZER LEADS by Richard Harland	The molecular signals that are expressed in Spemanns Organizer and which are required for its function.
Multidisciplinary	ENCELADUS PLUME COMPOSITION; CASSINI ENCOUNTERS ENCELADUS; ENCELADUS' WATER VAPOR PLUME; CASSINI MAGNETOMETER; CASSINI ION	Multiple Cassini instruments detect evidence for ongoing endogenic activity in a region centered on Enceladus' south pole.
Neuroscience & Behavior	ADULT DENTATE GYRUS; ADULT BRAIN REFLECT NEUROGENESIS; DOUBLECORTIN EXPRESSION LEVELS; ADULT NEUROGENESIS; RAT DENTATE GYRUS	The temporal expression pattern of doublecortin in neurogenic regions of the adult brain.
Pharmacology & Toxicology	GABA(A) RECEPTOR FUNCTION; DIFFERENT GABA(A) RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE; ALPHA 3 SUBUNIT-CONTAINING GABA(A) RECEPTORS; INVERSE AGONIST SELECTIVE; MOTOR EFFECTS by Hanns Möhler	GABA(A) receptor function and the pharmacology of benzodiazepines and general anesthetics through mouse genetics.
Physics	HIGH-DENSITY AMORPHOUS ICE; LOW DENSITY AMORPHOUS ICE; LOW-DENSITY AMORPHOUS; DISTINCT METASTABLE FORMS; POLYAMORPHIC TRANSITION	Structural changes during annealing of high-density amorphous ice studied with both neutron and x-ray diffraction.
Plant & Animal Science	ARABIDOPSIS PLASMA MEMBRANE PROTEOMICS IDENTIFIES COMPONENTS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA REVEALS PREDICTED; MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING; PLASTID PROTEOMICS; VEGETATIVE VACUOLE PROTEORNE	Characterization of the vegetative vacuolar proteome from Arabidopsis thaliana.
Psychiatry/Psychology	JUNIOR MEDICAL STUDENT PSYCHIATRY CLERKSHIP; UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION; UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHIATRY EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT TEACHING; MEDICAL STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS	Students' attitudes toward the junior medical student psychiatry clerkship program, and its relationship to standardized measures of performance.
Social Sciences, general	EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLOBAL EVIDENCE; EVIDENCE BASED; EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION	Whether certain medical practices, clinical practice guidelines, clinical performance measures, and insurance coverage decisions can claim to be "evidence based".
Space Science	BLACK HOLE-BULGE MASS RELATION; CENTRAL BLACK HOLES; INACTIVE GALAXIES; HOST GALAXIES; QUASARS	New black hole mass estimates are presented for a sample of 72 active galactic nuclei covering three decades in optical luminosity.
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