Emerging Research Fronts

Field	Name	Description
Agricultural Sciences	SUSTAINABLE GRAZING SYSTEMS; NEW SOUTH WALES; GRAZING MANAGEMENT TACTICS; CENTRAL TABLELANDS; PASTURE TYPE	A reduction in the abundance of perennial grasses in the high rainfall zone of south-eastern Australia.
Biology & Biochemistry	THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE RIBOSWITCHES; EUKARYOTIC THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE RIBOSWITCH; BACTERIAL METABOLIC CONTROL; BACTERIAL GENE EXPRESSION; ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUND PYRITHIAMINE	Numerous classes of riboswitches are present in bacteria and comprising a common metabolite-sensing system.
Chemistry	NON-CYCLOPENTADIENYL ORGANOLANTHANIDE COMPLEXES; ORGANOLANTHANIDE POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS; ORGANOGROUP 3 METAL CHEMISTRY; SELECTIVE ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY by Frank T. Edelmann	Recent work on organolanthanides shows a turn away from the cyclopentadienyl chemistry.
Featured Front: Clinical Medicine	KIT MUTATIONS; ACTIVATION LOOP MUTANT KIT ISOFORMS ASSOCIATED; TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR PKC412; DASATINIB (BMS-354825) INHIBITS KITD816V; PKC412 INHIBITS INVITRO GROWTH on: "KIT MUTATIONS AND CANCER"	PKC412 as a therapeutic agent for c-KIT-positive malignancies harboring the imatinib mesylate-resistant D816V or D816Y activation mutations.
Computer Science	DECOMPOSING INFANTS' OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; LEARNING ACCEPTABLE WINDOWS; BOOTSTRAP LEARNING; FOUNDATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS; ACTUATOR MODEL INDUCTION	Autonomous, intelligent robots learn the foundations of commonsense knowledge from their own sensorimotor experience in the world.
Economics & Business	CHOICE IMPAIRS SOCIAL WELFARE; CREATE CONSUMER HABITS; REPEATED-ADHERENCE PROTECTION MODEL; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; DARK SIDE	Policy interventions oriented to the acquisition and maintenance of new behaviors through the formation of new habits.
Engineering	ECKLONIA SP HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM BIOSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING LOW-COST ACTIVATED CARBONS DERIVED; ACTIVATED CARBON FABRIC CLOTH; CR6+ REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES by Jong Moon Park	Mechanisms for direct and indirect chromium(VI) removal proposed, and the application to biomass detoxification.
Environment/ Ecology	FLOODPLAIN GRASSLANDS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; BIOLOGICAL INDICATOR SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGICAL SITE CONDITIONS; CARABID BEETLES; COLEOPTERA	Advances in the development and use of ecological indicators, and detection of signals of environmental change.
Geosciences	2004 PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE; PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE INCLUDING; CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE; 2004 M 6; TWO EARTHQUAKE CYCLES	The quality and the quantity of data recorded from the 2004 event at Parkfield provide insights into the earthquake cycle.
Immunology	ACTIVATED CD4(+)CD25(+) T CELLS SELECTIVELY KILL B LYMPHOCYTES; HUMAN CD4(+) T REG CELLS; ACTIVATED T CELLS; ALLOANTIGEN-PRESENTING PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELLS MEDIATE TOLERANCE; CD127 EXPRESSION INVERSELY CORRELATES by Jeffrey A. Bluestone	A testable marker for immune regulation used to isolate and study regulatory T cells critical to autoimmunity without affecting their functionality.
Materials Science	BENDABLE SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON THIN FILM TRANSISTORS FORMED; STRAINED BILAYER THIN FILMS; ELASTICALLY RELAXED FREE-STANDING STRAINED-SILICON NANOMEMBRANES; NANOMETRE-SCALE SILICON-ON-INSULATOR MEMBRANES; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES by John A. Rogers	Inorganic single crystals of silicon used to design forms that enable flexible electronics.
Mathematics	MINIMUM NUMBER RECOMBINATION EVENTS; STRUCTURED RECOMBINATION; ROOT-UNKNOWN PHYLOGENETIC NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY	A set theoretical approach for studying recombination events by representing the evolutionary history of binary DNA sequences by a connected graph.
Microbiology	ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; OXA-TYPE CARBAPENEMASES; OXA-58-LIKE CARBAPENEMASES; NOVEL CLASS D BETA-LACTAMASE INVOLVED; STORY SO FAR by Patrice Nordmann	A newly characterized P-lactamase may contribute to carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii.
Molecular Biology & Genetics	CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CAUSES NEURODEGENERATION; NEURAL CELLS CAUSES NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BASAL AUTOPHAGY; MAINTAINING "CLEAN" CELLS	Autophagy is essential for the survival of neural cells, and impairment of autophagy is implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders involving ubiquitin-containing inclusion bodies.
Multidisciplinary	WIDESPREAD SIRNA "OFF-TARGET'' TRANSCRIPT SILENCING MEDIATED; 3 ' UTR SEED MATCHES; SEED REGION SEQUENCE COMPLEMENTARITY; RNAI-MEDIATED GENE SILENCING; RNAI OFF-TARGETS	Off-target gene silencing in the interpretation of data from large-scale RNA interference (RNAi) screens.
Neuroscience & Behavior	PROTEASOME INHIBITOR ADMINISTRATION; PROTEASOMAL INHIBITION CAUSES LOSS; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR-INDUCED MODEL; PROTEASOME INHIBITION; SYSTEMIC PROTEASOMAL INHIBITOR ADMINISTRATION	Systemic inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasomal system as a means to model Parkinson's disease.
Pharmacology & Toxicology	CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE (PDE) SUPERFAMILY; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE SIGNALING; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC AGENTS; SPECIFIC PATTERN; COMPARTMENTALIZED PHOSPHODIESTERASE-2 ACTIVITY BLUNTS BETA-ADRENERGIC CARDIAC INOTROPY by Manuela Zaccolo	The role of compartmentalized phosphodiesterase-2 in the control of catecholamine-generated cAMP and localized cAMP signaling.
Physics	VERWEY TRANSITION; LONG RANGE CHARGE ORDERING; CHARGE ORDERED STRUCTURE; MAGNETITE FE3O4; NEW PERSPECTIVE	The Verwey transition in magnetite from its discovery to the present.
Plant & Animal Science	EXAMPLE INCORPORATING FOSSIL REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES; MAJOR ANGIOSPERM CLADES ; MAJOR ROSID SUBCLADES; CRETACEOUS ROSID DIVERSIFICATION; FOSSIL EVIDENCE	Minimum age node mapping for combining fossil evidence with hypotheses of phylogeny.
Psychiatry/ Psychology	CON-FUSING CONTOURS & PIECES; VISUAL HOLES (STATIC; SOCIAL CAUSALITY; VISUAL IMPRESSIONS; ILLUSORY CONTOURS	Information about the shapes of partly occluded objects gathered from the visible portion of the object.
Social Sciences, general	CLIMATE CHANGE; PERFECT MORAL STORM; MORAL CORRUPTION; NATURE; POLITICAL COMMUNITY	Valuing of natural environments is essential to broader human virtue.
Space Science	BLACK HOLE MASS-BULGE MASS RELATION; BLACK HOLE-BULGE MASS RELATION; BLACK HOLE BULGE RELATIONSHIP; VELOCITY DISPERSION CORRELATION; NEAR-INFRARED LUMINOSITY	Observations of nearby galaxies reveal a correlation between the mass of the central dark object and the velocity dispersion of the host galaxy.
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