Emerging Research Fronts

Field	Name	Description
Agricultural Sciences	OILSEED RAPE (BRASSICA NAPUS); PHOMA STEM CANKER (LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; MAJOR GENE RESISTANCE; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS OCCURRING; MAJOR GENE-BASED RESISTANCE	Controlling phoma stem canker caused by Leptosphaeria maculans in oilseed rape through the breeding of resistant cultivars.
Biology & Biochemistry	ALZHEIMER'S BETA-AMYLOID FIBRILS; MOLECULAR-LEVEL STRUCTURAL UNDERSTANDING; AMYLOID-LIKE FIBRILS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS	Amyloid formation, amyloid fibrils in amyloid diseases, and the development of amyloid-based nanomaterials.
Chemistry	CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS OFF-LINE MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; COMBINING CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ON-LINE SAMPLE CONCENTRATION TECHNIQUES; CAPILLARY SEPARATIONS	Recent developments in the preparation of wall coatings for capillary electrophoresis (CE) on a microchip.
Featured Front in: Clinical Medicine	RECOMBINANT COAGULATION FACTOR VIIA; RECOMBINANT FACTOR VIIA; RECOMBINANT ACTIVATED FACTOR VII (RFVIIA); ACQUIRED FACTOR VIII; DOUBLE-BLIND CLINICAL TRIAL	Current clinical experience with (rF)VIIa dosing in acquired and congenital hemophilia with inhibitors.
Computer Science	LARGE-SCALE GENOTYPING MICROARRAYS; CANCER GENOME USING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM ARRAYS; GENOMEWIDE GENOTYPING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE MICROARRAYS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAYS by Matthew L. Meyerson & Xiaojun Zhao	The simultaneous measurement of DNA copy number changes and loss of heterozygosity events by SNP arrays.
Economics & Business	HAPPINESS RESEARCH; ECONOMISTS LEARN; UNIFIED THEORY; INSTITUTIONS by Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer	Economic and institutional determinants of happiness.
Engineering	W-BAND SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE SLOT ANTENNA; MULTILAYERED SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUID (MSIW) ELLIPTIC FILTER; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE; INTEGRATED MICROSTRIP by Ke Wu and Dominic Deslandes	A complete integration of waveguide components on substrate with MIC's and MMIC's.
Environment/Ecology	PREDATOR DIVERSITY DAMPENS TROPHIC CASCADES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; MULTIPLE PREDATOR EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM CONSEQUENCES; BEHAVIORAL INDIRECT INTERACTIONS by David Hooper	The extent to which altered biodiversity affects ecosystem-level processes and the mechanisms underlying such effects.
Geosciences	SOIL GAS RADON SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORY MONITORING; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL MONITORING; FUMAROLIC GAS COMPOSITION	The inferred isotopic composition of the pristine magmatic gas at Mt. Etna.
Immunology	NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR 2B4 (CD244); NKT CELL DEVELOPMENT; NK CELL RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR BASIS; X-LINKED LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE by Lewis L. Lanier	NK cell surface receptors, signaling pathways, and their role in immune responses to pathogens and tumors.
Materials Science	ZNO LIGHT EMITTERS; BLUE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE BASED; N-ZNO/P-ALGAN HETEROJUNCTION LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING APPLICATIONS; RECENT PROGRESS	Doping control, Ohmic and Schottky contact formation, and the control of ferro-magnetism in transition-metal doped ZnO.
Mathematics	SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS; OPTIMALLY SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPARSE APPROXIMATION; ARBITRARY REDUNDANT BASES; IDEAL ATOMIC DECOMPOSITION by David L. Donoho and Xiaoming Huo	Finding sparse solutions to underdetermined systems of equations.
Microbiology	EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER; DISSIMILATORY FE(III); MN(IV) REDUCTION; MICROBIAL NANOWIRES; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS	Dissimilatory Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction in bioremediation of contaminated subsurface environments.
Molecular Biology & Genetics	TRANSCRIPTIONAL COACTIVATOR PGC-1 ALPHA; SIRT1 FUNCTIONALLY INTERACTS; MOUSE SIR2 HOMOLOG SIRT6; NUCLEAR ADP-RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS	A molecular mechanism whereby SIRT1 functions in glucose homeostasis as a modulator of PGC-1alpha.
Multidisciplinary	MOLECULAR-SCALE PROCESSES INVOLVING NANOPARTICULATE MINERALS; GENETICS OFFERS GEOBIOLOGY; NATURAL MICROBIAL BIOFILM; COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS	The first comprehensive study of gene expression in a microbial community from an extreme natural environment.
Neuroscience & Behavior	MOTOR INVOLVEMENT; MOTOR CONTAGION; PERCEIVING CONSPECIFICS; MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM; SOCIAL COGNITION	A neurophysiological mechanism - the mirror-neuron mechanism - in action understanding and imitation.
Pharmacology & Toxicology	BIOPHARMACEUTICS DRUG DISPOSITION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; PREDICTING DRUG DISPOSITION; IN VIVO DRUG-DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG ELIMINATION; MULTIPLE CYTOCHROME P450 INVOLVEMENT	A database for the prediction of drugdrug interactions from in vitro data and evaluating estimates for the inhibitor concentrations.
Physics	RHIC COLLISIONS; CENTRAL AU PLUS AU COLLISIONS; QUARK-GLUON PLASMA; RHIC EXPERIMENTS; RELATIVISTIC NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS by Jens Jřrgen Gaardhřje	BRAHMS collaboration on properties of hot and dense hadronic and partonic matter from ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC.
Plant & Animal Science	COOPERATIVELY BREEDING CICHLID; EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION; HELPER DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HELPER EFFECTS by Dik Heg - [late entry]	The importance of predators for group living, and the 'ecological constraints hypothesis' of cooperative breeding.
Psychiatry/Psychology	COLLEGE ALCOHOL MISUSE; COMPUTER-DELIVERED PERSONALIZED NORMATIVE FEEDBACK INTERVENTION; REDUCE COLLEGE STUDENTS' HEAVY ALCOHOL USE; MAILED PERSONALIZED NORMATIVE FEEDBACK; BRIEF ALCOHOL INTERVENTION	A brief intervention designed to reduce drinking and drinking-related consequences among first-year fraternity members.
Social Sciences, general	LIMITING LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION RESEARCH; LANDSCAPE DISSECTION; MODELLING ROADS; CRUCIAL INSTRUMENT LINKING SCIENCE	Landscape change and urban development.
Space Science	GALACTIC O STARS; STELLAR PARAMETERS; BLUE STARS; WIND PARAMETERS; GALACTIC O-STARS	The derived mass-loss rates of stars with H-alpha in emission are affected by clumping in the lower wind region.
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