From the database of
Essential Science IndicatorsSM, this list of Emerging
Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the
current period of September 2003-August 31, 2009, and the previous period
of July 2003-June 30, 2009 (sliding 6-year period). Of the 6,723 Research
Fronts in the September 2003-August 31, 2009 file, a total of 786 (12%)
were new.
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Field
Research Front Name
Description
Agricultural
Sciences
MULTIVARIABLE GEOSTATISTICS; DIGITAL SOIL
MAPPING; SOIL VARIABLES; SPATIAL PREDICTION
Emerging Research Comment
by: Alex
McBratney (Late commentary entry added in Feb.
2010 for Dec.
2009)
Recent approaches to making digital soil maps based on
geographic information systems.
Biology &
Biochemistry
NF-KAPPA B SIGNALING CONTROL; NUCLEAR FACTOR
KAPPA B SIGNALING; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-INDUCED NF-KAPPA B
ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROGRAMS
Determining whether edema lesions in the subarticular bone in
patients with knee osteoarthritis identify knees at high risk
for radiographic progression and association with limb
misalignment.
An implementation of the discrete Fourier transform that adapts
to the hardware in order to maximize performance.
Environment/
Ecology
EUROPEAN EEL ANGUILLA ANGUILLA LEPTOCEPHALI; JAPANESE EEL
ANGUILLA JAPONICA; EUROPEAN EEL (ANGUILLA ANGUILLA)
RECRUITMENT; AMERICAN EEL ANGUILLA ROSTRATA
Knowledge of geographic and temporal scales of adaptive genetic
variation is crucial to species conservation.
Geosciences
INTCAL04 TERRESTRIAL RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION; MARINE04
MARINE RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION
A new calibration curve for the conversion of radiocarbon ages
to calibrated ages has been constructed and internationally
ratified.
Emerging infectious diseases, such as H1N1 influenza, are
correlated with socio-economic, environmental and ecological
factors, and current global surveillance efforts are not
allocated where diseases are likely to originate.
Interest in the tumor suppressor p53 has focused on the
complexity of its function and regulation in carcinogenesis.
Multidisciplinary
YEAST PROTEIN INTERACTOME; HIGH-QUALITY BINARY PROTEIN
INTERACTION MAP; YEAST INTERACTOME NETWORK
A comparative quality assessment of current yeast interactome
data sets.
Neuroscience &
Behavior
RIGHT INFERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE INHIBITION; RIGHT
INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; STOP SIGNAL RESPONSE INHIBITION;
SUBCORTICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
It is controversial whether different cognitive functions can
be mapped to discrete regions of the prefrontal cortex, but
advances in human lesion-mapping support the localization of
inhibition.
Two-particle bound states of atoms confined in a
one-dimensional matter waveguide involving the creation of a
strongly interacting one-dimensional Fermi gas.
The complete genomic sequence of Yersinia pseudo-tuberculosis
and its use for detailed genome comparisons with available
Yersinia pestis sequences.
Psychiatry/
Psychology
YOUNG CHIMPANZEES; COMMON MARMOSETS PROVISION FOOD
ALTRUISTICALLY; ALTRUISM; DELIVER FOOD
Human beings routinely help others to achieve their goals even
when the helper receives no immediate benefit. A similar
behavior is observed in young chimpanzees.
Acupuncture was no more effective than sham acupuncture in
reducing migraine headaches.
Space
Science
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; GIANT PLANETS; CATACLYSMIC LATE HEAVY
BOMBARDMENT PERIOD; ORBITAL ARCHITECTURE
The petrology record on the Moon suggests that a cataclysmic
spike in the cratering rate occurred similar to 700 million
years after the planets formed.