December 2011 - Emerging Research Fronts - ScienceWatch.com

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Year 2011

Field	Research Front Name
Agricultural Sciences	FOODBORNE ILLNESS; FOODBORNE OUTBREAK DATA REPORTED INTERNATIONALLY; UNITED STATES-MAJOR PATHOGENS; SOURCE ATTRIBUTION; FOODBORNE INFECTIONS
Biology & Biochemistry	VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR B ENDOTHELIAL FATTY ACID UPTAKE CONTROL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR-D RECEPTOR BINDING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GLIOBLASTOMA STEM-LIKE CELLS; HRG INHIBITS TUMOR GROWTH
Chemistry	FORMATTING CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FILES; STRUCTURE VALIDATION; CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; SHORT HISTORY; SHELX
Clinical Medicine	MOLECULAR MECHANISMS; RESISTANCE; DIRECT CELLULAR RESPONSES; PLATINUM-BASED CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; PLATINUM-INDUCED DNA DAMAGE
Computer Science	PHYLOGENETIC MODEL AVERAGING; DNA POLYMORPHISM DATA; DNASP V5; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; JMODELTEST Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Julio Rozas on Software for DNA Polymorphism Analyses."
Economics & Business	OLD KEYNESIAN GOVERNMENT SPENDING MULTIPLIERS; FISCAL POLICY SHOCKS; FISCAL SHOCKS; NEW KEYNESIAN; FISCAL RULES
Engineering	AG(I) COORDINATION COMPLEXES DERIVED; POLYMERIC SILVER(I) COMPLEXES; TWO 3D-4D HETEROMETALLIC COORDINATION POLYMERS; PH-DEPENDENT AG(I) COORDINATION ARCHITECTURES CONSTRUCTED; TWO MIXED-LIGAND SILVER(I) NETWORKS
Environment/ Ecology	HABITAT FRAGMENTATION RESEARCH; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT AREA; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES RESPONSES Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Joern Fischer on Landscape Patterns & Terrestrial Biodiversity."
Geosciences	LIMITING CLIMATE CHANGE; MORE-INTENSE PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; 21ST-CENTURY CLIMATE CHANGE; ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS CONTRIBUTION; PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Richard Allan on the Consequences of Intense Rainfall."
Immunology	LEUKOCYTE ADHESION CASCADE; RECRUITMENT CASCADE; MOLECULARLY DISTINCT PROCESS; INTRALUMINAL CRAWLING; EMIGRATION SITES
Materials & Science	HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE MULTIFUNCTIONAL GRAPHENE POLYCARBONATE NANOCOMPOSITES; GRAPHENE FILLED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE SHEET FILLED SILICONE FOAM NANOCOMPOSITES; GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITES; GRAPHENE BASED POLYMER COMPOSITES Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Frank Schwierz on the Potential of Graphene Devices for Electronics."
Mathematics	ATTRACTIVE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; ATOMIC BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; BRIGHT MATTER-WAVE SOLITONS; DARK SOLITONS; NONAUTONOMOUS SOLITONS
Microbiology	NEW BACTERIAL TAXONOMY; NEW TOOLS; RRNA ANALYSIS; RRNA SEQUENCES; RIBOSOMAL DATABASE PROJECT Emerging Research Front Commentary: " James Cole on a Tool for the Taxonomic Classification of rRNA Genes."
Molecular Biology & Genetics	HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LINES; PATIENT-SPECIFIC INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM-CELL-DERIVED MODELS; PATIENT-SPECIFIC INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM-CELL MODELS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL DEFECTS Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Hellmut Augustin Discusses the Angiopoietin-Tie System."
Multidisciplinary	HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; HUMAN ESCS; ABERRANT EPIGENOMIC REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENCY
Neuroscience & Behavior	SUPERFICIAL CORTICAL INTERNEURONS; DISTINCT CORTICAL INTERNEURON FATES; GABAERGIC INTERNEURONS; SONIC HEDGEHOG SIGNALING CONFERS VENTRAL TELENCEPHALIC PROGENITORS; CAUDAL GANGLIONIC EMINENCE PRODUCES
Pharmacology & Toxicology	ANGIOTENSIN II; HYPERTENSION; ANGIOTENSIN AT(2) RECEPTORS; LOCAL RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEMS; SALT-INDUCED HYPERTENSION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE
Physics	HIGH-SPEED GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE DEVICES; GRAPHENE FREQUENCY MULTIPLIERS; WAFER-SCALE EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; CONTACT RESISTANCE Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Yu-Ming Lin on High-Performance Graphene Transistors."
Plant & Animal Science	FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; FARMED FISH; INFRARED MICROSPECTRAL IMAGING Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Chris Harrod on the Impact of Climate Change in Fish Communities."
Psychiatry/ Psychology	CHILDHOOD PRECEDING ADULT SCHIZOPHRENIA; DYNAMIC COGNITIVE DEFICITS; FIRST-EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA; META-ANALYTIC REVIEW; NEUROCOGNITIVE DEFICITS
Social Sciences, general	IMPROVING STUDENTS' HELP-SEEKING SKILLS; HELP-SEEKING PROCESSES; HELP-SEEKING TENDENCIES; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY LEARNING; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Emerging Research Front Commentary: " Barry Zimmerman Discusses Self-Regulated Learning Processes."
Space Science	SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANOMALIES; CELESTIAL CALIBRATION SOURCES; GALACTIC FOREGROUND EMISSION; WMAP-DERIVED PARAMETERS
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