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 January 2003-December 31, 2008, and the previous period
of November 2002-October 31, 2008 (sliding 6-year period). Of the 6,956
Research Fronts in the January 2003-December 31, 2008 file, a total of 687
(11%) were new.
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Field
Research Front Name
Description
Agricultural
Sciences
SUSTAINABLE WINTER WHEAT; SOIL RESILIENCE; SOIL WATER
REGIME; SUSTAINABLE SOIL TILLAGE SYSTEMS
Nitrogen balances and the behavior of surplus nitrogen in
the soil-plant system.
The pathogenic effect of high glucose is mediated by the
increased production of reactive oxygen species and
reactive nitrogen species and subsequent oxidative stress.
Chiral sulfoxides are often employed in synthetic organic
chemistry because of the chiral control they impart on the
formation of asymmetric carbon-carbon bonds.
Clinical
Medicine
HUMAN CANCER GENES; CENSUS; PATHWAYS; CONTROL
Many genes responsible for the genesis of various cancers
have been discovered, their mutations precisely identified,
and the pathways through which they act characterized.
Computer
Science
UCSC GENOME BROWSER DATABASE; UCSC KNOWN GENES; ENSEMBL
2006
The Ensembl project provides a comprehensive and integrated
source of annotation of large genome sequences.
Economics &
Business
GAMES THEORY NEW LOGARITHMIC NORMALIZATION
METHOD; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE CONTRACTORS RANKING METHOD;
COPRAS METHOD; ROAD DESIGN SOLUTIONS
Multiple criteria decision making methods are based on an
aggregating function which originated in the compromise
programming method.
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes from Earth's upper atmosphere
have been detected with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager satellite.
A new strategy for making silica colloidal crystal films
with a sufficiently high level of structural perfection and
optical quality to make it competitive with photonic
crystal optical components.
Screening for strains defective in two defined multigenic
processes (twitching motility and prototrophic growth)
identified mutants corresponding to nearly all genes
expected.
Molecular Biology
& Genetics
CELL REGULATORY SYSTEMS; COMPLEX CELLULAR SYSTEMS; PROTEIN
INTERACTION DOMAINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
Regulation of many different cellular processes requires
the use of protein interaction domains to direct the
association of polypeptides with one another and with
phospholipids, small molecules, or nucleic acids.
It is proposed that the brain represents time in a
distributed manner and tells the time by detecting the
coincidental activation of different neural populations.
Social Sciences,
general
HUMAN CHRONOBIOLOGY RESEARCH; COMPOSITE SCALE; PSYCHOMETRIC
PROPERTIES; ETHICS
The ethical policies, standards and procedures for
chronobiology involving human and animal biological rhythm
research.
Although the evidence for a cold
dark matter dominated universe in
which structure grows hierarchically is overwhelming,
the role of mergers in galaxy assembly and star
formation remains unclear.