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Field
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Research Front Name
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Description
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Agricultural
Sciences
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SURFACE WATER DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL ORGANIC
CARBON; SMALL HEADWATER CATCHMENTS; TOTAL ORGANIC NITROGEN;
ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS
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Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon appear far more
sensitive to environmental drivers that affect net primary
productivity than those affecting decomposition alone.
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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TASSER-BASED CASP7 PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION; CASP7
DOMAIN PREDICTION CATEGORY; CASP7 STRUCTURE PREDICTIONS;
CASP7 FUNCTION PREDICTION CATEGORY
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Protein homology detection and sequence alignment are at
the basis of protein structure prediction, function
prediction and evolution.
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Chemistry
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TAXANE-RESISTANT METASTATIC
BREAST CANCER; PHASE II CLINICAL
TRIAL; ADVANCED BREAST CANCER RESISTANT; EPOTHILONE B
ANALOG
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Targeting the microtubules in metastatic breast cancer.
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Clinical
Medicine
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CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; PI3K/AKT SIGNALLING PATHWAY;
RAF/MEK/ERK SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION CASCADE; RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK
PATHWAY
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Phosphatidylinositol-3 kinases signalling pathway
components are frequently altered in human cancers.
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Computer
Science
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SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MARKUP LANGUAGE (SBML); SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
TOOLBOX; QUANTITATIVE KINETIC MODELS; BIOCHEMICAL NETWORK
MODELS; CELLULAR SYSTEMS
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A software-independent language for describing models
common to research in many areas of computational biology.
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Economics &
Business
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 ORGANIZATIONAL SENSEMAKING; PRACTICE
PERSPECTIVE; GENERAL STRATEGY CONCEPTS; STRATEGY
RESEARCH
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The significance of middle managers' lateral social
interactions in shaping change in the absence of senior
management.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Julia Balogun & Gerry Johnson
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Engineering
FEATURED
FRONT
with corresponding map:
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THERMAL ANALYSIS AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC
STUDY"
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RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED RATE THERMAL
ANALYSIS; INFRARED EMISSION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY; THERMAL
TREATMENT
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Raman spectra of minerals that may be found in corroded
metal artworks or artifacts.
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Environment/
Ecology
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 STRONG TROPICAL LAND CARBON UPTAKE;
ABOVEGROUND LIVE BIOMASS; TROPICAL FORESTS; GLOBAL
CARBON BALANCE
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Ongoing anthropogenic change in tropical forests and how
these forests might respond to increasing anthropogenic
pressure.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
S. Joseph Wright
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Geosciences
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BURNED AREA USING MODIS ACTIVE FIRE OBSERVATIONS; ENHANCED
CONTEXTUAL FIRE DETECTION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL BIOMASS BURNING
EMISSIONS; GLOBAL ESTIMATION
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is
described.
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Immunology
FEATURED FRONT
with
corresponding map:
"DENDRITIC
CELLS"
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HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; POPULATION-LEVEL
HIV DECLINES; HIV INFECTION; RURAL
UGANDA
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Human immunodeficiency virus is preventable if populations
are mobilized to avoid risk.
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Materials
Science
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 SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PERPENDICULAR NANOPIN
FILM; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC BIONIC SURFACES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL
HIERARCHICAL POROUS SILICA FILM
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A water contact angle of about 178 degrees can be achieved
using a lauric acid-coated film with an original contact
angle of 75 degrees, which is classified as hydrophilicity.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Haoshen
Zhou
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Mathematics
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FLAT RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION BASED
SOLUTION METHODS; MULTIQUADRIC INTERPOLANTS; MESHLESS
COMPUTATION
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The radial basis function collocation method uses global
shape functions to interpolate and collocate the
approximate solution of partial differential equations.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Alexander H.D. Cheng (Mar. 2008)
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Microbiology
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 CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS
VISUALIZED; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
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Electron tomography of vitrifed cells is a noninvasive
three-dimensional imaging technique that opens up
exploration of the supramolecular organization of the
cytoplasm.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Wolfgang
Baumeister
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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 DROSOPHILA GENOMES; DROSOPHILA
MELANOGASTER MODELS; DROSOPHILA PHYLOGENY; DROSOPHILA
PSEUDOOBSCURA
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Comparative genome sequencing of Drosophila pseudoobscura.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Stephen W. Schaeffer
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Multidisciplinary
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RNA INTERFERENCE DIRECTS INNATE IMMUNITY; SECONDARY SIRNAS;
UNPRIMED RNA SYNTHESIS; SECONDARY EFFECTORS
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High-throughput pyrosequencing methods are applied to the
discovery of small RNAs expressed in mixed-staged
Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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PROBDNF INDUCES NEURONAL
APOPTOSIS; NEUROTROPHIN SIGNALING;
P75 NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; PRONGF-INDUCED NEURONAL CELL
DEATH
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Neurotrophins are growth factors that play critical roles
in the development, maintenance, and death of the nervous
system.
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
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EXTRAPANCREATIC INCRETIN RECEPTORS MODULATE GLUCOSE
HOMEOSTASIS; G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS; ENERGY
EXPENDITURE; BODY WEIGHT
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The biological actions of gut hormones regulating glucose
homeostasis.
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Physics
FEATURED
FRONT
with corresponding map:
"
GRAPHENE DOPING"
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 GRAPHENE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HEAVILY
DOPED GRAPHENE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHENE;
ELECTRON-DOPED GRAPHENE
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Intrinsic interband contributions to static graphene
screening can be effectively absorbed in a background
dielectric constant.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Sankar Das Sarma
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Plant &
Animal Science
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 COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC PROFILING; TOMATO
YIELD USING INTERSPECIFIC INTROGRESSIONS; TRANSGENIC
TOMATO PLANTS OVEREXPRESSING HEXOKINASE; WILD SPECIES
TOMATO
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The influence of hexose phosphorylation diminishes during
fruit development and highlights the importance of greater
temporal resolution of metabolism.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Alisdir R. Fernie
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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ADVERSE DRIVING OUTCOMES; ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY
DISORDER; SAFE DRIVING BEHAVIOR; HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN
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An evidence-based overview of
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD).
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Social Sciences,
general
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AGENT-BASED COMPLEX SYSTEMS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; AGENT-BASED
SPATIAL MODELS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; LAND-USE
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Systematic analysis of local-scale land-use change studies
helps to uncover general principles that provide an
explanation and prediction of new land-use changes.
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Space
Science
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DEEP IMPACT EJECTA SPITZER SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS; COMET
81P/WILD 2 NUCLEUS SAMPLES; EXCAVATING COMET TEMPEL 1
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Deep Impact collided with comet Tempel 1, excavating a
crater controlled by gravity.
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