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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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MEAT YIELD FOLLOWING POST-WEANING GROWTH; ALTERNATE GROWTH
PATH; FEEDLOT GROWTH; PREWEANING GROWTH
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The effect of postweaning growth and sire carcass type on
liveweight and carcass traits.
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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CORTICAL INTERNEURONS; CORTICAL INTERNEURONE STRUCTURE SPACE;
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEOCORTICAL INHIBITORY SYSTEM
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The organizing principles that govern the diversity of
inhibitory interneurons and their circuits.
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Chemistry
Research Front Map:
"GOLD
CATALYSIS"
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GOLD-CATALYZED INTRAMOLECULAR CYCLOADDITION; NEW FISCHER-TYPE
GOLD(I) ALKENYL CARBENE COMPLEXES; PLATINUM-CATALYZED
INTRAMOLECULAR CYCLOADDITION
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The cyclizations of enynes substituted at the alkyne gives
products of formal [4+2] cyclization with Au(I) catalysts.
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Clinical
Medicine
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 ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES (ATLAS ACS-TIMI 46);
ORAL ANTIPLATELET DRUGS; ANTIPLATELET DRUGS RESISTANCE
 Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Sunil V. Rao
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In patients with heart disease, blood transfusion may not be a
benign treatment.
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Computer
Science
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ACCURATE COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY METHOD; NON-DISPERSIVE LOW-LOSS
MATERIALS; THIN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIQUID MATERIALS
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Fast and accurate complex permittivity determination of lossy
materials using amplitude-only reflection and transmission
scattering parameter measurements.
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Economics &
Business
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EARLY INTERNATIONALIZING FIRMS; FIRM SURVIVAL; EARLY
INTERNATIONALIZATION; BORN-GLOBAL FIRM
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Born-global firms leverage a distinctive mix of orientations
and strategies that allow them to succeed in diverse
international markets.
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Engineering
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ENZYME CATALYSED BIOFUEL CELLS; MULTI-COPPER OXICLASE-ADSORBED
CARBON AEROGEL ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED ENZYME-BASED BIOFUEL
CELLS
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The application of electrochemical techniques in probing the
reactions of hydrogenase enzymes.
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Environment/
Ecology
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  HETEROGENEOUS GENOMIC DIVERGENCE; ADAPTIVE
DIVERGENCE; HYBRIDIZING PLANT SPECIES; POPULATION GENOMIC
ANALYSIS; CICHLID FISHES
Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Ole Seehausen
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Divergent selection on sensory systems can cause speciation
through sensory drive.
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Geosciences
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WESTERN ARCTIC OCEAN; LATE QUATERNARY ICE SHEET HISTORY; ARCTIC
ALASKAN MARGIN
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The maximum limits of the Eurasian ice sheets during four
glaciations have been reconstructed.
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Immunology
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 INSECT INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT CELLULAR IMMUNE
RESPONSE; ASSOCIATED CYTOTOXIC REACTIONS; INVERTEBRATE
ANIMALS
Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Kenneth Söderhäl
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A major innate defense system in invertebrates is the
melanization of pathogens and damaged tissues.
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Materials
Science
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 SHAPE-CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS; PLATINUM METAL
CATALYSTS; METAL NANOCRYSTALS; ELECTROCHEMICALLY
SHAPE-CONTROLLED NANOPARTICLES
Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Younan Xia
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An intellectual framework for the synthesis of metal
nanocrystals with well-controlled shapes.
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Mathematics
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GENERAL COUPLED SYLVESTER MATRIX EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE
SOLUTIONS; HIERARCHICAL GRADIENT-BASED IDENTIFICATION
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Use of a hierarchical identification principle to study
identification problems for multivariable discrete-time
systems.
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Microbiology
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BACTERIAL QUORUM SENSING; LASR BACTERIAL QUORUM-SENSING
RECEPTOR; HOMOSERINE LACTONE QUORUM-SENSING SIGNALS; POTASSIUM
LEAKAGE
 Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Guido Zacchi
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Bacteria are highly interactive and employ a range of quorum
sensing systems for promoting collective behavior within a
population.
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 Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Paul Williams
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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 FREQUENT TET2 MUTATIONS; JAK2(V617F)-POSITIVE
MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL CORRELATES;
PREDISPOSING MUTATIONS
Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Ayalew Tefferi
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TET2 mutations are previously undescribed novel mutations whose
clinical and pathogenetic relevance is actively being
investigated.
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Multidisciplinary
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ARABIDOPSIS DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA-BINDING PROTEIN HYL1; PLANT
MICRORNA BIOGENESIS; HYL1/DRB-FAMILY DSRNA-BINDING PROTEINS;
METHYLATION PROTECTS MIRNAS
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Methylation on the base or the ribose is prevalent in
eukaryotic ribosomal RNAs and is thought to be crucial for
ribosome biogenesis and function.
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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NOVEL CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; ORPHAN RECEPTOR GPR55; LIPID G
PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR LIGAND IDENTIFICATION USING
BETA-ARRESTIN PATHHUNTER (TM) ASSAY
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The endocannabinoid system functions through two well
characterized receptor systems, the CB1 and CB2 receptors.
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
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BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN BCRP (ABCG2) CONCENTRATES
DRUGS; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN (ABCG2); MULTIDRUG
RESISTANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION
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Breast cancer resistance protein and drug resistance in human
cancers.
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Physics
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 HEAVY DIRAC NEUTRINO SIGNALS; NEUTRINO MASS
CONSTRAINTS; NEUTRINO MASS GENERATION; CERN LHC; NEUTRINO
OSCILLATIONS
Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Tao Han & Bin Zhang
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The Majorana nature of neutrinos may only be experimentally
verified via lepton-number violating processes involving
charged leptons.
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Plant &
Animal Science
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DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING; NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING; MATERNAL
'JUNK FOOD' DIET; DIET-INDUCED OBESITY
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The influence of the maternal nutritional and hormonal
environment in pregnancy in permanently programming appetite
and energy expenditure.
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE EXPLANATION; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIOECONOMIC
STATUS MODIFIES HERITABILITY; POWER-CONTROL THEORY
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In impoverished families, 60% of the variance in IQ is
accounted for by the shared environment, and the contribution
of genes is close to zero; in affluent families, the result is
almost exactly the reverse.
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Social Sciences,
general
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CHILDHOOD PHYSICAL ABUSE; LONG-TERM PHYSICAL; LARGE
POPULATION-BASED SAMPLE; MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES
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Childhood maltreatment has been linked to a variety of changes
in brain structure and function and stress-responsive
neurobiological systems.
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Space
Science
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DARK MATTER HALOES; LAMBDA CDM HALO CONCENTRATIONS; LAMBDA CDM
PREDICTIONS; SHAPE; SPIN
Emerging Research Front Comment
by:
Joel R. Primack
(Oct. 2007)
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The mass and redshift dependence of dark matter halo shapes is
studied using six high-resolution dissipationless simulations
with a varying box size in a flat Lambda cold dark matter
universe.
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