Frontier experiments: Tough science

Web science: a new frontier.

During the past 20 years, humans have built the largest information fabric in history. The World Wide Web has been transformational. People shop, date, trade and communicate with one another using it. Although most people are not formally trained in its use, yet it has assumed a central role in their lives. Scientists and researchers cannot imagine their work without it. Governments interface t...

Tough and tunable adhesion of hydrogels: experiments and models

Aspolymer networks infiltratedwithwater, hydrogels are major constituents of animal and plant bodies and have diverse engineering applications. While natural hydrogels can robustly adhere to other biological materials, such as bonding of tendons and cartilage on bones and adhesive plaques of mussels, it is challenging to achieve such tough adhesions between synthetic hydrogels and engineering m...

Science: the end of the frontier?

Global Journal of Science Frontier Research

the present study was undertaken to investigate immunomodulatory activity of Clitoria ternatea seed and root extracts. Effects on humoral immune response were investigated in SRBCs-sensitized rats. Effects on cell medicated immunity were studied by measuring delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response in SRBC-sensitized rats. Neutrophil recruiting and phagocytosis were measured by studying neu...

TWC: Frontier: Privacy for Social Science Research

Information technology, advances in statistical computing, and the deluge of data available through the Internet are transforming social science. With the ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data on human behavior and interactions, social scientists can hope to uncover many more phenomena, with greater detail and confidence, than allowed by traditional means such as surveys and in...