The paper highlights five major fields of foresight practice which encompass strategic issues in different working fields: early detection in new business environments, trend research for the generation of product innovations, prospective evaluation of innovation ideas, exploration and development of new business, and cross-functional dissemination of future-related issues.
We speculate that enhanced coagulation during infection is functional, thereby preventing dissemination of bacteria.
An important point in the field of lymphangiogenesis is to find out whether intratumour lymphatic vessels are functional for tumour dissemination into the lymph node.
Regardless of the discrepancies in the histopathological analyses and between tumours of different organ origin, we have demonstrated that TFF3 is a functional promoter of metastatic dissemination of MC cells.
Since tumor lymphatic vessels provide a route for metastatic dissemination, understanding the functional role of bone marrow-derived tumor lymphatic endothelial cells seems warranted.
These results demonstrate that these four ECM proteins play significant functional roles in the metastatic dissemination of these mammary tumor cells.
HGT events are crucial for the dissemination of beneficial functional traits between bacterial communities especially when these are under strong selection pressure, as is the case for virulence factors among pathogenic bacteria [ 12, 13].
Previous studies demonstrated that the depletion or reduction of circulating platelets resulted in reduced experimental metastasis of various tumors [ 3, 7, 10, 11], and the requirement of functional platelets for circulating tumor dissemination has been confirmed in many experimental settings.
Cross functional cooperation also requires collection and dissemination between organizational functions in order to effectively enhance quality performance.
Further studies are needed to elucidate the functional role of this mechanism in the dissemination of chlamydiae from the lung to the circulation in humans after acute respiratory infection.
A surveillance system includes a functional capacity for data collection, analysis, and dissemination linked to public health programs" [ 1].
