This is not her first pioneering leadership role.
"One of the first pioneering bands of New Orleans was sent to Cuba during the Spanish-American War and spent time there playing for the troops," Mr. Boyd said.
These experiments were among the first pioneering wind tunnel tests on civil structures in Europe.
Since the first pioneering work (Fatt 1956), pore network models have been widely used to simulate multi-phase fluid flow at the pore scale.
After the first pioneering work on multi-objective evolutionary optimization in the 1980s (Schaffner 1984, 1985), several different algorithms have been proposed and successfully applied to various problems.
"This is the first pioneering experiment that shows that this can be done," says Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the work.
"The first pioneering measure on this subject was Leo Abse's bill to decriminalise sexual acts between same sex consenting adults in private".
First, pioneering behavior is not exogenous: it is more probable among scientists who are already established in their "mother-discipline" (before entering nanotechnology), have a strong collaboration network, and have easy access to field-specific resources.
Since the first pioneering studies in the 1990s, a large number of experimental animal studies have demonstrated the neuroprotective efficacy of progesterone for brain disorders, including traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Bacterial appendages and adhesins responsible for the linkage of the first pioneering cells to the surface (or the conditioning film) are potential targets for antiadhesion molecules grafted or smeared on the surface.
