Economics is producing a torrent of research, coursing in all directions.
This prediction is supported by a torrent of research in recent years that has highlighted the vulnerability of this city, which is one of Europe's biggest, and the challenges of being ready for such a natural disaster.
Since the discovery that nitric oxide (.NO) accounts for the biologic activity of endothelial-derived relaxing factor, a torrent of research over the last decade has focused on its role, protective or detrimental, in myriad pathophysiologic conditions.
Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) near Cambridge, were pondering what they could do with the torrent of genomic data their research group generates, all of which has to be archived.The volume of data is growing faster than the capacity of the hard drives used to hold it.
Marine scientists are confronting declining budgets and a shrinking research fleet as torrents of data from new technologies remake their field.
He founded and chairs the Center for American Progress, Washington's leading liberal think tank, which has provided the Obama Administration with personnel, research, intellectual muscle, and a torrent of friendly policy advice.
That basic research has since yielded a torrent of industrial applications, from medical diagnostic devices to flexible electronics more than enough to keep most scientists busy.
In December, a row erupted when a 25-year old veterinary student at the University of Bologna posted a defense of animal research on her Facebook page, which triggered a torrent of verbal abuse.
The New York Public Library's plan to turn part of its flagship Fifth Avenue research center into a lending library has unleashed a torrent of commentary, with scholars, writers, artists and students signing a petition and writing articles, many of them critical.
While an army of corporations are busy data mining social media for marketing, a small but growing number of research groups have initiated similar efforts to leverage the torrent of online information for social good.
But the torrent of performance data reflects the largely uncoordinated and piecemeal way that medical research is gathered and publicized, and the medical uncertainty than can result.
