Perspective: Network Meta-analysis Reaches Nutrition Research: Current Status, Scientific Concepts, and Future Directions

Current Status and Future Directions

Myocardial deformation imaging is a novel echocardiographic method for assessment of global and regional myocardial function. As this technology has evolved, it has been applied to an increasing number of research questions, and the number of publications incorporating deformation imaging has grown in parallel. Although not yet sufficiently vetted for routine clinical use, these methods offer t...

Future directions in nutrition research.

Although nutrition is generally regarded as important for human health, it is rarely utilized as a key solution for the chronic diseases that have become a global burden. Is nutrition an ineffective strategy for disease management, or is it that we have yet to demonstrate the practical use of nutrition? To date, the persuasiveness of nutrition research has been hindered by inconsistent findings...

Current status and future directions of Lévy walk research

Lévy walks are a mathematical construction useful for describing random patterns of movement with bizarre fractal properties that seem to have no place in biology. Nonetheless, movement patterns resembling Lévy walks have been observed at scales ranging from the microscopic to the ecological. They have been seen in the molecular machinery operating within cells during intracellular trafficking,...

Current Status and Future Directions of Research in Complex Signaling

Current status and future directions of research on facial attractiveness

The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the current state of knowledge on the perception of facial attractiveness and to assess the opportunity for research on poorly explored issues regarding facial preferences. A theoretical framework of research problems was proposed, within which the current state of knowledge on each topic was estimated. The analysis proved that a disproportional amou...