Research Area

A Research Area is a Subject Area composed of Research Topics within some Academic Discipline.

• AKA: Research Field.
• Context:
  • It can focus on some Research Question.
• Example(s):
  • Numerical Analysis Research Area.
  • Distributed Systems Research Area.
  • Data Mining Research Area.
  • Machine Learning Research Area.
  • Statistics Research Area.
  • Computational Linguistics Research Area.
  • Information Extraction Research Area.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • efficient supervised discriminative classification algorithms.
  • What is an efficient supervised discriminative classification algorithms for Large Sparse Training Sets?
• See: Research Activity, Research Topic, Research Question, Research Lab.

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References

2004

• (Jönsson, 2004) ⇒ K. Ingemar Jönsson. (2004). “On the Disparate Terminological Use of the Concept Cryptobiosis.” In: Journal of Fish Diseases, 27(3). doi:10.1111/j.1365-2761.2004.00534.x
  • In this note, I will bring attention to a term, cryptobiosis, that has relatively recently appeared in the field of fish disease research, but which has a much longer history and use in a completely different area.

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