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ESI Special Topics, April 2002
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1996-October 2001 and 1996-December 2001. Of the 4,855 Research Fronts in the 1996-December 2001 file, a total of 399 (.8%) were new compared to the prior period.

April 2002
Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences WHEAT; BREAD WHEAT; WHEAT GENETIC MAPPING POPULATIONS; AUSTRALIAN DOUBLED HAPLOID WHEAT POPULATION Genetic maps for Australian bread wheat.
Biology & Biochemistry STABLE CELL LINE PRODUCING HIGH-TITER SELF-INACTIVATING LENTIVIRAL VECTORS; GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AMNIOTIC EPITHELIAL CELLS CORRECTS LYSOSOMAL STORAGE; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE VII MICE; RECOMBINANT ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS Possible gene therapy of cystic fibrosis based on pseudotyped lentiviral vector.
Chemistry HYDROGEN BONDS; ANTI-HYDROGEN BOND; BLUE-SHIFTING HYDROGEN BONDS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS The anti-hydrogen bond, a new type of molecular bonding.
Clinical Medicine CONDUCTING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS; EVIDENCE; INTERVENTIONS Evidence-based medicine recommendations for population-health interventions.
Computer Science OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION; ROBUST CHANNEL ESTIMATION; RAPID DISPERSIVE FADING CHANNELS; OFDM SYSTEMS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation for wireless multimedia.
Economics & Business FORMAL RISK ADJUSTMENT; MEDICARE RISK ADJUSTMENT; DESIGNING EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFITS Comparing the benefits of insurance competition with the cost of adverse consumer selection.
Engineering PRESENCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MEASURING PRESENCE; PRESENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; ESTIMATE PRESENCE Evaluating a users' sense of "presence" in virtual reality.
Environment/Ecology FOREST GAP MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE; THREE GAP MODELS; SIX DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS A gap model of forest composition and biomass in temperate forests.
Geosciences KIRCHRODE I BOREHOLE; UPPER ALBIAN SEDIMENTS; LOWER SAXONY BASIN Geography, oceanography and climate during the Albian period via basin sediment boreholes.
Immunology HYPER IGM SYNDROME; HYPERMUTATION REQUIRE ACTIVATION-INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE (AID); ACTIVATION-INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE (AID) DEFICIENCY; HYPER-IGM SYNDROME (HIGM2) Activation-induced cytidine deaminase in regulation of class switching and somatic hypermutation.
Materials Science TRIPLET EXCITON FORMATION RATES; CONJUGATED POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PI-CONJUGATED POLYMERS; PI-CONJUGATED OLIGOMERS Calculation of formation rates for molecular excitons in polymer light-emitting diodes.
Mathematics PARABOLIC ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEMS; INFINITE ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEMS; BERNOULLI CONVOLUTIONS Measures of the limit sets of iterated function systems.
Microbiology HELICOBACTER PYLORI; DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RECOMBINANT STRAINS; HUMAN INFECTION; CLONAL GROUPINGS Population genetics of different strains of Helicobacter pylori.
Molecular Biology & Genetics CARDIAC RYANODINE RECEPTOR GENE (HRYR2); CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY TYPE 2 (ARVD2); MUTATION Discovery of a protein mutation in Naxos disease.
Multidisciplinary MEMORY CD4 T CELLS; EFFECTOR MEMORY CELLS; ANTIGEN-PRIMED NONPOLARIZED T LYMPHOCYTES; WHOLE BODY Generation of memory cells in response to antigen recognition in infection.
Neuroscience & Behavior G(1)-S TRANSITION CONTROL GENE ABNORMALITIES; GLIOBLASTOMAS; HUMAN ASTROCYTIC GLIOMAS; RB1 GENE; P14(ARF)/MDM2/P53 PATHWAY Deregulation of the G(1)-S transition control system and p53 in the development of human astrocytic gliomas.
Pharmacology & Toxicology HUMAN ORAL TUMOR CELL LINES; CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY; VITAMIN K-2 DERIVATIVES; FLAVONOLS (3-HYDROXYFLAVONES) Cytotoxic activity of flavonoids and induction of apoptosis.
Physics MOLECULAR BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; COUPLED ATOMIC; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES FORMED; COUPLED ULTRACOLD ATOMIC-MOLECULAR SYSTEM Dynamics of a Bose-condensed atomic gas coupled to a diatomic Bose gas.
Plant & Animal Science PORCUPINE ABYSSAL PLAIN (NE ATLANTIC); DEEP NORTHEAST ATLANTIC Increase in metabolic activity and biomass of the deep ocean benthic community due to sedimentation events.
Psychiatry/
Psychology		 RELIGIOUS PRACTICES; PARENTAL RELIGIOUS VALUES; RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY RITUALS; RELIGION; MARRIAGE Marital satisfaction and religious holiday practices.
Social Sciences, general HEALTH WORKERS; HEALTH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT TOOL; HEALTH PROVIDERS' OPINIONS Health provider-client relations and gender-sensitivity in African countries.
Space Science TIGHT ABUNDANCE CONSTRAINTS; INTERSTELLAR DUST; DUST MODELS; INTERSTELLAR CARBON; UNIFIED MODEL Abundance of interstellar carbon gas and dust using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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