 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
MODELLING
CROP GROWTH; AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL WINDBREAKS PROGRAM; SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CROPPING
SYSTEM |
Effect
of shelter and windbreaks on crop yields in Australia. |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
ALZHEIMER'S
AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDE-ASSOCIATED FREE RADICAL OXIDATIVE STRESS; ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE BRAIN; BETA(1-42)-INDUCED OXIDATIVE DAMAGE |
Amyloid
beta-peptide and oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease. |
by D. Allan Butterfield, Ph.D. |
| Chemistry |
AMINO
ACIDS USING SULFINIMINES (THIOOXIME S-OXIDES); ENANTIOPURE SULFINIMINES (THIOOXIME
S-OXIDES); ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC OXIDATION |
Chiral
imine building blocks for the synthesis of amino acids. |
| Clinical Medicine |
MAGNETIC
RESONANCE DIRECT THROMBUS IMAGING; WALL IMAGING USING BLACK-BLOOD MAGNETIC
RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROTIC CAROTID PLAQUE |
Non-invasive
black-blood MRI for the high resolution imaging of human coronary arteries. |
by Zahi A.
Fayad, Ph.D. |
| Computer Science |
PROGRAMMABLE
COORDINATION ARCHITECTURE; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; COORDINATING MULTIAGENT
APPLICATIONS; MOBILE AGENTS; T SPACES |
Designing
interactive multi-agent applications for the Web. |
| Economics & Business |
FOURTH
MOMENT STRUCTURE; SUFFICIENT MOMENT CONDITIONS; ASYMMETRIC POWER GARCH MODELS |
Computing
the unconditional fourth moment of the GARCH process. |
| Engineering |
HUMIDITY
SENSOR; USING CROSS-LINKED COPOLYMERS CONTAINING VIOLOGEN MOIETY; HUMIDITY
SENSOR USING EPOXY RESIN CONTAINING QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS |
Humidity
sensors fabricated with organic polymers. |
| Environment/Ecology |
CHANGING
NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE; PRESETTLEMENT NEW ENGLAND; HISTORICAL LAND-USE EFFECTS |
Forest
composition and land use in Massachusetts since the 1600s. |
| Geosciences |
NORTH
CAROLINA CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CAPE HATTERAS (USA); CONTINENTAL SLOPE SEDIMENTS;
ORGANIC CARBON DEPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF |
Primary
production and chlorophyll concentrations on the mid-Atlantic continental
shelf. |
| Immunology |
NATURAL
KILLER T (NKT) CELL DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAY; HUMAN V ALPHA-24 NATURAL KILLER T
CELLS; NK T CELL LINEAGE; CD1D-DEPENDENT PRECURSOR STAGE |
Developmental
control of regulatory functions of Natural Killer T cells. |
| Materials Science |
CARBON
NANOTUBE-MAGNESIUM OXIDE CUBE NETWORKS; DISCRETE CATALYTIC NANOPARTICLES;
SCALABLE CVD SYNTHESIS; HIGH-PURITY SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES |
Controlling
the growth of carbon nanotubes via the structure of catalytic nanoparticles. |
| Mathematics |
BOOSTING;
EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; BAGGING; VOTING CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS |
Comparing
the accuracy of voting classification algorithms. |
| Microbiology |
MYCOBACTERIUM
TUBERCULOSIS W-BEIJING FAMILY STRAINS; NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS GENOTYPING;
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY |
Molecular
epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain W-Beijing. |
| Molecular Biology & Genetics |
REGULATORY
NETWORKS CONTROLLING CANDIDA ALBICANS MORPHOGENESIS; NONFILAMENTOUS C-ALBICANS
MUTANTS; FILAMENT FORMATION |
Avirulence
of a mutant form of Candida albicans. |
| Multidisciplinary |
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research front selected in this field for this period |
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| Neuroscience & Behavior |
TRANSGENIC
MOUSE EXPRESSING V337M HUMAN TAU; TAU TRANSGENIC MICE PROVOKE LYSOSOMAL
ABNORMALITIES; PHOSPHORYLATED MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
Neurodegenerative
disorders associated with overexpression of protein tau. |
by George Jackson M.D. Ph.D |
| Pharmacology & Toxicology |
THALIDOMIDE
PRODUCES TRANSFUSION INDEPENDENCE; IMMUNOMODULATORY THALIDOMIDE ANALOGS; HUMAN
MULTIPLE MYELOMA CELLS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES |
Thalidomide
effective in treating cytopenias of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. |
| Physics |
RIGHT-HANDED
NEUTRINO MASS; BARYON ASYMMETRY; LEPTOGENESIS; NEUTRINO MASSES; MASS MATRICES |
Cosmological
bounds on Majorana neutrino masses. |
| Plant & Animal Science |
SOUTH-EASTERN
BERING SEA 1997; ANOMALOUS CONDITIONS; GELATINOUS ZOOPLANKTON |
Unusual
temperatures and physical conditions in the Bering Sea in 1997 and 1998. |
Psychiatry/
Psychology |
PHYSICAL
INACTIVITY; OLDER-AGED MINORITY WOMEN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SOCIAL SUPPORT;
DIVERSE RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS |
Study
of physical activity of minority women in the USA. |
| Social Sciences, general |
EUROPEAN
MONETARY INTEGRATION; MONETARY INSTITUTIONS; MONETARY COMMITMENTS; POLITICAL
SYSTEM TRANSPARENCY |
Economic
and political factors in a country's choice of monetary institutions. |
| Space Science |
MARS
GLOBAL SURVEYOR MAG/ER EXPERIMENT; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MISSION; MAGNETIC
FIELD; MAGNETIC LINEATIONS |
Magnetic
field and plasma observations in the Mars environment from the Mars Global
Surveyor. |
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