| Agricultural
Sciences |
BARLEY
POPULATIONS |
Genetic
basis of traits important to malting barley. |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
CELL
DEATH PROTEASE CASPASE 9; DIMER FORMATION; PROTEOLYTIC PROCESSING;
THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE |
Characteristic
activities of caspase-9. |
| Chemistry |
HIGHLY
AMPHIPHILIC TIO2 SURFACES; PHOTOINDUCED SURFACE REACTIONS; TIO2
SINGLE-CRYSTAL SURFACES; SURFACE WETTABILITY CONVERSION |
Photoconvertible
surface wettability of TiO2 surfaces. |
| Clinical
Medicine |
ACUTE
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; END-STAGE RENAL FAILURE; RENAL
DYSFUNCTION; ELDERLY PATIENTS |
Survival
rates of elderly patients with renal insufficiency after myocardial
infarction. |
| Computer
Science |
NONLINEAR
HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; MULTI-LEVEL FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; LARGE-STRAIN
MECHANICAL RESPONSE |
Homogenization
method for large deformations and viscoelastic material behavior. |
| Economics
& Business |
MIXED
MNL MODELS; RECREATION DEMAND MODELS; MIXED LOGIT; HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES |
Recreation
demand models. |
| Engineering |
ATMOSPHERIC
INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); AIRS RADIANCE VALIDATION; AIRS NEAR-REAL-TIME
PRODUCTS; IN-FLIGHT SPECTRAL CALIBRATION |
Overview
of the AIRS radiative transfer model. |
| Environment/Ecology |
ICE
AGE; CENTRAL ALPS; PLEISTOCENE HISTORY; GLACIAL HISTORY; EUROPEAN ALPS
by Ivana Stehlik |
Glacial
survival of mountain flora of the Alps. |
| Geosciences |
TROPICAL
FOREST STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS USING LARGE-FOOTPRINT LIDAR; TREE CROWN
PROPERTIES USING AIRBORNE SCANNING LASER |
Use
of scanning lidar to estimate forest stand characteristics. |
| Immunology |
CHEMOKINES
TRIGGER IMMEDIATE BETA 2 INTEGRIN AFFINITY; IMMOBILIZED CHEMOKINES
STIMULATES LEUKOCYTE TETHERING |
Triggering
of vascular arrest of circulating lymphocytes by chemokines. |
| Materials
Science |
SINGLE-WALLED
CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBON NANOTUBES FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH WEIGHT FRACTION
SURFACTANT SOLUBILIZATION; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION
by Hongjie
Dai |
Functionalization
of carbon nanotubes for detecting clinically important biomolecules. |
| Mathematics |
DIRECTED
GRAPHS; INFINITE GRAPHS; CUNTZ-KRIEGER ALGEBRAS; C*-ALGEBRAS; INFINITE
MATRICES |
Cuntz-Krieger
algebras of directed graphs. |
| Microbiology |
ESCHERICHIA
COLI; STRUCTURE; MECHANISM; 12-HELIX TRANSPORTERS; MAJOR FACILITATOR
SUPERFAMILY |
Crystal
structure of E-coli lactose permease and lactose/proton cotransport. |
 Molecular
Biology & Genetics |
EMBRYONIC
STEM CELLS PROMOTES DIFFERENTIATION; ADULT HEPATIC STEM CELLS; PANCREATIC
ENDOCRINE HORMONE-PRODUCING CELLS; INSULIN-PRODUCING CELLS
 |
Trans-differentiating
adult hepatic stem cells into pancreatic endocrine hormone-producing cells. |
| Multidisciplinary |
ADULT
SELF-RENEWING HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMAN BLOOD STEM CELLS; LEUKAEMIC
STEM CELLS; STEM CELL GROWTH FACTORS
by Tannishtha Reya |
Wnt
signaling in the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells. |
| Neuroscience
& Behavior |
RHESUS
MONKEY AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY AFFERENTS TARGET MULTIPLE DOMAINS; PRIMATE
PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DUAL STREAMS; FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIZATION |
Separate
auditory streams target spatial and non-spatial domains of the frontal lobe. |
| Pharmacology
& Toxicology |
PREGNANE
X RECEPTOR GENE EXPRESSION; CONSTITUTIVE ANDROSTANE RECEPTOR (CAR); DRUG
TRANSPORTER GENE EXPRESSION |
Role
of nuclear receptors PXR and CAR in defending the body against potentially
harmful environmental chemicals. |
| Physics |
TIO2(110)-(1
X 2) SURFACES INDUCED; REACTIVITY STUDIED USING ELEVATED TEMPERATURE
SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TIO2(110) SURFACE |
Scanning
tunneling microscopy to study the surface structure of TiO2. |
| Plant
& Animal Science |
STEADY
STATE PHYTOPLANKTON ASSEMBLAGES; LATE SUMMER PHYTOPLANKTON ASSEMBLAGES;
FRESHWATER PHYTOPLANKTON
by Colin S.
Reynolds |
Functional
associations of species represented in freshwater phytoplankton. |
| Psychiatry/Psychology |
GROUNDING
CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; FMRI EVIDENCE; SEMANTIC
CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DEFICITS |
Failure
to find functional or anatomical segregation of semantic memory by domain or
category. |
| Social
Sciences, general |
AUSTRALIAN
NATIONAL TOBACCO CAMPAIGN; TOBACCO TAX REFORMS; TOBACCO PRICES; TOBACCO USE |
Effectiveness
of fear appeals in the tobacco literature. |
| Space
Science |
SPECTROMETER
ABOARD INTEGRAL; INTEGRAL SCIENCE DATA CENTRE (ISDC); INTEGRAL SOFT
GAMMA-RAY IMAGER; X-RAY MONITOR ABOARD INTEGRAL |
Observation
of the gamma-ray sky using the IBIS telescope on-board the INTEGRAL
Observatory. |
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