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ESI Special Topics, August 2003
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1998-February 2003 and 1998-April 2003. Of the 4,468 Research Fronts in the 1998-April 2003 file, a total of 558 (.12%) were new compared to the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators.

August 2003

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences PHENOLIC ANTIOXIDANTS; THEORETICAL PARAMETER CHARACTERIZING SCAVENGING ACTIVITY; KINETIC SOLVENT EFFECTS Predicting the activity of phenolic antioxidants.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by James S. Wright
Biology & Biochemistry POLYDACTYL ZINC FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DESIGNED ZINC FINGER PROTEINS; ENGINEERING POLYDACTYL ZINC-FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS Design and selection of novel zinc finger proteins.
Chemistry ENTANGLED POLYMERS; HIGHLY ENTANGLED STAR POLYISOPRENE; ENTANGLED POLYMERIC LIQUIDS; LINEAR POLYMERS; NONLINEAR VISCOELASTICITY Reptation and contour-length fluctuations in linear polymer melts.
Clinical Medicine TP53 MUTATIONS; HUMAN CANCER; NEW MUTATIONS; TP53 GENE; HUMAN TUMORS Pathogenesis of mesothelioma.
Computer Science GAUSSIAN WATERMARKING GAME; WATERMARKING SCHEMES; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; SIDE INFORMATION; INFORMATION EMBEDDING Watermarking as communications with side information.
Economics & Business EQUITY PREMIUM; RISK PREMIUM; CHANGING FIRM CHARACTERISTICS; ANALYSTS' EARNINGS FORECASTS Declining proportion of firms paying cash dividends.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Eugene F. Fama
Engineering SELF-CONSISTENT EULERIAN RATE TYPE ELASTO-PLASTICITY MODELS; CONSISTENT FINITE ELASTOPLASTICITY THEORY; LOGARITHMIC STRESS RATE Strain rates and material spins.
Environment/Ecology HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HUMIC ION-BINDING MODEL; GENERIC NICA-DONNAN MODEL PARAMETERS; HUMIC ACIDS Ion binding to natural organic matter.
Geosciences TERRESTRIAL NOBLE GASES; COSMIC-RAY-PRODUCED NOBLE GASES; MARTIAN NOBLE GASES; NOBLE GAS ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY; TERRESTRIAL ROCKS Models for the distribution of terrestrial noble gases and evolution of the atmosphere.
Immunology PROTEASE INHIBITORS; HIV-1 INFECTED PATIENTS; HIV SERONEGATIVE VOLUNTEERS; HIV LIPOATROPHY Lipid profile of HIV-1 infected patients on nevirapine-containing antiretroviral therapy.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Peter Reiss - (late comment entry)
Materials Science SOL-GEL TEMPLATE SYNTHESIS; OXIDE NANOTUBES TEMPLATED; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE TIO2 NANOTUBES; SOL-GEL COATING Titanium dioxide tubes from the sol-gel coating of electrospun polymer fibers.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Rachel A. Caruso
Mathematics ORIENTATION DIFFUSION; DIRECTION DIFFUSION; VOLUMETRIC MEDICAL IMAGES; HARMONIC MAPS THEORY A framework for low level vision of medical images.
Microbiology COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC Structural comparison of different types of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Keiichi Hiramatsu
Molecular Biology & Genetics DROSOPHILA POLYCOMB GROUP REPRESSOR COMPLEX; HISTONE H3 METHYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY; CHROMOSOMAL POLYCOMB SITES; TRITHORAX GROUP COMPLEXES Programming off and on states in chromatin.
Multidisciplinary CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS GENOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS FAT REGULATORY GENES; GENOME-WIDE RNAI ANALYSIS; IGF-1 RECEPTOR REGULATES LIFESPAN Regulation of C-elegans by an insulin-like signaling pathway.
Neuroscience & Behavior MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT REPRESENTS EARLY-STAGE ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW; POPULATION-BASED VALIDATION STUDY; CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA Mild cognitive impairment for the early detection of dementia.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Steven T. DeKosky
Pharmacology & Toxicology ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS; LARGE DIVERSE SET; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR RELATIVE BINDING AFFINITIES; QSAR MODELS The binding affinities of the estrogen receptor to natural and xenochemicals.
Physics RANDALL-SUNDRUM II COSMOLOGY; RANDALL-SUNDRUM PICTURES; ADS/CFT; HOLOGRAPHY; BULK BLACK HOLE Randall and Sundrum string compactification scenarios.
Plant & Animal Science PHOSPHORUS-DEFICIENT WHITE LUPIN; PROTEOID ROOT DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ROOT FUNCTION Proteoid root development in white lupin.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Gunter Neumann
Psychiatry/
Psychology
DEPRESSION COMPLICATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE STUDY; AGITATION Carbamazepine for agitation and aggression in dementia.
Social Sciences, general HUMAN CULTURES; TOOL USE; MATERIAL CULTURE; CHIMPANZEE; CHIMPANZEES Different behavioral repertoires show culture in chimpanzee communities.
Space Science SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; FUNDAMENTAL PLANE Early-type galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

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