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ESI Special Topics, August 2004
Citing URL: http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/august2004.html

This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1999-February 28, 2004 to 1999-April 30, 2004. Of the 4,469 Research Fronts in the 1999-April 30, 2004 file, a total of 550 (.12%) were new compared with the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators.

August 2004

Field Name Description
     
Agricultural Sciences MEASURING DYNAMIC FLAVOR RELEASE; VOLATILE FLAVOUR RELEASE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY Volatile flavor release in the expired air during eating.
Biology & Biochemistry DIFFUSION FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE PROTEIN FOLDING Protein folding and enzyme catalysis at single-molecule resolution.
Chemistry GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 (GSK-3) INHIBITORS; INDIRUBINS INHIBIT GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE-3 BETA; CYCLINE-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITORS

by Laurent Meijer
Indirubins as low nanomolar inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta.
Clinical Medicine ANESTHETIC PRECONDITIONING ATTENUATES MITOCHONDRIAL CA2+ OVERLOAD; VOLATILE ANESTHETICS MIMIC CARDIAC PRECONDITIONING; SEVOFLURANE EXPOSURE

by Michael Zaugg
Volatile anesthetics induce pharmacological preconditioning in cardiac tissue.
Computer Science DNA COMPUTING; MOLECULAR COMPUTATION; DNA HAIRPIN FORMATION; AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING MACHINE DNA computing on surfaces.
Economics & Business INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE RESOURCES; EMPLOYEES' CREATIVE PERFORMANCE; LEADING CREATIVE PEOPLE; CREATIVE SELF-EFFICACY

by Ginamarie Scott
Leadership behaviors contributing to creativity and innovation in organizational settings.
Engineering CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS; UK ADAPTATION STRATEGY; UK HOUSE BUILDING SECTOR; NORWAY'S BUILT ENVIRONMENT The effect of climate-change on the house-building sector.

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NEOTROPICAL RAIN FORESTS; TROPICAL FORESTS; AMAZONIAN FORESTS; RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION
Tropical forests in determining the current atmospheric concentration of CO2.
Geosciences EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; GENERATING ENSO DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERIOR PYCNOCLINE FLOW; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION Coupled ocean-atmosphere model of El Nino and the Southern Oscillation.
Immunology IMPAIRED ALLOREACTIVE T CELL ACTIVATION; DENDRITIC CELL MODULATION; 1 ALPHA; 25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D-3 INHIBITS DIFFERENTIATION Active form of vitamin D-3 as an immunomodulatory agent.
Materials Science TRANSPARENT SUPERHYDROPHOBIC BOEHMITE; SILICA FILMS; THIN FILMS; ULTRA WATER-REPELLENT COATINGS; MICROWAVE PLASMA CVD Water-repellant coatings achieved by tuning of the design of surface microstructure.
Mathematics SWELLING POROUS ELASTIC SOILS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM; FLUID SATURATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID

by Ramon Quintanilla
Thermo elasticity defined on a semi-infinite cylindrical region.
Microbiology SURFACE PROTEINS; CELL WALL ENVELOPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS SORTASE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA Targeting of proteins to the envelope of gram-positive bacteria.
Molecular Biology & Genetics OLFACTORY RECEPTOR GENE SUPERFAMILY; MOUSE OLFACTORY SYSTEM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR ANTAGONISM; ONE RECEPTOR-ONE OLFACTORY NEURON RULE Olfactory receptor genes in vertebrates.
Multidisciplinary NUCLEAR EXPORT; MAMMALIAN MICRORNA TARGETS; MICRORNAS MODULATE HEMATOPOIETIC LINEAGE DIFFERENTIATION; SHORT HAIRPIN RNAS Nuclear export of microRNA precursors.
Neuroscience & Behavior PRENATAL CHLORPYRIFOS EXPOSURE; POSTNATAL CHLORPYRIFOS EXPOSURE; TAKE-HOME ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY ELICITED Environmental agents that promote cholinergic activity evoke neurodevelopmental damage.
Pharmacology & Toxicology ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE ACTION; HUMAN PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC LL-37/HCAP-18; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES; THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL Antimicrobial peptide LL-37 links host defense and inflammation with angiogenesis.
Physics HOMOEPITAXIAL P-TYPE ZNO GROWN; ARSENIC-DOPED P-TYPE ZNO GROWN; PLASMA-EXPOSED BULK ZNO; ZNO DEVICES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY

by David C. Look
Homoepitaxial p-type ZnO grown by molecular beam epitaxy.
Plant & Animal Science APETALA3/PISTILLATA FLORAL HOMEOTIC GENE LINEAGES; ARABIDOPSIS FLORAL ORGAN IDENTITY PROTEINS; COMPLETE MADS-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FAMILY

by Richard G. H. Immink
Plant MADS box protein-protein interactions in living plant cells.
Psychiatry/Psychology PERSONALITY SCIENCE; COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUALIZING PERSONALITY; MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS The concept of the personality in clinical psychology and in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Social Sciences, general COGNITIVE LOAD MEASUREMENT; COGNITIVE LOAD PERSPECTIVE; COGNITIVE SKILL ACQUISITION; COMPUTER-BASED MULTIMEDIA LEARNING Worked-examples research and the early stages of skill development.
Space Science TIME-AVERAGED 900 KILOSECOND CHANDRA GRATING SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZED GAS; NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT; NGC 3783 Results from the High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

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