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ESI Special Topics, February 2003
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1997-August 2002 and 1997-October 2002. Of the 4,855 Research Fronts in the 1997-October 2002 file, a total of 410 (.10%) were new compared to the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product.

February 2003

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences MICROPHASE ADSORPTION-SPECTRAL CORRECTION TECHNIQUE; MULTIWAVELENGTH SPECTRAL CORRECTION; PROTEIN SOLUTION Spectrophotometric analysis of protein solutions using microphase adsorption-spectral correction technique.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Professor Hong-Wen Gao
Biology & Biochemistry ANIMAL LECTINS; GALECTINS; I-TYPE LECTINS; P-TYPE LECTINS; PLANT LECTINS Relating biochemical coding to cell functionality using carbohydrate-binding proteins as coding systems.
Chemistry ARYL CHLORIDE AMINATION; ARYL IODIDES; ARYL HALIDES; COPPER-CATALYZED COUPLING; ARYL-CARBON BONDS USING WELL-DEFINED COPPER(I)-BASED CATALYSTS Catalysis of aryl halide amination using palladium for antibiotic synthesis.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Steven P. Nolan 
Clinical Medicine AMPHOTERICIN B; RANDOMIZED DOUBLE-BLIND; CASPOFUNGIN (MK-0991); ANTIFUNGAL EFFICACY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITIES Clinical trial of antifungal drugs caspofungin versus amphotericin B.
Computer Science FULLY ASYNCHRONOUS MULTIFRONTAL SOLVER USING DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; SPARSE PARTIAL PIVOTING; SUPERNODAL APPROACH; UNSYMMETRIC SOLVERS Computational methods to speed solution of unsymmetric linear systems.
Economics & Business IMPERFECT PRIVATE MONITORING; REPEATED PRISONER'S DILEMMA; REPEATED PRISONERS' DILEMMA; ALMOST-PUBLIC MONITORING; REPEATED GAMES Theorem for repeated games with imperfect public and private monitoring.
Engineering SELECTED ION FLOW TUBE MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSES; BREATH WATER VAPOUR; FLOWING AFTERGLOW MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUANTITATIVE TRACE GAS ANALYSIS Selected ion flow tube (SIFT) technique for trace gas analysis of air and breath.
Environment/Ecology TRACK CONSTRUCTED SALT MARSH DEVELOPMENT; NEW ENGLAND SALT MARSH; RESTORED ELK RIVER ESTUARINE MARSH; JUVENILE SALMON HABITAT Functional trajectories of restored salt marshes.
Geosciences ANTARCTIC POLAR FRONT; MESOSCALE FRONTAL DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; 3-D MESOSCALE MAP Higher phytoplankton concentrations in Antarctic Circumpolar Current due to mesoscale frontal dynamics.
Immunology UBIQUITOUS CYTOPLASMIC ENZYME MAY PROVOKE JOINT-SPECIFIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM; ARTHRITIS CRITICALLY DEPENDENT; ANTIBODIES Arthritis and other autoimmune diseases resulting from a runaway innate immune response.
Materials Science DOW CYCLOTENE 3022 SURFACE; EVAPORATED COPPER; SURFACE MODIFICATION; NITROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT Copper adhesion to the surface of insulators with potential for microelectronic manufacture.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Edward Sacher
Mathematics GENERAL DETERMINISTIC STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS; LINEAR THEORY; NONLINEAR THEORY Physiologically structured population models based on reproduction and survival.
Microbiology ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHATE REMOVAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL PROCESS; MICROBIOLOGY; 16S RRNA-DIRECTED PROBES Microbiology and biochemistry of enhanced biological phosphate removal (EBPR) and isolation of polyphosphate accumulating organisms.
Molecular Biology & Genetics AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (ADPKD); PROTEIN DISRUPTED; NOVEL CILIA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN MUTATED; POLYCYSTIN-1 PROTEIN Defects in polycystin2 as a cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
Multidisciplinary GENOME SEQUENCE; HUMAN MALARIA PARASITE PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; MALARIA MOSQUITO ANOPHELES GAMBIAE Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite and potential for new drugs and vaccines against malaria.
Neuroscience & Behavior DRUG ABUSERS SHOW IMPAIRED PERFORMANCE; DYSFUNCTIONAL VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; CHRONIC AMPHETAMINE ABUSERS; OPIATE ABUSERS; STIMULANT ABUSERS Decision making deficits in drug abusers similar in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex.
Pharmacology & Toxicology LIGAND PHARMACOLOGY USING RECEPTOR-G-PROTEIN FUSION PROTEINS; GPCR-G ALPHA FUSION PROTEINS; RECEPTOR-G-PROTEIN COUPLING; BETA(2)-ADRENOCEPTOR COUPLING Interactions between G protein-coupled receptors and G proteins in plasma membrane signal transduction.
Physics ORBIFOLDED ADS(5) X S-5; SUPER-ADS(5) X S-5 ALGEBRA; PLANE WAVE RAMOND-RAMOND BACKGROUND; HPP WAVE BACKGROUND; TYPE IIB GREEN-SCHWARZ SUPERSTRING Covariant kappa-symmetric superstring action for type IIB superstring on plane wave space.
Plant & Animal Science SUBSISTENCE FISHERIES; SOUTH AFRICAN COAST; SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT Strategy for management of subsistence fisheries on the South African coast.
Psychiatry/
Psychology
LIBET'S DATA; CONSCIOUS DECISION; LIBET'S TEMPORAL ANOMALIES; CORTICAL MOVEMENT PREPARATION Whether the brain prepares for movement before a conscious decision to move.
Social Sciences, general SELF-DETERMINATION; SELF-DETERMINED LEARNING MODEL; STUDENT-DIRECTED LEARNING; SIGNIFICANT DISABILITIES Importance of self-determination for people with significant disabilities.
Space Science M DWARF EXTENSION; THEORETICAL SPECTRA; STANDARD STELLAR LIBRARY; EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS Library of synthetic stellar spectra based on model atmosphere spectra for photometry applications.

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