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ESI Special Topics, June 2002
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1996-December 2001 and 1997-February 2002. Of the 4,249 Research Fronts in the 1997-February 2002 file, a total of 1021 (.24%) were new compared to the prior period. From ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product.

June 2002
Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences BEMISIA TABACI USING PREDATORS; BEMISIA TABACI-TRANSMITTED GEMINIVIRUSES; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST PLANT RESISTANCE Control of cotton pests by enhancement of natural predators.
Biology & Biochemistry RETROVIRUS RELEASE; GAG POLYPROTEIN PROCESSING; UBIQUITIN LIGASE RECRUITMENT; RETROVIRUS BUDDING MACHINERY Ubiquitin as part of the retroviral budding machinery.
Chemistry SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE TITIN MOLECULES CHARACTERIZED; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE PROTEIN Atomic force microscopy to investigate the unfolding of proteins.
Clinical Medicine REDUCTASE INHIBITION PROMOTES ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE ACTIVATION; SIMVASTATIN PRESERVES CORONARY ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION; STATIN INHIBITION Inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in nitric oxide-dependent endothelial dysfunction.
Computer Science USER MODELING; PREDICTIVE STATISTICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNER CONTROL; MACHINE LEARNING Natural language systems for understanding users.
Economics & Business CHINA'S MARKET TRANSITION (1978-1998); CZECH TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; LEGAL TRANSFORMATION; MARKET ECONOMY How China's market transition took a different path.
Engineering INTENSE HEAVY ION BEAMS; HEAVY ION FUSION PROGRAM; LBNL SCALED FINAL FOCUS EXPERIMENT; INTENSE PARTICLE BEAMS Chamber transport in power plants using heavy ion fusion.
Environment/Ecology LOWLAND EUTROPHIC RIVER KENNET; LOWLAND CHALK RIVER IMPACTED; UPPER THAMES RIVER BASIN Phosphorus in river water due to sewage treatment.
Geosciences NW IBERIAN UPWELLING SYSTEM; UPWELLING FILAMENT SYSTEM; TWO SHORT-TERM LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENTS Chemical and biological processes in upwelled ocean water.
Immunology NOVEL HUMAN INDUCIBLE PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC; HUMAN BETA-DEFENSIN-3; NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE PREVENTS CATHELICIDIN ACTIVATION; NOVEL VIRULENCE FACTOR MPRF How beta-defensins promotes the immune response by recruiting dendritic cells and T cells.
Materials Science FUNCTIONAL NANOSCALE ELECTRONIC DEVICES ASSEMBLED USING SILICON NANOWIRE BUILDING BLOCKS; SOLUTION-GROWN SILICON NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE NANOWIRES Growing bulk quantities of silicon nanowires.
Emerging Research Fronts Commentsby:
Dr. Justin D. Holmes, Professors Brian Korgel & Keith P. Johnston
Mathematics MODELING TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS; SYNTHETIC OSCILLATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TOGGLE SWITCH Synthesis of networks of interacting proteins.
Microbiology 1918 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA VIRUS NONSTRUCTURAL GENE (NS) SEGMENT; 1918 "SPANISH" INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ GENE; VIRUS NS1 PROTEIN PREVENTS ACTIVATION Origin and genetics of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus.
Molecular Biology & Genetics COMPREHENSIVE TWO-HYBRID ANALYSIS; VACCINIA VIRUS PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION MAP Interactions between proteins predicted from genome sequences.
Multidisciplinary SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE ENZYMATIC DYNAMICS; SINGLE BIOMOLECULES; ENZYME CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS Fluorescence spectroscopy of single macromolecules under physiological conditions.
Neuroscience & Behavior FAST CENTRAL SYNAPSE; TRANSMITTER RELEASE RATES; FAST KINETICS; AUDITORY SYNAPSE Regulation of the releasable pool of synaptic vesicles by Ca2+.
Pharmacology & Toxicology ADRENOMEDULLIN GENE DELIVERY ATTENUATES HYPERTENSION; FUNCTIONAL ADRENOMEDULLIN GENE; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEINS (RAMPS); CALCITONIN RECEPTOR-LIKE RECEPTOR (CRLR) Adrenomedullin in the cardiovascular, nervous and endocrine systems.
Physics ALKALI-DOPED SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; ELEMENT-SELECTIVE SINGLE ATOM IMAGING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL METALLOFULLERENE CRYSTAL GENERATED Nested cylinders formed by filling carbon nanotubes with C-60 molecules.
Plant & Animal Science RED ALGA PORPHYRA PURPUREA; SINGLE COMMON ORIGIN; EARLY CHLOROPLAST EVOLUTION; GREEN ALGAE Taxonomy of eukaryotes based on sampled proteins.
Psychiatry/
Psychology		 ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; ROSTRAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ERROR DETECTION; EVENT-RELATED FMRI STUDY How the anterior cingulate cortex monitors possible errors in brain performance.
Social Sciences, general DRUG COVERAGE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG USE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST-SHARING; MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES Increased cost-sharing for prescription drugs resulting in a reduction in drug use and higher rates of adverse events.
Space Science MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR TOPOGRAPHY; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MAG/ER EXPERIMENT; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MISSION Topography and volume of water on Mars using the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.

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