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ESI Special Topics, June 2003
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1997-December 2002 and 1998-February 2003. Of the 4,517 Research Fronts in the 1998-February 2003 file, a total of 607 (.13%) were new compared to the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product.

June 2003

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences ACRYLAMIDE; CARCINOGEN FORMED; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEATED FOODSTUFFS Acrylamide formed during cooking food.
Biology & Biochemistry BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS (BT) CRY2AA2 PROTEIN; CHLOROPLAST GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGHER PLANTS; CHLOROPLASTS CONFERS RESISTANCE; BT CRY2AA2 OPERON Insect resistance to the bioinsecticide Bt reduced through genetic engineering of chloroplasts.
Chemistry HIGHLY ENANTIOSELECTIVE RH-CATALYZED HYDROGENATION REACTIONS; CHIRAL MONODENTATE MONOPHOSPHORUS LIGANDS; RHODIUM-CATALYZED HYDROGENATION REACTIONS Phosphorus ligands involved in asymmetric catalysis with organometallic complexes.
Clinical Medicine LAPAROSCOPIC ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS; LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE SILICONE GASTRIC BANDING; LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS; OPEN GASTRIC BYPASS Laparoscopic placement of silicone gastric banding for treatment of obesity.
Computer Science IBM ESERVER Z900 I/O SUBSYSTEM; IBM ESERVER Z900 VERIFICATION; COUPLING I/O CHANNELS; INPUT/OUTPUT SUBSYSTEM Description of the new IBM eserver z900 technology.
Economics & Business GLOBAL VIRTUAL TEAM DYNAMICS; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL VIRTUAL TEAM; BRIDGING SPACE; TECHNOLOGY ADAPTATION Facilitating trust in global, collaborative virtual teams.
Engineering DUKE STORAGE RING SOFT X-RAY FEL; UVOK-4/DUKE STORAGE RING FEL; EUROPEAN UV/VUV STORAGE RING FEL; DUKE/OK-4 STORAGE RING FEL Expected performance of the first distributed optical klystron for generating gamma rays.
Environment/Ecology PLANT VASCULAR SYSTEMS; ALLOMETRIC SCALING; PLANT ENERGETICS; VASCULAR PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY Rates of plant resource use scale as the power of body mass.
Geosciences PARTIALLY OXIDIZED VOLATILE ORGANIC EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (PRIMARILY OXYGENATED SPECIES); ACETONE; METHANOL; DEAD PLANT MATTER Pastures and grasslands as a global source of volatile organic compound emissions.
Immunology MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION-ASSOCIATED GENE 7 (MDA7) INDUCES APOPTOSIS; DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE (PKR); INTERLEUKIN 24 (MDA-7/MOB-5) SIGNALS Interleukin-10 related cytokines and their role in disease.
Materials Science COLLOIDAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTAL GROWTH; TETRAPOD-SHAPED CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; SHAPE-CONTROLLED CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; III-V SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS Controlling the growth kinetics of semiconductor cadmium selenide to vary the shape of resulting nanocrystals.
Mathematics BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED DISCRETE VELOCITY MODELS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID MECHANICS; KINETIC MULTISCALE MODEL; DIFFERENT PERTURBATION METHODS Fluid mechanics equations derived from the Boltzmann equation.
Microbiology HUMAN FECAL SAMPLES; GENES ENCODING 16S RRNA; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSIS Previously unknown bacterial species in human gut microflora.
Molecular Biology & Genetics GRIMM; GENOME REARRANGEMENTS WEB SERVER; HUMAN GENOME; WHOLE-GENOME SHOTGUN-DERIVED MOUSE CHROMOSOME 16; GENOMIC DNA SEQUENCES; PATTERN HUNTER High degree of similarity of the mouse and human genomes.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Richard J. Mural
Multidisciplinary ANIMAL EMBRYOS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRESERVATION; NEOPROTEROZOIC PHOSPHORITE; PRECAMBRIAN SPONGES; CELLULAR STRUCTURES Early evolution of multicellular organisms by palaeontological methods.
Neuroscience & Behavior VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; INORGANIC PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; DIFFERENTIATION-ASSOCIATED NA+/P-I TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATERGIC PHENOTYPE The protein responsible for transporting glutamate into synaptic vesicles.
Pharmacology & Toxicology PC-3 PROSTATE CANCER CELLS; MDA-MB-231 HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS; BISPHOSPHONATE TREATMENT INHIBITS; BISPHOSPHONATE IBANDRONATE PROMOTES APOPTOSIS Inhibition of prostate cancer cell growth in bone by bisphosphonates.
Physics NEAR-FIELD TERAHERTZ WAVE IMAGING; COLLECTION-MODE NEAR-FIELD IMAGING; TERAHERTZ PULSES; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING Terahertz "T-ray" imaging for far-infrared spectrometry and tomographic imaging.
Plant & Animal Science FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE EPIDEMIC; GREAT BRITAIN; 2001 UK FOOT-AND-MOUTH EPIDEMIC; ALTERNATIVE CONTROL STRATEGIES Analysis of early spread of the foot-and-mouth virus in Great Britain.
Psychiatry/
Psychology
ACUTE MANIA; TREATMENT; LITHIUM MONOTHERAPY; MOOD STABILIZER; EFFICACY Use of olanzapine in treating acute manic and mixed bipolar episodes.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Mauricio Tohen
Social Sciences, general US MILITARY COMMISSIONS; MILITARY TRIBUNALS; AL QAEDA TERRORISTS; AMBIGUOUS WAR; WAGING WAR Constitutionality of detaining classes of individuals and trying them by military tribunal.
Space Science BLACK HOLE CANDIDATE XTE J1550-564; BLACK HOLE STATES; MICROQUASAR XTE J1550-564; CORRELATED X-RAY SPECTRAL; TIMING BEHAVIOR Two dimensional description of black hole behavior in a black hole candidate.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Jeroen Homan

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