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ESI Special Topics, June 2004
Citing URL: http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/june2004.html

This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1998-December 2003 to 1999-February 2004. Of the 4,553 Research Fronts in the 1999-February 2004 file, a total of 639 (.14%) were new compared with the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators.

June 2004

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences NUTRITIONAL BIOMARKERS; DIETARY BIOMARKERS; FATTY ACID INTAKE; OXIDATIVE STRESS STATUS; METHODOLOGIC ISSUES Role of antioxidant nutrients in the prevention of chronic disease.
Biology & Biochemistry COLLAPSED REPLICATION FORKS; MODEL REPLICATION FORKS; FISSION YEAST MUS81-EME1; HUMAN MUS81-EME1 ENDONUCLEASE; DNA REPLICATION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Matthew Whitby
Processing of stalled and collapsed replication forks in yeast.
Chemistry CYTOPHOBIC POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER THIN FILMS; POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER FILMS EXHIBITING; POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER FILM MORPHOLOGY; POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYER ARCHITECTURE FUNCTIONALIZED; IN SITU ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY STUDY
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Catherine Picart
Structural parameters characterizing thin macromolecular adsorbed films.
Clinical Medicine CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ELDERLY PATIENTS; LOW TRANSFUSION THRESHOLD SAFE; ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Harlan Krumholz [late entry]
Blood transfusion in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Computer Science ONTOLOGY DESIGN; COLLABORATIVE APPROACH; QUERYING RDF; RDF SCHEMA; FORMAL ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Nicola Guarino and Christopher Welty
Collaborative approach to evaluating ontology design.
Economics & Business VENTURE CAPITAL; START-UP FIRMS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; STAGE FINANCING; CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES Assessing the contribution of venture capital to patenting and innovation
Engineering STREAMFLOW TRENDS; CANADIAN STREAMFLOW TREND DETECTION; DETECTING MONOTONIC TRENDS; HYDROLOGIC TRENDS; UNITED STATES Streamflow and hydrologic trends in the United States.
Environment/Ecology SMALL LOESS PLATEAU CATCHMENT; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; SMALL CATCHMENT; LAND USE EVALUATION; SOIL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS Soil conservation surveys in the Loess Plateau area of Northern China.
Geosciences MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; SURFACE-NESTING SEABIRDS BREEDING; CONSERVING SURFACE-NESTING SEABIRDS; POPULATION NUMBERS Climate change in the sub-Antarctic and effect on indigenous biota.
Immunology APOPTOTIC CELLS REGULATES IMMUNE RESPONSES; APOPTOSIS DISABLES CD31-MEDIATED CELL DETACHMENT; SERUM-DERIVED PROTEIN S BINDS; PHAGOCYTES PROMOTING BINDING; ENGULFMENT Clearance of apoptotic cells regulates immune responses.
Materials Science CERAMIC MATRIX NANOCOMPOSITES; CARBON NANOTUBE-METAL-OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; ALUMINA-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR Preparing carbon nanotube metal-oxide nanocomposites by hot-pressing.
Mathematics STOCHASTIC INTEGER PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; DUAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; SPECTRAL BUNDLE METHOD; RELATED MEAN-RISK MODELS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Wlodzimierz Ogryczak
Constructing mean-risk models consistent with stochastic dominance.
Microbiology MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS CLINICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEW EVOLUTIONARY SCENARIO; COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Roland Brosch
A new evolutionary scenario for the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Molecular Biology & Genetics ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA GENOME DUPLICATION; ARABIDOPSIS GENOME; UNRAVELLING ANGIOSPERM GENOME EVOLUTION; HIDDEN DUPLICATION PAST; CHROMOSOMAL DUPLICATION EVENTS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Yves Van de Peer
Genome duplication in the evolution of Arabidopsis Thaliana.
Multidisciplinary GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; FUNDAMENTAL PATTERNS UNDERLYING GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; GENOME-WIDE EXPRESSION DATA PROCESSING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SIMPLICITY; COMPLEXITY Gene classification by singular value decomposition of genome-wide expression data.
Neuroscience & Behavior PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING-MEMORY CAPACITY; EXECUTIVE ATTENTION; GENERAL FLUID INTELLIGENCE; PERCEPTUAL SPEED ABILITIES
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Todd Braver
Mediation of general fluid intelligence by the lateral prefrontal and parietal regions of the brain.
Pharmacology & Toxicology DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG INDUSTRY; TARGET SELECTION; STRATEGIC TRENDS; LEAD GENERATION Search for disease-related targets and the study of drug-protein and protein-protein interactions in drug discovery.

Physics
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NARROW MESON STATE DECAYING; NEW D-S STATE; 32 GEV; 32 GEV/C(2); 46 GEV/C(2) DECAYING
Observation of a narrow meson state from annihilation data violating isospin conservation.
Plant & Animal Science LEARNED PREDATOR RECOGNITION; PREY FISHES; LEARNED RECOGNITION; SOCIAL LEARNING; FISH ORIENTATION Chemical alarm cues and local risk assessment in prey fishes.
Psychiatry/Psychology CALLOUS-UNEMOTIONAL TRAITS; JUVENILE PSYCHOPATHY; CALLOUS/UNEMOTIONAL TRAITS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS; "JUVENILE PSYCHOPATHY"
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by David J Cooke
Interpersonal, affective and behavioral factors in juvenile psychopathy.
Social Sciences, general TIERED PRESCRIPTION COPAYMENTS; THREE-TIER PRESCRIPTION COPAY; EFFECT; PREFERRED BRAND MEDICATIONS; JOB-BASED HEALTH BENEFITS Control of drug costs with three-tiered prescription copays.
Space Science COMET 19/P BORRELLY; COMET BORRELLY; COMET 19P/BORRELLY; SPECTROMETER ABOARD DEEP SPACE 1; DEEP SPACE 1 PHOTOMETRY Observations of the comet Borrelly by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.

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