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ESI Special Topics, October 2002
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1997-April 2002 and 1997-June 2002. Of the 4,360 Research Fronts in the 1997-June 2002 file, a total of 521 (.12%) were new compared to the prior period. From ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product.

October 2002
Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences DIETARY FAT INTAKE; BODY FAT; AD LIBITUM LOW-FAT DIETARY INTERVENTION STUDIES; BODY FATNESS Relation of dietary fat to obesity.
Biology & Biochemistry AVIAN PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; BIRDS; ADAPTIVE SEX ALLOCATION Parental favoritism in caring for offspring.
Chemistry IRIDIUM HYDRIDE COMPLEXES; FACILE ONE-END ADDITION; AMINOCARBYNE COMPLEXES; COORDINATED ORGANONITRILES; ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION Iridium complexes as Lewis acid/base catalysts.
Clinical Medicine CANCER; MOLECULAR GENETIC APPROACHES; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; NATION-WIDE SWEDISH FAMILY-CANCER DATABASE; HERITABLE FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL Heritable versus environmental factors in cancer.
Computer Science MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MITC SHELL ELEMENTS; SHELL STRUCTURES Finite element analysis of shell structures.
Economics & Business MANAGERIAL TRUSTWORTHY BEHAVIOR; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; INITIAL TRUST FORMATION; EXCHANGE RELATIONSHIP FRAMEWORK Managerial trust and distrust within organizations.
Engineering INTERSONIC CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS FASTER; RADIATION-FREE TRANSONIC MOTION; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA Speed of crack propagation compared to waves in the case of earthquakes.
Environment/Ecology DECREASING REACTIVE NITROGEN EMISSIONS; NITROGEN MANAGEMENT; ASIAN NITROGEN CYCLE CASE STUDY; NITROGEN USE; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS Regional variability of reactive nitrogen for food and energy production.
Geosciences GLACIAL SOUTHERN OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; SOUTHERN OCEAN SURFACE-WATER STRATIFICATION; LOW ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD Lowering of atmospheric CO2 during the last glacial period.
Immunology T CELL RECEPTOR SIGNALING PRECEDES IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE FORMATION; T CELL RESPONSES; T CELL RECOGNITION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN-4 ACCUMULATION; CD4(+)CD25(+) SUPPRESSOR T CELLS T-cell regulation by CTLA-4 and tumor immunotherapy.
Materials Science CU-BASED CU-ZR-TI BULK GLASSY ALLOYS; HIGH-STRENGTH CU-BASED BULK GLASSY ALLOYS; BULK AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS New high strength materials based on metallic supercooled liquids.
Mathematics EDGE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION; MIXED BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISCRETE COMPACTNESS; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS Vector potentials applied to incompressible viscous flow.
Microbiology YEAST CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GLUCOSE REPRESSION Modeling repression of gene transcription.
Molecular Biology & Genetics DIRECTED PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN NUCLEOLUS; NOVEL NUCLEAR DOMAIN; COUPLED TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMALIAN CELLS Coupled transcription and translation within the cell nucleus.
Multidisciplinary CARRIER PROTEIN IMPORT; MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT PORE; MITOCHONDRIA MEDIATED; INTERMEMBRANE PROTEINS TIM10/MRS11; TOM40 Transport of proteins across mitochondrial membranes.
Neuroscience & Behavior ADULT NEUROGENESIS; ADULT REPTILIAN BRAIN; NEURONAL REGENERATION; BRAIN REPAIR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Continuous generation and integration of neurons into adult brains.
Pharmacology & Toxicology HIGH-RESOLUTION THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS (GPCRS); RHODOPSIN-LIKE RECEPTORS Structure of G-protein-coupled receptors such as rhodopsin.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by: Dr. rer. nat. Oliver P. Ernst
Physics EKPYROTIC UNIVERSE; HOT BIG BANG; BIG CRUNCH; EKPYROTIC SCENARIO; PYROTECHNIC UNIVERSE Creation of the big bang universe by a collision of a brane and an orbifold plane.
Plant & Animal Science S-1 STATE DYNAMICS; (FORBIDDEN) S-1 STATE; NEAR-INFRARED TIME-RESOLVED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CAROTENOID-TO-BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL ENERGY TRANSFER Photoregulation of photosynthesis by carotenoids.
Psychiatry/
Psychology		 MODERN MISSING DATA PROCEDURES; MULTIVARIATE MISSING DATA; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; ANALYZING INCOMPLETE POLITICAL SCIENCE DATA; MISSING VARIABLES Multiple imputation procedure for missing data problems.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by: Gary King
Social Sciences, general WORLD CITIES; WORLD CITY NETWORK; NEW METAGEOGRAPHY; NEW ECONOMY Inter-city relations to identify world cities and knowledge monopolies.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by: Professor Peter Taylor
Space Science PRIMORDIAL MOLECULAR CLOUDS; PRIMORDIAL STAR-FORMING CLOUD; PRE-ENRICHED PRIMORDIAL OBJECTS; METAL POOR HALO STARS; FIRST STARS Adaptive mesh simulation of primordial star formation.

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