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ESI Special Topics, October 2003
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This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 1998-April 2003 and 1998-June 2003. Of the 4,728 Research Fronts in the 1998-June 2003 file, a total of 698 (.15%) were new compared to the prior period of the ISI Essential Science Indicators.

October 2003

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT RESISTANCE QTLS; HOST PLANT RESISTANCE GENES; MOLECULAR MAPPING; WHEAT POPULATIONS Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat.
Biology & Biochemistry SUBSTRATE REDUCTION THERAPY; GLYCOLIPID LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISORDERS; ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GLYCOLIPID STORAGE DISEASES Glycolipid storage diseases.
Chemistry ARYL CHLORIDES; HECK REACTIONS; UNREACTIVE ARYL HALIDES; ARYL BROMIDES; COUPLING REACTIONS Heck reactions and the coupling of aryl chlorides.
Clinical Medicine USING PERMETHRIN-TREATED BED NETS; INTENSE PERENNIAL MALARIA TRANSMISSION; WESTERN KENYA; INTENSE YEAR-ROUND MALARIA TRANSMISSION Use of permethrin-treated bed nets in preventing malaria transmission.
Computer Science MEMBRANE SYSTEMS; P SYSTEMS; GP SYSTEMS; MEMBRANE COMPUTING; POWER Computing with membrane systems.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Gheorghe Paun
Economics & Business DISCRETELY OBSERVED NONLINEAR DIFFUSIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; DISCRETELY SAMPLED DIFFUSIONS Bayesian estimation of nonlinear stochastic differential equations.
Engineering NEUTRON IRRADIATION; SPALLATION NEUTRON SOURCE MERCURY TARGET; F82H MARTENSITIC/FERRITIC STEEL IRRADIATED; SINQ IRRADIATION EXPERIMENT Neutron irradiation to increase the tensile strength of steel.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Stuart Maloy
Environment/Ecology MARINE RESERVE DESIGN; SELECTING MARINE RESERVES; COASTAL MARINE RESERVES; MARINE RESERVE NETWORKS Marine reserves versus traditional fisheries management.
Geosciences SINGLE ULTRAFINE PARTICLE MASS SPECTROMETER; THERMAL DESORPTION PARTICLE BEAM MASS SPECTROMETER; AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER Aerosol mass spectrometer for real-time analysis of atmospheric aerosols.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by John T. Jayne
Immunology AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; LEPTIN SURGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE MODULATE AUTOIMMUNE DEMYELINATION Use of statins in treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Materials Science MESOSCOPICALLY ORDERED HYBRID MATERIALS; ORDERED LAYERED ASSEMBLIES; NANOPARTICLES; BLOCK COPOLYMER-DIRECTED ASSEMBLY Self-assembly of organic components for fabricating nonostructured materials.
Mathematics CLASSICAL FLOW PROBLEMS; NON-GREY MODEL; PLANE FLOW; CHAPMAN-ENSKOG FUNCTIONS; BURNETT FUNCTIONS Solution to non-grey problems in the theory of radiative transfer.
Microbiology ZOONOSIS; CHIMPANZEE PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; AIDS; PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS; ORIGIN; HIV-1 Orgin of HIV-1 in the P. t. troglodytes subspecies of chimpanzee.
Molecular Biology & Genetics MITOCHONDRIAL INNER MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; DISTINCT PATHWAY REMODELS MITOCHONDRIAL CRISTAE; MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION SITES Release of cytochrome c and the remodeling of mitochondrial structure during apoptosis.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Stanley J. Korsmeyer & Luca Scorrano
Multidisciplinary SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSGENIC MICE; PRIMARY MAMMALIAN CELLS; HUMAN T CELLS; STEM CELLS Transgenic RNAi as an alternative method of gene silencing.
Neuroscience & Behavior HUMAN TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; REPEATED BRIEF SEIZURES INDUCE PROGRESSIVE HIPPOCAMPAL NEURON LOSS; TEMPORAL SCLEROSIS Hippocampal neuron damage in epilepsy.
Pharmacology & Toxicology G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR DIMERIZATION; G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR RHODOPSIN; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS; RHODOPSIN DIMERS Conformal changes required in the G-protein for activation by a receptor dimer.
Physics RAMOND-RAMOND PLANE WAVE BACKGROUNDS; SIGMA MODELS; EXACT PP-WAVE STRING MODELS; SUPERCONFORMAL DESCRIPTION General class of pp-wave string solutions.
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Jorge Russo
Plant & Animal Science CAPE FLORISTIC REGION HOTSPOT; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION STRATEGY; CONSERVATION ACTION PLAN; SYSTEMATIC CONSERVATION PLANNING Predicting the irreplaceability of areas for achieving conservation goals.
Psychiatry/
Psychology
FAMILY RITUALS; NATURALLY OCCURRING FAMILY ROUTINES; ADOLESCENT SATISFACTION; DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY PERSPECTIVE Importance of family routines and rituals in contemporary life.
Social Sciences, general COUNTERMAJORITARIAN DIFFICULTY; HISTORY Tension between judicial review and the democratic process in constitutional scholarship.
Space Science SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES; BLACK HOLE MASS; VELOCITY DISPERSION CORRELATION; OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS Correlation between the mass of the black hole and the velocity dispersion of the galaxy.

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