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ESI Special Topics, October 2005
Citing URL: http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/october2005.html
This list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for 2000-April 30, 2005 and 2000-June 30, 2005. Of the 4,861 Research Fronts in the 2000-June 30, 2005 file, a total of 634 (.13%) were new compared with the prior period of ISI Essential Science Indicators.

October 2005
Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences VITAMIN D INSUFFICIENCY; VITAMIN D SUFFICIENCY; CIRCULATING 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D LEVELS INDICATIVE; HYPOVITAMINOSIS D; NEW EFFECTIVE DIETARY INTAKE RECOMMENDATION Vitamin D insufficiency and its relation to glucose metabolism.
Biology & Biochemistry INTERPROTEIN ELECTRON TRANSFER; REVERSE ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON TUNNELING; WIRE-LIKE CHARGE TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-DNA CHARGE TRANSPORT Experimental confirmation that covalently bonded pathway ways can facilitate electron flow through folded polypeptide structures.
Chemistry POROUS HYDROGEN-BONDED NETWORKS; HYDROGEN BOND DIRECTED SUPRAMOLECULAR ARRAYS UTILISING HEMIMELLITIC ACID; PURELY ORGANIC MOLECULAR METAL; HYDROGEN BOND REINFORCED LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR TECTONICS Strategy for engineering molecules able to form highly porous networks.
Clinical Medicine BEHAVIORAL HEADACHE RESEARCH; HEADACHE ACTIVITY USING TIME-SERIES RESEARCH DESIGNS; BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT TRIALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEADACHE CLINICAL TRIALS Potential moderators and mediators of behavioral treatment for headache.
Computer Science LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; THERMALLY STRATIFIED TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOW; TURBULENT CONCENTRIC ANNULAR CHANNEL FLOWS; TURBULENT OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; TURBULENT OSCILLATORY HEAT TRANSFER Simulation of thermally stratified turbulent channel flow.
Economics & Business COMPETITIVE SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM; COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM; MONEY BALANCES; INFLATION; WELFARE A comparison of market structures for monetary economies: bargaining; price taking and price posting.
Engineering HIGH-CHROMIUM V-CR-TI TYPE ALLOYS; HYDROGEN PUMP USING CERAMIC PROTONIC CONDUCTOR; HYDROGEN EXTRACTION USING ONE-END CLOSED TUBE; HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; LIQUID LITHIUM BLANKET
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Bruce A. Pint		 Electrically insulating coatings for a liquid lithium blanket for use in magnetic confinement reactors..
Environment/Ecology FOREST HERBICIDES; FORESTRY HERBICIDES; FOREST BIODIVERSITY; FOREST HERBICIDE USE; FORESTRY HERBICIDE INFLUENCES Toxicity of forest herbicides to wildlife.
Geosciences EVIDENCE USING LAKE BAIKAL (RUSSIA) DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; LAKE BAIKAL DIATOMS; LAKE BAIKAL (SIBERIA); USING BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES; CENTRAL ASIA Sedimentary dynamics on isolated highs in Lake Baikal.
Immunology MARGINAL ZONE B CELLS; B1B CELLS UNITE; HUMORAL RESPONSE; EARLY RESPONSE; T-INDEPENDENT BLOOD-BORNE PARTICULATE ANTIGENS How innate immune responses mediated through complement coupling are translated into an adaptive response.
Materials Science SURFACE PLASMON FIELD-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-PLASMON FIELD-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-PLASMON FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY BASED; EVANESCENT FIELD TREATMENT The combination of surface plasmon- and fluorescence spectroscopy for sensor applications.
Mathematics GENERALIZED CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS; WZW-POISSON MANIFOLDS; NONCOMMUTATIVE MANIFOLDS; TOPOLOGICAL STRINGS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Nigel Hitchin		 A geometrical structure on even-dimensional manifolds which generalizes the notion of a Calabi-Yau manifold.
Microbiology AEROSOLIZED FLORIDA RED TIDE TOXINS (BREVETOXINS); FLORIDA RED TIDE EVENTS; AEROSOLIZED BREVETOXINS; HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS; INHALED BREVETOXINS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Lorraine C. Backer		 The human health impact of inhaled brevetoxins.
Molecular Biology & Genetics MICRORNA GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICRORNA EXPRESSION; HUMAN MICRORNA PRECURSORS; HUMAN ORGANS Mechanisms governing microRNA transcription and processing in vertebrates.
Multidisciplinary HUMAN MELANOPSIN RENDERS MAMMALIAN CELLS PHOTORESPONSIVE; MELANOPSIN SIGNALING PATHWAY; MELANOPSIN-EXPRESSING GANGLION CELLS; PRIMATE RETINA SIGNAL COLOUR; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Satchidananda Panda		 Photosensitive retinal ganglion cells play a key role in the regulation of nonvisual photic responses.
Neuroscience & Behavior FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING STUDIES; ALE META-ANALYSIS; NORMATIVE FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; QUANTITATIVE META-ANALYSIS; META-ANALYSIS NETWORKS The search for functional networks of cortical areas that underlie a specific cognitive task.
Pharmacology & Toxicology ESTROGEN RECEPTOR RELATIVE BINDING AFFINITIES; YEAST TWO-HYBRID ASSAY; 188 NATURAL; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES The estrogen receptor (ER) relative binding affinities for a large, structurally diverse group of chemicals.
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  Physics 		PROBING SPLIT SUPERSYMMETRY; SPLIT SUPERSYMMETRY SCENARIOS; HIGH-SCALE SUPERSYMMETRY; PEV-SCALE SUPERSYMMETRY; FINELY TUNED MINIMAL SUPERSYMMETRIC STANDARD MODELEmerging Research Fronts Comments
by Andrea Romanino
 Split supersymmetry: conditions for obtaining unification and dark matter..
Plant & Animal Science NUCLEAR GENOME SIZE L093/AOB/INCI005; GENOME SIZE ESTIMATION USING HEAT EXPERIMENTS; RECENT GENOME SIZE VARIATION; EVOLUTIONARY FORCES DRIVING NUCLEAR GENOME MINIATURIZATION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Michael D. Bennett		 Genome size as a key diversity character with many consequences.
Psychiatry/Psychology COMMUNITY SCIENCE RESEARCH AGENDA; DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PREVENTION SERVICES; COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY; BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY; LARGER-SCALE COMMUNITY HEALTH
 Community psychology is just as much social criticism as it is science.
Social Sciences, general EARLY POST-ACUTE REHABILITATION FACILITIES; EARLY POST-ACUTE REHABILITATION FACILITY; ICF CORE SET; ICF CORE SETS DEVELOPMENT; RELEVANT ICF CATEGORIES Rehabilitation medicine and the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.
Space Science BACKGROUND EMISSION ANISOTROPY SCANNING TELESCOPE (BEAST) INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION; BEAST COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY POWER SPECTRUM; BEAST EXPERIMENT; GALACTIC FOREGROUND CONTRIBUTION The design and performance of the Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope (BEAST) for mapping the cosmic microwave background..

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ESI Special Topics, October 2005
Citing URL: http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/october2005.html
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