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Agricultural Sciences |
COFFEE
CONSUMPTION; TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS; RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; PLASMA
CAROTENOIDS |
The long-term
relationship between consumption of coffee and other caffeinated beverages
and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus. |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
CLUSTERING
MICROARRAY DATA; MICROARRAY DATA STORAGE; AGILENT INSITU-SYNTHESIZED
MICROARRAY PLATFORM; TM4 MICROARRAY SOFTWARE SUITE; MICROARRAY QUALITY
CONTROL |
Gene expression
data generated by DNA microarray technology. |
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Chemistry |
  VIBRATIONAL
EFFECTS; SOLVENT EFFECTS; ENVIROMENTAL EFFECTS; FIRST PRINCIPLE DYNAMICAL
APPROACH; RELIABLE NMR CHEMICAL SHIFTS
by: Vincenzo Barone |
Electron
paramagnetic resonance and an integrated methodological and computational
approach to the analysis of complex phenomena in spectroscopy. |
|
Clinical Medicine |
ANECORTAVE
ACETATE 15 MG SUSPENSION; ANGIOSTATIC CORTISENE ANECORTAVE ACETATE;
POSTERIOR JUXTASCLERAL DEPOT ADMINISTRATION; EXUDATIVE AGE-RELATED MACULAR
DEGENERATION; WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION |
Transcleral
delivery of anecortave acetate, a novel angiostatic cortisene, in
therapeutic concentrations to the choroid and retina in the region of the
macula in patients with age related macular degeneration. |
| Computer
Science |
MODELLING
DOPPLER ULTRASOUND BLOOD FLOW SIGNALS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SIGNALS; INTERNAL
CAROTID ARTERIAL DOPPLER SIGNALS USING FFT; LEAST-MEAN SQUARES
BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK; INPUT FEATURE SELECTION |
The role of
feature selection in classification systems such as neural networks. |
| Economics
& Business |
NONEXPERIMENTAL
CAUSAL STUDIES; NONEXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATORS; MATCHING OVERCOME LALONDE'S
CRITIQUE; PROPENSITY SCORE-MATCHING METHODS; AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS
by: Rajeev H. Dehejia & Sadek Wahba |
Causal inference
and sample selection bias in nonexperimental settings. |
| Engineering |
RIVER SEINE
WATER QUALITY; SEINE RIVER BASIN; SEINE RIVER SYSTEM; SEINE RIVER CONTINUUM;
SEINE BASIN |
Episodic blooms
of toxic dinoflagellates, eutrophication of the Seine Bight. |
| Environment/
Ecology |
NEMURO LOWER
TROPHIC LEVEL MARINE ECOSYSTEM MODEL; LOWER TROPHIC LEVEL
NUTRIENT-PHYTOPLANKTON-ZOOPLANKTON MODEL; LOWER TROPHIC LEVEL MODEL; NEMURO
NUTRIENT-PHYTOPLANKTON-ZOOPLANKTON FOOD WEB MODEL |
The structure of
a prototype lower trophic level ecosystem model for the North Pacific Ocean. |
| Geosciences |
ARCTIC OCEAN SEA
ICE CONCENTRATION; ARCTIC OCEAN MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT MODELS; ARCTIC
OCEAN MODELS; ATLANTIC WATER LAYER CIRCULATION; ATLANTIC WATER CIRCULATION |
Results from 10
Arctic ocean/ice models are compared over the period 1970 through 1999. |
| Immunology |
NK CELL
INHIBITORY RECEPTOR GENES; NATURAL KILLER CELL REPERTOIRE SELECTION; KILLER
IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTOR; HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN LOCI; HUMAN HISTORY |
Natural killer
cells provide a defense against viral infection by using inhibitory and
activation receptors for major histocompatibility complex class I molecules
to control their activity. |
| Materials
Science |
SELF-ASSEMBLED
FEPT NANOPARTICLES CONTAINING AG; FEPT NANOPARTICLES COATED; CHEMICAL
SYNTHESIS; ONE-STEP SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS |
Oriented L10
FePt–C nanocomposite films are synthesized by pyrolysis of the precursors of
poly(phenylcarbyne) polymer mixed with Fe and Pt nitrates in a H2/Ar
atmosphere. |
| Mathematics |
 SECOND-ORDER
NONLINEAR DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; SECOND-ORDER MATRIX DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; TIME
SCALES; OSCILLATION CRITERIA
by: Ravi Agarwal, Martin Bohner, Donal O'Regan, & Allan Peterson |
Research in the
area of dynamic equations on time scales. |
| Microbiology |
STAPHYLOCOCCUS
AUREUS GENES REGULATED; TRANSCRIPTION PROFILING-BASED IDENTIFICATION; SARA
LOCI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL VIRULENCE |
Accessory genes
of Staphylococcus aureus are controlled by a complex regulatory network that
includes at least four two-component systems. |
| Molecular
Biology & Genetics |
COMET-GPA ASSAYS
FOLLOWING HUMAN LYMPHOBLASTOID CELLS (H9) INVITRO EXPOSURE; SWISS (CD-1)
MALE MICE EXPOSED TRANSPLACENTALLY; TRANSPLACENTALLY EXPOSED HUMAN; ABACAVIR
FOLLOWING INVITRO EXPOSURE |
AZT and 3TC are
transplacental mutagens, and the increase in mutants resulting from AZT is
due mainly to large-scale genetic alterations. |
| Multidisciplinary |
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were identified for this period |
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| Neuroscience &
Behavior
|
 PRESYNAPTIC
CANNABINOID CB1 RECEPTOR; CB1 CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; MAJOR CANNABINOID
RECEPTOR; EXCITATORY PRESYNAPTIC SITES; ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM
by:
Masanobu Kano |
CB1 is
responsible for cannabinoid-dependent suppression of excitatory transmission
in the hippocampus and cerebellum. |
| Pharmacology
& Toxicology |
KININ B-1
RECEPTORS; KININ RECEPTOR FAMILY; BRADYKININ RECEPTOR LIGANDS; KEY
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES |
Classification
of the kinin receptor family. |
| Physics |
 NEGATIVE
REFRACTION; GYROTROPIC CHIRAL MEDIA; CHIRAL ROUTE; CHIRAL COMPOSITES; CHIRAL
NIHILITY
by:
Sir John Pendry |
Introduction of
a single chiral resonance leads to negative refraction of one polarization,
resulting in improved and simplified designs of negatively refracting
materials. |
 Featured
Front:
Plant & Animal Science |
ARABIDOPSIS
CO-EXPRESSION TOOL (ACT); MICROARRAY-BASED GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS;
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS-BIOLOGY DATABASE; IDENTIFYING CO-REGULATED GENE
GROUPS; EXPRESSION ANGLING
on: "ARABIDOPSIS
CO-EXPRESSION AND CELLULOSE SYNTHESIS" |
The Botany Array
Resource provides the means for obtaining and archiving microarray data for
Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| Psychiatry/
Psychology |
ALCOHOL
DEPENDENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL; PATIENT
MOTIVATION; ORAL ACAMPROSATE |
The efficacy and
tolerability of a long-acting intramuscular formulation of naltrexone for
treatment of alcohol-dependent patients. |
| Social
Sciences, general |
UPPER GRANDE
RONDE RIVER BASIN INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; UPPER GRANDE RONDE RIVER
SUBBASIN; LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS USING STATE; UNDERSTANDING
INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; INTERIOR NORTHWEST LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS SYSTEM |
The integrated
effects of natural disturbances and management activities for three
scenarios on a landscape in the upper Grande Ronde Subbasin of northeast
Oregon. |
| Space
Science |
TWO-DIMENSIONAL
HYDRODYNAMIC CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA SIMULATIONS; CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA
EXPLOSIONS; NEW MECHANISM; CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE; DIFFERENTIALLY ROTATING
MASSIVE STARS INCLUDING MAGNETIC FIELDS |
Stellar
evolution calculations for rotating massive stars, including magnetic and
nonmagnetic effects, from the zero-age main sequence until the onset of
iron-core collapse. |
| 2001-2007_3 |
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