ESI Special Topics, July 2002
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Field	Name	Description
Agricultural Sciences	SOIL WATER BALANCE; COMPARATIVE SOIL WATER; CONTROLLING WATER LOGGING	Perennial lucerne pastures for improving soil water and fertility.
Biology & Biochemistry	PROTEIN KINASE B SIGNALING PATHWAY; LEUCINE STIMULATES RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN MRNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATIONAL REGULATORS P70 S6 KINASE	Inhibition of malignant transformation by rapamycin.
Chemistry	FLUORINATED SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SMALL DIAMETER SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; POLYMER-WRAPPED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES	Converting single-wall fullerene nanotubes into open-ended pipes.
Clinical Medicine	HELICOBACTER PYLORI GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI ERADICATION TREATMENT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI TESTING	The efficacy of H-pylori eradication versus antacid treatment in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia.
Computer Science	IMPROVED LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES USING IRREGULAR GRAPHS; CAPACITY-APPROACHING IRREGULAR LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES	Performance of error correcting codes defined in terms of sparse matrices.
Economics & Business	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD SETTING; CAPITAL MARKETS RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL DISCLOSURE LITERATURE; EMPIRICAL TAX RESEARCH	International differences in accounting practices.
Engineering	5KW/MM(2) CURRENT SWITCH USING ALGAN/GAN METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LARGE PERIPHERY HIGH-POWER ALGAN/GAN METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS	High microwave power density using heterostructure field effect transistors.
Environment/Ecology	POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDES); HEALTHY BALTIC SALMON; FLAME RETARDANT EXPOSURE; SWEDISH HUMAN MILK; GREAT LAKES AIR	Occupational exposure to flame retardant polybrominated diphenyl ethers used in textile manufacture.
	by: Research Chemist Andreas Sjodin
Geosciences	NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TEMPERATURES; PAST MILLENNIUM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL CONTROL-RUN TEMPERATURES; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD	Causes of climate variability over the past millennium, and role of greenhouse gases in the 20th century.
	by: Professor Michael E. Mann
Immunology	HEPATITIS C VIRUS COINFECTED PATIENTS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION MODIFIES; CHRONIC PARENTERALLY-ACQUIRED HEPATITIS C	Risk of mortality from liver disease in patients infected with hepatitis C and HIV.
Materials Science	HIGH-MOBILITY CONJUGATED POLYMERS; SELF-ASSEMBLED CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOCRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHARGE TRANSPORT; THIN FILM FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR APPLICATIONS	Polymer semiconductor devices with performance approaching that of inorganic silicon.
Mathematics	DOUBLE-PLATFORM LINE TRANSECT SURVEYS; CLOSED CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS USING MIXTURES; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; MARK-RECAPTURE MODELS	Sampling methods for estimating the abundance of animals.
Microbiology	SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM TYPE III PROTEIN SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III PROTEIN SECRETION SYSTEMS	Type III protein secretion systems in bacterial pathogens.
Molecular Biology & Genetics	BACTERIORHODOPSIN PHOTOCYCLE; BACTERIORHODOPSIN CRYSTALS; 3 ANGSTROM RESOLUTION	X-ray crystal structure of bacteriorhodopsin.
Multidisciplinary	YELLOW FEVER MOSQUITO; STABLE GERMLINE TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENIC AEDES AEGYPTI; PIGGYBAC TRANSPOSON VECTOR	Genetic transformation of yellow fever mosquito with fruit fly genes.
Neuroscience & Behavior	MODULATES P/Q-TYPE CA2+ CHANNELS; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT CA2+ CHANNELS; L-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNELS	Calmodulin as a sensor in the autoregulation of Ca2+ entry into the cell.
Pharmacology & Toxicology	PROTEASE ACTIVATED RECEPTORS; SERINE PROTEASE RECEPTORS; PROTEINASE-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2 INDUCE INFLAMMATION	Tryptase inhibitors and antagonists of proteinase-activated receptor 2 as anti-inflammatory agents.
Physics	PICOSECOND X-RAY DIFFRACTION PROBED TRANSIENT STRUCTURAL CHANGES; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION; ULTRAFAST STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS	Extension of time-resolved x-ray diffraction to the subpicosecond domain to monitor atomic positions.
	by: Christian Rischel
Plant & Animal Science	XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE ENZYME VIOLAXANTHIN DE-EPOXIDASE; VIOLAXANTHIN CYCLE PROTECTS PLANTS; ALTERED XANTHOPHYLL COMPOSITIONS ADVERSELY AFFECT CHLOROPHYLL ACCUMULATION	Genetic approaches to photoprotective processes in plant chloroplasts and green algae.
Psychiatry/Psychology	DECREASED GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE(67) MESSENGER RNA EXPRESSION; PREFRONTAL CORTICAL GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID NEURONS; REDUCED GLIAL CELL DENSITY	Changes in cellular architecture and brain circuitry in schizophrenia.
Social Sciences, general	HUMAN LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION; HUMAN LIFE HISTORIES; LONG POSTMENOPAUSAL LIFE SPANS; GRANDMOTHERING	Mother-child food sharing and the evolution of human life histories.
Space Science	LUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCE; CHANDRA HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERA OBSERVATIONS; ULTRALUMINOUS COMPACT X-RAY SOURCES	Compact x-rays sources in spiral galaxies explained by black hole rotation.

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