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Agricultural
Sciences |
MILK FATTY ACID
COMPOSITION RESPONSES; MILK FATTY ACID CONTENT; CONJUGATED FATTY ACIDS;
CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID (CLA) ISOMERS INDICATE; COMBINATION INCREASE
CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACIDS |
Milk samples
obtained from lactating cows are analyzed to compare content and isomer
distribution of conjugated linoleic acids and trans-fatty acids. |
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Biology
& Biochemistry |
HUMAN
Embryonic
Stem Cells; MURINE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; POLYCOMB COMPLEXES REPRESS
DEVELOPMENTAL REGULATORS; PRC2 POLYCOMB CHROMATIN BINDING; DEVELOPMENTAL
REGULATOR'S |
Polycomb
Repressive Complex 2 occupies a special set of developmental genes in human
embryonic stem cells that must be repressed to maintain pluripotency. |
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Chemistry |
ULTRACOLD
ATOM-MOLECULE COLLISIONS; ULTRACOLD LI+LI-2 COLLISIONS; CONTROLLING
COLLISIONS; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT |
Chemical
reactions, inelastic collisions and dissociation of molecules at subkelvin
temperatures can be manipulated with external electric or magnetic fields. |
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Clinical
Medicine |
INHALED INSULIN
(EXUBERA) COMPARED; INHALED HUMAN INSULIN (EXUBERA); TYPE 2
Diabetes POORLY
CONTROLLED; INHALED INSULIN PROMOTES GREATER PERCEIVED ACCEPTANCE; INHALED
INSULIN IMPROVES GLYCEMIC CONTROL |
Premeal
pulmonary delivery of rapid-acting, dry-powder insulin (Exubera) provides
glycemic control. |
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Computer
Science |
Wireless SENSOR
Networks; BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINED AD HOC SENSOR NETWORK; BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINED
SENSOR NETWORK; BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; ISOTROPIC
UNIVERSAL DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION SCHEME |
A proposed
scheme allows sensors in the network to operate identically and autonomously
even when the network undergoes changes in size or topology. |
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Economics
& Business |
 ABANDONED
APPLE NEWTON BRAND COMMUNITY; BUILDING BRAND COMMUNITY; RELIGIOSITY
by Albert M. Muniz, Jr. & Thomas C. O'Guinn |
A specialized,
non-geographically bound community, based on a structured set of social
relations among admirers of a brand. |
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Engineering |
HIGH POWER
DENSITY DIRECT FORMIC ACID
Fuel
Cells; MINIATURE AIR BREATHING DIRECT FORMIC
ACID FUEL CELL; PALLADIUM CATALYSTS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; PD/C NANOCATALYST |
Formic acid fuel
cells are attractive alternatives for small portable fuel cell applications. |
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Environment/Ecology |
POLYBROMINATED
DIPHENYL ETHERS; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLING; USING PASSIVE AIR SAMPLERS;
PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER FLAME
RETARDANTS |
Ambient air data
for a range of persistent organic pollutants across the European continent. |
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Geosciences |
 PHOTOELECTRON
RESONANCE CAPTURE IONIZATION AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOELECTRON
RESONANCE CAPTURE IONIZATION-AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLEIC ACID
PARTICLES; OLEIC ACID-OZONE HETEROGENEOUS REACTION SYSTEM; AEROSOL PARTICLES
by Yinon Rudich |
Chemical
transformations of organic matter in atmospheric particles. |
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Immunology |
 NATURAL KILLER
CELLS ACHIEVES SELF-TOLERANCE; NATURAL KILLER CELLS FIND SELF; NATURAL
KILLER CELL REPERTOIRE SELECTION; HOST MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX
CLASS I MOLECULES
by Wayne M. Yokoyama and Sungjin Kim |
Natural killer
cells acquire functional competence through 'licensing' by self-MHC
molecules. |
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Materials
Science |
CADMIUM SELENIDE
QUANTUM WIRES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; ZINC-BLENDE
SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM RODS; BRANCHED CDSE NANOWIRES; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE WIRES |
A general method
for the growth of soluble nanorods applied to semiconductors with the
zinc-blend cubic lattice structure. |
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Mathematics |
SINGULARLY
PERTURBED NEUMANN PROBLEM; SINGULARLY PERTURBED ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;
SINGULARLY PERTURBED ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATION PROBLEM;
SOLITARY WAVES |
Effects created
by the Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions on the existence as well as
the locations of the concentration sets of solutions. |
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Microbiology |
ASPERGILLUS-ACTIVE
ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY; SALVAGE THERAPY; ZYGOMYCOSIS; 929 REPORTED CASES; 27
RECENT CASES |
Yeasts and molds
with decreased susceptibility to voriconazole may cause invasive infection
in patients treated successfully for aspergillosis. |
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Molecular
Biology & Genetics |
G4 MEDIATE
CELLULAR CHOLESTEROL EFFLUX; MACROPHAGES ENHANCES CHOLESTEROL MASS EFFLUX;
MEDIATING CHOLESTEROL EFFLUX; MEDIATE CHOLESTEROL EXPORT; MACROPHAGE
ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER A1 OVEREXPRESSION INHIBITS ATHEROSCLEROTIC
LESION PROGRESSION |
Providing a
mechanism to explain the relationship between HDL levels and atherosclerosis
risk. |
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Multidisciplinary |
AUTONOMOUS
MOLECULAR COMPUTER; AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING MACHINE; DNA COMPUTER; 20-VARIABLE
3-SAT PROBLEM; LOGICAL CONTROL |
A programmable
finite automaton comprising DNA and DNA-manipulating enzymes that solves
computational problems autonomously. |
Neuroscience & Behavior
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 CANNABINOID CB1
RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST SR141716 INCREASES ACRP30 MRNA EXPRESSION; CANNABINOID
CB1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST RIMONABANT (SR141716) INHIBITS CELL PROLIFERATION;
ENDOGENOUS CANNABINOID SYSTEM AFFECTS ENERGY BALANCE
by George Kunos
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Endocannabinoids in
the hypothalamus may tonically activate CB1 receptors to maintain food intake
and form part of the neural circuitry regulated by leptin. |
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Pharmacology
& Toxicology |
CONFIRMATORY
SEAMLESS PHASE II/III CLINICAL TRIALS; ADAPTIVE GROUP SEQUENTIAL DESIGN;
FLEXIBLE GROUP SEQUENTIAL DESIGNS; ADAPTIVE TREATMENT SELECTION; NONADAPTIVE
GROUP SEQUENTIAL TESTS |
An adaptive
Bayesian method for dose-finding in phase I/II clinical trials based on
trade-offs between the probabilities of treatment efficacy and toxicity. |
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Physics |
 EVOLUTIONARY
GAME DYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC REPLICATOR DYNAMICS;
EVOLUTIONARY CYCLES; SNOWDRIFT GAME
by Christoph Hauert
- [late entry] |
In unstructured
snowdrift games, intermediate levels of cooperation persist, but spatial
structure reduces the proportion of cooperators. |
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Plant
& Animal Science |
Arabidopsis GLUCOSINOLATE ACCUMULATION; ARABIDOPSIS EPITHIOSPECIFIER PROTEIN PROMOTES;
ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; GLUCOSINOLATE PROFILES; NATURAL VARIATION |
There appears to
be a modular genetic system regulating glucosinolate profiles in
Arabidopsis. |
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Psychiatry/Psychology |
REPETITIVE
TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT; DEPRESSION; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC
APPLICATIONS; META ANALYSIS |
Meta-analysis of
the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of
depression and other psychiatric disorders.. |
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Social
Sciences, general |
NONWORD
REPETITION ACCURACY; PHONOTACTIC PROBABILITY EFFECTS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT;
VOCABULARY SIZE; NONWORD REPETITIONS |
Phonotactic
probability appears to influence the formation of semantic representations
and the association between semantic and lexical representations. |
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Space
Science |
 COSMOLOGICAL
MODELS USING RECENT SUPERNOVA DATA; SUPERNOVA EVIDENCE; SUPERNOVA
OBSERVATIONS; THREE DATA SETS; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS
by Ujjaini Alam, Varun Sahni, Tarun Deep Saini, and Alexei A. Starobinsky |
Cosmic
acceleration is fuelled by “dark energy” which has the unusual property of
possessing a large negative pressure. |
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