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ESI Special Topics, January 2002
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In updating ISI Essential Science Indicators from the third to the fourth bimonthly period of 2001, a total of 1,419 hot papers were identified, of which 1,106 (78%) were new. 

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RobertColwell Robert Colwell; Environment
/Ecology
Judith Curry Judith Curry; Geosciences Martin Flaherty Martin S. Flaherty; Social Sciences, general
Michael Guilhaus Assoc. Prof. Michael Guilhaus; Engineering Adrian Raine Prof. Adrian Raine; Psychiatry / Psychology Dr. Alejandro A. Schaffer; Computer Science
David N. Spergel & Paul J. Steinhardt; Physics

Detlef Weigel; Plant & Animal Science

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JANUARY 2002

Field: Agricultural Sciences
Article Title: Enhancement of natural and acquired immunity by Lactobacillus rhamnosus (HN001), Lactobacillus acidophilus (HN017) and Bifidobacterium lactis (HN019)
Authors: Gill, HS;Rutherfurd, KJ;Prasad, J;Gopal, PK
Journal: BRIT J NUTR
Volume: 83
Page: 167-176
Year: FEB 2000
* Massey Univ, Inst Food Nutr & Human Hlth, Milk & Hlth Res Ctr, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
* Massey Univ, Inst Food Nutr & Human Hlth, Milk & Hlth Res Ctr, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
* New Zealand Dairy Res Inst, Palmerston North, New Zealand.


Field: Biology & Biochemistry
Article Title: GenBank
Authors: Benson, DA;Karsch-Mizrachi, I;Lipman, DJ;Ostell, J;Rapp, BA;Wheeler, DL
Journal: NUCL ACID RES
Volume: 28
Page: 15-18
Year: JAN 1 2000
* Natl Lib Med, Natl Ctr Biotechnol Informat, NIH, Bldg 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA.
* Natl Lib Med, Natl Ctr Biotechnol Informat, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA.


Field: Chemistry
Article Title: Solvent-free organic synthesis
Authors: Tanaka, K;Toda, F
Journal: CHEM REV
Volume: 100
Page: 1025-1074
Year: MAR 2000
* Okayama Univ Sci, Fac Sci, Dept Chem, 1-1 Ridaicho, Okayama 7000005, Japan.
* Okayama Univ Sci, Fac Sci, Dept Chem, Okayama 7000005, Japan.
* Ehime Univ, Fac Engn, Dept Appl Chem, Matsuyama, Ehime 7908577, Japan.


Field: Clinical Medicine
Article Title: Menopausal estrogen and estrogen-progestin replacement therapy and breast cancer risk
Authors: Schairer, C;Lubin, J;Troisi, R;Sturgeon, S;Brinton, L;Hoover, R
Journal: JAMA-J AM MED ASSN
Volume: 283
Page: 485-491
Year: JAN 26 2000
* NCI, Div Canc Epidemiol & Genet, 6120 Execut Blvd, EPS Room 7080, MSC 7234, Rockville, MD 20852 USA.
* NCI, Div Canc Epidemiol & Genet, Rockville, MD 20852 USA.
* Social & Sci Syst Inc, Bethesda, MD USA.
* Univ Massachusetts, Dept Biostat & Epidemiol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.


Field: Computer Science
New Hot Papers Comment by 
Schaffer, AA
Article Title: IMPALA: matching a protein sequence against a collection of PSI-BLAST-constructed position-specific score matrices
Authors: Schaffer, AA;Wolf, YI;Ponting, CP;Koonin, EV;Aravind, L;Altschul, SF
Journal: BIOINFORMATICS
Volume: 15
Page: 1000-1011
Year: DEC 1999
* Natl Lib Med, Natl Ctr Biotechnol Informat, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA.
* Natl Lib Med, Natl Ctr Biotechnol Informat, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA.
* Texas A&M Univ, Dept Biol, College Stn, TX 77843 USA.


Field: Economics & Business
Article Title: A unified theory of underreaction, momentum trading, and overreaction in asset markets
Authors: Hong, H;Stein, JC
Journal: J FINAN
Volume: 54
Page: 2143-2184
Year: DEC 1999
* Stanford Univ, Sch Business, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Business, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* MIT, Alfred P Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
* NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.


Field: Engineering
New Hot Papers Comment by Guilhaus, M
Article Title: Orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Authors: Guilhaus, M;Selby, D;Mlynski, V
Journal: MASS SPECTROM REV
Volume: 19
Page: 65-107
Year: MAR-APR 2000
* Univ New S Wales, Sch Chem, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
* Univ New S Wales, Sch Chem, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.


Field: Environment/Ecology
New Hot Papers Comment by 
Colwell, RK
Article Title: The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness
Authors: Colwell, RK;Lees, DC
Journal: TREND ECOL EVOLUT
Volume: 15
Page: 70-76
Year: FEB 2000
* Univ Connecticut, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, U-43, Storrs, CT 06269 USA.
* Univ Connecticut, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Storrs, CT 06269 USA.
* Nat Hist Museum, Dept Palaeontol, London SW7 5BD, England.
* Nat Hist Museum, Dept Entomol, Biogeog & Conservat Lab, London SW7 5BD, England.


Field: Geosciences
New Hot Papers Comment by  Curry, JA
Article Title: FIRE arctic clouds experiment
Authors: Curry, JA;Hobbs, PV;King, MD;Randall, DA;Minnis, P
Journal: BULL AMER METEOROL SOC
Volume: 81
Page: 5-29
Year: JAN 2000
* Univ Colorado, Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Box 311, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
* Univ Colorado, Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
* Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
* NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
* Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA.
* NASA, Langley Res Ctr, Hampton, VA 23665 USA.
* Atmospher Environm Serv, Downsview, ON, Canada.
* NOAA, Environm Res Lab, Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
* Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA USA.
* Gerber Sci Inc, Reston, VA USA.
* Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV USA.
* European Ctr Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading RG2 9AX, Berks, England.
* SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO USA.
* NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA.
* Natl Res Council, Inst Aerosp Res, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
* Atmospher Environm Serv, Egbert, ON, Canada.
* Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA.


Field: Immunology
Article Title: Toll signaling pathways in the innate immune response
Authors: Anderson, KV
Journal: CURR OPIN IMMUNOL
Volume: 12
Page: 13-19
Year: FEB 2000
* Sloan Kettering Inst, Program Mol Biol, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021 USA.
* Sloan Kettering Inst, Program Mol Biol, New York, NY 10021 USA.


Field: Materials Science
Article Title: Organic materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices
Authors: Shirota, Y
Journal: J MATER CHEM
Volume: 10
Page: 1-25
Year: 2000
* Osaka Univ, Fac Engn, Dept Appl Chem, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.
* Osaka Univ, Fac Engn, Dept Appl Chem, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.


Field: Mathematics
Article Title: Exact homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions of the Gray-Scott model for autocatalysis
Authors: Hale, JK;Peletier, LA;Troy, WC
Journal: SIAM J APPL MATH
Volume: 61
Page: 102-130
Year: JUL 19 2000
* Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Math, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA.
* Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Math, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA.
* Leiden Univ, Inst Math, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
* Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Math, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA.


Field: Microbiology
Article Title: Alpha/beta interferons potentiate virus-induced apoptosis through activation of the FADD/caspase-8 death signaling pathway
Authors: Balachandran, S;Roberts, PC;Kipperman, T;Bhalla, KN;Compans, RW;Archer, DR;Barber, GN
Journal: J VIROL
Volume: 74
Page: 1513-1523
Year: FEB 2000
* Univ Miami, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Rm 511 Papanicolaou Bldg M710, 1550 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33136 USA.
* Univ Miami, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Miami, FL 33136 USA.
* Univ Miami, Sch Med, Sylvester Comprehens Canc Ctr, Miami, FL 33136 USA.
* Emory Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA.
* Emory Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pediat, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA.


Field: Molecular Biology & Genetics
Article Title: Systematic variation in gene expression patterns in human cancer cell lines
Authors: Ross, DT;Scherf, U;Eisen, MB;Perou, CM;Rees, C;Spellman, P;Iyer, V;Jeffrey, SS;Van de Rijn, M;Waltham, M;Pergamenschikov, A;Lee, JCE;Lashkari, D;Shalon, D;Myers, TG;Weinstein, JN;Botstein, D;Brown, PO
Journal: NAT GENET
Volume: 24
Page: 227-235
Year: MAR 2000
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biochem, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biochem, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Genet, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Surg, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pathol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* NCI, Mol Pharmacol Lab, Div Basic Sci, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* Incyte Pharmaceut, Fremont, CA USA.
* Genometrix Inc, The Woodlands, TX USA.
* NCI, Informat Technol Branch, Dev Therapeut Program, Div Canc Treatment & Diagnosis, NIH, Rockville, MD USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.


Field: Multidisciplinary
Article Title: Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling
Authors: Alizadeh, AA;Eisen, MB;Davis, RE;Ma, C;Lossos, IS;Rosenwald, A;Boldrick, JG;Sabet, H;Tran, T;Yu, X;Powell, JI;Yang, LM;Marti, GE;Moore, T;Hudson, J;Lu, LS;Lewis, DB;Tibshirani, R;Sherlock, G;Chan, WC;Greiner, TC;Weisenburger, DD;Armitage, JO;Warnke, R;Levy, R;Wilson, W;Grever, MR;Byrd, JC;Botstein, D;Brown, PO;Staudt, LM
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 403
Page: 503-511
Year: FEB 3 2000
* NCI, Metab Branch, Div Clin Sci, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* NCI, Metab Branch, Div Clin Sci, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biochem, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Genet, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pathol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pediat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Hlth Res & Policy Stat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
* NIH, Bioinformat & Mol Anal Sect, CBEL, CIT, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* US FDA, Ctr Biol Evaluat & Res, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* Res Genet Inc, Huntsville, AL 35801 USA.
* Univ Nebraska, Med Ctr, Dept Pathol & Microbiol, Omaha, NE 68198 USA.
* Univ Nebraska, Med Ctr, Dept Internal Med, Omaha, NE 68198 USA.
* NCI, Med Branch, Div Clin Sci, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Johns Hopkins Oncol Ctr, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA.
* Walter Reed Army Med Ctr, Washington, DC 20307 USA.


Field: Neuroscience & Behavior
Article Title: Rapid redistribution of glutamate receptors contributes to long-term depression in hippocampal cultures
Authors: Carroll, RC;Lissin, DV;von Zastrow, M;Nicoll, RA;Malenka, RC
Journal: NAT NEUROSCI
Volume: 2
Page: 454-460
Year: MAY 1999
* Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Psychiat, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.
* Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Psychiat, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.
* Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Cellular & Mol Pharmacol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.
* Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Physiol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.


Field: Pharmacology & Toxicology
Article Title: The endogenous lipid anandamide is a full agonist at the human vanilloid receptor (hVR1)
Authors: Smart, D;Gunthorpe, MJ;Jerman, JC;Nasir, S;Gray, J;Muir, AI;Chambers, JK;Randall, AD;Davis, JB
Journal: BRIT J PHARMACOL
Volume: 129
Page: 227-230
Year: JAN 2000
* SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceut, Neurosci Res, New Frontiers Sci Pk, 3rd Ave, Harlow CM19 5AW, Essex, England.
* SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceut, Neurosci Res, Harlow CM19 5AW, Essex, England.
* SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceut, Vasc Biol, Harlow CM19 5AW, Essex, England.


Field: Physics
New Hot Papers Comment by Spergel, DN;& Steinhardt, PJ
Article Title: Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter
Authors: Spergel, DN; Steinhardt, PJ
Journal: PHYS REV LETT
Volume: 84
Page: 3760-3763
Year: APR 24 2000
* Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
* Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.


Field: Plant & Animal Science
New Hot Papers Comment by Weigel, D
Article Title: Activation tagging in Arabidopsis
Authors: Weigel, D;Ahn, JH;Blazquez, MA;Borevitz, JO;Christensen, SK;Fankhauser, C;Ferrandiz, C;Kardailsky, I;Malancharuvil, EJ;Neff, MM;Nguyen, JT;Sato, S;Wang, ZY;Xia, YJ;Dixon, RA;Harrison, MJ;Lamb, CJ;Yanofsky, MF;Chory, J
Journal: PLANT PHYSIOL
Volume: 122
Page: 1003-1013
Year: APR 2000
* Salk Inst Biol Studies, Plant Biol Lab, 10010 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
* Salk Inst Biol Studies, Plant Biol Lab, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
* Salk Inst Biol Studies, Howard Hughes Med Inst, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
* Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Biol, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
* Samuel Roberts Noble Fdn Inc, Div Plant Biol, Ardmore, OK 73402 USA.


Field: Psychiatry/Psychology
New Hot Papers Comment by Raine, AR
Article Title: Reduced prefrontal gray matter volume and reduced autonomic activity in antisocial personality disorder
Authors: Raine, AR;Lencz, T;Bihrle, S;LaCasse, L;Colletti, P
Journal: ARCH GEN PSYCHIAT
Volume: 57
Page: 119-127
Year: FEB 2000
* Univ So Calif, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA.
* Univ So Calif, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA.
* Long Isl Jewish Med Ctr, Hillside Hosp, Dept Res, Glen Oaks, NY 11004 USA.
* Univ So Calif, Sch Med, Dept Radiol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA.


Field: Social Sciences, general
New Hot Papers Comment by  Flaherty, MS
Article Title: History right?: Historical scholarship, original understanding, and treaties as "supreme law of the land"
Authors: Flaherty, MS
Journal:
COLUMBIA LAW REV
Volume: 99
Page: 2095-2153
Year: DEC 1999


Field: Space Science
Article Title: Overview of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Mission
Authors: Moos, HW;Cash, WC;Cowie, LL;Davidsen, AF;Dupree, AK;Feldman, PD;Friedman, SD;Green, JC;Green, RF;Gry, C;Hutchings, JB;Jenkins, EB;Linsky, JL;Malina, RF;Michalitsianos, AG;Savage, BD;Shull, JM;Siegmund, OHW;Snow, TP;Sonneborn, G;Vidal-Madjar, A;Willis, AJ;Woodgate, BE;York, DG;Ake, TB;Andersson, BG;Andrews, JP;Barkhouser, RH;Bianchi, L;Blair, WP;Brownsberger, KR;Cha, AN;Chayer, P;Conard, SJ;Fullerton, AW;Gaines, GA;Grange, R;Gummin, MA;Hebrard, G;Kriss, GA;Kruk, JW;Mark, D;McCarthy, DK;Morbey, CL;Murowinski, R;Murphy, EM;Oegerle, WR;Ohl, RG;Oliveira, C;Osterman, SN;Sahnow, DJ;Saisse, M;Sembach, KR;Weaver, HA;Welsh, BY;Wilkinson, E;Zheng, W
Journal: ASTROPHYS J
Volume: 538
Page: L1-L6
Year: JUL 20 2000
* Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.
* Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.
* Univ Colorado, Dept Astrophys & Planetary Sci, Ctr Astrophys & Space Astron, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
* Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
* Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
* Natl Opt Astron Observ, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA.
* Astron Spatiale Lab, F-13376 Marseille 12, France.
* ISO Data Ctr, ESA Astrophys Div, Madrid 28080, Spain.
* Natl Res Council Canada, Herzberg Inst Astrophys, Victoria, BC V8X 4M6, Canada.
* Princeton Univ Observ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
* Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
* Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr EUV Astrophys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
* NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astron & Solar Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
* Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
* Inst Astrophys, CNRS, F-75014 Paris, France.
* Univ London Univ Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England.
* Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
* Comp Sci Corp, Lanham, MD 20706 USA.
* Osservatorio Astron Torino, I-10025 Pino Torinese, TO, Italy.
* Univ Victoria, Dept Phys & Astron, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada.
* Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.
* Swales Associates, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA.

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