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New Hot Papers

ESI Special Topics, January 2006
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In updating Essential Science Indicators from the third bimonthly period of 2005 to the fourth bimonthly period of 2005, a total of 1,743 hot papers were identified, of which 1,285 (73.7%) were new.
    
"Comments/Mini-interviews," from the author(s) of the paper!
Jinde Cao and Jinling Liang;
Mathematics
Robert C. Edgar;
Computer Science
Bridget F. Grant;
Psychology/
Psychiatry
A. Stephen K. Hashmi;
Materials Science
Anke Hoeffler & Paul Collier;
Economics & Business
Taro Kawai and Shizuo Akira;
Immunology
Christopher A. Lipinski & Andrew L. Hopkins;
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Richard A. Peterson and Narasimhan Anand;
Social Sciences, general
Roland Stocker;
Biology & Biochemistry
Thomas C. Südhof;
Neuroscience & Behavior
Taku Tsuchiya & Renata Wentzcovitch
Geosciences
Guoyao Wu;
Agricultural Sciences
Hisashi Yamamoto;
Chemistry 

Archive of past comments for New Hot Papers.
Archive also contains listings of late entries received after publication.

JANUARY 2006

Field: Agricultural Sciences
New Hot Papers Comment by Wu, GY
Article Title: Maternal nutrition and fetal development
Authors: Wu, GY;Bazer, FW;Cudd, TA;Meininger, CJ;Spencer, TE
Journal: J NUTR
Volume: 134 (9)
Page: 
2169-2172
Year: SEP 2004
* Texas A&M Univ, Syst Hlth Sci Ctr, Inst Cardiovasc Res, College Stn, TX 77843 USA.
* Texas A&M Univ, Syst Hlth Sci Ctr, Inst Cardiovasc Res, College Stn, TX 77843 USA.
* Texas A&M Univ, Syst Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Anim Sci, College Stn, TX 77843 USA.
* Texas A&M Univ, Syst Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Vet Physiol & Pharmacol, College Stn, TX 77843 USA.


Field: Biology & Biochemistry
New Hot Papers Comment by Stocker, R
Article Title: Role of oxidative modifications in atherosclerosis
Authors: Stocker, R;Keaney, JF
Journal: PHYSIOL REV
Volume: 84 (4)
Page: 
1381-1478
Year: OCT 2004
* Univ New S Wales, Ctr Vasc Res, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
* Univ New S Wales, Ctr Vasc Res, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
* Prince Wales Hosp, Dept Haematol, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
* Boston Univ, Med Ctr, Evans Mem Dept Med, Whitaker Cardiovasc Inst, Boston, MA USA.


Field: Chemistry
New Hot Papers Comment by Yamamoto, H
Article Title: Asymmetric direct aldol reaction assisted by water and a proline-derived tetrazole catalyst
Authors: Torii, H;Nakadai, M;Ishihara, K;Saito, S;Yamamoto, H
Journal: ANGEW CHEM INT ED
Volume: 43 (15)
Page: 
1983-1986
Year: 2004
* Nagoya Univ, Inst Adv Res, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan.
* Nagoya Univ, Inst Adv Res, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan.
* Nagoya Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan.
* Univ Chicago, Dept Chem, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
* Nagoya Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Nagoya, Aichi 4648603, Japan.


Field: Clinical Medicine
Article Title: Cancer statistics, 2004
Authors: Jemal, A;Tiwari, RC;Murray, T;Ghafoor, A;Samuels, A;Ward, E;Feuer, EJ;Thun, MJ
Journal: CA-A CANCER J CLIN
Volume: 54 (1)
Page: 
8-29
Year: JAN-FEB 2004
* Amer Canc Soc, Dept Epidemiol & Surveillance Res, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA.
* Amer Canc Soc, Dept Epidemiol & Surveillance Res, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA.
* NCI, Math Stat Stat Res & Applicat Branch, Div Canc Control & Populat Sci, Rockville, MD USA.


Field: Computer Science
New Hot Papers Comment by Edgar, RC
Article Title: MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity
Authors: Edgar, RC
Journal: BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume:
5: art. no.-113
Page: 
Year: AUG 19 2004
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Plant & Microbial Biol, 461 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Plant & Microbial Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.


Field: Economics & Business
New Hot Papers Comment by Collier, P;Hoeffler, A
Article Title: Greed and grievance in civil war
Authors: Collier, P;Hoeffler, A
Journal: OXFORD ECON PAP-NEW SER
Volume: 56 (4)
Page: 
563-595
Year: OCT 2004
* Univ Oxford, Ctr Study African Econ, 21 Winchester Rd, Oxford OX2 6NA, England.
* Univ Oxford, Ctr Study African Econ, Oxford OX2 6NA, England.


Field: Engineering
Article Title: ARTS, the atmospheric radiative transfer simulator
Authors: Buehler, SA;Eriksson, P;Kuhn, T;von Engeln, A;Verdesa, C
Journal: J QUANT SPECTROSC RADIAT
Volume: 91 (1)
Page: 
65-93
Year: FEB 15 2005
* Univ Bremen, Inst Environm Phys, Otto Hahn Allee 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
* Univ Bremen, Inst Environm Phys, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
* Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Radio & Space Sci, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.


Field: Environment/Ecology
Article Title: MICRO-CHECKER: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data
Authors: Van Oosterhout, C;Hutchinson, WF;Wills, DPM;Shipley, P
Journal: MOL ECOL NOTES
Volume: 4 (3)
Page: 
535-538
Year: SEP 2004
* Univ Hull, Dept Biol Sci, Kingston Upon Hull HU6 7RX, N Humberside, England.
* Univ Hull, Dept Biol Sci, Kingston Upon Hull HU6 7RX, N Humberside, England.
* Univ Hull, Dept Comp Sci, Kingston Upon Hull HU6 7RX, N Humberside, England.


Field: Geosciences
New Hot Papers Comment by Tsuchiya, T & Wentzcovitch, RA
Article Title: Phase transition in MgSiO3 perovskite in the earth's lower mantle
Authors: Tsuchiya, T;Tsuchiya, J;Umemoto, K;Wentzcovitch, RA
Journal: EARTH PLANET SCI LETT
Volume: 224 (3-4)
Page: 
241-248
Year: AUG 15 2004
* Univ Minnesota, Dept Chem Engn & Mat Sci, Minnesota Supercomp Inst Digital Technol & Adv Co, 421 Washington Av SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
* Univ Minnesota, Dept Chem Engn & Mat Sci, Minnesota Supercomp Inst Digital Technol & Adv Co, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.


Field: Immunology
New Hot Papers Comment by Kawai, T and Akira, S
Article Title: Interferon-alpha induction through Toll-like receptors involves a direct interaction of IRF7 with MyD88 and TRAF6
Authors: Kawai, T;Sato, S;Ishii, KJ;Coban, C;Hemmi, H;Yamamoto, M;Terai, K;Matsuda, M;Inoue, J;Uematsu, S;Takeuchi, O;Akira, S
Journal: NAT IMMUNOL
Volume: 5 (10)
Page: 
1061-1068
Year: OCT 2004
* Japan Sci & Technol Agcy, Akira Innate Immun Program, ERATO, 3-1 Yamada Oka, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.
* Japan Sci & Technol Agcy, Akira Innate Immun Program, ERATO, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.
* Osaka Univ, Microbial Dis Res Inst, Dept Host Def, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.
* Osaka Univ, Microbial Dis Res Inst, Dept Tumor Virol, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.
* Univ Tokyo, Inst Med Sci, Dept Canc Biol, Div Cellular & Mol Biol,Minato Ku, Tokyo 1088639, Japan.


Field: Materials Science
New Hot Papers Comment by Hashmi, ASK
Article Title: Homogeneous catalysis by gold
Authors: Hashmi, ASK
Journal: GOLD BULL
Volume: 37 (1-2)
Page: 
51-65
Year: 2004
* Univ Stuttgart, Inst Organ Chem, Pfaffenwaldring 55, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
* Univ Stuttgart, Inst Organ Chem, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.


Field: Mathematics
New Hot Papers Comment by Cao, J;Liang, JL
Article Title: Boundedness and stability for Cohen-Grossberg neural network with time-varying delays
Authors: Cao, J;Liang, JL
Journal: J MATH ANAL APPL
Volume: 296 (2)
Page: 
665-685
Year: AUG 15 2004
* SE Univ, Dept Math, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China.
* SE Univ, Dept Math, Nanjing 210096, Peoples R China.


Field: Microbiology
Article Title: SOS response promotes horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes
Authors: Beaber, JW;Hochhut, B;Waldor, MK
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 427 (6969)
Page: 
72-74
Year: JAN 1 2004
* Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111 USA.
* Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol, Boston, MA 02111 USA.
* Howard Hughes Med Inst, Boston, MA 02111 USA.


Field: Molecular Biology & Genetics
Article Title: Induction of DNA methylation and gene silencing by short interfering RNAs in human cells
Authors: Kawasaki, H;Taira, K
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 431 (7005)
Page: 
211-217
Year: SEP 9 2004
* Univ Tokyo, Sch Engn, Dept Chem & Biotechnol, Bunkyo Ku, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 1138656, Japan.
* Univ Tokyo, Sch Engn, Dept Chem & Biotechnol, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1138656, Japan.
* Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Gene Funct Res Ctr, Tsukuba 3058562, Japan.


Field: Multidisciplinary
Article Title: Activation of apoptosis in vivo by a hydrocarbon-stapled BH3 helix
Authors: Walensky, LD;Kung, AL;Escher, I;Malia, TJ;Barbuto, S;Wright, RD;Wagner, G;Verdine, GL;Korsmeyer, SJ
Journal: SCIENCE
Volume: 305 (5689)
Page: 
Year: SEP 3 2004
* Dana Farber Canc Inst, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Dana Farber Canc Inst, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Dana Farber Canc Inst, Dept Pediat Hematol Oncol, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Dana Farber Canc Inst, Childrens Hosp Boston, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Dana Farber Canc Inst, Dept Canc Biol, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Harvard Univ, Dept Chem & Biol Chem, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
* Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biol Chem & Mol Pharmacol, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* MIT, Dept Chem, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.


Field: Neuroscience & Behavior
New Hot Papers Comment by Sudhof, TC
Article Title: The synaptic vesicle cycle
Authors: Sudhof, TC
Journal: ANNU REV NEUROSCI
Volume: 27:
Page: 509-547
Year: 2004
* Univ Texas, SW Med Ctr, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Mol Genet,Ctr Basic Neurosci, Dallas, TX 75390 USA.
* Univ Texas, SW Med Ctr, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Mol Genet,Ctr Basic Neurosci, Dallas, TX 75390 USA.


Field: Pharmacology & Toxicology
New Hot Papers Comment by Lipinski, C;Hopkins, A
Article Title: Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine
Authors: Lipinski, C;Hopkins, A
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 432 (7019)
Page: 
509-547
Year: DEC 16 2004
* Pfizer Inc, Global R&D, Groton Labs, Eastern Point Rd, Groton, CT 06340 USA.
* Pfizer Inc, Global R&D, Groton Labs, Groton, CT 06340 USA.
* Pfizer Ltd, Global R&D, Sandwich Labs, Sandwich CT13 9NJ, Kent, England.


Field: Physics
Article Title: Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics
Authors: Wallraff, A;Schuster, DI;Blais, A;Frunzio, L;Huang, RS;Majer, J;Kumar, S;Girvin, SM;Schoelkopf, RJ
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 431 (7005)
Page: 
162-167
Year: SEP 9 2004
* Yale Univ, Dept Appl Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.
* Yale Univ, Dept Appl Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.
* Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.
* Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.


Field: Plant & Animal Science
Article Title: The genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana: Ecology, evolution, and metabolism
Authors: Armbrust, EV;Berges, JA;Bowler, C;Green, BR;Martinez, D;Putnam, NH;Zhou, SG;Allen, AE;Apt, KE;Bechner, M;Brzezinski, MA;Chaal, BK;Chiovitti, A;Davis, AK;Demarest, MS;Detter, JC;Glavina, T;Goodstein, D;Hadi, MZ;Hellsten, U;Hildebrand, M;Jenkins, BD;Jurka, J;Kapitonov, VV;Kroger, N;Lau, WWY;Lane, TW;Larimer, FW;Lippmeier, JC;Lucas, S;Medina, M;Montsant, A;Obornik, M;Parker, MS;Palenik, B;Pazour, GJ;Richardson, PM;Rynearson, TA;Saito, MA;Schwartz, DC;Thamatrakoln, K;Valentin, K;Vardi, A;Wilkerson, FP;Rokhsar, DS
Journal: SCIENCE
Volume: 306 (5693)
Page: 
79-86
Year: OCT 1 2004
* Univ Washington, Sch Oceanog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
* Univ Washington, Sch Oceanog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.
* Univ Wisconsin, Dept Biol Sci, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA.
* Stn Zool, Plant Mol Biol Lab, I-80121 Naples, Italy.
* Ecole Normale Super, Dept Biol, F-75230 Paris, France.
* Univ British Columbia, Dept Bot, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
* Joint Genome Inst, Dept Energy, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA.
* Univ Wisconsin, Dept Genet, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
* Univ Wisconsin, Dept Chem, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
* Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA.
* Martek Biosci Corp, Columbia, MD 21045 USA.
* Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Ecol Evolut & Marine Biol, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
* Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Inst Marine Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
* Univ Melbourne, Sch Bot, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia.
* Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
* Sandia Natl Labs, Lockheed Martin Corp, Livermore, CA 94551 USA.
* Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Ocean Sci Dept, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
* Genet Informat Res Inst, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
* Univ Regensburg, Lehrstuhl Biochem 1, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany.
* Sandia Natl Labs, Biosyst Res Dept, Livermore, CA 94551 USA.
* Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Genome Anal Grp, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA.
* Univ Hull, Dept Biol Sci, Kingston Upon Hull HU6 7RX, N Humberside, England.
* Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Program Mol Med, Worcester, MA 01605 USA.
* Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Dept Marine Chem & Geochem, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA.
* Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
* San Francisco State Univ, Romberg Tiburon Ctr, Tiburon, CA 94920 USA.
* Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Integrat Genom, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.


Field: Psychiatry/Psychology
New Hot Papers Comment by Grant, BF
Article Title: Prevalence and co-occurrence of substance use disorders and independent mood and anxiety disorders - Results from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions
Authors: Grant, BF;Stinson, FS;Dawson, DA;Chou, SP;Dufour, MC;Compton, W;Pickering, RP;Kaplan, K
Journal: ARCH GEN PSYCHIAT
Volume: 61 (8)
Page: 
807-816
Year: AUG 2004
* NIAAA, Div Intramural Clin & Biol Res, Lab Epidemiol & Biometry, NIH, Mail Stop 9304,5635 Fishers Ln,Room 3077, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* NIAAA, Div Intramural Clin & Biol Res, Lab Epidemiol & Biometry, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* NIAAA, Off Director, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* NIDA, Div Epidemiol Serv & Prevent Res, NIH, US Dept HHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.
* US Bur Census, Demog Surveys Div, Suitland, MD USA.


Field: Social Sciences, general
Emerging Research Fronts Comments by: Peterson, RA;Anand, N
Article Title: The production of culture perspective
Authors: Peterson, RA;Anand, N
Journal: ANNU REV SOCIOL
Volume: 30:
Page: 311-334
Year: 2004
* Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Sociol, Nashville, TN 37235 USA.
* Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Sociol, Nashville, TN 37235 USA.
* London Business Sch, London NW1 4SA, England.


Field: Space Science
Article Title: The Spitzer Space Telescope mission
Authors: Werner, MW;Roellig, TL;Low, FJ;Rieke, GH;Rieke, M;Hoffmann, WF;Young, E;Houck, JR;Brandl, B;Fazio, GG;Hora, JL;Gehrz, RD;Helou, G;Soifer, BT;Stauffer, J;Keene, J;Eisenhardt, P;Gallagher, D;Gautier, TN;Irace, W;Lawrence, CR;Simmons, L;Van Cleve, JE;Jura, M;Wright, EL;Cruikshank, DP
Journal: ASTROPHYS J SUPPL SER
Volume: 154 (1)
Page: 
1-9
Year: SEP 2004
* CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, MS 264-767,4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA.
* CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA.
* NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA.
* Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
* Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
* Leiden Univ, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
* Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
* Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Dept Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
* CALTECH, Spitzer Sci Ctr, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
* Ball Aerosp & Technol, Boulder, CO 80301 USA.
* Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.

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