In updating
Essential Science IndicatorsSM from the third
bimonthly period of 2009 to the fourth bimonthly period of 2009, a
total of 2,082 hot papers were identified, of which 1,443 (69.3%) were
new.
Some papers have comments sent in by the author(s) of
the paper which include images and descriptions of their work.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Philip C. Calder
Field: Agricultural Sciences
Article Title: Polyunsaturated fatty acids, inflammatory processes and
inflammatory bowel diseases
Authors:
Calder,
PC
Journal: MOL NUTR FOOD RES
Volume: 52
Issue: 8
Page: 885-897
Year: AUG 2008
* Univ Southampton, Inst Human Nutr, Sch Med, Tremona Rd, Southampton
SO16 6YD, Hants, England.
* Univ Southampton, Inst Human Nutr, Sch Med, Southampton SO16 6YD,
Hants, England.
Field: Biology & Biochemistry
Article Title: Induction of pluripotent stem cells by defined factors
is greatly improved by small-molecule compounds
Authors: Huangfu, DW;Maehr, R;Guo, WJ;Eijkelenboom, A;Snitow, M;Chen,
AE;Melton, DA
Journal: NAT BIOTECHNOL
Volume: 26
Issue: 7
Page: 795-797
Year: JUL 2008
* Harvard Univ, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Harvard Stem Cell Inst, Dept
Stem Cell & Regenerat Biol, 7 Divin Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
USA.
* Harvard Univ, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Harvard Stem Cell Inst, Dept
Stem Cell & Regenerat Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
* MIT, Whitehead Inst Biomed Res, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA.
* Univ Utrecht, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Hans R.
Schöler
Field: Clinical Medicine
Article Title: Pluripotent stem cells induced from adult neural stem
cells by reprogramming with two factors
Authors: Kim, JB;Zaehres, H;Wu, GM;Gentile, L;Ko, K;Sebastiano,
V;Arauzo-Bravo, MJ;Ruau, D;Han, DW;Zenke,
M;Scholer,
HR
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 454
Issue: 7204
Page: 646-U54
Year: JUL 31 2008
* Max Planck Inst Mol Biomed, Dept Cell & Dev Biol, Rontgenstr
20, D-48149 Munster, Germany.
* Max Planck Inst Mol Biomed, Dept Cell & Dev Biol, D-48149
Munster, Germany.
* Univ Aachen, Sch Med, Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Biomed Engn,Dept
Cell Biol, D-52074 Aachen, Germany.
Field: Computer Science - Fast Breaking
Paper Comment by:
Kazutaka
Katoh (Oct. 2009) Article Title:
Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment
program
Authors: Katoh, K;Toh, H
Journal: BRIEF BIOINFORM
Volume: 9
Issue: 4
Page: 286-298
Year: JUL 2008
* Kyushu Univ, Med Inst Bioregulat, Digital Med Initiat, Fukuoka
8128582, Japan.
* Kyushu Univ, Med Inst Bioregulat, Digital Med Initiat, Fukuoka
8128582, Japan.
Field: Economics & Business
Article Title: Hedge fund activism, corporate governance, and firm
performance
Authors: Brav, A;Jiang, W;Partnoy, F;Thomas, R
Journal: J FINAN
Volume: 63
Issue: 4
Page: 1729-1775
Year: AUG 2008
* Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27706 USA.
* Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27706 USA.
* Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA.
* Univ San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110 USA.
* Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN USA.
Field: Environment/Ecology
Article Title: Decline in perfluorooctanesulfonate and other
polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in American Red Cross adult blood donors,
2000-2006
Authors: Olsen, GW;Mair, DC;Church, TR;Ellefson, ME;Reagen, WK;Boyd,
TM;Herron, RM;Medhdizadehkashi, Z;Nobilett, JB;Rios, JA;Butenhoff,
JL;Zobel, LR
Journal: ENVIRON SCI TECHNOL
Volume: 42
Issue: 13
Page: 4989-4995
Year: JUL 1 2008
* 3M Co, Dept Med, Mail Stop 220-6W-08, St Paul, MN 55144 USA.
* 3M Co, Dept Med, St Paul, MN 55144 USA.
* Amer Red Cross, N Cent Reg, St Paul, MN USA.
* Univ Minnesota, Div Environm Hlth Sci, Minneapolis, MN USA.
* 3M Co, Environm Lab, St Paul, MN 55144 USA.
* Amer Red Cross, Carolinas Reg, Charlotte, NC USA.
* Amer Red Cross, So California Reg, Los Angeles, CA USA.
* Amer Red Cross, Pacific NW Reg, Portland, OR USA.
* Amer Red Cross, Greater Alleghenies Reg, Portland, OR USA.
* Amer Red Cross, New England Reg, Portland, OR USA.
Field: Geosciences
Article Title: Ground-motion prediction equations for the average
horizontal component of PGA, PGV, and 5%-damped PSA at spectral periods
between 0.01 s and 10.0 s
Authors: Boore, DM;Atkinson, GM
Journal: EARTHQ SPECTRA
Volume: 24
Issue: 1
Page: 99-138
Year: FEB 2008
* US Geol Survey, MS 977,345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Pk, CA 94025
USA.
* US Geol Survey, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA.
* Univ Western Ontario, Dept Earth Sci, London, ON N6A 5B7,
Canada.
Field: Immunology
Article Title: IL-21 and TGF-beta are required for differentiation of
human T(H)17 cells
Authors: Yang, L;Anderson, DE;Baecher-Allan, C;Hastings, WD;Bettelli,
E;Oukka, M;Kuchroo, VK;Hafler, DA
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 454
Issue: 7202
Page: 350-U55
Year: JUL 17 2008
* Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Div Mol Immunol, Ctr Neurol Dis,Brigham
& Womens Hosp, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Div Mol Immunol, Ctr Neurol Dis,Brigham
& Womens Hosp, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Patrik
Schmuki
Field: Materials Science
Article Title: TiO2 nanotubes: Self-organized electrochemical
formation, properties and applications
Authors: Macak, JM;Tsuchiya, H;Ghicov, A;Yasuda, K;Hahn, R;Bauer,
S;Schmuki,
P
Journal: CURR OPIN SOLID STATE MAT SCI
Volume: 11
Issue: 1-2
Page: 3-18
Year: FEB-APR 2007
* Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Dept Mat Sci, LKO, Martensstr 7, D-91058
Erlangen, Germany.
* Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Dept Mat Sci, LKO, D-91058 Erlangen,
Germany.
Field: Mathematics -
Fast Breaking Paper Comment by: Stevo Stevic (Apr.
2009)
Article Title: Norm of weighted composition operators from Bloch space
to H-mu(infinity) on the unit ball
Authors:
Stevic,
S
Journal: ARS COMB
Volume: 88
Issue:
Page: :125-127
Year: JUL 2008
* Serbian Acad Sci, Math Inst, Knez Mihailova 36-3, Belgrade 11000,
Serbia.
* Serbian Acad Sci, Math Inst, Belgrade 11000, Serbia.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Amy L.
Davidson
Field: Microbiology
Article Title: Structure, function, and evolution of bacterial
ATP-binding cassette systems
Authors:
Davidson,
AL;Dassa, E;Orelle, C;Chen, J
Journal: MICROBIOL MOL BIOL REV
Volume: 72
Issue: 2
Page: 317-364
Year: JUN 2008
* Purdue Univ, Dept Chem, 560 Oval Dr, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA.
* Purdue Univ, Dept Chem, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA.
* Inst Pasteur, CNRS, URA2172, Unite Membranes Bacteriennes, F-75724
Paris 15, France.
* Purdue Univ, Dept Biol, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA.
Field: Molecular Biology & Genetics
Article Title: Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by
RNA-Seq
Authors: Mortazavi, A;Williams, BA;Mccue, K;Schaeffer, L;Wold, B
Journal: NAT METHODS
Volume: 5
Issue: 7
Page: 621-628
Year: JUL 2008
* CALTECH, Div Biol, MC 156-29, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
* CALTECH, Div Biol, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
Field: Multidisciplinary
Article Title: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated Without Viral
Integration
Authors: Stadtfeld, M;Nagaya, M;Utikal, J;Weir, G;Hochedlinger, K
Journal: SCIENCE
Volume: 322
Issue: 5903
Page: 945-949
Year: NOV 7 2008
* Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Ctr Canc, 185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114
USA.
* Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Ctr Canc, Boston, MA 02114 USA.
* Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Ctr Regenerat Med, Boston, MA 02114
USA.
* Harvard Univ, Stem Cell Inst, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
* Joslin Diabet Ctr, Sect Islet Transplantat & Cell Biol,
Boston, MA 02115 USA.
* Harvard Univ, Dept Stem Cell & Regenerat Biol, Cambridge, MA
02138 USA.
* Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Rolf-Detlef
Treede & Troels Staehelin Jensen
Field: Neuroscience & Behavior
Article Title: Neuropathic pain - Redefinition and a grading system for
clinical and research purposes
Authors:
Treede,
RD;Jensen, TS;Campbell, JN;Cruccu, G;Dostrovsky,
JO;Griffin, JW;Hansson, P;Hughes, R;Nurmikko, T;Serra, J
Journal: NEUROLOGY
Volume: 70
Issue: 18
Page: 1630-1635
Year: APR 29 2008
* Aarhus Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol, Norrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Aarhus C,
Denmark.
* Aarhus Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
* Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Physiol & Pathophysiol,
D-6500 Mainz, Germany.
* Johns Hopkins Med Inst, Dept Neurosurg, Baltimore, MD 21205
USA.
* Johns Hopkins Med Inst, Dept Neurol, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA.
* Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Neurol, Rome, Italy.
* Univ Toronto, Dept Physiol, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada.
* Karolinska Univ Hosp, Pain Ctr, Dept Neurosurg, Stockholm,
Sweden.
* Kings Coll London, Dept Clin Neurosci, London, England.
* Univ Liverpool, Div Neurol Sci, Pain Res Inst, Liverpool L69 3BX,
Merseyside, England.
* MC Mutual, Dept Neurol, Barcelona, Spain.
Field: Pharmacology & Toxicology
Article Title: Torcetrapib-induced blood pressure elevation is
independent of CETP inhibition and is accompanied by increased
circulating levels of aldosterone
Authors: Forrest, MJ;Bloomfield, D;Briscoe, RJ;Brown, PN;Cumiskey,
AM;Ehrhart, J;Hershey, JC;Keller, WJ;Ma, X;McPherson, HE;Messina,
E;Peterson, LB;Sharif-Rodriguez, W;Siegl, PKS;Sinclair, PJ;Sparrow,
CP;Stevenson, AS;Sun, SY;Tsai, C;Vargas, H;Walker, M;West, SH;White,
V;Woltmann, RF
Journal: BRIT J PHARMACOL
Volume: 154
Issue: 7
Page: 1465-1473
Year: AUG 2008
* Merck Res Labs, Dept Cardiovasc Dis RY80Y 135, POB 2000, Rahway, NJ
07065 USA.
* Merck Res Labs, Dept Cardiovasc Dis RY80Y 135, Rahway, NJ 07065
USA.
* Merck Res Labs, Safety & Exploratory Pharmacol, West Point,
PA USA.
* Mol Endocrinol, West Point, PA USA.
* Merck Res Labs, Imaging, Rahway, NJ USA.
* Merck Res Labs, Med Chem, Rahway, NJ USA.
Field: Physics
Article Title: N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories,
M2-branes and their gravity duals
Authors: Aharony, O;Bergman, O;Jafferis, DL;Maldacena, J
Journal: J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
Volume: (10)
Issue:
Page: :art.
Year: no.-091 OCT 2008
* Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot,
Israel.
* Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys, IL-76100 Rehovot,
Israel.
* Inst Adv Study, Sch Nat Sci, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA.
* Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa,
Israel.
* Rutgers State Univ, Dept Phys, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA.
Field: Plant & Animal Science
Article Title: Regulation and identity of florigen: FLOWERING LOCUS T
moves center stage
Authors: Turck, F;Fornara, F;Coupland, G
Journal: ANNU REV PLANT BIOL
Volume: 59
Issue:
Page: :573-594
Year: 2008
* Max Planck Inst Plant Breeding, D-50829 Cologne, Germany.
* Max Planck Inst Plant Breeding, D-50829 Cologne, Germany.
New Hot Paper Comment by: Robert
Freedman Field:
Psychiatry/Psychology
Article Title: Initial phase 2 trial of a nicotinic agonist in
schizophrenia
Authors:
Freedman,
R;Olincy, A;Buchanan, RW;Harris, JG;Gold, JM;Johnson,
L;Allensworth, D;Guzman-Bonilla, A;Clement, B;Ball, MP;Kutnick,
J;Pender, V;Martin, LF;Stevens, KE;Wagner, BD;Zerbe, GO;Soti, F;Kem,
WR
Journal: AMER J PSYCHIAT
Volume: 165
Issue: 8
Page: 1040-1047
Year: AUG 2008
* Univ Colorado, Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Psychiat C249 32, Denver, CO 80262
USA.
* Denver VA Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Denver, CO USA.
* Denver VA Med Ctr, Dept Prevent Med & Biometr, Denver, CO
USA.
* Univ Maryland, Psychiat Res Ctr, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.
* Baltimore VA Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Baltimore, MD USA.
* Univ Florida, Dept Pharmacol & Therapeut, Gainesville, FL
USA.
Field: Social Sciences, general
Article Title: Croatian Adult Health Survey - A Tool for Periodic
Cardiovascular Risk Factors Surveillance
Authors: Vuletic, S;Polasek, O;Kern, J;Strnad, M;Baklaic, Z
Journal: COLLEGIUM ANTROPOL
Volume: 33
Issue:
Page: :3-9
Year: Suppl. 1 APR 2009
* Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Andrija Stampar Sch Publ Hlth, Rockefellerova
4, Zagreb 10000, Croatia.
* Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Andrija Stampar Sch Publ Hlth, Zagreb 10000,
Croatia.
* Croatian Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Zagreb, Croatia.
Field: Space Science
Article Title: Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric
Investigation (SECCHI)
Authors: Howard, RA;Moses, JD;Vourlidas, A;Newmark, JS;Socker,
DG;Plunkett, SP;Korendyke, CM;Cook, JW;Hurley, A;Davila, JM;Thompson,
WT;St Cyr, OC;Mentzell, E;Mehalick, K;Lemen, JR;Wuelser, JP;Duncan,
DW;Tarbell, TD;Wolfson, CJ;Moore, A;Harrison, RA;Waltham, NR;Lang,
J;Davis, CJ;Eyles, CJ;Mapson-Menard, H;Simnett, GM;Halain, JP;Defise,
JM;Mazy, E;Rochus, P;Mercier, R;Ravet, MF;Delmotte, F;Auchere,
F;Delaboudiniere, JP;Bothmer, V;Deutsch, W;Wang, D;Rich, N;Cooper,
S;Stephens, V;Maahs, G;Baugh, R;McMullin, D;Carter, T
Journal: SPACE SCI REV
Volume: 136
Issue: 1-4
Page: 67-115
Year: APR 2008
* USN, Res Lab, EO Hulburt Ctr Space Res, Washington, DC 20375
USA.
* USN, Res Lab, EO Hulburt Ctr Space Res, Washington, DC 20375
USA.
* NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20742 USA.
* Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophys Lab, Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA.
* Rutherford Appleton Lab, Space Sci & Technol Dept, Didcot
OX11 OQX, Oxon, England.
* Univ Birmingham, Astrophys & Space Res Grp, Birmingham B15
2TT, W Midlands, England.
* Univ Liege, Ctr Spatiale Liege, B-4031 Angleur, Belgium.
* Ctr Univ Orsay, Inst Astrophys Spatiale, F-91405 Orsay, France.
* Univ Gottingen, Inst Astrophys, Max Planck Inst Solar Syst Res,
D-37077 Gottingen, Germany.
* Max Planck Inst Solar Syst Res, Katlenburg Lindau, Germany.
* Interferometr Inc, Herndon, VA USA.
* HYTEC Inc, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA.
* Praxis Inc, Alexandria, VA 22303 USA.