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interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
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featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
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authors’ work featured in their papers.
December
2009 David
T. Felson; "The subject was whether bone
marrow lesions, as seen on MRI in persons with knee
osteoarthritis, predispose to disease progression. Bone
marrow edema is a potent risk factor for structural
deterioration in knee osteoarthritis, and its relation
to progression is explained..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009
December
2009 Kimberly
Hamad-Schifferli; "One of the most exciting
prospects of nanotechnology is that nanoparticles can
act as a handle by which one can control nanoscale
processes, particularly biological ones. Due to their
size, nanoparticles can reach places where such
processes are typically inaccessible to..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009
Peter Hänggi & Fabio Marchesoni;
"With this comprehensive paper, we survey and discuss the
role of symmetry breaking and its potential for
applications for novel transport schemes and separation
methods on the length scales of micrometers right down to
the nanoscale. It's an everyday experience that
the..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Robert
Hijmans; "There is a strong interest in
understanding and modeling the geographic distribution
of organisms as a function of climate and other
factors. Species distribution modeling (also known as
environmental or ecological niche modeling) is a
particularly frequently used method in
biogeography..."
Special Topic of
Climate
Change
December
2009 Liisa
Holm; "The paper is given as the reference on the
Dali server web site. The server has been running for
about 15 years at a series of locations. The Dali
server is used by structural biologists to compare
newly solved protein structures against the Protein
Data Bank (PDB). Similarities to other
proteins..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Oliver
D. Howes; "The cause of schizophrenia is
unknown, but this paper sheds new light on the
neurochemical abnormalities that underlie the illness
with important implications for the development of new
treatments and prognostication. This paper describes a
new discovery—it is the first study to show that
dopamine..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Kimoon
Kim; "Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are
an emerging field with a rapid growth of the number of
publications about this discipline in recent years. MOFs
have drawn special attention because of their potential
in many areas including separation, catalysis, and gas
storage, particularly..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009
December
2009 Loet
Leydesdorff & Ismael Rafols; "The paper
offers a synthesis of previous knowledge on the basis of
a methodological consideration. Although the attribution
of journals to subject categories remains highly
uncertain—and therefore often erroneous—we
show that the average attribution at the..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Masayasu
Kojima & Kenji Kangawa; "Our research style is
"in the beginning was a novel peptide." We have been
searching for novel unknown peptides for almost 30
years. We discovered opioid peptides
(
a-neoendorphin, etc.), neuromedins, and the
natriuretic peptide family (ANP, BNP, and CNP)..."
Featured Paper Interview
December
2009 Eiki
Kominami; "My M.D. was conferred from
Okayama University in 1968. After clinical training as a
resident in gastroenterology at Okayama University
Hospital for several years, I decided to enter the path
to live as a scientist and got a Ph.D. in medicine at
Tokushima University in 1975. I worked for two years
(1978-1979)..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
December
2009 Angus
S. Murphy; "I believe that one of the key
reasons why this paper is being cited is because it
describes the interactions between two hormone transport
systems and provides a rationale for ABCB function in
auxin transport. It is a new discovery. The article is
also cited because of the methods..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Stephen
Nickell; "This is one of the first papers
which attempts to explain long-term changes in
unemployment by long-term changes in labor market
institutions. It also demonstrates that once we allow
for long-term changes in labor market institutions,
there remains little role for interactions
between..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009
December
2009 Stephanie Seminara;
"Stephanie Seminara is the lead author of the
Top Topics paper
selection from the field of Neuroscience & Behavior
for June 2009:
"The GPR54 gene as a regulator of puberty," N.
Engl. J. Med.: 349[17]: 1614-27, Oct. 23, 2003.
This paper is included in a Research Front
Map..."
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December
2009 Patrice
Simon & Yury Gogotsi; "This paper
describes the current state-of-the-art in the field of
electrochemical capacitors (ECs) or "supercapacitors,"
from both the scientific and applications points of
view. Many new discoveries have been made and new
applications have appeared since publication..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 Mark
Pagel; "The paper reports a statistic that
everyone who uses phylogenies for comparative studies is
interested to estimate. Comparative studies make
comparisons between species on the value of some trait
or traits. The paper describes and evaluates a
statistical method that I introduced in..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009
December
2009 Viswanath Venkatesh;
"Viswanath Venkatesh is the lead author of the
Top Topics paper
selection from the field of Economics & Business
for June 2009:
“User acceptance of information technology:
Toward a unified view,” Mis. Quart.
27[3]: 425-78, Sep. 2003.
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December
2009 Michael
R.H. White; "The paper has recently led on
to a further paper in Science where we have
provided direct experimental evidence that the frequency
of oscillations does indeed control which genes are
switched on. We have also used mathematical models to
predict the source and perhaps a role for
heterogeneity..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009
December
2009 Kin-Lu
Wong; "I received my B.S. degree in
electrical engineering from National Taiwan University,
Taiwan, and my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas,
USA, in 1981, 1984, and 1986, respectively. From 1986 to
1987, I was a visiting scientist with
Max-Planck-Institute..."
Featured Scientist Interview
December
2009 Xinhuai
Zhao; "Phtochemicals are hot topic in food
and medical science, and many scientists have
interesting in this field, which may be the reason why
our paper was highly cited. Our paper reports a study
describing the effects of a number of dietary flavones
and flavonols on a human esophageal carcinoma..." Fast Breaking
Papers, December 2009
December
2009 GuangYong
Zou; "This paper provides a simple
statistical method that can be used to more precisely
estimate effect size. The ratio of risks is a key
parameter in epidemiological and clinical research, but
conventional logistic regression models can only provide
estimates of the ratios of odds..." Emerging
Research Fronts, December 2009