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"Chemokines are cytokines that display chemotactic functions and
coordinate the homeostatic circulation of..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Sep. 2009
"Our paper presents the construction of a new highly supersymmetric
Lagrangian field theory..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"I think this paper is the first most serious review article on
bio-ethanol. Bio-ethanol has attracted considerable
interest..."
New
Hot Papers,
November 2010
"The paper is highly cited because it describes a new method in the
emerging field of fractional calculus..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Oct. 2008
"The pursuit of nanoscience and nanotechnology is in order to
understand..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Oct. 2008
"The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray
Space..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Apr. 2010
"Our paper is highly cited as it fits within several different
research conversations..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Sep. 2008
"MicroRNAs are an important class of molecules only recently
uncovered. Most previous..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Apr. 2008
"Individually, ionic liquids and CO2 capture have both been very
hot areas of research over the past few years..."
New
Hot Papers,
July 2010
"This is a theoretical paper, and its essence is a model that we
proposed to explain the origin of the power laws..."
Featured Paper Interview, Nov. 2008
"The intestine is a popular choice for scientists wanting to study
the regulation of tissue renewal because it is the..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Jul. 2009
"I have always been aware that COPD is a major clinical problem,
but I only started to do research into COPD around 10 years
ago..."
Special
Topic of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Feb. 2010
"Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are
amongst the most prevalent diseases..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Aug. 2009
"Our research suggests that under present conditions it will be
extremely difficult to add ART health workers..."
Emerging
Research Front,
October 2010
"Our paper presents the first calculation, based on screened-hybrid
density functional..."
Special Topic of
Graphene, Jan. 2009
"This paper showed that heterologous rAd26/rAd5 and rAd35/rAd5
vaccine regimens expressing SIV Gag afforded..."
New Hot Paper, May 2010
"Isoniazid is one of the most important TB drugs. Of the 7.8
million people who get diagnosed with TB, virtually all... "
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis,
Aug. 2009
"I think that virtually every gene, at some point in the growth and
development of the animal..."
Featured
Scientist Interview,
Jun. 2008
"The paper describes the latest version of the Jalview multiple
sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009
"This paper—by combining cutting-edge imaging..."
New
Hot Papers,
May 2008.
"Our aim is to strengthen the theoretical foundation of
institutional entrepreneurship and thereby help to develop a theory
of action..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
August 2011
"Biofuels are high on the political agenda worldwide. Rocketing oil
prices..."
Emerging
Research Fronts,
Jun. 2008.
"...our article proposes a novel theory to explain the ability of
certain diets to elicit changes"
Fast
Moving Fronts,
Mar. 2008.
"...breakthrough in demonstrating for the first time that
cryoelectron (cryo-ET) tomography—an emerging
imaging..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Sep. 2008
"For cancer, our work will be pointed in following the potential,
as stated..."
Emerging
Research Fronts,
Apr. 2008.
"The discovery of IL-33 in 2005 (part of a long-standing and
productive collaboration with my former..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
July 2010
"This paper sets the stage for understanding the processes by which
health behavior..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Nov. 2008
"This paper considered the possibility of combining screen-printed
thick-film piezoelectric layers with micromachined
silicon..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Nov. 2008
"The paper examines the drastic decline of coastal marine habitats
across Europe and calls for regulatory changes to improve..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
September 2011
"My interests in Physics and Astronomy were piqued somewhat
randomly around 7th-8th grade when I picked..."
Featured Scientist, May 2010
"There is a general lack of information on the fate and effects of
engineered nanoparticles in aquatic systems..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2010
"At Oxford I studied information engineering
and machine learning for my MEng degree. I was interested in
doctoral research..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Oct. 2009
"It is becoming increasingly recognized that mathematical modelling
may..."
New Hot Papers, Sep. 2009
"The paper includes significant updates in the theory of fractional
differential equations. We hope that our work will
contribute..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
February 2011
"The identification and quantification of the individual phenols of
virgin olive oil are of great interest because..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Dec. 2008
"We don't publish much but it's nice to hear papers we do publish
do get cited for whatever reason or sparking at least new
thinking..."
Featured Scientist, March 2011
"Process management (the general term for approaches that help
organizations focus on more tightly..."
Emerging
Research Fronts,
Feb. 2008
"It’s a cognitive disorder really. If you look at motor
dysfunction, the problem is you can find nerves and muscles all
over the place. For loss of cognition, you’re really in
the..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, September 2011
"...our study clearly showed that the maintenance DNA
methyltransferase MET1 is responsible for silencing of..."
Special Topic of
Epigenetics, May 2009
"The manuscript describes elucidation and detailed characterization
of a new mechanistic..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010
"Direct detection of Dark Matter is one of the most exciting and
frontier argument of contemporary Physics. It operates in..."
New
Hot Papers,
September 2011
"The paper describes the development and application of a new
sequencing-based technology..."
New
Hot Paper,
Nov. 2008
"...calcium plays major roles in the formation and function of
neuronal circuits, including those involved..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
September 2010
"The paper on "click"-chemistry in polymer and materials-science
provides an overview..."
New
Hot Paper,
Jul. 2008
"...the paper tells an interesting story with many interesting
ingredients in the mix.."
New
Hot Paper,
Jul. 2008
"Calcium ions trigger many of the fundamental cellular processes on
which..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Aug. 2008
"ENCODE was one of a series of projects that followed on the human
genome project. At the end of 2003..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview, Jan.
2009
"...in this paper: GeneWise, which predicts gene structure using
similar protein sequences, and genomewise..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Jul. 2008
"Our paper brought together the leading developments in the field
of olefin..."
Emerging Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"The paper catches the wave of exciting new developments in
M-theory that have taken place over the last year. M-theory
is..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Dec. 2008
"In the summer of 1994, I went to work with Ed Fenimore at Los
Alamos National Laboratory for my first research project..."
Special Topic of Gamma-ray
Bursts, Aug. 2009
"This article is likely highly-cited because it provides both a
conceptual..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Apr. 2010
"Biofuels are high on the political agenda worldwide. Rocketing oil
prices..."
Emerging Research Fronts,
Jun. 2008.
"...tuberculosis remains one of the world’s deadliest
infectious diseases. TB kills approximately 1.8 million people each
year..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
August 2011
"The study of dynamic equations brings together the traditional
research areas of (ordinary and partial) differential..."
Emerging Research Front,
February 2011
"Our current studies involving Paks demonstrate that Pak1 and Pak2
are critical regulators of cell motility..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Oct. 2008
"Our paper reported the very first gallium nitride (GaN)-based
transistors to show cutoff frequencies exceeding 200 GHz..."
New Hot Papers,
January 2012
"Considering the current global biodiversity crisis, the
biodiversity-stability relationship and the effect of biodiversity
on..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
July 2011
"In 2000 we developed and published in Marine Pollution
Bulletin an index of quality—a Marine Biotic Index
(AMBI)..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Oct. 2008
"iTOL (for interactive tree of life) is an online resource and tool
that allows generation and modification..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008.
"Our review contributed to the field primarily by synthesizing the
empirical literature..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
Mar. 2008.
"We believe that this paper is of general interest in the field of
neuroscience since it illustrates the death..."
Fast Moving Front,
Jul. 2008
"Monotone operators were invented in the early '60s as a way of
studying solutions..."
New Hot Papers,
May 2008
"...our paper is highly cited because it provides a comprehensive
overview of all aspects of outer membrane (OM) biogenesis..."
New Hot Paper,
Mar. 2009
"Invasive cervical cancer in the majority of
countries in the world is still the #1 or #2 cancer in
women..."
Special Topic of Human
Papillomavirus, Aug. 2008
"...first publication to look at a broad range of compounds. It was
also novel in that it attempted to establish the potential
level..."
Emerging Research Front,
October 2010
"Our aim is to strengthen the theoretical foundation of
institutional entrepreneurship and thereby help to develop a theory
of action..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
August 2011
"What is happening to nature—are things getting better or
worse—and what does that mean for our well-being? This is
a..."
New Hot Paper,
Jan. 2009
"Stepwise modelling is an objective approach to determining the
most robust and supportable set of causal variables to
explain..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
January 2012
This was the first report that directly connected an uncoupling
function of mitochondrial uncoupling..."
Emerging Research Fronts,
Apr. 2008.
"Our paper offers a solution to an important problem in statistics
and data analysis..."
Fast Moving Front,
Jan. 2009
"This was the first systematic analysis of the function of human
proteins in the
HIV life cycle..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
Sep. 2009
"In the US, the average radiation dose to which we are exposed has
doubled in the past 30 years. The average dose..."
Featured Paper Interview, Mar. 2010
"Suicidal events in the treatment of adolescent depression occur
early in treatment, are more common in those who..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Feb. 2010
"Reducing the operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cells
(SOFCs), while maintaining comparable performance..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
September 2010
"Quantum computation uses the fundamental properties of quantum
systems, such as atoms, or photons..."
Special Topic of Quantum
Computers, Aug. 2010
"The paper describes the major discoveries in the study of
heuristics, and presents a new explanation for why
heuristics..."
New Hot Papers,
January 2012
"The paper focuses on facilitative (i.e., beneficial) plant-plant
interactions. Over the last 10 to 15 years, this topic..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"Tuberculosis has had a huge impact on human
history, and continues to claim millions of lives at the
beginning..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis, Apr. 2009
"The paper describes a genetic mutation that can cause ALS
(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s
disease)..."
New Hot Paper, Mar.
2010
"Multiple sclerosis is characterized morphologically by the key
features of demyelination..."
Emerging Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"...there has been so much debate on the hydrological role of
(tropical) forest in recent years..."
Emerging Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"My research is now focusing on poverty and how entrepreneurship
can help to solve the issues of poverty, particularly for
those..."
Featured Scientist, February 2011
"Our paper provides the interested users with a tool to interpret
the spectral energy distributions..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
Nov. 2009
"I think the paper has been well cited because it was one of the
first event-related fMRI studies to show effects of
depression..."
Emerging Research
Front, Apr. 2010
"This paper and a number of subsequent ones arose from a well timed
sabbatical visit at MIT just when the Izmit earthquake..."
Special Topic of
Earthquakes,
October 2010
"This paper was the first meta-analysis—or quantitative
summary—of the research on motivational interviewing
(MI)..."
Special Topic of
Underage/College
Drinking, Nov. 2008
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"My review bundled the current knowledge on the antibacterial
properties of edible volatile oils (essential oils)..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
"If you’re looking for a place to cheer yourself up after
reading the latest economic news, Science Watch does not
recommend..."
Featured Scientist, November 2011
"When I heard that RHIC was going to be constructed in the 1980s, I
did some semi-analytical work trying to see what one..."
Special Topic of Hadron
Colliders, April 2011
"Given the parade of such reliably sensational spectacles as the
trial of O.J. Simpson in 1995 or the recent proceedings involving
the murder conviction of American student Amanda..."
Featured Scientist, September 2011
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