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interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of
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December
2008
Daniel W. Armstrong; "...we first introduced
multifunctional ILs and demonstrated their greatly enhanced
stability and tunablity. Furthermore we outlined the most
definitive approach for characterizing them via their
solvent properties, as well as outlining the factors
that..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
John Apostolakis & Makoto Asai; "The
authors discuss their 2003 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys.
Res. A paper: "GEANT4-a simulation toolkit." Geant4 is
a complex system of detector description and simulation
tools. The toolkit simulates the passage of elementary
particles through matter in order to aid in..."
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December
2008
Alessandra Bendini; "The identification and
quantification of the individual phenols of virgin olive
oil are of great interest because several agronomic and
technological parameters can affect phenolics' presence in
virgin olive oil, and, as a consequence, affect the
resistance to oxidation of oil during storage..."
Featured Scientist Interview
December
2008
Jonathan Bagger & Neil Lambert; "Our paper
presents the construction of a new highly supersymmetric
Lagrangian field theory. This Lagrangian was not previously
thought to exist and enables a definition of the
interacting theory of multiple 2-branes in M-theory. Our
result is novel in that it is the first example of a field
theory..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
David S. Berman; "The paper catches the wave
of exciting new developments in M-theory that have taken
place over the last year. M-theory is the fundamental
description of nature that unifies string theories and
allows us to describe string theory when the strings are
strongly coupled. The paper reviews the
state-of-the-art..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Hongjie Dai; "This paper describes a new
discovery. We developed a chemically derived method to make
graphene nanoribbons with a very smooth edge and a width
ranging from about 50nm to sub-10nm. We found that all
these sub-10nm graphene ribbons are semiconductors and gave
a high on/off ratio..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Jim Elser; "The paper involves a meta-analysis
of more than 1,000 nutrient enrichment experiments testing
for nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) limitation (and
interactions) of primary production in all of Earth's
ecosystems (marine, freshwater, terrestrial). It is likely
highly cited because nutrient..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
Shanhui Fan; "This paper dealt with the
optimal condition for a frequency-selective transfer
between two waveguides. This condition leads to the
construction of ultra-compact photonic crystal channel
add/drop filters, which is of great importance in
wavelength division multiplexing for communication
purposes..."
Special Topic of
Photonic
Crystals
December
2008
Suhua Feng & Xing Wang Deng; "This paper
describes a new discovery. Briefly, in the absence of GA,
GA pathway negative regulator DELLA proteins bind to PIF3,
a bHLH-type transcription factor, to sequester PIF3 from
its target gene promoters. While in the presence of GA, GA
receptors GID1 proteins bind DELLA..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Peter Ferdinandy; "Our review paper describes
a synthesis of knowledge which accumulated over the past
decade and highlights a clinically very important, novel
aspect of the field, which was neglected by most of the
opinion leaders for many years. We are very happy that the
paper is now highly cited. It was..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Paul Flicek; "Our paper describes one of the
fundamental bioinformatics resources on which many other
researchers build analysis and bioinformatics tools. One
resource within the project that many people find integral
to their work is the collection of Ensembl gene
annotations. These genes sets are created..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Laurie Garrett; "...the Senior Fellow for
Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New
York City, and author of an article in the journal
Foreign Affairs, entitled: “The Challenge of
Global Health, ” in January 2007, discusses the
impact of turmoil in the energy & financial..."
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December
2008
Francisco Guinea; "Graphene is a lot of fun
for many reasons. It relates to almost all interesting
problems in condensed matter and statistical physics, and
it has also fascinating connections to field theory, and
even cosmology. Besides, there is a general consensus about
the general models to be used..."
Special Topic of
Graphene
December
2008
Desmond G. Higgins; "This paper describes a
recent version of a computer program called Clustal
(actually Clustal W and Clustal X versions 2.0) which is
widely used for aligning sets of related protein or DNA (or
RNA) sequences together. Much of modern molecular biology
revolves around the determination..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Hideo Hosono; "A brand new high-Tc
superconductor was discovered in a layered iron oxyarsenide
compound. No superconductivity was observed in F-free
LaFeAsO, but only upon the partial replacement of oxygen
with fluorine, which means electron-doping, Tc appeared,
and increased to 32K(on-set)..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
L. Lacey Knowles; "The paper describes a new
framework in which genetic data can be used to delimit
species. The approach differs from past methods in that it
is based on an explicit model of species divergence, as
opposed to relying on arbitrary criteria for making
inferences about species boundaries. As a
consequence..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Helen S. Mayberg & Andres M. Lozano; "This
paper describes a first proof-of-principle experiment
testing a potential new treatment for intractable major
depression. The work served to unite the fields of brain
imaging of neuropsychiatric disorders with neurosurgery and
specifically deep brain stimulation (DBS) surger..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
Dennis McGillicuddy; "Mode-water eddies can
generate extraordinary diatom biomass and primary
production at depth. These blooms are sustained by
eddy/wind interactions, which amplify the eddy-induced
upwelling. In contrast, eddy/wind interactions dampen
eddy-induced upwelling in cyclones. The carbon export
inferred from oxygen..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Toben Nelson; "There is a very clear pattern
in our college student data that students who either
participate in intercollegiate athletics, or who are sports
fans, are more likely to binge drink. This was true for
both male and female students, and there are not
differences in drinking behavior between the
athletes..."
Special Topic of
Underage/College
Drinking
December
2008
David C. Rubinsztein; "The aim of the paper
was to review the current understanding of the importance
of protein degradation pathways in neurodegenerative
diseases. This has been a rapidly evolving field and the
paper provided the opportunity to include a fairly detailed
assessment of more..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
Sakari Uppala; "The "ERA-40 reanalysis" paper
describes a project, which, by using a data assimilation
system, created a global four-dimensional
state-of-atmosphere for the period 1957–2002. In the
data assimilation, a prediction model was constrained by
and navigated through all the historical
observations..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
December
2008
Gerardo Escobar Valderrama; "It describes a
new methodology to control the UPS inverter, and also makes
an interesting modification to the hardware in order to
save current sensors. Of course, it also synthesizes
several procedures from the theory of control..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Zhong Lin Wang; "When I first started in 1995,
people were just beginning to work on the self-assembly of
nanoparticles—metallic particles of gold, silver,
etc., so I worked on that. I worked on shape control of
self-assembled nanoparticles and on carbon nanotubes, and I
developed a method called in situ
nano-measurement..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
December
2008
Duncan Watts & Steve Strogatz; "...the
behavior of complex interconnected systems cannot be
understood without also understanding the role played by
the network. These days, it’s become conventional to
say that "networks matter," but as the current financial
crisis illustrates quite painfully, we still don’t
understand how..."
Featured Paper Interview
December
2008
Xuexian Yang & Chen Dong; "Th17, as a
newly defined T helper lineage, regulates tissue
inflammation in host defenses against infections and in
autoimmune diseases through producing cytokines IL-17,
IL-17F, IL-21, and IL-22. In this article, we demonstrated
that, in addition to retinoid acid receptor-related
orphan..." Fast Breaking Paper,
December
2008
December
2008
Berislav V. Zlokovic; "Our paper showed that
RAGE is increased in the blood vessels of a mouse model of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), and that this increased level of
RAGE is associated with greater entry of the AD toxin
Aß into brain. This supports the vascular hypothesis
of AD, i.e., that blood vessels contribute..." Emerging Research
Front,
December
2008
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interviews/commentaries may be added during December
2008.)