Many interviews and comments include images of the
authors’ work featured in their papers.
March
2008
Scott W. Altmann; "The identification and
characterization of NPC1L1 has opened a new door to
experimental research in the field of cholesterol
metabolism. This critical bit of information helps explain
the complex process of cholesterol absorption.
Identifying..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Dale E. Bauman; "...our article proposes a
novel theory to explain the ability of certain diets to
elicit changes in milk fat synthesis. Our theory
represented an integration of concepts whereby unique fatty
acids originating from rumen fermentation are absorbed and
in turn..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Daniela Calzetti; "In our paper, we used the
GALEX data to trace the young stellar populations. We
combined the Spitzer data with the GALEX data because the
two sets of data have comparable angular resolutions, which
made for an "apple-to-apple" type of comparison..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Bradley J. Cardinale ; "Our paper represents
one of the first attempts to summarize the results of
several decades of experiments that have examined the
ecological consequences of species extinction. Our summary
gives us a rare glimpse of what the world may become in..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Kate B. Carey & Brian Borsari; "Our review
contributed to the field primarily by synthesizing the
empirical literature that addresses the direct ways that
peers can influence young adults to drink and the indirect,
or cognitively mediated, ways that peers exert influence on
others..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Alexander H.D. Cheng; "Engineering and science
problems are often expressed in the form of mathematical
equations known as partial differential equations. Our goal
is to solve partial differential equations accurately and
efficiently. Naturally, there will be a tradeoff: the
higher accuracy we want..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Hans-Christoph Diener; "Migraine is a form of
neurovascular headache in which the brainstem structures
that mediate pain are disinhibited, and vessels in the dura
and the head dilate, stretching the nerves around the
artery, thereby stimulating them into releasing chemicals
that cause inflammation..."
(Archived) Special Topic of
Migraine &
Other Vascular Headaches.
March
2008
Jaïrton Dupont - Materials
Science; "At the beginning of 1990, our group had
started developing projects on the preparation and
applications of
ionic liquids (at that time called
molten salts) as media for organometallic catalysis
(mainly as alternative media to aqueous-phase
organometallic..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
John F. Gunion & Radovan Dermisek;
"Discovery that the Higgs boson is as predicted in the
NMSSM theory would dramatically impact our understanding of
the physical laws that govern our universe. It is difficult
to know if and when this kind of increased understanding
will impact..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
R. Adron Harris; "The questions that must now
be explored relate to the actions of these drugs on brain
mechanisms. We do not know how many different brain
proteins have binding cavities for these drugs, or which
proteins are required for a particular action of the drug.
Are different..."
Featured Scientist from Essential Science
Indicators.
March
2008
Professor Keiichi Hiramatsu; "The paper
stirred up an international sensation because it was the
first report of vancomycin-resistant MRSA. At that time I
called it Vancomycin-resistant S. aureus, but now
it is designated Vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus
(VISA). The paper warned..."
Special Topic of
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA).
March
2008
Ignacio Horcas; "It describes some of the
features of WSxM, one of the most commonly used software
packages in the Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) community.
People can download it for free at and in this page there
is a reference to the paper, so people know about it.
We..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March 2008
Teruyo Ito; "According to our March
2008 Special Topic on MRSA research in the past decade, the
scientist ranking at #3 is Professor Teruyo Ito, with 28
papers cited a total of 2,197 times. Professor Ito is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Bacteriology
at..."
Special Topic of
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA).
March
2008
Majid M. Khodier; "My paper serves as a
benchmark for comparison with design procedures and results
using other optimizations methods, such genetic algorithms
(GA), simulate annealing (SA), etc. Since the time of its
publication, my paper has been referred to many times by.."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Gabriel Kotliar; "This paper is a
comprehensive review of Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT),
a new approach to predict the physical properties of
“strongly correlated materials” starting from
first principles, namely without using any empirical
information..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Markku Kulmala; "I believe that this paper is
highly cited because it provides a first comprehensive
summary of observed atmospheric new particle
formation—the name given to the spontaneous formation
of new nanometer-sized particles in the atmosphere. It also
gives explanations.."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
David Hopkins; "The paper describes an
experiment which was designed to study changes in a range
of fat and muscle characteristics in sheep of varying
genetic backgrounds as they grew from weaning to adulthood.
The information provided a fundamental understanding..."
New Hot Papers,
March 2008.
March
2008
Zheng-Xiang Li; "This work was part of a
10-year research program funded by the Australian Research
Council through the Tectonics Special Research Centre to
investigate the evolution history of supercontinents, and
was also part of the International Geological Correlation
Program..."
Special Topic of
Zircon Dating.
March
2008
Richard B. Mailman; " in pharmacology and
toxicology (and all the disciplines that use drugs as
tools), the terms agonist, antagonist, etc., have been
defined precisely within a narrow context. As an example, a
compound that was an agonist was expected to be an agonist
at every..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Daniel Miracle; "This paper describes a
structure with a strange co-existence of atomic order and
disorder. This combination challenges expectations that a
structure should be either ordered or disordered—one
or the other—but not both at the same time. This
apparent contradiction has..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Robin M. Murray; "I started work in the 1970s.
At that time some of the biological theories, or
explanations, for schizophrenia were crazier than the
condition itself. We were interested in the theory that
people with schizophrenia were walking hallucinogenic
factories, and we studied..."
Special Topic of
Schizophrenia.
March
2008
Peter Parham; "This paper is a synthesis of
the first eight years of research in an area of NK-cell
immunogenetics that was opened up by an investigation from
my group published in two papers in the journal
Immunity..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2008.
March
2008
Filip Rolland; "Our focus has now also been
expanded to understanding how plants deal with dark and
stress conditions that compromise photosynthesis and
respiration and deplete energy supplies. Our most recent
paper (Baena-Gonzalez E, et al. “A central
integrator of"
New Hot Paper, January 2008.
March
2008
David Rowland; "This paper first acknowledges
and then discusses an underlying controversy that has been
brewing for some time—even before the introduction of
sildenafil citrate (Viagra®)—between the fields
of sex therapy and sexual medicine. As an author..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Mark J. Shlomchik; "In general terms, this
research helped us to understand why anti-nuclear
antibodies are made in lupus. It demonstrated that a part
of the immune system that was thought to detect bacteria
and virus could be hijacked during autoimmunity to signal
an inappropriate..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Christine Van Broeckhoven; "This paper
describes the genetic search for the underlying gene defect
in autosomal-dominant FTLD families that were previously
linked to a chromosomal region at 17q21. In the same
chromosomal region lies the gene encoding for the
microtubule..."
New Hot Paper, January 2008.
March
2008
Kees van Loon; "This paper is a review on
proteins that are induced in plants in response to pathogen
or insect attack and which may play a role in innate
immunity. The review was solicited by one of the editors of
Annual Review of Phytopathology on the grounds
that the subject had not been..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.
March
2008
Tim White; "I am interested in revealing as
much as possible about the patterns and processes of human
evolution. I went to high school in southern California,
and took B.S. degrees in Anthropology and Biology in the
1960s at the University of California, Riverside. I did a
Ph.D. in Biological..."
Featured Scientist from Essential Science
Indicators.
March
2008
Hui Zou; "This paper reveals some fundamental
properties of the L1 (lasso) method which has been, during
the last six years, one of the most popular topics in
statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. It
proves some limitations of the classical lasso and provides
an..."
New Hot Paper,
March 2008.