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February
2009
Ian F. Akyildiz, & Tommaso Melodia; "after
discussing futuristic applications of WMNSs, we analyze the
state of the art in algorithms, protocols, and hardware for
wireless multimedia sensor networks, and discuss open
research issues in detail. Furthermore, we discuss
architectures for WMSNs..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Regina G. Belz; "The prospect of "crops that
fight weeds," in terms of crop plants that exude natural
herbicides to suppress competing weeds, is attracting
increased attention. The potential economic and
environmental benefits may be striking if this trait is
exploited in much the same way as defense..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Ewan Birney; "ENCODE was one of a series of
projects that followed on the human genome project. At the
end of 2003, people knew the human genome was going to be
finished; they knew the path forward for the mouse and rat
genomes. There was a kind of logical follow-up for other
important organisms. The question..." Science Watch® Newsletter
Interview
February
2009
Rob W. Brooker; "The paper focuses on
facilitative (i.e., beneficial) plant-plant interactions.
Over the last 10 to 15 years, this topic has received
increasing interest in the field of plant ecology, and
facilitative interactions are now recognized as important
processes in many plant communities..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Richard C. Chiverrell; "The paper examines an
issue identified in the geomorphological development of
upland northwest Britain, in which there appears to have
been a significant increase in hillslope instability in the
last 3,000 years. The paper presents new data that place
this interpretation..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Liming Dai; "In our paper, we demonstrated
that vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotube
arrays can be used for a successful synthetic approach to
mimic gecko foot-hairs to develop advanced dry adhesives
with fairly reversible semiconducting behaviors under load
and provide an excellent..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Paul J. DeMott; "the paper highlighted a
growing recognition that mineral dusts may play complex
roles in affecting climate, due not only to their impacts
on radiative transfer but also due to their action as
favored nuclei for forming warm and cold clouds. Our paper
confirmed, through actual airborne..." Emerging Research Front,
February
2009
February
2009
Philip J. Devereaux; "...substantial advances
in noncardiac surgery (i.e., all surgeries except surgeries
performed directly on the heart) have improved disease
treatment and patients' quality of life. As a result, the
number of patients having noncardiac surgery is growing.
Worldwide, over 200 million adults annually..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Ros Eeles; "There are probably many different
factors that influence the development of prostate cancer,
but particular combinations of genes are thought to play a
major part. These results represent the largest number of
genetic risk factors found in one genome-wide cancer
association study to date...." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Urs Fischbacher; "a free software, that I
developed, which is used to program and to conduct
behavioral—and in particular
economic—experiments. Experiments play an
increasingly important role in economics, and the software
is widely used in experimental economics. It is a
methodology..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Stephen Gordon; "This paper described a
range of gene-deletion events from the pathogens that cause
tuberculosis, a.k.a. the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex. The work gave us our first
insight into how this complex of bacteria has evolved over
time, uncovered molecular markers for the tubercle
bacilli..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
February
2009
Mauro Guillen; "My research is always
international in nature. I develop theory and test it with
international, cross-national, or comparative data. I am
primarily interested in how country-level institutions
affect economic and business issues, and how globalization
is changing country-level institutions..."
Featured Scientist Interview
February
2009
F. Ekkehardt Hahn; "This research has led to
the development of ruthenium-carbene-alkylidene complexes,
which are a highly efficient catalyst for the
olefin-metathesis, a discovery which, among others
regarding olefin-metathesis, was honored with the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 2005, jointly to Yves
Chauvin..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Pei-Ming Ho, Yosuke Imamura, and Yutaka
Matsuo; "Superstring theory is the only
candidate for the theory of everything. It is also the only
theory that admits a consistent perturbative formulation of
quantum gravity. People used to think that there are five
different superstring theories, but it was later
realized..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Rafael Irizarry; "Genome-wide association
studies (GWAS) are used to discover genes underlying
heritable disorders. The number of GWAS has skyrocketed in
the past two years. Microarrays are the genotype calling
technology of choice in GWAS as they permit exploration of
more than a million single..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Eiichi Kodama; "we present a new discovery, a
profile of elvitegravir through its mechanism of action and
resistance. Elvitegravir shows strong anti-HIV activity,
even with multi-drug resistance, indicating that it may
suppress replication of resistant HIV, which is hardly
blocked by previous anti-HIV drugs, such as..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Stuart Lindsay; "Our interest was (and still
is) in building molecular photovoltaic devices for energy
conversion. We are now using single-molecule electronic
measurements to develop a new way of sequencing DNA. The
switching phenomenon opens a new way to make measurements
of tunneling through..." Emerging Research Front,
February
2009
February
2009
Jon M. McClellan; "In this paper, we
demonstrated that schizophrenia may be caused by many
different, individually rare severe mutations. My
colleagues at the University of Washington, and at Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory, used new technologies to screen
genome-wide for rare genomic deletions..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Konstantin Novoselov; "The field is developing
extremely fast. Considering that the field is only four
years old, we’ve made enormous progress. Virtually
every month, it seems, someone comes up with an entirely
new observation and so a completely new area of research on
graphene..."
Special Topic of
Graphene
February
2009
Gabriel Nuñez; "This article represents
one of the first reviews on NODs, currently called Nod-like
receptors (NLRs), a new and fast-growing topic in the field
of innate immunity. The high citation rate probably also
reflects that fact that genetic variation in some NLR
family members such as NOD2 is linked..." Emerging Research Front,
February
2009
February
2009
Nori Satoh; "The publication of our paper had
an impact among ordinary people, especially children, as
amphioxus is highly likely to be among our vertebrate
ancestors. In Japan, numerous media
outlets—particularly newspapers for primary school
children—along with TV, radio, and magazines,
publicized..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
Keehoon Sohn & Jonathan D. G. Jones; "most
significant and new observation in the paper is that
oomycete effectors can be delivered by bacterial T3S and
the T3S-delivered oomycete effectors can activate or
suppress plant innate immunity to bacterial pathogen. This
creates a method that might be used..." Fast Breaking Paper,
February
2009
February
2009
David Spiegelhalter; "Bayesian methods
for data analysis allow great flexibility for handling
complex problems and including multiple sources of
evidence, but had been hampered for years by computational
problems. Around 1990 it was realized that simulation-based
techniques could be adapted..."
Featured Paper Interview
February
2009
Willem Vos; "A photonic crystal is like a
crystal of atoms—silicon, for instance—but
magnified 10,000 times. The nice thing about colloidal
crystals is they have just the right length scales for
these photonic crystals. You can make really big crystals,
fairly easily; you don’t need any complicated
fabrication infrastructure..."
Special Topic of
Photonic
Crystals
(Additional
interviews/commentaries may be added during February
2009.)