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takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these
interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
fields. Author commentaries come from all areas 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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New Hot Papers,
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March
2009
Saeid Abbasbandy; "In this paper, a new and
powerful method, i.e., the Homotopy analysis method (HAM)
is used for solving a famous differential equation. We show
that the solution obtained by an older method like the
Adomian decomposition method (ADM), is a special case of
the HAM solution..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Martine P. Bos; "...our paper is highly cited
because it provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects
of outer membrane (OM) biogenesis in gram-negative
bacteria. Most previous reviews dealt with only outer
membrane proteins (OMPs), or lipids, or lipoproteins. Also,
there has been a lot of progress..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Yuguang Chen & Louis J. Durlofsky; "This
paper introduced a new class of upscaling
methods—local-global upscaling, in which global
coarse and local fine-scale flows are solved together.
Traditional upscaling methods fall into the category of
local methods, which are efficient but lack accuracy
due..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Kuo-Chen Chou; "The paper did describe several
new concepts and methodologies, such as pseudo amino acid
composition, or PseAA composition, hybridization of the
"higher level" approach with the ab initio
approach, ensemble classifier, and how to deal with
multiplex proteins which may simultaneously..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Stewart Cole; "I was working on leprosy
originally, and there are quite a lot of similarities
between the leprosy bacillus and the tuberculosis bacillus.
Even in the mid-1980s, there were quite a lot of cases of
multi-drug resistant TB, which was becoming a major problem
in the industrialized world again..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
March
2009
Lillian T. Eby; "This publication discusses
what we know about the positive and negative aspects of
work and family life, and how the interplay between these
two important life domains influence how people feel about
their work, careers, and families..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Motohiko Ezawa; "In my paper I have presented
many classes of graphene nanoribbons and proposed their
systematic classification in terms of the edge shape and
the width. Nanoribbons have a wide variety of electronic
properties depending on the edge shape and the width. These
electronic properties..."
Special Topic of
Graphene
March
2009
Hayley J. Fowler & Marie Ekström;
"The paper draws together methodologies from the fields of
hydrology and climatology. It is a pragmatic paper where
methodologies commonly applied within hydrological research
(i.e., regional frequency analysis and extreme value
theory) are applied within a climatological framework
where..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Harald Giessen & Na Liu; "We have
described how to manufacture 3D metamaterials with a planar
stacking technology which is industry compatible. In
principle, a semiconductor electronics lab could use our
technology to produce up to 20-layer, 300 mm diameter,
sub-100 nm structure..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Anthony Greenwald; "I can't think of an
occasion in which I have seen so many of my psychologist
colleagues pick up a new research method and start to make
use of it. Wide adoption of the method was helped because
it required no more equipment than a standard desktop
computer. I am sure..."
Featured Paper Interview
March
2009 Tao
Han, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Kai Wang & Zongguo
Si; "The paper proposed a unique and clean signal
to directly test a neutrino mass generation mechanism
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The tiny mass
of neutrinos possesses a deep puzzle for their origin.
If the mass generation is..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Lauri A. Hicks; "Streptococcus pneumoniae is a
leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. In 2000, the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate
vaccine (PCV7; Prevnar, Wyeth) was introduced into the
infant immunization schedule in the U.S., and during the
next few years we observed profound..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Rudolf Jaenisch; "Leading this epigenetic
revolution is Rudolf Jaenisch of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In the last two years, Jaenisch
has contributed to a baker's dozen Hot Papers on
reprogramming fibroblasts into a pluripotent state
comparable to embryonic stem cells..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
March
2009
Jim Kaput; "This paper was a call to
scientists of many disciplines to collaborate under the
banner of nutrigenomics—although the more popular
term used now is personalized nutrition. The genesis of
this paper was initiated at the 1st Bruce Ames Symposium on
Nutritional Genomics..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Chao-Lin Kuo; "The most significant conclusion
is that the now standard ingredients in
cosmology—dark matter, dark energy, and flat
geometry—are here to stay. Just 10 years ago,
people were still highly skeptical. ACBAR results
exquisitely showed that the current understanding of
the Universe is correct..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Heidi Malm; "...how under-prepared we are as a
nation/world to address an avian flu pandemic. We can all
assert broad claims that we ought to do X or Y, prioritize
this or that, but the nitty-gritty details have been barely
touched. And they do need to be touched; deeply massaged,
in fact. My own.." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Greg S. Martin; "Sepsis represents a
substantial healthcare burden, and there is limited
epidemiologic information about the demography of sepsis or
about the temporal changes in its incidence and outcome. We
investigated the national epidemiology of sepsis in the
United States, with specific examination..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Stephen Neidle; "This paper is the first
atomic-level description of the structure formed by folding
human telomeric DNA, crystallized in near-physiological
conditions. That itself continues to be of interest and is
used as a template for the discovery of novel small
molecules as Telomere Targeting Agents..."
Featured Scientist Interview
March
2009
Masaya Notomi; "The concept of photonic
crystals, which was introduced in the 1980s, is essentially
the photonic analogue of band electrons in solids. A
dielectric structure whose refractive index is periodically
modulated can exhibit a variety of novel optical properties
due to its band nature. Photonic crystals were
first..."
Special Topic of
Photonic
Crystals
March
2009
Ralph S. Quatrano; "Our paper opens the
exploration of a plant genome, uniquely positioned in the
evolutionary ladder of land plants, for analysis of its
novel and uncharacterized genes for their role in important
traits such as their ability to withstand drought and
desiccation..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Paul Romatschke; "The value of the viscosity
of hot nuclear matter has been widely discussed in the high
energy physics community. Our article showed how to extract
information about this quantity from experimental data and
provided estimates for the value of the viscosity. It
describes..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Michael Skinner; "My research focuses on
exploring the manner in which different cell types in a
tissue interact and communicate to regulate the growth and
differentiation of gonads. We were investigating the
effects of the environmental compounds on gonadal sex
determination and serendipitously..."
Special Topic of
Epigenetics
March
2009
Claudiu T. Supuran; "This is a review article,
presenting the state of the art in the field of CA
inhibitors and activators, as well as their applications in
therapy. It presents diverse methodologies useful in the
drug design of different pharmacological agents based on
CAIs and CA activators (CAAs)...." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
March
2009
Michael Tymianski; "the first strong evidence
that excitotoxicity, the process by which the excitatory
neurotransmitter glutamate causes neuronal cell death in
stroke, is not the chief mechanism responsible for anoxic
neuronal death. The findings provide mechanistic evidence
which demonstrates that treating..." Fast Moving Front,
March 2009
March
2009
Peide D.Ye; "While the community is struggling
to have high drive current in III-V MOSFETs
(metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect
transistors), this paper demonstrates the pathway using a
high-k/InGaAs material system. It uncovers a new MOS
material system with high-k as oxide and InGaAs as channel
material..." New Hot Paper,
March 2009
(Additional
interviews/commentaries may be added during March
2009.)