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May
2009
Sigal Barsade; "This article addressed the
question, “Do moods transfer from person to person in
a group setting, and how does this contagion of mood then
influence individual and group level outcomes?” This
paper is..." View
Article
May
2009
Fred Berger & Pauline Jullien; "...our
study clearly showed that the maintenance DNA
methyltransferase MET1 is responsible for silencing of the
paternal allele of FIS2 during the vegetative life
cycle, male gametogenesis, and development of the
endosperm, the extra-embryonic tissues where imprinting
takes place in plants..."
Special Topic of
Epigenetics
May
2009
Edward M. Callaway; "There have been numerous
recent advances in techniques that are available for the
study of neural circuits. Many of these take advantage of
recent genetic technologies for targeting specific cell
types. This has resulted in a strong resurgence of interest
in studying neural circuits both..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009
May
2009
Kam Wing Chan; "The paper provides
methodological guidance to the proper use of the present
suite of Chinese city population statistics. In doing so,
it has solved several major puzzles by deciphering China's
recent city population statistics correctly. Also included
is a critique of selected writings found in..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009
May
2009
Armando Gil De Paz; "This paper presents the
analysis of Ultraviolet images obtained with the NASA
satellite GALEX for a sample of nearby galaxies (closer
than 300 million light year) unprecedented in its size.
Previous studies on Ultraviolet imaging were reduced to
only a handful of objects..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Amit Goyal; "Many applications are possible
for HTS materials. In just the area of electrical power
there are several large-scale application areas such as
underground transmission cables, transformers, generators,
and fault-current limiters. Motors and magnets are some
other big application areas...."
Special Topic of
High-Temperature
Superconductors
May
2009
Xiaofei He; "Our paper is the first to
introduce manifold learning techniques to the face
recognition field. We were exploring the geometrical and
topological structures through a graph model. We found a
set of basis functions, called Laplacianfaces, which are
linear approximations to the eigenfunctions..."
Special Topic of Face
Recognition
May
2009
Desmond G. Higgins discusses his
Current Classics
(Apr. 2009)
paper in Biology & Biochemistry entitled: "The
CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for
multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis
tools, "NUCL ACID RES 25[24]: 4876-82, Dec. 1997.
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May
2009
Taekyun Kim; "I made the first definition of
the q-extension of an Euler number using a Fermonic p-adic
q-integral and made p-adic analytic functions interpolating
at negative integer. I also studied properties related to
alternating harmonic sums and several kinds of number
theoretical properties..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Michael R. Ladisch; "This paper gives an
interpretative summary and comparison of key advances and
challenges to the economical transformation of agricultural
cellulosic residues to ethanol. The information is
presented by a team of accomplished researchers in the
field, giving the paper a sense of depth..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009
May
2009
Beth Levine & Guido Kroemer; "Autophagy is
an important emerging topic in biomedical research.
Autophagy (literally "self-eating") consists in the
sequestration of portions of a cell's cytoplasm within a
specific organelle, termed the autophagosome, which
subsequently delivers its contents to the lysosome for
degradation..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Zheng-Xiang Li; "This paper represents the
final outcome of the UNESCO/IUGS-sponsored IGCP-project 440
"Rodinia Assembly and Break-up." It summarizes 17 years of
concerted global efforts in testing the validity of the
supercontinent Rodinia. It provides a self-consistent
geodynamic model for the assembly..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Benjamin List; "Chemist Benjamin List of the
Max Planck Institute discusses his research on asymmetric
organic synthesis, a means of producing chiral
molecules—that is, a specifically desired molecular
arrangement, as opposed to its mirror-image opposite.
List’s research, as reported in a highly cited 2000
paper..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
May
2009
Antje M. Moffat; "As the result of a
collaborative effort of 18 scientists, this paper provides
the most up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of
techniques used to perform an important data assimilation
step, the "gap-filling." This step is necessary to infer
daily to annual estimates of the carbon dioxide uptake
of..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Florencio López de Silanes Molina; Dr.
Florencio López-de-Silanes Molina is a Professor of
Finance and Scientific Director of the MSc in Corporate
Finance at the EDHEC-Paris School of Economics in France.
Here he discusses his Citation Classic paper: “Law
and Finance,” as published in the Journal of
Political Economy, 106[6]:1113-55, in December,
1998.
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May
2009
Jon O. Lundberg; "The paper summarizes the
latest development in this rapidly emerging field and we
discuss the major new discoveries made over the past
several years. We and others have discovered and started to
characterize a previously unknown pathway for the
generation of nitric oxide (NO) in mammals..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Francis J. McMahon; "This is the first
genome-wide association study (GWAS) published on bipolar
disorder, a common mental illness of unknown etiology.
GWASs command attention due to the relatively comprehensive
picture they can give of the genetic architecture of a
trait. We used a relatively novel DNA..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Danny Miller; "This paper begins to fill that
gap by comparing family ownership—even within the
founding generation—to lone founder ownership. The
differences in the social contexts and hence, in the
natural agendas and conduct of such owners, may indeed have
an important connection to market performance..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Nazim Muradov; "This paper offers a novel
concept for addressing the energy and environmental issues
that will arise during the transition from the present
fossil-based economy to a sustainable carbon-neutral
economy of the future. This is a very important and highly
debated subject amongst scientists..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009
May
2009
Mario Raviglione; "...we have better
understanding of the disease epidemiology. The more we
improve surveillance methods in countries, the more data we
collect, the more countries themselves improve and report
on TB, the better we get in terms of estimating the global
burden. So now we’re more confident about..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
May
2009
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa; "My work in the team
was to provide all the deforestation analysis based on
satellite analysis that went into the model, which
ultimately demonstrated that deforestation was, in fact,
not a factor in the disappearance of frogs in Monteverde.
That led, in turn, to the whole theory of climate
change..."
Featured Scientist Interview
May
2009
Richard Thomson; "...one of the biggest
challenges is the implementation of shared decision-making
and decision support in routine practice, appropriate to
the particular decision. This requires research to
understand the factors that influence this implementation
and it also requires research..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009
May
2009
Erick Turner; "Getting the FDA reviews on the
newer drugs was relatively easy. But the challenge was for
the older drugs, like Prozac, Zoloft, and Wellbutrin. All
these had been approved prior to 1997, so those reviews are
not posted on the FDA website. How did I get those reviews?
I filed a Freedom of Information Act..."
Featured Paper Interview, and
New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Jian Wu; "The paper is highly cited because it
establishes, for the first time, a finite-deformation
continuum shell theory for single-walled carbon nanotubes
directly from the interatomic potential and carbon nanotube
structure. The method is efficient and robust, and can also
be applied to other nano-structured..." New Hot
Papers, May 2009
May
2009
Masaki Yoshio; "The paper introduces in a
quantitative manner a new methodology to study composite Si
anodes, namely constant capacity cycling test. Such a
methodology, systematically implemented in subsequent
publications helped to understand better the behavior of
these anodes, find and develop better..." Fast Moving
Fronts, May 2009