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September
2009 Françoise
Bachelerie; "Chemokines are cytokines that display
chemotactic functions and coordinate the homeostatic
circulation of leukocytes by binding to G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Dysfunction of the
50 chemokines and 20 receptors identified so far is
also implicated in the pathogenesis of many..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009
Nicola Bellomo, Philip K. Maini & Natasha Li
Martin; "It is becoming increasingly
recognized that mathematical modelling may have an
important role to play in many biological systems. In the
context of disease, understanding cancer and developing
treatment strategies is obviously of great
importance..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009
Deborah Carr; "Obesity is a tremendous social
and health problem in the United States today. About 60% of
Americans are overweight, and one-third are obese. Although
the physical health consequences are widely documented, we
still know relatively little about the social and
psychological consequences..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Michael
Corballis & Thomas Suddendorf; "The idea is
that episodic memory provides information for the
construction of future plans, rather than serving as a
knowledge store. The paper presents memory for events
as part of mental time travel, the ability to travel
mentally both forwards and backwards in time. This
underlies many unique aspects of human consciousness,
including an..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009
Scott M. Croom; "We now know that all massive
galaxies contain super-massive
black holes—a million to a
billion times the mass of the sun. There is a growing
realization that these super-massive black holes play a
critical role in the formation and growth of galaxies.
When gas is funneled down..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Richard H. Cyburt;
"Richard H. Cyburt is currently a Visiting Assistant
Professor in the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Astrophysics of the National Superconducting Cyclotron
Laboratory at Michigan State University in East
Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Cyburt is the lead author of the
second-most-cited paper listed..." Podcast. Listen:
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September
2009 James
N. Druckman; "The paper explores the robustness of
one of the most influential and widely cited dynamics
thought to occur in the course of preference formation:
framing effects. The major works on framing effects
come from Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, who show
that people's preferences..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Stephen
J. Elledge & Abraham L. Brass; "This
was the first systematic analysis of the function of
human proteins in the
HIV life cycle. Abraham Brass of
Massachusetts General Hospital and I, along with our
close collaborators, Judy Leiberman and Ramnik Xavier
of Harvard Medical School, used..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Jorge
E. Galan; "One of the most exciting discoveries in
the field of bacterial pathogenesis during the last few
years has been the finding that many pathogenic or
symbiotic bacteria use complex, supramolecular machines
to transfer bacterial proteins into eukaryotic cells to
modulate their function..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009
Constance Hammen; "Stress plays a critical
role in depression, and is the trigger of depressive
responses in the vast majority of cases. However, most
people who face stressors do not get depressed, and the
article attempts to describe what kinds of stress, what
kinds of depression, and what kinds..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009
Janet G. Hering; "Janet G. Hering is Director
of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science &
Technology (Eawag) in Dübendorf, Switzerland and is
the coauthor of the most cited paper listed in the Research
Front Map titled,
"Arsenic
Water Pollution," from
Top Topics
for April
2009 from the field of Geosciences..." Podcast. Listen:
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September
2009
Aapo Hyvarinen; "In August 1995, I started my
Ph.D. at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in
a research group focusing on the method called independent
component analysis (ICA). ICA is a statistical method for
analyzing multidimensional data, which can find underlying
components..."
Featured Paper Interview
September
2009 Kyoung-jae
Kim; ".This paper represented one of the earliest
studies on financial forecasting using support vector
machines (SVMs). SVMs are usually applied to
engineering problems, such as pattern recognition, but
this paper applied SVMs to a financial problem. In
addition, this paper compared SVMs..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009
Daniel Klionsky;
"'Autophagy'
literally means "self-eating," which seems like a
particularly gruesome brand of cannibalism. As it turns
out, however, we all do it. Just wait long enough between
meals and we start to consume our own fat tissue, and if we
wait even longer, we start to live off our muscle..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
September
2009
Chryssa Kouveliotou; "I first started working
on gamma-ray bursts in 1978 when I was doing my Ph.D. work
in Germany, and I used to joke that there were two and a
half or three and a half Gamma Ray Burst astronomers at the
time, and I was the half. I was just very intrigued by
these bursts. They were a brand-new..."
Special Topic of
Gamma-ray Bursts
September
2009 Sudhir
Kumar; "In this paper, we have discussed the
motivation, design principles and priorities that have
shaped the development of the MEGA software. We credit
these attributes to be the primary reasons for the
extremely high impact of the MEGA software package
across a broad range of biological
disciplines..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009
Werner A. Kurz; "Our team's publication on the
impacts of a mountain pine beetle outbreak on the carbon
balance of the forests of British Columbia has received
international attention because it highlights the magnitude
of the impact and the feedbacks to climate change of a
natural..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009 Kevin
D. Lafferty; "The paper presents new methods and a
new perspective for ecology. It also has a simple
message: parasites matter to food webs. Food webs form
the conceptual background for community ecology but
have rarely included parasites. Parasites are consumers
that represent half of..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Sendurai
A. Mani & Robert A. Weinberg; "Currently, a
number of groups are investigating the biology of tumor
initiation, invasion, metastasis as well as
chemoresistance. Several key factors that regulate
these processes have been identified. The aberrant
activation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
(EMT)..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009 Lane
W. Martin; "This paper came at a pivotal time for
the field of multiferroics. Science magazine
had put the field of multiferroics on the Breatkthrough
of the Year: Areas to Watch list (Science,
318, 1848-1849 (2007)) for 2008. This designation came
at a time when multiferroics had been experiencing
more..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009 Rana
Munns & Mark Tester; "Salinity is a topic that
attracts significant attention in plant science, as it
is of both intellectual and applied interest. This
review synthesizes thinking based on a sum of 50
years’ experience from the two authors, both of
whom have separately published well regarded..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009
September
2009 Yoshinori
Ohsumi; "I started graduate school at Tokyo
University under the guidance of Professor Kazutomo
Imahori. Since the first subject I started to work with
was in vitro protein biosynthesis of E.
coli, intracellular dynamics of proteins has
always been in my mind. From the third grade
I..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
September
2009
Markus Rapp; "The paper reviews our current
knowledge regarding polar mesosphere summer echoes whose
understanding had bothered the scientific community for
more than 20 years. In our review-paper we show that there
is now compelling evidence that these radar echoes are
direct evidence for ice clouds..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Philip
Raskin; "According to the Special Topics Research
Front Map on Insulin Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, the
paper "Initiating insulin therapy in type 2
diabetes—a comparison of biphasic and basal
insulin analogs" (Raskin P, et al., Diabetes
Care 28[2]: 260-5, February 2005) is a key
paper...
Special Topic of
Diabetes
September
2009 David
Relman; "I was finishing a postdoctoral fellowship
at Stanford with Stanley Falkow and my plan was to
pursue a career in the research basis for microbial
pathogenesis and combine that with some clinical care.
The only catch was that I had gotten interested in what
had started out to be a side project..."
Featured Scientist Interview
September
2009
Dustin R. Rubenstein & Keith A. Hobson;
"The use of stable isotopes, or naturally occurring
biogeochemical markers, revolutionized studies of animal
movement because it allowed researchers to track movement
patterns without having to recapture animals. Our paper
reviewed the state of the field..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009
J. Evan Sadler; "...our paper is highly cited
because it provides a useful and relatively simple and
useful framework to organize a complex mass of biochemical
and clinical data. Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a
bleeding disorder caused by inherited defects in von
Willebrand factor (VWF), which is an enormous..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 William
Shieh; "For the first time in "open access"
literature, this paper introduced a novel modulation
format which combines two powerful techniques in
optical communications, coherent detection, and
orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). This
new modulation format called coherent optical
OFDM..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009 Ana
Soto; "We developed an assay called E-SCREEN, which
we described in Environmental Health
Perspectives in 1991, together with the discovery
of nonylphenol in plastic. The 1999 paper by Anderson
is a comparison of all the tests that existed then for
estrogenicity. E-SCREEN was the oldest of all these
in vitro..."
Special Topic of
Bisphenol A
September
2009
Jun Tian; "Reversible data embedding is a
difficult problem. It embeds (or hides) information into a
digital content without degrading its perceptual
appearance, and has the capability to restore the content
to its original, pristine state, bit by bit exactly. The
reversibility is the challenging part..." Fast Moving
Fronts, September 2009
September
2009
David Whetten; "Within the field of
organizational and managerial studies, cross-cultural
research is coming of age. More broadly, leading scholars
are increasingly emphasizing the importance of accounting
for relevant context effects in mainstream organizational
research. My article extends these areas..." New Hot
Papers, September 2009