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Field
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Research Front Name
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Description
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Agricultural
Sciences
FEATURED
FRONT
with corresponding map:
"
SOY PROTEIN CONTAINING
ISOFLAVONES"
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 SOY PROTEIN; ISOFLAVONES; ANTIDIABETIC;
BREAST CANCER RISK; ADULT SOY INTAKE; DIFFERENT SOY
FOODS
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The association between soyfood intake and breast cancer
risk.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Anna Wu
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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ELECTROSPUN POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET) NANOFIBERS;
BIOMIMETIC ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; ; ELECTROSPUN PROTEIN
FIBERS
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Potential use of a nanofibrous matrix for tissue
engineering.
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Chemistry
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BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; NON-CATALYTIC SUPERCRITICAL METHANOL
TRANSESTERIFICATION METHODS; BIODIESEL FUELS; BIODIESEL
PROCESSING
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The acid level of high free fatty acids feedstocks could be
reduced to less than 1% with a 2-step pretreatment
reaction.
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Clinical
Medicine
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CLASS 3 OBESITY; US CHILDREN; US ADULTS;
PREVALENCE; SEVERELY OBESE CHILDREN
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Public health benefits from reduction in overweight and
obesity.
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Computer
Science
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 GENE PREDICTION; GENE FINDING; MULTIPLE
SOURCES; PEN SOURCE AB INITIO EUKARYOTIC GENE-FINDERS
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Algorithms can provide both accurate and complete gene
structures when used with the correct evidence.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Ewan Birney
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Economics &
Business
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 GLOBALIZATION REDUCING POVERTY;
INEQUALITY; WORLD CITIZENS
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Evidence emphasizes the importance of economic growth for
poverty reduction.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
David Dollar
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Engineering
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 HUMAN PHARMACEUTICALS; ORGANIC WASTEWATER
CONTAMINANTS; HUMAN USE CONTAMINATING; WASTEWATER
EFFLUENT
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Improvements in water-treatment processes may benefit from
the response of organic wastewater-related contaminants to
specific physical and chemical treatments.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Paul E. Stackelberg
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Environment/
Ecology
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MANAGEMENT UNITS USING POPULATION GENETIC DATA; POPULATION
STRUCTURE USING MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; STANDARDIZED
GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION MEASURE
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Self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of
epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use
genetic information in genetic association studies.
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Geosciences
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PALEOELEVATION RECONSTRUCTION USING PEDOGENIC CARBONATES;
RAPID LATE MIOCENE RISE; STABLE ISOTOPE PALEOALTIMETRY;
STABLE ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS
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Crustal thickening models, combined with plate-kinematic
solutions of India - Asia convergence, are compatible with
palaeoelevation estimates across the Tibetan plateau.
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Immunology
FEATURED FRONT
with
corresponding map:
"DENDRITIC
CELLS"
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DERMAL DENDRITIC CELLS COLONIZE LYMPH NODE AREAS;
LANGERHANS CELLS IN-VIVO; DONOR ALLOREACTIVE T CELLS
PREVENTS SKIN GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE; VAGINAL SUBMUCOSAL
DENDRITIC CELLS
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Dendritic cells appear to be more and more important in the
general field of inflammation and immunization, and the
issue of monocyte heterogeneity becomes relevant.
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Materials
Science
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DNA-FUNCTIONALIZED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NUCLEIC
ACID FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAYS; CARBON
NANOTUBE-ENHANCED ELECTROCHEMICAL DNA BIOSENSOR
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The interface between biological molecules and novel
nanomaterials is important to developing new types of
miniature devices for biological applications.
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Mathematics
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TRAFFIC FLOW MODEL; VEHICULAR TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC
CIRCLES; GAS FLOW; CARS FLOW
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A fluidodynamic model for traffic flow based on a
conservation law..
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Microbiology
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 HOST CATIONIC ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES;
MEMBRANE ACTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES; CATIONIC HOST
DEFENSE (ANTIMICROBIAL) PEPTIDES
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Antimicrobial peptides serve as a nonspecific defense
system that complements the highly specific cell-mediated
immune response.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Yechiel Shai
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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 OSTEOCLAST DEVELOPMENT; RANKL
MAINTAINS BONE HOMEOSTASIS; OSTEOCLAST
DIFFERENTIATION;
BREAST CANCER CELLS PROMOTES
OSTEOLYTIC BONE METASTASIS; BONE ANABOLIC ACTIVITY
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The molecular basis for developing therapeutics to treat
osteoporosis
and other diseases of bone loss.
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 Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
David Lacey & Scott Simonet
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Multidisciplinary
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BIOLOGICAL POSITIVE-FEED BACK SYSTEMS; MONOTONE CONTROL
SYSTEMS; LACTOSE UTILIZATION NETWORK; REDUCING STOCHASTIC
TRANSITIONS
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Biological switches are essential for the determination of
cell fate in multicellular organisms.
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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 PARKINSON'S DISEASE
NEURODEGENERATION; CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 MEDIATES MICROGLIAL
ACTIVATION; MOUSE MPTP MODEL; INFLAMMATION-MEDIATED
NEURODEGENERATION
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A protease-resistant peptide is a promising neuroprotective
agent for stroke.
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Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Tiziana Borsello
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
FEATURED
FRONT
with corresponding map:
"
THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF
CURCUMIN"
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CURCUMIN (DIFERULOYLMETHANE) INHIBITS CONSTITUTIVE NF-KAPPA
B ACTIVATION; NUCLEAR FACTOR-KAPPA B INHIBITORS; NUCLEAR
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-KAPPA B
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Studies suggest that curcumin has enormous potential in the
prevention and therapy of cancer.
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Physics
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CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EMISSION MICROCATHODES; CARBON
NANOTUBE FIELD EMITTERS; INDIVIDUAL CARBON NANOTUBES;
MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE
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Heating permits thermal desorption of an individual
multiwalled carbon nanotube and excellent current
stability.
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Plant &
Animal Science
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 RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE;
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; RECENT
CLIMATE CHANGE; CHARACTERIZING BIRD MIGRATION PHENOLOGY
USING DATA
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Contemporary evolution is influenced by complex
interactions among population size, genetic variation, the
strength of selection and gene flow.
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Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Craig Stockwell, Andrew Hendry & Michael
Kinnison
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
SURVEY 1999; MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS; DSM-IV DISORDERS
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The risk of having at least one psychiatric disorder by age
16 years is much higher than point estimates would suggest.
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Social Sciences,
general
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DETECTING RECENT POSITIVE SELECTION; POSITIVE NATURAL
SELECTION; HUMAN SKIN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN LINEAGE
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A framework for detecting the genetic imprint of recent
positive selection by analyzing long-range haplotypes in
human populations.
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Space
Science
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NEARBY X-RAY GALAXY CLUSTERS; NEARBY RELAXED GALAXY
CLUSTERS; LARGEST RELAXED GALAXY CLUSTERS; CHANDRA
TEMPERATURE PROFILES
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Constraints on the mean
dark energy
density.
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