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Field
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Research Front Name
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Description
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Agricultural
Sciences
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CYCLODEXTRINS; FOOD INGREDIENTS; PHARMACEUTICAL
APPLICATIONS; CYCLODEXTRIN-BASED PHARMACEUTICS
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Current cyclodextrin-based therapeutics.
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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APOPTOSOME INITIATOR CASPASE ACTIVATION PLATFORM;
PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL
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The signaling platform of cell death.
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Chemistry
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  ULTRAFINE SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE GOLD NANOWIRE
ARRAYS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE GOLD NANO-OCTAHEDRA; GOLD
NANOPRISMS
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Controlled production of nanoparticles with highly regular
geometry in a wide range of sizes.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Luis
Liz-Marzan
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Clinical
Medicine
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GLOMERULAR NUMBER; BIRTH WEIGHT; NEPHRON NUMBER; PRIMARY
HYPERTENSION
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A diminished number of nephrons is one of the factors
contributing to the development of primary hypertension.
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Computer
Science
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CRISPR PROVIDES PROKARYOTE ACQUIRED VIRUS RESISTANCE;
CRISPR-ENCODED RESISTANCE; RAPIDLY EVOLVING CRISPRS
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
are a distinctive feature of the genomes of most bacteria
and archaea.
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New Hot Paper Comment by:
Philippe Horvath (July 2008)
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Economics &
Business
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MODIFIED ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING; ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS
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The protection of natural capital, including its ability to
renew or regenerate itself, represents a core aspect of
sustainability.
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Engineering
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 NOVEL MRI COMPATIBLE MANIPULATOR; IMAGE
GUIDED PROSTATE INTERVENTIONS; MRI/FMRI-COMPATIBLE
ROBOTIC SYSTEM
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A broad overview of medical robot systems used in surgery.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Russell Taylor & Dan Stoianovici
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Environment/
Ecology
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 MANGROVE DEVELOPMENT; MANGROVE DEVELOPMENT
USING SEDIMENT CORES; WORLD'S MANGROVE FORESTS
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Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened
tropical ecosystems.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Peter
J. Mumby
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Geosciences
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 ASSESSING FIRE SEVERITY; DIFFERENCED
NORMALIZED BURN RATIO; BOREAL FOREST FIRE; BOREAL
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
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Human-induced climate change has had a detectable influence
on the areas burned by forest fires.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Nathan
P. Gillett
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Immunology
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HIV PREVENTION PROGRAMS; HIV USING DIAGNOSTIC RAPID
TESTING; EXPANDED SCREENING
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Routine, voluntary screening for HIV once every three to
five years is justified on both clinical and
cost-effectiveness grounds.
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Materials
Science
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 CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET
RESIST; CHEMICALLY AMPLIFIED FULLERENE-DERIVATIVE
MOLECUTAR ELECTRON-BEAM RESIST
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Polymers employed in formulation of chemically amplified
resists for microlithography.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Hiroshi
Ito
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Mathematics
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 ROBUST PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;
PROJECTION-PURSUIT APPROACH REVISITED; MATLAB LIBRARY
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The robust principal component analysis approach combines
projection pursuit ideas with robust scatter matrix
estimation.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Mia
Hubert, Peter Rousseeuw, & Karlien Vanden
Branden
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Microbiology
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LIGNIN-DEGRADING BASIDIOMYCETE PHANEROCHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM;
HUMAN PATHOGEN CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS
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The first whole-genome view of the important emerging
fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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DROSOPHILA GENOMES USING EVOLUTIONARY SIGNATURES;
DROSOPHILA PHYLOGENY; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA
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The comparative genome analysis of Drosophilia melanogaster
and Drosophilia pseudoobscura.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Stephen W. Schaeffer (Sept. 2008)
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Multidisciplinary
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INSULIN-DEGRADING ENZYME REGULATES INSULIN-AMYLOID
BETA-PROTEIN-BETA-AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APP TRANSGENIC
MICE PREVENTS PLAQUE FORMATION
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Insulin-degrading enzyme hypofunction may underlie or
contribute to some forms of
Alzheimer's disease and type 2
diabetes
mellitus.
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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GAMMA-SECRETASE INHIBITOR LY-411575 CHRONIC TREATMENT
INHIBITS BETA-AMYLOID PEPTIDE PRODUCTION; BETA-AMYLOID
PRECURSOR PROTEIN TRANSGENIC MICE TREATED
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Gamma-secretase inhibitors might be of therapeutic benefit
in colorectal neoplastic disease.
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
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PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) (PEG);
PULMONARY ABSORPTION
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Polyethylene glycol as a reusable solvent medium for
organic synthesis.
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Physics
FEATURED
FRONT
with corresponding map:
"MULTILAYER
GRAPHENE"
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GRAPHENE THIN FILM GROWTH; MULTILAYER
GRAPHENE;
EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; HOMOGENEOUS LARGE-TERRACE GRAPHENE
SURFACES
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Ultra-thin graphene films can be grown on the silicon
carbide surface via sublimation.
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Plant &
Animal Science
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SUBTROPICAL SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;
SOUTHEAST PACIFIC (BIOSOPE CRUISE)
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Phosphate addition to surface waters caused unexpected
ecosystem responses.
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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 SCHIZOPHRENIA; PREDICTS POOR SOCIAL
COMPETENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; EMOTION RECOGNITION
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The study of social cognition in schizophrenia.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Amy Pinkham & David L. Penn
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Social Sciences,
general
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IRAQ WAR; SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS; WAR OUTCOMES; SECONDARY
CASUALTY INFORMATION
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Beliefs about the likelihood of success matter most in
determining the public’s willingness to tolerate U.S.
military deaths in combat.
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Space
Science
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ACS VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY; GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEMS;
EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE
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A detailed analysis of the morphology, isophotal
parameters, and surface brightness profiles for 100
early-type members of the Virgo Cluster.
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