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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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OPTICAL BIOSENSORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL GLUCOSE BIOSENSORS;
OPTICAL CHEMICAL SENSORS
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Potential uses of biosensors for food microbiology.
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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PROTIST PARASITE ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; DRAFT GENOME
SEQUENCE; EARLY DIVERGING INTESTINAL PARASITE GIARDIA
LAMBLIA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED PATHOGEN TRICHOMONAS
VAGINALIS
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Analysis of the genome for Entamoeba histolytica, an
intestinal parasite and the causative agent of
amoebiasis.
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Chemistry
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 ASYMMETRIC ORGANOCATALYSIS; ASYMMETRIC
ENAMINE CATALYSIS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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Asymmetric enamine catalysis is shown to be quite
powerful for the generation and use of chiral,
nonracemic carbanion equivalents.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Benjamin List
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Clinical
Medicine
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 FLUID SHEAR STRESS BIOLOGY; VASCULAR
ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL PRIMARY CILIA
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Shear stress is a fundamental determinant of vascular
homeostasis, regulating vascular remodelling, cardiac
development and atherogenesis.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Martin Alexander Schwartz
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Computer
Science
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 BIOCHEMICAL NETWORK STOCHASTIC
SIMULATOR (BIONETS); FIRST-ORDER REACTION NETWORKS;
BIOCHEMICAL NETWORKS
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Stochastic modelling has emerged as a physically more
realistic alternative for modelling in vivo reactions.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Santiago Schnell
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Economics &
Business
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MULTIPLE CRITERIA METHOD COPRAS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE
CONTRACTORS RANKING METHOD; MULTIPLE CRITERIA
EVALUATION
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Multiple criteria decision making methods based on an
aggregating function which originated in the compromise
programming method.
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Engineering
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LEAN BURN HYDROGEN ENRICHED NATURAL GAS ENGINE; LEAN
BURN NATURAL GAS SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE; NATURAL
GAS-HYDROGEN BLENDS
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A survey of research papers on utilization of natural
gas-hydrogen mixtures in internal combustion engines.
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Environment/
Ecology
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MECHANISTIC URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN EFFECTS; PLANT
RICHNESS PATTERNS; URBAN GREEN SPACE
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Urban conservation should focus on promoting
preservation and restoration of local indigenous
species.
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Emerging Research Comment by:
Serafim Opricovic & Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng
(Apr. 2009)
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Geosciences
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YOUNGER DRYAS "BLACK MATS"; YOUNGER DRYAS COOLING;
NORTH AMERICA; PRE-CLOVIS HUMAN COPROLITES
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The revised age range for Clovis overlaps the
non-Clovis sites in North and South America, implying
that humans already lived in the Americas before
Clovis.
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Immunology
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AIRE(+) MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELLS; THYMIC
REGULATORY T CELL DEVELOPMENT; FOXP3(+) REGULATORY T
CELLS SPECIFIC; ORGAN-SPECIFIC T CELLS
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Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome characterized by
a spectrum of organ-specific autoimmune diseases is a
recessive Mendelian disorder resulting from mutations
in a novel gene, AIRE.
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Materials
Science
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 PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOPARTICLES;
HIGH-CONTRAST ELECTROCHROMISM;
LAYER-BY-LAYER-ASSEMBLED POLYANILINE/PRUSSIAN BLUE
NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS
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Prussian blue analogs are representative of
coordination polymers and are important in the field of
molecular magnets.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Takashi Uemura & Susumu Kitagawa
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Mathematics
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LARGE SAMPLE COVARIANCE MATRICES; NONNULL COMPLEX
SAMPLE COVARIANCE MATRICES; LARGE DIMENSIONAL SPIKED
COVARIANCE MODEL; SAMPLE EIGENSTRUCTURE
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The study of DNA can now incorporate a sizable number
of its base pairs.
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Microbiology
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SOIL MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; HIGH-DENSITY UNIVERSAL 16S
RRNA MICROARRAY ANALYSIS REVEALS BROADER DIVERSITY;
CHRONIC WOUNDS USING PYROSEQUENCING; BACTERIAL
DIVERSITY
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Bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North
Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are more
complex than previously reported for any microbial
environment.
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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  PTEN-DEFICIENT INTESTINAL STEM CELLS
INITIATE INTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; MUTATED GASTRIC STEM
CELLS; ADENOMA STEM CELL MARKER; NOVEL PUTATIVE
GASTROINTESTINAL STEM CELL
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Leucine-rich G protein-coupled receptor 5 is a broad
marker for adult stem cells in multiple adult tissues
and cancers.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Nick Barker
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Multidisciplinary
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BERINGIAN STEPPE BISON; BAYESIAN COALESCENT INFERENCE;
PAST POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCES; RELAXED
PHYLOGENETICS
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A new approach to performing relaxed phylogenetic
analysis.
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL
CONNECTION; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; ABCA1
CONSIDERABLY DECREASES BRAIN APOE LEVEL; BRAIN
AGING
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Recent findings concerning the molecular mechanisms
underlying the cholesterol-Alzheimer's disease
connection.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Dora M. Kovacs
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
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 CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS MASS
SPECTROMETRY; CAPILLARY ELECTROMIGRATION METHODS;
SENSITIVE CHIRAL ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS
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The coupling of capillary electrophoresis with mass
spectrometry provides a powerful approach for rapid
identification of target analytes present at trace
levels in biological matrices.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Jianjun Li
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Physics
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MULTI-GIGABIT COHERENT OPTICAL OFDM SYSTEMS; COHERENT
OPTICAL ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;
OPTICAL FIBER SYSTEMS; COHERENT DETECTION
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Coherent optical orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing is proposed to combat dispersion in
optical media.
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Plant &
Animal Science
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 FRENCH MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION
PROGRAM; APPLYING GENOME-WIDE SELECTION; DAIRY
CATTLE; COMMERCIAL BREEDING PROGRAM
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Genome-wide selection may become a popular tool for
genetic improvement in livestock.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Lawrence R. Schaeffer
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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HEALTHY WEIGHT EATING DISORDER PREVENTION PROGRAMS;
RUMINATION PREDICTS SUICIDAL IDEATION; RETHINKING
RUMINATION; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS
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Reflective pondering and brooding differentially relate
to depression in terms of predictive ability and gender
difference mediation.
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Social Sciences,
general
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 OPPORTUNITY COSTS AFFECT STRATEGY
SELECTION; DELIBERATE DECISION MAKING; RISKY
DECISION; INTEGRATIVE MODEL
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Strategy selection learning theory predicts a strategy
selection process on the basis of reinforcement
learning.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Jörg Rieskamp
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Space
Science
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STAR FORMATION THEORY; INTERSTELLAR TURBULENCE
OBSERVATIONS; SUPERSONIC TURBULENCE
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Observational and numerical work has begun to suggest
that supersonic turbulent flows rather than static
magnetic fields control star formation.
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