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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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  HUMAN HAIR HYDROGEN-OXYGEN ISOTOPE
RATIO-GEOGRAPHY RELATIONSHIP; MULTI-ELEMENT
ISOTOPE; GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN
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Advances in the use of stable isotope markers make it
possible to track a diversity of animal species in a
variety of habitats.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Dustin R. Rubenstein & Keith A. Hobson
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Biology &
Biochemistry
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 NOVEL CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHEMOKINE
RECEPTOR CXCR4; CANCER
STEM CELL-DRIVEN METASTASIS;
NEUROECTODERMAL DEVELOPMENT
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Chemokines are cytokines that display chemotactic
functions and coordinate the homeostatic circulation of
leukocytes by binding to G protein-coupled receptors.
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Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Françoise Bachelerie
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Chemistry
Research Front
Map:
ASPERGILLUS
NATURAL PRODUCTS
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HIGHLY EFFICIENT GENE DELIVERY; POLYMERIC GENE DELIVERY
SYSTEMS; PLASMID DNA DELIVERY; BIORESPONSIVE NONVIRAL
GENE VECTORS
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Polymer-based gene-delivery systems.
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Clinical
Medicine
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 TYPE 1 VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE
(MCMDM-1VWD); VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR COLLAGEN
BINDING ASSAY; PLATELET FUNCTION ANALYZER (PFA)-100
(R) CLOSURE TIME; PLATELET DISORDERS
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von Willebrand disease is a bleeding disorder caused by
inherited defects in von Willebrand factor, which is an
enormous multimeric blood protein necessary for
hemostasis.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
J. Evan Sadler
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Computer
Science
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 REVERSIBLE DATA EMBEDDING; REVERSIBLE
DATA HIDING SCHEME; REVERSIBLE WATERMARK;
VQ-COMPRESSED IMAGES USING SIDE MATCHING
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Reversible data embedding embeds information into
digital content without degrading its perceptual
appearance, and has the capability to restore the
content to its original state.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Jun Tian
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Economics &
Business
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 MEDIA EFFECTS MODELS; MEDIA BIAS;
FRAMING EFFECTS; POLITICAL PREFERENCE FORMATION;
POLITICAL BELIEF
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How contextual forces and individual attributes affect
the success of framing and the assumption of behavioral
rationality.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
James N. Druckman
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Engineering
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 FINANCIAL TIME SERIES FORECASTING
USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; BANKRUPTCY
PREDICTION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; LISTED
COMPANIES' FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION
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Financial forecasting using support vector machines
provide powerful algorithms based on statistical
learning theory and risk minimization.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Kyoung-jae Kim
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Environment/
Ecology
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 PARASITES DOMINATE FOOD WEB LINKS;
AFRICAN LARGE-MAMMAL FOOD WEB; PARASITES ALTER
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ULTIMATE MISSING LINKS
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Including parasites in food webs changes the way we
view fundamental patterns in ecology.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Kevin D. Lafferty
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Geosciences
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 MESOSPHERIC ICE PARTICLES; MESOSPHERIC
ICE LAYERS; MESOSPHERIC ICE CLOUD; NOCTILUCENT
CLOUDS
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Polar mesosphere summer echoes are direct evidence of
ice clouds in the upper mesosphere.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Markus Rapp
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Immunology
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IMMUNE DEPRESSION SYNDROME FOLLOWING HUMAN SPINAL CORD
INJURY (SCI); ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; INFLAMMATION
AFFECT CHRONIC NEURODEGENERATION; PERIPHERAL INNATE
IMMUNE SYSTEM
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Depressed patients have higher levels of
proinflammatory cytokines, acute phase proteins,
chemokines and cellular adhesion molecules.
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Materials
Science
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CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING; PLGA SCAFFOLDS USING SOFT
LITHOGRAPHY; POROUS SCAFFOLDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL
SCAFFOLDS; POROUS SCAFFOLD DESIGN
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Recent advances in computational topology design and
solid free-form fabrication have made it possible to
create degradable porous material scaffolds with
controlled architecture.
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Mathematics
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EXTREMAL ENERGY TREES; MINIMAL ENERGY; LAPLACIAN
ENERGY; BIPARTITE GRAPHS; TRICYCLIC GRAPHS
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The energy of a graph is defined as the sum of the
absolute values of all eigenvalues of the graph.
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Microbiology
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 FLAGELLAR TYPE III SECRETION ENERGY
SOURCE; TYPE III PROTEIN EXPORT; TYPE III SECRETION
SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION INJECTISOME; TYPE III
SECRETION MACHINES
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Many pathogenic or symbiotic bacteria use complex,
supramolecular machines, to transfer bacterial proteins
into eukaryotic cells to modulate their function.
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Fast Moving Front Comment
by:
Jorge E. Galan
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Molecular Biology
& Genetics
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SHAPE CASPASE ACTIVITY; CASPASE FUNCTION; CASPASE
SUBSTRATES; CASPASE REGULATION; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
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Apoptotic cell death is executed by the
caspase-mediated cleavage of various vital proteins.
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Multidisciplinary
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 INTERFERON-INDUCED PROTEIN BST-2
RESTRICTS
HIV-1 RELEASE; VIRAL VPU
PROTEIN; TETHERIN INHIBITS RETROVIRUS RELEASE
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Transcriptional analysis reveals that HIV- dependency
factor genes are enriched for high expression in immune
cells.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Stephen J. Elledge & Abraham L. Brass
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Neuroscience &
Behavior
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PARIETAL CORTEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN INTRAPARIETAL;
COMPARATIVE MAPPING; HIGHER VISUAL AREAS
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Surface-based registration of macaque cortical areas
onto the map of functional magnetic resonance imaging
responses suggests a spatial correspondence between
human and macaque parietal areas.
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Pharmacology &
Toxicology
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MITOCHONDRIA-TARGETED PLASTOQUINONE DERIVATIVES;
CATIONIC PLASTOQUINONE DERIVATIVES; AGING PROGRAM
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The selective inhibition of mitochondrial oxidative
damage is a promising therapeutic strategy.
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Fast Breaking Paper Comment by:
Michael P. Murphy & Robin A. J. Smith
(Feb. 2008)
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Physics
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 LINEAR FRACTIONAL PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS; SOLVING LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;
MODIFIED HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD
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The use of two relatively new analytical
techniques—the variational iteration method and
the Adomian decomposition method—for solving
linear differential equations of fractional order.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
William Shieh
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Plant &
Animal Science
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LASIODIPLODIA PLURIVORA SP NOV; PRUNUS SPECIES;
MORPHOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE; LASIODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE
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Combined multiple gene genealogies and phenotypic
characters differentiate several species.
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Psychiatry/
Psychology
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 CHILDHOOD
OBESITY STIGMA; OBESITY
STIGMATIZING; BODY WEIGHT; WEIGHT STIGMATIZATION
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Findings offer support for the pervasive stigma of
obesity and the negative implications of stigmatized
identities for life chances.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Deborah Carr
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Social Sciences,
general
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SUPREME COURT JUSTICES; JUDICIAL COMMON SPACE; ASYLUM
ADJUDICATION; REFUGEE ROULETTE
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Placing Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals
judges into a common policy space.
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Space
Science
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 2DF QSO REDSHIFT SURVEY; QSO SURVEY;
QSO CLUSTERING; VIRIAL
BLACK HOLE MASSES; BLACK HOLE
POPULATIONS
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Super-massive black holes play a critical role in the
formation and growth of galaxies.
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Fast Moving Front Comment by:
Scott M. Croom
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2003-2009_2
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