AUTHOR COMMENTARIES - (S)

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ScienceWatch.com from Thomson Reuters takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of ScienceWatch.com
      

 

John Sabo

"In my mind, the primary goal is not to predict disease, nor to personalize medicine. It’s to understand the biological systems..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010

 

J. Evan Sadler

"...our paper is highly cited because it provides a useful and relatively simple and useful framework to organize..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Sep. 2009

 

Michael J. Sailor

"It is the first biodegradable fluorescent (quantum dot) nanoparticle to safely image tumors and organs in live mice that..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Apr. 2010

 

N/A

"This paper reports on a general strategy for decoding the gene function of Arabidopsis..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Jun. 2008

 

Sampson

, talks about his interest in criminology and urban sociology and the linkage of urban neighborhoods with violence. Read his Fast Breaking Paper comment. View an article from PNAS.
May 2008. Listen: MP3 ¦ WMA

 

Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

"My work in the team was to provide all the deforestation analysis based on satellite analysis that went into the model..."
Featured Scientist Interview, May 2009

 

M. Santosh

"This paper presents the discovery of a special type of high-grade metamorphic rocks from..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Aug. 2008

 

Satoh

"The publication of our paper had an impact among ordinary people, especially children, as amphioxus is highly..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Feb. 2009

 

Van Savage

"I have always enjoyed trying to solve problems that are simply stated yet deceptively difficult. This process is especially..."
Featured Paper Interview, Feb. 2008

Lawrence R. Schaeffer

"It was the first paper that looked at the effects of genome wide selection on dairy cattle bull progeny testing,..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Jul. 2009

 

Schaeffer

"The Richards et al. (2005) article is highly cited because of the value of the Drosophila pseudoobscura..."
Fast Moving Front, Sep. 2008

 

N/A

"Our paper introduced a mathematically rigorous method (Maxent) for modeling..."
Special Topic of Climate Change, Nov. 2009

 

N/A

"Our paper captures the Zeitgeist of a growing group of climate scientists..."
New Hot Papers, Jul. 2009

 

Scheuhammer

"The paper offers a succinct review of the current state of science regarding the health effects..."
New Hot Paper, Jul. 2008

 

N/A

"Regular PCR amplifies the RNA or DNA in a sample, and real-time PCR amplifies it and quantifies it..."
Featured Paper Interview, Jul. 2008

 

Patrik Schmuki

"After a more or less coincidental finding we followed up on the electrochemical formation of self-organized TiO2..."
New Hot Papers, Nov. 2009

 

Donald Schneider

"The SDSS's great steps forward were obtaining digital, multicolor images of a large area of the sky to brightness..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview, Jul. 2009

 

Santiago Schnell

"In our paper we unravel a new debate in the field of systems biology: What is the appropriate modeling formulation..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Jul. 2009

 

Hans R. Schöler. Photo: MPI Muenster/Sarah Eick

"Tremendous debate has arisen in both the scientific community and the general public over the past decade..."
New Hot Papers, Nov. 2009

 

Dirk Schübeler

"Dirk Schübeler, a Senior Group Leader in Epigenetics at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research..."
Aug. 2009, Podcast. Listen: MP3 ¦ WMA

 

Ulrich S. Schubert

"The paper describes the usage of an inkjet printer for a broad field of applications. For example, the manufacturing..."
Fast Moving Front, Jan. 2010

 

N/A

"The article summarizes and critically discusses the use of click chemistry in macromolecular science..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009

 

N/A

"Our paper presents the first calculation, based on screened-hybrid density functional..."
Special Topic of Graphene, Jan. 2009

Ole Seehausen

"Speciation research is currently one of the most active fields in evolutionary and ecological research. The cichlid fish..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2010

 

Takahiro Seki

"This paper describes a new method to align the MPS of block copolymers processed by light. To align the MPS..."
Emerging Research Front, Aug. 2010

 
 

Serreze

"The Arctic's floating sea ice cover is quickly shrinking. While this decline is a clear indicator of climate change..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Jun. 2008

 

Shah

"...with cancer of the uterine cervix, HPV is responsible for nearly 100% of the cancers, and this is..."
Special Topic of Human Papillomavirus, Jul. 2008

 

Nagendra P. Shah

"Dairy foods are universally accepted and they provide a good environment for probiotics' growth..."
Special Topic of Probiotics, July 2010

 

Shai

"The increasing rate of resistant bacteria to conventional antibiotics is a worldwide threat. This article..."
New Hot Paper, Jul. 2008

 

Shchekin

"At present, QD lasers are starting to become commercialized for short-haul fiber-optic communications..."
Fast Moving Fronts, May 2008

 

Sheehan

"The issue was how to capture all these subtle nuances from one language to the next not..."
Featured Paper Interview, May 2008

 

Sheen

"This paper provides the first conclusive genetic and biochemical evidence that a specific Arabidopsis hexokinase (HXK1)..."
Emerging Research Front, Oct. 2008

 

"Our paper represents an important contribution to the field of organ donation in that it provided a credible estimate of the..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009

 

 

Jay Shendure

Jay Shendure"The paper describes the synthesis of several methodologies and their extension to a new direction. Specifically..."
Fast Moving Front, Jan. 2010

 

William Shieh

"For the first time in "open access" literature, this paper introduced a novel modulation format which combines two..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Sep. 2009

Yukihisa Shimada

"As part of an international research effort, the AtGenExpress consortium was organized to make an important..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009

 

Takao Shimizu

"In addition to the well-known roles of lipids, they are also important as bioactive autacoids that regulate..."
New Hot Papers, July 2010

 

"This is a complete byproduct of our research on gene targeting experiments using..."
Emerging Research Front, Aug. 2008

 

Shlomchik

"In general terms, this research helped us to understand why anti-nuclear antibodies are made in lupus..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2008

 

Shoelson

"Obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. Our studies identified a molecular connection..."
Emerging Research Front, Aug. 2008

 

David Sholl

"Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have generated a great deal of excitement because of the diverse range of..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2010

 

N/A

"The paper proposed a unique and clean signal to directly test a neutrino mass..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2009

 

Dirk Sibbing

"During the last decade, more and more people with coronary artery disease are being treated with coronary stent placement..."
New Hot Papers, September 2010

 

Dr. Stephen Silberstein

"...we saw that many people believed that migraine and epilepsy were similar in some ways..."
Migraine & Other Vascular Headaches, Feb. 2008

 

Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi

"This paper describes the current state-of-the-art in the field of electrochemical capacitors (ECs)..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Dec. 2009

 

N/A

"This paper was an invited review article that summarized, circa 2003, what was..."
Fast Moving Front, Jul. 2008

 

N/A

"The main contribution of the "relational view" paper was that it outlined a theory for considering dyads..."
Featured Paper Interview, Aug. 2008

 

Jasit Singh

"The question of how social networks influence flow of knowledge is not new. Yet there have been relatively few studies..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2010

 

Skaife

"Our paper explains the internal control reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002..."
New Hot Paper, Nov. 2008

 

Michael Skinner

"My research focuses on exploring the manner in which different cell types in a tissue interact and communicate to..."
Special Topic of Epigenetics, Mar. 2009

 

Smith

"The new things we discovered about terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) were 1) the extremely high energies to which..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2009

 

J.D. Smith

"This paper calibrates the form and behavior of PAH emission in a local, broadly selected sample of galaxies..."
Fast Moving Fronts, July 2010

 

Murphy

"This work grew out of a multidisciplinary collaboration between a biochemist interested in..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2008

Kenneth Söderhäll

"This paper is a review summarizing the research on one important innate immune process in invertebrates..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2010

 

Sohn

"most significant and new observation in the paper is that oomycete effectors can be delivered..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Feb. 2009

 

Steven Sollott

"Mitochondria are abundant organelles residing inside each of the bodies’ cells that perform major functions..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010

 

Susan Solomon

"The paper showed that the climate changes that take place due to human-caused changes in carbon dioxide..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2010

 

N/A

"This paper—by combining cutting-edge imaging..."
New Hot Papers, May 2008

 

Ana 
                Soto

"We developed an assay called E-SCREEN, which we described in Environmental Health Perspectives in 1991..."
Special Topic of Bisphenol A, Sep. 2009

 

Ramanathan Sowdhamini

"Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2009

Anthony L. Spek

"It is generally a reference to the use of one out of the many tools that are available in a program package named PLATON..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2010

 

N/A

"We demonstrated in this study that the majority of the pigs in swine herds in the United States were infected by..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Jan. 2008

 

Spergel

"The paper reports new results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and synthesizes the WMAP results..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2008

 

Spiegelhalter

"Bayesian methods for data analysis allow great flexibility for handling complex problems and including multiple..."
Featured Paper Interview, Feb. 2009

 

Paul Spudich

"Our paper has been highly cited because we published some unique observations of earthquake-induced..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009

Stackelberg

"Our paper was one of the first to demonstrate that extensively used chemicals such as prescription..."
Fast Moving Front, Jul. 2008

 

Richard Stadler

"Acrylamide was first discovered in food in Apr. 2002 by the Swedish National Food Authority that reported..."
Featured Paper Interview, Oct. 2009

 

"We show that a guardian protein is attacked and that this attenuates the healing of an organ like the brain..."
New Hot Paper, Nov. 2008

 

Kári Stefánsson

"Kari Stefansson, founder of deCODE genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, discusses his firm’s recent emergence from..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview, September 2010

 

"We demonstrate that climate fluctuations affect the dynamics of populations through how the ways in..."
Emerging Research Front, Aug. 2008

 

"The paper describes a new discoveryin addition, the paper also provides a new methodology..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Jun. 2008

 

Stevo Stevic

In this Fast Breaking Paper commentary, Stevo Stevic talks about his 2009 J MATH ANAL APPL paper..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2010

 

Stevic

"Working on Bloch-type spaces I have realized that sometimes it is useful to use the norm on the space by taking..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Apr. 2009

Eric Stice

"I initially became interested in studying obesity when I learned that approximately 111,000 people die from obesity-related..."
Fast Moving Fronts, July 2010

 

Craig Stockwell

"Our work provides a synthesis of emerging..."
New Hot Paper, Jul. 2008

 

N/A

"This survey paper provides a broad overview of medical robot systems used in surgery. As such, it provided..."
Fast Moving Front, Jan. 2009

 

Stokols

"Our article provides an overview of important personal and situational...."
Emerging Research Front, Dec. 2008

 

John D. Storey

"In this Fast Moving Front commentary, John D. Storey talks with ScienceWatch.com about his 2005..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Nov. 2009

 

Maureen Storey

"...our paper carefully examined several theories about high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweetener in the food..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Nov. 2009

 

Michael Strauss

"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has produced a map of the Universe, a census of the heavens, that can be used in..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2010

 

N/A

"...the behavior of complex interconnected systems cannot be understood without also understanding the..."
Featured Paper Interview, Dec. 2008

 

"The complex nature of current scientific goals, such as, e.g., the detection of a weak dark matter..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009

 

N/A

"Easy-to-use matching methods have been recognized as offering one..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Oct. 2008

 

N/A

"The results in our article have the potential to increase the effectiveness of causal inference..."
New Hot Papers, Jul. 2009

 

Bridget Stuchbury

"Billions of individual songbirds leave their breeding grounds in North America and Europe and fly thousands..."
Fast Moving Fronts, September 2010

 

Stucky

"...mesoporous materials, the work of Dr. Galen Stucky from the University of California, Santa Barbara, ranked at #2..."
Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials, Nov. 2008

Su

"This paper provided a comprehensive study on the synthesis mechanism of highly ordered mesoporous..."
Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials, Aug. 2008

 

N/A

"The idea is that episodic memory provides information for the construction of future plans..."
New Hot Papers, Sep. 2009

 

N/A

"Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2009

 

John 
                Sumpter

"we have moved on from concerns about killing wildlife with mass-produced chemicals such as oils and pesticides...."
Special Topic of Bisphenol A (BPA), Feb. 2010

 

Supuran

"This is a review article, presenting the state of the art in the field of CA inhibitors and activators, as well as their applications..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2009

 

Eli Sutter & Peter W. Sutter

"At the time our paper was published, graphene had shown extraordinary properties, such as high..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010

 

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