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Fast Moving Fronts

ESI Special Topics, January 2007
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This list of Fast Moving Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of September 2000-August 31, 2006, and the previous period of July 2000-June 30, 2006 (sliding 6-year period).
 
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Agricultural Sciences CALCIUM PLUS VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION; VITAMIN D EPIDEMIC; COLORECTAL CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; HEALTH CONSEQUENCES Daily supplementation of calcium with vitamin D had no effect on the incidence of colorectal cancer among postmenopausal women.
Biology & Biochemistry MOUSE MACROPHAGES RESTRICTS LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA INFECTION; NALP3 INFLAMMASOME; IL-L BETA-PROCESSING INFLAMMASOME; BIRC1E CYTOSOLIC PATTERN-RECOGNITION RECEPTOR CONTRIBUTES; GOUT-ASSOCIATED URIC ACID CRYSTALS ACTIVATE Increased inflammasome activity is likely to be the molecular basis of the symptoms associated with NALP3-dependent autoinflammatory disorders.
Chemistry ARTIFICIAL MOLECULAR ROTORS; CRYSTALLINE MOLECULAR MACHINES; OPERATING MOLECULAR ELEVATORS; REVERSIBLE MOLECULAR VALVE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
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by Josef Michl		 Artificial molecular rotors are important for building molecular machinery that require rotating components.
Clinical Medicine NATIONAL POPULATION BASED HIV PREVALENCE SURVEYS; ESTIMATING HIV PREVALENCE; PROJECTION PACKAGE 2005; SPECTRUM PROJECTION PACKAGE; PREVALENCE STUDY UNAIDS' Estimation and Projection Package is used for making national estimates and short term projections of HIV prevalence.
Computer Science CEBS OBJECT MODEL; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS TOOL; GOLM METABOLOME DATABASE; PLANT METABOLOMICS EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY DATA
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by Raoul J. Bino & Lloyd W. Sumner		 Community-based efforts towards the construction of metabolite libraries, and metabolite-specific data-management systems.
Economics & Business
featured front 		EARNINGS QUALITY; IMPLIED EXPECTED RATE; ANALYSTS' EARNINGS FORECASTS; EXPECTED EPS; EQUITY CAPITAL
of "EARNINGS QUALITY IN FIRMS" 		International differences in the demand for accounting income affect the way it incorporates economic income (change in market value) over time.
Engineering CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS OFF-LINE MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS-MASS SPECTROMETRY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS-ELECTROSPRAY IONISATION-MASS SPECTROMETRY; COMBINING CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS Capillary electrophoresis provides alternatives to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis for protein separation and alternatives to chromatography for peptide separation.
Environment/Ecology ANIMAL MOVEMENT PATTERNS; MIGRATORY SONGBIRD USING STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE HYDROGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS; ANIMAL MOVEMENT STUDIES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES
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by Michael Webster		 New advances in satellite telemetry, genetic analyses and stable isotope chemistry are making it possible to determine the population and geographical origin of individual birds.
Geosciences AMBIENT NOISE CROSS CORRELATION; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; EXTRACTING TIME-DOMAIN GREEN'S FUNCTION ESTIMATES; ELASTODYNAMIC GREEN'S FUNCTION; ARBITRARY INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM
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by Nikolai Shapiro		 By computing cross-correlations of noise records at two separate stations, a signal can be reconstructed that is similar to a seismic record that would be registered at A if an earthquake occurred at B.
Immunology CD4(+) REGULATORY T CELL FUNCTION; INFECTED SITE-RESTRICTED FOXP3(+) NATURAL REGULATORY T CELLS; CD4(+)CD25(+) T REGULATORY CELLS; EXPANDING REGULATORY T CELL POPULATIONS; HUMAN CD4(+) T CELLS EXPRESS TLR5 Results suggest that Toll-like receptor 8 signaling could play a critical role in controlling immune responses to cancer and other diseases.
Materials Science WELL-ALIGNED ZNO NANOROD ARRAY; ZNO NANOWIRE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR; WELL-ALIGNED ZNO NANOWIRES; C-ORIENTED ZNO THIN FILMS; PATTERNED ZNO SEED LAYER
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by Jia Grace Lu		 Results indicate that ZnO holds high potential for nanoscale sensing applications.
Mathematics GENERATING MULTI-SCROLL CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS; GENERATING CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS; MULTISCROLL CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS; CIRCUIT-INDEPENDENT CHAOTIC OSCILLATORS USING PASSIVE-ONLY NONLINEAR DEVICES; LINEAR SECOND-ORDER HYSTERESIS SYSTEM
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by Ahmed S. Elwakil		 Understanding the chaotic behavior of dynamical systems may have implications for cancer treatment, weather forecasting, secure communication systems, and music generation.
Microbiology EMERGING PLASMID-MEDIATED QUINOLONE RESISTANCE; PLASMID-ENCODED QUINOLONE RESISTANCE PROTEIN QNR; PLASMID-MEDIATED RESISTANCE; PLASMID-MEDIATED GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI DNA GYRASE Widespread use of quinolones, antibacterial agents that target bacterial DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, has contributed to the rise of bacterial quinolone resistance.
Molecular Biology & Genetics STORE-OPERATED CA2+ CHANNEL FUNCTION; STORE-OPERATED CA2+ CHANNELS; STORE-OPERATED CA2+ ENTRY; CA2+ SENSOR ESSENTIAL; PLASMA MEMBRANE PROTEIN ESSENTIAL In electrically nonexcitable cells, Ca2+ influx is essential for regulating processes involving exocytosis, enzyme control, gene regulation, and cell growth and proliferation, and apoptosis.
Multidisciplinary ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT; PUBLIC GOODS EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ALTRUISM; COOPERATION; HUMANS Altruistic punishment of defectors is a key motive for the explanation of cooperation, and the study of the evolution of human cooperation should focus on explaining altruistic punishment.
Neuroscience & Behavior MITOCHONDRIAL GTPASE MITOFUSIN 2; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH NEUROPATHY TYPE 2A; MITOCHONDRIAL INNER MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION; DRP-1-MEDIATED MITOCHONDRIAL FRAGMENTATION Missense mutations in the mitochondrial fusion protein mitofusin 2 in seven large pedigrees affected with Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2A.
Pharmacology & Toxicology IN VITRO DRUG METABOLISM EXPERIMENTS USING ULTRA-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COUPLED; QUADRUPOLE-ORTHOGONAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY
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by Robert Plumb		 Ultra-performance liquid chromatography utilizes sub-2 mum particles with high linear solvent velocities to effect increases in resolution, sensitivity and speed of analysis.
Physics ORBITING BINARY BLACK HOLES; BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER DYNAMICS; MERGING BLACK HOLES; BINARY BLACK-HOLE SPACETIMES; NUMERICAL RELATIVITY USING Early success in the evolution of binary black-hole spacetimes with a numerical code based on a generalization of harmonic coordinates.
Plant & Animal Science PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI USING EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG (EST) COLLECTIONS; PLANT PENETRATION RESISTANCE COMPONENTS; NONHOST RESISTANCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; ARABIDOPSIS SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED GENE101 STABILIZES
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by Ralph Panstruga & Riyaz A. Bhat		 Evidence for the formation of a pathogen-triggered plasma membrane microdomain that is reminiscent of membrane microdomains induced upon attempted entry of pathogenic bacteria in animal cells.
Psychiatry/Psychology ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; COMMON DEFICIT; META-ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY IMPAIRMENTS
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by Jeff N. Epstein		 Neuropsychological deficits are expressed in adults with ADHD across multiple domains of functioning with impairments in attention, behavior inhibition, and memory.
Social Sciences, general AFRICA'S NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES; NEGLECTED DISEASES; COMPREHENSIVE PRO-POOR HEALTH POLICY; NEGLECTED POPULATIONS; CHRONIC HELMINTIC INFECTION The relationship between the presence of schistosome infection and clinical morbidity is used to estimate numbers of individuals with disease-specific morbidity for Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni infection in sub-Saharan Africa.
Space Science SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY FLUX POWER SPECTRUM; CONSTRAINING WARM DARK MATTER CANDIDATES INCLUDING STERILE NEUTRINOS; STERILE NEUTRINO DARK MATTER; LINEAR THEORY POWER SPECTRUM; RELIC KEV STERILE NEUTRINOS
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by Matteo Viel - [ Oct. 2006]		 The matter power spectrum at co-moving scales is very sensitive to the presence of Warm Dark Matter particles with large free-streaming lengths.
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