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| Agricultural
Sciences |
FLUORESCENCE
SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; L'ETIVAZ PDO
CHEESES USING MID-INFRARED; EXPERIMENTAL FRENCH JURA HARD CHEESES |
Spectroscopic
techniques may provide useful fingerprints and allow the identification of
Emmental cheeses according to the geographic origin and production
conditions. |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
MIRROR-NEURON
SYSTEM; ONE'S OWN MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM; MIRROR NEURON DYSFUNCTION;
UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS; INTENTION UNDERSTANDING |
Properties
specific to the human mirror-neuron system that might explain the human
capacity to learn by imitation. |
| Chemistry |
 MOLECULES
MULTICENTER DELOCALIZATION INDEX; ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION; LOCAL AROMATICITY;
ELECTRON LOCALIZATION FUNCTION (ELF) TOPOLOGICAL APPROACHES; MOLECULES (AIM)
by
Bernard Silvi & Miguel Sola
- [from July 2007] |
Current methods
used to analyze electronic delocalization in molecules, and, in particular,
in aromatic molecules. |
| Clinical
Medicine |
GADODIAMIDE-ASSOCIATED
NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NEPHROGENIC FIBROSING DERMOPATHY; GADOLINIUM
EXPOSURE; GADOLINIUM DEPOSITION; DISEASE DEVELOPMENT |
In end stage
renal disease patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging with the use of
Gd-DTPA, acidosis and Gd-DTPA could play a triggering role for the
development of nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy. |
| Computer
Science |
DNA MICROARRAY
GENE EXPRESSION DATA; NEW ROBUST MISSING VALUE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM;
BAYESIAN MISSING VALUE ESTIMATION METHOD; IMPROVING MISSING VALUE
ESTIMATION; COLLATERAL MISSING VALUE IMPUTATION |
The Bayesian
principal component analysis method provides accurate and convenient
estimation for missing values for gene expression profile data. |
| Economics
& Business |
CAPITAL
STRUCTURE; TARGET CAPITAL STRUCTURES; PECKING ORDER PREDICTIONS; PARTIAL
ADJUSTMENT; TESTING TRADE-OFF |
Relatively weak
support for capital structure theories may indicate that the time has come
to reevaluate these theories. |
| Engineering |
HYDROGEN
GENERATION USING SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE SOLUTION; 10 KW-SCALE HYDROGEN GENERATOR
USING CHEMICAL HYDRIDE; HIGH-PERFORMANCE HYDROGEN GENERATION SYSTEM;
AMINEBORANE-BASED CHEMICAL HYDROGEN STORAGE; HYDROGEN RELEASE
by:
Yoshitsugu Kojima |
An examination
of the available hydrogen generation techniques used by fuel cells. |
| Environment/Ecology |
PLANT FUNCTIONAL
TRAITS WORLDWIDE; PLANT FUNCTIONAL MARKERS CAPTURE ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES;
PLANT TRAITS; FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES; PREDICTING CHANGES
by: Sandra Lavorel |
A conceptual
framework makes it possible to link the effects of environmental changes on
vegetation to their effects on ecosystem functioning. |
| Geosciences |
DIFFUSION-DRIVEN
EXTREME LITHIUM ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NEW OCEANIC UPPER CRUST DERIVED;
TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHIUM ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS;
ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION |
Isotopically
heavy Li released into the forearc mantle wedge in subduction zones may form
a distinct mantle reservoir that could be sampled by plume-related magmas. |
| Immunology |
MALE
CIRCUMCISION HIV INFECTION RISK; ASSESS BEHAVIORAL DISINHIBITION FOLLOWING
CIRCUMCISION; RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL; HIV PREVENTION |
Male
circumcision provides a degree of protection against acquiring HIV
infection, equivalent to what a vaccine of high efficacy would have
achieved. |
| Materials
Science |
LOW-VOLTAGE
ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LOW-VOLTAGE ORGANIC TRANSISTORS;
HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; ONE VOLT ORGANIC
TRANSISTOR; AMORPHOUS MOLECULAR GATE DIELECTRIC |
Organic thin
film transistors are of interest for a variety of large-area electronic
applications, such as displays, sensors, and electronic barcodes. |
Mathematics
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ARRAY
CGH DATA ANALYSIS; ARRAY-BASED DNA COPY NUMBER DATA; GENE EXPRESSION
MICROARRAY DATA; VERSATILE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; ARRAY-CGH
DATA
on "ANALYSIS OF DNA
MICROARRAY DATA"
|
Newly developed
microarray technologies enable simultaneous measurement of DNA copy number at
thousands of sites in a genome. |
| Microbiology |
REGULATORY T
CELLS SUPPRESS IN-VITRO PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION;
PERSISTENT HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS-SPECIFIC CD8(+) T CELLS;
VIRUS-SPECIFIC REGULATORY CD8(+) T CELL POPULATION |
Hepatitis C
virus persistence is associated with a global quantitative and functional
suppression of Hepatitis C virus-specific T cells. |
| Molecular
Biology & Genetics |
AUTOSOMAL
DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (ADPKD); HUMAN POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE
EPITHELIAL CELLS; RECESSIVE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES; RAPAMYCIN MARKEDLY
SLOWS DISEASE PROGRESSION; SIROLIMUS SLOWS DISEASE PROGRESSION |
Autosomal
dominant polycystic kidney disease is a leading cause of end-stage renal
disease. |
| Multidisciplinary |
 ALKB-MEDIATED
OXIDATIVE DEMETHYLATION REVERSES DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ALKB DIRECTLY
REVERTS DNA BASE DAMAGE; BACTERIAL OXIDATIVE DEMETHYLASES REPAIR ALKYLATION
DAMAGE; HUMAN; RNA
by: Robert P. Hausinger |
The AlkB enzyme
couples oxidative decarboxylation of alpha-ketoglutarate to the
hydroxylation of these methylated bases in DNA. |
| Neuroscience &
Behavior
|
MITOCHONDRIAL
DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA MUTATIONS; MITOCHONDRIAL POLYMERASE GAMMA GENE;
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA POLYMERASE-GAMMA A; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DEPLETION;
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION
by:
Robert K. Naviaux |
Mutations in the
mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma may be the most common single cause of
inherited mitochondrial disease yet discovered. |
| Pharmacology
& Toxicology |
MILD-TO-MODERATE
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; EARLY ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ROSIGLITAZONE; AMNESTIC MILD
COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PPAR THIAZOLIDINEDIONE AGONISTS |
Findings provide
preliminary support that rosiglitazone may offer a novel strategy for the
treatment of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. |
| Physics |
NUCLEAR SHELL
MODEL; EXOTIC NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE-ENERGY EXOTIC BEAMS; NUCLEAR STRUCTURE;
PF-SHELL NUCLEI
by: Takaharu Otsuka |
Magic numbers in
exotic nuclei and the spin-isospin dependent part of the nucleon-nucleon
interaction. |
| Plant
& Animal Science |
CYTOCHROME P450;
BRASSINOSTEROID DEFICIENCY INCREASE BIOMASS PRODUCTION; RICE BRASSINOSTEROID-DEFICIENT
MUTANT; ARABIDOPSIS CYP90B1 CATALYSES; ERECT LEAVES CAUSED
by Makoto Matsuoka
- [late entry] |
Characterization
of a rice dwarf mutant, showing the pleiotropic abnormal phenotype similar
to that of the rice brassinosteroid (BR)-insensitive mutant. |
| Psychiatry/Psychology |
 ENDOGENOUS
TASK-SET RECONFIGURATION PROCESS; EXPLICIT TASK-CUING PROCEDURE; TASK-CUING
PARADIGM MEASURE; TASK SWITCHING; ENDOGENOUS ACT
by: Stephen Monsell |
Neuroimaging
studies of task switching have revealed extra activation in numerous brain
regions when subjects prepare to change tasks and when they perform a
changed task. |
| Social
Sciences, general |
EVIDENCE-BASED
HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SYSTEM; IMPOVERISHING HEALTH SPENDING; HEALTH
INSURANCE; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS |
Striving to
formulate and implement health policies to promote universal social
protection and fair financing. |
| Space
Science |
 COSMOLOGICAL
PARAMETER ESTIMATION; 21 CM RADIATION; HYDROGEN REIONIZATION; REIONIZATION
OBSERVATORIES; HIGH-REDSHIFT 21-CM RADIATION; 21 CENTIMETER FLUCTUATIONS
ARRAY CGH DATA
ANALYSIS; ARRAY-BASED DNA COPY NUMBER DATA; GENE EXPRESSION MICROARRAY DATA;
VERSATILE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; ARRAY-CGH DATA
by:
Matias Zaldarriaga |
The period after
the Big Bang but before the formation of the first stars was indirectly
observed by examining variations in cosmic microwave background at the 21 cm
wavelength. |
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2001-2007-3 |
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