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June 13, 2008

New Biology Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Antibodies in cold stressed mice recognize a surface protein in Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites
Authors: Thompson, Eric G.; Aviles, Hernan O.; Monroy, Fernando P.
Source: JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY 94 (1): 114-118 FEB 2008

Title: For the good of the group? Exploring group-level evolutionary adaptations using multilevel selection theory
Authors: Gorman, Rick O'; Wilson, David S.; Sheldon, Kennon M.
Source: GROUP DYNAMICS-THEORY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 12 (1): 17-26 MAR 2008

Title: NGF/PI3K signaling-mediated epigenetic regulation of delta opioid receptor gene expressionAuthors: Chen, Wong L.; Law, Ping-Yee; Loh, Horace H.
Source: BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 368 (3): 755-760 APR 11 2008

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June 05, 2008

New Biology Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Weight variation by sex and nature of risk factors in high-risk infants: An evolutionary perspective
Author Full Names: Ahn, Youngmee; Garruto, Ralph M.
Source: COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM 31 (4): 937-941 DEC 2007

Title Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration in a mature tropical forest in southern China
Author: Mo, Jiangming; Zhang, Wei; Zhu, Weixing; Gundersen, Per; Fang, Yunting; Li, Dejun; Wang, Hui
Source: GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 14 (2): 403-412 FEB 2008

Title An evolved cognitive bias for social norms
Authors: O'Gorman, Rick; Wilson, David Sloan; Miller, Ralph R.
Source: EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR 29 (2): 71-78 MAR 2008

Title Hierarchical Bayesian scaling of soil properties across urban, agricultural, and desert ecosystems
Authors: Kaye, J. P.; Majumdar, A.; Gries, C.; Buyantuyev, A.; Grimm, N. B.; Hope, D.; Jenerette, G. D.; Zhu, W. X.; Baker, L.
Source: ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 18 (1): 132-145 JAN 2008

Title The contribution of mitochondrial dysfunction to a gene-environment model of Guamanian ALS and PD
Authors: Chan, C. W.; Lynch, D.; Wanglund, C.; Reiff, D. M.; Spa-This, R.; Lum, J. K.; Garruto, R. M.
Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY 20 (2): 216-216 MAR-APR 2008

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May 30, 2008

New Mathematics Publication by BU Researchers

Orthonormal dilations of Parseval wavelets
Dutkay, Dorin Ervin; Han, Deguang; Picioroaga, Gabriel; Sun, Qiyu
MATHEMATISCHE ANNALEN 341 (3): 483-515 JUL 2008

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New Physics Publications by BU Researchers

Magnetorefractive effect in annealed Co/Cu/Co/Fe pseudo-spin-valve thin films
Wang, Jian-Qing; Sidney, Malak T.; Rokitowski, Jared D.; Kim, Nam H.; Wang, Keqiang
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 103 (7): Art. No. 07F316 APR 1 2008

Direct observation of tunnelling through 100-nm-wide all metal magnetic junction into Si
Nam, H. Kim; Wang, Ke-Qiang; Zhang, Yu; Wang, Jian-Qing
CHINESE PHYSICS LETTERS 25 (4): 1407-1410 APR 2008

Tunneling characteristics across nanoscale metal ferric junction lines into doped Si
Wang, Keqiang; Stehlik, Jiri; Wang, Jian-Qing
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 92 (15): Art. No. 152118 APR 14 2008

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New Chemistry Publications by BU Researchers

Highly conserved asparagine 82 controls the interaction of Na+ with the sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter SNAT2
Zhang, Zhou; Gameiro, Armanda; Grewer, Christof
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 283 (18): 12284-12292 MAY 2 2008

Coreduction colloidal synthesis of III-V nanocrystals: The case of InP
Liu, Zhaoping; Kumbhar, Amar; Xu, Dan; Zhang, Jun; Sun, Zhaoyong; Fang, Jiye
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 47 (19): 3540-3542 2008

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May 21, 2008

New Mathematics Publications by BU Researchers

Relationship between the Cox, Lehmann, Weibull, and accelerated lifetime models
Yu, Qiqing; Chappell, Rick; Wong, G. Y. C.; Hsu, Yuting; Mazur, Marcin
COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-THEORY AND METHODS 37 (9): 1458-1470 2008

The ubiquitous zeta-function and some of its 'usual' and 'unusual' meromorphic properties
Kirsten, Klaus; Loya, Paul; Park, Jinsung
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL 41 (16): Art. No. 164070 APR 25 2008

Some cases of the Mumford-Tate conjecture and Shimura varieties
Vasiu, Adrian
INDIANA UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS JOURNAL 57 (1): 1-75 2008

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New Physics Publication by BU Researcher

Energy-harvesting devices - Beyond the battery
White, Bruce E., Jr.
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 3 (2): 71-72 FEB 2008

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New Chemistry Publications by BU Researchers

High resolution electrochemical STM: New structural results for underpotentially deposited Cu on Au(111) in acid sulfate solution
Vasiljevic, Natasa; Viyannalage, Lasantha T.; Dimitrov, Nikolay; Sieradzki, Karl
JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 613 (2): 118-124 FEB 15 2008

One-pot synthesis of reverse type-I In2O3@ In2S3 core-shell nanoparticles
Sun, Zhaoyong; Kumbhar, Amar; Sun, Kai; Liu, Qingsheng; Fang, Jiye
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS (16): 1920-1922 2008

Shape-control of ZnTe nanocrystal growth in organic solution
Zhang, Jun; Sun, Kai; Kumbhar, Amar; Fang, Jiye
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 112 (14): 5454-5458 APR 10 2008

Spectroscopic and ab initio study of an intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) rhodanine derivative
Ray, Jayanta; Panja, Nabamita; Nandi, Prasanta K.; Martin, Justin J.; Jones, Wayne E., Jr.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE 874 (1-3): 121-127 FEB 28 2008

Electrochemical method for quantitative determination of trace amounts of lead
Viyannalage, Lasantha T.; Bliznakov, Stoyan; Dimitrov, Nikolay
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 80 (6): 2042-2049 MAR 15 2008

Synthesis of boron dipyrromethene fluorescent probes for bioorthogonal labeling
Dilek, Oezlem; Bane, Susan L.
TETRAHEDRON LETTERS 49 (8): 1413-1416 FEB 18 2008

Nanocrystal and surface alloy properties of bimetallic Gold-Platinum nanoparticles
Mott, Derrick; Luo, Jin; Smith, Andrew; Njoki, Peter N.; Wang, Lingyan; Zhong, Chuan-Jian
NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2 (1): 12-16 JAN 2007

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