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October 24, 2007

New Chemistry Publications by BU Researchers

Layered LixNiyMnyCo1-O-2y(2) cathodes for lithium ion batteries: Understanding local structure via magnetic properties
Chemova, Natasha A.; Ma, Miaorniao; Xiao, Jie; Whittingham, M. Stanley; Breger, Julien; Grey, Clare P.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 19 (19): 4682-4693 SEP 18 2007

Metal-enhanced biosensor for genetic mismatch detection
K'Owino, I. O.; Mwilu, S. K.; Sadik, O. A.
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY 369 (1): 8-17 OCT 1 2007

Tuning the surfaces of palladium nanoparticles for the catalytic conversion of Cr(VI) to Cr(III)
K'Owino, Isaac O.; Omole, Marcells A.; Sadik, Ornowunmi A.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 9 (7): 657-665 2007

Determining the quantum efficiency for activation of an organometallic photoinitiator for cationic polymerization - An experiment for the physical or inorganic chemistry laboratory
Hayes, David M.; Mahar, Maura; Schnabel, R. Chris; Shah, Paras; Lees, Alistair J.; Jakubek, Vladimir
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 84 (9): 1483-1485 SEP 2007

Tungsten based electrocatalyst for fuel cell applications
Christian, Joel B.; Smith, Sean P. E.; Whittingham, M. Stanley; Abruna, Hector D.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS 9 (8): 2128-2132 AUG 2007

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New Mathematics Publications by BU Researchers and Faculty

Geometric BVPs, Hardy spaces, and the Cauchy integral and transform on regions with corners
Loya, Paul
JOURNAL OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 239 (1): 132-195 AUG 1 2007

Viscous microstructural dampers with aligned holes: Design procedure including the edge correction
Homentcovschi, Dorel; Miles, Ronald N.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 122 (3): 1556-1567 SEP 2007

First exit times for ordinary and compound poisson processes with non-linear boundaries
Zacks, S.
METHODOLOGY AND COMPUTING IN APPLIED PROBABILITY 9 (3): 359-375 SEP 2007

Bounded risk estimation of linear combinations of the location and scale parameters in exponential distributions under two-stage sampling
Mukhopadhyay, N.; Zacks, S.
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE 137 (11): 3672-3686 NOV 1 2007

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October 19, 2007

New Psychology Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Assessing obsessive compulsive symptoms and cognitions on the internet: Evidence for the comparability of paper and Internet administration
Authors: Coles, ME; Cook, LM; Blake, TR
Source: BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY 45 (9): 2232-2240 SEP 2007

Title: Attitudes toward women and tolerance for sexual harassment among reservists
Authors: Vogt, D; Bruce, TA; Street, AE; Stafford, J
Source: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 13 (9): 879-900 SEP 2007

Title: Reciprocal relationships among alcohol use, risk perception, and sexual victimization: A prospective analysis
Authors: Gidycz, CA; Loh, C; Lobo, T; Rich, C; Lynn, SJ; Pashdag, J
Source: JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH 56 (1): 5-14 JUL-AUG 2007

Title: Vocabulary and verbal fluency of bilingual and monolingual college students
Authors: Portocarrero, JS; Burright, RG; Donovick, PJ
Source: ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 22 (3): 415-422 MAR 2007

Title: The partial 5-HT1A agonist buspirone reduces the expression and development of I-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in rats and improves I-DOPA efficacy
Authors: Eskow, KL; Gupta, V; Alarn, S; Park, JY; Bishop, C
Source: PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR 87 (3): 306-314 AUG-SEP 2007

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New Geology & Environmental Studies Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Predicting bioavailability of sediment-associated organic contaminants for Diporeia spp. and Oligochaetes
Authors: Landrum, PF; Robinson, SD; Gossiaux, DC; You, J; Lydy, MJ; Mitra, S; Ten Hulscher, TEM
Source: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 41 (18): 6442-6447 SEP 15 2007

Title: Aftershocks of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: The first hour
Authors: Chang, CH; Wu, YM; Zhao, L; Wu, FT
Source: BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 97 (4): 1245-1258 AUG 2007

Title: Comparison of quantification methods to measure fire-derived (black/elemental) carbon in soils and sediments using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and the atmosphere
Authors: Hammes, K; Schmidt, MWI; Smernik, RJ; Currie, LA; Ball, WP; Nguyen, TH; Louchouarn, P; Houel, S; Gustafsson, O; Elmquist, M; Cornelissen, G; Skjemstad, JO; Masiello, CA; Song, J; Peng, P; Mitra, S; Dunn, JC; Hatcher, PG; Hockaday, WC; Smith, DM; Hartkopf-Froeder, C; Boehmer, A; Luer, B; Huebert, BJ; Amelung, W; Brodowski, S; Huang, L; Zhang, W; Gschwend, PM; Flores-Cervantes, DX; Largeau, C; Rouzaud, JN; Rumpel, C; Guggenberger, G; Kaiser, K; Rodionov, A; Gonzalez-Vila, FJ; Gonzalez-Perez, JA; de la Rosa, JM; Manning, DAC; Lopez-Capel, E; Ding, L
Source: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES 21 (3): Art. No. GB3016 AUG 31 2007

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October 17, 2007

Nobel Prize winners' research articles freely available from IOP

IOP Publishing has made selected articles from this year's Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and physics available at no charge on the web. More details are below.
From the IOP website:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/news/-topic=1257

The 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to both Albert Fert (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) and Peter Grünberg (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) for their independent work on Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR). The work carried out by Fert and Grünberg has revolutionised and influenced the path for modern technology, making storage devices such as MP3 players and laptops become smaller in weight and appearance yet larger in storage capacity each year.

The 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin, Germany) for his experimental investigations into the various effects of reactions taking place on surfaces.

Fert, Grunberg and Ertl have all published work within a range of IOP journals including Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics as well as in the partner journals: Europhysics Letters (EPL) and New Journal of Physics. As a service to the community, we are pleased to make the papers relevant to their prize freely available until the end of 2007:

EPL
Low-field colossal magnetoresistance in manganite tunnel spin valves
M. Viret et al

Roughness-induced enhancement of giant magnetoresistance in epitaxial Fe/Cr/Fe(001) trilayers
D. Olligs et al

Inverse giant magnetoresistance due to spin-dependent interface scattering in Fe/Cr/Au/Co
M. Buchmeier et al

Direct Imaging of Adsorption Sites and Local Electronic Bond Effects on a Metal Surface: C/Al(111)
H. Brune et al

Fluctuation-induced pattern formation in a surface reaction
J. Starke et al

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Layered magnetic structures: facts, figures, future
P Grünberg

Exchange coupling of ferromagnetic films across metallic and semi conducting interlayers
D E Bürgler et al

Correlation of magnetotransport and structure in sputtered Co/Cu multilayers
Amitesh Paul et al

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Experiments on the relation between GMR and interface roughness and on the interlayer exchange coupling across semiconductors
P Grünberg et al

Spin injection and experimental detection of spin accumulation
A Fert et al
New Journal of Physics

Localized nonequilibrium nanostructures in surface chemical reactions
M Hildebrand et al

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October 09, 2007

New Psychology Publications by BU Researchers

Title: From hippocampus to dorsal horn: The pervasive impact of IL-1 on learning and memory spans the length of the neuroaxis
Authors: Deak, T
Source: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY 21 (6): 746-747 AUG 2007

Title: Developmental differences in acute ethanol withdrawal in adolescent and adult rats
Authors: Doremus-Fitzwater, TL; Spear, LP
Source: ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 31 (9): 1516-1527 SEP 2007

Title: Adaptation in the corticosterone and hyperthermic responses to stress following repeated stressor exposure
Authors: Barnum, CJ; Blandino, P; Deak, T
Source: JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY 19 (8): 632-642 AUG 2007

Title: Contrasting reduced overshadowing and blocking
Authors: Wheeler, DS; Miller, RR
Source: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES 33 (3): 349-359 JUL 2007

Title: The differential effects of 5-HT1A receptor stimulation on dopamine receptor-mediated abnormal involuntary movements and rotations in the primed herniparkinsonian rat
Authors: Dupre, KB; Eskow, KL; Negron, G; Bishop, C
Source: BRAIN RESEARCH 1158: 135-143 JUL 16 2007

Title: Sometimes-competing retrieval (SOCR): A formalization of the comparator hypothesis
Authors: Stout, SC; Miller, RR
Source: PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW 114 (3): 759-783 JUL 2007

Title: Childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and diagnoses of depressive and anxiety disorders in adult psychiatric outpatients
Authors: Gibb, BE; Chelminski, I; Zimmerman, M
Source: DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY 24 (4): 256-263 2007

Posted by ajbrown at 09:38 AM

New Geology & Environmental Studies Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Isolation of live Cretaceous (121-112 million years old) halophilic Archaea from primary salt crystals
Authors: Vreeland, RH; Jones, J; Monson, A; Rosenzweig, WD; Lowenstein, TK; Timofeeff, M; Satterfield, C; Cho, BC; Park, JS; Wallace, A; Grant, WD
Source: GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL 24 (3-4): 275-282 2007

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