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November 30, 2007
New Biology Publication by BU Researchers
Title Novel alphaproteobacterial root nodule symbiont associated with Lupinus texensis
Author(s): Andam CP (Andam, Cheryl P.), Parker MA (Parker, Matthew A.)
Source: APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 73 (17): 5687-5691 SEP 2007
Title Calcium oxalate crystals in the marine red alga Spyridia filamentosa (Ceramiales; Rhodophyta)
Author(s): Pueschel CM (Pueschel, Curt M.), West JA (West, John A.)
Source: PHYCOLOGIA 46 (5): 565-571 SEP 2007
Posted by erushton at 01:22 PM
Open Access and the Developing World Portal
BioMed Central, the world's largest publisher of open access scientific research, recently created a new information portal that calls attention to the developing world's need for open access to the scientific and medical literature. This portal highlights the most relevant peer-reviewed research from BioMed Central's open access journals and brings together the latest news and resources relating to open access and the developing world. Read more here....
Posted by erushton at 01:18 PM
November 27, 2007
Open Environmental Data Wiki
The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched an Environmental Data Wiki.
Open Environmental Data is data relevant to the study of the environment that anyone is free to access, re-use and redistribute. This includes data that is in the public domain, and data that has been made available under an open license.
There are opportunities to contribute to the wiki and to download data. You can find lists of Environmental Datasets, Data Distributors, Research Groups, and Software.
Posted by ajbrown at 04:51 PM
November 21, 2007
New Nursing Publication by BU Researchers
Title Relationships among the nurse work environment, self-nurturance and life satisfaction
Author(s): Nemcek MA (Nemcek, Mary Ann), James GD (James, Gary D.)
Source: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 59 (3): 240-247 AUG 2007
Document Type: Article
Posted by erushton at 03:30 PM
New Biology Publication by BU Researchers
Title:Hepatocyte growth factor enhances IL-1 beta stimulated IL-8 secretion by Caco-2 epithelial cells
Author(s): Grygas J (Grygas, Jillian), Steiger N (Steiger, Nicole), LeSeur CL (LeSeur, Carrie L.), Unger BL (Unger, Benjamin L.), McGee DW (McGee, Dennis W.)
Source: IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-ANIMAL 43 (3-4): 147-152 APR 2007
Title:Population structure and gene flow of Anopheles farauti s.s. (Diptera : Culicidae) among ten sites on five islands of Vanuatu: Implications for malaria control
Author(s): Reiff DM (Reiff, D. M.), Kaneko A (Kaneko, A.), Taleo G (Taleo, G.), Amos M (Amos, M.), Lum JK (Lum, J. K.)
Source: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 44 (4): 601-607 JUL 2007
Posted by erushton at 03:24 PM
New BMC Titles Accepted for Tracking by Thomson Scientific
Biomed announced earlier this summer that four medical journals from the BMC series were accepted for tracking by Thomson Scientific. These four journals, BMC Family Practice, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, BMC Medical Research Methodology, and BMC Psychiatry will receive Impact Factors in 2010. So far 27 BMC-series journals already received Impact Factors, or are being tracked for Impact Factors by Thomson Scientific.
Posted by erushton at 03:13 PM
November 20, 2007
New Physics Publication by BU Researchers
Reply to "Comment on 'Free surface Hele-Shaw flows around an obstacle: A random walk simulation'"
Bogoyavlenskiy, Vladislav A.; Cotts, Eric J.
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 76 (3): Art. No. 038302 Part 2 SEP 2007
Posted by ebrown at 03:33 PM
New Psychology Publications by BU Researchers
Title: The divergent autoencoder (DIVA) model of category learning
Authors: Kurtz, KJ
Source: PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW 14 (4): 560-576 AUG 2007
Title: GABAergic modulation of binge-like ethanol intake in C57BL/6J mice
Authors: Moore, EM; Serio, KM; Goldfarb, KJ; Stepanovska, S; Linsenbardt, DN; Boehm, SL
Source: PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR 88 (1): 105-113 NOV 2007
Title: Degraded contingency revisited: Posttraining extinction of a cover stimulus attenuates a target cue's behavioral control
Authors: Witnauer, JE; Miller, RR
Source: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES 33 (4): 440-450 OCT 2007
Title: Affective and neuropsychological correlates of children's rituals and compulsive-like behaviors: Continuities and discontinuities with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Authors: Pietrefesa, AS; Evans, DW
Source: BRAIN AND COGNITION 65 (1): 36-46 OCT 2007
Title: Schizotypy and individual differences in the frequency of normal associations in verbal utterances
Authors: Lenzenweger, MF; Miller, AB; Maher, BA; Manschreck, TC
Source: SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH 95 (1-3): 96-102 SEP 2007
Title: Differential involvement of the basolateral amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens core in the acquisition and use of reward expectancies
Authors: Ramirez, DR; Savage, LM
Source: BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 121 (5): 896-906 OCT 2007
Posted by ajbrown at 01:51 PM
New Geology & Environmental Studies Publications by BU Researchers
Title: Interaction between two subducting plates under Tokyo and its possible effects on seismic hazards
Authors: Wu, F; Okaya, D; Sato, H; Hirata, N
Source: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 34 (18): Art. No. L18301 SEP 18 2007
Posted by ajbrown at 01:48 PM
New Chemistry Publications by BU Researchers
Assembly of gold nanoparticles mediated by multifunctional fullerenes
Lim, I-Im S.; Pan, Yi; Mott, Derrick; Ouyang, Jianying; Njoki, Peter N.; Luo, Jin; Zhou, Shuiqin; Zhong, Chuarl-Jian
LANGMUIR 23 (21): 10715-10724 OCT 9 2007
Size correlation of optical and spectroscopic properties for gold nanoparticles
Njoki, Peter N.; Lim, I-Im S.; Mott, Derrick; Park, Hye-Young; Khan, Bilal; Mishra, Suprav; Sujakumar, Ravishanker; Luo, Jin; Zhong, Chuan-Jian
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 111 (40): 14664-14669 OCT 11 2007
Characterization of amorphous and crystalline tin-cobalt anodes
Fan, Quan; Chupas, Peter J.; Whittingham, M. Stanley
ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SOLID STATE LETTERS 10 (12): A274-A278 2007
Comparative studies of quercetin monophosphate nucleotides using electrochemical techniques interactions with UV-Vis spectroscopy and
Kikandi, Samuel N.; Musah, Samira; Lee, Kyoungyun; Hassani, John; Rajan, Shawn; Zhou, Ailing; Sadik, Omowunmi A.
ELECTROANALYSIS 19 (19-20): 2131-2140 OCT 2007
Enhanced radical scavenging activity by antioxidant-functionalized gold nanoparticles: A novel inspiration for development of new artificial antioxidants
Nie, Zhou; Liu, Ke Jian; Zhong, Chuan-Jian; Wang, Lan-Fen; Yang, Ying; Tian, Qiu; Liu, Yang
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 43 (9): 1243-1254 NOV 1 2007
Enhanced microtubule binding and tubulin assembly properties of conformationally constrained paclitaxel derivatives
Shanker, Natasha; Kingston, David G. I.; Ganesh, Thota; Yang, Chao; Alcaraz, Ana A.; Geballe, Matthew T.; Banerjee, Abhijit; McGee, Dennis; Snyder, James P.; Bane, Susan
BIOCHEMISTRY 46 (41): 11514-11527 OCT 16 2007
Posted by ebrown at 11:51 AM
New Mechanical Engineering Publications by BU researchers
Neuro-genetic optimization of temperature control for a continuous flow polymerase chain reaction microdevice
Lee, Hing Wah; Arunasalam, Parthiban; Laratta, William P.; Seetharamu, Kankanhalli N.; Azid, Ishak A.
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME 129 (4): 540-547 AUG 2007
Polymer immiscibility enhanced by thermal fluctuations toward crystalline order
Ma, Yu; Hu, Wenbing; Wang, Howard
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 76 (3): Art. No. 031801 Part 1, SEP 2007
Posted by jdixon at 10:36 AM
November 16, 2007
New Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Publications by BU researchers
Assembly of copper column interconnect flip chip
Lin, Ta-Hsuan; Menezes, Arun S.; Andros, Frank; McBride, Donald G.; Lu, Susan; Sammakia, Bahgat
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS PACKAGING MANUFACTURING 30 (3): 206-212 JUL 2007
Evaluation of alternate multimedia for web-based asynchronous learning
Bhowmick, Arindam; Khasawneh, Mohammad T.; Bowling, Shannon R.; Gramopadhye, K.; Melloy, Brian J.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ERGONOMICS 37 (7): 615-629 JUL 2007
Fast factorization by similarity in formal concept analysis of data with fuzzy attributes
Belohlavek, Radim; Dvorak, Jiri; Outrata, Jan
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES 73 (6): 1012-1022 SEP 2007
A hybrid system for SPC concurrent pattern recognition
Chen, Zheng; Lu, Susan; Lam, Sarah
ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS 21 (3): 303-310 JUL 2007
Predicting performance measures for Markovian type of manufacturing systems with product failures
Pradhan, Salil; Damodaran, Purushothaman; Srihari, Krishnaswami
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 184 (2): 725-744 JAN 16 2008
Posted by jdixon at 03:44 PM
New Computer Science Publications by BU researchers
Static topographic modeling for facial expression recognition and analysis
Wang, Jun; Yin, Lijun
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING 108 (1-2): 19-34 OCT-NOV 2007
Posted by jdixon at 03:37 PM
New Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications by BU researchers
Behavior of short pulses on tightly coupled microstrip lines and reduction of crosstalk by using overlying dielectric
Muthana, Prathap; Kroger, Harry
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCED PACKAGING 30 (3): 511-520 AUG 2007
Reconfiguration of C2 architecture for improved availability to support air operations
Wu, N. Eva; Busch, Timothy
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS 43 (2): 795-805 APR 2007
Posted by jdixon at 02:58 PM