BU Science Library Blog http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/ Copyright 2008 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:17:39 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss China Earthquake Geospatial Research Portal Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis and Center for Chinese Studies has partnered with the University of Michigan's China Data Center and Chinese University at Hong Kong's Institute of Space and Earth Information Science to create the China Earthquake Geospatial Research Portal. The CEGRP's mission is to speed-up assistance, support long term assessment and rehabilitation, and to provide a permenant archive for future research. Interested researchers and citizens can view and download data, as well as contribute to the archive.

China Earthquake Geospatial Research Portal
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]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/07/china_earthquak.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/07/china_earthquak.html Geology/Environmental Studies Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:17:39 -0500 New Geology & Environmental Studies Publications by BU Researchers Title: Secular variations in seawater chemistry as a control on the chemistry of basinal brines: test of the hypothesis
Authors: Lowenstein, TK; Timofeeff, MN
Source: GEOFLUIDS 8 (2): 77-92 MAY 2008

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Authors: Senkfor, AJ; Van Petten, C; Kutas, M
Source: CORTEX 44 (6): 649-664 JUN 2008

Title: Determinants of cue interactions
Authors: Wheeler, DS; Miller, RR
Source: BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 78 (2): 191-203 JUN 2008

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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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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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/06/new_biology_pub.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/06/new_biology_pub.html Biology News Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:23:02 -0500 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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_mathematics_16.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_mathematics_16.html Publications by BU Researchers Fri, 30 May 2008 10:46:50 -0500 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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_physics_pub_11.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_physics_pub_11.html Publications by BU Researchers Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:04 -0500 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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_chemistry_p_16.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_chemistry_p_16.html Publications by BU Researchers Fri, 30 May 2008 10:41:07 -0500 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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_mathematics_15.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_mathematics_15.html Publications by BU Researchers Wed, 21 May 2008 10:37:28 -0500 New Physics Publication by BU Researcher Energy-harvesting devices - Beyond the battery
White, Bruce E., Jr.
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 3 (2): 71-72 FEB 2008

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_physics_pub_10.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_physics_pub_10.html Publications by BU Researchers Wed, 21 May 2008 10:30:06 -0500 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

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_chemistry_p_18.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/05/new_chemistry_p_18.html Publications by BU Researchers Wed, 21 May 2008 09:07:18 -0500 New Pyschology Publications by BU Researchers Title: Novelty and conflict in the categorization of complex stimuli
Authors: Folstein, JR; Van Petten, C; Rose, SA
Source: PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 45 (3): 467-479 MAY 2008

Title: Underage drinking: A developmental framework
Authors: Masten, AS; Faden, VB; Zucker, RA; Spear, LP
Source: PEDIATRICS 121: S235-S251 Suppl. S APR 2008

Title: Transitions into underage and problem drinking: Developmental processes and mechanisms between 10 and 15 years of age
Authors: Windle, M; Spear, LP; Fuligni, AJ; Angold, A; Brown, JD; Pine, D; Smith, GT; Giedd, J; Dahl, RE
Source: PEDIATRICS 121: S273-S289 Suppl. S APR 2008

Title: Pavlovian backward conditioned inhibition in humans: Summation and retardation tests
Authors: Urcelay, GP; Perelmuter, O; Miller, RR
Source: BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 77 (3): 299-305 MAR 2008

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Authors: Hunsinger, GB; Mitra, S; Warrick, JA; Alexander, CR
Source: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 113 (G2): Art. No. G02007 APR 11 2008


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The NewScientist asked 17 leading scientists to name the book that had the most influence on their lives. Click here to read the recommendations and to post an account of your own life-changing book in the comments.

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/04/lifechanging_bo_1.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/04/lifechanging_bo_1.html Science News Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:08 -0500 New Mechanical Engineering Science Publications by BU Researchers Design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of a flap valve IPMC micropump with a flexibly supported diaphragm
Authors: Nguyen, Thanh Tung; Goo, Nam Seo; Nguyen, Vinh Khanh; Yoo, Youngtai; Park, Seungbae
Source: SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL 141 (2): 640-648 FEB 15 2008

Effect of oxidation on indium solderability
Authors:Kim, Jongman; Schoeller, Harry; Cho, Junghyun; Park, Seungbae
Source: JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS 37 (4): 483-489 APR 2008

]]> http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/04/new_mechanical_14.html http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/archives/2008/04/new_mechanical_14.html Publications by BU Researchers Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:14:59 -0500