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Abstracts: Viruses in the sea. A large population of 'Lyman-break' galaxies in a protocluster at redshift z=4.1. A coorelation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure in the Universe
Abstracts: Virus-induced autoantibody response to a transgenic viral antigen. A non-retroviral RNA virus persists in DNA form
Abstracts: Visibility bias in aerial surveys relating to nest success of Arctic geese. Mercury concentration in tissues of Osprey from the Carolinas, USA
Abstracts: Visibility bias in aerial surveys relating to nest success of Arctic geese. part 2 Impact of special early harvest seasons on subarctic-nesting and temperate-nesting Canada geese
Abstracts: Visibility bias on counts of nesting Canada geese. Macrohabitat effects on summer survival, movements, and clutch success of northern bobwhite in Kansas
Abstracts: Visible flicker from invisible patterns. Realignment of cones after cataract treatment. Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns
Abstracts: Visible viruses: The structure of viruses was for a long time an enigma. It took an amalgam of techniques, especially the rapidly burgeoning field of electron microscopy, to reveal the quasi-symmetrical nature of viral architecture
Abstracts: Vision and attention: the role of training. Tracking an object through feature space. Intimate attention
Abstracts: Visionaries seek UK national strategy. French government tightens its grip on research priorities. University challenge for Britain
Abstracts: Vision in blind mole rats. Vision without awareness. How cortex reorganizes
Abstracts: Vision in the eternal present. Perceived geometrical relationships affected by eye-movement signals. Where are the things we see?
Abstracts: Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex
Abstracts: Visual cortical mechanisms detecting focal orientation discontinuities. Breathing life into biology
Abstracts: Visual differences. Transmembrane phosphoprotein Cbp regulates the activities of Src-family tyrosine kinases. Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein alpha-subunit
Abstracts: Visual feature selectivity in frontal eye fields induced by experience in mature macaques. Performance monitoring by the supplementary eye field
Abstracts: Visual fields in ostriches. Hierarchy and adaptivity in segmenting visual scenes. Postsaccadic visual references generate presaccadic compression of space
Abstracts: Visual illusion from running. Seeing backwards in time. Perceptions of knowledge
Abstracts: Visualization of Bloch waves and domain walls. G. N. Ramachandran (1922-2001). Obituary: Konrad E. Bloch (1912-2000)
Abstracts: Visualization of coherent nuclear motion in a membrane protein by femtosecond spectroscopy. Intraprotein radical transfer during photoactivation of DNA photolyase
Abstracts: Visualization of convective fluid flow in a porous medium. Mixed predictions. Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials
Abstracts: Visualization of fast energy flow and solvent caging in unimolecular dynamics. Visualization of a 4-helix bundle in the hepatitis B virus capsid by cryo-electron microscopy
Abstracts: Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Detecting transient intermediates in macromolecular binding by paramagnetic NMR
Abstracts: Visualizing dislocation nucleation by indenting colloidal crystals. Evidence for a macroscopic electric field in the sedimentation profiles of charged colloids
Abstracts: Visualizing DNA replication in a catalytically active Bacillus, DNA polymerase crystal. Eukaryotic polymerases iota and zeta act sequentially to bypass DNA lesions
Abstracts: Visualizing pair formation on the atomic scale in the high-[T.sub.c] superconductor [Bi.sub.2][Sr.sub.2]Ca[Cu.sub.2][O.sub.8{delta]]
Abstracts: Visualizing spatially correlated dynamics that directs RNA conformational transitions. Relating ligand binding to activation gating in CNGA2 channels
Abstracts: Visual motion aftereffect in human cortical area MT revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Plasticity and its limits
Abstracts: Visual projection map specified by topographic expression of transcription factors in the retina. A synaptic laminin-calcium channel interaction organizes active zones in motor nerve terminals
Abstracts: Visual search for cryptic stimuli in pigeons: implications for the search image and search rate hypotheses. Avian olfactory navigation: Its empirical foundation and conceptual state
Abstracts: Vitamin C degradation in plant cells via enzymatic hydrolysis of 4-0-oaxlyl-L-threonate. Lessons from natural molecules
Abstracts: Vitamin C exhibits pro-oxidant properties. Nicotine withdrawal and accident rates. GABAa receptor alpha4 subunit suppression prevents withdrawal properties of an endogenous steroid
Abstracts: Vive la revolucion? Scientists are returning from industry to academia with an eye on efficiency and applied science
Abstracts: Vivisection protests march on. A current view of vivisection: animal research in America. Vivisection: a window to the dark ages of science
Abstracts: Vizualization of quantized vortices. A new twist to an old story. Suddenly it's chaos
Abstracts: Vladimire Prelog (1906-98): Pioneer of stereochemistry. Chemistry beyond the molecule. Even-odd carbon atom disparity
Abstracts: Vocabulary for fuzzy symmetry. Secrets of successful stone-skipping. Thinly veiled promise
Abstracts: Vocal behaviour of the frog Eleutherodactylus antillensis on the British Virgin Islands. Behaviourally mediated sex selection: characteristics of successful male black grouse
Abstracts: Vocal communication between male Xenopus laevis. Wars of attrition: Colony size determines competitive outcomes in a guild of African acacia ants
Abstracts: Vocal recognition in the spotted hyaena and its possible implications regarding the evolution of intelligence
Abstracts: Vocal recognition of individuals and kin in free-ranging rhesus monkeys. Mother-offspring vocal recognition in northern fur seals is mutual but asymmetrical
Abstracts: Vocal signature recognition of mothers by fur seal pups. Mother's voice recognition by seal pups. Song repertoire and duetting behaviour of the tropical boubou, Laniarius aethiopicus
Abstracts: Voice of US science struggles to be heard. A physicist joins the race for Congress. Science champion joins US election race
Abstracts: Volcanic winter and accelerated glaciation following the Toba super-eruption. Explosive start to last ice age
Abstracts: Volcano gets choke chains to slow mud. The long-range forecast. Japan's first BSE case fuels fears elsewhere
Abstracts: Voltage-dependent anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a grating surface. Continuous grey-scale image storage using optically aligned nematic liquid crystals
Abstracts: Voltage-dependent modulation of N-type calcium channels by G-protein beta-gamma subunits. T-type calcium channel regulation by specific G-protein beta(sub)gamma subunits
Abstracts: Voluminous volcanism on early Mars revealed in Valles Marineris. Evidence for recent volcanism on Mars from crater counts
Abstracts: Voluntary wheel running: a review and novel interpretation. Reorganization of behaviour in laboratory mice, Mus musculus, with varying cost of access to resources
Abstracts: Vortex formation in neutron-irradiated superfluid 3He as an analogue of cosmological defect formation. Double-quantum vortex in superfluid (super3)He-A
Abstracts: Voters will choose if animals win or lose. Tatters in the big top: the crumbling image of animal circuses. Getting animal politics "right"
Abstracts: Voyager 1 exited the solar wind at a distance of ~85 AU from the sun. Enhancements of energetic particles near the heliospheric termination shock
Abstracts: Waiting for the mate? Spatial behaviour of common terns, Sterna hirundo, during courtship. Courtship feedings, copulations and paternity in common terns, Sterna hirundo
Abstracts: Waldegrave says White Paper will not seek radical changes. UK provides 'step increase' in funding for its science base
Abstracts: Waldegrave's dilemma. Recognizing hollow strengths in research communities. University competition: Britain's newly diverse universities will be more vigorous rivals for each other's funds in years to come
Abstracts: Walking and orbiting droplets. Detection of molecular interactions at membrane surfaces through colloid phase transitions
Abstracts: Wall Street's gradual green revolution. A garden for all climates. Car emissions are EPA's problem
Abstracts: Wandering across time. Implications of Deltatheridium specimens for early marsupial history. Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia
Abstracts: Wandering on a leash. The Earth's secret companion. Seasoned travellers
Abstracts: Wang goes bust: the bankruptcy of Wang Laboratories is sad - and confirmation that even the best cannot stand still
Abstracts: Wang goes bust: the bankruptcy of Wang Laboratories is sad - and confirmation that even the best cannot stand still. part 2
Abstracts: War against famine, for nutrition. Underground life for rice foe. PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens
Abstracts: Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep. Life beyond the pulsar death valley. A new rapid X-ray repeater
Abstracts: Warming climate may threaten a third of all species: small window of time for Habitat Protection. Species and their saviors
Abstracts: Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption. Breaking up is hard to do
Abstracts: Warnings raised over black-market vaccines. The search for missing mass finds funds for UK researchers. UK studies grapple with school science...
Abstracts: Wartime tactic doubles power of scarce bird-flu drug. The fertility riddle. Slim pickings
Abstracts: Washington, we have a problem. Technical advice. A word in the right place
Abstracts: Was HIV present in 1959? Decay characteristics of HIV-1-infected compartments during combination therapy. Rapid turnover of plasma virions and CD4 lymphocytes in HIV-1 infection
Abstracts: Watch and learn: Preview of the fighting ability of opponents alters contest behaviour in rainbow trout. Big and brave: size selection affects foraging under risk of predation in juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss
Abstracts: Watching over the world's oceans. Don't rely on Uncle Sam. Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate
Abstracts: Watching watchdogs. Climate deal agreed in Bali showdown. How not to make friends
Abstracts: Water exchange between the subglacial Lake Vostok and the overlying ice sheet. Rapid discharge connects Antarctic subglacial lakes
Abstracts: Water for a desert denizen. Apache trout: on the brink of recovery. Desert tortoise HCP
Abstracts: Water in mantle minerals. Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes
Abstracts: Water temperature influences the shoaling decisions of guppies, Poecilia reticulata, under predation threat. Effects of temperature on anti-predator behaviour in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
Abstracts: Water vapour and hydrogen in the terrestrial-planet-forming region of a protoplanetary disk. Evidence for a link between global lightning activity and upper tropospheric water vapour
Abstracts: Watson resigns, genome project open to change: will leave immediately, acting head named; smaller centres, more research anticipated
Abstracts: Wave acceleration of electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts. Young stars go cruising by
Abstracts: Wave of protest strikes Europe's universities. Car-safety lobby on collision course with researches. Air force clips the wings of UK wind power
Abstracts: Wave of the future. Life from lava. Spying on seabirds
Abstracts: Wave-particle duality of C60 molecules. A quantum scattering interferometer. Decoherence of matter waves by thermal emission of radiation
Abstracts: Waxing Moon. Sound unheard. A cosmic background
Abstracts: Wayne Pacelle: unplugged. 2,000 protest pigeon shoot at Hegins; Klan shows up to defend the shoot. The rhetoric of protest
Abstracts: Ways around rejection. CD95 ligand in graft rejection. Prevention and reversal of renal allograft rejection by antibody against CD45RB
Abstracts: Ways of the wild: predator relationships. Houston Zoo struts its stuff. Make way for manatees
Abstracts: WCS at work in Thailand. Florida's big scrub. The baby boom in Tarangire National Park
Abstracts: Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing. Enlightening water vapour
Abstracts: Weakly damped Alfven waves as drivers of solar chromospheric spicules. Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows
Abstracts: Weak queen or social contract? Eusociality in Australian gall thrips. Facultative worker policing in a wasp
Abstracts: Weapons labs turn to computer simulation. Universities warned on danger of new links to weapons labs. Russian weapons labs becoming the top priority for Western funding
Abstracts: We are what we ate. The oldest whodunnit in the world. A precious little bundle
Abstracts: Website homes in on climate hazards. Design chosen for nuclear warheads. Biofuels bandwagon hits a rut
Abstracts: Wee beasties. A network-based analysis of systemic inflammation in humans. Role of duplicate genes in genetic robustness against null mutations
Abstracts: Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region. Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones
Abstracts: We have the technology. Weapons plan gives United Nations key role. Experts find fault with US plan to intercept missiles at source
Abstracts: Weighing up the evidence. Cheap at any price? Denmark launches big push for protein power
Abstracts: Welcome home: Italian and Spanish researchers returning from abroad deserve more support. Pollution fears put work at neutrino laboratory on hold
Abstracts: Welcoming Wellcome: not every day (worse luck) is the equivalent of a new research council magicked into being
Abstracts: Welfare cannot be made to go away. Animal welfare and the veal trade. Off-the-shelf proteins that rival tailor-made antibodies as catalysts
Abstracts: Wellcome and Zeneca form genetic alliance. Wellcome sets sequencing project in motion. Wellcome Trust to launch transfer company
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