PNAS — Table of Contents — April 18, 2006, 103 (16)

This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6075-6076; doi:10.1073/iti1606103

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Richard W. Olsen
Picrotoxin-like channel blockers of GABA A receptors
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6081-6082; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601121103
- See companion article on page 5185 in issue 13 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Craig R. Allen
Discontinuities in ecological data
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6083-6084; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601668103
- See companion article on page 6230 in issue 16 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Essi Viding
- and Uta Frith
Genes for susceptibility to violence lurk in the brain
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6085-6086; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601350103
- See companion article on page 6269 in issue 16 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Esther Shohami
- and Raphael Mechoulam
Multiple sclerosis may disrupt endocannabinoid brain protection mechanism
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6087-6088; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601847103
- See companion article on page 6362 in issue 16 of volume 103

Perspective

Perspective - Nobel Lecture:
- Thomas C. Schelling
An astonishing 60 years: The legacy of Hiroshima
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6089-6093; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600437103

Editorial

Editorial:
- Bruce Alberts
The Nick Cozzarelli I Knew
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6077; published ahead of print April 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602591103

Retrospective

Retrospective:
- Regina Nuzzo
- and Nick Zagorski
In Memoriam: PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938–2006)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6078-6080; published ahead of print April 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602531103

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Timothy J. Gardner
- and Marcelo O. Magnasco
Sparse time-frequency representations
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6094-6099; published ahead of print April 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601707103
Open Access Article
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Guoqiang Li,
- David L. Mathine,
- Pouria Valley,
- Pekka Äyräs,
- Joshua N. Haddock,
- M. S. Giridhar,
- Gregory Williby,
- Jim Schwiegerling,
- Gerald R. Meredith,
- Bernard Kippelen,
- Seppo Honkanen,
- and Nasser Peyghambarian
Switchable electro-optic diffractive lens with high efficiency for ophthalmic applications
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6100-6104; published ahead of print April 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600850103

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- Traian Dumitrica,
- Ming Hua,
- and Boris I. Yakobson
From the Cover: Symmetry-, time-, and temperature-dependent strength of carbon nanotubes
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6105-6109; published ahead of print March 31, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600945103
Open Access Article
- See commentary article on page 6779 in issue 18 of volume 103

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- Traian Dumitrica,
- Ming Hua,
- and Boris I. Yakobson
From the Cover: Symmetry-, time-, and temperature-dependent strength of carbon nanotubes
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6105-6109; published ahead of print March 31, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600945103
Open Access Article
- See commentary article on page 6779 in issue 18 of volume 103
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Morteza Gharib,
- Edmond Rambod,
- Arash Kheradvar,
- David J. Sahn,
- and John O. Dabiri
Optimal vortex formation as an index of cardiac health
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6305-6308; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600520103

Environmental Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- J. D. Neelin,
- M. Münnich,
- H. Su,
- J. E. Meyerson,
- and C. E. Holloway
Tropical drying trends in global warming models and observations
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6110-6115; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601798103
Open Access Article

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Martin Kassabov,
- Alexander Lubotzky,
- and Nikolay Nikolov
Finite simple groups as expanders
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6116-6119; published ahead of print April 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510337103
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Tamás Hausel
Betti numbers of holomorphic symplectic quotients via arithmetic Fourier transform
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6120-6124; published ahead of print April 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601337103

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- Anatoli Polkovnikov,
- Ehud Altman,
- and Eugene Demler
Interference between independent fluctuating condensates
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6125-6129; published ahead of print April 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510276103

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Picrotoxin-like channel blockers of GABA A receptors

Discontinuities in ecological data

Genes for susceptibility to violence lurk in the brain

Multiple sclerosis may disrupt endocannabinoid brain protection mechanism

An astonishing 60 years: The legacy of Hiroshima

The Nick Cozzarelli I Knew

In Memoriam: PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938–2006)

Sparse time-frequency representations

Switchable electro-optic diffractive lens with high efficiency for ophthalmic applications

From the Cover: Symmetry-, time-, and temperature-dependent strength of carbon nanotubes

From the Cover: Symmetry-, time-, and temperature-dependent strength of carbon nanotubes

Optimal vortex formation as an index of cardiac health

Tropical drying trends in global warming models and observations

Finite simple groups as expanders

Betti numbers of holomorphic symplectic quotients via arithmetic Fourier transform

Interference between independent fluctuating condensates

Evidence for C–H cleavage by an iron–superoxide complex in the glycol cleavage reaction catalyzed by myo -inositol oxygenase

Toward understanding actin activation of myosin ATPase: The role of myosin surface loops

Partnering between monomers of cyclooxygenase-2 homodimers

The mechanism of M.HhaI DNA C5 cytosine methyltransferase enzyme: A quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics approach

Juxtamembranous aspartic acid in Insig-1 and Insig-2 is required for cholesterol homeostasis

Bispecific Abs against modified protein and DNA with oxidized lipids

Hsp70 chaperones accelerate protein translocation and the unfolding of stable protein aggregates by entropic pulling

Chaperone-mediated assembly of centromeric chromatin in vitro

Balance between DBT/CKIε kinase and protein phosphatase activities regulate phosphorylation and stability of Drosophila CLOCK protein

Sparse time-frequency representations

Nanoindentation studies of full and empty viral capsids and the effects of capsid protein mutations on elasticity and strength

Nanomechanical measurements of the sequence-dependent folding landscapes of single nucleic acid hairpins

Spatiotemporal control of spindle midzone formation by PRC1 in human cells

Vta1p and Vps46p regulate the membrane association and ATPase activity of Vps4p at the yeast multivesicular body

From the Cover: Transgenic Hydra allow in vivo tracking of individual stem cells during morphogenesis

Impaired neurogenesis and cardiovascular development in mice lacking the E3 ubiquitin ligases UBR1 and UBR2 of the N-end rule pathway

Making the gradient: Thyroid hormone regulates cone opsin expression in the developing mouse retina

The JAK2 V617F mutation occurs in hematopoietic stem cells in polycythemia vera and predisposes toward erythroid differentiation

From the Cover: Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species

Classic flea-borne transmission does not drive plague epizootics in prairie dogs

Global traffic and disease vector dispersal

Antarctic birds breed later in response to climate change

The molecular basis for differential dioxin sensitivity in birds: Role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor

Breakpoint structure reveals the unique origin of an interspecific chromosomal inversion ( 2La ) in the Anopheles gambiae complex

A Dirichlet process model for detecting positive selection in protein-coding DNA sequences

From the Cover: Neural mechanisms of genetic risk for impulsivity and violence in humans

DNA motifs in human and mouse proximal promoters predict tissue-specific expression