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February 15, 2000; 97 (4)
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FROM THE COVER
Sea surface temperature and cholera in Bangladesh
Population genetics of Ice Age bears
Antibiotic resistance in hospitals
Translation initiation without initiator tRNA
Commentaries
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Svante Pääbo
Of bears, conservation genetics, and the value of time travel
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Victor F. Holmes
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Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Closing the ring: Links between SMC proteins and chromosome partitioning, condensation, and supercoiling
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Uttam L. RajBhandary
More surprises in translation: Initiation without the initiator tRNA
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Junghuei Chen
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David Harlan Wood
Computation with biomolecules
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Richard B. Alley
Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes
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Jonathan Overpeck
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Robert Webb
Nonglacial rapid climate events: Past and future
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Wallace S. Broecker
Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age?
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L. D. Keigwin
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E. A. Boyle
Detecting Holocene changes in thermohaline circulation
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Jochem Marotzke
Abrupt climate change and thermohaline circulation: Mechanisms and predictability
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Thomas V. Lowell
As climate changes, so do glaciers
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R. T. Pierrehumbert
Climate change and the tropical Pacific: The sleeping dragon wakes
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Dorothy Peteet
Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change
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Thomas F. Stocker
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Olivier Marchal
Abrupt climate change in the computer: Is it real?
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Richard B. Alley
Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes
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Jonathan Overpeck
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Robert Webb
Nonglacial rapid climate events: Past and future
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Wallace S. Broecker
Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age?
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L. D. Keigwin
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E. A. Boyle
Detecting Holocene changes in thermohaline circulation
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Jochem Marotzke
Abrupt climate change and thermohaline circulation: Mechanisms and predictability
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Thomas V. Lowell
As climate changes, so do glaciers
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R. T. Pierrehumbert
Climate change and the tropical Pacific: The sleeping dragon wakes
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Dorothy Peteet
Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change
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Thomas F. Stocker
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Olivier Marchal
Abrupt climate change in the computer: Is it real?
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Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology
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Hilary H. Birks
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Brigitta Ammann
Two terrestrial records of rapid climatic change during the glacial–Holocene transition (14,000– 9,000 calendar years B.P.) from Europe
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Joseph L. Kirschvink
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Eric J. Gaidos
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L. Elizabeth Bertani
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Nicholas J. Beukes
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Jens Gutzmer
,
Linda N. Maepa
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and
Rachel E. Steinberger
Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences
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Mark B. Dyurgerov
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Mark F. Meier
Twentieth century climate change: Evidence from small glaciers
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Dennis L. Hartmann
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John M. Wallace
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Varavut Limpasuvan
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David W. J. Thompson
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and
James R. Holton
Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change?
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Brad Lobitz
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Louisa Beck
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Anwar Huq
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Byron Wood
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George Fuchs
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A. S. G. Faruque
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and
Rita Colwell
From the Cover: Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio cholerae by indirect measurement
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David W. Inouye
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Billy Barr
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Kenneth B. Armitage
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Brian D. Inouye
Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species
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Steven M. Stanley
The past climate change heats up
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G. I. Barenblatt
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E. A. Ingerman
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H. Shvets
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J. L. Vázquez
Very intense pulse in the groundwater flow in fissurized-porous stratum
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M. Warner
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B. L. Thiel
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A. M. Donald
The elasticity and failure of fluid-filled cellular solids: Theory and experiment
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Eric W.-G. Diau
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Joseph Casanova
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John D. Roberts
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Femtosecond observation of benzyne intermediates in a molecular beam: Bergman rearrangement in the isolated molecule
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Stefan Leininger
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Jun Fan
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Marion Schmitz
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Peter J. Stang
Archimedean solids: Transition metal mediated rational self-assembly of supramolecular-truncated tetrahedra
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Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Dirk Faulhammer
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Anthony R. Cukras
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Richard J. Lipton
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and
Laura F. Landweber
From the Cover: Molecular computation: RNA solutions to chess problems
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Engineering
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences
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Hiroshi Mitsuoka
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Erik B. Kistler
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and
Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein
Generation of in vivo activating factors in the ischemic intestine by pancreatic enzymes
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Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology
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Hilary H. Birks
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Brigitta Ammann
Two terrestrial records of rapid climatic change during the glacial–Holocene transition (14,000– 9,000 calendar years B.P.) from Europe
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97
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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
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Benjamin P. Weiss
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Yuk L. Yung
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and
Kenneth H. Nealson
Atmospheric energy for subsurface life on Mars?
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Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geology
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Joseph L. Kirschvink
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Eric J. Gaidos
,
L. Elizabeth Bertani
,
Nicholas J. Beukes
,
Jens Gutzmer
,
Linda N. Maepa
,
and
Rachel E. Steinberger
Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences
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1400
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Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics
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Mark B. Dyurgerov
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Mark F. Meier
Twentieth century climate change: Evidence from small glaciers
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Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Geophysics
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Dennis L. Hartmann
,
John M. Wallace
,
Varavut Limpasuvan
,
David W. J. Thompson
,
and
James R. Holton
Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change?
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics
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Arthur Jaffe
Twist fields, the elliptic genus, and hidden symmetry
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Statistics
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Physical Sciences - Statistics
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Yehuda Vardi
and
Cun-Hui Zhang
The multivariate L 1 -median and associated data depth
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Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences
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Qihong Huang
,
Quinn L. Deveraux
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Susumu Maeda
,
Guy S. Salvesen
,
Henning R. Stennicke
,
Bruce D. Hammock
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and
John C. Reed
Evolutionary conservation of apoptosis mechanisms: Lepidopteran and baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis proteins are inhibitors of mammalian caspase-9
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Frank R. Stermitz
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Peter Lorenz
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Jeanne N. Tawara
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Lauren A. Zenewicz
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and
Kim Lewis
Synergy in a medicinal plant: Antimicrobial action of berberine potentiated by 5′-methoxyhydnocarpin, a multidrug pump inhibitor
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Brad Lobitz
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Louisa Beck
,
Anwar Huq
,
Byron Wood
,
George Fuchs
,
A. S. G. Faruque
,
and
Rita Colwell
From the Cover: Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio cholerae by indirect measurement
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2000
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Dirk Faulhammer
,
Anthony R. Cukras
,
Richard J. Lipton
,
and
Laura F. Landweber
From the Cover: Molecular computation: RNA solutions to chess problems
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2000
97
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Lutfi Abu-Elheiga
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William R. Brinkley
,
Ling Zhong
,
Subrahmanyam S. Chirala
,
Gebretateos Woldegiorgis
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and
Salih J. Wakil
The subcellular localization of acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2
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Olga Vinogradova
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Tom Haas
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Edward F. Plow
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and
Jun Qin
A structural basis for integrin activation by the cytoplasmic tail of the α IIb -subunit
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Xinli Lin
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Gerald Koelsch
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Shili Wu
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Debbie Downs
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Azar Dashti
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and
Jordan Tang
Human aspartic protease memapsin 2 cleaves the β-secretase site of β-amyloid precursor protein
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2000
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Kunihiko Konno
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Kathleen Ue
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Mikhail Khoroshev
,
Hugo Martinez
,
Bruce Ray
,
and
Manuel F. Morales
Consequences of placing an intramolecular crosslink in myosin S1
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Keiko Yamamoto
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Hiroyuki Masuno
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Mihwa Choi
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Kinichi Nakashima
,
Tetsuya Taga
,
Hiroshi Ooizumi
,
Kazuhiko Umesono
,
Wanda Sicinska
,
Janeen VanHooke
,
Hector F. DeLuca
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and
Sachiko Yamada
Three-dimensional modeling of and ligand docking to vitamin D receptor ligand binding domain
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Ilian Simidjiev
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Svetla Stoylova
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Heinz Amenitsch
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Tamás Jávorfi
,
László Mustárdy
,
Peter Laggner
,
Andreas Holzenburg
,
and
Győző Garab
Self-assembly of large, ordered lamellae from non-bilayer lipids and integral membrane proteins in vitro
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2000
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Rudolf Beutler
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Francesco Ruggiero
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Bernhard Erni
Folding and activity of circularly permuted forms of a polytopic membrane protein
PNAS
2000
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