Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1016	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1017	Women, Science and the X-Chromosome
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1019	Ultrasound imaging: A boon or bane?
	Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy
1019	Who wants biochemical engineers?
	P. R. Patnaik
1020	Mind, machine and the tsunami
	U. Raval
1020	Tsunami engineering study in India
	S. Mandal
1021	Relevance of mathematics to other branches of science
	S. Rajappa; Dipankar Chatterji; V. Balakrishnan
1021	Phytomining of gold
	B. S. Mohan
1022	Systems biology is all noise
	Pawan K. Dhar
1023	Ethics in science: On the selective suppression of inconvenient data
	S. Rajappa
1025	Future earthquakes and other natural hazards: Impact on people living in the Ganga basin
	Ramesh P. Singh
1026	Coastal water quality off Dakshina Kannada before and after tsunami
	H. R. V. Reddy, R. J. Katti, K. P. Raveesha, Chandrashekara, S. J. Vikas, R. S. Nagendra Babu and K. S. Shiva Kumar
1027	Habitat heterogeneity of the Loktak lake, Manipur
	Laishangbam Sanjit, Dinesh Bhatt and Romesh Kumar Sharma

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NEWS

1028	Borlaug award for Dr S. Nagarajan
1028	Recent advances in mycology
	K. R. Sridhar
1030	Recent trends in biotechnology
	Minakshi De

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RESEARCH NEWS

1032	Impact spherules: Tiny peepholes to earth’s geological past
	A. V. Sankaran

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OPINION

1034	Scientific basis of knowledge on Earth’s composition
	J. Marvin Herndon

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1038	First oceanographic expedition to survey the impact of the Sumatra earthquake and the tsunami of 26 December 2004
	K. S. R. Murthy
1040	First record of late Palaeozoic Euramerian calamitalean foliage shoot Annularia Sternberg in the Late Early Permian (Barakar Formation) Glossopteris floral assemblage of Peninsular Indian Lower Gondwana
	Manju Banerjee, Samik Mitra and Sutapa Dutta

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1043	Wisdom of Ayurveda in perceiving diabetes: Enigma of therapeutic recognition
	Ashok K. Tiwari

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1052	Pattern of chronic diseases amongst adolescent obese children in developing countries
	Supreet Kaur, Umesh Kapil and Preeti Singh

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SPECIAL SECTION: COSMOLOGY

1057	Dark energy: The cosmological challenge of the millennium
	T. Padmanabhan
1068	The physics of CMBR anisotropies
	Kandaswamy Subramanian
1088	Cosmological N-body simulation: Techniques, scope and status
	J. S. Bagla
1101	Exploring the geometry, topology and morphology of large scale structure using Minkowski functionals
	Jatush V. Sheth and Varun Sahni
1117	High redshift intergalactic medium: Probes and physical models
	Shiv K. Sethi
1125	Accelerating universes in string theory
	Sandip P. Trivedi

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1133	Cratering and spall simulation of Pokhran-1 event with three-dimensional transient finite element analysis
	Rajeev Ranjan, R. K. Singh, S. K. Sikka and Anil Kakodkar
1142	Antenna beam tilting effects in fixed and mobile communication links
	M. V. S. N. Prasad, M. M. Gupta, S. K. Sarkar and Iqbal Ahmad
1148	Incidence of loose shell syndrome disease of the shrimp Penaeus monodon and its impact in the grow-out culture
	A. Gopalakrishnan and Ajay Parida

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1155	On the gravitational deflection of light and particles
	C. S. Unnikrishnan
1159	Preparation and characterization of magnesium ion conducting glass–polymer composite films
	S. S. S. Kushwaha and J. Mishra
1162	Polyethersulfone supported titanium complexes as ethylene polymerization catalysts
	Virendrakumar Gupta, C. P. Vinod, G. U. Kulkarni, Goutam K. Lahiri, Niladri Maity and Sumit Bhaduri
1164	Cloning of synthetic VP2 gene of infectious bursal disease virus in a mammalian expression vector and its use as DNA vaccine in chicken
	S. Chauhan, A. Rai, N. Rai, N. Dighe, B. Roy, P. K. Gupta and Divya
1167	Isolation and characterization of a mouse embryonic stem cell line that contributes efficiently to the germ line
	Jomini Liza Alex, D. Partha Sarathi, Sandeep Goel and Satish Kumar
1169	Age-dependent pollen abortion in cashew
	Ashoke Bhattacharya
1172	Basement structure of Godavari basin, India – Geophysical modelling
	B. S. P. Sarma and M. V. R. Krishna Rao
1175	Maritime heritage in and around Chilika Lake, Orissa: Geological evidences for its decline
	Sila Tripati and K. H. Vora

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BOOK REVIEWS

1182	A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles by Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen
	reviewed by Rukmini Rajagopalan
1183	Volcanoes in Human History by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
	reviewed by C. P. Rajendran

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PERSONAL NEWS

1185	S. Kedharnath (1921–2004)
	C. V. Subramanian

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HISTORICAL NOTES

1187	Einstein and the Indian minds: Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru
	Rasoul Sorkhabi

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