• 319 In this issue

• 321 Deserting disciplines P. Balaram

• 323 Pokhran-II – A strategic blunder?, J. K. Ghosh

• 324 Nuclear buttons for everybody, Vishwambhar Pati

• 325 Will weaponization make us secure?, S. Chatterjee and Vinod Vyasulu

• 325 Manipulation of ammonia assimilation in improvement of nitrogen use efficiency, Rana P. Singh and Pawan K. Jaiwal

• 326 Reviewing: A disliked necessity, Brij Gopal

• 327 Biotechnology: Human resource development, M. C. Srinivasan

• 328 Sol gel process for making ceramic fibres S. Ramaseshan

• 328 New elements discovered and the island of stability sighted, K. R. Rao

• 331 New explanation of the geological evolution of the Indian subcontinent, A. V. Sankaran

• 334 Urban air pollution, V. Ramalingaswami et al.

• 336 Susceptibility of brinjal shoot and fruit borer to the d -endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis, N. G. V. Rao, A. Majumdar, A. D. Mandaokar, S. A. Nimbalkar and P. Ananda Kumar

• 337 Siderophore production by Aspergillus niger AN27, a biocontrol agent, Goutam Mondal and Bineeta Sen

• 339 A comparison of eye and body surface between surface and cave-dwelling millipedes, A. John Koilraj and G. Marimuthu

• 341 Science in response to basic human needs M. S. Swaminathan

• 353 Young scientist award – Does it encourage scientific independence and advancement? Sukumar Mallick, Vinita Panchnadikar, Ruchira Tewari and Sushila Khilnani

• 356 Multidimensional links in biodiversity research: An integrated exercise T. N. Ananthakrishnan

• 359 Emissions of nitrous oxide from soil Himanshu Pathak

SPECIAL SECTION: NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL SYSTEMS

• 370 Persistence in nonequilibrium systems Satya N. Majumdar

• 376 Kinetics of phase ordering Sanjay Puri

• 382 Arrested states of solids Madan Rao and Surajit Sengupta

• 388 Sandpile models of self-organized criticality S. S. Manna

• 394 Nonequilibrium growth problems Sutapa Mukherji and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

• 402 Suspensions far from equilibrium Sriram Ramaswamy

• 411 Vehicular traffic: A system of interacting particles driven far from equilibrium Debashish Chowdhury, Ludger Santen and Andreas Schadschneider

• 420 Dynamical transitions in network models of collective computation Sitabhra Sinha and Bikas K. Chakrabarti

RESEARCH ARTICLE

• 429 Quantitative delineation of karyotype variation in Papaver as a measure of phylogenetic differentiation and origin U. C. Lavania and Sangeeta Srivastava

• 436 A novel parallel-stranded DNA helix with non-canonical A-T and G-C base pairing in synthetic dodecamers Tapas Saha and Kunal B. Roy

• 440 Partial characterization of goat brain proteins involved in bilirubin binding Mohd. Mushahid Khan and Saad Tayyab

• 443 Somatic instability for chlorophyll pigmentation in cotton (Gossypium spp.) R. Sheshagiri and B. M. Khadi

• 447 A new seismic hazard map for the Indian plate region under the global seismic hazard assessment programme M. Ravi Kumar and S. C. Bhatia

• 454 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1998, reviewed by Ajit Kembhavi

• 455 Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 1998, reviewed by N. Sathyamurthy

• 456 Oxidative Stress in Skeletal Muscle, reviewed by C. C. Kartha

• 457 Lipids in Photosynthesis – Structure, Function and Genetics, reviewed by Prasanna Mohanty

• 459 Lord Phillips of Ellesmere KBE, FRS (1924–1999) Louise N. Johnson