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Contents IN THIS ISSUE 191 In this issue EDITORIAL 193 Science in India: Signs of Stagnatio n P. Balaram CORRESPONDENCE 195 Quality of science and science journals in India Subbiah Arunachalam 196 Four-year undergraduate programme in science N. Sathyamurthy 197 Epilepsy, madness and creativity: The Indian ethos Ashok D. B. Vaidya 197 Corneal blindness Percy Ghaswala Click here to view / download this section NEWS 198 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam elected President of the Republic of India K. R. Rao 199 Mid-year meet of the Indian Academy of Sciences Nirupa Sen 201 Weather and climate modelling S. V. Singh 202 Emerging trends in biotechnology-stem cells B. S. Bajaj and P. Reddanna RESEARCH NEWS 204 The Kondo effect and the single-atom transistor N. Chandrasekhar 208 Random selections 209 From the archives SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE 210 Is there true Sb(V) resistance in Indian kala azar field isolates? Neeloo Singh 211 ‘Complementary’ and ‘mainstream’ medicine: friend or foe? G. R. Sridhar GENERAL ARTICLE 214 Marine bioinvasion: Concern for ecology and shipping A. C. Anil, K. Venkat, S. S. Sawant, M. Dileepkumar, V. K. Dhargalkar, N. Ramaiah, S. N. Harkantra and Z. A. Ansari REVIEW ARTICLE 219 Hepatitis C virus: The Indian scenario M. N. Khaja, S. K. Munpally, M. M. Hussain and C. M. Habeebullah SPECIAL SECTION: PLASMA APPLICATIONS 225 Plasma processing of super-hard coatings A. K. Pal 237 Plasma-based ion implantation Wolfhard Möller and Subroto Mukherjee 254 Industrial plasma torches and applications N. Venkatramani 263 Plasma-based nitrogen incorporation techniques for surface modification S. Mukherjee 271 Plasma pyrolysis of medical waste S. K. Nema and K. S. Ganeshprasad 279 Understanding plasma sources A. Ganguli and R. D. Tarey RESEARCH ARTICLES 291 Thalassaemia control by carrier screening: The Indian scenario Anita Saxena and Shubha R. Phadke 296 Vertical thermal structure of the atmosphere during active and weak phases of convection over the north Bay of Bengal: Observation and model results G. S. Bhat, A. Chakraborty, R. S. Nanjundiah and J. Srinivasan RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 3 03 Protective effect of Rhodotorula glutinis NCIM 3353 on the development of hepatic preneoplastic lesions Prakash Bhosale, Leena Motiwale, A. D. Ingle, R. V. Gadre and K. V. K. Rao 308 GIS and remote sensing-based study of the reservoir- induced land-use/land-cover changes in the catchment of Tehri dam in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttaranchal (India) Piyoosh Rautela, Rahul Rakshit, V. K. Jha, Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Ashish Munshi 312 In vitro regeneration of Quercus floribunda Lindl. through cotyledonary nodes: an important tree of Central Himalaya Vijay K. Purohit, Lok Man S. Palni, Shyamal K. Nandi and Hem C. Rikhari 3 16 Effect of fire on nutrient dynamics in a semi-arid grazing land ecosystem of Madurai Kailash Paliwal and V. Meenakshi Sundaravalli 318 Late Quaternary peat deposits from Vembanad Lake (lagoon), Kerala, SW coast of India A. C. Narayana, C. P. Priju and G. Rajagopalan 321 Superoxide dismutase activity in haemocytes and haemolymph of Bombyx mori following bacterial infection N. Krishnan, S. Chattopadhyay, J. K. Kundu and A. Chaudhuri BOOK REVIEWS 326 First Steps in Number Theory: A Primer on Divisibility reviewed by S. Natarajan 326 Explorations in Mathematics reviewed by Shailesh A. Shirali 327 Optical Solitons: Theory and Experiments reviewed by S. V. Lawande 328 Calcium Carbonate -- From the Cretaceous Period into the 21st Century reviewed by Ram Seshadri 329 Vertebrate Functional Morphology: Horizon of Research in the 21st Century reviewed by T. J. Pandian Click here to view / download this section PERSONAL NEWS 330 G. S. Ramaswamy V. S. Parameswaran ADVERTISEMENTS 331 Department of Biotechnology: Award of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship: 2002--03 333 Centre for S ponsored Schemes and Projects Indian Institute of Science : Appointments 334 TIFR National Centre for Biological Sciences: Appointments 335 Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases 336 Department of Science and Technology (DST): Announcement 337 Current Science -- Indian Academy of Sciences: Recent Issues on special topics 338 Sankara Nethralaya: Appointments 338 National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources: Consultancy Services 339 Second Winter School In Immunology 339 Department of Microbiology M.S. University of Baroda: Appointments 340 Institute o f Physics 341 School of Life Sciences 341 National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences 341 School of Physics 342 Indian Institute of Technology , Roorkee
IN THIS ISSUE
191
In this issue
EDITORIAL
193
Science in India: Signs of Stagnatio n
CORRESPONDENCE
195
Subbiah Arunachalam
196
N. Sathyamurthy
Ashok D. B. Vaidya
Click here to view / download this section
NEWS
K. R. Rao
Nirupa Sen
S. V. Singh
B. S. Bajaj and P. Reddanna
RESEARCH NEWS
N. Chandrasekhar
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
Is there true Sb(V) resistance in Indian kala azar field isolates?
Neeloo Singh
GENERAL ARTICLE
REVIEW ARTICLE
M. N. Khaja, S. K. Munpally, M. M. Hussain and C. M. Habeebullah
SPECIAL SECTION: PLASMA APPLICATIONS
A. K. Pal
N. Venkatramani
S. Mukherjee
S. K. Nema and K. S. Ganeshprasad
A. Ganguli and R. D. Tarey
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Thalassaemia control by carrier screening: The Indian scenario
Anita Saxena and Shubha R. Phadke
Vertical thermal structure of the atmosphere during active and weak phases of convection over the north Bay of Bengal: Observation and model results
G. S. Bhat, A. Chakraborty, R. S. Nanjundiah and J. Srinivasan
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Protective effect of Rhodotorula glutinis NCIM 3353 on the development of hepatic preneoplastic lesions
Prakash Bhosale, Leena Motiwale, A. D. Ingle, R. V. Gadre and K. V. K. Rao
GIS and remote sensing-based study of the reservoir- induced land-use/land-cover changes in the catchment of Tehri dam in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttaranchal (India)
Piyoosh Rautela, Rahul Rakshit, V. K. Jha, Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Ashish Munshi
In vitro regeneration of Quercus floribunda Lindl. through cotyledonary nodes: an important tree of Central Himalaya
Vijay K. Purohit, Lok Man S. Palni, Shyamal K. Nandi and Hem C. Rikhari
Effect of fire on nutrient dynamics in a semi-arid grazing land ecosystem of Madurai
Kailash Paliwal and V. Meenakshi Sundaravalli
Late Quaternary peat deposits from Vembanad Lake (lagoon), Kerala, SW coast of India
A. C. Narayana, C. P. Priju and G. Rajagopalan
Superoxide dismutase activity in haemocytes and haemolymph of Bombyx mori following bacterial infection
N. Krishnan, S. Chattopadhyay, J. K. Kundu and A. Chaudhuri
BOOK REVIEWS
First Steps in Number Theory: A Primer on Divisibility
reviewed by S. Natarajan
Explorations in Mathematics
reviewed by Shailesh A. Shirali
Optical Solitons: Theory and Experiments
reviewed by S. V. Lawande
Vertebrate Functional Morphology: Horizon of Research in the 21st Century
reviewed by T. J. Pandian
PERSONAL NEWS
G. S. Ramaswamy
V. S. Parameswaran
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Department of Biotechnology: Award of Biotechnology Overseas Associateship: 2002--03
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