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Vol. 98  No. 3
10 February 2010


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IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

285

Universities and Academic Institutions: Competition and Collaboration

  P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

287

Prokaryotic Survey of India

  Ch. V. Ramana and Ch. Sasikala
287 Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) seeks help
  Tawqir Bashir
288 Prospects of bamboo shoot processing in north-east India
  Gibji Nimachow, J. S. Rawat and Oyi Dai
289 Snow partridge hopes for a safe home in Arunachal Pradesh
  Tanushree Srivastava and Pijush Kumar Dutta
290 Haat Kali sacred grove, Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand
  Harsh Singh, Tariq Husain and Priyanka Agnihotri
291 The two engines that drive science in China
  Fred Y. Ye

NEWS

292 Young Indian Scientists Colloquium
  P. K. Madhu and A. K. Grover
293 Earth system processes and disaster management
   S. C. Tripathi, Manish Tiwari and R. Sinha

RESEARCH NEWS

295 Coronal heating by Alfvén waves
  B. N. Dwivedi and A. K. Srivastava

COMMENTARY

297 Computers and education
  V. Ramanarayanan
299 Technology breakthroughs win 2009 Physics Nobel
  Dwarka N. Bose

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

302 Camptothecin accumulation in Ophiorrhiza rugosa var. prostrata from northern Western Ghats
  G. Gharpure, B. Chavan, U. Lele, A. Hastak, A. Bhave, N. Malpure, R. Vasudeva and A. Patwardhan

SPECIAL SECTION: BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF VIRUSES

305

Molecular virology and translational research

G. Padmanaban
306 The 2009 influenza pandemic

 

Shahid Jameel

312

The biology and pathogenesis of hepatitis viruses

 

Vijay Kumar, Saumitra Das and Shahid Jameel

326 Japanese encephalitis: pathogenesis, prophylactics and therapeutics
Kallol Dutta, Pundi N. Rangarajan, Sudhanshu Vrati and Anirban Basu
335 HIV/AIDS research in India: past, present and future
Udaykumar Ranga, Akhil Banerjea, Sekhar Chakrabarti and Debashis Mitra
346 Structure and assembly of Sesbania mosaic virus
H. S. Savithri and M. R. N. Murthy
352 Rotavirus nonstructural proteins: a structural perspective
K. Suguna and C. Durga Rao
360 Begomovirus DNA replication and pathogenicity
Pranjal Yadava, Geetika Suyal and Sunil Kumar Mukherjee
369 Dengue vaccine – current progress and challenges
S. Swaminathan and N. Khanna
379 Non-segmented negative sense RNA viruses as vectors for vaccine development
V. V. S. Suryanarayana, Dhrubajyothi Chattopadhyay and M. S. Shaila

RESEARCH ARTICLES

392 Characteristics of gravity waves in the upper mesosphere region observed by OH airglow imaging
  R. Sikha Pragati, Navin Parihar, Rupesh Ghodpage and G. K. Mukherjee
398 Initial results from AWESOME VLF receivers: set up in low latitude Indian regions under IHY2007/UNBSSI program
  Rajesh Singh, B. Veenadhari, M. B. Cohen, P. Pant, A. K. Singh, A. K. Maurya, P. Vohat and U. S. Inan

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

406

Isotopic fractionation in open systems: application to organic matter decomposition in ocean and land

R. Ramesh and Arvind Singh
411 Thermal conductivity estimates in the Niger Delta using lithologic data and geophysical well logs

 

Idara Akpabio and Joe Ejedawe

417

Comparative assessment of micro-watershed silt load with morphological parameters to evaluate soil conservation strategies

 

Praveen G. Saptarshi and Rao Kumar Raghavendra

426 ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase activity in relation to starch accumulation and grain growth in wheat cultivars
Vaibhav D. Lohot, Poonam Sharma-Natu, Rakesh Pandey and M. C. Ghildiyal

BOOK REVIEWS

431 Indian Higher Education – Envisioning the Future by Pawan Agarwal
  reviewed by P. Rama Rao
434 The Cognitive Neurosciences, Michael S. Gazzaniga (ed.)
reviewed by Aditya Murthy
435 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
 reviewed by Sanjay A. Pai
436 Spiders of India, P. A. Sebastian and K. V. Peter (eds)
 reviewed by Renee M. Borges
437 What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science, Max Brockman (ed.)
reviewed by Richa Malhotra

HISTORICAL NOTES

438 Suri Bhagavantam – a biographical note
  M. Krishnamurthi

ACADEMY NEWS

441 Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows – 2010

COVER CAPTION

 

COVER.  Genetic lineage of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza virus. This virus received its gene segments from North American avian (blue), Classical swine (orange) and human (purple) viruses, followed by an introduction of genes from the Eurasian swine (green). The gene segments and proteins of the final triple recombinant virus are colour-coded accordingly. See page 306.


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