Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1270	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1271	Biology and Chemistry: Life and Death
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1273	Science academies in India
	Yamini Bhusan Tripathi
1273	Five Indian journals cross impact factor 1.000 in 2008
	N. C. Jain
1274	Science career: through the eyes of Indian research scholars
	Sunil K. Dhawan and S. Venkatesh
1275	Career choice: a virtue out of necessity?
	Deepak Kumar
1276	Standards of higher education
	Kalluri Subba Rao
1276	Taxonomic placement for mycelia sterilia in endophytic fungal research: a molecular approach
	B. Shankar Naik
1277	Carpinus viminea: a pioneer tree species of old landslide regions of Indian Himalaya
	Deepti Verma, Gajendra Singh and Nirmal Ram
1278	Slum-dwellers are relatively resistant to swine flu
	Madhav G. Deo

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NEWS

1279	Environmental policy and conservation: from theory to practice
	Oded Berger-Tal, Reut Berger-Tal, Celine Bounioux, Keren Embar, Iara Gazzera Sandomirsky, Nora Huberman-Meraiot, Adi Inbar, Rodica Indoitu, Shomen Mukherjee, Yonatan Nathan and Mahesh Rangarajan

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RESEARCH NEWS

1280	Komatiites through time reflect trends in mantle incorporation of meteoritic platinum group elements
	A. V. Sankaran

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COMMENTARY

1282	A decade of KVPY – A challenging experience
	P. S. Anil Kumar and Dipankar Chatterji

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1287	Forest fire monitoring in Sirohi district, Rajasthan using remote sensing data
	C. Sudhakar Reddy, K. Navatha, B. Rachel, M. S. R. Murthy and P. Manikya Reddy
1291	The aberrant behaviour of the Indian monsoon in June 2009
	P. A. Francis and Sulochana Gadgil

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1296	People’s attitudes towards paying for water
	J. Sarala Devi, Benny Joseph, K. Karunakaran, B. Anurdha and K. Rama Devi

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1303	Subject-specific blood flow simulation in the human carotid artery bifurcation
	M. D. Deshpande, Vinay Ballal, S. R. Shankapal, Vinay M. D. Prabhu and M. G. Srinath
1313	Radon as an indicator of submarine groundwater discharge in coastal regions
	Noble Jacob, D. S. Suresh Babu and K. Shivanna
1321	Evaluation of effectiveness of artificial recharge measures in parts of Maharashtra using environmental isotopes
	Bhishm Kumar, M. S. Rao, S. V. Navada, S. K. Verma and Swati Shrivastava
1331	Radioactivity in food crops from high-background radiation area in southwest India
	G. Shanthi, C. G. Maniyan, G. Allan Gnana Raj and J. Thampi Thanka Kumaran

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1336	Trace gases and CO2 isotope records from Cabo de Rama, India
	S. K. Bhattacharya, D. V. Borole, R. J. Francey, C. E. Allison, L. P. Steele, P. Krummel, R. Langenfelds, K. A. Masarie, Y. K. Tiwari and P. K. Patra
1345	An algorithm to find similar internal sequence repeats
	Nirjhar Banerjee, N. Chidambarathanu, R. Sabarinathan, Daliah Michael, C. Vasuki Ranjani, N. Balakrishnan and K. Sekar
1349	Comparative studies on species richness, diversity and composition of Anogeissus latifolius mixed forests in Phakot and Pathri Rao watersheds of Garhwal Himalaya
	Prerna Pokhriyal, Varsha Naithani, Sabyasachi Dasgupta and N. P. Todaria
1355	Petrology and geochemistry of Proterozoic olivine tholeiite intrusives from the Central Crystallines of the western Arunachal Himalaya, India: evidence for a depleted mantle
	Rajesh K. Srivastava, Hari B. Srivastava and Vaibhava Srivastava
1361	Analysis of timber and coating material on an iron anchor recovered off Aguada Bay, Goa
	Sila Tripati, B. Ramalingeswara Rao, S. Shashikala, R. Vijendra Rao and Vijay Khedekar
1369	Changes in the recoverable fractions during successive cycles of aquifer storage and recovery system in North-West India
	Y. S. Saharawat, R. S. Malik, B. S. Jhorar, T. Streck, Neelam Chaudhary and M. L. Jat

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BOOK REVIEWS

1375	Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation by Pankaj Sharan
	reviewed by Naresh Dadhich
1375	Physics for Engineers by M. R. Srinivasan
	reviewed by Sangamesh Deepak
1376	Annual Review of Genetics, 2008, Allan Campbell, Elizabeth W. Jones and Gertrud Schupbach (eds)
	reviewed by Upendra Nongthomba
1378	Cyanobacteria: Antibacterial Activity by Purshotam Kaushik and Abhishek Chauhan
	reviewed by Sunil Pabbi

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Subject-specific human carotid artery flow simulation. See page 1303.

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