Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

594	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

595	Higher Education: Rocky Road to Reform
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

597	What else the three science academies could have deliberated?
	Adhikarla S. Rao
598	Why Darwin would hate mobile phones more than cancers?
	Madhukar Shivajirao Dama and Rajender Singh
599	Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers
	Hermann Achenbach; Response: Ravinder Kumar Chaujar
600	From ornamental to detrimental: plant invasion of Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. (Ox-eye Daisy) in Kashmir valley, India
	Anzar A. Khuroo, Akhtar H. Malik, Zafar A. Reshi and G. H. Dar
602	Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman: a rare medicinal plant in urgent need of conservation
	V. Saroj Kumar, R. Jaishanker, A. Annamalai and C. S. P. Iyer
603	Nectar robbery in bird pollinated mangroves!
	B. Nagarajan, M. Krishnamoorthy, S. Padmini and A. Daniel
604	Effect of casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia) plantation on the sand skink (Eutropis bibronii Gray 1839) population
	J. Subramanean and M. Vikram Reddy

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NEWS

606	Awareness and capacity building programme on carbon capture and storage
	Malti Goel
607	Ethnomedicines and traditional healers of biodiversity hotspots of northeast India
	Ranjay K. Singh and R. C. Srivastava

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COMMENTARY

610	Novel approaches for activity-based standardization of herbal drugs
	Venil N. Sumantran
611	Explanation of genetic component of human height by recent genome-wide association studies
	Vipin Gupta and M. P. Sachdeva

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

613	Evaluation of speech processing schemes to improve perception of sensorineural hearing impaired
	Mahesh T. Kolte and D. S. Chaudhari
616	DIVA-GIS approaches for diversity assessment of pod characteristics in black gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper)
	Babu Abraham, V. Kamala, N. Sivaraj, N. Sunil, S. R. Pandravada, M. Vanaja and K. S. Varaprasad

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GENERAL ARTICLES

620	The latest (2008–09) eruption of Barren Island volcano, and some thoughts on its hazards, logistics and geotourism aspects
	Hetu C. Sheth, Jyotiranjan S. Ray, Rajneesh Bhutani, Alok Kumar and Neeraj Awasthi
627	Gasifier stoves – science, technology and field outreach
	H. S. Mukunda, S. Dasappa, P. J. Paul, N. K. S. Rajan, Mahesh Yagnaraman, D. Ravi Kumar and Mukund Deogaonkar

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REVIEW ARTICLE

639	Mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation by proteins
	Santosh Kumar and Jayant B. Udgaonkar

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

657	Forest cover change detection of Western Ghats of Maharashtra using satellite remote sensing based visual interpretation technique
	Rabindra K. Panigrahy, Manish P. Kale, Upasana Dutta, Asima Mishra, Bishwarup Banerjee and Sarnam Singh
665	Conservation implications of the channel changes in Sharda River on endangered swamp deer population and floodplain ecosystem in Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India
	Neha Midha and Pradeep K. Mathur
673	Parental care strategies of grey-headed bulbul, Pycnonotus priocephalus in the Western Ghats, South India
	P. Balakrishnan

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

681	210Po radiation dose due to cigarette smoking
	Wesley S. Godwin, Vincila R. Subha and Khan M. Feroz
686	Artificial seed production from encapsulated PLBs regenerated from leaf base of Vanda coerulea Grifft. ex. Lindl. – an endangered orchid
	Debojit Kumar Sarmah, M. Borthakur and P. K. Borua
691	Application of numerical modelling for morphological changes in a high-energy beach during the south-west monsoon
	V. R. Shamji, T. S. Shahul Hameed, N. P. Kurian and K. V. Thomas
695	Geopathic stress: a study to understand its nature using Light Interference Technique
	N. P. Dharmadhikari, D. C. Meshram, S. D. Kulkarni, S. M. Hambarde, A. P. Rao, S. S. Pimplikar, A. G. Kharat and P. T. Patil
698	Polymetallic sulphide mineralization in Chiplakot crystallines, northeast Kumaun Himalaya
	Rajesh Sharma, Dinesh S. Chauhan and D. Rameshwar Rao

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BOOK REVIEWS

703	India in the World of Physics: Then and Now, Asoke N. Mitra (ed.)
	reviewed by M. G. K. Menon
705	Remembering Sir J. C. Bose by D. P. Sen Gupta, M. H. Engineer and V. A. Shepherd
	reviewed by M. S. Swaminathan
706	Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions, Rajib Shaw and R. R. Krishnamurthy (eds)
	reviewed by Harsh Gupta
707	Plant Taxonomy by O. P. Sharma
	reviewed by R. R. Rao

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PERSONAL NEWS

708	Vitaly L. Ginzburg (1916–2009)
	Richa Malhotra
709	S. S. Sriramachari (1925–2009)
	Indira Nath

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HISTORICAL NOTES

711	Swami Vivekananda’s use of science to communicate spirituality
	Geethanjali Monto

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Geology in action. Barren Island active volcano, 30th March 2009. The cinder cone is ~500 m high and ejecting dark ash clouds every few seconds. See page 620.

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